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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 174 205
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 256 186 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 1.54% 1.19%
As % of the General category 2.36% 2.27% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 123 152
10th Percentile £413 £455 £238
25th Percentile £463 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.42% +3.75%
75th Percentile £750 £805 £700
90th Percentile £884 £875 £786
England median daily rate £600 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -

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 10,868 8,199 10,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.69% 67.75% 63.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,026 5,490 7,851
10th Percentile £350 £341 £336
25th Percentile £431 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £701 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 142 238
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.93 £15.85
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.30 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +6.57% -7.14%
75th Percentile £44.84 £50.50 £46.05
90th Percentile £66.83 £63.23 £65.01
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.36% -9.58% -6.25%

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 26 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 26 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 -19 45 £725 +1.75% 51
East London -5 4 £675 +62.59% 1
South London -15 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 14 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.91%) HCL Notes
3 10 (3.91%) Mendix
4 4 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) IIS
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.30%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.52%) 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 3 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.17%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.17%) Dynamics SL
4 3 (1.17%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (1.17%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.17%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.17%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.78%) Endur
5 2 (0.78%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.78%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.39%) Findur
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.66%) Azure
2 41 (16.02%) AWS
3 20 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.69%) Serverless
7 11 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.30%) GCP
7 11 (4.30%) Power Automate
7 11 (4.30%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.52%) SaaS
10 6 (2.34%) Collibra
10 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.34%) GitHub
10 6 (2.34%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.56%) Datadog
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.64%) Network Security
2 15 (5.86%) Firewall
3 13 (5.08%) LAN
3 13 (5.08%) WAN
4 12 (4.69%) BGP
4 12 (4.69%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (4.69%) OSPF
5 9 (3.52%) EIGRP
5 9 (3.52%) MPLS
5 9 (3.52%) Multicast
6 5 (1.95%) RTP
7 3 (1.17%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.17%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.39%) Internet
9 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.39%) SAN
9 1 (0.39%) SNMP
9 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.03%) Power BI
2 15 (5.86%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.52%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.73%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (2.34%) KDB
6 6 (2.34%) Kdb+
7 5 (1.95%) Metadata
7 5 (1.95%) Tick Data
8 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.17%) Tableau
10 2 (0.78%) DB2
10 2 (0.78%) Flink
10 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.78%) TigerGraph
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (6.25%) JIRA
2 8 (3.13%) GitLab
3 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.56%) Snyk
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Git
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
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%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) XPEDITER
General
1 256 (100.00%) Finance
2 97 (37.89%) Banking
3 76 (29.69%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Investment Banking
6 22 (8.59%) Front Office
7 14 (5.47%) Legal
8 13 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.73%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.73%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Retail
12 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.17%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.17%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.22%) Senior
2 56 (21.88%) Developer
3 41 (16.02%) Analyst
4 32 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 26 (10.16%) Architect
6 22 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 15 (5.86%) Project Manager
8 13 (5.08%) Lead
9 10 (3.91%) C# Developer
9 10 (3.91%) Power Platform Developer
10 9 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Implementation Analyst
11 8 (3.13%) Migration Manager
11 8 (3.13%) Migration Project Manager
11 8 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (2.73%) Banking Business Analyst
12 7 (2.73%) Finance Business Analyst
12 7 (2.73%) Senior OBIEE Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.98%) .NET
2 22 (8.59%) React
3 16 (6.25%) Kafka
4 11 (4.30%) REST
5 10 (3.91%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (2.73%) Spring
7 7 (2.73%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.56%) NumPy
8 4 (1.56%) Pandas
8 4 (1.56%) Redux
8 4 (1.56%) RESTful
8 4 (1.56%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.17%) JSON
9 3 (1.17%) LDAP
9 3 (1.17%) PySpark
9 3 (1.17%) Web Services
9 3 (1.17%) WinForms
9 3 (1.17%) XML
10 2 (0.78%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.42%) Fixed Income
2 16 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.47%) Low-Code
4 13 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (4.69%) Derivative
6 7 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.34%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.95%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.69%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Unix
3 7 (2.73%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (16.80%) Agile
3 38 (14.84%) AI
3 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (12.89%) Data Modelling
5 32 (12.50%) DevOps
6 31 (12.11%) Analytics
7 29 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (10.94%) CI/CD
8 28 (10.94%) Decision-Making
8 28 (10.94%) Migration
9 27 (10.55%) Project Management
10 24 (9.38%) ETL
11 22 (8.59%) Data Management
11 22 (8.59%) Validation
12 21 (8.20%) Risk Management
13 20 (7.81%) Generative AI
14 19 (7.42%) Business Analysis
15 18 (7.03%) Change Management
15 18 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.97%) SQL
2 31 (12.11%) C#
3 29 (11.33%) Python
4 24 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.03%) Java
6 10 (3.91%) Formula Language
6 10 (3.91%) LotusScript
7 6 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.95%) C++
8 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.78%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.78%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (6.64%) Degree
2 8 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 8 (3.13%) PMP
3 7 (2.73%) CISSP
4 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.34%) CISM
5 5 (1.95%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.56%) CBAP
6 4 (1.56%) CCSP
6 4 (1.56%) IIBA
7 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) ACCA
8 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.78%) CCNP
8 2 (0.78%) CRISC
8 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.78%) PhD
8 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.86%) NIST
3 12 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.30%) GDPR
5 9 (3.52%) QA
6 7 (2.73%) SLA
7 6 (2.34%) COBIT
7 6 (2.34%) ISO 20022
7 6 (2.34%) SEPA
8 4 (1.56%) COREP
8 4 (1.56%) FINREP
9 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.17%) GRC
10 2 (0.78%) Basel III
10 2 (0.78%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.78%) MiFID
10 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.39%) FATCA
11 1 (0.39%) GAAP
11 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) HDFS
3 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 9 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.13%) Ansible
3 7 (2.73%) Terraform
4 4 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.17%) vRealize
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.39%) Oozie
7 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.50%) Oracle
3 15 (5.86%) Cisco
4 12 (4.69%) CyberArk
4 12 (4.69%) F5
5 11 (4.30%) SAP
5 11 (4.30%) Splunk
6 10 (3.91%) Kofax
6 10 (3.91%) Lotus
6 10 (3.91%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.52%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.52%) Workday
8 7 (2.73%) Murex
9 6 (2.34%) GoldenSource
9 6 (2.34%) Temenos
9 6 (2.34%) VMware
10 5 (1.95%) Citrix
10 5 (1.95%) Tenable
11 4 (1.56%) Databricks