Finance Contracts in the City of London

Financial
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 641 1,181 1,241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 29.50% 32.71% 29.32%
As % of the General category 44.48% 52.42% 51.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 825 832
10th Percentile £372 £461 £363
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.64% +6.82%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £688
90th Percentile £838 £857 £775
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - - £20.39
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +110.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.40 - £63.75
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +5.00%

All General Skills
City of London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,441 2,253 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.31% 62.39% 57.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,589 1,772
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £699 £738 £681
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £556 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -7.29% +5.26% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 26
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.78 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -52.81% +154.29%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.50 £61.00
90th Percentile £32.05 £58.75 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -37.08% +137.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the City of London region over the 6 months to 5 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
London Bridge +2 3 £500 -
Moorgate +1 3 £200 -54.29%
Finance
Central London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 36 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.40%) Confluence
4 8 (1.25%) SAS
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
6 4 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.47%) IBM Notes
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) SPSS
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) InVision
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.47%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.47%) SAP MRS
5 3 (0.47%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.31%) Unica
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 114 (17.78%) Azure
2 53 (8.27%) AWS
3 43 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.68%) WhatsApp
6 26 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.96%) PowerApps
9 18 (2.81%) Entra ID
10 17 (2.65%) GCP
10 17 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.56%) GitHub
11 10 (1.56%) SaaS
12 9 (1.40%) Collibra
13 8 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.78%) Serverless
15 4 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.84%) Firewall
2 12 (1.87%) DNS
2 12 (1.87%) SAN
3 10 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.09%) SMTP
5 6 (0.94%) WAN
6 5 (0.78%) HTTP
7 4 (0.62%) DHCP
7 4 (0.62%) FTP
7 4 (0.62%) ICMP
7 4 (0.62%) POP3
7 4 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.62%) SSH
7 4 (0.62%) SSL
8 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.47%) VoIP
9 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.31%) Network Security
9 2 (0.31%) PBX
9 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.24%) Power BI
2 15 (2.34%) Data Lake
2 15 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.18%) Metadata
4 12 (1.87%) Tableau
5 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.94%) KDB
9 5 (0.78%) Big Data
9 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.78%) MySQL
9 5 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.62%) Siebel EIM
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.18%) JIRA
2 12 (1.87%) GitLab
3 10 (1.56%) Git
3 10 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.62%) Selenium
4 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Appium
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.31%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.16%) Babel
7 1 (0.16%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.16%) Pylint
7 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.16%) webpack
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 130 (20.28%) Banking
3 70 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.18%) Financial Institution
5 29 (4.52%) Legal
6 26 (4.06%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.43%) Retail
9 19 (2.96%) Marketing
10 18 (2.81%) Front Office
11 16 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.03%) General Ledger
12 13 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.40%) Back Office
13 9 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.25%) Law
14 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.09%) Advertising
16 5 (0.78%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (17.63%) Analyst
2 75 (11.70%) Developer
3 66 (10.30%) Architect
4 63 (9.83%) Consultant
5 60 (9.36%) Senior
6 57 (8.89%) Business Analyst
7 55 (8.58%) Project Manager
8 37 (5.77%) Lead
9 32 (4.99%) Data Analyst
10 22 (3.43%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (2.96%) Support Engineer
12 17 (2.65%) Microsoft Consultant
12 17 (2.65%) Security Architect
13 16 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (2.50%) Security Consultant
14 14 (2.18%) Finance Business Analyst
15 13 (2.03%) Data Migration Analyst
15 13 (2.03%) Data Migration Business Analyst
15 13 (2.03%) Migration Analyst
15 13 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.96%) .NET
2 18 (2.81%) HTML
3 16 (2.50%) React
3 16 (2.50%) XML
4 15 (2.34%) CSS
5 12 (1.87%) REST
6 11 (1.72%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (1.25%) JSON
8 8 (1.25%) OpenID
8 8 (1.25%) SAML
9 7 (1.09%) Kafka
10 6 (0.94%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.94%) jQuery
10 6 (0.94%) Web Services
10 6 (0.94%) XACML
11 5 (0.78%) Middleware
11 5 (0.78%) Node.js
11 5 (0.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.74%) Product Ownership
2 21 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (2.03%) Derivative
4 13 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
5 12 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.56%) PKI
8 7 (1.09%) Security Posture
9 6 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.94%) Equities
9 6 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.78%) Photography
11 4 (0.62%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.62%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.64%) Windows
2 21 (3.28%) Linux
3 14 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (2.03%) Unix
5 9 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.47%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (16.85%) Agile
2 75 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (11.54%) Project Management
3 74 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (9.83%) DevOps
4 63 (9.83%) Migration
5 56 (8.74%) Risk Management
6 52 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (7.02%) User Acceptance Testing
8 44 (6.86%) CI/CD
8 44 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (6.55%) Analytics
9 42 (6.55%) Data Management
10 40 (6.24%) Change Management
11 37 (5.77%) User Stories
11 37 (5.77%) Validation
12 36 (5.62%) Requirements Gathering
13 34 (5.30%) Data Modelling
14 32 (4.99%) Information Security
15 30 (4.68%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 93 (14.51%) SQL
2 75 (11.70%) Python
3 41 (6.40%) PowerShell
4 39 (6.08%) Java
5 34 (5.30%) C#
6 26 (4.06%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.87%) C++
8 7 (1.09%) Rust
8 7 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.94%) Bash
9 6 (0.94%) Go
9 6 (0.94%) R
10 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.62%) ABAP
11 4 (0.62%) Perl
11 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.47%) Clojure
12 3 (0.47%) Haskell
12 3 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (11.08%) Degree
2 23 (3.59%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (1.56%) CISSP
7 8 (1.25%) CISM
8 7 (1.09%) PMP
9 6 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.94%) CRISC
9 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.62%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.47%) CCNA
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ISEB
12 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.18%) QA
2 37 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.59%) NIST
4 21 (3.28%) PMO
5 20 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.94%) SLA
10 5 (0.78%) GDPR
10 5 (0.78%) GRC
10 5 (0.78%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.47%) EMIR
12 3 (0.47%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.47%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.31%) Basel III
14 1 (0.16%) FATCA
14 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (6.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.25%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.28%) Terraform
2 19 (2.96%) SCCM
3 17 (2.65%) Ansible
4 16 (2.50%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.40%) PingFederate
6 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.94%) Kibana
7 6 (0.94%) logstash
8 4 (0.62%) Puppet
8 4 (0.62%) QRadar
9 3 (0.47%) Packer
9 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.31%) Consul
10 2 (0.31%) Grafana
10 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 105 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.99%) Oracle
3 29 (4.52%) SAP
4 22 (3.43%) Cisco
5 17 (2.65%) Citrix
6 15 (2.34%) IBM
7 13 (2.03%) CheckPoint
7 13 (2.03%) Google
7 13 (2.03%) HP
7 13 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.87%) Avaya
8 12 (1.87%) EMC
9 10 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.25%) Adobe
11 8 (1.25%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.25%) Databricks
11 8 (1.25%) Okta
12 6 (0.94%) Proofpoint
13 5 (0.78%) Splunk