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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 185 199
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 242 183 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.44% 1.18%
As % of the General category 2.28% 2.14% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 115 159
10th Percentile £412 £475 £285
25th Percentile £460 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £712
90th Percentile £901 £894 £788
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 10,602 8,532 11,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.22% 67.36% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,903 5,763 8,088
10th Percentile £348 £333 £331
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 139 252
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.73 £23.99 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +15.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.63 £47.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -20.00%

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 16 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 16 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 -12 40 £735 +8.89% 49
East London -1 4 £675 +51.69% 1
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 (5.79%) Confluence
2 13 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.13%) HCL Notes
3 10 (4.13%) Mendix
4 6 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.24%) CMS
5 3 (1.24%) IIS
6 2 (0.83%) 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%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.13%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.83%) Notion
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.65%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.83%) Actimize
4 2 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.83%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics SL
5 1 (0.41%) Endur
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 55 (22.73%) Azure
2 36 (14.88%) AWS
3 18 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (6.61%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.96%) Serverless
6 11 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 10 (4.13%) Azure Functions
7 10 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (4.13%) GCP
8 9 (3.72%) SaaS
9 8 (3.31%) Collibra
10 6 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.48%) GitHub
11 5 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.24%) Datadog
12 3 (1.24%) OCI
13 2 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.85%) Network Security
2 16 (6.61%) Firewall
3 15 (6.20%) BGP
3 15 (6.20%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (6.20%) LAN
3 15 (6.20%) OSPF
3 15 (6.20%) WAN
4 9 (3.72%) EIGRP
4 9 (3.72%) MPLS
4 9 (3.72%) Multicast
5 6 (2.48%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (2.48%) NX-OS
5 6 (2.48%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.07%) RTP
7 1 (0.41%) DNS
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
7 1 (0.41%) SMS
7 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.20%) Oracle Database
2 14 (5.79%) Power BI
3 12 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.89%) Metadata
5 7 (2.89%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (2.48%) KDB
6 6 (2.48%) Kdb+
7 5 (2.07%) Tick Data
8 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.24%) Tableau
9 2 (0.83%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.83%) DB2
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.41%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.41%) Flink
10 1 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 16 (6.61%) JIRA
2 8 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.48%) GitLab
4 5 (2.07%) Git
5 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.65%) Snyk
6 2 (0.83%) 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
1 242 (100.00%) Finance
2 89 (36.78%) Social Skills
3 85 (35.12%) Banking
4 44 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.92%) Front Office
5 24 (9.92%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (5.37%) Legal
7 6 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.48%) Retail
8 5 (2.07%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Back Office
9 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (18.60%) Developer
1 45 (18.60%) Senior
2 38 (15.70%) Analyst
3 29 (11.98%) Business Analyst
4 24 (9.92%) Architect
5 16 (6.61%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.20%) Senior Developer
7 12 (4.96%) Lead
8 11 (4.55%) Consultant
9 10 (4.13%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (3.72%) Migration Manager
10 9 (3.72%) Migration Project Manager
11 7 (2.89%) Banking Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (2.89%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.89%) ETL Developer
11 7 (2.89%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) OBIEE Developer
11 7 (2.89%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (2.89%) Senior ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.09%) .NET
2 18 (7.44%) React
3 10 (4.13%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (3.72%) REST
5 8 (3.31%) Kafka
6 6 (2.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (2.07%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.07%) WinForms
8 4 (1.65%) Dask
8 4 (1.65%) NumPy
8 4 (1.65%) Pandas
8 4 (1.65%) RESTful
8 4 (1.65%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.24%) Redux
9 3 (1.24%) XML
10 2 (0.83%) CSS
10 2 (0.83%) EDI
10 2 (0.83%) SOAP
10 2 (0.83%) Spring
10 2 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.85%) Fixed Income
2 17 (7.02%) Derivative
3 14 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.13%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.31%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.89%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.07%) Equities
10 5 (2.07%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.55%) Linux
2 8 (3.31%) Unix
3 6 (2.48%) Windows
4 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (17.77%) Agile
3 38 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (13.22%) AI
5 30 (12.40%) DevOps
6 29 (11.98%) Data Modelling
6 29 (11.98%) Validation
7 28 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (11.57%) CI/CD
8 27 (11.16%) Data Management
8 27 (11.16%) Project Management
9 26 (10.74%) Analytics
9 26 (10.74%) Decision-Making
10 25 (10.33%) Migration
10 25 (10.33%) Risk Management
10 25 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (9.92%) ETL
12 18 (7.44%) Data Governance
13 17 (7.02%) Change Management
13 17 (7.02%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.18%) SQL
2 31 (12.81%) Python
3 27 (11.16%) C#
4 19 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.55%) Java
6 10 (4.13%) Formula Language
6 10 (4.13%) LotusScript
7 6 (2.48%) C++
7 6 (2.48%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.83%) Korn
10 2 (0.83%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) R
10 2 (0.83%) VBA
11 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.41%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.41%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (9.50%) Degree
2 9 (3.72%) PMI Certification
2 9 (3.72%) PMP
3 7 (2.89%) CISM
3 7 (2.89%) CISSP
3 7 (2.89%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.48%) PhD
5 5 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.65%) CBAP
6 4 (1.65%) CCSP
6 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.65%) IIBA
7 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.83%) CRISC
8 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) ACCA
9 1 (0.41%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.61%) NIST
3 14 (5.79%) GDPR
3 14 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (5.37%) QA
5 11 (4.55%) SLA
6 6 (2.48%) COBIT
7 4 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.65%) COREP
7 4 (1.65%) FINREP
8 3 (1.24%) Basel III
8 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.24%) SEPA
9 2 (0.83%) GRC
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.83%) MiFID
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.41%) SOC 1
System Software
1 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.24%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) HDFS
3 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (2.48%) FortiGate
1 6 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.24%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.83%) PowerCLI
4 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Oozie
5 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Puppet
5 1 (0.41%) SCCM
5 1 (0.41%) SCOM
5 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.98%) Oracle
3 15 (6.20%) Cisco
4 14 (5.79%) F5
5 12 (4.96%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.96%) Splunk
6 11 (4.55%) Murex
7 10 (4.13%) Kofax
7 10 (4.13%) Lotus
8 9 (3.72%) CheckPoint
8 9 (3.72%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.72%) SAP
8 9 (3.72%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.89%) Temenos
9 7 (2.89%) Workday
10 6 (2.48%) GoldenSource
11 5 (2.07%) Tenable
12 4 (1.65%) Bloomberg
12 4 (1.65%) Okta
12 4 (1.65%) Zscaler