Reuters
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 856 913
Rank change year-on-year +208 +57 +165
Permanent jobs citing Reuters 36 29 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.029% 0.071%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.080% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 32 16 65
10th Percentile £52,750 £63,125 £37,700
25th Percentile £63,438 £77,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +17.24% +38.10%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £116,250
90th Percentile £96,750 - £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £46,500 £120,000
% change year-on-year +50.54% -61.25% +118.18%

All Vendors
UK

Reuters 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 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reuters as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reuters in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reuters.

Salary trend for Reuters in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reuters over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Reuters in the UK

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Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +194 34 £75,000 -11.76% 44
London +108 29 £75,000 -11.76% 40
UK excluding London +208 5 £70,000 +50.54% 4
North of England - 5 £70,000 - 1
North East - 5 £70,000 -
Work from Home +180 2 £80,000 -2.37% 28

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Fidessa
2 6 (16.67%) Temenos T24
3 5 (13.89%) Markit EDM
4 3 (8.33%) Eikon
4 3 (8.33%) Elite 3E
5 2 (5.56%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (8.33%) Datadog
4 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 11 (30.56%) DHCP
2 11 (30.56%) DNS
2 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 11 (30.56%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (5.56%) Multicast
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) Tableau
3 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 5 (13.89%) Dremio
4 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) JetBrains Rider
2 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 28 (77.78%) Finance
2 22 (61.11%) Banking
3 6 (16.67%) Back Office
3 6 (16.67%) Front Office
3 6 (16.67%) International Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Marketing
4 5 (13.89%) Spanish Language
5 3 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Advertising
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (66.67%) Analyst
2 17 (47.22%) Support Analyst
3 11 (30.56%) Applications Support
3 11 (30.56%) Applications Support Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Banking Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Security Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) FIX Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) FIX Support Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) Linux Support
6 5 (13.89%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) SQL Support Analyst
7 4 (11.11%) Lead
8 3 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 3 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (5.56%) Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.56%) WPF
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.78%) HTML
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) NumPy
4 1 (2.78%) Pandas
4 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Eurex
2 11 (30.56%) Equities
3 7 (19.44%) Onboarding
4 6 (16.67%) Derivative
4 6 (16.67%) Fixed Income
5 5 (13.89%) Bitcoin
5 5 (13.89%) Reference Data
6 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (5.56%) Hedge funds
6 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.78%) Pricing Data
7 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Windows
2 14 (38.89%) Linux
3 11 (30.56%) CentOS
4 8 (22.22%) Unix
5 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
6 5 (13.89%) Rocky
7 3 (8.33%) Solaris
7 3 (8.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) ITIL
2 11 (30.56%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
4 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 6 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
4 6 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
5 5 (13.89%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.11%) Agile
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.56%) Analytics
8 2 (5.56%) Low Latency
8 2 (5.56%) Microservices
8 2 (5.56%) Quantitative Finance
8 2 (5.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) SQL
2 21 (58.33%) Python
3 9 (25.00%) Bash
3 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (22.22%) Perl
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) Ruby
6 2 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) C++
7 1 (2.78%) Clojure
7 1 (2.78%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) MCP
3 1 (2.78%) MCSA
3 1 (2.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Grafana
2 7 (19.44%) SCCM
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (75.00%) Bloomberg
2 15 (41.67%) Trayport
3 13 (36.11%) Oracle
4 12 (33.33%) CQG
4 12 (33.33%) ION Trading
5 11 (30.56%) Patsystems
5 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
6 6 (16.67%) Temenos
6 6 (16.67%) VMware
7 5 (13.89%) Atlassian
7 5 (13.89%) Databricks
7 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.33%) Splunk
9 2 (5.56%) Intapp
10 1 (2.78%) Cisco
10 1 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (2.78%) Murex
10 1 (2.78%) Okta
10 1 (2.78%) Refinitiv
10 1 (2.78%) Zscaler