Finance Contracts in the City of London

Financial
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 646 1,181 1,233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 29.52% 32.71% 29.14%
As % of the General category 44.49% 52.42% 50.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 825 825
10th Percentile £373 £461 £363
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.83% +6.64%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £688
90th Percentile £838 £857 £775
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - - £20.39
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £42.75
90th Percentile £26.40 - £63.75
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% +21.86%

All General Skills
City of London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,452 2,253 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.36% 62.39% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 1,589 1,770
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £681
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £560 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 27
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%
75th Percentile £27.00 £53.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £32.05 £58.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -35.63% +148.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
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 Finance within the City of London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
London Bridge +2 3 £500 -
Moorgate +1 3 £200 -54.29%
Finance
Central London

Finance
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 36 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.39%) Confluence
4 8 (1.24%) SAS
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
6 4 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.46%) IBM Notes
7 3 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.48%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) SPSS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) InVision
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.55%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.46%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.46%) SAP MRS
5 3 (0.46%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.31%) Unica
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 114 (17.65%) Azure
2 54 (8.36%) AWS
3 44 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (4.80%) WhatsApp
6 26 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.94%) PowerApps
9 18 (2.79%) Entra ID
9 18 (2.79%) GCP
10 17 (2.63%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.55%) GitHub
11 10 (1.55%) SaaS
12 9 (1.39%) Collibra
13 8 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.77%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.77%) Serverless
16 4 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.80%) Firewall
2 12 (1.86%) DNS
2 12 (1.86%) SAN
3 10 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.08%) SMTP
5 5 (0.77%) HTTP
5 5 (0.77%) WAN
6 4 (0.62%) DHCP
6 4 (0.62%) FTP
6 4 (0.62%) ICMP
6 4 (0.62%) POP3
6 4 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.62%) SSH
6 4 (0.62%) SSL
6 4 (0.62%) VoIP
7 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.31%) Network Security
8 2 (0.31%) PBX
8 2 (0.31%) PSTN
8 2 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.35%) Power BI
2 16 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.32%) Data Lake
3 15 (2.32%) Metadata
4 12 (1.86%) Tableau
5 10 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.08%) KDB
7 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.93%) Big Data
9 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.77%) MySQL
9 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.62%) Siebel EIM
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.17%) JIRA
2 12 (1.86%) GitLab
3 10 (1.55%) Git
3 10 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.62%) Selenium
4 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.31%) Appium
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.31%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Babel
7 1 (0.15%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.15%) Pylint
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) webpack
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 130 (20.12%) Banking
3 70 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.12%) Financial Institution
5 29 (4.49%) Legal
6 26 (4.02%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 23 (3.56%) Retail
9 19 (2.94%) Front Office
9 19 (2.94%) Marketing
10 16 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.01%) General Ledger
13 10 (1.55%) Back Office
14 9 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.24%) Law
15 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.08%) Advertising
17 5 (0.77%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (17.65%) Analyst
2 78 (12.07%) Developer
3 66 (10.22%) Architect
4 64 (9.91%) Consultant
5 61 (9.44%) Senior
6 58 (8.98%) Business Analyst
7 55 (8.51%) Project Manager
8 37 (5.73%) Lead
9 32 (4.95%) Data Analyst
10 22 (3.41%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (2.94%) Support Engineer
12 17 (2.63%) Microsoft Consultant
12 17 (2.63%) Security Architect
13 16 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (2.48%) Security Consultant
14 14 (2.17%) Finance Business Analyst
14 14 (2.17%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.01%) Data Migration Analyst
15 13 (2.01%) Migration Analyst
15 13 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.94%) .NET
2 18 (2.79%) HTML
3 16 (2.48%) React
3 16 (2.48%) XML
4 15 (2.32%) CSS
5 12 (1.86%) REST
6 11 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.24%) JSON
8 8 (1.24%) OpenID
8 8 (1.24%) SAML
9 7 (1.08%) Kafka
9 7 (1.08%) Web Services
10 6 (0.93%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.93%) jQuery
10 6 (0.93%) XACML
11 5 (0.77%) Node.js
11 5 (0.77%) NumPy
11 5 (0.77%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.72%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.32%) Derivative
4 14 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
6 12 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.55%) PKI
9 7 (1.08%) Equities
9 7 (1.08%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.77%) Photography
12 4 (0.62%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.62%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.43%) Windows
2 22 (3.41%) Linux
3 14 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (2.01%) Unix
5 9 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.46%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (17.03%) Agile
2 75 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 74 (11.46%) Project Management
4 65 (10.06%) DevOps
5 63 (9.75%) Migration
6 56 (8.67%) Risk Management
7 53 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (6.97%) CI/CD
8 45 (6.97%) User Acceptance Testing
9 44 (6.81%) Analytics
9 44 (6.81%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (6.66%) Data Management
11 40 (6.19%) Change Management
12 37 (5.73%) User Stories
12 37 (5.73%) Validation
13 36 (5.57%) Requirements Gathering
14 34 (5.26%) Data Modelling
15 32 (4.95%) Information Security
16 30 (4.64%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 94 (14.55%) SQL
2 76 (11.76%) Python
3 41 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 40 (6.19%) Java
5 34 (5.26%) C#
6 26 (4.02%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.01%) C++
8 7 (1.08%) Rust
8 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.93%) Bash
9 6 (0.93%) Go
9 6 (0.93%) R
10 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.62%) ABAP
11 4 (0.62%) Perl
11 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Clojure
12 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (11.15%) Degree
2 23 (3.56%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.79%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (1.55%) CISSP
6 8 (1.24%) CISM
7 7 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.08%) PMP
8 6 (0.93%) CRISC
9 4 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.46%) CCNA
10 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.12%) QA
2 37 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.56%) NIST
4 21 (3.25%) PMO
5 20 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.39%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.93%) GDPR
9 6 (0.93%) SLA
10 5 (0.77%) GRC
10 5 (0.77%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.46%) EMIR
12 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.46%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.31%) Basel III
14 1 (0.15%) FATCA
14 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (6.04%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.24%) Docker
2 8 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.25%) Terraform
2 19 (2.94%) SCCM
3 17 (2.63%) Ansible
4 16 (2.48%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.39%) PingFederate
6 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.93%) Kibana
7 6 (0.93%) logstash
8 4 (0.62%) Puppet
8 4 (0.62%) QRadar
9 3 (0.46%) Packer
9 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.31%) Consul
10 2 (0.31%) Grafana
10 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.15%) Argo
11 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 106 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.95%) Oracle
3 30 (4.64%) SAP
4 23 (3.56%) Cisco
5 17 (2.63%) Citrix
6 15 (2.32%) IBM
7 14 (2.17%) Google
8 13 (2.01%) Avaya
8 13 (2.01%) CheckPoint
8 13 (2.01%) HP
8 13 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.86%) EMC
10 10 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.24%) Adobe
11 8 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.24%) Databricks
11 8 (1.24%) Okta
12 6 (0.93%) Proofpoint
13 5 (0.77%) Splunk