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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 32 22 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 17.98% 11.89% 13.84%
As % of the General category 28.07% 22.92% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 39
10th Percentile £262 £425 £309
25th Percentile £413 £525 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £644 £763 £650
90th Percentile £765 £825 £700
London median daily rate £600 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% +4.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 114 96 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 64.04% 51.89% 72.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 61 170
10th Percentile £213 £213 £313
25th Percentile £409 £405 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £465 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% -14.68% -0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £647
90th Percentile £701 £725 £726
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 15
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - £17.25 £41.80
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -63.19% +17.71%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £66.54
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.78% -11.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in South London over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in South London

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Finance

Finance
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bromley +1 17 £625 -10.71% 34
Croydon +1 11 £491 +0.62% 22
Merton +4 4 £238 -56.82% 8
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £400 - 15
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 4 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) Mattermost
3 2 (6.25%) SAS
3 2 (6.25%) Skype for Business
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.13%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle CX
1 4 (12.50%) SaaS
2 3 (9.38%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) BGP
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (6.25%) DMZ
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) DWDM
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Internet
3 2 (6.25%) IPsec
3 2 (6.25%) L2TP
3 2 (6.25%) MPLS
3 2 (6.25%) Multicast
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) OSPF
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (3.13%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 6 (18.75%) JUnit
2 5 (15.63%) Gradle
2 5 (15.63%) Liquibase
2 5 (15.63%) Mockito
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
3 1 (3.13%) Xcode
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Banking
2 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Electronics
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
3 5 (15.63%) Marketing
3 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 4 (12.50%) Front Office
4 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Analyst
1 5 (15.63%) Developer
1 5 (15.63%) Java Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Support Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Operational Support Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Operations Support Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.38%) SharePoint Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) SharePoint Support
3 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Messaging Support
4 2 (6.25%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Middleware
2 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 5 (15.63%) OpenAPI
2 5 (15.63%) React
2 5 (15.63%) Spring
2 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
2 5 (15.63%) Swagger
3 4 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (12.50%) FpML
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (6.25%) 802.1X
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 4 (12.50%) Derivative
1 4 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
6 5 (15.63%) DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (15.63%) Microservices
6 5 (15.63%) Programme Management
6 5 (15.63%) Scrum
6 5 (15.63%) TDD
7 4 (12.50%) Analytics
7 4 (12.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Java
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.75%) Python
5 5 (15.63%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.50%) C++
7 2 (6.25%) Perl
8 1 (3.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CCIE
4 2 (6.25%) CCNP
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MCSA
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Docker
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) vSphere
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) HP SiteScope
1 5 (15.63%) SCOM
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Splunk
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.38%) Remedy
5 2 (6.25%) Arista
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.25%) McAfee
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) Apple
6 1 (3.13%) Avaya
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Polycom
6 1 (3.13%) Wyse