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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 708 1,140 1,261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 29.27% 31.07% 28.37%
As % of the General category 44.03% 49.78% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 802 842
10th Percentile £356 £454 £350
25th Percentile £481 £533 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £658 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +12.04% +4.44%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £700
90th Percentile £838 £875 £808
London median daily rate £613 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.00% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £38.93 - -
25th Percentile £56.81 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £87.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.29% +34.62% +50.88%
75th Percentile £118.31 - £33.88
90th Percentile £136.58 - £45.05
London median hourly rate £25.71 £25.71 £44.50
% change year-on-year - -42.22% +93.48%

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 1,608 2,290 2,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 66.47% 62.41% 57.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,610 1,856
10th Percentile £331 £324 £339
25th Percentile £445 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £606 £564
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +7.49% +2.55%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
London median daily rate £575 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 33
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £14.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.18 £20.71 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -50.11% +107.50%
75th Percentile £35.69 £38.66 £51.75
90th Percentile £49.60 £53.35 £62.35
London median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +0.53% -15.49% +22.41%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 0 657 £600 -10.28% 259
City of Westminster 0 9 £713 +61.02% 8
Camden +1 5 £425 - 7
Southwark +7 4 £525 +5.00%
West End of London -5 3 £275 +3.77% 9
Lambeth - 1 £245 - 3
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 34 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.69%) Confluence
4 7 (0.99%) CMS
5 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.85%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.56%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.42%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 36 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) SPSS
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.42%) SAP MRS
4 3 (0.42%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 122 (17.23%) Azure
2 62 (8.76%) AWS
3 48 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 36 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (4.38%) WhatsApp
6 27 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (3.53%) GCP
8 23 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.97%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.68%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 12 (1.69%) SaaS
13 9 (1.27%) GitHub
14 8 (1.13%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.99%) Collibra
15 7 (0.99%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.94%) Firewall
2 12 (1.69%) SAN
3 10 (1.41%) DNS
4 7 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.85%) VoIP
6 5 (0.71%) VPN
7 4 (0.56%) HTTP
7 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.56%) SSH
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) DHCP
8 3 (0.42%) FTP
8 3 (0.42%) ICMP
8 3 (0.42%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.42%) Network Security
8 3 (0.42%) POP3
8 3 (0.42%) SMTP
9 2 (0.28%) CTI
9 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.93%) Power BI
2 20 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (1.98%) Data Lake
4 14 (1.98%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.69%) Metadata
5 12 (1.69%) Tableau
6 9 (1.27%) KDB
7 8 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.99%) Big Data
8 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 7 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.85%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.56%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.56%) Siebel EIM
12 3 (0.42%) MySQL
12 3 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (2.54%) JIRA
2 16 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.12%) GitLab
4 12 (1.69%) Git
5 5 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.56%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.42%) webpack
8 2 (0.28%) Appium
8 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.28%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.28%) JUnit
8 2 (0.28%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Babel
9 1 (0.14%) Darcs
General
1 175 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.19%) Banking
3 74 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.21%) Financial Institution
5 31 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.95%) Investment Banking
8 27 (3.81%) Legal
9 23 (3.25%) Retail
10 19 (2.68%) Marketing
11 18 (2.54%) Front Office
