Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RMDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RMDS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing RMDS 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.070% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £120,375 - -
25th Percentile £120,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £123,750 - -
75th Percentile £128,438 - -
90th Percentile £130,125 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

RMDS falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,852 4,510 6,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.48% 4.58% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,859 2,927 3,448
10th Percentile £33,600 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,787 £42,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +11.11%

RMDS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RMDS in the UK

RMDS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for RMDS in the UK

RMDS
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RMDS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
London - 2 £123,750 - 1
England - 2 £123,750 - 1

RMDS
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eikon
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JetBrains Rider
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Reuters
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Murex