Financial Analyst Contracts

Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 360 416
Rank change year-on-year +25 +56 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 261 382 525
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.69% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 307 391
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £469 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £663 £666 £619
90th Percentile £788 £738 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £413
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £14.20 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £19.22 - -
75th Percentile £22.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.22 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Top 15 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 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 +9 241 £550 - 88
London +43 192 £550 -8.33% 46
Work from Home +95 114 £625 +25.00% 46
UK excluding London +27 58 £500 +11.11% 41
South East -3 23 £350 +9.38% 13
Scotland +52 11 £525 +1.06% 3
Midlands +28 11 £525 -2.33% 4
West Midlands +21 8 £525 -3.45% 2
North of England +7 8 £525 +5.00% 12
North West +23 3 - - 8
East Midlands +19 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +7 3 £406 -20.34% 1
North East +16 2 £588 +80.77% 3
South West +16 2 - - 3
East of England +1 1 £425 -11.69% 7

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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.

1 261 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.18%) Banking
3 76 (29.12%) SQL
4 63 (24.14%) Social Skills
5 55 (21.07%) Asset Management
6 53 (20.31%) Investment Management
7 52 (19.92%) Agile
8 51 (19.54%) Front Office
9 50 (19.16%) Derivative
10 48 (18.39%) Python
11 47 (18.01%) Hedge funds
12 40 (15.33%) ERP
13 38 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
14 36 (13.79%) Business Analysis
15 32 (12.26%) Oracle
16 31 (11.88%) Product Ownership
17 30 (11.49%) Migration
17 30 (11.49%) Back Office
17 30 (11.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 29 (11.11%) SAP
19 27 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
19 27 (10.34%) AWS
20 26 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
20 26 (9.96%) Analytics
21 25 (9.58%) Machine Learning
21 25 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
21 25 (9.58%) Fixed Income
21 25 (9.58%) Equities
21 25 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
22 23 (8.81%) Data Migration

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 7 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (4.60%) Aladdin
2 10 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (2.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (2.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (2.68%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (2.30%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (1.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (1.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
10 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.34%) AWS
2 15 (5.75%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.60%) Azure
4 6 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.92%) SaaS
6 4 (1.53%) Collibra
6 4 (1.53%) Miro
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (0.77%) dbt
7 2 (0.77%) OCI
8 1 (0.38%) Asana
8 1 (0.38%) IaaS
8 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.38%) Slack
8 1 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.77%) Wireless
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.75%) Power BI
2 8 (3.07%) SAP HANA
3 6 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.53%) Tableau
5 3 (1.15%) Metadata
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.77%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.38%) Dremio
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 7 (2.68%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Toad
General
1 261 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.18%) Banking
3 63 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 51 (19.54%) Front Office
5 38 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (11.49%) Back Office
7 19 (7.28%) Investment Banking
8 14 (5.36%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.60%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.83%) General Ledger
11 8 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.68%) Billing
12 7 (2.68%) Legal
13 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.92%) Retail
14 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Marketing
16 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) SAP PI
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.77%) Swagger
2 2 (0.77%) XML
3 1 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.38%) FIXML
3 1 (0.38%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (0.38%) JSON
3 1 (0.38%) Middleware
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.16%) Derivative
2 47 (18.01%) Hedge funds
3 31 (11.88%) Product Ownership
4 30 (11.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (9.58%) Equities
5 25 (9.58%) Fixed Income
6 9 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.15%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.77%) FMCG
10 2 (0.77%) iPad
10 2 (0.77%) iPhone
10 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.92%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (21.07%) Asset Management
2 53 (20.31%) Investment Management
3 52 (19.92%) Agile
4 40 (15.33%) ERP
5 36 (13.79%) Business Analysis
6 30 (11.49%) Migration
7 27 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (9.96%) Analytics
9 25 (9.58%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (9.58%) Machine Learning
10 23 (8.81%) Data Migration
11 22 (8.43%) Mentoring
11 22 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (8.43%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.43%) User Stories
12 18 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (6.51%) GAP Analysis
13 17 (6.51%) User Acceptance Testing
14 16 (6.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 76 (29.12%) SQL
2 48 (18.39%) Python
3 20 (7.66%) C#
4 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Scala
5 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.38%) VB
5 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (5.36%) CIMA
1 14 (5.36%) Degree
2 13 (4.98%) ACCA
2 13 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.45%) ICAEW
5 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.77%) CISA
5 2 (0.77%) CISM
5 2 (0.77%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.36%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.36%) GAAP
2 11 (4.21%) PMO
3 10 (3.83%) IFRS
4 9 (3.45%) QA
5 5 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.53%) EMIR
6 4 (1.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (12.26%) Oracle
2 29 (11.11%) SAP
3 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.75%) Bloomberg
5 12 (4.60%) BISAM
6 5 (1.92%) CyberSource
7 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.77%) Apple
8 2 (0.77%) Ariba
8 2 (0.77%) Cadence
8 2 (0.77%) Databricks
8 2 (0.77%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.77%) Microgen
8 2 (0.77%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.77%) Workday
9 1 (0.38%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.38%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.38%) Zscaler
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