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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 177 196
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 243 192 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.51% 1.47% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.40% 2.23% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 127 164
10th Percentile £413 £429 £248
25th Percentile £461 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £669 £620
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +7.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £750 £784 £716
90th Percentile £886 £875 £821
England median daily rate £593 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -3.22% +2.08% +1.27%

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 10,104 8,627 11,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.99% 66.08% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,602 5,692 8,272
10th Percentile £350 £333 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £694
90th Percentile £784 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 125 270
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.75 £19.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +16.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £48.50 £55.25 £48.69
90th Percentile £71.25 £78.40 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.41 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.78% +16.94% -19.38%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -15 43 £725 +7.41% 26
East London +1 3 £675 +22.73% 2
South London -26 2 - - 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 (4.94%) Confluence
1 12 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.12%) HCL Notes
2 10 (4.12%) Mendix
3 7 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.23%) CMS
4 3 (1.23%) IIS
4 3 (1.23%) MQSeries
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.41%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.29%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.82%) Notion
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.65%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.82%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.82%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.82%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.41%) Actimize
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.81%) Azure
2 35 (14.40%) AWS
3 16 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.76%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.35%) GCP
6 11 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (4.53%) Serverless
7 10 (4.12%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.12%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.47%) SaaS
9 5 (2.06%) Collibra
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.23%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.23%) GitHub
10 3 (1.23%) OCI
10 3 (1.23%) PaaS
11 2 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.41%) Network Security
2 15 (6.17%) Firewall
3 14 (5.76%) BGP
3 14 (5.76%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (5.76%) LAN
3 14 (5.76%) OSPF
3 14 (5.76%) WAN
4 8 (3.29%) EIGRP
4 8 (3.29%) MPLS
4 8 (3.29%) Multicast
5 6 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (2.47%) NX-OS
5 6 (2.47%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.23%) RTP
7 2 (0.82%) DNS
7 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.82%) VPN
8 1 (0.41%) DHCP
8 1 (0.41%) SMS
8 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.17%) Oracle Database
2 14 (5.76%) Power BI
3 13 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.88%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (2.47%) Metadata
7 5 (2.06%) KDB
7 5 (2.06%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.23%) Tableau
8 3 (1.23%) Tick Data
9 2 (0.82%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.82%) DB2
9 2 (0.82%) MySQL
9 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.41%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.17%) JIRA
2 8 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.88%) Git
4 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.65%) GitLab
4 4 (1.65%) Snyk
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.41%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) XPEDITER
General
1 243 (100.00%) Finance
2 91 (37.45%) Banking
3 86 (35.39%) Social Skills
4 42 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.29%) Investment Banking
6 23 (9.47%) Front Office
7 11 (4.53%) Legal
8 10 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.88%) Retail
10 5 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.65%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Back Office
12 3 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (21.81%) Developer
2 41 (16.87%) Senior
3 38 (15.64%) Analyst
4 24 (9.88%) Architect
4 24 (9.88%) Business Analyst
5 19 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.76%) Consultant
7 12 (4.94%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.12%) Lead
8 10 (4.12%) Power Platform Developer
9 8 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (2.88%) .NET Developer
10 7 (2.88%) C# Developer
10 7 (2.88%) ETL Developer
10 7 (2.88%) OBIEE Developer
10 7 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (2.88%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (2.88%) Senior ETL Developer
10 7 (2.88%) Senior OBIEE Developer
11 6 (2.47%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.47%) .NET
2 17 (7.00%) React
3 14 (5.76%) REST
4 10 (4.12%) HTML5 Canvas
4 10 (4.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (2.88%) Kafka
6 6 (2.47%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.47%) Dask
6 6 (2.47%) XML
7 5 (2.06%) WinForms
8 4 (1.65%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.65%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.65%) NumPy
8 4 (1.65%) Pandas
8 4 (1.65%) RESTful
9 3 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.23%) CSS
9 3 (1.23%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.23%) OAuth
9 3 (1.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.23%) Derivative
2 16 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (6.17%) Fixed Income
3 15 (6.17%) Hedge funds
4 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.12%) Low-Code
4 10 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.70%) Equities
6 7 (2.88%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.06%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.23%) AS400
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.94%) Linux
1 12 (4.94%) Windows
2 8 (3.29%) Unix
3 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (24.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (18.52%) Agile
3 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (13.58%) DevOps
5 32 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (12.35%) Risk Management
7 29 (11.93%) Analytics
7 29 (11.93%) CI/CD
8 27 (11.11%) AI
8 27 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (11.11%) Data Management
8 27 (11.11%) Project Management
9 25 (10.29%) Data Modelling
10 23 (9.47%) ETL
11 22 (9.05%) Validation
12 19 (7.82%) Decision-Making
12 19 (7.82%) Migration
13 18 (7.41%) Roadmaps
13 18 (7.41%) SDLC
14 17 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.28%) SQL
2 34 (13.99%) Python
3 28 (11.52%) C#
4 15 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.94%) Java
6 10 (4.12%) Formula Language
6 10 (4.12%) LotusScript
7 9 (3.70%) C++
8 8 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.23%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.23%) Perl
10 3 (1.23%) RPG
10 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.82%) Korn
11 2 (0.82%) R
11 2 (0.82%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.41%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (11.52%) Degree
2 10 (4.12%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.29%) PhD
3 8 (3.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.88%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.47%) CISM
5 6 (2.47%) CISSP
5 6 (2.47%) PMP
6 5 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.65%) CBAP
7 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.65%) IIBA
8 3 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.23%) CCSP
8 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) CRISC
9 2 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.00%) QA
2 12 (4.94%) GDPR
2 12 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.94%) NIST
3 10 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.12%) SLA
4 6 (2.47%) COBIT
5 5 (2.06%) GRC
5 5 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.65%) MiFID
6 4 (1.65%) PMO
6 4 (1.65%) SEPA
7 3 (1.23%) Basel III
8 1 (0.41%) FATCA
8 1 (0.41%) GAAP
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Firmware
3 1 (0.41%) HDFS
3 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Ansible
2 6 (2.47%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.65%) Terraform
4 3 (1.23%) Control-M
5 2 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.82%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.82%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.82%) SCCM
5 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.41%) Oozie
6 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.41%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (14.40%) Oracle
2 34 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.76%) Cisco
4 13 (5.35%) F5
5 11 (4.53%) Murex
6 10 (4.12%) CyberArk
6 10 (4.12%) Kofax
6 10 (4.12%) Lotus
6 10 (4.12%) Splunk
7 8 (3.29%) CheckPoint
7 8 (3.29%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.88%) IBM
8 7 (2.88%) SAP
8 7 (2.88%) Temenos
9 6 (2.47%) Bloomberg
9 6 (2.47%) Workday
10 5 (2.06%) GoldenSource
11 4 (1.65%) Citrix
11 4 (1.65%) Salesforce