Finance Contracts in Central London

Financial
London > Central London

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 744 711 1,160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 38.02% 30.31% 31.30%
As % of the General category 51.85% 45.75% 49.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 512 810
10th Percentile £363 £363 £453
25th Percentile £453 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -7.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £775
90th Percentile £775 £850 £875
London median daily rate £600 £613 £628
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.39% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £23.84 - -
25th Percentile £24.93 - -
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -22.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £58.97 £87.88 -
90th Percentile £89.88 £124.40 -
London median hourly rate £38.11 £25.71 £25.71
% change year-on-year +48.23% - -42.22%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,435 1,554 2,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.33% 66.24% 62.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,073 1,624
10th Percentile £331 £338 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £829
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 15
10th Percentile £21.02 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.92 £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.78 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% +29.34% -51.70%
75th Percentile £50.75 £41.06 £38.66
90th Percentile £70.21 £70.20 £53.35
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.73% -7.20% -9.72%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London 0 689 £592 -1.42% 2,093
West End of London +10 11 £613 - 28
City of Westminster +4 11 £578 -20.34% 22
Southwark -3 3 - - 1
Finance
London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 25 (3.36%) Confluence
2 24 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.21%) Apache
4 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.54%) SAS
7 3 (0.40%) CMS
7 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 54 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.54%) Trello
8 3 (0.40%) Sketch
8 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.13%) EViews
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Stata
Business Applications
1 14 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.48%) Oracle Assets
3 10 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (1.21%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.67%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.67%) Endur
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.54%) ION Anvil
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.54%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.54%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 139 (18.68%) Azure
2 83 (11.16%) AWS
3 44 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 28 (3.76%) SaaS
6 27 (3.63%) GCP
7 24 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 13 (1.75%) PaaS
9 13 (1.75%) Snowflake
10 11 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.48%) GitHub
11 10 (1.34%) Serverless
12 9 (1.21%) OCI
13 8 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.08%) IaaS
14 6 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.81%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.96%) Firewall
2 14 (1.88%) DNS
3 12 (1.61%) VPN
3 12 (1.61%) WAN
4 9 (1.21%) Network Security
5 8 (1.08%) DHCP
6 6 (0.81%) BGP
6 6 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.67%) HTTP
7 5 (0.67%) LAN
7 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.54%) OSPF
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) VLAN
9 3 (0.40%) VoIP
9 3 (0.40%) WebEx
10 2 (0.27%) Multicast
10 2 (0.27%) NAS
10 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.76%) Power BI
3 21 (2.82%) Hadoop
4 20 (2.69%) Big Data
4 20 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.02%) Tableau
6 14 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.08%) Apache Hive
10 8 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.81%) Redis
13 5 (0.67%) DB2
13 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.99%) JIRA
2 24 (3.23%) Git
3 23 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.34%) JUnit
5 8 (1.08%) Maven
6 7 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (0.81%) Gradle
7 6 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.67%) GitLab
8 5 (0.67%) Postman
9 4 (0.54%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.54%) Subversion
9 4 (0.54%) Xcode
10 3 (0.40%) Ant
10 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.40%) Mockito
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.40%) SoapUI
General
1 247 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 191 (25.67%) Banking
3 135 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (7.80%) Front Office
5 53 (7.12%) Investment Banking
6 50 (6.72%) Financial Institution
7 34 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.76%) Legal
9 25 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.36%) Retail
10 24 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.28%) Back Office
13 16 (2.15%) Public Sector
13 16 (2.15%) Retail Banking
14 13 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
14 13 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.75%) Marketing
15 12 (1.61%) General Ledger
16 11 (1.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (19.89%) Analyst
