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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 163 203
Rank change year-on-year -72 +40 +10
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 234 232 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.74% 1.23%
As % of the General category 1.89% 2.52% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 159 131
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £506 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -5.51%
75th Percentile £739 £775 £700
90th Percentile £823 £945 £795
England median daily rate £600 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -1.80% +1.83% -

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 12,405 9,202 10,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.63% 68.86% 62.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,927 6,063 6,612
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 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 174 118
10th Percentile £16.34 £17.00 £17.85
25th Percentile £20.75 £24.53 £25.81
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £36.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -12.88% +26.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.15 £64.45 £66.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.08 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.64% -33.13% +30.43%

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 28 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 28 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 36 £625 -13.79% 65
East London -3 2 £675 -32.50%
South London -13 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 10 (4.27%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.71%) Apache
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Appian
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (2.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Changepoint
4 1 (0.43%) Finacle
4 1 (0.43%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (17.52%) Azure
2 31 (13.25%) AWS
3 24 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.27%) GCP
5 10 (4.27%) SaaS
6 7 (2.99%) Azure AI
7 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.71%) Collibra
8 4 (1.71%) GitHub
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.85%) Datadog
10 2 (0.85%) dbt
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 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
5 2 (0.85%) SAN
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.43%) NAS
6 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.43%) SSH
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.83%) Power BI
2 19 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.71%) Metadata
6 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.28%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.85%) KDB
7 2 (0.85%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.85%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) TigerGraph
8 1 (0.43%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 14 (5.98%) 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
2 123 (52.56%) Banking
3 57 (24.36%) Social Skills
4 34 (14.53%) Front Office
4 34 (14.53%) Investment Banking
5 33 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.41%) Legal
7 14 (5.98%) Corporate Banking
8 13 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.27%) Spanish Language
10 5 (2.14%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Publishing
12 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Advertising
13 1 (0.43%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (20.09%) Developer
2 45 (19.23%) Senior
3 39 (16.67%) Analyst
4 25 (10.68%) Business Analyst
5 15 (6.41%) Support Engineer
6 13 (5.56%) Desktop Support
6 13 (5.56%) Lead
7 12 (5.13%) C# Developer
7 12 (5.13%) Desktop Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.27%) Architect
8 10 (4.27%) IT Manager
9 9 (3.85%) Network Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.42%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (2.99%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Audit Manager
11 7 (2.99%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.41%) .NET
1 15 (6.41%) Kafka
2 13 (5.56%) REST
3 11 (4.70%) React
3 11 (4.70%) Terraform
4 7 (2.99%) PySpark
5 6 (2.56%) RESTful
5 6 (2.56%) Spring
6 5 (2.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.14%) Web Services
7 4 (1.71%) JSON
7 4 (1.71%) LangChain
7 4 (1.71%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.71%) Middleware
7 4 (1.71%) Redux
7 4 (1.71%) WinForms
7 4 (1.71%) WPF
7 4 (1.71%) XML
8 3 (1.28%) CSS
8 3 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.26%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.69%) Derivative
3 15 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.13%) Fixed Income
6 11 (4.70%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.42%) Exotic Derivative
8 8 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.56%) Reference Data
10 6 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.71%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.71%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.26%) Windows
2 10 (4.27%) Linux
3 5 (2.14%) Unix
3 5 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.21%) AI
2 50 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (15.38%) Agile
4 36 (15.38%) Generative AI
5 32 (13.68%) Analytics
6 26 (11.11%) DevOps
7 25 (10.68%) Data Modelling
8 24 (10.26%) Migration
9 23 (9.83%) CI/CD
10 21 (8.97%) Decision-Making
11 20 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (8.55%) Risk Management
12 19 (8.12%) Test Automation
13 18 (7.69%) Business Analysis
13 18 (7.69%) Fintech
14 17 (7.26%) Project Management
15 15 (6.41%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (6.41%) Data Analysis
15 15 (6.41%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 46 (19.66%) SQL
2 34 (14.53%) Python
3 25 (10.68%) C#
4 17 (7.26%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.84%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.41%) Java
7 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.56%) Bash
9 4 (1.71%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.28%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
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%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) QA
2 11 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.42%) 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%) EMIR
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%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.43%) P3O
System Software
1 19 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.13%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.56%) Ansible
3 6 (2.56%) SCCM
4 5 (2.14%) vRealize
5 3 (1.28%) Control-M
6 2 (0.85%) Grafana
7 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Netcool
7 1 (0.43%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.26%) Oracle
3 13 (5.56%) Cisco
4 12 (5.13%) VMware
5 11 (4.70%) Citrix
5 11 (4.70%) Databricks
6 10 (4.27%) SAP
7 8 (3.42%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.42%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.71%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.71%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.71%) Foundry
10 4 (1.71%) NetApp
10 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.71%) Reuters
10 4 (1.71%) Splunk
11 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.28%) Murex