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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 176 197
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 227 191 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.46% 1.42% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.29% 2.17% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 122 165
10th Percentile £413 £409 £310
25th Percentile £463 £553 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £655 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +4.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £738
90th Percentile £975 £875 £850
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +1.27%

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 9,927 8,819 11,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.90% 65.40% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,477 5,594 8,308
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 112 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £27.19 £19.00
Median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +30.61% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.38 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.72 £73.72
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.48% +17.12% -10.34%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -23 36 £700 +3.70% 39
East London +4 8 £1,000 +81.82%
South London -24 1 - - 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 11 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.41%) Confluence
3 9 (3.96%) HCL Notes
3 9 (3.96%) Mendix
4 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.76%) MQSeries
6 3 (1.32%) CMS
6 3 (1.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Apache
8 1 (0.44%) CICS
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.44%) SAS
8 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.88%) Notion
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.76%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.88%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.44%) Actimize
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics SL
4 1 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.03%) Azure
2 31 (13.66%) AWS
3 17 (7.49%) GCP
4 15 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.73%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.96%) Azure Functions
6 9 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (3.96%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (3.96%) Power Automate
6 9 (3.96%) PowerApps
6 9 (3.96%) Serverless
7 7 (3.08%) SaaS
8 4 (1.76%) PaaS
9 3 (1.32%) Collibra
9 3 (1.32%) GitHub
9 3 (1.32%) IaaS
9 3 (1.32%) IBM Blueworks
9 3 (1.32%) OCI
10 2 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.96%) Network Security
2 8 (3.52%) BGP
2 8 (3.52%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (3.52%) Firewall
2 8 (3.52%) LAN
2 8 (3.52%) OSPF
2 8 (3.52%) WAN
3 5 (2.20%) EIGRP
3 5 (2.20%) MPLS
3 5 (2.20%) Multicast
4 3 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.32%) NX-OS
4 3 (1.32%) RTP
4 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.49%) Oracle Database
2 13 (5.73%) Power BI
3 12 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.08%) Oracle BI EE
5 6 (2.64%) Metadata
6 5 (2.20%) KDB
6 5 (2.20%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.32%) Tableau
7 3 (1.32%) Tick Data
8 2 (0.88%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.88%) Big Data
8 2 (0.88%) DB2
8 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 13 (5.73%) JIRA
2 9 (3.96%) Git
3 8 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.88%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.44%) Gradle
6 1 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Snyk
6 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.44%) XPEDITER
General
1 227 (100.00%) Finance
2 92 (40.53%) Banking
3 85 (37.44%) Social Skills
4 40 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (12.33%) Front Office
6 19 (8.37%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.20%) Legal
9 4 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Private Banking
9 4 (1.76%) Retail
9 4 (1.76%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.32%) Back Office
10 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.32%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) International Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.44%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (26.87%) Developer
2 38 (16.74%) Analyst
3 36 (15.86%) Senior
4 22 (9.69%) Business Analyst
5 19 (8.37%) Architect
6 17 (7.49%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.73%) Consultant
8 12 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.96%) Power Platform Developer
10 8 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.08%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.08%) C# Developer
11 7 (3.08%) ETL Developer
11 7 (3.08%) OBIEE Developer
11 7 (3.08%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.08%) Senior ETL Developer
11 7 (3.08%) Senior OBIEE Developer
12 6 (2.64%) Lead
12 6 (2.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.64%) Murex Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.69%) .NET
2 17 (7.49%) React
3 13 (5.73%) REST
4 9 (3.96%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (3.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (3.08%) Kafka
5 7 (3.08%) XML
6 6 (2.64%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.64%) Dask
7 5 (2.20%) CSS
7 5 (2.20%) WinForms
8 4 (1.76%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.76%) HTML
8 4 (1.76%) NumPy
8 4 (1.76%) Pandas
9 3 (1.32%) Electron
9 3 (1.32%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (1.32%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.57%) Derivative
2 21 (9.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (8.81%) Hedge funds
4 14 (6.17%) Fixed Income
5 13 (5.73%) Equities
6 9 (3.96%) Low-Code
7 8 (3.52%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.08%) Credit Risk
8 7 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.64%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.20%) Equity Derivative
10 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.20%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.76%) AS400
11 4 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.69%) Linux
2 17 (7.49%) Windows
3 12 (5.29%) Unix
4 5 (2.20%) CentOS
4 5 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Android
6 2 (0.88%) Solaris
6 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (19.38%) Agile
3 37 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (13.66%) Analytics
5 31 (13.66%) DevOps
6 30 (13.22%) CI/CD
7 27 (11.89%) Risk Management
8 25 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (10.57%) Data Management
10 22 (9.69%) AI
10 22 (9.69%) Data Modelling
10 22 (9.69%) Project Management
11 21 (9.25%) ETL
12 20 (8.81%) Migration
12 20 (8.81%) SDLC
12 20 (8.81%) Validation
13 18 (7.93%) Decision-Making
14 17 (7.49%) Mathematics
14 17 (7.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.94%) SQL
2 40 (17.62%) Python
3 28 (12.33%) C#
4 15 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.17%) Java
6 13 (5.73%) C++
7 9 (3.96%) Formula Language
7 9 (3.96%) LotusScript
8 7 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.20%) Perl
9 5 (2.20%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.20%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.76%) Bash
10 4 (1.76%) RPG
10 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.32%) C
11 3 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.88%) Korn
12 2 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (11.45%) Degree
2 10 (4.41%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.52%) PhD
4 6 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.76%) CBAP
6 4 (1.76%) IIBA
6 4 (1.76%) PMP
7 3 (1.32%) CISSP
7 3 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.88%) ACCA
8 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) CISM
8 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.88%) MBA
8 2 (0.88%) RHCE
8 2 (0.88%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.93%) QA
2 12 (5.29%) GDPR
3 11 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.41%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.96%) NIST
6 6 (2.64%) SLA
7 5 (2.20%) COBIT
7 5 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.76%) GRC
8 4 (1.76%) PMO
9 3 (1.32%) Basel III
9 3 (1.32%) MiFID
9 3 (1.32%) SEPA
10 2 (0.88%) IFRS
10 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) FATCA
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (3.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) KVM
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 11 (4.85%) Ansible
2 7 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.20%) Terraform
4 4 (1.76%) Control-M
5 3 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.88%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.88%) vRealize
7 1 (0.44%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Oozie
7 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) SCOM
7 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (16.30%) Oracle
2 28 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.29%) CyberArk
3 12 (5.29%) Murex
4 9 (3.96%) Kofax
4 9 (3.96%) Lotus
4 9 (3.96%) Splunk
5 8 (3.52%) Cisco
5 8 (3.52%) IBM
6 7 (3.08%) F5
6 7 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.08%) Temenos
7 6 (2.64%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.64%) SAP
8 5 (2.20%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.20%) Sophis
8 5 (2.20%) VMware
8 5 (2.20%) Workday