Thomson Reuters DACS Contract Job Trends

Thomson Reuters Data Access Control System (DACS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Thomson Reuters DACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 551 627
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 +189
Contract jobs citing Thomson Reuters DACS 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.011% 0.008%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.074% 0.076% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £609 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £200 £313
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -36.00% -56.90%
75th Percentile £725 £275 £444
90th Percentile - £410 £455
UK excluding London median daily rate - £200 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Thomson Reuters DACS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,400 5,243 6,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 13.99% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,542 3,434 4,922
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £410 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £656
90th Percentile £675 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.82% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 174
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.61 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £37.60
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% -34.25% +130.03%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £67.08 £74.66 £78.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £47.01
% change year-on-year -42.32% -21.11% +113.66%

Thomson Reuters DACS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Thomson Reuters DACS job vacancy trend in the UK

Thomson Reuters DACS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Thomson Reuters DACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Thomson Reuters DACS

Thomson Reuters DACS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thomson Reuters DACS over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thomson Reuters DACS in the UK

Thomson Reuters DACS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Thomson Reuters DACS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Thomson Reuters DACS

Thomson Reuters DACS
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thomson Reuters DACS within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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 +30 4 £700 +40.00% 1
England +4 4 £700 +250.00% 1

Thomson Reuters DACS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) KDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Market Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EMIR
1 3 (75.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (100.00%) Refinitiv
2 3 (75.00%) NYFIX