Tick Data Contract Job Trends

Tick Data (Tick Database)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Tick Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 - 631
Rank change year-on-year - - +204
Contract jobs citing Tick Data 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% - 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.11% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £588 - -
25th Percentile £645 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.98%
75th Percentile £726 - £825
90th Percentile £729 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £800

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Tick Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,252 6,441 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 17.64% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,236 4,300 5,423
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.84% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 88 153
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.85 £17.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.81 £23.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -4.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.04% +5.38%

Tick Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Tick Data job vacancy trend in the UK

Tick Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tick Data

Tick Data
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 Tick Data within the UK over the 6 months to 5 November 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 - 7 £670 - 14
England - 7 £670 - 17
Work from Home - 1 - -

Tick Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) KDB
1 3 (42.86%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Fidessa Developer
4 3 (42.86%) KDB Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Equities
2 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Order Management
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Low Latency
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Solace