Finance Manager Contracts in London

Finance Manager
England > London

The median Finance Manager daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 289 414
Rank change year-on-year +2 +125 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Manager 66 102 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.57% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.61% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 92 59
10th Percentile £450 £539 £472
25th Percentile £600 £650 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £788
90th Percentile £938 - £802
England median daily rate £725 £700 £610
% change year-on-year +3.57% +14.75% -6.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Finance Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Finance Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance Manager in London

Finance Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Finance Manager in London

Finance Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance Manager in London

Finance Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance Manager in London

Finance Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +1 5 £575 -14.81% 3
Finance Manager
England

Finance Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Finance Manager 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 London region featuring Finance Manager in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Finance
2 34 (51.52%) Agile
3 30 (45.45%) Front Office
4 20 (30.30%) Fixed Income
4 20 (30.30%) Derivative
4 20 (30.30%) Investment Management
4 20 (30.30%) Hedge funds
5 19 (28.79%) Migration
6 17 (25.76%) Banking
7 16 (24.24%) Asset Management
8 15 (22.73%) Python
8 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
9 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
9 14 (21.21%) Data Lake
9 14 (21.21%) Regulatory Compliance
9 14 (21.21%) Product Ownership
9 14 (21.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (21.21%) Equities
9 14 (21.21%) Data Governance
10 13 (19.70%) DevOps
11 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (15.15%) Fintech
13 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (13.64%) Serverless
13 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (13.64%) Terraform
13 9 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes

Finance Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Aladdin
2 4 (6.06%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (3.03%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
1 9 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
1 9 (13.64%) AWS
1 9 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
1 9 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (13.64%) Serverless
2 6 (9.09%) Azure
3 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Data Lake
2 9 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 66 (100.00%) Finance
2 30 (45.45%) Front Office
3 17 (25.76%) Banking
4 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Retail
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Local Government
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Derivative
1 20 (30.30%) Fixed Income
1 20 (30.30%) Hedge funds
2 14 (21.21%) Equities
2 14 (21.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (21.21%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Agile
2 20 (30.30%) Investment Management
3 19 (28.79%) Migration
4 16 (24.24%) Asset Management
5 14 (21.21%) Data Governance
5 14 (21.21%) Regulatory Compliance
5 14 (21.21%) Roadmaps
6 13 (19.70%) DevOps
7 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.15%) Fintech
9 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
9 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 8 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (10.61%) Business Analysis
11 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (10.61%) Project Management
12 6 (9.09%) Performance Attribution
12 6 (9.09%) Portfolio Management
12 6 (9.09%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) Python
2 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
1 2 (3.03%) PMP
2 1 (1.52%) ACCA
2 1 (1.52%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Basel III
2 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.52%) GAAP
2 1 (1.52%) P3O
2 1 (1.52%) PMO
2 1 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 9 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) BISAM
1 6 (9.09%) SAP
2 5 (7.58%) Workday
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.52%) Ariba
5 1 (1.52%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.52%) Informatica
5 1 (1.52%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.52%) Planview
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Tagetik