Finance Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Financial
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Canary Wharf. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 24 22 47
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 46.15% 36.67% 31.13%
As % of the General category 72.73% 62.86% 55.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 43
10th Percentile £536 £492 £502
25th Percentile £596 £533 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -9.95%
75th Percentile £950 £613 £675
90th Percentile £1,000 £653 £756
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £675 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All General Skills
Canary Wharf

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33 35 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 63.46% 58.33% 55.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 73
10th Percentile £396 £418 £495
25th Percentile £525 £484 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -1.82% -8.90%
75th Percentile £765 £593 £650
90th Percentile £1,000 £650 £736
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £630 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -1.82% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £28.14 - £14.45
25th Percentile £32.61 - £14.85
Median hourly rate £40.08 - £15.52
75th Percentile £47.54 - £16.18
90th Percentile £52.02 - £16.58
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £32.00 - £15.52

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Finance job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Canary Wharf

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Camunda
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (20.83%) Endur
3 3 (12.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 3 (12.50%) SaaS
2 3 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DHCP
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) LAN
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) eggPlant
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Gradle
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA Agile
1 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 11 (45.83%) Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Automotive
3 5 (20.83%) Back Office
3 5 (20.83%) Front Office
3 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Technical Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Quantitative Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (16.67%) SAP Architect
4 4 (16.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Endur Architect
5 3 (12.50%) ERP Architect
5 3 (12.50%) OpenLink Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Back Office Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Endur Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Endur Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Technical Architect
6 2 (8.33%) OpenLink Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Principal Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) React
2 3 (12.50%) Swagger
3 1 (4.17%) ADO
3 1 (4.17%) Django
3 1 (4.17%) Drools
3 1 (4.17%) Flask
3 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.17%) JPA
3 1 (4.17%) NumPy
3 1 (4.17%) Pandas
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Streamlit
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Derivative
1 5 (20.83%) Equities
1 5 (20.83%) Equity Derivative
1 5 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (12.50%) Grid Computing
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 2 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 6 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.83%) Digital Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Digital Innovation
5 5 (20.83%) ERP
5 5 (20.83%) Mathematics
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Physics
5 5 (20.83%) TOGAF
5 5 (20.83%) Zachman Framework
6 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) C++
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) BC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 2 (8.33%) MBA
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) EMIR
3 1 (4.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) SAP
2 5 (20.83%) Hitachi
2 5 (20.83%) Sophis
3 4 (16.67%) Concur
4 3 (12.50%) Ariba
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 2 (8.33%) ION Trading
5 2 (8.33%) OpenLink
6 1 (4.17%) Calypso
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Murex
6 1 (4.17%) Remedy
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow