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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 158 202
Rank change year-on-year -76 +44 +10
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 231 241 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.79% 1.15%
As % of the General category 1.84% 2.59% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 165 120
10th Percentile £417 £425 £400
25th Percentile £513 £550 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £610
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.66% -5.43%
75th Percentile £745 £775 £700
90th Percentile £860 £933 £796
England median daily rate £600 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -

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 12,540 9,314 10,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.59% 69.16% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 6,144 6,716
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 183 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.04 £24.64 £25.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -7.14% +22.81%
75th Percentile £45.16 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.03 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +23.88% -34.68% +29.41%

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 19 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 19 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 -47 33 £600 -17.24% 53
East London -5 2 £675 -32.50% 1
South London -11 1 - - 5
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 8 (3.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.73%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Loan IQ
1 4 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) Endur
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.87%) Findur
3 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.87%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) Finacle
4 1 (0.43%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.58%) Azure
2 29 (12.55%) AWS
3 25 (10.82%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.76%) SaaS
6 9 (3.90%) GCP
7 7 (3.03%) Azure AI
8 6 (2.60%) Collibra
9 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.73%) GitHub
10 4 (1.73%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.30%) Datadog
11 3 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.87%) dbt
12 2 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.33%) Firewall
2 5 (2.16%) Network Security
3 4 (1.73%) BGP
3 4 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.73%) VPN
3 4 (1.73%) WAN
4 3 (1.30%) Internet
4 3 (1.30%) LAN
4 3 (1.30%) MPLS
4 3 (1.30%) Multicast
4 3 (1.30%) OSPF
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.43%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.43%) SSH
6 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.39%) Power BI
2 19 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.16%) Metadata
6 4 (1.73%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.30%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Flink
8 2 (0.87%) KDB
8 2 (0.87%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.87%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.87%) TigerGraph
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (5.63%) JIRA
2 6 (2.60%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.16%) Git
4 3 (1.30%) GitLab
4 3 (1.30%) Selenium
5 2 (0.87%) Appium
5 2 (0.87%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.87%) ERwin
5 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.87%) TestNG
6 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.43%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.43%) MLflow
6 1 (0.43%) SOAtest
General
1 231 (100.00%) Finance
2 117 (50.65%) Banking
3 56 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 34 (14.72%) Front Office
4 34 (14.72%) Investment Banking
5 33 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.93%) Legal
7 15 (6.49%) Corporate Banking
8 12 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.33%) Spanish Language
10 7 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.16%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.73%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.30%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (20.35%) Developer
1 47 (20.35%) Senior
2 39 (16.88%) Analyst
3 26 (11.26%) Business Analyst
4 13 (5.63%) Architect
4 13 (5.63%) Lead
4 13 (5.63%) Support Engineer
5 12 (5.19%) Senior Developer
6 11 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 11 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
6 11 (4.76%) Desktop Support
6 11 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 10 (4.33%) IT Manager
7 10 (4.33%) Senior Manager
8 9 (3.90%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.46%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.46%) Quantitative Developer
10 7 (3.03%) Audit Manager
10 7 (3.03%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (3.03%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.49%) Kafka
2 13 (5.63%) .NET
3 10 (4.33%) React
3 10 (4.33%) Terraform
4 9 (3.90%) REST
5 7 (3.03%) PySpark
5 7 (3.03%) Spring
6 6 (2.60%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.16%) RESTful
7 5 (2.16%) Web Services
8 4 (1.73%) LangChain
8 4 (1.73%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.73%) Redux
8 4 (1.73%) WinForms
8 4 (1.73%) WPF
9 3 (1.30%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.30%) JSON
9 3 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.30%) Playwright
10 2 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.82%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.36%) Derivative
3 14 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (5.19%) Fixed Income
5 10 (4.33%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.46%) Exotic Derivative
6 8 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.60%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.16%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.73%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.09%) Windows
2 8 (3.46%) Linux
3 4 (1.73%) Unix
3 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.24%) AI
2 51 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (14.72%) Agile
5 33 (14.29%) Generative AI
6 32 (13.85%) Analytics
7 25 (10.82%) Data Modelling
8 23 (9.96%) DevOps
9 22 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 22 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 22 (9.52%) Migration
10 20 (8.66%) Business Analysis
10 20 (8.66%) Risk Management
11 19 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (7.79%) Test Automation
13 17 (7.36%) Fintech
13 17 (7.36%) Project Delivery
13 17 (7.36%) Project Management
14 15 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (6.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.35%) SQL
2 33 (14.29%) Python
3 22 (9.52%) C#
4 18 (7.79%) Java
5 14 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.46%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.16%) Bash
9 4 (1.73%) C++
10 3 (1.30%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (13.85%) Degree
2 14 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.03%) CISA
4 7 (3.03%) CISSP
4 7 (3.03%) PMP
5 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.73%) ACCA
6 4 (1.73%) CCNP
6 4 (1.73%) CIMA
6 4 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.73%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CCIE
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PhD
8 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.76%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.16%) NIST
5 4 (1.73%) SEPA
6 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) COREP
7 2 (0.87%) EMIR
7 2 (0.87%) FINREP
7 2 (0.87%) IFRS
7 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.87%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.87%) MiFID
7 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.87%) PMO
7 2 (0.87%) WCAG
8 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 19 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.63%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.19%) Ansible
3 5 (2.16%) vRealize
4 3 (1.30%) Control-M
4 3 (1.30%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.93%) Oracle
3 13 (5.63%) Cisco
4 11 (4.76%) Databricks
5 10 (4.33%) SAP
5 10 (4.33%) VMware
6 9 (3.90%) Citrix
7 8 (3.46%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.46%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.73%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.73%) Foundry
10 4 (1.73%) NetApp
10 4 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.73%) Splunk
11 3 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.30%) Murex
11 3 (1.30%) Reuters