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 17 February 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
17 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 715 787 922
Rank change year-on-year +72 +135 +131
Permanent jobs citing Reuters 30 35 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.045% 0.082%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 82
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,500 £36,325
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,875 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +41.67% +29.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile - £96,250 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £46,500 £155,000
% change year-on-year +50.54% -70.00% +181.82%

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 21,625 29,704 47,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.00% 38.29% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,544 22,314 27,262
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +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 17 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Reuters in the UK

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Top 5 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 17 February 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 +65 27 £80,000 -5.88% 16
London +32 22 £85,000 - 15
UK excluding London +81 5 £70,000 +50.54% 1
North of England - 5 £70,000 -
North East - 5 £70,000 -

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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 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Fidessa
2 5 (16.67%) Markit EDM
3 4 (13.33%) Elite 3E
4 1 (3.33%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (10.00%) Datadog
5 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) DHCP
1 13 (43.33%) DNS
1 13 (43.33%) Firewall
1 13 (43.33%) TCP/IP
2 12 (40.00%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (13.33%) Multicast
4 2 (6.67%) FTP
4 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (6.67%) VLAN
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.67%) Dremio
2 5 (16.67%) Tableau
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 29 (96.67%) Finance
2 15 (50.00%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Back Office
3 5 (16.67%) Marketing
3 5 (16.67%) Spanish Language
4 4 (13.33%) Law
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Front Office
7 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Analyst
2 12 (40.00%) Banking Analyst
2 12 (40.00%) Financial Analyst
3 11 (36.67%) Applications Support
3 11 (36.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 11 (36.67%) Support Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 6 (20.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Data Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) Lead
7 3 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Product Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Product Business Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) Kafka
2 2 (6.67%) NumPy
2 2 (6.67%) Pandas
2 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.67%) React
2 2 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Eurex
2 11 (36.67%) Equities
3 6 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (16.67%) Reference Data
5 3 (10.00%) Derivative
5 3 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (10.00%) Hedge funds
6 2 (6.67%) Bitcoin
7 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Windows
3 11 (36.67%) CentOS
4 8 (26.67%) Unix
5 6 (20.00%) Solaris
5 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.67%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
1 12 (40.00%) ITIL
2 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 7 (23.33%) Data Analysis
4 6 (20.00%) Workflow
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 5 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction
6 4 (13.33%) Low Latency
6 4 (13.33%) SDLC
6 4 (13.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) SQL
2 21 (70.00%) Python
3 11 (36.67%) Bash
3 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) Perl
5 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (20.00%) Ruby
6 2 (6.67%) Clojure
6 2 (6.67%) Groovy
6 2 (6.67%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) C++
7 1 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Linux+ Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) MiFID
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Grafana
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Bloomberg
2 15 (50.00%) CQG
2 15 (50.00%) ION Trading
2 15 (50.00%) Trayport
3 14 (46.67%) Patsystems
4 11 (36.67%) Oracle
4 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.67%) Databricks
7 4 (13.33%) Intapp
8 3 (10.00%) Splunk
9 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
10 1 (3.33%) Etrali
10 1 (3.33%) Salesforce