Financial Institution Contracts

Financial Institution
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 335 295
Rank change year-on-year +57 -40 +100
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 268 281 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.64% 0.89%
As % of the General category 1.45% 1.11% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 204 419
10th Percentile £405 £308 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £763 £712 £713
90th Percentile £875 £775 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £52.12 - -
25th Percentile £62.32 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £82.41 - -
90th Percentile £89.52 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 - -

All General Skills
UK

Financial Institution 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +35 225 £650 +6.34% 447
London +25 198 £675 +8.00% 391
UK excluding London +76 60 £475 -9.52% 88
Work from Home -3 58 £600 - 181
Scotland +18 23 £475 -36.67% 14
North of England +32 13 £500 -4.76% 17
Northern Ireland - 13 £410 - 23
Yorkshire +22 8 £543 - 3
South West +47 5 £475 -2.31% 6
Midlands +27 5 £433 +44.17% 14
North West +8 5 £413 -21.43% 11
West Midlands +17 3 £600 +100.00% 11
East Midlands - 2 £394 - 3
South East +36 1 - - 8

Financial Institution
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 16 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) Apache
4 5 (1.87%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) CICS
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.87%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.37%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.37%) Sketch
7 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.37%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle TCA
1 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.37%) Summit
1 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.18%) Azure
2 24 (8.96%) AWS
3 9 (3.36%) GCP
3 9 (3.36%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.24%) SaaS
6 5 (1.87%) Serverless
7 4 (1.49%) OCI
8 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.12%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.12%) IaaS
8 3 (1.12%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.12%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.75%) Slack
9 2 (0.75%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.10%) Firewall
2 9 (3.36%) Network Security
3 4 (1.49%) DHCP
3 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 3 (1.12%) HTTP
4 3 (1.12%) Skype
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Modbus
6 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.37%) SMTP
6 1 (0.37%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.37%) VLAN
6 1 (0.37%) VoIP
6 1 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.73%) Relational Database
1 10 (3.73%) Tableau
2 9 (3.36%) Power BI
3 8 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.61%) Delta Lake
4 7 (2.61%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.61%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.24%) DB2
5 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.87%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.87%) Big Data
7 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.49%) Impala
8 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.12%) Data Mart
8 3 (1.12%) KDB
8 3 (1.12%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (7.09%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.34%) JIRA
3 14 (5.22%) Git
4 7 (2.61%) JUnit
5 4 (1.49%) Ant
6 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.12%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.75%) Gradle
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
7 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.75%) Toad
7 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
General
1 268 (100.00%) Finance
2 122 (45.52%) Social Skills
3 97 (36.19%) Banking
4 57 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (15.67%) Front Office
6 23 (8.58%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.36%) Legal
7 9 (3.36%) Retail
8 8 (2.99%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Back Office
9 5 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Marketing
10 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.12%) International Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.75%) French Language
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (21.64%) Developer
2 37 (13.81%) Senior
3 28 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 26 (9.70%) Analyst
5 20 (7.46%) Lead
6 17 (6.34%) Java Developer
7 13 (4.85%) Architect
8 12 (4.48%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.10%) Front Office Business Analyst
10 10 (3.73%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.36%) C# Developer
11 9 (3.36%) Consultant
11 9 (3.36%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 9 (3.36%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 9 (3.36%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.99%) Business Manager
12 8 (2.99%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.61%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.73%) Kafka
1 10 (3.73%) React
1 10 (3.73%) Spring
2 9 (3.36%) SailPoint
3 7 (2.61%) REST
4 6 (2.24%) .NET
4 6 (2.24%) FastAPI
4 6 (2.24%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.87%) Middleware
5 5 (1.87%) PySpark
5 5 (1.87%) SOAP
5 5 (1.87%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.87%) XML
6 4 (1.49%) Django
6 4 (1.49%) JSON
6 4 (1.49%) RESTful
7 3 (1.12%) CSS
7 3 (1.12%) HTML
7 3 (1.12%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (1.12%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.84%) Fixed Income
2 20 (7.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (7.09%) Hedge funds
4 16 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.85%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.36%) Derivative
7 9 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.99%) Equities
8 8 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.99%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.49%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.12%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.70%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Windows
3 10 (3.73%) Unix
4 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.12%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (22.01%) Agile
3 43 (16.04%) CI/CD
4 39 (14.55%) Risk Management
5 33 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (11.57%) Migration
7 29 (10.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (10.07%) Project Management
9 26 (9.70%) Electronic Trading
10 25 (9.33%) Computer Science
10 25 (9.33%) DevOps
11 24 (8.96%) Analytics
12 23 (8.58%) Software Engineering
13 20 (7.46%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (7.09%) Machine Learning
15 18 (6.72%) Test Automation
16 17 (6.34%) Business Analysis
16 17 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (5.97%) Change Management
17 16 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.12%) Python
2 45 (16.79%) SQL
3 44 (16.42%) Java
4 15 (5.60%) C#
5 13 (4.85%) C++
6 10 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.36%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.61%) C
10 6 (2.24%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.87%) Bash
11 5 (1.87%) BeanShell
11 5 (1.87%) Perl
12 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
13 2 (0.75%) Korn
13 2 (0.75%) Rust
13 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 2 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (17.91%) Degree
2 12 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (4.48%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.24%) CISSP
5 4 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.49%) CCSP
5 4 (1.49%) GCIH
5 4 (1.49%) PhD
5 4 (1.49%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) CCNP
6 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CFA
7 2 (0.75%) MBA
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.85%) PMO
1 13 (4.85%) QA
2 11 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.36%) GDPR
3 9 (3.36%) MiFID
4 7 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.87%) SLA
6 4 (1.49%) NIST
6 4 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.12%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (1.12%) EMIR
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) SEPA
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) IFRS
9 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) HDFS
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.37%) KVM
4 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (9.70%) Terraform
2 23 (8.58%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.72%) Ansible
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.12%) SCCM
6 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.75%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.37%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.37%) Nagios
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.34%) Oracle
3 10 (3.73%) ION Trading
4 9 (3.36%) Databricks
5 8 (2.99%) Google
5 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.61%) Cisco
7 6 (2.24%) Adobe
7 6 (2.24%) IBM
8 5 (1.87%) Commvault
8 5 (1.87%) F5
9 4 (1.49%) Juniper
9 4 (1.49%) Murex
9 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.49%) SAP
9 4 (1.49%) Sybase
10 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.12%) Charles River
10 3 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.75%) Alteryx