Financial Modelling Contracts in London

Financial Modelling
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Financial Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 345 459
Rank change year-on-year +39 +114 +53
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 47 46 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 30
10th Percentile £375 £457 £559
25th Percentile £587 £475 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +18.54%
75th Percentile £838 £806 £735
90th Percentile £849 £913 £808
England median daily rate £650 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +18.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Financial Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Financial Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Modelling in London

Financial Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Financial Modelling in London.

Daily rate trend for Financial Modelling in London

Financial Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Modelling in London

Financial Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Modelling in London.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Modelling in London

Financial Modelling
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 Modelling within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +6 10 £750 +1.69% 9
West London - 1 - - 8
Financial Modelling
England

Financial Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon S3
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
3 5 (10.64%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) SaaS
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.38%) Big Data
3 3 (6.38%) Power BI
3 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.26%) Tableau
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.13%) KDB
5 1 (2.13%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Artifactory
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (100.00%) Finance
2 20 (42.55%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
4 14 (29.79%) Front Office
5 9 (19.15%) Banking
6 7 (14.89%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.38%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (6.38%) Law
7 3 (6.38%) Legal
7 3 (6.38%) Retail
7 3 (6.38%) Retail Banking
8 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.26%) Marketing
8 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.13%) Automotive
9 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
9 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Python Developer
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Data Modeller
7 3 (6.38%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) J2EE
2 4 (8.51%) PySpark
3 3 (6.38%) DCOM
4 2 (4.26%) NumPy
4 2 (4.26%) Pandas
5 1 (2.13%) SciPy
5 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.64%) Tandem
3 4 (8.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.26%) Market Risk
5 2 (4.26%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Equities
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Decision-Making
2 13 (27.66%) DevOps
3 10 (21.28%) Data Analysis
3 10 (21.28%) Risk Management
4 9 (19.15%) Asset Management
4 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
5 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (14.89%) Financial Analysis
6 7 (14.89%) Fintech
7 6 (12.77%) Agile
7 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (12.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 6 (12.77%) Economics
7 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
7 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) Go
5 3 (6.38%) C++
5 3 (6.38%) Rust
6 2 (4.26%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.64%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) SAP Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CFA
6 1 (2.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.26%) SAP
1 2 (4.26%) TOWER Software
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce