Financial Analyst Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Finance Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 109 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 16 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.90% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.96% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 12
10th Percentile £281 £293 £262
25th Percentile £329 £425 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £630
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -24.60% +17.21%
75th Percentile £601 £519 £659
90th Percentile £663 £619 £721
Central London median daily rate £425 £494 £625
% change year-on-year -13.92% -21.00% +19.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,644 1,982 2,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 94.16% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,246 1,958
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.95 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.28 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% -7.75% -14.46%
75th Percentile £56.75 £89.06 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% - -15.66%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the City of London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Moorgate - 1 £300 -
Financial Analyst
Central London

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Financial Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Data Analysis
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Degree
4 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Financial Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Banking
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (18.75%) Star Schema
6 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) User Stories
6 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (18.75%) Data Reconciliation
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
6 3 (18.75%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
6 3 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation

Financial Analyst Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) EViews
2 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Star Schema
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Financial Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (18.75%) Epics
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Sprint Review
4 3 (18.75%) User Stories
4 3 (18.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) CBAP
3 1 (6.25%) ACCA
3 1 (6.25%) CCAB
3 1 (6.25%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Hyperion
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Tagetik
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) PeopleSoft