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 22 May 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 877 888
Rank change year-on-year +190 +11 +194
Permanent jobs citing Reuters 27 34 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.034% 0.076%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.094% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 67
10th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £75,625 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +37.10% +18.10%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £116,250
90th Percentile £106,500 - £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 21,406 36,315 41,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.00% 36.32% 41.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,576 24,805 23,710
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,543 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.79% -8.91% +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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +152 26 £75,000 -11.76% 56
London +111 23 £75,000 -11.76% 53
UK excluding London +188 3 £70,000 +50.54% 4
North of England - 3 £70,000 -
North East - 3 £70,000 -
Work from Home +136 2 £80,000 -2.37% 42

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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 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Fidessa
1 6 (22.22%) Temenos T24
2 3 (11.11%) Elite 3E
2 3 (11.11%) Markit EDM
3 2 (7.41%) Eikon
3 2 (7.41%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) Datadog
5 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) TCP/IP
2 7 (25.93%) DHCP
2 7 (25.93%) DNS
3 6 (22.22%) Firewall
3 6 (22.22%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.70%) LAN
4 1 (3.70%) Multicast
4 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Tableau
3 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.11%) Dremio
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) JetBrains Rider
2 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 16 (59.26%) Banking
3 6 (22.22%) International Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Front Office
5 4 (14.81%) Back Office
5 4 (14.81%) Spanish Language
6 3 (11.11%) Law
6 3 (11.11%) Marketing
7 2 (7.41%) Legal
7 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Advertising
8 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Analyst
2 12 (44.44%) Support Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 6 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Security Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) FIX Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) FIX Support Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Linux Support
4 5 (18.52%) SQL Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) SQL Support Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior C++ Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
2 2 (7.41%) WPF
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Equities
2 6 (22.22%) Derivative
2 6 (22.22%) Eurex
3 5 (18.52%) Bitcoin
3 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
3 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (11.11%) Reference Data
5 2 (7.41%) Hedge funds
5 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (3.70%) Pricing Data
6 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.93%) Linux
4 6 (22.22%) CentOS
5 5 (18.52%) Rocky
5 5 (18.52%) Unix
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) ITIL
2 6 (22.22%) Client Onboarding
2 6 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (18.52%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.81%) Data Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
5 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (7.41%) Agile
6 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.41%) Data Extraction
6 2 (7.41%) DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Microservices
6 2 (7.41%) Workflow
7 1 (3.70%) Black-Box Testing
7 1 (3.70%) Low Latency
7 1 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (3.70%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
4 5 (18.52%) Perl
4 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.70%) MCP
2 1 (3.70%) MCSA
2 1 (3.70%) MCSE
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Grafana
1 6 (22.22%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Bloomberg
2 9 (33.33%) Trayport
3 8 (29.63%) Oracle
4 6 (22.22%) CQG
4 6 (22.22%) ION Trading
4 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 6 (22.22%) Temenos
4 6 (22.22%) VMware
5 5 (18.52%) Atlassian
5 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 5 (18.52%) Patsystems
6 3 (11.11%) Databricks
7 2 (7.41%) Intapp
8 1 (3.70%) Cisco
8 1 (3.70%) Citrix
8 1 (3.70%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (3.70%) Murex
8 1 (3.70%) Okta
8 1 (3.70%) Refinitiv
8 1 (3.70%) Zscaler