Financial Analyst Contracts

Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 337 372
Rank change year-on-year -38 +35 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 143 264 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.66% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 186 305
10th Percentile £302 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.27%
75th Percentile £713 £659 £666
90th Percentile £798 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -16.30% +11.11% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - £14.20 -
25th Percentile - £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £19.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -
75th Percentile £53.38 £22.63 -
90th Percentile £63.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £19.22 -
% change year-on-year +225.27% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 26,982 39,941 54,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 92.76% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,601 26,001 38,348
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,049 2,673 1,536
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -18.56% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.43
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.73% +115.78%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -39 126 £525 -4.55% 116
London -20 96 £588 +6.82% 88
Work from Home -22 52 £525 -16.00% 262
UK excluding London +35 39 £419 -16.30% 50
South East +27 11 £475 +31.03% 24
North of England +15 8 £275 -52.17% 11
Scotland +12 7 £388 -26.19% 1
South West +40 5 £225 - 4
North West +12 4 £325 -43.48% 9
Midlands +3 4 £525 - 5
East of England +36 3 £500 +17.65% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £263 -
Yorkshire +10 2 £488 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +9 2 £588 +11.90% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £428 - 1
North East -2 2 £275 -53.19% 1

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Financial Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 143 (100.00%) Finance
2 37 (25.87%) Agile
3 31 (21.68%) Banking
4 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
5 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (16.08%) Oracle
7 21 (14.69%) Business Analysis
8 20 (13.99%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (13.29%) Migration
9 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (12.59%) SQL
10 18 (12.59%) Python
11 17 (11.89%) ERP
12 16 (11.19%) Fixed Income
13 15 (10.49%) Data Analysis
14 14 (9.79%) Front Office
14 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
14 14 (9.79%) Investment Management
14 14 (9.79%) Derivative
14 14 (9.79%) Hedge funds
14 14 (9.79%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (9.79%) Roadmaps
15 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (9.09%) ACCA
16 12 (8.39%) SAP
16 12 (8.39%) Change Management
16 12 (8.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
17 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 11 (7.69%) Data Governance
17 11 (7.69%) CIMA

Financial Analyst Skill Set
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 5 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) EViews
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (4.20%) Aladdin
3 4 (2.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (2.80%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.80%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.40%) Exchequer
5 2 (1.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.40%) SAP SD
5 2 (1.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.70%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.70%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.70%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.29%) Power Platform
2 5 (3.50%) Azure
3 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.80%) Google Workspace
4 3 (2.10%) OCI
4 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.40%) SaaS
6 1 (0.70%) Boomi
6 1 (0.70%) dbt
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) DHCP
1 1 (0.70%) DNS
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
1 1 (0.70%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) Data Lake
1 9 (6.29%) Power BI
2 5 (3.50%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.70%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) JMeter
1 8 (5.59%) LoadRunner
2 7 (4.90%) JIRA
General
1 143 (100.00%) Finance
2 31 (21.68%) Banking
3 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.79%) Front Office
6 7 (4.90%) Local Government
7 6 (4.20%) Legal
7 6 (4.20%) Marketing
7 6 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.80%) Law
8 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Back Office
10 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.29%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (4.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.19%) Fixed Income
2 14 (9.79%) Derivative
2 14 (9.79%) Hedge funds
3 11 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (6.99%) Equities
5 9 (6.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.70%) CMDB
9 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.70%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.70%) Eurex
9 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.29%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) CentOS
3 1 (0.70%) Rocky
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.87%) Agile
2 21 (14.69%) Business Analysis
3 20 (13.99%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (13.29%) Migration
4 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (11.89%) ERP
6 15 (10.49%) Data Analysis
7 14 (9.79%) Investment Management
7 14 (9.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (9.79%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (8.39%) Change Management
10 11 (7.69%) Data Governance
10 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (6.99%) Analytics
11 10 (6.99%) Asset Management
11 10 (6.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 10 (6.99%) Project Management
11 10 (6.99%) Regulatory Compliance
11 10 (6.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.59%) Python
1 18 (12.59%) SQL
2 9 (6.29%) Bash
3 8 (5.59%) Java
3 8 (5.59%) VB
4 1 (0.70%) Perl
4 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (9.09%) ACCA
2 11 (7.69%) CIMA
3 8 (5.59%) Degree
4 7 (4.90%) AAT
5 5 (3.50%) CCAB
6 4 (2.80%) CBAP
6 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.10%) CIPFA
8 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) ICAEW
8 2 (1.40%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) CCA
9 1 (0.70%) CFA
9 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.99%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.20%) PMO
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) GAAP
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Rundeck
1 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (16.08%) Oracle
2 12 (8.39%) SAP
3 11 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.20%) BISAM
4 6 (4.20%) Workday
5 3 (2.10%) IFS
6 2 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.70%) Adobe
7 1 (0.70%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.70%) Civica
7 1 (0.70%) Cognos
7 1 (0.70%) CQG
7 1 (0.70%) Murex
7 1 (0.70%) Patsystems
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.70%) Reuters
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Trayport