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 18 August 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 755 653 691
Rank change year-on-year -102 +38 +57
Permanent jobs citing Reuters 32 33 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.066% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.16% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 87
10th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -32.61% +85.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £142,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

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 26,673 21,178 27,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.83% 42.39% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 16,517 11,584 16,655
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -5.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%

Reuters
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Reuters job vacancy trend in the UK

Reuters
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reuters.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Reuters

Reuters
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reuters over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Reuters in the UK

Reuters
Top 2 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 18 August 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
England -88 31 £85,000 +9.68% 4
London -39 29 £82,500 +6.45% 4

Reuters
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (28.13%) Confluence
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.13%) Eikon
2 1 (3.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) FIX Connectivity
2 9 (28.13%) Multicast
2 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) DHCP
3 5 (15.63%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) LAN
4 4 (12.50%) WAN
5 3 (9.38%) VPN
5 3 (9.38%) Wireless
6 1 (3.13%) VoIP
6 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) MSI
2 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (81.25%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Banking
4 9 (28.13%) Spanish Language
5 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
6 5 (15.63%) Front Office
6 5 (15.63%) Investment Banking
7 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
7 4 (12.50%) Marketing
8 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Business Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Business Manager
2 9 (28.13%) Product Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Product Business Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Product Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Marketing Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (9.38%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Onboarding
2 14 (43.75%) Eurex
3 9 (28.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 9 (28.13%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (28.13%) Equities
3 9 (28.13%) Fixed Income
3 9 (28.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
6 2 (6.25%) Derivative
6 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) CentOS
3 5 (15.63%) Rocky
3 5 (15.63%) Unix
4 4 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 3 (9.38%) Solaris
5 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Client Onboarding
1 14 (43.75%) Project Management
2 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (37.50%) ITIL
4 11 (34.38%) Electronic Trading
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Business Analysis
5 9 (28.13%) Epics
5 9 (28.13%) Low Latency
5 9 (28.13%) Project Delivery
5 9 (28.13%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (28.13%) Scrum
5 9 (28.13%) SDLC
5 9 (28.13%) Time Management
5 9 (28.13%) Translating Business Requirements
5 9 (28.13%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
7 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 6 (18.75%) Python
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Bash
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Perl
2 5 (15.63%) Ruby
3 4 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) MCDST
2 4 (12.50%) MCITP
2 4 (12.50%) MCSA
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (9.38%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
1 4 (12.50%) ServiceCenter
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (81.25%) Bloomberg
2 18 (56.25%) Oracle
3 14 (43.75%) CQG
3 14 (43.75%) ION Trading
3 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (43.75%) Patsystems
3 14 (43.75%) Trayport
4 7 (21.88%) Atlassian
5 5 (15.63%) Red Hat
6 4 (12.50%) Apple
6 4 (12.50%) Cisco
6 4 (12.50%) Dell
6 4 (12.50%) HP
6 4 (12.50%) Remedy
7 3 (9.38%) Citrix
8 2 (6.25%) Alteryx
8 2 (6.25%) SAP