Finance Contracts in the City of Westminster

Financial
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 10 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 24.39% 15.69% 16.28%
As % of the General category 47.62% 30.77% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £500 £424 £209
25th Percentile £575 £547 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £265
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +164.15% -60.37%
75th Percentile £638 £793 £542
90th Percentile £705 £809 £738
Central London median daily rate £598 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -0.42% -7.69% +13.04%

All General Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 51.22% 50.98% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 19
10th Percentile £385 £355 £223
25th Percentile £413 £440 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +19.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £622
90th Percentile £725 £822 £850
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.80% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.18 £27.85
% change year-on-year +15.45% -9.60% -31.23%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the City of Westminster

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the City of Westminster

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the City of Westminster

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the City of Westminster.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the City of Westminster

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Mayfair +1 4 £590 -18.62%
Westminster +4 3 £625 +127.27% 3
Paddington +1 3 £575 -17.86%
Finance
Central London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) BGP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Finance Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Collaboration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Payroll Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (10.00%) FMCG
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Product Management
1 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Network Performance Management
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) High Availability
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Arista
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Sun
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Workday