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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 178 215
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -14
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 275 209 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.55% 1.04%
As % of the General category 2.29% 2.27% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 146 131
10th Percentile £413 £425 £365
25th Percentile £463 £525 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £636 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £700
90th Percentile £880 £875 £775
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 12,024 9,217 10,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.55% 68.15% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,142 7,731
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 174 211
10th Percentile £18.83 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.29 £24.66 £19.96
Median hourly rate £31.75 £33.45 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +6.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £44.97 £51.07 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £63.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
% change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%

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 11 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 11 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 -2.50% 24
East London 0 3 £675 +62.59% 2
South London -11 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 16 (5.82%) Confluence
2 10 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.73%) Mendix
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) CICS
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.73%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.09%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (1.09%) Dynamics SL
3 3 (1.09%) Endur
3 3 (1.09%) Infor CloudSuite
3 3 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.09%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.73%) Findur
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.73%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) Actimize
5 1 (0.36%) Finacle
5 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.45%) Azure
2 40 (14.55%) AWS
3 23 (8.36%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.18%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.00%) GCP
6 10 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.27%) GitHub
7 9 (3.27%) SaaS
8 8 (2.91%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.55%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.18%) Collibra
11 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.45%) Datadog
12 4 (1.45%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.45%) Serverless
13 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.09%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.55%) Firewall
2 17 (6.18%) Network Security
3 13 (4.73%) BGP
3 13 (4.73%) LAN
3 13 (4.73%) WAN
4 12 (4.36%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (4.36%) OSPF
5 9 (3.27%) EIGRP
5 9 (3.27%) MPLS
5 9 (3.27%) Multicast
6 5 (1.82%) RTP
7 3 (1.09%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.09%) Internet
7 3 (1.09%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.09%) VPN
8 2 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.36%) DNS
9 1 (0.36%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.64%) Power BI
2 17 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.36%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.55%) KDB
4 7 (2.55%) Kdb+
5 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.82%) Tick Data
6 4 (1.45%) Metadata
6 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.09%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.73%) Db2
8 2 (0.73%) Flink
8 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.73%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.73%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.73%) TigerGraph
9 1 (0.36%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (6.18%) JIRA
2 7 (2.55%) GitLab
3 4 (1.45%) REST Assured
3 4 (1.45%) Snyk
4 3 (1.09%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) Appium
5 1 (0.36%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.36%) ERwin
5 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) MLflow
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) TestNG
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) XPEDITER
General
1 275 (100.00%) Finance
2 107 (38.91%) Banking
3 70 (25.45%) Social Skills
4 44 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (12.36%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.73%) Front Office
7 19 (6.91%) Legal
8 11 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.55%) Spanish Language
11 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.18%) Retail
12 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.09%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.73%) Publishing
15 1 (0.36%) Advertising
15 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (22.18%) Senior
2 44 (16.00%) Developer
3 39 (14.18%) Analyst
4 28 (10.18%) Business Analyst
5 27 (9.82%) Architect
6 14 (5.09%) Lead
6 14 (5.09%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.73%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.36%) Senior Manager
9 8 (2.91%) C# Developer
9 8 (2.91%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (2.91%) Implementation Analyst
9 8 (2.91%) IT Manager
9 8 (2.91%) Java Developer
9 8 (2.91%) Support Engineer
10 7 (2.55%) Audit Manager
10 7 (2.55%) Banking Analyst
10 7 (2.55%) Data Architect
10 7 (2.55%) Desktop Support
10 7 (2.55%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.18%) React
2 16 (5.82%) Kafka
3 14 (5.09%) .NET
4 10 (3.64%) REST
5 8 (2.91%) Spring
6 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.18%) RESTful
8 5 (1.82%) NumPy
8 5 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.82%) Pandas
9 4 (1.45%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.45%) JSON
9 4 (1.45%) LangChain
9 4 (1.45%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.45%) PySpark
9 4 (1.45%) Redux
9 4 (1.45%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.45%) Web Services
10 3 (1.09%) LDAP
10 3 (1.09%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.18%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.82%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.27%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.91%) Derivative
6 8 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.18%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.18%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.82%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.45%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.82%) Windows
2 13 (4.73%) Linux
3 9 (3.27%) Unix
4 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (19.64%) AI
3 38 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (13.09%) Agile
5 34 (12.36%) Analytics
6 30 (10.91%) Data Modelling
6 30 (10.91%) Generative AI
7 27 (9.82%) Decision-Making
8 26 (9.45%) CI/CD
8 26 (9.45%) Migration
9 25 (9.09%) Project Management
10 23 (8.36%) DevOps
11 22 (8.00%) Risk Management
12 20 (7.27%) Regulatory Compliance
12 20 (7.27%) Test Automation
13 19 (6.91%) Change Management
14 18 (6.55%) Data Analysis
15 17 (6.18%) Fintech
15 17 (6.18%) Use Case
16 16 (5.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.82%) SQL
2 40 (14.55%) Python
3 21 (7.64%) C#
3 21 (7.64%) Java
4 20 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.73%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.09%) C++
7 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.09%) SPARQL
7 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.73%) Bash
8 2 (0.73%) Formula Language
8 2 (0.73%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (9.45%) Degree
2 13 (4.73%) CISSP
3 7 (2.55%) CISA
3 7 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.18%) CISM
5 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.82%) PMP
6 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.45%) CCSP
6 4 (1.45%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) CCNP
7 2 (0.73%) CRISC
7 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.73%) PhD
8 1 (0.36%) CCA
8 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.36%) NIST
3 10 (3.64%) QA
4 9 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.91%) ISO 20022
5 8 (2.91%) SLA
6 7 (2.55%) GDPR
7 6 (2.18%) COBIT
7 6 (2.18%) SEPA
8 4 (1.45%) COREP
8 4 (1.45%) FINREP
9 3 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.09%) GRC
10 2 (0.73%) Basel III
10 2 (0.73%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.73%) MiFID
11 1 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.36%) EMIR
11 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.18%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.27%) Docker
3 1 (0.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.27%) Ansible
3 8 (2.91%) Terraform
4 5 (1.82%) vRealize
5 4 (1.45%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.09%) Control-M
6 3 (1.09%) SCCM
7 2 (0.73%) Grafana
7 2 (0.73%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Oozie
8 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) SCOM
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.64%) Oracle
3 19 (6.91%) Cisco
4 12 (4.36%) F5
5 11 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.00%) SAP
5 11 (4.00%) VMware
6 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.27%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.27%) Splunk
8 8 (2.91%) Citrix
8 8 (2.91%) OpenAI
8 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.55%) Workday
10 6 (2.18%) Databricks
10 6 (2.18%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.82%) Tenable
12 4 (1.45%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.45%) Okta
12 4 (1.45%) Qualys