Financial Institution Contract Job Trends in London

Financial Institution
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 158 219
Rank change year-on-year -67 +61 -4
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 243 222 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.68% 1.12%
As % of the General category 1.98% 2.43% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 154 115
10th Percentile £423 £425 £400
25th Percentile £513 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £745 £775 £700
90th Percentile £870 £934 £791
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,252 9,127 10,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.06% 69.08% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,803 6,037 6,825
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 186 129
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.17 £17.90
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -7.14% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.23
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in London

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in London

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the London region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Central London -38 37 £625 -13.79% 24
East London -3 2 £675 -18.92% 4
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (3.70%) Confluence
2 8 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Appian
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Loan IQ
1 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.82%) Findur
3 2 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.82%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.41%) Actimize
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Finacle
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.87%) Azure
2 32 (13.17%) AWS
3 26 (10.70%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.82%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.53%) SaaS
6 9 (3.70%) GCP
7 8 (3.29%) GitHub
8 7 (2.88%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.88%) Collibra
9 6 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.65%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.23%) Datadog
11 3 (1.23%) dbt
11 3 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.23%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.70%) Firewall
2 5 (2.06%) Network Security
3 4 (1.65%) BGP
3 4 (1.65%) LAN
3 4 (1.65%) WAN
4 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.23%) EIGRP
4 3 (1.23%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) MPLS
4 3 (1.23%) Multicast
4 3 (1.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.82%) RTP
5 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.41%) DMZ
6 1 (0.41%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) SNMP
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.47%) Power BI
2 19 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.88%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.47%) Metadata
6 4 (1.65%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.65%) KDB
6 4 (1.65%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.23%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.23%) Tableau
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.82%) Flink
8 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.82%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.82%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 13 (5.35%) JIRA
2 6 (2.47%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.06%) GitLab
4 4 (1.65%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) Appium
5 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.82%) ERwin
5 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.82%) TestNG
6 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.41%) MLflow
6 1 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 243 (100.00%) Finance
2 113 (46.50%) Banking
3 63 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 37 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (14.81%) Investment Banking
6 33 (13.58%) Front Office
7 16 (6.58%) Legal
8 15 (6.17%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (4.12%) Spanish Language
11 8 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.65%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.23%) Publishing
15 2 (0.82%) Retail
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (21.40%) Developer
2 50 (20.58%) Senior
3 38 (15.64%) Analyst
4 25 (10.29%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.76%) Architect
5 14 (5.76%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.35%) Lead
7 12 (4.94%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.53%) C# Developer
8 11 (4.53%) Senior Manager
9 10 (4.12%) Desktop Engineer
9 10 (4.12%) Desktop Support
9 10 (4.12%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 10 (4.12%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.29%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.29%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.29%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (2.88%) Audit Manager
11 7 (2.88%) IT Audit Manager
11 7 (2.88%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.58%) Kafka
2 14 (5.76%) .NET
3 13 (5.35%) React
4 9 (3.70%) REST
5 8 (3.29%) PySpark
6 7 (2.88%) Spring
6 7 (2.88%) Terraform
7 6 (2.47%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.06%) RESTful
9 4 (1.65%) LangChain
9 4 (1.65%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.65%) Redux
9 4 (1.65%) Web Services
9 4 (1.65%) WinForms
9 4 (1.65%) WPF
10 3 (1.23%) FastAPI
10 3 (1.23%) JSON
10 3 (1.23%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.23%) Playwright
11 2 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.70%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.00%) Derivative
3 14 (5.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (5.35%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.35%) Fixed Income
5 10 (4.12%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.29%) Exotic Derivative
6 8 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.47%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.65%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.23%) Windows
2 10 (4.12%) Linux
3 6 (2.47%) Unix
4 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (22.22%) AI
2 52 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (15.23%) Agile
5 36 (14.81%) Analytics
6 32 (13.17%) Generative AI
7 28 (11.52%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.70%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.29%) Decision-Making
10 24 (9.88%) DevOps
11 22 (9.05%) Migration
12 20 (8.23%) Project Management
13 19 (7.82%) Business Analysis
13 19 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (7.82%) Project Delivery
13 19 (7.82%) Risk Management
13 19 (7.82%) Test Automation
14 17 (7.00%) Validation
15 16 (6.58%) Data Analysis
15 16 (6.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.16%) SQL
2 34 (13.99%) Python
3 22 (9.05%) C#
4 18 (7.41%) Java
5 16 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.65%) C++
8 3 (1.23%) Bash
8 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (12.76%) Degree
2 13 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.29%) CISSP
4 8 (3.29%) PMP
5 7 (2.88%) CISA
6 5 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.23%) ACCA
8 3 (1.23%) CCNP
8 3 (1.23%) CIMA
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.53%) QA
3 7 (2.88%) ISO 20022
4 6 (2.47%) NIST
5 4 (1.65%) SEPA
6 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.23%) COREP
6 3 (1.23%) FINREP
6 3 (1.23%) GDPR
6 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) EMIR
7 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.82%) MiFID
7 2 (0.82%) WCAG
8 1 (0.41%) Basel III
8 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (7.82%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.35%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.70%) Ansible
3 5 (2.06%) vRealize
4 3 (1.23%) Control-M
5 2 (0.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.58%) Oracle
3 12 (4.94%) Databricks
4 11 (4.53%) Cisco
5 10 (4.12%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.12%) VMware
6 9 (3.70%) SAP
7 8 (3.29%) Citrix
7 8 (3.29%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.06%) Splunk
10 4 (1.65%) Foundry
10 4 (1.65%) GoldenSource
10 4 (1.65%) NetApp
10 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.23%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.23%) Meraki
11 3 (1.23%) Reuters