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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 153 217
Rank change year-on-year -73 +64 +1
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 234 236 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.78% 1.18%
As % of the General category 1.88% 2.57% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 162 124
10th Percentile £413 £425 £408
25th Percentile £511 £543 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £745 £775 £700
90th Percentile £860 £936 £799
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 12,437 9,168 9,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.49% 69.06% 62.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,947 6,031 6,613
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 181 118
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.85
25th Percentile £21.11 £24.61 £25.06
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.90
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -12.26% +28.21%
75th Percentile £44.97 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +33.97%

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 22 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 22 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 -38 35 £613 -15.52% 69
East London -3 2 £675 -32.50% 1
South London -11 1 - - 5
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 9 (3.85%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.71%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Loan IQ
1 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.28%) Endur
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics SL
3 2 (0.85%) Findur
3 2 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) Changepoint
4 1 (0.43%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (16.24%) Azure
2 29 (12.39%) AWS
3 25 (10.68%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.70%) SaaS
6 9 (3.85%) GCP
7 7 (2.99%) Azure AI
8 6 (2.56%) Collibra
8 6 (2.56%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.71%) GitHub
9 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.71%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.28%) Datadog
10 3 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.85%) dbt
11 2 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.27%) Firewall
2 5 (2.14%) Network Security
2 5 (2.14%) VPN
3 4 (1.71%) BGP
3 4 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.71%) WAN
4 3 (1.28%) Internet
4 3 (1.28%) LAN
4 3 (1.28%) MPLS
4 3 (1.28%) Multicast
4 3 (1.28%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.85%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.43%) DWDM
6 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.43%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.26%) Power BI
2 19 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.14%) Metadata
6 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.28%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.28%) Tableau
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.85%) Flink
8 2 (0.85%) KDB
8 2 (0.85%) Kdb+
8 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.85%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.85%) TigerGraph
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (5.56%) JIRA
2 6 (2.56%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.14%) Git
4 3 (1.28%) GitLab
4 3 (1.28%) Selenium
5 2 (0.85%) Appium
5 2 (0.85%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.85%) ERwin
5 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.85%) TestNG
6 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.43%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.43%) MLflow
6 1 (0.43%) SOAtest
General
1 234 (100.00%) Finance
2 120 (51.28%) Banking
3 57 (24.36%) Social Skills
4 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.96%) Front Office
4 35 (14.96%) Investment Banking
5 16 (6.84%) Legal
6 15 (6.41%) Corporate Banking
7 12 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.27%) Spanish Language
9 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.14%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.71%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.28%) Publishing
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (20.09%) Developer
2 46 (19.66%) Senior
3 40 (17.09%) Analyst
4 26 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.98%) Support Engineer
6 13 (5.56%) Desktop Support
6 13 (5.56%) Lead
7 12 (5.13%) Architect
7 12 (5.13%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.70%) C# Developer
9 10 (4.27%) IT Manager
9 10 (4.27%) Senior Manager
10 9 (3.85%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.42%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.42%) Quantitative Developer
12 7 (2.99%) Audit Manager
12 7 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.99%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.41%) Kafka
2 13 (5.56%) .NET
3 10 (4.27%) React
3 10 (4.27%) Terraform
4 9 (3.85%) REST
5 7 (2.99%) PySpark
5 7 (2.99%) Spring
6 6 (2.56%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.14%) RESTful
7 5 (2.14%) Web Services
8 4 (1.71%) LangChain
8 4 (1.71%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.71%) Redux
8 4 (1.71%) WinForms
8 4 (1.71%) WPF
9 3 (1.28%) JSON
9 3 (1.28%) Middleware
9 3 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.28%) Playwright
9 3 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.69%) Derivative
3 14 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (5.13%) Fixed Income
5 11 (4.70%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Exotic Derivative
6 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.56%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.14%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.71%) CMDB
9 4 (1.71%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.26%) Windows
2 9 (3.85%) Linux
3 5 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.71%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.43%) CentOS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.93%) AI
2 52 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (14.53%) Agile
4 34 (14.53%) Generative AI
5 32 (13.68%) Analytics
6 25 (10.68%) Data Modelling
7 23 (9.83%) DevOps
7 23 (9.83%) Migration
8 22 (9.40%) CI/CD
8 22 (9.40%) Decision-Making
9 20 (8.55%) Business Analysis
9 20 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (8.55%) Risk Management
10 18 (7.69%) Project Management
10 18 (7.69%) Test Automation
11 17 (7.26%) Fintech
11 17 (7.26%) Project Delivery
12 16 (6.84%) Data Analysis
13 15 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.66%) SQL
2 32 (13.68%) Python
3 22 (9.40%) C#
4 17 (7.26%) Java
5 14 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.98%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.14%) Bash
8 4 (1.71%) C++
9 3 (1.28%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (13.68%) Degree
2 14 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.99%) CISA
4 7 (2.99%) CISSP
4 7 (2.99%) PMP
5 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.71%) ACCA
6 4 (1.71%) CCNP
6 4 (1.71%) CIMA
6 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.13%) QA
3 7 (2.99%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.14%) NIST
5 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.71%) SEPA
6 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) COREP
7 2 (0.85%) EMIR
7 2 (0.85%) FINREP
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.85%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.85%) MiFID
7 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
7 2 (0.85%) WCAG
8 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 20 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.13%) Docker
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.56%) Ansible
3 6 (2.56%) SCCM
4 5 (2.14%) vRealize
5 3 (1.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.84%) Oracle
3 13 (5.56%) Cisco
4 11 (4.70%) Citrix
4 11 (4.70%) Databricks
4 11 (4.70%) VMware
5 10 (4.27%) SAP
6 8 (3.42%) CyberArk
6 8 (3.42%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.71%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.71%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.71%) Foundry
9 4 (1.71%) NetApp
9 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.71%) Reuters
9 4 (1.71%) Splunk
10 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.28%) Murex