CFA Contracts in the City of London

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 159
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing CFA 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% - 0.093%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.11% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £680 - -
Central London median daily rate £495 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

CFA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 451 490 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.29% 23.77% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 311 384
10th Percentile £334 £400 £342
25th Percentile £457 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £694
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -61.60%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £50.88
90th Percentile £79.34 - £70.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.78 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% +50.00% -61.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CFA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CFA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CFA in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CFA in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CFA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
1 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) AS400
2 1 (20.00%) iSeries
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Fund Management
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) COBOL
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) RPG
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (20.00%) FNZ
2 1 (20.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (20.00%) IBM