Finance Contracts in West End of London

Financial
Central London > West End of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in West End of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Finance 19 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 28.36% 13.46% 15.19%
As % of the General category 45.24% 18.42% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 7
10th Percentile £467 - £210
25th Percentile £484 £263 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £581
90th Percentile £773 - £690
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.54 - -
Median hourly rate £43.08 - -
75th Percentile £44.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £43.08 £24.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +79.48% -14.29% +33.33%

All General Skills
West End of London

Finance 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 in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42 38 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 62.69% 73.08% 54.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 27
10th Percentile £300 £252 £222
25th Percentile £450 £332 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +2.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £534
90th Percentile £623 £638 £580
Central London median daily rate £575 £556 £600
% change year-on-year +3.37% -7.29% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £42.88 - -
25th Percentile £44.89 - -
Median hourly rate £49.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.15% -31.43% -23.08%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in West End of London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in West End of London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in West End of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in West End of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in West End of London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Westminster +4 7 £625 +127.27% 7
Holborn - 4 £474 - 4
Finance
Central London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) ChangeMan
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Investment Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Back Office
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Engagement Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) HR Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Portfolio Office Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
1 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) ERP
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Server Management
3 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Business Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Data Management
5 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.53%) Product Management
5 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) REXX
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CCIE
1 2 (10.53%) CCNP
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Arista
2 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) F5
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) Micro Focus
2 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft