Financial Institution Contracts 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 199 201
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 +41
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 198 215 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.58% 1.21% 1.36%
As % of the General category 2.33% 1.91% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 161 287
10th Percentile £437 £340 £456
25th Percentile £550 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £825 £712 £744
90th Percentile £894 £775 £838
England median daily rate £650 £608 £600
% change year-on-year +7.00% +1.25% -

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,484 11,249 16,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.62% 63.11% 63.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,726 8,027 12,255
10th Percentile £347 £335 £375
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 246 219
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.33
25th Percentile £22.66 £18.25 £21.12
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £31.92
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.71% -14.88%
75th Percentile £51.18 £43.75 £57.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.70 £30.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -9.18% -5.86% +50.70%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Financial Institution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in London

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Financial Institution in London.

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in London

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in London

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Institution in London.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in London

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 7 May 2025. 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 +3 48 £675 +3.85% 34
South London - 13 £675 -
East London +10 4 £415 -36.13% 3
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.07%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.02%) Apache
3 4 (2.02%) Confluence
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.52%) nginx
5 2 (1.01%) CMS
5 2 (1.01%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.51%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (9.60%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (3.03%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.01%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.51%) Sketch
7 1 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) ION Anvil
1 2 (1.01%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.51%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.51%) Summit
2 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.16%) Azure
2 15 (7.58%) AWS
3 9 (4.55%) GCP
4 7 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.02%) SaaS
6 4 (2.02%) Serverless
7 3 (1.52%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.01%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.01%) IaaS
8 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.01%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (1.01%) Slack
8 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.01%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.04%) Firewall
2 7 (3.54%) Network Security
3 4 (2.02%) HTTP
4 2 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.01%) DHCP
4 2 (1.01%) DNS
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) Modbus
5 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) Skype
5 1 (0.51%) SMTP
5 1 (0.51%) SWIFTNet
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
5 1 (0.51%) VoIP
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) VSAN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
5 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.04%) Tableau
2 7 (3.54%) Delta Lake
2 7 (3.54%) Hadoop
3 6 (3.03%) Power BI
4 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.52%) Data Mart
6 3 (1.52%) KDB
6 3 (1.52%) Kdb+
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.01%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.01%) Impala
7 2 (1.01%) Looker
7 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) Redis
7 2 (1.01%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.57%) Git
3 8 (4.04%) JIRA
4 4 (2.02%) JUnit
5 3 (1.52%) Ant
5 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.52%) GitLab
5 3 (1.52%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.52%) Toad
6 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.51%) AppScan
7 1 (0.51%) ERwin
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.51%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 198 (100.00%) Finance
2 93 (46.97%) Social Skills
3 75 (37.88%) Banking
4 47 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (18.69%) Front Office
6 23 (11.62%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.54%) Legal
7 7 (3.54%) Retail
7 7 (3.54%) Retail Banking
8 5 (2.53%) Back Office
8 5 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (2.02%) Marketing
10 3 (1.52%) International Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.01%) French Language
12 1 (0.51%) Advertising
12 1 (0.51%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.51%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.51%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (21.72%) Developer
2 28 (14.14%) Senior
3 27 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 22 (11.11%) Analyst
5 16 (8.08%) Lead
6 11 (5.56%) Front Office Business Analyst
7 10 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.55%) Architect
8 9 (4.55%) C# Developer
8 9 (4.55%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 9 (4.55%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 8 (4.04%) Business Manager
9 8 (4.04%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.04%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.03%) Consultant
10 6 (3.03%) Head of Analytics
10 6 (3.03%) Head of Data Science
10 6 (3.03%) PMO Manager
10 6 (3.03%) SailPoint Developer
10 6 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.55%) React
1 9 (4.55%) SailPoint
2 6 (3.03%) .NET
2 6 (3.03%) FastAPI
3 5 (2.53%) REST
3 5 (2.53%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.02%) Django
4 4 (2.02%) IBM Integration Bus
4 4 (2.02%) Kafka
4 4 (2.02%) Middleware
5 3 (1.52%) CSS
5 3 (1.52%) EDI
5 3 (1.52%) Murex MxML
5 3 (1.52%) PySpark
5 3 (1.52%) RESTful
5 3 (1.52%) SOAP
5 3 (1.52%) XML
6 2 (1.01%) JSON
6 2 (1.01%) Node.js
6 2 (1.01%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (8.59%) Fixed Income
3 16 (8.08%) Hedge funds
4 12 (6.06%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.54%) Derivative
6 7 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.53%) Equities
9 4 (2.02%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.52%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.62%) Linux
2 11 (5.56%) Windows
3 9 (4.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.52%) AIX
5 3 (1.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.20%) Agile
3 34 (17.17%) Risk Management
4 32 (16.16%) CI/CD
5 26 (13.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 25 (12.63%) Electronic Trading
6 25 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (11.62%) Analytics
8 22 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 22 (11.11%) Project Management
9 19 (9.60%) DevOps
9 19 (9.60%) Machine Learning
10 18 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (8.59%) Migration
11 17 (8.59%) Software Engineering
12 15 (7.58%) Business Analysis
12 15 (7.58%) Data Science
12 15 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.57%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.26%) Python
2 36 (18.18%) SQL
3 30 (15.15%) Java
4 15 (7.58%) C#
5 12 (6.06%) C++
6 10 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.54%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.03%) BeanShell
8 6 (3.03%) C
9 4 (2.02%) Bash
9 4 (2.02%) Perl
10 3 (1.52%) Korn
10 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) Go
11 2 (1.01%) Groovy
11 2 (1.01%) Rust
11 2 (1.01%) Scala
12 1 (0.51%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 42 (21.21%) Degree
2 12 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.53%) CISSP
6 4 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (2.02%) CCSP
6 4 (2.02%) GCIH
6 4 (2.02%) PhD
7 3 (1.52%) CCNP
7 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.01%) CFA
8 2 (1.01%) MBA
8 2 (1.01%) PMP
8 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CBAP
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) PMO
2 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.55%) QA
3 8 (4.04%) MiFID
4 7 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.03%) GDPR
6 5 (2.53%) SLA
7 4 (2.02%) NIST
8 3 (1.52%) SEPA
9 2 (1.01%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (1.01%) EMIR
9 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.51%) Basel II
10 1 (0.51%) COBIT
10 1 (0.51%) GRC
10 1 (0.51%) IFRS
10 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (5.56%) Docker
2 6 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) vSphere
5 1 (0.51%) KVM
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (9.60%) Terraform
2 18 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.06%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) SCCM
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.51%) Nagios
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.56%) ION Trading
3 10 (5.05%) Oracle
4 9 (4.55%) Databricks
5 8 (4.04%) Google
6 6 (3.03%) Adobe
6 6 (3.03%) IBM
7 5 (2.53%) Cisco
8 4 (2.02%) Murex
8 4 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.52%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.52%) Charles River
9 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.52%) Perforce
9 3 (1.52%) SAP
9 3 (1.52%) VMware
10 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.01%) Juniper
10 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.01%) SolarWinds