Financial Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Finance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 290 352
Rank change year-on-year -56 +62 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 46 54 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.43% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 29
10th Percentile £327 £263 £345
25th Percentile £360 £350 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £594 £488 £538
90th Percentile £705 £538 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £482 £550
% change year-on-year +3.73% -12.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.53
25th Percentile - - £14.31
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £16.75
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £20.18
UK median hourly rate £29.64 £22.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +33.07% +11.35% -5.57%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,411 12,634 18,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.22% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,069 7,482 11,719
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,655 688 1,382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.62 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% -31.97% +64.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.08 £76.24
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +26.87%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Financial Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Financial Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Financial Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Midlands -41 16 £390 -8.24%
North of England -46 16 £531 +93.18% 4
Yorkshire -32 13 £675 +76.47% 1
East Midlands -11 10 £390 -8.24%
South East -23 8 £525 +16.67% 17
West Midlands -39 6 £398 -6.47%
Scotland -2 3 £450 +20.00%
North West -24 3 £331 +47.11% 3
East of England -18 2 £500 -16.67% 1
South West -23 1 £525 +25.00%
Financial Analyst
UK

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Financial Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) Business Analysis
2 14 (30.43%) Change Management
3 11 (23.91%) SQL
4 10 (21.74%) JIRA
4 10 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (19.57%) Degree
5 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (17.39%) ERP
7 7 (15.22%) Oracle
7 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) Functional Testing
8 6 (13.04%) MS Visio
8 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
8 6 (13.04%) SAP
9 5 (10.87%) Confluence
9 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
9 5 (10.87%) Project Management
9 5 (10.87%) User Stories
9 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
9 5 (10.87%) Workshop Facilitation
10 4 (8.70%) BPMN
10 4 (8.70%) Business Case
10 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.70%) Business Process Modelling
10 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
10 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) NetSuite
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Actimize
2 1 (2.17%) iTrent
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) AWS
4 1 (2.17%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 2 (4.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JIRA
General
1 46 (100.00%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.70%) Retail
6 3 (6.52%) General Ledger
6 3 (6.52%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Automotive
7 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Local Government
7 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.35%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (6.52%) Anaconda
3 2 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) CMDB
1 3 (6.52%) Credit Risk
1 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) FMCG
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) Business Analysis
2 14 (30.43%) Change Management
3 10 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (19.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (17.39%) ERP
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
7 6 (13.04%) Functional Testing
8 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
8 5 (10.87%) Project Management
8 5 (10.87%) User Stories
8 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
8 5 (10.87%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (8.70%) BPMN
9 4 (8.70%) Business Case
9 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.70%) Business Process Modelling
9 4 (8.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) ACCA
2 2 (4.35%) CIMA
2 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.35%) MBA
3 1 (2.17%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 6 (13.04%) SAP
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) CODA