Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in England

Financial Institution
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 228 308
Rank change year-on-year -39 +80 -13
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 308 275 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.03% 0.75%
As % of the General category 1.62% 1.67% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 164 194
10th Percentile £413 £425 £236
25th Percentile £463 £500 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £750 £714 £712
90th Percentile £934 £821 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £573
% change year-on-year - +4.71% -4.50%

All General Skills
England

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 general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 18,999 16,495 21,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 60.65% 62.05% 59.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,066 9,934 14,437
10th Percentile £284 £294 £270
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -3.59% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,182 542 1,085
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.64 £18.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £23.02 £29.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% -4.84% +18.53%
75th Percentile £46.00 £55.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £70.04
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.21% -9.58% +20.00%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in England

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in England

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
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 Institution within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 -9 229 £675 +7.57% 81
North of England -49 56 £500 +2.04% 20
Yorkshire -15 50 £500 -2.91% 8
Midlands -32 15 £525 -12.50% 10
West Midlands -24 13 £525 -27.59% 3
South West -12 10 £450 -18.18% 16
North West -48 5 £485 -1.12% 6
South East -25 4 £580 +32.57% 76
East Midlands -17 2 £465 -11.43% 6
East of England - 2 £643 - 24
North East - 1 £488 - 6
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.60%) HCL Notes
2 8 (2.60%) Mendix
3 7 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.30%) CMS
4 4 (1.30%) MQSeries
5 3 (0.97%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) CICS
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.65%) Notion
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.65%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Actimize
3 1 (0.32%) Finacle
3 1 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
3 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.32%) Summit
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.32%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.56%) AWS
2 50 (16.23%) Azure
3 36 (11.69%) GCP
4 30 (9.74%) Serverless
5 20 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 14 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.92%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.92%) PowerApps
8 9 (2.92%) SaaS
9 8 (2.60%) Azure Functions
9 8 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (2.27%) AWS KMS
10 7 (2.27%) Collibra
11 6 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.62%) PaaS
13 4 (1.30%) IaaS
13 4 (1.30%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.57%) Firewall
2 5 (1.62%) Network Security
2 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.30%) BGP
3 4 (1.30%) LAN
3 4 (1.30%) OSPF
3 4 (1.30%) SSL
3 4 (1.30%) WAN
4 3 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.97%) DNS
4 3 (0.97%) HTTP
4 3 (0.97%) NX-OS
4 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.65%) DHCP
5 2 (0.65%) VPN
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) TACACS
6 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.17%) Power BI
3 16 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.87%) Oracle Database
5 12 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.60%) Tableau
8 7 (2.27%) Metadata
8 7 (2.27%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.97%) Big Data
10 3 (0.97%) Data Hub
10 3 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.97%) KDB
10 3 (0.97%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.65%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.65%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (9.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.47%) GitLab
3 18 (5.84%) Liquibase
4 11 (3.57%) JIRA
5 9 (2.92%) Git
6 6 (1.95%) Jaeger
7 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.97%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.65%) Snyk
10 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.32%) ChangeMan
10 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.32%) Gradle
10 1 (0.32%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) Postman
10 1 (0.32%) QUnit
10 1 (0.32%) Selenium
10 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 308 (100.00%) Finance
2 133 (43.18%) Banking
3 129 (41.88%) Social Skills
4 37 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.06%) Front Office
6 20 (6.49%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.60%) Legal
9 7 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.62%) Back Office
10 5 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.30%) Retail
11 4 (1.30%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.65%) International Banking
13 2 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (20.78%) Developer
2 44 (14.29%) Senior
3 39 (12.66%) Analyst
4 32 (10.39%) Architect
5 23 (7.47%) Project Manager
6 19 (6.17%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.17%) Consultant
7 18 (5.84%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.22%) Senior Developer
9 12 (3.90%) Lead
9 12 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.92%) C# Developer
11 9 (2.92%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.60%) Enterprise Architect
12 8 (2.60%) Power Platform Developer
12 8 (2.60%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.01%) REST
2 25 (8.12%) RESTful
3 24 (7.79%) .NET
4 22 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (4.55%) React
6 11 (3.57%) Kafka
7 9 (2.92%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (2.60%) Middleware
8 8 (2.60%) XML
9 7 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.95%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.95%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.95%) Dask
10 6 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.62%) WinForms
12 4 (1.30%) CSS
12 4 (1.30%) HTML
13 3 (0.97%) SOAP
13 3 (0.97%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.44%) Derivative
3 25 (8.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (7.47%) Hedge funds
4 23 (7.47%) Public Cloud
5 16 (5.19%) Fixed Income
6 13 (4.22%) Equities
6 13 (4.22%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.25%) Credit Risk
7 10 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.92%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.60%) Market Risk
10 7 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.23%) Linux
2 17 (5.52%) Windows
3 14 (4.55%) Unix
4 5 (1.62%) CentOS
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.65%) Solaris
6 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (26.95%) Agile
2 67 (21.75%) DevOps
3 61 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 54 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 42 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.66%) Computer Science
7 39 (12.66%) Software Engineering
8 37 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 32 (10.39%) Analytics
9 32 (10.39%) Change Management
10 31 (10.06%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (10.06%) Containerisation
10 31 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (9.74%) Decision-Making
11 30 (9.74%) Microservices
11 30 (9.74%) Risk Management
12 28 (9.09%) High Availability
13 27 (8.77%) Data Management
13 27 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 63 (20.45%) Python
2 52 (16.88%) SQL
3 32 (10.39%) C#
4 29 (9.42%) Java
5 21 (6.82%) Go
6 14 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.22%) C++
8 9 (2.92%) Perl
9 8 (2.60%) Formula Language
9 8 (2.60%) LotusScript
10 6 (1.95%) Rust
11 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.62%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.30%) Bash
12 4 (1.30%) RPG
12 4 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.97%) C
13 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (18.51%) Degree
2 31 (10.06%) Master's Degree
3 25 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.27%) PhD
5 7 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.95%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.62%) CBAP
7 5 (1.62%) PMP
8 4 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.30%) IIBA
8 4 (1.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.97%) CISSP
9 3 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.65%) ACCA
10 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.65%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.84%) QA
2 16 (5.19%) GDPR
3 13 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.25%) NIST
5 9 (2.92%) SLA
6 6 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.62%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.30%) GRC
8 4 (1.30%) PMO
9 3 (0.97%) MiFID
9 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.65%) Basel III
10 2 (0.65%) IFRS
10 2 (0.65%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.65%) SEPA
10 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) EMIR
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 34 (11.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.32%) XenApp
5 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.69%) Ansible
3 31 (10.06%) Terraform
4 28 (9.09%) Grafana
4 28 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.95%) Kiali
6 4 (1.30%) Control-M
7 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.97%) Puppet
8 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.65%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.65%) vRealize
9 1 (0.32%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.32%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (13.31%) Splunk
2 36 (11.69%) Oracle
3 29 (9.42%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.87%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.55%) Google
6 12 (3.90%) Murex
7 8 (2.60%) Darktrace
7 8 (2.60%) Kofax
7 8 (2.60%) Lotus
7 8 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.27%) Bloomberg
8 7 (2.27%) IBM
8 7 (2.27%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.95%) F5
9 6 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.95%) Temenos
10 5 (1.62%) Sophis
10 5 (1.62%) VMware
11 4 (1.30%) Cisco
11 4 (1.30%) Citrix