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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 177 191
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 240 208 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 1.37% 1.24%
As % of the General category 2.51% 2.14% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 125 170
10th Percentile £425 £410 £424
25th Percentile £514 £550 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £750
90th Percentile £996 £825 £875
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +5.45%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,543 9,719 12,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.96% 64.12% 64.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 6,201 8,869
10th Percentile £334 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 116 164
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.52
25th Percentile £19.88 £24.33 £21.44
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% - -
75th Percentile £44.37 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.04 £76.70 £75.88
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.21 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.45% +28.35%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +1 45 £725 +7.89% 25
East London +8 6 £1,000 +81.82% 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 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.67%) HCL Notes
4 4 (1.67%) Mendix
4 4 (1.67%) MQSeries
5 3 (1.25%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Notion
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Cloudability
1 2 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (0.83%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.42%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.42%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Summit
2 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.42%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.75%) Azure
2 22 (9.17%) AWS
3 16 (6.67%) GCP
4 14 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.17%) SaaS
6 7 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.92%) PaaS
7 6 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (2.50%) Collibra
7 6 (2.50%) IaaS
7 6 (2.50%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.08%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.08%) Serverless
9 4 (1.67%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.25%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.08%) Firewall
1 5 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.67%) HTTP
2 4 (1.67%) Network Security
2 4 (1.67%) SSL
3 3 (1.25%) BGP
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.25%) LAN
3 3 (1.25%) NX-OS
3 3 (1.25%) OSPF
3 3 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.25%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.42%) Power BI
3 11 (4.58%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.08%) Data Mart
5 5 (2.08%) Metadata
5 5 (2.08%) Tableau
6 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.25%) Big Data
7 3 (1.25%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.25%) KDB
7 3 (1.25%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.25%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (1.25%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.83%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Git
2 10 (4.17%) JIRA
3 8 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) QUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Snyk
General
1 240 (100.00%) Finance
2 96 (40.00%) Banking
3 95 (39.58%) Social Skills
4 41 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.33%) Front Office
6 21 (8.75%) Investment Banking
7 11 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.33%) Legal
9 7 (2.92%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (2.08%) Back Office
11 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.67%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.67%) Retail
11 4 (1.67%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.25%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.25%) International Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Law
13 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 53 (22.08%) Developer
2 42 (17.50%) Analyst
3 30 (12.50%) Architect
4 22 (9.17%) Business Analyst
5 21 (8.75%) Senior
6 15 (6.25%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.83%) Consultant
8 10 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (3.33%) C# Developer
9 8 (3.33%) Lead
9 8 (3.33%) Security Architect
10 7 (2.92%) .NET Developer
11 6 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.50%) Murex Consultant
11 6 (2.50%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.08%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.08%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.08%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.33%) .NET
2 14 (5.83%) REST
3 11 (4.58%) React
4 7 (2.92%) .NET Core
4 7 (2.92%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.50%) Dask
5 6 (2.50%) XML
6 5 (2.08%) Kafka
6 5 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.08%) WinForms
7 4 (1.67%) CSS
7 4 (1.67%) HTML
7 4 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 4 (1.67%) Node.js
7 4 (1.67%) RESTful
7 4 (1.67%) Spring
7 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.25%) Electron
8 3 (1.25%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 23 (9.58%) Derivative
4 20 (8.33%) Fixed Income
5 13 (5.42%) Equities
6 12 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
8 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.33%) Credit Risk
9 8 (3.33%) Market Risk
10 7 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.08%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.67%) AS400
12 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.42%) Linux
2 18 (7.50%) Unix
2 18 (7.50%) Windows
3 5 (2.08%) CentOS
3 5 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Solaris
5 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.58%) Agile
2 39 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (13.33%) DevOps
3 32 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 31 (12.92%) Analytics
4 31 (12.92%) CI/CD
5 26 (10.83%) Risk Management
6 25 (10.42%) SDLC
7 24 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 21 (8.75%) AI
8 21 (8.75%) Roadmaps
9 20 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (7.92%) Data Management
10 19 (7.92%) Project Management
10 19 (7.92%) Regulatory Compliance
10 19 (7.92%) Scrum
11 18 (7.50%) Computer Science
11 18 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (7.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.75%) SQL
2 43 (17.92%) Python
3 27 (11.25%) C#
4 18 (7.50%) Java
5 13 (5.42%) C++
6 11 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.75%) Perl
8 6 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.08%) Bicep
9 5 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.67%) Bash
10 4 (1.67%) Formula Language
10 4 (1.67%) LotusScript
10 4 (1.67%) RPG
11 3 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.25%) C
11 3 (1.25%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.83%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 34 (14.17%) Degree
2 12 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.92%) PhD
5 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.08%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.67%) CISA
6 4 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.25%) CBAP
7 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.83%) ACCA
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.83%) CIMA
8 2 (0.83%) CISSP
8 2 (0.83%) IIBA
8 2 (0.83%) PMP
8 2 (0.83%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.83%) RHCE
8 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.67%) QA
2 14 (5.83%) GDPR
3 8 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.50%) NIST
5 6 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.08%) MiFID
6 5 (2.08%) PMO
6 5 (2.08%) SLA
6 5 (2.08%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.67%) GRC
8 3 (1.25%) COBIT
9 2 (0.83%) Basel III
9 2 (0.83%) EMIR
9 2 (0.83%) IFRS
9 2 (0.83%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.83%) SEPA
9 2 (0.83%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.42%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (4.17%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.83%) KVM
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.08%) Ansible
2 12 (5.00%) Terraform
3 11 (4.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.67%) Control-M
4 4 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.25%) Puppet
6 2 (0.83%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.83%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.83%) vRealize
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.42%) SCCM
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (12.50%) Oracle
2 22 (9.17%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.25%) Murex
4 13 (5.42%) Splunk
5 12 (5.00%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.33%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.33%) Darktrace
6 8 (3.33%) Google
7 7 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.50%) F5
8 6 (2.50%) IBM
8 6 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.08%) Sophis
9 5 (2.08%) Tradeweb
10 4 (1.67%) Informatica
10 4 (1.67%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.67%) Kofax
10 4 (1.67%) Lotus
10 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.67%) VMware