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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 167 228
Rank change year-on-year -64 +61 -22
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 244 231 174
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.71% 1.08%
As % of the General category 1.96% 2.48% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 160 110
10th Percentile £419 £425 £400
25th Percentile £512 £548 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £616
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +7.51% -1.40%
75th Percentile £745 £775 £700
90th Percentile £869 £941 £794
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

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 12,455 9,324 10,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.30% 69.05% 62.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 6,144 6,763
10th Percentile £350 £325 £332
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 186 125
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.75 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% -6.59% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.36 £65.00 £65.61
England median hourly rate £31.31 £25.15 £38.68
% change year-on-year +24.48% -34.97% +40.64%

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 10 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 10 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 -36 36 £613 -15.52% 21
East London -5 2 £675 -32.50% 3
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 (3.28%) Confluence
1 8 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.64%) Apache
3 4 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) Loan IQ
1 4 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.23%) Endur
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.82%) Findur
3 2 (0.82%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.82%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Changepoint
4 1 (0.41%) Finacle
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.39%) Azure
2 32 (13.11%) AWS
3 26 (10.66%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.51%) SaaS
6 9 (3.69%) GCP
7 8 (3.28%) GitHub
8 7 (2.87%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.87%) Collibra
9 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.64%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.23%) Datadog
11 3 (1.23%) dbt
11 3 (1.23%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.23%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.69%) Firewall
2 5 (2.05%) Network Security
3 4 (1.64%) BGP
3 4 (1.64%) LAN
3 4 (1.64%) WAN
4 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.23%) EIGRP
4 3 (1.23%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) MPLS
4 3 (1.23%) Multicast
4 3 (1.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.82%) RTP
5 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.82%) VPN
6 1 (0.41%) DMZ
6 1 (0.41%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) SNMP
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.43%) Power BI
2 19 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.87%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.46%) Metadata
6 4 (1.64%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.64%) KDB
6 4 (1.64%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.23%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.23%) Tableau
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.82%) Flink
8 2 (0.82%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.82%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.82%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) JIRA
2 6 (2.46%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.05%) GitLab
4 4 (1.64%) Git
5 3 (1.23%) Selenium
6 2 (0.82%) Appium
6 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.82%) ERwin
6 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) TestNG
7 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.41%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Snyk
7 1 (0.41%) SOAtest
General
1 244 (100.00%) Finance
2 115 (47.13%) Banking
3 64 (26.23%) Social Skills
4 37 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (14.75%) Investment Banking
6 33 (13.52%) Front Office
7 16 (6.56%) Legal
8 15 (6.15%) Corporate Banking
9 12 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (4.10%) Spanish Language
11 8 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.64%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.64%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.23%) Publishing
15 2 (0.82%) Retail
16 1 (0.41%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 52 (21.31%) Developer
2 50 (20.49%) Senior
3 37 (15.16%) Analyst
4 24 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 15 (6.15%) Architect
6 14 (5.74%) Senior Developer
7 13 (5.33%) Lead
8 12 (4.92%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.51%) C# Developer
9 11 (4.51%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
10 10 (4.10%) Desktop Support
10 10 (4.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 10 (4.10%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.28%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.28%) Quantitative Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Audit Manager
12 7 (2.87%) IT Audit Manager
12 7 (2.87%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.87%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.56%) Kafka
2 14 (5.74%) .NET
3 13 (5.33%) React
4 9 (3.69%) REST
5 8 (3.28%) PySpark
6 7 (2.87%) Spring
6 7 (2.87%) Terraform
7 6 (2.46%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.05%) RESTful
8 5 (2.05%) Web Services
9 4 (1.64%) LangChain
9 4 (1.64%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.64%) Redux
9 4 (1.64%) WinForms
9 4 (1.64%) WPF
10 3 (1.23%) FastAPI
10 3 (1.23%) JSON
10 3 (1.23%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.23%) Playwright
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.66%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.97%) Derivative
3 15 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (5.74%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.33%) Fixed Income
6 10 (4.10%) Hedge funds
7 8 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.28%) Exotic Derivative
7 8 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.46%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.64%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.64%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.20%) Windows
2 10 (4.10%) Linux
3 6 (2.46%) Unix
4 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.54%) AI
2 52 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (14.75%) Agile
4 36 (14.75%) Analytics
5 32 (13.11%) Generative AI
6 27 (11.07%) Data Modelling
7 26 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 26 (10.66%) Decision-Making
8 24 (9.84%) DevOps
9 22 (9.02%) Migration
10 21 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (8.20%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.79%) Business Analysis
12 19 (7.79%) Project Management
12 19 (7.79%) Risk Management
13 18 (7.38%) Project Delivery
14 17 (6.97%) Fintech
15 16 (6.56%) Regulatory Compliance
15 16 (6.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.49%) SQL
2 34 (13.93%) Python
3 22 (9.02%) C#
4 18 (7.38%) Java
5 16 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.10%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.64%) C++
8 3 (1.23%) Bash
8 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (13.11%) Degree
2 15 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.28%) CISSP
4 8 (3.28%) PMP
5 7 (2.87%) CISA
6 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.23%) ACCA
8 3 (1.23%) CCNP
8 3 (1.23%) CIMA
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.51%) QA
3 7 (2.87%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.05%) NIST
5 4 (1.64%) SEPA
6 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.23%) COREP
6 3 (1.23%) FINREP
6 3 (1.23%) SLA
7 2 (0.82%) EMIR
7 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.82%) GDPR
7 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.82%) MiFID
7 2 (0.82%) PMO
7 2 (0.82%) WCAG
8 1 (0.41%) Basel III
8 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.41%) IFRS
8 1 (0.41%) P3O
System Software
1 19 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.33%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.69%) Ansible
3 5 (2.05%) vRealize
4 3 (1.23%) Control-M
5 2 (0.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.38%) Oracle
3 12 (4.92%) Databricks
4 11 (4.51%) Cisco
5 10 (4.10%) SAP
5 10 (4.10%) VMware
6 9 (3.69%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.28%) Citrix
7 8 (3.28%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.05%) Splunk
10 4 (1.64%) Foundry
10 4 (1.64%) GoldenSource
10 4 (1.64%) NetApp
10 4 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.64%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.23%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.23%) F5
11 3 (1.23%) Reuters