Hybrid/Remote Refinitiv Contract Job Trends

Refinitiv
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Refinitiv products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Refinitiv over the 6 months leading up to 13 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 Refinitiv.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 313 390
Rank change year-on-year +3 +77 +174
Contract jobs citing Refinitiv 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.025% 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.055% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £781 -
25th Percentile £738 £789 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £913 £815 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +117.33% -50.00%
75th Percentile £1,113 £829 -
90th Percentile £1,135 £830 -
UK median daily rate £700 £825 £368
% change year-on-year -15.15% +124.49% -37.71%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Refinitiv 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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,946 5,452 8,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.57% 44.94% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 3,270 5,106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 100 188
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.01 £26.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £56.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -27.66% -1.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.14 £73.13
90th Percentile £67.50 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Refinitiv
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Refinitiv and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Refinitiv job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Refinitiv
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Refinitiv.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Refinitiv

Refinitiv
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Refinitiv over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Refinitiv daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Refinitiv
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Market Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Market Data Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (25.00%) MyBatis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Management
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
2 3 (37.50%) Contract Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) R
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Solace