Finance Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Finance Manager
England > London

The median Finance Manager daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 333 355
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Manager 38 64 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.39% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.42% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 47 83
10th Percentile £513 £458 £470
25th Percentile £588 £531 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £788
90th Percentile - £825 £823
England median daily rate £675 £725 £655
% change year-on-year -6.90% +10.69% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £53.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.14% - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £64.25 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £28.80 -
% change year-on-year +108.37% - -

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 12,502 15,312 20,443
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.93% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,359 10,108 14,905
10th Percentile £331 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 181 224
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.21
25th Percentile £22.83 £23.80 £22.28
Median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% -6.47% +20.71%
75th Percentile £48.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.46 £75.00 £76.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Finance Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Finance Manager job vacancies in London

Finance Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Manager in London over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance Manager in London

Finance Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Finance Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Finance Manager job vacancies 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 26 September 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 +4 4 £575 +15.00% 13
Finance Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 38 (100.00%) Finance
2 14 (36.84%) Oracle
3 13 (34.21%) ERP
4 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
5 11 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (26.32%) Management Information System
6 10 (26.32%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (23.68%) Line Management
7 9 (23.68%) Record to Report
8 7 (18.42%) Project Management
8 7 (18.42%) Agile
9 6 (15.79%) Migration
9 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.16%) PMP
10 5 (13.16%) SAP
10 5 (13.16%) Azure
11 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.53%) Test Strategy
11 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
11 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
11 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 4 (10.53%) Banking
11 4 (10.53%) Workday
12 3 (7.89%) DevOps
12 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 3 (7.89%) Business Case
12 3 (7.89%) Validation
12 3 (7.89%) SQL
12 3 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps

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 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (2.63%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Canva
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
1 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (100.00%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Local Government
4 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Back Office
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Games
5 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) HTML
1 1 (2.63%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.63%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.63%) PMI
2 1 (2.63%) Podcast
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) SCORM
2 1 (2.63%) Social Media
2 1 (2.63%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) ERP
2 11 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (23.68%) Line Management
3 9 (23.68%) Record to Report
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) Project Management
5 6 (15.79%) Migration
5 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
6 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.53%) Test Strategy
7 3 (7.89%) Business Case
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
7 3 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.89%) Test Management
7 3 (7.89%) Test Scripting
7 3 (7.89%) Use Case
7 3 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) PMP
2 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.63%) ACCA
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) IFRS
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) SAP
3 4 (10.53%) Workday
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Adobe
5 1 (2.63%) Concur
5 1 (2.63%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) Synthesia