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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 166 208
Rank change year-on-year -67 +42 +3
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 235 233 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.73% 1.22%
As % of the General category 1.87% 2.51% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 159 130
10th Percentile £413 £425 £423
25th Percentile £500 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £604
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +11.80% -3.40%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £700
90th Percentile £822 £945 £794
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 12,549 9,269 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.69% 68.83% 62.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,007 6,097 6,541
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 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 176 117
10th Percentile £16.05 £17.04 £17.80
25th Percentile £20.14 £24.58 £25.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.28% +24.02%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.58 £64.25 £65.42
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%

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 1 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 1 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 -50 34 £600 -17.24% 70
South London -9 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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 6 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.70%) 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 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Loan IQ
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 S/4HANA
3 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
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 (17.45%) Azure
2 30 (12.77%) AWS
3 24 (10.21%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.66%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.26%) GCP
6 7 (2.98%) Azure AI
6 7 (2.98%) SaaS
7 5 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.70%) Collibra
8 4 (1.70%) GitHub
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.70%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
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%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.26%) Firewall
2 5 (2.13%) Network Security
2 5 (2.13%) VPN
3 4 (1.70%) BGP
3 4 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.70%) 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%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.43%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.43%) NAS
6 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.79%) Power BI
2 19 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.70%) Delta Lake
5 4 (1.70%) 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%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.85%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) TigerGraph
8 1 (0.43%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (6.38%) JIRA
2 6 (2.55%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.13%) 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
1 235 (100.00%) Finance
2 126 (53.62%) Banking
3 60 (25.53%) Social Skills
4 36 (15.32%) Front Office
5 34 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (14.47%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.96%) Corporate Banking
6 14 (5.96%) Legal
6 14 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.26%) Spanish Language
8 5 (2.13%) General Ledger
8 5 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Publishing
10 3 (1.28%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (20.43%) Developer
2 46 (19.57%) Senior
3 40 (17.02%) Analyst
4 25 (10.64%) Business Analyst
5 16 (6.81%) Support Engineer
6 14 (5.96%) Desktop Support
7 13 (5.53%) C# Developer
7 13 (5.53%) Desktop Engineer
7 13 (5.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 13 (5.53%) Lead
8 11 (4.68%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.26%) IT Manager
10 9 (3.83%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.40%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Architect
11 8 (3.40%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Quantitative Developer
12 7 (2.98%) Senior IT Audit Manager
12 7 (2.98%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.81%) .NET
1 16 (6.81%) Kafka
2 15 (6.38%) REST
3 11 (4.68%) Terraform
4 10 (4.26%) React
5 7 (2.98%) PySpark
5 7 (2.98%) Spring
6 6 (2.55%) RESTful
6 6 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.13%) Web Services
8 4 (1.70%) JSON
8 4 (1.70%) LangChain
8 4 (1.70%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.70%) Middleware
8 4 (1.70%) WinForms
8 4 (1.70%) WPF
8 4 (1.70%) XML
9 3 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.28%) Playwright
9 3 (1.28%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.66%) Derivative
3 15 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.11%) Fixed Income
6 11 (4.68%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.40%) Exotic Derivative
8 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.55%) Market Risk
10 6 (2.55%) Reference Data
10 6 (2.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.13%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.64%) Windows
2 10 (4.26%) Linux
3 5 (2.13%) Unix
3 5 (2.13%) 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 60 (25.53%) AI
2 48 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (15.74%) Agile
5 36 (15.32%) Generative AI
6 30 (12.77%) Analytics
7 28 (11.91%) DevOps
8 25 (10.64%) CI/CD
8 25 (10.64%) Data Modelling
9 22 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (8.94%) Migration
10 21 (8.94%) Risk Management
11 20 (8.51%) Decision-Making
11 20 (8.51%) Test Automation
12 18 (7.66%) Business Analysis
12 18 (7.66%) Fintech
13 16 (6.81%) Data Analysis
13 16 (6.81%) Project Management
13 16 (6.81%) SDLC
14 15 (6.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.43%) SQL
2 35 (14.89%) Python
3 25 (10.64%) C#
4 17 (7.23%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.81%) Java
6 15 (6.38%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.98%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.55%) Bash
9 4 (1.70%) 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 (13.62%) Degree
2 14 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.98%) CISA
4 7 (2.98%) CISSP
5 6 (2.55%) PMP
6 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.70%) ACCA
7 4 (1.70%) CCNP
7 4 (1.70%) CIMA
7 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.11%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.11%) QA
2 8 (3.40%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.70%) NIST
3 4 (1.70%) SEPA
4 3 (1.28%) IFRS
4 3 (1.28%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) EMIR
5 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 19 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.11%) Docker
3 4 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.53%) Ansible
3 7 (2.98%) SCCM
4 5 (2.13%) 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 24 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.23%) Oracle
3 13 (5.53%) Cisco
4 12 (5.11%) Citrix
4 12 (5.11%) Databricks
4 12 (5.11%) VMware
5 8 (3.40%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.40%) SAP
6 7 (2.98%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.13%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.70%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.70%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.70%) Foundry
9 4 (1.70%) Murex
9 4 (1.70%) NetApp
9 4 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.70%) Reuters
9 4 (1.70%) Splunk
10 3 (1.28%) Fortinet