thinkFolio Contracts

Markit thinkFolio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for thinkFolio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited thinkFolio over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 675 819
Rank change year-on-year +113 +144 -122
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 9 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.021% 0.029%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.28% 0.33% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 17
10th Percentile £275 £663 £456
25th Percentile £528 £714 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £763 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +12.96% +42.11%
75th Percentile £641 £794 £750
90th Percentile £650 £833 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

thinkFolio is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,174 3,684 5,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 6.47% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 2,116 3,113
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £530 £515
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 56 54
10th Percentile £14.71 £21.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.00 £20.93
Median hourly rate £40.16 £49.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +45.20% -8.17%
75th Percentile £59.50 £64.06 £54.69
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.63 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.35% +122.22% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for thinkFolio in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing thinkFolio.

Daily rate trend for thinkFolio in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing thinkFolio over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for thinkFolio in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing thinkFolio within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 9 £625 -18.03% 1
London +96 9 £625 -18.03% 1

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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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Markit EDM
2 2 (22.22%) Eikon
2 2 (22.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Front Office
2 4 (44.44%) Back Office
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Applications Support
2 6 (66.67%) Applications Support Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) thinkFolio Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) thinkFolio Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Derivative
1 4 (44.44%) Equities
1 4 (44.44%) Fixed Income
1 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 6 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 4 (44.44%) Batch Scheduling
2 4 (44.44%) System Testing
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
1 2 (22.22%) Reuters
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) VMware