12 13 (1.84%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.69%) General Ledger
13 12 (1.69%) Law
14 11 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.41%) Advertising
15 10 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.27%) Back Office
17 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (17.94%) Analyst
2 89 (12.57%) Developer
3 74 (10.45%) Architect
4 70 (9.89%) Senior
5 65 (9.18%) Business Analyst
6 61 (8.62%) Consultant
7 58 (8.19%) Project Manager
8 45 (6.36%) Lead
9 33 (4.66%) Data Analyst
10 23 (3.25%) Financial Analyst
11 20 (2.82%) Support Engineer
12 18 (2.54%) Security Architect
13 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Consultant
14 16 (2.26%) Finance Business Analyst
14 16 (2.26%) Security Consultant
14 16 (2.26%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.98%) Java Developer
16 13 (1.84%) Senior Developer
16 13 (1.84%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.11%) HTML
2 20 (2.82%) .NET
2 20 (2.82%) React
3 19 (2.68%) XML
4 17 (2.40%) CSS
5 16 (2.26%) REST
6 14 (1.98%) Kafka
7 12 (1.69%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (1.27%) Web Services
10 8 (1.13%) JSON
10 8 (1.13%) Middleware
11 7 (0.99%) Node.js
11 7 (0.99%) OpenID
11 7 (0.99%) SAML
11 7 (0.99%) Spring
12 6 (0.85%) jQuery
12 6 (0.85%) NumPy
12 6 (0.85%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.53%) Management Information System
1 25 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 16 (2.26%) Derivative
2 16 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
3 15 (2.12%) Onboarding
4 14 (1.98%) Data Structures
4 14 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.69%) Hedge funds
6 9 (1.27%) PKI
7 8 (1.13%) Equities
8 7 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.71%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.71%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.92%) Windows
2 25 (3.53%) Linux
3 14 (1.98%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (1.84%) Unix
5 7 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (18.50%) Agile
2 80 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (10.45%) DevOps
4 73 (10.31%) Project Management
5 72 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (9.89%) Migration
7 55 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
7 55 (7.77%) CI/CD
8 51 (7.20%) Risk Management
9 46 (6.50%) Analytics
10 45 (6.36%) Change Management
10 45 (6.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 40 (5.65%) Cybersecurity
12 37 (5.23%) User Stories
13 36 (5.08%) Computer Science
13 36 (5.08%) Data Management
14 34 (4.80%) Requirements Gathering
15 33 (4.66%) Information Security
16 31 (4.38%) ITIL
17 30 (4.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (15.11%) SQL
2 88 (12.43%) Python
3 47 (6.64%) Java
4 37 (5.23%) PowerShell
5 35 (4.94%) C#
6 29 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.69%) C++
8 9 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.13%) R
9 8 (1.13%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.99%) Bash
10 7 (0.99%) Rust
11 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.71%) Go
12 5 (0.71%) VBA
13 4 (0.56%) ABAP
13 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.56%) RPG
14 3 (0.42%) Perl
14 3 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (11.58%) Degree
2 30 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (1.55%) CISSP
6 9 (1.27%) CISM
7 8 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.13%) CRISC
7 8 (1.13%) PMP
8 7 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.85%) ACCA
10 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.56%) CCNP
11 4 (0.56%) CIMA
11 4 (0.56%) CISA
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.07%) QA
2 31 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.53%) PMO
4 20 (2.82%) NIST
5 17 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.13%) GDPR
10 6 (0.85%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.56%) GRC
11 4 (0.56%) IFRS
11 4 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.56%) SLA
12 3 (0.42%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.12%) Docker
3 8 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (3.11%) Ansible
1 22 (3.11%) Terraform
2 21 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.97%) SCCM
3 9 (1.27%) PingFederate
4 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.71%) Grafana
6 5 (0.71%) Kibana
6 5 (0.71%) logstash
6 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.71%) Puppet
7 4 (0.56%) Control-M
7 4 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.42%) Packer
8 3 (0.42%) QRadar
9 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 119 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.08%) Oracle
3 34 (4.80%) SAP
4 26 (3.67%) Cisco
5 20 (2.82%) Google
6 19 (2.68%) Citrix
7 18 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.26%) CheckPoint
9 15 (2.12%) IBM
10 14 (1.98%) Avaya
11 13 (1.84%) HP
11 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.69%) EMC
13 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
14 8 (1.13%) Adobe
14 8 (1.13%) Databricks
14 8 (1.13%) Okta
14 8 (1.13%) VMware
15 7 (0.99%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.85%) Fortinet