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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 161 223
Rank change year-on-year -48 +62 -9
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 262 230 178
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.72% 1.09%
As % of the General category 2.14% 2.49% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 164 114
10th Percentile £415 £425 £400
25th Percentile £504 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £654 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +4.68% -
75th Percentile £745 £775 £700
90th Percentile £870 £892 £788
England median daily rate £600 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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 12,216 9,226 10,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.85% 68.98% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,771 6,134 6,995
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 184 138
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.49 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -12.53% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.56 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.60 £66.60
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +35.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -35 40 £625 -13.79% 18
East London -1 2 £675 +1.50% 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 11 (4.20%) Confluence
2 9 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.53%) Apache
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Appian
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.38%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.38%) Mendix
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.53%) Loan IQ
3 3 (1.15%) Endur
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics SL
4 2 (0.76%) Findur
4 2 (0.76%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.76%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.76%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Quorum
5 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.79%) Azure
2 34 (12.98%) AWS
3 27 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.25%) Snowflake
5 12 (4.58%) SaaS
6 10 (3.82%) GCP
7 8 (3.05%) Collibra
7 8 (3.05%) GitHub
8 7 (2.67%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.53%) Datadog
10 4 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.53%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.15%) dbt
11 3 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.96%) Firewall
2 8 (3.05%) Network Security
3 7 (2.67%) BGP
3 7 (2.67%) LAN
3 7 (2.67%) WAN
4 6 (2.29%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.29%) OSPF
5 5 (1.91%) EIGRP
5 5 (1.91%) MPLS
5 5 (1.91%) Multicast
6 3 (1.15%) Internet
6 3 (1.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.76%) RTP
7 2 (0.76%) SAN
7 2 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.38%) DMZ
8 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.38%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.16%) Power BI
2 20 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.34%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.91%) Metadata
6 4 (1.53%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.53%) KDB
6 4 (1.53%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.15%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.15%) Tableau
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.76%) Flink
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (0.76%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.76%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.73%) JIRA
2 6 (2.29%) REST Assured
3 5 (1.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) Git
5 2 (0.76%) Appium
5 2 (0.76%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.76%) ERwin
5 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.76%) Selenium
5 2 (0.76%) TestNG
6 1 (0.38%) Chocolatey
6 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.38%) MLflow
6 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 262 (100.00%) Finance
2 120 (45.80%) Banking
3 63 (24.05%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (14.89%) Investment Banking
6 32 (12.21%) Front Office
7 18 (6.87%) Legal
8 15 (5.73%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.82%) Spanish Language
11 9 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.53%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.53%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.53%) Retail
13 4 (1.53%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.15%) Publishing
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (20.99%) Senior
2 51 (19.47%) Developer
3 40 (15.27%) Analyst
4 28 (10.69%) Business Analyst
5 18 (6.87%) Architect
6 15 (5.73%) Lead
7 14 (5.34%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.58%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.20%) C# Developer
9 11 (4.20%) Senior Manager
10 10 (3.82%) Desktop Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) Desktop Support
10 10 (3.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.82%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
12 7 (2.67%) IT Audit Manager
12 7 (2.67%) Quantitative Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.49%) Kafka
2 15 (5.73%) .NET
3 14 (5.34%) React
4 10 (3.82%) REST
5 8 (3.05%) PySpark
6 7 (2.67%) Spring
6 7 (2.67%) Terraform
7 6 (2.29%) RESTful
7 6 (2.29%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.53%) JSON
8 4 (1.53%) LangChain
8 4 (1.53%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.53%) Redux
8 4 (1.53%) Web Services
8 4 (1.53%) WinForms
8 4 (1.53%) WPF
9 3 (1.15%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.15%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.15%) Playwright
9 3 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.92%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.11%) Derivative
3 15 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.34%) Fixed Income
4 14 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (4.20%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.67%) Exotic Derivative
8 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.29%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.53%) CMDB
10 4 (1.53%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.63%) Windows
2 10 (3.82%) Linux
3 6 (2.29%) Unix
4 4 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (20.61%) AI
3 46 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (15.65%) Agile
5 36 (13.74%) Analytics
6 32 (12.21%) Data Modelling
7 31 (11.83%) Generative AI
8 27 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 25 (9.54%) Decision-Making
9 25 (9.54%) DevOps
9 25 (9.54%) Migration
10 23 (8.78%) Project Management
11 21 (8.02%) Business Analysis
12 20 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (7.63%) Project Delivery
12 20 (7.63%) Risk Management
12 20 (7.63%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.87%) Data Analysis
13 18 (6.87%) Regulatory Compliance
14 17 (6.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.47%) SQL
2 36 (13.74%) Python
3 23 (8.78%) C#
4 18 (6.87%) Java
4 18 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.53%) C++
8 3 (1.15%) Bash
8 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.38%) Formula Language
9 1 (0.38%) LotusScript
9 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (12.60%) Degree
2 13 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.44%) PMP
5 8 (3.05%) CISSP
6 7 (2.67%) CISA
7 6 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.29%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.15%) ACCA
9 3 (1.15%) CCNP
9 3 (1.15%) CIMA
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.38%) CISM
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.20%) QA
3 7 (2.67%) ISO 20022
3 7 (2.67%) NIST
4 5 (1.91%) SLA
5 4 (1.53%) GDPR
5 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.53%) SEPA
6 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.15%) COREP
6 3 (1.15%) FINREP
7 2 (0.76%) EMIR
7 2 (0.76%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.76%) MiFID
7 2 (0.76%) WCAG
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 20 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.96%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.44%) Ansible
3 5 (1.91%) vRealize
4 3 (1.15%) Control-M
4 3 (1.15%) SCCM
5 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.25%) Oracle
3 14 (5.34%) Cisco
4 12 (4.58%) VMware
5 11 (4.20%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.20%) Databricks
6 10 (3.82%) SAP
7 9 (3.44%) Citrix
8 8 (3.05%) OpenAI
9 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.29%) F5
10 6 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.91%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.91%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.91%) Splunk
12 4 (1.53%) Foundry
12 4 (1.53%) NetApp
12 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.53%) Workday
13 3 (1.15%) BeyondTrust