Finance Contracts in South London

Financial
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 19 10
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 46 23 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 26.44% 9.66% 13.44%
As % of the General category 41.07% 17.42% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 45
10th Percentile £381 £378 £330
25th Percentile £463 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.63% +5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £938 £638 £675
90th Percentile - £731 £745
London median daily rate £625 £613 £625
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - £18.75
Median hourly rate £78.40 - £19.50
75th Percentile £82.00 - £20.25
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £35.45 £25.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +41.78% -2.76% -42.22%

All General Skills
South London

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 common skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 112 132 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 64.37% 55.46% 67.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 84 201
10th Percentile £391 £200 £300
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% -13.64% +0.92%
75th Percentile £722 £564 £675
90th Percentile £938 £628 £850
London median daily rate £573 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 13
10th Percentile - £15.90 £18.75
25th Percentile - £17.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +8.92%
75th Percentile £20.38 £69.13 -
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.22
London median hourly rate £34.25 £28.00 £31.71
% change year-on-year +22.32% -11.70% -15.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in South London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in South London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in South London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in South London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in South London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bromley +1 19 £600 +9.09% 25
Merton +3 8 £400 -36.00% 9
Croydon +9 7 £583 +10.95% 8
Kingston Upon Thames - 5 £356 - 9
Sutton -1 1 - - 1
Finance
London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
1 2 (4.35%) MQSeries
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.17%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.17%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.17%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle CX
2 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) BGP
1 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (4.35%) DMZ
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) DWDM
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) Internet
1 2 (4.35%) IPsec
1 2 (4.35%) L2TP
1 2 (4.35%) MPLS
1 2 (4.35%) Multicast
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
1 2 (4.35%) OSPF
1 2 (4.35%) SSL
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
1 2 (4.35%) WAN
1 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (4.35%) Wireless
2 1 (2.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.35%) Impala
4 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.35%) Redis
5 1 (2.17%) Big Data
5 1 (2.17%) DB2
5 1 (2.17%) IMS/DB
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) JUnit
3 5 (10.87%) Gradle
3 5 (10.87%) Liquibase
3 5 (10.87%) Mockito
4 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.70%) Git
4 4 (8.70%) JIRA
5 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.17%) NUnit
7 1 (2.17%) Subversion
7 1 (2.17%) Xcode
General
1 23 (50.00%) Banking
2 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Front Office
4 10 (21.74%) Financial Institution
4 10 (21.74%) Marketing
5 6 (13.04%) Electronics
5 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
5 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Python Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Senior Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior Python Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Software Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Business Manager
6 6 (13.04%) PMO Manager
7 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Project Manager
7 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Integration Manager
8 3 (6.52%) Integration Project Manager
8 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Java Swing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) React
2 5 (10.87%) Kafka
2 5 (10.87%) OpenAPI
2 5 (10.87%) Spring
2 5 (10.87%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.87%) Swagger
3 3 (6.52%) Middleware
3 3 (6.52%) XML
4 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) pytest
4 2 (4.35%) Rendezvous
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
4 2 (4.35%) Swing
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.17%) SwiftUI
5 1 (2.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.35%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
1 3 (6.52%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Risk Management
2 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
3 9 (19.57%) Agile
3 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) Investment Management
3 9 (19.57%) OO
4 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 8 (17.39%) DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Migration
4 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (15.22%) Microservices
6 6 (13.04%) Budget Management
6 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.04%) Digital Marketing
6 6 (13.04%) Programme Management
6 6 (13.04%) Project Governance
6 6 (13.04%) Resource Management
7 5 (10.87%) TDD
8 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Java
4 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) PeopleCode
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) REXX
6 1 (2.17%) Swift
6 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) CCIE
2 2 (4.35%) CCNP
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.35%) CISM
2 2 (4.35%) CISSP
2 2 (4.35%) CRISC
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) PMO
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) SAP
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Arista
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.35%) McAfee
5 2 (4.35%) Sybase
5 2 (4.35%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Siemens
6 1 (2.17%) VMware