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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 174 196
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 234 190 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.41% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.35% 2.15% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 122 167
10th Percentile £413 £409 £315
25th Percentile £463 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +4.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £738
90th Percentile £911 £875 £850
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 9,976 8,855 11,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.70% 65.55% 63.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,495 5,656 8,377
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 115 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.57 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.52 £26.88 £18.79
Median hourly rate £28.78 £39.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -26.22% +31.22% +4.28%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.61 £73.69
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% +18.38% -12.61%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -13 38 £708 +4.81% 40
East London +9 6 £838 +52.27%
South London -24 2 - - 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 11 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.27%) Confluence
3 9 (3.85%) HCL Notes
3 9 (3.85%) Mendix
4 7 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.71%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.28%) CMS
6 3 (1.28%) IIS
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Apache
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.85%) Notion
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.71%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.43%) Actimize
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.43%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.08%) Azure
2 34 (14.53%) AWS
3 16 (6.84%) GCP
4 15 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 9 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 9 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 9 (3.85%) Serverless
7 6 (2.56%) SaaS
8 3 (1.28%) Collibra
8 3 (1.28%) GitHub
8 3 (1.28%) IBM Blueworks
8 3 (1.28%) OCI
8 3 (1.28%) PaaS
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.98%) Network Security
2 11 (4.70%) BGP
2 11 (4.70%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (4.70%) Firewall
2 11 (4.70%) LAN
2 11 (4.70%) OSPF
2 11 (4.70%) WAN
3 6 (2.56%) EIGRP
3 6 (2.56%) MPLS
3 6 (2.56%) Multicast
4 5 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (2.14%) NX-OS
4 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.28%) RTP
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) DNS
6 1 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.26%) Oracle Database
2 13 (5.56%) Power BI
3 12 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
5 6 (2.56%) Metadata
6 5 (2.14%) KDB
6 5 (2.14%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.28%) Tableau
7 3 (1.28%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.85%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) DB2
8 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.43%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 13 (5.56%) JIRA
2 9 (3.85%) Git
3 8 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.71%) GitLab
5 3 (1.28%) Snyk
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.43%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.43%) XPEDITER
General
1 234 (100.00%) Finance
2 90 (38.46%) Banking
3 89 (38.03%) Social Skills
4 40 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (11.11%) Front Office
6 21 (8.97%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Legal
8 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Retail
9 4 (1.71%) Private Banking
9 4 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Back Office
10 3 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.28%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) International Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (25.21%) Developer
2 37 (15.81%) Analyst
3 36 (15.38%) Senior
4 22 (9.40%) Architect
5 21 (8.97%) Business Analyst
6 18 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.56%) Consultant
8 12 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (2.99%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.99%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.99%) ETL Developer
11 7 (2.99%) OBIEE Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.99%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Senior ETL Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Senior OBIEE Developer
12 6 (2.56%) Lead
12 6 (2.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.40%) .NET
2 18 (7.69%) React
3 13 (5.56%) REST
4 9 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (2.99%) Kafka
5 7 (2.99%) XML
6 6 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.56%) Dask
7 5 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.14%) CSS
7 5 (2.14%) WinForms
8 4 (1.71%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.71%) HTML
8 4 (1.71%) NumPy
8 4 (1.71%) Pandas
9 3 (1.28%) Electron
9 3 (1.28%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.28%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.40%) Derivative
2 19 (8.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (8.12%) Hedge funds
3 14 (5.98%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.70%) Equities
5 9 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.42%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.99%) Credit Risk
7 7 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.14%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.71%) AS400
9 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 15 (6.41%) Windows
3 12 (5.13%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) CentOS
4 4 (1.71%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Solaris
5 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (19.23%) Agile
3 38 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (14.10%) DevOps
5 32 (13.68%) CI/CD
5 32 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (12.82%) Analytics
7 27 (11.54%) Risk Management
8 25 (10.68%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (10.26%) Data Management
9 24 (10.26%) Project Management
10 23 (9.83%) AI
11 22 (9.40%) Data Modelling
12 21 (8.97%) ETL
12 21 (8.97%) Validation
13 20 (8.55%) Migration
13 20 (8.55%) SDLC
14 18 (7.69%) Decision-Making
15 17 (7.26%) Roadmaps
16 16 (6.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.38%) SQL
2 38 (16.24%) Python
3 28 (11.97%) C#
4 17 (7.26%) Java
5 15 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.70%) C++
7 9 (3.85%) Formula Language
7 9 (3.85%) LotusScript
8 7 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.14%) Perl
9 5 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.14%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.71%) RPG
11 3 (1.28%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.28%) Bash
11 3 (1.28%) C
11 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.85%) Korn
12 2 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (11.11%) Degree
2 10 (4.27%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.42%) PhD
4 7 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.56%) CISSP
5 6 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.14%) CISM
6 5 (2.14%) PMP
6 5 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.71%) CBAP
7 4 (1.71%) IIBA
8 3 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) ACCA
9 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.85%) CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.85%) CRISC
9 2 (0.85%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.69%) QA
2 12 (5.13%) GDPR
2 12 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.70%) NIST
4 10 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.42%) SLA
6 6 (2.56%) COBIT
7 5 (2.14%) GRC
7 5 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.71%) PMO
8 4 (1.71%) SEPA
9 3 (1.28%) Basel III
9 3 (1.28%) MiFID
10 2 (0.85%) IFRS
10 2 (0.85%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.43%) EMIR
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (2.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) KVM
4 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 10 (4.27%) Ansible
2 8 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.14%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.14%) Terraform
4 4 (1.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.85%) Puppet
5 2 (0.85%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.85%) vRealize
6 1 (0.43%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.43%) Oozie
6 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.43%) SCCM
6 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Oracle
2 29 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 12 (5.13%) Murex
4 12 (5.13%) Splunk
5 11 (4.70%) Cisco
6 10 (4.27%) F5
7 9 (3.85%) Kofax
7 9 (3.85%) Lotus
8 8 (3.42%) IBM
9 7 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.99%) Temenos
10 6 (2.56%) Bloomberg
10 6 (2.56%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.56%) SAP
11 5 (2.14%) Darktrace
11 5 (2.14%) Workday
12 4 (1.71%) Informatica