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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 520 643
Rank change year-on-year +85 +123 +87
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 95 72 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.17% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.19% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 31
10th Percentile £375 £446 £363
25th Percentile £463 £484 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £722 £856
90th Percentile £815 £963 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £581 £475
% change year-on-year -4.52% +22.37% -9.52%
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 27,473 37,081 49,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.12% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,374 23,644 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,294 2,582 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.56 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.92 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.86% +17.29% +54.76%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +98 87 £650 +8.33% 334
London +67 64 £650 -10.34% 246
Work from Home +66 39 £625 -3.85% 161
UK excluding London +54 27 £555 -4.52% 109
South East +52 11 £560 - 49
South West - 6 £750 - 8
Scotland +6 3 £200 -42.86% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £450 - 2
East of England - 2 £650 - 7
Midlands +10 1 - - 9
North of England +9 1 £355 -38.26% 29
West Midlands +4 1 - - 4
North West -6 1 £355 -38.26% 21

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 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) HFM
2 1 (1.05%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 9 (9.47%) Azure
3 8 (8.42%) SaaS
4 7 (7.37%) AWS
5 2 (2.11%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.05%) GitHub
6 1 (1.05%) IaaS
6 1 (1.05%) PaaS
6 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.05%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) Power BI
2 7 (7.37%) Tableau
3 5 (5.26%) Star Schema
4 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.16%) Big Data
5 3 (3.16%) KDB
5 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.11%) Power Query
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.05%) Looker
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
General
1 95 (100.00%) Finance
2 47 (49.47%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
4 15 (15.79%) Front Office
5 12 (12.63%) Banking
6 11 (11.58%) Legal
7 8 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (7.37%) Investment Banking
9 6 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.21%) Financial Institution
10 4 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (4.21%) Local Government
10 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
11 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 2 (2.11%) Automotive
12 2 (2.11%) Law
12 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (29.47%) Developer
2 25 (26.32%) Analyst
3 19 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Financial Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.37%) Senior
7 5 (5.26%) IFS Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Commercial Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Finance Business Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Lead
8 4 (4.21%) Quantitative Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Finance Manager
9 3 (3.16%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.11%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (2.11%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) NumPy
1 6 (6.32%) Pandas
2 3 (3.16%) Django
2 3 (3.16%) Flask
2 3 (3.16%) PySpark
3 2 (2.11%) DCOM
3 2 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.11%) FpML
3 2 (2.11%) Middleware
4 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (8.42%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.37%) Fixed Income
3 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.21%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.16%) Equities
5 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.11%) Derivative
6 2 (2.11%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.05%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.68%) Decision-Making
2 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.00%) Business Case
3 19 (20.00%) Financial Analysis
3 19 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (18.95%) Computer Science
4 18 (18.95%) Data Analysis
5 15 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (14.74%) Budgeting
7 13 (13.68%) Agile
8 12 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (12.63%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (11.58%) DevOps
10 10 (10.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 10 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 9 (9.47%) Machine Learning
12 8 (8.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 8 (8.42%) ERP
12 8 (8.42%) Programme Management
13 7 (7.37%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) Python
2 16 (16.84%) SQL
3 5 (5.26%) Java
4 4 (4.21%) C++
5 2 (2.11%) C
5 2 (2.11%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) Rust
6 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.05%) Go
6 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (30.53%) Degree
2 13 (13.68%) ACCA
2 13 (13.68%) CIMA
3 9 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.42%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) SAP Certification
7 1 (1.05%) CIPFA
7 1 (1.05%) MBA
7 1 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.05%) ITGC
3 1 (1.05%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) IFS
2 5 (5.26%) SAP
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.16%) Hyperion
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.11%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.05%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Cognos
6 1 (1.05%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.05%) PeopleSoft