Financial Institution Contracts in the City of London

Financial Institution
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 102
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -51
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 45 43 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.69% 1.99% 2.05%
As % of the General category 3.74% 2.97% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 51
10th Percentile £465 £195 £513
25th Percentile £575 £531 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £658 £725
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -9.31% +107.14%
75th Percentile £794 £775 £809
90th Percentile £878 £818 £838
Central London median daily rate £713 £658 £725
% change year-on-year +8.37% -9.31% +107.14%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,204 1,446 2,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.88% 66.98% 63.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 1,008 1,537
10th Percentile £332 £338 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -8.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £688 £691 £738
90th Percentile £775 £804 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 12
10th Percentile £18.15 £18.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.07 £15.19
Median hourly rate £28.33 £20.82 £20.85
Median % change year-on-year +36.08% -0.18% -45.13%
75th Percentile £41.48 £27.25 £44.93
90th Percentile £89.13 £36.60 £53.65
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £24.40 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.14% -12.86% -26.32%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the City of London

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in the City of London

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in the City of London

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Institution in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in the City of London

Financial Institution
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 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) AWS
2 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.22%) Collibra
4 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Serverless
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) Tableau
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Looker
3 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Big Data
4 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.22%) Xcode
General
1 45 (100.00%) Finance
2 26 (57.78%) Banking
3 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
4 16 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
6 9 (20.00%) Front Office
7 5 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (11.11%) Retail
7 5 (11.11%) Retail Banking
8 3 (6.67%) International Banking
8 3 (6.67%) Legal
8 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Advertising
9 1 (2.22%) Back Office
9 1 (2.22%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) C# Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Compliance Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) MiFID Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) Product Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) C# GUI Developer
7 2 (4.44%) C# WPF Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Gen AI Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) GUI Developer
7 2 (4.44%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) PySpark
2 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (4.44%) Reactive Extensions
3 2 (4.44%) WPF
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.22%) Dask
4 1 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.22%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (2.22%) iOS SDK
4 1 (2.22%) LangChain
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) NumPy
4 1 (2.22%) Pandas
4 1 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.89%) Credit Risk
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Agile
2 10 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
3 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (15.56%) Wealth Management
5 6 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (13.33%) Low Latency
6 5 (11.11%) Analytics
6 5 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 5 (11.11%) Data Science
6 5 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
6 5 (11.11%) Mathematics
6 5 (11.11%) Project Management
6 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.89%) ITIL
7 4 (8.89%) LLM
7 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.22%) Scala
5 1 (2.22%) Swift
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.89%) PhD
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CBAP
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.22%) MCSE
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) PMP
6 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) MiFID
3 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) Basel II
4 1 (2.22%) COBIT
4 1 (2.22%) GRC
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) ION Trading
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) IBM
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) FIS
4 1 (2.22%) Planview
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce