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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 173 194
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 244 182 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.44% 1.18%
As % of the General category 2.33% 2.16% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 115 161
10th Percentile £405 £428 £225
25th Percentile £461 £559 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £805 £712
90th Percentile £899 £875 £800
England median daily rate £593 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -8.81% +8.33% +4.35%

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 10,469 8,437 11,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.97% 66.83% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,829 5,713 8,163
10th Percentile £350 £336 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £782 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 139 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.85 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.75 £55.13 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.68 £72.13
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.03
% change year-on-year -14.10% +15.25% -25.63%

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 April 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 April 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 -8 45 £745 +11.61% 58
East London +4 4 £675 +51.69% 2
South London -26 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 14 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.33%) Confluence
3 10 (4.10%) HCL Notes
3 10 (4.10%) Mendix
4 8 (3.28%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.23%) CMS
5 3 (1.23%) IIS
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.41%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.10%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.82%) Notion
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.64%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.82%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.82%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.82%) SAP ERP
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%) IntelliMatch
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 Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 56 (22.95%) Azure
2 38 (15.57%) AWS
3 17 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.56%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.92%) Serverless
6 11 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (4.51%) GCP
6 11 (4.51%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.51%) PowerApps
7 10 (4.10%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.28%) Collibra
9 6 (2.46%) GitHub
9 6 (2.46%) SaaS
10 5 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.05%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.23%) OCI
12 2 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.79%) Network Security
2 16 (6.56%) Firewall
3 15 (6.15%) BGP
3 15 (6.15%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (6.15%) LAN
3 15 (6.15%) OSPF
3 15 (6.15%) WAN
4 9 (3.69%) EIGRP
4 9 (3.69%) MPLS
4 9 (3.69%) Multicast
5 6 (2.46%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (2.46%) NX-OS
5 6 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.05%) RTP
7 1 (0.41%) DNS
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
7 1 (0.41%) SSL
7 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.15%) Oracle Database
2 14 (5.74%) Power BI
3 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.87%) KDB
5 7 (2.87%) Kdb+
5 7 (2.87%) Metadata
5 7 (2.87%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (2.05%) Tick Data
7 4 (1.64%) Tableau
8 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.82%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.82%) DB2
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.41%) Flink
10 1 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.15%) JIRA
2 8 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.46%) GitLab
4 5 (2.05%) Git
5 4 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.64%) Snyk
6 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.41%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.41%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.41%) XPEDITER
General
1 244 (100.00%) Finance
2 90 (36.89%) Social Skills
3 85 (34.84%) Banking
4 47 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.66%) Investment Banking
6 22 (9.02%) Front Office
7 14 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.10%) Legal
9 6 (2.46%) Retail
10 5 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Back Office
12 3 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (19.67%) Senior
2 46 (18.85%) Developer
3 35 (14.34%) Analyst
4 27 (11.07%) Architect
5 24 (9.84%) Business Analyst
6 19 (7.79%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.92%) Lead
9 11 (4.51%) Consultant
10 10 (4.10%) Power Platform Developer
11 9 (3.69%) Migration Manager
11 9 (3.69%) Migration Project Manager
12 7 (2.87%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Banking Analyst
12 7 (2.87%) ETL Developer
12 7 (2.87%) OBIEE Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Senior ETL Developer
12 7 (2.87%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.87%) Senior OBIEE Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.02%) .NET
2 17 (6.97%) React
3 10 (4.10%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (3.69%) Kafka
4 9 (3.69%) REST
5 6 (2.46%) Dask
5 6 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (2.05%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.05%) WinForms
7 4 (1.64%) NumPy
7 4 (1.64%) Pandas
7 4 (1.64%) RESTful
7 4 (1.64%) scikit-learn
7 4 (1.64%) XML
8 3 (1.23%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.82%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.82%) Redux
9 2 (0.82%) SPFx
9 2 (0.82%) Spring
9 2 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Derivative
2 17 (6.97%) Fixed Income
3 16 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.51%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.10%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.28%) Credit Risk
6 8 (3.28%) Equities
7 7 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.05%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.92%) Linux
2 9 (3.69%) Unix
3 8 (3.28%) Windows
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.82%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (28.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (17.21%) Agile
3 36 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (12.30%) DevOps
4 30 (12.30%) Risk Management
5 29 (11.89%) AI
5 29 (11.89%) CI/CD
5 29 (11.89%) Data Modelling
5 29 (11.89%) Project Management
6 28 (11.48%) Analytics
6 28 (11.48%) Data Management
7 27 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (10.66%) Validation
9 25 (10.25%) Decision-Making
9 25 (10.25%) ETL
9 25 (10.25%) Migration
10 18 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (7.38%) Data Governance
10 18 (7.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.85%) SQL
2 35 (14.34%) Python
3 26 (10.66%) C#
4 18 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.92%) Java
6 10 (4.10%) Formula Language
6 10 (4.10%) LotusScript
7 8 (3.28%) C++
8 6 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.23%) VBA
11 2 (0.82%) Korn
11 2 (0.82%) Perl
11 2 (0.82%) R
12 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.41%) Go
12 1 (0.41%) RPG
12 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (10.66%) Degree
2 10 (4.10%) PMI Certification
3 9 (3.69%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.69%) PMP
4 8 (3.28%) PhD
5 7 (2.87%) CISM
5 7 (2.87%) CISSP
6 6 (2.46%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.64%) CBAP
7 4 (1.64%) CCSP
7 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.64%) IIBA
8 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.23%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.82%) CRISC
10 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.97%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.97%) NIST
2 14 (5.74%) GDPR
2 14 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.33%) QA
4 10 (4.10%) SLA
5 6 (2.46%) COBIT
5 6 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.05%) GRC
7 4 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.64%) COREP
7 4 (1.64%) FINREP
7 4 (1.64%) MiFID
8 3 (1.23%) Basel III
8 3 (1.23%) PMO
8 3 (1.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.41%) IFRS
9 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 4 (1.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) HDFS
3 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.46%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.05%) Ansible
4 3 (1.23%) Terraform
5 2 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.82%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.82%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.41%) Control-M
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
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%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.30%) Oracle
3 15 (6.15%) Cisco
4 14 (5.74%) F5
5 11 (4.51%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.51%) Murex
5 11 (4.51%) Splunk
6 10 (4.10%) Kofax
6 10 (4.10%) Lotus
7 9 (3.69%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.69%) SAP
7 9 (3.69%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.28%) GoldenSource
9 7 (2.87%) Temenos
9 7 (2.87%) Workday
10 5 (2.05%) IBM
10 5 (2.05%) Tenable
11 4 (1.64%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.64%) Citrix