Finance Contract Job Trends in Paddington

Financial
City of Westminster > Paddington

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Paddington. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Finance 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Paddington 57.14% 15.00% 25.00%
As % of the General category 66.67% 42.86% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% -
City of Westminster median daily rate £519 £580 £713
% change year-on-year -10.56% -18.60% +168.87%

All General Skills
Paddington

Finance 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 Paddington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington 85.71% 35.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £439 £454 £473
25th Percentile £478 £516 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £588
90th Percentile £561 - £655
City of Westminster median daily rate £575 £563 £700
% change year-on-year +2.22% -19.64% +60.92%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington.

Finance job vacancy trend in Paddington

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Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Finance

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Hourly Rate Trend in Paddington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Finance

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Paddington 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) dbt
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Qualitative Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Anaplan
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks