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 have cited Financial Institution over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 296 385
Rank change year-on-year -26 +89 +98
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 278 513 590
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.88% 0.67%
As % of the General category 1.12% 1.51% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 410 310
10th Percentile £340 £450 £313
25th Percentile £510 £500 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £712 £725 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £425
% change year-on-year - +23.53% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All General Skills
UK

Financial Institution is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,872 33,973 49,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.08% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,679 23,569 34,307
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £770 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 1,040 1,416
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.23
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Top 13 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 7 May 2024. 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 -40 249 £618 +2.92% 205
London 0 214 £625 +4.17% 167
Work from Home +84 110 £625 +4.17% 84
UK excluding London -13 39 £525 - 34
Scotland +49 14 £750 +31.87% 1
North of England -5 9 £525 -2.33% 8
North West +14 8 £525 -2.33% 3
South East +6 8 £303 -42.38% 6
South West +16 4 £450 -14.29% 10
East of England +1 2 £655 +25.96% 1
Midlands -9 2 £300 -40.00% 4
West Midlands -12 2 £300 -40.00% 4
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 5

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 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.08%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.08%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (8.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (7.91%) Loan IQ
2 8 (2.88%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (1.08%) Actimize
4 2 (0.72%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.72%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.19%) Azure
2 23 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.19%) GitHub
4 18 (6.47%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.96%) AWS
5 11 (3.96%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.24%) Power Automate
6 9 (3.24%) PowerApps
7 7 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.44%) Collibra
9 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.08%) GCP
9 3 (1.08%) IaaS
9 3 (1.08%) PaaS
9 3 (1.08%) SaaS
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.36%) Figma
11 1 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.32%) Firewall
2 9 (3.24%) BGP
2 9 (3.24%) MPLS
2 9 (3.24%) OSPF
2 9 (3.24%) VPN
2 9 (3.24%) Wireless
3 8 (2.88%) Internet
3 8 (2.88%) Multicast
3 8 (2.88%) Network Security
4 6 (2.16%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.16%) LAN
4 6 (2.16%) WAN
5 4 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.08%) DNS
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.72%) DMZ
7 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.07%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.19%) MySQL
3 19 (6.83%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (6.47%) Power BI
5 9 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.52%) Big Data
7 5 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.44%) Parquet
8 4 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.08%) Data Mart
9 3 (1.08%) Metadata
9 3 (1.08%) OLAP
9 3 (1.08%) OLTP
9 3 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.88%) JIRA
2 5 (1.80%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 278 (100.00%) Finance
2 76 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 60 (21.58%) Banking
4 38 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.60%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.88%) Front Office
7 8 (2.88%) International Banking
8 7 (2.52%) Advertising
9 4 (1.44%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.30%) Developer
2 38 (13.67%) Architect
3 34 (12.23%) Project Manager
4 31 (11.15%) Analyst
5 27 (9.71%) Senior
6 17 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (5.76%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.40%) C# Developer
9 14 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.68%) SailPoint Developer
10 13 (4.68%) Security Manager
11 12 (4.32%) Network Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Security Project Manager
12 11 (3.96%) Security Architect
12 11 (3.96%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.60%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 10 (3.60%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (3.60%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.60%) Service Analyst
14 9 (3.24%) CISSP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.07%) SailPoint
1 28 (10.07%) XML
2 24 (8.63%) HTML
3 21 (7.55%) Web Services
4 20 (7.19%) JDBC
4 20 (7.19%) LDAP
5 19 (6.83%) JSP
5 19 (6.83%) Servlets
5 19 (6.83%) SOAP
5 19 (6.83%) SPML
6 13 (4.68%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.96%) .NET
8 10 (3.60%) React
9 9 (3.24%) REST
10 8 (2.88%) Apache Camel
11 7 (2.52%) JSON
11 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (1.80%) Middleware
12 5 (1.80%) Node.js
13 4 (1.44%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.27%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.19%) Hedge funds
3 19 (6.83%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.76%) Fixed Income
5 14 (5.04%) Derivative
6 12 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.16%) PKI
9 6 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (1.44%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.44%) Equities
11 4 (1.44%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.95%) Windows
2 26 (9.35%) Linux
3 14 (5.04%) Windows 10
4 10 (3.60%) Windows 7
5 7 (2.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (12.95%) Project Management
2 35 (12.59%) Agile
3 33 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
4 31 (11.15%) Project Delivery
5 29 (10.43%) CI/CD
6 28 (10.07%) Migration
6 28 (10.07%) Software Engineering
7 25 (8.99%) RBAC
8 24 (8.63%) Risk Management
9 22 (7.91%) Data Modelling
10 21 (7.55%) Data Migration
11 19 (6.83%) Computer Science
11 19 (6.83%) Fintech
12 17 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (6.12%) Customer Service
12 17 (6.12%) Waterfall
13 15 (5.40%) Regulatory Compliance
13 15 (5.40%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (4.68%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.27%) Java
2 47 (16.91%) SQL
3 29 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 25 (8.99%) C#
4 25 (8.99%) Python
5 12 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.24%) Scala
7 7 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.44%) Clojure
8 4 (1.44%) Haskell
8 4 (1.44%) Rust
9 2 (0.72%) C++
9 2 (0.72%) Go
9 2 (0.72%) PHP
9 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (9.35%) Degree
2 17 (6.12%) CISSP
3 14 (5.04%) CISM
4 12 (4.32%) CISA
5 10 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.16%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.80%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.80%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.44%) APMP
9 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.44%) MBA
9 4 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.44%) PMP
10 3 (1.08%) CCNP
10 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.08%) PhD
11 2 (0.72%) CCIE
11 2 (0.72%) MCP
11 2 (0.72%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.04%) SLA
2 9 (3.24%) PMO
3 8 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.16%) NIST
4 6 (2.16%) QA
5 5 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) Basel III
7 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.72%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 39 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.83%) IAG
3 18 (6.47%) ACF2
3 18 (6.47%) RACF
4 10 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.08%) Docker
6 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.24%) Ansible
1 9 (3.24%) Kubernetes
1 9 (3.24%) Terraform
2 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.72%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.72%) Puppet
3 2 (0.72%) SCCM
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) Nessus
4 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.15%) Oracle
3 30 (10.79%) ServiceNow
4 19 (6.83%) Sybase
5 14 (5.04%) Cisco
6 13 (4.68%) IBM
7 8 (2.88%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.16%) Calypso
8 6 (2.16%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.16%) F5
9 5 (1.80%) VMware
10 4 (1.44%) Murex
10 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.08%) Adobe
11 3 (1.08%) Dell
11 3 (1.08%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Lotus
11 3 (1.08%) Marketo
11 3 (1.08%) Proofpoint
11 3 (1.08%) Qualys