Finance Contracts in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 3,717 4,740 8,011
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 29.61% 26.57% 29.63%
As % of the General category 43.83% 42.02% 46.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,523 3,467 5,881
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £601 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -3.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £750
90th Percentile £867 £850 £838
England median daily rate £575 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -2.49% -1.72% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 48 44
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.27 £18.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.71 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +26.41% - -42.22%
75th Percentile £63.38 £34.00 £31.81
90th Percentile £84.73 £54.00 £46.65
England median hourly rate £39.06 £27.00 £27.98
% change year-on-year +44.65% -3.50% -18.04%

All General Skills
London

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 0 705 £600 - 318
South London +18 60 £600 +9.09% 37
East London 0 42 £585 -4.49% 61
West London +4 22 £338 -35.71% 85
North London -4 3 £285 -49.22% 5
Finance
England

Finance
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:

Application Platforms
1 122 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (3.20%) Apache
3 107 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 91 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 83 (2.23%) Confluence
6 46 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 11 (0.30%) CMS
9 9 (0.24%) nginx
10 8 (0.22%) SAS
10 8 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 7 (0.19%) MQSeries
12 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.11%) JBoss
13 4 (0.11%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.081%) CICS
14 3 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 173 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
7 18 (0.48%) Sketch
8 13 (0.35%) Adobe XD
8 13 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.19%) InVision
11 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.16%) Trello
12 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.081%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.054%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.027%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.027%) InDesign
15 1 (0.027%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 96 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 34 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 31 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 26 (0.70%) Endur
5 26 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
6 24 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 24 (0.65%) SAP FI
7 23 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
8 21 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.51%) SAP CO
10 18 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
11 17 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
11 17 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
12 14 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (0.38%) thinkFolio
13 13 (0.35%) NetSuite
13 13 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
14 12 (0.32%) NEC Housing
15 10 (0.27%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 578 (15.55%) Azure
2 534 (14.37%) AWS
3 202 (5.43%) GCP
4 149 (4.01%) Power Platform
5 148 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 133 (3.58%) dbt
7 114 (3.07%) SaaS
8 108 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 90 (2.42%) Snowflake
10 80 (2.15%) Serverless
11 77 (2.07%) Entra ID
12 76 (2.04%) GitHub
13 64 (1.72%) OpenShift
14 62 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
15 57 (1.53%) OCI
16 56 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
17 55 (1.48%) Amazon S3
18 52 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
19 49 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
20 43 (1.16%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 119 (3.20%) Firewall
2 61 (1.64%) Network Security
3 57 (1.53%) DNS
4 47 (1.26%) VPN
5 34 (0.91%) WAN
6 30 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (0.73%) DHCP
8 24 (0.65%) BGP
8 24 (0.65%) LAN
9 20 (0.54%) OSPF
10 17 (0.46%) Internet
10 17 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.40%) HTTP
11 15 (0.40%) MPLS
12 14 (0.38%) Multicast
13 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.35%) Wireless
14 11 (0.30%) VLAN
15 10 (0.27%) SAN
15 10 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (4.14%) Data Lake
2 143 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 119 (3.20%) Power BI
4 114 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
5 111 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
6 110 (2.96%) Dremio
7 108 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 99 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
9 90 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 75 (2.02%) Relational Database
11 68 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
12 64 (1.72%) Tableau
13 62 (1.67%) Big Data
14 60 (1.61%) NoSQL
15 59 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
16 54 (1.45%) MongoDB
17 45 (1.21%) Oracle Database
18 41 (1.10%) Hadoop
19 40 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
20 32 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 170 (4.57%) JIRA
2 115 (3.09%) Git
2 115 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 48 (1.29%) GitLab
4 43 (1.16%) Artifactory
5 38 (1.02%) JUnit
6 27 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 24 (0.65%) Gradle
8 21 (0.56%) Maven
8 21 (0.56%) Subversion
9 18 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.43%) JMeter
10 16 (0.43%) webpack
11 13 (0.35%) Mockito
11 13 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.32%) Ant
12 12 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.32%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.30%) Liquibase
13 11 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 1,125 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 1,008 (27.12%) Banking
3 546 (14.69%) Front Office
4 539 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
5 296 (7.96%) Investment Banking
6 198 (5.33%) Financial Institution
7 162 (4.36%) Marketing
8 127 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 112 (3.01%) Legal
10 103 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 96 (2.58%) Retail
12 80 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 74 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 66 (1.78%) Back Office
15 63 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 58 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
