Financial Modelling Contracts

Financial Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Financial Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 513 661
Rank change year-on-year +65 +148 +61
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 72 69 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.16% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 40
10th Percentile £425 £448 £461
25th Percentile £545 £463 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £640
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -14.06% +16.72%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £735
90th Percentile £838 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.30 - -
25th Percentile £26.92 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.11 - £24.00
75th Percentile £33.81 - £26.00
90th Percentile £35.72 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.11 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Financial Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
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 Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +61 64 £650 +13.04% 463
London +39 47 £700 +19.15% 203
Work from Home +40 21 £625 +19.05% 173
UK excluding London +67 20 £545 -5.22% 314
South West +50 5 £750 +11.11% 37
South East +44 4 £560 - 89
North West +18 4 £545 -5.22% 37
North of England +18 4 £545 -5.22% 68
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 4
East of England - 2 £650 - 48
Midlands +22 1 - - 58
West Midlands +14 1 - - 32
Scotland +11 1 - - 15

Financial Modelling
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 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 7 (9.72%) Azure
3 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.94%) Serverless
5 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) SaaS
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.56%) Essbase
3 4 (5.56%) Metadata
4 3 (4.17%) Big Data
4 3 (4.17%) Power BI
4 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.78%) Tableau
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.39%) KDB
6 1 (1.39%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Artifactory
1 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (100.00%) Finance
2 32 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
4 14 (19.44%) Front Office
5 9 (12.50%) Banking
6 8 (11.11%) Legal
7 7 (9.72%) Investment Banking
8 6 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (4.17%) Law
10 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
10 3 (4.17%) Retail
10 3 (4.17%) Retail Banking
10 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.78%) Local Government
11 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.78%) Marketing
11 2 (2.78%) Military
11 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Developer
2 12 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Consultant
5 6 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Essbase Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) J2EE
2 4 (5.56%) MDX
2 4 (5.56%) PySpark
3 3 (4.17%) DCOM
4 2 (2.78%) NumPy
4 2 (2.78%) Pandas
5 1 (1.39%) SciPy
5 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.94%) Tandem
3 4 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.17%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.78%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Equities
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Decision-Making
2 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.44%) Business Case
4 13 (18.06%) Budgeting
4 13 (18.06%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 13 (18.06%) DevOps
5 10 (13.89%) Data Analysis
5 10 (13.89%) Financial Analysis
5 10 (13.89%) Risk Management
6 9 (12.50%) Agile
6 9 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 9 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 9 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
7 8 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (9.72%) Fintech
9 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 6 (8.33%) Machine Learning
9 6 (8.33%) Planning and Forecasting
9 6 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (11.11%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Java
4 6 (8.33%) Go
5 3 (4.17%) C++
5 3 (4.17%) Rust
6 2 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Master's Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.94%) ACCA
4 5 (6.94%) CIMA
4 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) MBA
6 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.39%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) CFA
7 1 (1.39%) IIBA
7 1 (1.39%) ISEB
7 1 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) IFS
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
4 2 (2.78%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.39%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) Tagetik