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 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 178 186
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 252 193 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.56% 1.25%
As % of the General category 2.35% 2.30% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 125 162
10th Percentile £413 £475 £323
25th Percentile £462 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £814 £712
90th Percentile £883 £875 £775
England median daily rate £600 £650 £604
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.66% +0.63%

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 10,745 8,399 11,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.68% 67.73% 63.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,966 5,644 7,869
10th Percentile £350 £343 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 141 232
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.55
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.78% -11.95%
75th Percentile £46.25 £51.18 £44.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.38 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.33% -9.23% -7.20%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -11 44 £725 +3.57% 46
East London -7 4 £675 +62.59% 1
South London -20 2 - -
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 15 (5.95%) Confluence
2 13 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.97%) HCL Notes
3 10 (3.97%) Mendix
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.19%) IIS
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) CICS
7 1 (0.40%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.40%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.97%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.79%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.19%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.19%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.19%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.19%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.19%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.79%) Actimize
5 2 (0.79%) Endur
5 2 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.79%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.79%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.41%) Azure
2 39 (15.48%) AWS
3 20 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.76%) GCP
6 12 (4.76%) Serverless
7 11 (4.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.37%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.37%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.97%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.57%) SaaS
10 7 (2.78%) Collibra
11 6 (2.38%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.38%) GitHub
11 6 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.59%) Datadog
14 3 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.75%) Network Security
2 14 (5.56%) Firewall
3 12 (4.76%) BGP
3 12 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (4.76%) LAN
3 12 (4.76%) OSPF
3 12 (4.76%) WAN
4 9 (3.57%) EIGRP
4 9 (3.57%) MPLS
4 9 (3.57%) Multicast
5 5 (1.98%) RTP
6 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.19%) NX-OS
6 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.40%) SNMP
7 1 (0.40%) SSH
7 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.14%) Power BI
2 16 (6.35%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.78%) KDB
5 7 (2.78%) Kdb+
5 7 (2.78%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (2.38%) Metadata
7 5 (1.98%) Tick Data
8 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.19%) Tableau
10 2 (0.79%) DB2
10 2 (0.79%) Flink
10 2 (0.79%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.79%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.79%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 16 (6.35%) JIRA
2 8 (3.17%) GitLab
3 7 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.59%) Snyk
5 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.19%) Git
6 1 (0.40%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) XPEDITER
General
1 252 (100.00%) Finance
2 94 (37.30%) Banking
3 78 (30.95%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.13%) Front Office
5 23 (9.13%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.16%) Legal
7 12 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Retail
11 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.19%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.40%) Billing
14 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (23.81%) Senior
2 53 (21.03%) Developer
3 41 (16.27%) Analyst
4 32 (12.70%) Business Analyst
5 25 (9.92%) Architect
6 21 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.75%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.97%) Lead
8 10 (3.97%) Power Platform Developer
9 9 (3.57%) C# Developer
9 9 (3.57%) Migration Manager
9 9 (3.57%) Migration Project Manager
9 9 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (3.17%) Consultant
10 8 (3.17%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Implementation Analyst
10 8 (3.17%) Senior Business Analyst
11 7 (2.78%) Banking Analyst
11 7 (2.78%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.73%) .NET
2 20 (7.94%) React
3 15 (5.95%) Kafka
4 10 (3.97%) HTML5 Canvas
4 10 (3.97%) REST
5 8 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.38%) Spring
6 6 (2.38%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.59%) NumPy
7 4 (1.59%) Pandas
7 4 (1.59%) Redux
7 4 (1.59%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.19%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.19%) JSON
8 3 (1.19%) PySpark
8 3 (1.19%) RESTful
8 3 (1.19%) WinForms
8 3 (1.19%) XML
9 2 (0.79%) CSS
9 2 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 15 (5.95%) Derivative
3 14 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.16%) Low-Code
5 12 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (4.37%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.98%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.59%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.19%) Equities
12 2 (0.79%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.16%) Linux
2 10 (3.97%) Unix
3 7 (2.78%) Windows
4 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (17.46%) Agile
3 38 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.89%) AI
5 34 (13.49%) Data Modelling
6 32 (12.70%) Analytics
6 32 (12.70%) DevOps
7 30 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 28 (11.11%) Migration
8 28 (11.11%) Project Management
9 26 (10.32%) Validation
10 24 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 24 (9.52%) ETL
11 23 (9.13%) Risk Management
12 22 (8.73%) Data Management
13 21 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (7.54%) Business Analysis
15 18 (7.14%) Generative AI
16 17 (6.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.84%) SQL
2 31 (12.30%) Python
3 30 (11.90%) C#
4 22 (8.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.35%) Java
6 10 (3.97%) Formula Language
6 10 (3.97%) LotusScript
7 7 (2.78%) C++
8 6 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.79%) Korn
10 2 (0.79%) Perl
10 2 (0.79%) R
10 2 (0.79%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.79%) VBA
11 1 (0.40%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (6.75%) Degree
2 9 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 9 (3.57%) PMP
3 6 (2.38%) CISM
3 6 (2.38%) CISSP
4 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.98%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.59%) CBAP
5 4 (1.59%) CCSP
5 4 (1.59%) IIBA
6 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.79%) CRISC
7 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.79%) PhD
7 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) ACCA
8 1 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.95%) NIST
3 13 (5.16%) GDPR
3 13 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.37%) QA
5 7 (2.78%) SLA
6 6 (2.38%) COBIT
6 6 (2.38%) SEPA
7 5 (1.98%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.59%) COREP
8 4 (1.59%) FINREP
9 3 (1.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.79%) Basel III
10 2 (0.79%) GRC
10 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.40%) EMIR
11 1 (0.40%) FATCA
System Software
1 6 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.98%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Ansible
1 8 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 4 (1.59%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.79%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.79%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.79%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.79%) vRealize
5 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.40%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Oozie
5 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.40%) SCCM
5 1 (0.40%) SCOM
5 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.10%) Oracle
3 14 (5.56%) Cisco
4 12 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 12 (4.76%) F5
4 12 (4.76%) Splunk
5 11 (4.37%) SAP
6 10 (3.97%) Kofax
6 10 (3.97%) Lotus
6 10 (3.97%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.57%) Murex
7 9 (3.57%) Workday
8 6 (2.38%) GoldenSource
8 6 (2.38%) Temenos
9 5 (1.98%) Citrix
9 5 (1.98%) Tenable
9 5 (1.98%) VMware
10 4 (1.59%) Qualys