17 57 (1.53%) Retail Banking
18 53 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
19 50 (1.35%) Electronics
20 49 (1.32%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 696 (18.72%) Developer
2 607 (16.33%) Analyst
3 427 (11.49%) Senior
4 328 (8.82%) Business Analyst
5 260 (6.99%) Lead
6 251 (6.75%) Project Manager
7 245 (6.59%) Architect
8 229 (6.16%) Consultant
9 183 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 144 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
11 130 (3.50%) Python Engineer
12 118 (3.17%) Senior Developer
13 114 (3.07%) Python Developer
14 111 (2.99%) C# Developer
14 111 (2.99%) Data Engineer
15 106 (2.85%) Java Developer
16 97 (2.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 96 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
18 95 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
19 90 (2.42%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (4.95%) React
2 151 (4.06%) Kafka
3 150 (4.04%) .NET
4 108 (2.91%) AngularJS
5 102 (2.74%) Pandas
6 99 (2.66%) PySpark
7 97 (2.61%) NumPy
8 86 (2.31%) Node.js
9 78 (2.10%) SciPy
10 76 (2.04%) Redux
11 72 (1.94%) Spring
12 69 (1.86%) REST
13 61 (1.64%) Web Services
14 59 (1.59%) RESTful
15 58 (1.56%) CSS
16 55 (1.48%) Vue
17 48 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
17 48 (1.29%) XML
18 46 (1.24%) HTML
19 45 (1.21%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 339 (9.12%) Fixed Income
2 317 (8.53%) Derivative
3 308 (8.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 262 (7.05%) Hedge funds
5 250 (6.73%) Equities
6 137 (3.69%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 68 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 62 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 61 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 58 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 58 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 51 (1.37%) Market Risk
14 47 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 43 (1.16%) Cloud Native
15 43 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 40 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
16 40 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 40 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 262 (7.05%) Windows
2 203 (5.46%) Linux
3 75 (2.02%) Unix
4 62 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 40 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.51%) Android
9 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.16%) CentOS
10 6 (0.16%) VMS
11 5 (0.13%) AIX
11 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.13%) Solaris
12 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.081%) Rocky
13 3 (0.081%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.081%) zOS
14 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (26.63%) Agile
2 633 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
3 454 (12.21%) Migration
4 446 (12.00%) Analytics
5 439 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 401 (10.79%) DevOps
7 381 (10.25%) Project Management
8 355 (9.55%) Asset Management
9 346 (9.31%) CI/CD
10 339 (9.12%) Software Engineering
11 308 (8.29%) Investment Management
12 296 (7.96%) Risk Management
13 279 (7.51%) Roadmaps
14 254 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
15 228 (6.13%) Change Management
16 217 (5.84%) Fintech
17 203 (5.46%) Decision-Making
18 198 (5.33%) Data Governance
19 188 (5.06%) User Acceptance Testing
20 184 (4.95%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 767 (20.63%) Python
2 611 (16.44%) SQL
3 429 (11.54%) Java
4 255 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 223 (6.00%) C#
6 189 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 117 (3.15%) C++
8 108 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 91 (2.45%) PL/SQL
10 60 (1.61%) Bash
11 46 (1.24%) Go
12 43 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 43 (1.16%) VBA
13 35 (0.94%) Scala
14 33 (0.89%) VB
15 26 (0.70%) R
16 24 (0.65%) Perl
17 21 (0.56%) RPG
18 20 (0.54%) C
19 19 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 393 (10.57%) Degree
2 145 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 127 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 75 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 65 (1.75%) PMI Certification
6 59 (1.59%) PMP
7 44 (1.18%) CISSP
8 36 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (0.62%) CCNP
9 23 (0.62%) CISM
10 19 (0.51%) CISA
10 19 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (0.48%) ACCA
11 18 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.43%) CRISC
13 15 (0.40%) CIMA
13 15 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (3.47%) QA
2 108 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.45%) PMO
4 58 (1.56%) GDPR
5 56 (1.51%) MiFID
6 55 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 52 (1.40%) NIST
8 44 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 34 (0.91%) SLA
11 21 (0.56%) IFRS
12 20 (0.54%) EMIR
13 19 (0.51%) GRC
14 16 (0.43%) SEPA
15 15 (0.40%) PCI DSS
16 11 (0.30%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.30%) PSD2
17 10 (0.27%) Basel III
18 9 (0.24%) COBIT
18 9 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 182 (4.90%) Docker
2 124 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.22%) vSphere
6 5 (0.13%) Firmware
6 5 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.054%) HDFS
8 2 (0.054%) Lustre
8 2 (0.054%) Platform Symphony
8 2 (0.054%) XenApp
9 1 (0.027%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.027%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 220 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 179 (4.82%) Terraform
3 94 (2.53%) Ansible
4 49 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.13%) SCCM
6 20 (0.54%) Grafana
7 16 (0.43%) Puppet
8 14 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.22%) Rundeck
9 8 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.19%) Control-M
10 7 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 6 (0.16%) CASB
11 6 (0.16%) QRadar
12 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.13%) Istio
12 5 (0.13%) Kibana
12 5 (0.13%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 413 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 343 (9.23%) Oracle
3 250 (6.73%) SAP
4 92 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 79 (2.13%) Cisco
6 76 (2.04%) Google
7 72 (1.94%) Databricks
8 66 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.45%) VMware
10 52 (1.40%) IBM
10 52 (1.40%) Workday
11 44 (1.18%) Splunk
12 41 (1.10%) Adobe
13 38 (1.02%) Murex
13 38 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 36 (0.97%) BISAM
15 30 (0.81%) Palo Alto
15 30 (0.81%) Sybase
16 29 (0.78%) Fortinet
17 27 (0.73%) Citrix