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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 171 186
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 226 209 223
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.50% 1.21%
As % of the General category 2.38% 2.31% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 127 163
10th Percentile £415 £425 £328
25th Percentile £513 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £775 £744 £750
90th Percentile £996 £868 £875
England median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - -

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 9,514 9,043 11,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.96% 64.91% 63.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,215 5,727 8,418
10th Percentile £340 £326 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -5.03% -4.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 111 223
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.12 £19.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +22.81% +4.59%
75th Percentile £47.38 £52.25 £52.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £73.73
England median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +11.54% +1.13%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -16 36 £735 +11.36% 18
East London +4 8 £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 12 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.98%) HCL Notes
2 9 (3.98%) Mendix
3 6 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.65%) Confluence
4 4 (1.77%) MQSeries
5 3 (1.33%) CMS
5 3 (1.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Notion
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) Actimize
4 1 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.44%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.68%) Azure
2 29 (12.83%) AWS
3 18 (7.96%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.75%) GCP
6 12 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (4.42%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.42%) PowerApps
8 9 (3.98%) Azure Functions
8 9 (3.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (3.98%) Serverless
9 7 (3.10%) SaaS
10 6 (2.65%) Collibra
10 6 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.77%) PaaS
12 3 (1.33%) IaaS
12 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.33%) OCI
12 3 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.21%) Network Security
2 4 (1.77%) BGP
2 4 (1.77%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.77%) Firewall
2 4 (1.77%) LAN
2 4 (1.77%) OSPF
2 4 (1.77%) WAN
3 3 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.33%) NX-OS
3 3 (1.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.88%) HTTP
4 2 (0.88%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.44%) MPLS
5 1 (0.44%) Multicast
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.52%) Power BI
2 16 (7.08%) Oracle Database
2 16 (7.08%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.10%) Oracle BI EE
5 6 (2.65%) Metadata
6 5 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.77%) Tableau
8 3 (1.33%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.33%) KDB
8 3 (1.33%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.88%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.88%) Big Data
9 2 (0.88%) MySQL
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.88%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.98%) Git
1 9 (3.98%) JIRA
2 8 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.88%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.88%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) Gradle
5 1 (0.44%) Maven
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) QUnit
5 1 (0.44%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 226 (100.00%) Finance
2 94 (41.59%) Banking
3 81 (35.84%) Social Skills
4 33 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (13.27%) Front Office
6 17 (7.52%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.54%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (3.10%) Legal
9 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.77%) Private Banking
10 4 (1.77%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.33%) Back Office
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Retail
12 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.88%) International Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Law
13 1 (0.44%) Arabic Language
13 1 (0.44%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 61 (26.99%) Developer
2 34 (15.04%) Analyst
3 27 (11.95%) Senior
4 24 (10.62%) Architect
5 20 (8.85%) Project Manager
6 17 (7.52%) Business Analyst
7 13 (5.75%) Consultant
8 12 (5.31%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.42%) Lead
10 9 (3.98%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.98%) Power Platform Developer
11 8 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.54%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.10%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (3.10%) ETL Developer
12 7 (3.10%) OBIEE Developer
12 7 (3.10%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.10%) Senior ETL Developer
12 7 (3.10%) Senior OBIEE Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.62%) .NET
2 15 (6.64%) React
3 14 (6.19%) REST
4 9 (3.98%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (3.54%) XML
6 7 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (2.65%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.65%) .NET Framework
7 6 (2.65%) Dask
7 6 (2.65%) Kafka
8 5 (2.21%) WinForms
9 4 (1.77%) CSS
9 4 (1.77%) HTML
10 3 (1.33%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.33%) Electron
10 3 (1.33%) JNI
10 3 (1.33%) JSON
10 3 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (1.33%) Node.js
10 3 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.62%) Derivative
2 23 (10.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (10.18%) Hedge funds
3 15 (6.64%) Fixed Income
4 13 (5.75%) Equities
5 11 (4.87%) Credit Risk
6 10 (4.42%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.98%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.54%) Market Risk
8 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
9 7 (3.10%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.21%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.77%) AS400
11 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.29%) Linux
2 16 (7.08%) Windows
3 12 (5.31%) Unix
4 5 (2.21%) CentOS
4 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.77%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Solaris
6 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.91%) Agile
1 45 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (14.16%) CI/CD
3 32 (14.16%) DevOps
4 29 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (12.39%) Risk Management
6 27 (11.95%) Analytics
7 25 (11.06%) Data Management
7 25 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (9.73%) SDLC
9 21 (9.29%) Data Modelling
9 21 (9.29%) ETL
9 21 (9.29%) Project Management
10 20 (8.85%) Roadmaps
10 20 (8.85%) Validation
11 19 (8.41%) AI
11 19 (8.41%) Migration
12 18 (7.96%) Mathematics
12 18 (7.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.14%) SQL
2 39 (17.26%) Python
3 31 (13.72%) C#
4 15 (6.64%) Java
4 15 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.75%) C++
6 9 (3.98%) Formula Language
6 9 (3.98%) LotusScript
7 7 (3.10%) Perl
8 5 (2.21%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.21%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.77%) Bash
9 4 (1.77%) RPG
9 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.33%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.33%) C
10 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.88%) Bicep
11 2 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (13.27%) Degree
2 11 (4.87%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.10%) PhD
4 6 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.21%) PMP
6 4 (1.77%) CBAP
6 4 (1.77%) IIBA
6 4 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.88%) ACCA
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.88%) CISSP
8 2 (0.88%) MBA
8 2 (0.88%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.88%) RHCE
8 2 (0.88%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.52%) QA
2 14 (6.19%) GDPR
3 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.65%) NIST
5 6 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.65%) SLA
6 5 (2.21%) PMO
7 4 (1.77%) GRC
8 3 (1.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.88%) Basel III
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS
9 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.88%) SEPA
9 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.88%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.44%) FATCA
10 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (3.10%) Docker
2 4 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) KVM
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.75%) Ansible
2 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.10%) Terraform
4 4 (1.77%) Control-M
5 3 (1.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.33%) Puppet
6 2 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.88%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.88%) vRealize
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (15.49%) Oracle
2 27 (11.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.64%) CyberArk
4 13 (5.75%) Splunk
5 11 (4.87%) Murex
6 9 (3.98%) Kofax
6 9 (3.98%) Lotus
7 8 (3.54%) Darktrace
8 7 (3.10%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.10%) Temenos
9 6 (2.65%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.65%) IBM
10 5 (2.21%) F5
10 5 (2.21%) SAP
10 5 (2.21%) Sophis
11 4 (1.77%) Cisco
11 4 (1.77%) Google
11 4 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.77%) VMware