Zopa Contract Job Trends

Zopa
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Zopa products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zopa over the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Zopa.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Zopa 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Zopa falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,280 16,314 20,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.35% 45.34% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,974 9,654 12,908
10th Percentile £290 £296 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 854 512 668
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.51 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

Zopa
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Zopa job vacancy trend in the UK

Zopa
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 Zopa within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 - 1 £825 -
England - 1 £825 -

Zopa
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management