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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 173 232
Rank change year-on-year -21 +59 -30
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 270 207 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.52% 1.03%
As % of the General category 2.25% 2.23% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 147 126
10th Percentile £413 £425 £373
25th Percentile £463 £525 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £644
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +0.97% +7.29%
75th Percentile £741 £775 £700
90th Percentile £880 £875 £788
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +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 11,996 9,300 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.56% 68.16% 62.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,638 6,199 7,527
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £535
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.21% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 179 189
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.79
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £44.59 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £35.03
% change year-on-year +29.34% -24.98% +16.77%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -24 44 £683 -5.04% 13
East London -1 2 £675 +62.59% 4
South London -15 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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 9 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.37%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.37%) Mendix
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.11%) Endur
3 3 (1.11%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.11%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.11%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.74%) Findur
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.74%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Actimize
5 1 (0.37%) Finacle
5 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.67%) Azure
2 38 (14.07%) AWS
3 22 (8.15%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.30%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.70%) GCP
6 9 (3.33%) GitHub
6 9 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.33%) SaaS
7 8 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.59%) Azure AI
9 5 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.85%) Collibra
10 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.48%) Datadog
10 4 (1.48%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.11%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.11%) dbt
11 3 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.11%) Serverless
11 3 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.67%) Firewall
2 17 (6.30%) Network Security
3 13 (4.81%) BGP
3 13 (4.81%) LAN
3 13 (4.81%) WAN
4 12 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (4.44%) OSPF
5 9 (3.33%) EIGRP
5 9 (3.33%) MPLS
5 9 (3.33%) Multicast
6 5 (1.85%) RTP
7 3 (1.11%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.11%) Internet
7 3 (1.11%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.11%) VPN
8 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.37%) DNS
9 1 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.41%) Power BI
2 17 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.59%) KDB
4 7 (2.59%) Kdb+
5 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.85%) Tick Data
6 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.11%) Metadata
6 3 (1.11%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.74%) Db2
7 2 (0.74%) Flink
7 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.74%) TigerGraph
8 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (6.30%) JIRA
2 7 (2.59%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) REST Assured
3 4 (1.48%) Snyk
4 3 (1.11%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) Appium
5 1 (0.37%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) TestNG
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.37%) XPEDITER
General
1 270 (100.00%) Finance
2 106 (39.26%) Banking
3 67 (24.81%) Social Skills
4 41 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (12.96%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.89%) Front Office
7 19 (7.04%) Legal
8 11 (4.07%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.96%) Spanish Language
11 7 (2.59%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.22%) Retail
13 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.74%) Publishing
16 1 (0.37%) Advertising
16 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (22.59%) Senior
2 42 (15.56%) Developer
3 38 (14.07%) Analyst
4 27 (10.00%) Architect
4 27 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.19%) Lead
5 14 (5.19%) Senior Developer
6 12 (4.44%) Senior Manager
7 11 (4.07%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.33%) Support Engineer
9 8 (2.96%) C# Developer
9 8 (2.96%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (2.96%) Desktop Support
9 8 (2.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (2.96%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.59%) Data Architect
10 7 (2.59%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (2.59%) Implementation Analyst
10 7 (2.59%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (2.59%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.93%) React
2 15 (5.56%) Kafka
3 13 (4.81%) .NET
4 10 (3.70%) REST
5 8 (2.96%) Spring
6 7 (2.59%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.22%) RESTful
8 5 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.48%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.48%) JSON
9 4 (1.48%) LangChain
9 4 (1.48%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.48%) NumPy
9 4 (1.48%) Pandas
9 4 (1.48%) PySpark
9 4 (1.48%) Redux
9 4 (1.48%) Web Services
10 3 (1.11%) LDAP
10 3 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.33%) Hedge funds
6 8 (2.96%) Derivative
6 8 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.96%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.22%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.48%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.30%) Windows
2 13 (4.81%) Linux
3 9 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.37%) AI
2 54 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (12.96%) Agile
5 32 (11.85%) Analytics
6 30 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 28 (10.37%) Data Modelling
8 26 (9.63%) Migration
9 25 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 24 (8.89%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.89%) Project Management
11 22 (8.15%) DevOps
12 20 (7.41%) Risk Management
12 20 (7.41%) Test Automation
13 19 (7.04%) Change Management
13 19 (7.04%) Regulatory Compliance
14 17 (6.30%) Data Analysis
14 17 (6.30%) Fintech
14 17 (6.30%) Use Case
15 16 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.41%) SQL
2 39 (14.44%) Python
3 21 (7.78%) Java
4 20 (7.41%) C#
5 19 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 13 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.11%) C++
8 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.11%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) Go
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) R
10 1 (0.37%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (9.63%) Degree
2 13 (4.81%) CISSP
3 7 (2.59%) CISA
3 7 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.22%) CISM
4 6 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.22%) PMP
5 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.48%) CCSP
6 4 (1.48%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.74%) CCNP
7 2 (0.74%) CRISC
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) PhD
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 12 (4.44%) NIST
2 10 (3.70%) QA
3 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.96%) ISO 20022
5 7 (2.59%) GDPR
5 7 (2.59%) SLA
6 6 (2.22%) COBIT
6 6 (2.22%) SEPA
7 4 (1.48%) COREP
7 4 (1.48%) FINREP
8 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.11%) GRC
9 2 (0.74%) Basel III
9 2 (0.74%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
10 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.33%) Ansible
3 8 (2.96%) Terraform
4 5 (1.85%) vRealize
5 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.11%) Control-M
6 3 (1.11%) SCCM
7 2 (0.74%) Grafana
7 2 (0.74%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) Oozie
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) SCOM
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.41%) Oracle
3 19 (7.04%) Cisco
4 12 (4.44%) F5
5 11 (4.07%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.07%) VMware
6 10 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.70%) SAP
7 9 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.33%) Splunk
8 8 (2.96%) Citrix
8 8 (2.96%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.59%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.22%) Databricks
10 6 (2.22%) GoldenSource
10 6 (2.22%) Workday
11 5 (1.85%) Tenable
12 4 (1.48%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.48%) Okta
12 4 (1.48%) Qualys