Financial Institution Contracts in Central London

Financial Institution
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -54
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 47 45 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.48% 1.87% 1.93%
As % of the General category 3.47% 2.82% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 51
10th Percentile £465 £195 £513
25th Percentile £575 £518 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -10.34% +107.14%
75th Percentile £794 £775 £809
90th Percentile £878 £815 £838
London median daily rate £659 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +5.78% +3.75% -

All General Skills
Central London

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 common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,353 1,593 2,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 71.32% 66.18% 62.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 1,123 1,641
10th Percentile £325 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £685 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 14
10th Percentile £23.86 £19.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.39 £20.22 £15.78
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% -14.29% -21.13%
75th Percentile £49.22 £27.50 £40.49
90th Percentile £74.63 £41.60 £53.45
London median hourly rate £31.92 £29.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.14% -7.14% -11.27%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in Central London

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in Central London

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in Central London over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in Central London

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in Central London

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 May 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 +16 46 £713 +9.62% 51
Financial Institution
London

Financial Institution
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 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) AWS
1 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.26%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) Collibra
4 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
2 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) Tableau
3 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.26%) Looker
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.13%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.13%) Xcode
General
1 47 (100.00%) Finance
2 27 (57.45%) Banking
3 24 (51.06%) Social Skills
4 17 (36.17%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (23.40%) Investment Banking
6 10 (21.28%) Front Office
7 5 (10.64%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (10.64%) Retail
7 5 (10.64%) Retail Banking
8 3 (6.38%) International Banking
8 3 (6.38%) Legal
8 3 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.13%) Advertising
9 1 (2.13%) Back Office
9 1 (2.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Business Analyst
2 10 (21.28%) Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.51%) C# Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Compliance Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Electronic Trading Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.38%) MiFID Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) Product Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Senior
6 2 (4.26%) C# GUI Developer
6 2 (4.26%) C# WPF Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Gen AI Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) GUI Developer
6 2 (4.26%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) PySpark
2 3 (6.38%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.26%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (4.26%) WPF
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.13%) Dask
4 1 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.13%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (2.13%) iOS SDK
4 1 (2.13%) LangChain
4 1 (2.13%) Node.js
4 1 (2.13%) NumPy
4 1 (2.13%) Pandas
4 1 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.51%) Credit Risk
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (8.51%) Fixed Income
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Equities
4 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (23.40%) Agile
3 10 (21.28%) Risk Management
4 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
5 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.89%) Wealth Management
7 6 (12.77%) Analytics
7 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
7 6 (12.77%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (12.77%) Low Latency
7 6 (12.77%) Project Management
8 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (10.64%) Data Science
8 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
8 5 (10.64%) Generative AI
8 5 (10.64%) Mathematics
8 5 (10.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (8.51%) LLM
9 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) Swift
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.51%) PhD
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) CBAP
6 1 (2.13%) CFA
6 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.13%) MBA
6 1 (2.13%) MCSE
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMP
6 1 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) MiFID
3 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) Basel II
4 1 (2.13%) COBIT
4 1 (2.13%) GRC
4 1 (2.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) ION Trading
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) FIS
4 1 (2.13%) Planview
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce