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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,267 4,408 7,239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 31.09% 27.09% 29.96%
As % of the General category 45.48% 43.30% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,248 5,369
10th Percentile £363 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £765 £750
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.37% -1.04% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 28 27
10th Percentile £20.45 £23.53 £18.76
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.99 -
Median hourly rate £42.29 £30.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% +16.69% -25.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £45.75 £35.77
90th Percentile £84.38 £66.35 £44.40
England median hourly rate £34.95 £38.12 £26.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +46.62% -23.84%

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 9,382 10,179 15,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.36% 62.57% 63.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,254 7,203 11,266
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 142 172
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.28 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.98 £24.18 £22.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +0.55% -1.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.65 £69.35 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £28.75
% change year-on-year -34.02% +32.59% +18.80%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 0 816 £575 -4.17% 659
East London 0 42 £585 +8.33% 88
West London +11 38 £475 -9.52% 146
South London +12 31 £558 -12.55% 109
North London -3 3 £550 -2.00% 29
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
1 119 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (2.60%) Confluence
3 93 (2.18%) Apache
4 77 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 59 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 50 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.47%) CMS
8 19 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 14 (0.33%) SAS
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.21%) IIS
12 7 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.12%) CICS
13 5 (0.12%) IBM Notes
13 5 (0.12%) JBoss
13 5 (0.12%) nginx
13 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.094%) Drupal
14 4 (0.094%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 227 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 108 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.42%) Sketch
7 16 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
8 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.16%) Trello
11 6 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.14%) InVision
12 5 (0.12%) Acrobat
13 4 (0.094%) OmniGraffle
13 4 (0.094%) UXPin
14 2 (0.047%) UserZoom
15 1 (0.023%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 110 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 55 (1.29%) Aladdin
4 53 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
5 48 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 45 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
7 40 (0.94%) Endur
8 36 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
9 34 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
10 32 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
11 27 (0.63%) NetSuite
11 27 (0.63%) SAP FI
12 22 (0.52%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 22 (0.52%) SAP CO
13 21 (0.49%) Workday HCM
14 20 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
14 20 (0.47%) thinkFolio
14 20 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
15 19 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
16 17 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 707 (16.57%) Azure
2 600 (14.06%) AWS
3 238 (5.58%) GCP
4 228 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 144 (3.37%) SaaS
6 141 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (2.91%) dbt
9 123 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 98 (2.30%) GitHub
11 77 (1.80%) Entra ID
12 59 (1.38%) OCI
13 57 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
14 50 (1.17%) Serverless
15 42 (0.98%) Amazon S3
15 42 (0.98%) Azure AKS
15 42 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (0.94%) PaaS
18 39 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.48%) Firewall
2 60 (1.41%) DNS
3 49 (1.15%) VPN
4 46 (1.08%) Network Security
5 44 (1.03%) WAN
6 36 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 31 (0.73%) DHCP
7 31 (0.73%) HTTP
8 28 (0.66%) BGP
9 24 (0.56%) OSPF
10 20 (0.47%) SD-WAN
11 19 (0.45%) Multicast
12 18 (0.42%) LAN
13 15 (0.35%) SSL
14 14 (0.33%) VLAN
14 14 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.30%) MPLS
16 12 (0.28%) Internet
17 10 (0.23%) SAN
17 10 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (4.62%) Power BI
2 179 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 175 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 114 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
5 110 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
6 109 (2.55%) Dremio
7 105 (2.46%) Apache Arrow
8 103 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 101 (2.37%) Data Lake
10 96 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (1.90%) Tableau
12 77 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
13 65 (1.52%) NoSQL
14 64 (1.50%) Big Data
15 60 (1.41%) MongoDB
16 59 (1.38%) Oracle Database
17 53 (1.24%) Apache Ignite
18 41 (0.96%) Hadoop
19 37 (0.87%) DB2
20 35 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 238 (5.58%) JIRA
2 159 (3.73%) Git
3 132 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.12%) JUnit
5 45 (1.05%) GitLab
6 29 (0.68%) Selenium
7 28 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 27 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.63%) Gradle
9 23 (0.54%) webpack
10 22 (0.52%) Maven
11 20 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 20 (0.47%) Subversion
12 19 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.45%) JMeter
12 19 (0.45%) Postman
13 18 (0.42%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.40%) Mockito
15 16 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
16 14 (0.33%) ERwin
General
1 1,364 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 1,131 (26.51%) Banking
3 658 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (10.66%) Front Office
5 347 (8.13%) Investment Banking
6 217 (5.09%) Financial Institution
7 154 (3.61%) Marketing
8 144 (3.37%) Public Sector
9 140 (3.28%) Legal
10 122 (2.86%) Retail
11 117 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 100 (2.34%) Back Office
13 96 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 87 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 80 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
16 76 (1.78%) Manufacturing
17 74 (1.73%) General Ledger
18 68 (1.59%) Telecoms
19 63 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
20 55 (1.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 774 (18.14%) Developer
2 761 (17.83%) Analyst
3 458 (10.73%) Senior
4 433 (10.15%) Business Analyst
5 325 (7.62%) Architect
6 289 (6.77%) Project Manager
7 278 (6.52%) Lead
8 256 (6.00%) Consultant
9 237 (5.55%) Software Engineer
10 142 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 141 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
12 134 (3.14%) Python Engineer
12 134 (3.14%) Senior Developer
13 124 (2.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 123 (2.88%) Python Developer
15 119 (2.79%) Data Analyst
16 114 (2.67%) Java Engineer
17 113 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
18 108 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
19 100 (2.34%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (5.86%) React
2 185 (4.34%) .NET
3 158 (3.70%) Kafka
4 149 (3.49%) AngularJS
5 133 (3.12%) Pandas
6 128 (3.00%) NumPy
7 120 (2.81%) Node.js
8 116 (2.72%) REST
9 108 (2.53%) SciPy
10 88 (2.06%) Spring
11 84 (1.97%) Redux
12 83 (1.95%) Vue
13 81 (1.90%) RESTful
14 70 (1.64%) CSS
15 66 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
16 62 (1.45%) HTML
17 61 (1.43%) Spring Boot
18 60 (1.41%) .NET Framework
19 58 (1.36%) Web Services
20 55 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 303 (7.10%) Fixed Income
2 276 (6.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 230 (5.39%) Derivative
4 204 (4.78%) Equities
5 197 (4.62%) Hedge funds
6 146 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 143 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 101 (2.37%) Management Information System
9 91 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 87 (2.04%) Cloud Native
11 86 (2.02%) Data Structures
12 77 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 72 (1.69%) Market Risk
14 67 (1.57%) Algorithms
15 64 (1.50%) Data Centre
15 64 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
17 54 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
18 51 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
19 47 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 283 (6.63%) Windows
2 249 (5.84%) Linux
3 95 (2.23%) Unix
4 44 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 38 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.73%) Android
7 28 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.16%) AIX
11 7 (0.16%) VMS
12 4 (0.094%) CentOS
12 4 (0.094%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.094%) zOS
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.047%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.047%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (26.27%) Agile
2 757 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
3 579 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 458 (10.73%) Analytics
5 431 (10.10%) DevOps
5 431 (10.10%) Project Management
6 429 (10.05%) Migration
7 391 (9.16%) Software Engineering
8 389 (9.12%) Risk Management
9 377 (8.84%) CI/CD
10 338 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
11 329 (7.71%) Asset Management
12 266 (6.23%) Decision-Making
13 260 (6.09%) Change Management
13 260 (6.09%) Fintech
13 260 (6.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 259 (6.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 248 (5.81%) Roadmaps
16 245 (5.74%) Investment Management
17 237 (5.55%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 865 (20.27%) Python
2 776 (18.19%) SQL
3 521 (12.21%) Java
4 317 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 280 (6.56%) C#
6 254 (5.95%) TypeScript
7 129 (3.02%) C++
8 117 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 101 (2.37%) PL/SQL
10 62 (1.45%) Bash
11 53 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 49 (1.15%) VBA
13 46 (1.08%) Go
14 34 (0.80%) R
15 32 (0.75%) VB
16 31 (0.73%) Scala
17 27 (0.63%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.59%) Rust
19 23 (0.54%) C
19 23 (0.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 512 (12.00%) Degree
2 182 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 154 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 114 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (2.16%) PMI Certification
6 83 (1.95%) PMP
7 82 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.05%) ACCA
9 43 (1.01%) CISSP
10 41 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (0.66%) CIMA
13 24 (0.56%) CCNP
14 22 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.47%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.47%) PhD
16 19 (0.45%) CBAP
16 19 (0.45%) CISM
17 17 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (4.12%) QA
2 154 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 98 (2.30%) GDPR
4 96 (2.25%) PMO
5 67 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 67 (1.57%) NIST
6 54 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 51 (1.20%) SLA
8 44 (1.03%) IFRS
9 43 (1.01%) MiFID
9 43 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 28 (0.66%) EMIR
11 25 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.42%) COBIT
13 17 (0.40%) SEPA
14 15 (0.35%) GRC
15 12 (0.28%) Basel III
16 11 (0.26%) IFRS 9
16 11 (0.26%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 171 (4.01%) Docker
2 106 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.26%) vSphere
6 8 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) Firmware
9 4 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.070%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.070%) XenApp
11 2 (0.047%) GPFS
11 2 (0.047%) NFS
11 2 (0.047%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.047%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.047%) OpenIDM
11 2 (0.047%) Platform Symphony
11 2 (0.047%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 196 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 154 (3.61%) Terraform
3 116 (2.72%) Ansible
4 52 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.01%) SCCM
6 24 (0.56%) Grafana
7 18 (0.42%) Puppet
8 17 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.33%) Control-M
10 13 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
11 9 (0.21%) Kibana
12 8 (0.19%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.16%) logstash
13 7 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.14%) Istio
15 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.094%) Argo
16 4 (0.094%) CASB
16 4 (0.094%) Salt
Vendors
1 506 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 442 (10.36%) Oracle
3 292 (6.84%) SAP
4 110 (2.58%) Google
5 94 (2.20%) Databricks
6 89 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 89 (2.09%) Workday
7 73 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 68 (1.59%) Cisco
9 45 (1.05%) VMware
10 44 (1.03%) Adobe
11 43 (1.01%) IBM
12 41 (0.96%) Citrix
12 41 (0.96%) Murex
13 38 (0.89%) Arista
14 37 (0.87%) Splunk
15 34 (0.80%) BISAM
15 34 (0.80%) Bloomberg
15 34 (0.80%) Charles River
16 31 (0.73%) Calypso