Finance Contracts in Central London

Financial
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 704 1,229 1,280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 28.75% 31.88% 28.18%
As % of the General category 43.65% 51.32% 49.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 854 861
10th Percentile £363 £456 £363
25th Percentile £488 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £775 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £775
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile - - £20.39
25th Percentile £24.00 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £28.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £38.69 £35.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £59.73 - £63.75
London median hourly rate £25.71 £25.71 £44.50
% change year-on-year - -42.22% +66.98%

All General Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,613 2,395 2,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.86% 62.13% 56.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £338 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 26
10th Percentile £20.10 £15.83 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.42 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +122.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.50 £57.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £64.13
London median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -12.31% -9.72% +30.91%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
City of London 0 654 £600 -7.69% 260
City of Westminster +1 8 £700 +145.61% 5
West End of London -1 7 £525 +5.00% 9
Camden +4 5 £425 - 7
Southwark +5 4 £525 +5.00% 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 42 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.28%) Confluence
4 8 (1.14%) SAS
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.43%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.43%) IBM Notes
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 33 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (2.41%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) SPSS
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
1 10 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.43%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.43%) SAP MRS
4 3 (0.43%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.28%) Unica
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.76%) Azure
2 58 (8.24%) AWS
3 47 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 30 (4.26%) WhatsApp
6 26 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.27%) Entra ID
9 20 (2.84%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.70%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.56%) GCP
12 14 (1.99%) SaaS
13 10 (1.42%) GitHub
14 8 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (1.14%) Collibra
14 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.85%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.71%) IaaS
16 5 (0.71%) Serverless
16 5 (0.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.69%) Firewall
2 13 (1.85%) SAN
3 12 (1.70%) DNS
4 10 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.14%) HTTP
6 7 (0.99%) SMTP
7 6 (0.85%) WAN
8 4 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.57%) FTP
8 4 (0.57%) ICMP
8 4 (0.57%) POP3
8 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.57%) SSH
8 4 (0.57%) VoIP
9 3 (0.43%) LAN
9 3 (0.43%) SSL
9 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.28%) Network Security
10 2 (0.28%) PBX
10 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.97%) Power BI
2 16 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 13 (1.85%) Metadata
5 12 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.70%) Tableau
6 10 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.85%) MySQL
8 6 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.71%) Big Data
9 5 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.71%) KDB
9 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.57%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.57%) Siebel EIM
11 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (2.41%) JIRA
2 13 (1.85%) GitLab
3 10 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.28%) Git
5 4 (0.57%) Selenium
5 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.28%) Appium
7 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.28%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.14%) CMake
8 1 (0.14%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.14%) Hudson
8 1 (0.14%) Pylint
8 1 (0.14%) webpack
8 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 196 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 137 (19.46%) Banking
3 72 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (6.68%) Financial Institution
5 35 (4.97%) Legal
6 29 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.55%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.41%) Retail
10 20 (2.84%) Front Office
10 20 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.70%) Law
11 19 (2.70%) Marketing
12 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.70%) General Ledger
14 11 (1.56%) Advertising
15 10 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.28%) Back Office
17 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (18.04%) Analyst
2 81 (11.51%) Developer
3 73 (10.37%) Architect
4 69 (9.80%) Consultant
5 66 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 63 (8.95%) Business Analyst
6 63 (8.95%) Senior
7 35 (4.97%) Lead
8 34 (4.83%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.41%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.27%) Financial Analyst
11 18 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
12 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Consultant
12 17 (2.41%) Security Architect
13 16 (2.27%) Data Migration Analyst
13 16 (2.27%) Migration Analyst
13 16 (2.27%) Security Consultant
14 15 (2.13%) Finance Business Analyst
15 14 (1.99%) Data Migration Business Analyst
15 14 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.56%) .NET
1 18 (2.56%) HTML
2 16 (2.27%) XML
3 15 (2.13%) CSS
3 15 (2.13%) React
3 15 (2.13%) REST
4 10 (1.42%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
6 8 (1.14%) JSON
6 8 (1.14%) OpenID
6 8 (1.14%) SAML
7 6 (0.85%) ASP.NET
7 6 (0.85%) jQuery
7 6 (0.85%) Kafka
7 6 (0.85%) SailPoint
7 6 (0.85%) Web Services
7 6 (0.85%) XACML
8 5 (0.71%) Middleware
8 5 (0.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.27%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
4 15 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.13%) Derivative
5 14 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.70%) Hedge funds
7 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.42%) PKI
9 8 (1.14%) Equities
10 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.99%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.71%) Photography
13 4 (0.57%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.38%) Windows
2 21 (2.98%) Linux
3 15 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
3 15 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (1.70%) Unix
4 12 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.43%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (16.48%) Agile
2 87 (12.36%) Project Management
3 83 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (10.09%) Migration
6 65 (9.23%) DevOps
7 58 (8.24%) Risk Management
8 54 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (6.96%) CI/CD
10 46 (6.53%) User Acceptance Testing
11 44 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (5.97%) Data Management
13 41 (5.82%) Analytics
13 41 (5.82%) Validation
14 40 (5.68%) Change Management
15 39 (5.54%) Requirements Gathering
16 38 (5.40%) User Stories
17 35 (4.97%) Data Modelling
18 33 (4.69%) Information Security
19 31 (4.40%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 99 (14.06%) SQL
2 78 (11.08%) Python
3 45 (6.39%) PowerShell
4 43 (6.11%) Java
5 32 (4.55%) C#
6 28 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.85%) C++
8 8 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.99%) Rust
9 7 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.85%) Bash
10 6 (0.85%) Go
10 6 (0.85%) R
10 6 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.57%) ABAP
11 4 (0.57%) Perl
11 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.43%) Clojure
12 3 (0.43%) Haskell
12 3 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 82 (11.65%) Degree
2 28 (3.98%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (1.42%) CISSP
7 7 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 7 (0.99%) CISM
7 7 (0.99%) CRISC
8 6 (0.85%) ACCA
8 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.85%) PMP
9 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.43%) CCNA
11 3 (0.43%) CISA
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.28%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.39%) QA
2 39 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.41%) NIST
4 23 (3.27%) PMO
5 21 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.14%) GDPR
7 8 (1.14%) SLA
8 6 (0.85%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.71%) GRC
9 5 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.43%) EMIR
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.43%) MiFID
12 2 (0.28%) Basel III
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 47 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.14%) Docker
2 8 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (3.13%) SCCM
2 21 (2.98%) Terraform
3 17 (2.41%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.27%) Ansible
5 9 (1.28%) PingFederate
6 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.85%) Kibana
7 6 (0.85%) logstash
8 4 (0.57%) Puppet
8 4 (0.57%) QRadar
9 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Grafana
11 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 121 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.54%) Oracle
3 27 (3.84%) SAP
4 24 (3.41%) Cisco
5 20 (2.84%) Citrix
6 17 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.13%) IBM
8 14 (1.99%) CheckPoint
8 14 (1.99%) Google
8 14 (1.99%) HP
9 13 (1.85%) Avaya
9 13 (1.85%) EMC
10 10 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.14%) Adobe
11 8 (1.14%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.14%) Databricks
11 8 (1.14%) Okta
11 8 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.85%) Dell
12 6 (0.85%) Proofpoint