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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 171 212
Rank change year-on-year -21 +41 -9
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 271 197 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.52% 1.08%
As % of the General category 2.33% 2.23% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 134 138
10th Percentile £413 £425 £352
25th Percentile £463 £528 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £644 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +3.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £700
90th Percentile £880 £875 £779
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +1.87%

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 11,642 8,831 10,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.32% 68.01% 62.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,452 5,890 7,826
10th Percentile £350 £331 £336
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 165 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £18.79
Median hourly rate £32.25 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +12.73% -7.47%
75th Percentile £45.16 £51.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.88 £64.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%

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 July 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 July 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 -22 45 £683 -5.86% 75
East London -3 3 £675 +62.59% 2
South London -7 2 - - 1
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 16 (5.90%) Confluence
2 12 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) HCL Notes
3 4 (1.48%) Mendix
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.80%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.48%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.11%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.11%) Endur
4 3 (1.11%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.11%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.11%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.74%) Findur
5 2 (0.74%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.74%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) Actimize
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 49 (18.08%) Azure
2 41 (15.13%) AWS
3 23 (8.49%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.90%) Snowflake
5 12 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.06%) GCP
7 9 (3.32%) GitHub
7 9 (3.32%) SaaS
8 7 (2.58%) Azure AI
8 7 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.21%) Collibra
9 6 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.21%) Serverless
10 5 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.85%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.48%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.27%) Network Security
2 16 (5.90%) Firewall
3 13 (4.80%) BGP
3 13 (4.80%) LAN
3 13 (4.80%) WAN
4 12 (4.43%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (4.43%) OSPF
5 9 (3.32%) EIGRP
5 9 (3.32%) MPLS
5 9 (3.32%) Multicast
6 5 (1.85%) RTP
7 3 (1.11%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.11%) Internet
7 3 (1.11%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.11%) VPN
8 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.37%) DNS
9 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.75%) Power BI
2 17 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.58%) KDB
4 7 (2.58%) Kdb+
5 6 (2.21%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) Tick Data
7 4 (1.48%) Metadata
8 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.11%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.74%) Db2
9 2 (0.74%) Flink
9 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.74%) TigerGraph
10 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (6.27%) JIRA
2 7 (2.58%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) Snyk
4 3 (1.11%) Git
4 3 (1.11%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.37%) Appium
5 1 (0.37%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
5 1 (0.37%) TestNG
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.37%) XPEDITER
General
1 271 (100.00%) Finance
2 103 (38.01%) Banking
3 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
4 40 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.81%) Investment Banking
6 23 (8.49%) Front Office
7 18 (6.64%) Legal
8 12 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.32%) Corporate Banking
9 9 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.21%) Retail
11 6 (2.21%) Spanish Language
12 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.11%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.74%) Publishing
15 1 (0.37%) Advertising
15 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (22.14%) Senior
2 46 (16.97%) Developer
3 39 (14.39%) Analyst
4 29 (10.70%) Business Analyst
5 27 (9.96%) Architect
6 15 (5.54%) Lead
7 14 (5.17%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.06%) Senior Manager
9 8 (2.95%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (2.95%) Implementation Analyst
9 8 (2.95%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.58%) Banking Analyst
10 7 (2.58%) C# Developer
10 7 (2.58%) Data Architect
10 7 (2.58%) IT Manager
10 7 (2.58%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
10 7 (2.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.01%) React
2 16 (5.90%) Kafka
3 15 (5.54%) .NET
4 10 (3.69%) REST
5 8 (2.95%) Spring
6 7 (2.58%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.85%) NumPy
8 5 (1.85%) Pandas
8 5 (1.85%) RESTful
9 4 (1.48%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (1.48%) JSON
9 4 (1.48%) LangChain
9 4 (1.48%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.48%) PySpark
9 4 (1.48%) Redux
9 4 (1.48%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.12%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.90%) Fixed Income
4 11 (4.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.95%) Hedge funds
6 8 (2.95%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.95%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.58%) Derivative
7 7 (2.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (2.21%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.48%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.48%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.80%) Windows
2 11 (4.06%) Linux
3 9 (3.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 52 (19.19%) AI
3 38 (14.02%) Agile
4 36 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (12.92%) Analytics
6 31 (11.44%) Data Modelling
7 28 (10.33%) CI/CD
7 28 (10.33%) Generative AI
8 27 (9.96%) Decision-Making
8 27 (9.96%) Project Management
9 26 (9.59%) DevOps
9 26 (9.59%) Migration
10 22 (8.12%) Risk Management
11 20 (7.38%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.01%) Regulatory Compliance
13 18 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (6.64%) Change Management
13 18 (6.64%) Data Analysis
13 18 (6.64%) ETL
14 17 (6.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.45%) SQL
2 40 (14.76%) Python
3 22 (8.12%) C#
3 22 (8.12%) JavaScript
4 21 (7.75%) Java
5 11 (4.06%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.48%) Formula Language
7 4 (1.48%) LotusScript
8 3 (1.11%) C++
8 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.11%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.37%) Go
9 1 (0.37%) R
9 1 (0.37%) VBA
9 1 (0.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (8.86%) Degree
2 12 (4.43%) CISSP
3 7 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.21%) CISA
4 6 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.21%) CISM
4 6 (2.21%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.21%) PMP
5 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.48%) CCSP
5 4 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) ACCA
7 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.74%) CCNP
7 2 (0.74%) CRISC
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) PhD
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) NIST
3 10 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.69%) QA
4 8 (2.95%) GDPR
5 7 (2.58%) ISO 20022
5 7 (2.58%) SLA
6 6 (2.21%) COBIT
6 6 (2.21%) SEPA
7 4 (1.48%) COREP
7 4 (1.48%) FINREP
8 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.11%) GRC
9 2 (0.74%) Basel III
9 2 (0.74%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
10 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.37%) EMIR
10 1 (0.37%) FATCA
10 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.32%) Ansible
3 8 (2.95%) Terraform
4 5 (1.85%) vRealize
5 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.11%) Control-M
6 3 (1.11%) SCCM
7 2 (0.74%) Grafana
7 2 (0.74%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) Oozie
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.37%) SCOM
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.12%) Oracle
3 17 (6.27%) Cisco
4 12 (4.43%) F5
5 11 (4.06%) SAP
6 10 (3.69%) CyberArk
6 10 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.32%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.32%) Splunk
7 9 (3.32%) VMware
8 8 (2.95%) OpenAI
8 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.95%) Workday
9 7 (2.58%) Citrix
10 6 (2.21%) Databricks
10 6 (2.21%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.85%) Tenable
12 4 (1.48%) ION Trading
12 4 (1.48%) Kofax
12 4 (1.48%) Okta