Finance Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Financial
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance 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 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 25 59 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 44.64% 53.15% 34.78%
As % of the General category 73.53% 70.24% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 56 19
10th Percentile £495 £460 £494
25th Percentile £540 £540 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +5.93% +7.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £675 £770 £800
East London median daily rate £585 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +77.78% +0.07% -

All General Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34 84 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 60.71% 75.68% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 80 34
10th Percentile £495 £450 £359
25th Percentile £540 £540 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £597 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +6.13% -18.48%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £694
90th Percentile £675 £773 £800
East London median daily rate £575 £570 £530
% change year-on-year +0.88% +7.55% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £26.63 £18.41 £22.49
% change year-on-year +44.67% -18.13% -31.03%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Tower Hamlets

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Tower Hamlets.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Tower Hamlets

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Tower Hamlets

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Tower Hamlets.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Tower Hamlets

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf 0 25 £585 -6.40% 4
Finance
East London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Sketch
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) SaaS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) Mimecast
3 3 (12.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) Figma
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Canva
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (12.00%) VLAN
1 3 (12.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (4.00%) eggPlant
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA Agile
General
1 9 (36.00%) Legal
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) AML Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) KYC Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) UI Designer
4 2 (8.00%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (8.00%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ADO
1 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) TOGAF
2 8 (32.00%) Zachman Framework
3 7 (28.00%) Workflow
4 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (24.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Technology Transformation
7 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.00%) Threat Management
7 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (8.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Rust
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) GRC
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) QA
4 1 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Nessus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) iManage
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Concur
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Tenable
4 1 (4.00%) Tripwire