2 108 (14.52%) Developer
3 85 (11.42%) Business Analyst
4 65 (8.74%) Senior
5 58 (7.80%) Architect
6 56 (7.53%) Lead
7 55 (7.39%) Project Manager
8 48 (6.45%) Consultant
9 29 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (3.63%) Java Developer
11 26 (3.49%) Data Analyst
12 20 (2.69%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.28%) Financial Analyst
13 17 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
15 15 (2.02%) Support Engineer
16 14 (1.88%) Data Business Analyst
16 14 (1.88%) IT Support
16 14 (1.88%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.75%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.51%) .NET
2 20 (2.69%) Kafka
3 18 (2.42%) REST
3 18 (2.42%) Spring
4 17 (2.28%) AngularJS
4 17 (2.28%) React
5 14 (1.88%) RESTful
6 13 (1.75%) PySpark
7 12 (1.61%) Web Services
8 11 (1.48%) HTML
9 10 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.21%) CSS
10 9 (1.21%) GraphQL
10 9 (1.21%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.08%) HTML5
11 8 (1.08%) JPA
11 8 (1.08%) XML
12 7 (0.94%) Middleware
12 7 (0.94%) TensorFlow
13 6 (0.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (2.96%) Product Ownership
3 21 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 21 (2.82%) Fixed Income
3 21 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (2.42%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.15%) Derivative
6 16 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.88%) Credit Risk
9 13 (1.75%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 11 (1.48%) Equities
11 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.21%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.68%) Windows
2 45 (6.05%) Linux
3 20 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.28%) Unix
5 10 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.54%) Android
8 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) AIX
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (23.12%) Agile
2 160 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (13.44%) Project Management
5 84 (11.29%) Migration
6 72 (9.68%) DevOps
7 67 (9.01%) Analytics
8 65 (8.74%) Risk Management
9 57 (7.66%) CI/CD
10 56 (7.53%) Data Analysis
10 56 (7.53%) Project Delivery
11 55 (7.39%) Decision-Making
12 50 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (6.05%) Roadmaps
14 44 (5.91%) Business Analysis
15 42 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (5.65%) User Acceptance Testing
16 41 (5.51%) Scrum
16 41 (5.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 39 (5.24%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (18.28%) SQL
2 125 (16.80%) Python
3 68 (9.14%) Java
4 56 (7.53%) C#
5 32 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 27 (3.63%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.75%) C++
9 10 (1.34%) Bash
10 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.08%) R
11 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.94%) Scala
13 5 (0.67%) Groovy
14 4 (0.54%) Bicep
14 4 (0.54%) Go
14 4 (0.54%) VBA
14 4 (0.54%) VBScript
15 3 (0.40%) DAML
15 3 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (14.11%) Degree
2 24 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.96%) PMI Certification
4 20 (2.69%) PMP
5 19 (2.55%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.21%) CCNP
10 8 (1.08%) PhD
11 7 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.54%) CBAP
14 4 (0.54%) CFA
15 3 (0.40%) CISSP
15 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.76%) QA
2 24 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.69%) MiFID
3 20 (2.69%) PMO
4 14 (1.88%) EMIR
5 12 (1.61%) GDPR
6 11 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.48%) NIST
7 10 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.94%) SLA
9 6 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.67%) COBIT
10 5 (0.67%) IFRS
10 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.54%) SEPA
12 3 (0.40%) GAAP
12 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.27%) Basel II
13 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
13 2 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.55%) Docker
3 3 (0.40%) BitLocker
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) GPFS
4 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.27%) NFS
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) XenApp
4 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.23%) Terraform
3 16 (2.15%) SCCM
4 15 (2.02%) Ansible
5 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.81%) Grafana
7 5 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.54%) Kibana
8 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.40%) logstash
10 2 (0.27%) CASB
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.27%) WSUS
11 1 (0.13%) Control-M
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.13%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 118 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.41%) Oracle
3 34 (4.57%) SAP
4 20 (2.69%) Workday
5 18 (2.42%) Cisco
6 15 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.88%) Citrix
8 13 (1.75%) Google
8 13 (1.75%) Splunk
9 11 (1.48%) Databricks
10 10 (1.34%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.34%) IBM
10 10 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.21%) VMware
12 8 (1.08%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.94%) Arista
13 7 (0.94%) HP
13 7 (0.94%) ION Trading
14 6 (0.81%) Adobe
14 6 (0.81%) Zscaler