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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 165 201
Rank change year-on-year -24 +36 -5
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 256 199 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.44% 1.58% 1.20%
As % of the General category 2.39% 2.34% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 123 160
10th Percentile £405 £455 £293
25th Percentile £460 £550 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £712
90th Percentile £885 £894 £776
England median daily rate £600 £650 £608
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,722 8,500 11,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.44% 67.56% 63.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,981 5,738 8,023
10th Percentile £348 £340 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 137 245
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +19.30% -11.63%
75th Percentile £49.38 £52.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.33% -11.76%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -18 44 £725 +7.41% 55
East London -2 4 £675 +62.59%
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 15 (5.86%) Confluence
2 13 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.91%) HCL Notes
3 10 (3.91%) Mendix
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.91%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.78%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.34%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.56%) Temenos T24
5 3 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (1.17%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (1.17%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (1.17%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (1.17%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.17%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.78%) Actimize
6 2 (0.78%) Endur
6 2 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.78%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.78%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.27%) Azure
2 38 (14.84%) AWS
3 19 (7.42%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.69%) GCP
6 12 (4.69%) Serverless
7 11 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.30%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.91%) SaaS
9 8 (3.13%) Collibra
10 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.34%) GitHub
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.56%) Datadog
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.42%) Network Security
2 16 (6.25%) Firewall
3 15 (5.86%) BGP
3 15 (5.86%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (5.86%) LAN
3 15 (5.86%) OSPF
3 15 (5.86%) WAN
4 9 (3.52%) EIGRP
4 9 (3.52%) MPLS
4 9 (3.52%) Multicast
5 6 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (2.34%) NX-OS
5 6 (2.34%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.95%) RTP
7 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.39%) SMS
7 1 (0.39%) SNMP
7 1 (0.39%) SSH
7 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.64%) Power BI
2 15 (5.86%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.73%) KDB
5 7 (2.73%) Kdb+
5 7 (2.73%) Metadata
5 7 (2.73%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.95%) Tick Data
7 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.17%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.78%) DB2
8 2 (0.78%) Flink
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.39%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 16 (6.25%) JIRA
2 8 (3.13%) GitLab
3 7 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.95%) Git
5 4 (1.56%) Snyk
6 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) XPEDITER
General
1 256 (100.00%) Finance
2 91 (35.55%) Banking
3 88 (34.38%) Social Skills
4 44 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Front Office
5 23 (8.98%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (5.08%) Legal
7 7 (2.73%) Corporate Banking
8 6 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.17%) Back Office
9 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 53 (20.70%) Senior
2 52 (20.31%) Developer
3 41 (16.02%) Analyst
4 32 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 24 (9.38%) Architect
6 18 (7.03%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.64%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.30%) Consultant
8 11 (4.30%) Lead
9 10 (3.91%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (3.52%) Migration Manager
10 9 (3.52%) Migration Project Manager
11 8 (3.13%) Banking Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.13%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.73%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.73%) ETL Developer
12 7 (2.73%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.38%) .NET
2 19 (7.42%) React
3 11 (4.30%) Kafka
4 10 (3.91%) HTML5 Canvas
5 9 (3.52%) REST
6 8 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.95%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.95%) WinForms
8 4 (1.56%) NumPy
8 4 (1.56%) Pandas
8 4 (1.56%) RESTful
8 4 (1.56%) scikit-learn
8 4 (1.56%) Spring
8 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.17%) Redux
9 3 (1.17%) XML
10 2 (0.78%) CSS
10 2 (0.78%) EDI
10 2 (0.78%) SOAP
10 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) Fixed Income
2 15 (5.86%) Derivative
3 12 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.30%) Low-Code
4 11 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.91%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.52%) Credit Risk
7 7 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.95%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.95%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.17%) Equities
11 3 (1.17%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.08%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Unix
3 6 (2.34%) Windows
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (17.58%) Agile
3 42 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (13.28%) DevOps
5 33 (12.89%) Analytics
5 33 (12.89%) Data Modelling
6 32 (12.50%) AI
7 29 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (11.33%) CI/CD
7 29 (11.33%) Project Management
8 27 (10.55%) Data Management
9 26 (10.16%) Migration
9 26 (10.16%) Risk Management
9 26 (10.16%) Validation
10 24 (9.38%) Decision-Making
10 24 (9.38%) ETL
11 23 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.03%) Business Analysis
12 18 (7.03%) Data Governance
12 18 (7.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.36%) SQL
2 31 (12.11%) Python
3 30 (11.72%) C#
4 21 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.08%) Java
6 10 (3.91%) Formula Language
6 10 (3.91%) LotusScript
7 7 (2.73%) C++
8 6 (2.34%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.78%) Korn
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
11 2 (0.78%) R
11 2 (0.78%) VBA
12 1 (0.39%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.39%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.39%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (7.81%) Degree
2 9 (3.52%) PMI Certification
2 9 (3.52%) PMP
3 7 (2.73%) CISM
3 7 (2.73%) CISSP
4 5 (1.95%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.56%) CBAP
5 4 (1.56%) CCSP
5 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.56%) IIBA
5 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.17%) PhD
7 2 (0.78%) CRISC
7 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) ACCA
8 1 (0.39%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.25%) NIST
3 14 (5.47%) GDPR
3 14 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.69%) QA
5 10 (3.91%) SLA
6 6 (2.34%) COBIT
7 4 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.56%) COREP
7 4 (1.56%) FINREP
7 4 (1.56%) SEPA
8 3 (1.17%) Basel III
8 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.78%) GRC
9 2 (0.78%) MiFID
10 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.39%) IFRS
10 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) HDFS
3 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (3.13%) Ansible
1 8 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.34%) FortiGate
3 4 (1.56%) Terraform
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.78%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.39%) Oozie
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.39%) SCOM
5 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.50%) Oracle
3 16 (6.25%) Cisco
4 14 (5.47%) F5
5 12 (4.69%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.69%) Splunk
6 11 (4.30%) Murex
7 10 (3.91%) Kofax
7 10 (3.91%) Lotus
7 10 (3.91%) SAP
7 10 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.52%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.52%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.52%) Workday
9 7 (2.73%) Temenos
10 6 (2.34%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.95%) Tenable
12 4 (1.56%) Okta
12 4 (1.56%) Qualys
12 4 (1.56%) Zscaler