Financial Analyst Contracts in England

Finance Analyst
UK > England

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 302 335
Rank change year-on-year -36 +33 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 130 243 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.67% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.72% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 168 273
10th Percentile £319 £313 £350
25th Percentile £414 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £711 £663 £675
90th Percentile £798 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - £14.20 -
25th Percentile - £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -
75th Percentile £53.38 £22.63 -
90th Percentile £63.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £19.22 -
% change year-on-year +15.90% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,376 33,818 46,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.74% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,888 22,422 32,774
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 2,438 1,361
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.02
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Financial Analyst in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
London -37 99 £550 - 128
South East +35 11 £475 +26.67% 30
North of England +17 10 £350 -39.13% 22
South West +47 5 £225 - 7
North West +9 5 £325 -43.48% 19
Midlands +12 4 £525 - 13
Yorkshire +16 3 £488 +20.00% 1
East of England +25 2 £438 +2.94% 8
East Midlands +10 2 £428 - 1
West Midlands +9 2 £588 +11.90% 11
North East -2 2 £275 -53.19% 2
Financial Analyst
UK

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 England region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 130 (100.00%) Finance
2 33 (25.38%) Agile
3 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 25 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (18.46%) Banking
6 21 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (15.38%) Business Analysis
7 20 (15.38%) Oracle
8 19 (14.62%) Migration
9 18 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (13.85%) Python
10 17 (13.08%) SQL
11 16 (12.31%) ERP
11 16 (12.31%) Fixed Income
12 15 (11.54%) Roadmaps
13 14 (10.77%) Front Office
13 14 (10.77%) Data Analysis
13 14 (10.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 14 (10.77%) Derivative
13 14 (10.77%) Investment Management
13 14 (10.77%) Hedge funds
14 13 (10.00%) ACCA
15 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
15 12 (9.23%) SAP
16 11 (8.46%) CIMA
16 11 (8.46%) Change Management
16 11 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
16 11 (8.46%) Microsoft
16 11 (8.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 11 (8.46%) Data Governance

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.77%) EViews
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (4.62%) Aladdin
3 4 (3.08%) SAP CO
3 4 (3.08%) SAP FI
3 4 (3.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.54%) Exchequer
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.54%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.77%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.77%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.77%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.08%) Google Workspace
3 3 (2.31%) Azure
4 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.54%) OCI
4 2 (1.54%) SaaS
5 1 (0.77%) Boomi
5 1 (0.77%) dbt
5 1 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Broadband
1 1 (0.77%) DHCP
1 1 (0.77%) DNS
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
1 1 (0.77%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Data Lake
2 6 (4.62%) Power BI
3 5 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.77%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) JMeter
1 8 (6.15%) LoadRunner
2 4 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 130 (100.00%) Finance
2 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.46%) Banking
5 14 (10.77%) Front Office
6 7 (5.38%) Local Government
7 6 (4.62%) Marketing
8 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Law
9 4 (3.08%) Legal
9 4 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Retail
11 2 (1.54%) Back Office
11 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Fixed Income
2 14 (10.77%) Derivative
2 14 (10.77%) Hedge funds
3 11 (8.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.69%) Equities
5 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
5 9 (6.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) CMDB
8 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.77%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.77%) Eurex
8 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.77%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.92%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) CentOS
3 1 (0.77%) Rocky
3 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.38%) Agile
2 21 (16.15%) User Acceptance Testing
3 20 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 19 (14.62%) Migration
5 18 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (12.31%) ERP
7 15 (11.54%) Roadmaps
8 14 (10.77%) Data Analysis
8 14 (10.77%) Investment Management
9 11 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (8.46%) Change Management
9 11 (8.46%) Data Governance
9 11 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (7.69%) Analytics
10 10 (7.69%) Asset Management
10 10 (7.69%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 10 (7.69%) Financial Analysis
10 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (6.92%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (6.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.85%) Python
2 17 (13.08%) SQL
3 9 (6.92%) Bash
4 8 (6.15%) Java
4 8 (6.15%) VB
5 2 (1.54%) R
6 1 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (10.00%) ACCA
2 11 (8.46%) CIMA
3 9 (6.92%) Degree
4 7 (5.38%) AAT
5 5 (3.85%) CCAB
6 4 (3.08%) CBAP
6 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.31%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.77%) CCA
8 1 (0.77%) CFA
8 1 (0.77%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.85%) PMO
4 2 (1.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.77%) GAAP
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Rundeck
1 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (15.38%) Oracle
2 12 (9.23%) SAP
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.62%) BISAM
4 6 (4.62%) Workday
5 3 (2.31%) IFS
6 1 (0.77%) Aderant
6 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.77%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.77%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.77%) Civica
6 1 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.77%) Databricks
6 1 (0.77%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.77%) FIS
6 1 (0.77%) FNZ
6 1 (0.77%) Intapp
6 1 (0.77%) Patsystems
6 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.77%) Trayport