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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 161 206
Rank change year-on-year -76 +45 +8
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 240 240 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.79% 1.24%
As % of the General category 1.92% 2.62% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 160 133
10th Percentile £407 £425 £405
25th Percentile £500 £535 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £669 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +11.46% -5.51%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £700
90th Percentile £800 £977 £785
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600

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 12,520 9,175 10,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.93% 68.53% 62.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,984 6,036 6,532
10th Percentile £350 £331 £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 £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 181 120
10th Percentile £15.64 £17.50 £17.48
25th Percentile £20.01 £24.50 £25.17
Median hourly rate £29.03 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -10.03% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.52 £70.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 October 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 October 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 -39 35 £600 -18.72% 81
South London -19 1 - - 4
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 8 (3.33%) Confluence
2 7 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.50%) Apache
3 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Appian
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics SL
2 2 (0.83%) Endur
2 2 (0.83%) Findur
2 2 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.83%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.42%) Actimize
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) Changepoint
3 1 (0.42%) Finacle
3 1 (0.42%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 44 (18.33%) Azure
2 30 (12.50%) AWS
3 25 (10.42%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.50%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.58%) GCP
6 7 (2.92%) Azure AI
7 6 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.08%) GitHub
8 5 (2.08%) SaaS
9 4 (1.67%) Collibra
9 4 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.25%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.83%) dbt
11 2 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.83%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.17%) Firewall
2 5 (2.08%) Network Security
2 5 (2.08%) VPN
3 4 (1.67%) BGP
3 4 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.67%) SAN
3 4 (1.67%) WAN
4 3 (1.25%) Internet
4 3 (1.25%) LAN
4 3 (1.25%) MPLS
4 3 (1.25%) Multicast
4 3 (1.25%) NAS
4 3 (1.25%) OSPF
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.83%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.42%) DWDM
6 1 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.42%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.42%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.00%) Power BI
2 19 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.50%) Delta Lake
4 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.67%) Metadata
6 3 (1.25%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.25%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.25%) Tableau
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.83%) KDB
7 2 (0.83%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.83%) Power Query
7 2 (0.83%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.83%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.83%) TigerGraph
8 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.42%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (5.83%) JIRA
2 6 (2.50%) REST Assured
3 4 (1.67%) Git
4 3 (1.25%) GitLab
4 3 (1.25%) Selenium
5 2 (0.83%) Appium
5 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.83%) ERwin
5 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.83%) TestNG
6 1 (0.42%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
6 1 (0.42%) SOAtest
General
1 240 (100.00%) Finance
2 134 (55.83%) Banking
3 57 (23.75%) Social Skills
4 40 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (15.00%) Investment Banking
6 32 (13.33%) Front Office
7 15 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
7 15 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.00%) Legal
9 10 (4.17%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.08%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.25%) Publishing
12 3 (1.25%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Back Office
13 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.42%) Advertising
14 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (21.25%) Developer
2 48 (20.00%) Senior
3 38 (15.83%) Analyst
4 24 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 17 (7.08%) Support Engineer
6 15 (6.25%) Lead
7 14 (5.83%) C# Developer
7 14 (5.83%) Desktop Support
8 13 (5.42%) Desktop Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.17%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.75%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.75%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (3.75%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Quantitative Developer
12 8 (3.33%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.92%) Architect
13 7 (2.92%) Audit Manager
13 7 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.33%) Kafka
2 19 (7.92%) REST
3 18 (7.50%) .NET
4 12 (5.00%) Terraform
5 10 (4.17%) React
6 9 (3.75%) PySpark
7 8 (3.33%) Spring
8 7 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.50%) RESTful
10 5 (2.08%) HTML
10 5 (2.08%) Web Services
11 4 (1.67%) CSS
11 4 (1.67%) JSON
11 4 (1.67%) LangChain
11 4 (1.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (1.67%) Middleware
11 4 (1.67%) WinForms
11 4 (1.67%) WPF
11 4 (1.67%) XML
12 3 (1.25%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.50%) Derivative
3 12 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.58%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.33%) Exotic Derivative
7 7 (2.92%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.92%) Reference Data
7 7 (2.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.50%) Market Risk
9 5 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.83%) Windows
2 11 (4.58%) Linux
3 6 (2.50%) Unix
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.75%) AI
2 47 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (16.67%) Agile
5 34 (14.17%) Generative AI
6 33 (13.75%) Analytics
6 33 (13.75%) DevOps
7 27 (11.25%) CI/CD
8 26 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (10.42%) Risk Management
10 24 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.33%) Migration
12 19 (7.92%) Software Engineering
13 18 (7.50%) Decision-Making
13 18 (7.50%) SDLC
14 17 (7.08%) Business Analysis
14 17 (7.08%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.67%) Fintech
15 16 (6.67%) Machine Learning
15 16 (6.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.50%) SQL
2 39 (16.25%) Python
3 26 (10.83%) C#
4 20 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.67%) Java
5 16 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.50%) Bash
6 6 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.08%) C++
8 3 (1.25%) SPARQL
9 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.42%) Go
10 1 (0.42%) Korn
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 15 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.92%) CISA
4 7 (2.92%) CISSP
4 7 (2.92%) PMP
5 4 (1.67%) ACCA
5 4 (1.67%) CCNP
5 4 (1.67%) CIMA
5 4 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CCIE
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.58%) QA
3 7 (2.92%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.67%) SEPA
5 3 (1.25%) IFRS
5 3 (1.25%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.25%) NIST
6 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) EMIR
6 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.83%) MiFID
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.83%) PMO
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) WCAG
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.83%) Docker
3 7 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.83%) Ansible
3 8 (3.33%) SCCM
4 5 (2.08%) vRealize
5 3 (1.25%) Control-M
6 2 (0.83%) Grafana
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Netcool
7 1 (0.42%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.50%) Oracle
3 15 (6.25%) VMware
4 14 (5.83%) Databricks
5 13 (5.42%) Cisco
6 12 (5.00%) Citrix
7 8 (3.33%) SAP
8 7 (2.92%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.50%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.08%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.67%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.67%) Foundry
11 4 (1.67%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.67%) Murex
11 4 (1.67%) NetApp
11 4 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.67%) Reuters
11 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.25%) Fortinet