CFA Contracts

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CFA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 580 654
Rank change year-on-year +38 +74 +185
Contract jobs citing CFA 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.012% 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.099% 0.041% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 5
10th Percentile £425 - £465
25th Percentile £442 - £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £460 £900
Median % change year-on-year +24.46% -48.89% +28.57%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £925
90th Percentile £713 £861 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CFA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,131 12,229 14,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.94% 29.95% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,260 7,724 9,692
10th Percentile £278 £313 £345
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.61%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 751 961 721
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.25 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.00 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -25.00% +27.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.99 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +37.43%

CFA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CFA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CFA in the UK

CFA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CFA.

Daily rate trend for CFA in the UK

CFA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CFA over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CFA in the UK

CFA
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CFA within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 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
England +41 10 £573 +0.88% 54
London +36 9 £650 +14.54% 52
Work from Home +34 8 £650 -8.45% 14

CFA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Report Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Equities
1 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) AS400
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) iSeries
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Coaching
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Economics
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) Fund Management
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
3 1 (10.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) RPG
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) ACCA
3 2 (20.00%) CIMA
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Basel III
1 2 (20.00%) IFRS
2 1 (10.00%) IFRS 17
2 1 (10.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Calypso
1 2 (20.00%) Hyperion
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Murex
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (10.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (10.00%) FNZ
2 1 (10.00%) IBM