Reuters Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Reuters
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 335 435
Rank change year-on-year +38 +100 +171
Contract jobs citing Reuters 7 10 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.065% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.15% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 39
10th Percentile - £281 £493
25th Percentile £613 £363 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £713
90th Percentile - £721 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £533 £625
% change year-on-year +3.29% -14.80% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

Reuters 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 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Reuters as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reuters trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Reuters.

Reuters daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Reuters.

Reuters hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
1 4 (57.14%) HP UFT
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
1 4 (57.14%) TestComplete
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Test Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Tester
2 4 (57.14%) Java Automation Tester
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Test Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Report Writer
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) MDX
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Integration Testing
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) OOP
1 4 (57.14%) Open Source
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
1 4 (57.14%) System Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) CRUD
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) KYC
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) EMIR
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Bloomberg
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) CQG
2 1 (14.29%) FIS
2 1 (14.29%) ION Trading
2 1 (14.29%) SAP