thinkFolio Contract Job Trends

Markit thinkFolio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring thinkFolio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 - 603
Rank change year-on-year - - +214
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% - 0.004%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.13% - 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

thinkFolio falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,092 2,645 3,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 7.41% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,420 2,058
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £651 £658 £670
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 62 84
10th Percentile £18.69 £23.69 £30.72
25th Percentile £27.54 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.12% -20.34% +28.39%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.78 £80.00
90th Percentile £91.92 £80.75 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.74 £43.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year +24.25% -23.44% +25.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing thinkFolio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

thinkFolio job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing thinkFolio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing thinkFolio

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Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing thinkFolio within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 4 £700 -
England - 4 £700 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £700 - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Aladdin
1 4 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Derivative
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) Order Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Portware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft