Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Financial Institution
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 11 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.42% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the General category 2.28% 0.46% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £513 £625 -
25th Percentile - £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £260
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +178.85% -
75th Percentile £892 £788 -
90th Percentile - £825 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £725 £200
% change year-on-year -27.59% +262.50% -70.91%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Financial Institution falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 482 432 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 62.44% 66.77% 51.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 284 247
10th Percentile £205 £200 £233
25th Percentile £400 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 15
10th Percentile £15.85 £14.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.09 £20.88 £14.34
Median hourly rate £20.50 £30.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.18% -32.83% +224.32%
75th Percentile £23.58 £51.88 £61.88
90th Percentile £27.00 £56.65 £71.74
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £23.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year -14.99% +5.87% +30.23%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Financial Institution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Birmingham

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
1 10 (90.91%) Serverless
2 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) NoSQL
2 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) GitLab
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 8 (72.73%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (81.82%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) GCP Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 5 (45.45%) AWS Software Engineer
4 5 (45.45%) Senior
4 5 (45.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (36.36%) GCP Software Engineer
5 4 (36.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (18.18%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (9.09%) Analytics Manager
7 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (90.91%) REST
1 10 (90.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Public Cloud
2 8 (72.73%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Computer Science
2 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) Cryptography
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) High Availability
2 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Non-Functional Testing
2 10 (90.91%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (81.82%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (81.82%) Data Encryption
4 8 (72.73%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
5 7 (63.64%) Change Management
6 6 (54.55%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (54.55%) Data Security
6 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Go
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (90.91%) Degree
1 10 (90.91%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Grafana
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
1 10 (90.91%) Prometheus
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 9 (81.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Splunk
2 4 (36.36%) Google