Charles River Job Trends

Charles River
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Charles River products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Charles River over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Charles River Systems, Inc.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 684 688
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 +304
Permanent jobs citing Charles River 16 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.028% 0.059%
As % of the Vendors category 0.085% 0.075% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 33
10th Percentile - £54,300 £75,500
25th Percentile - £85,125 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £102,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.81% +19.35%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - - £148,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -16.13%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,903 19,941 21,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.51% 37.26% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,702 10,075 16,773
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,657
% change year-on-year -14.50% +4.92% -4.69%

Charles River
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Charles River relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Charles River job vacancy trend in the UK

Charles River
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Charles River.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Charles River

Charles River
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Charles River within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +77 12 - - 3
UK excluding London - 12 - -
Scotland - 12 - -
England +51 4 - -
London +43 4 - -

Charles River
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Aladdin
2 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (6.25%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
1 13 (81.25%) Front Office
2 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Platform Specialist
2 6 (37.50%) Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) JMS
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Equities
2 9 (56.25%) Fixed Income
3 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (6.25%) Derivative
5 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
1 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Order Management
2 14 (87.50%) Asset Management
3 12 (75.00%) Coaching
3 12 (75.00%) Investment Management
4 8 (50.00%) ITIL
5 6 (37.50%) Data Integration
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (25.00%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (25.00%) User Stories
8 3 (18.75%) ETL
8 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.25%) Murex
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk