Financial Institution Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Financial Institution
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution 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 246 235 313
Rank change year-on-year -11 +78 +58
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 58 110 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.72% 0.65%
As % of the General category 0.94% 1.22% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 89 131
10th Percentile £416 £400 £464
25th Percentile £477 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
75th Percentile £866 £712 £725
90th Percentile £875 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £620 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Financial Institution falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Financial Institution
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Financial Institution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Financial Institution trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Financial Institution.

Financial Institution daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Financial Institution daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Financial Institution.

Financial Institution hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Financial Institution
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.17%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) nginx
4 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.72%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 1 (1.72%) SimCorp Dimension
1 1 (1.72%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 3 (5.17%) Azure
2 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (5.17%) GCP
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.72%) Akamai
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.72%) GitHub
4 1 (1.72%) IaaS
4 1 (1.72%) PaaS
4 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.72%) SaaS
4 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) SMTP
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) Big Data
2 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) HBase
3 2 (3.45%) Impala
3 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.72%) DB2
4 1 (1.72%) Looker
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Parquet
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) JUnit
3 1 (1.72%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 58 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 20 (34.48%) Banking
4 16 (27.59%) Front Office
5 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Back Office
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Business Analyst
2 11 (18.97%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Front Office Business Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Consultant
6 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Migration Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Programme Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Senior
8 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Apache Avro
1 3 (5.17%) JSON
1 3 (5.17%) Kafka
1 3 (5.17%) React
1 3 (5.17%) Spring
2 2 (3.45%) Murex MxML
2 2 (3.45%) Node.js
2 2 (3.45%) PySpark
2 2 (3.45%) RESTful
2 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.72%) Django
3 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.72%) Jest
3 1 (1.72%) JMS
3 1 (1.72%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (1.72%) Redux
3 1 (1.72%) Sass
3 1 (1.72%) Vitest
3 1 (1.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Fixed Income
2 8 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.62%) Derivative
4 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.17%) Equities
5 3 (5.17%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.41%) Migration
4 11 (18.97%) Business Analysis
4 11 (18.97%) Economics
4 11 (18.97%) Product Management
4 11 (18.97%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (17.24%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) Quantitative Research
6 9 (15.52%) Electronic Trading
6 9 (15.52%) Manual Testing
6 9 (15.52%) Regression Testing
6 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps
8 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis
8 5 (8.62%) Project Management
8 5 (8.62%) Risk Management
8 5 (8.62%) Software Engineering
9 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 7 (12.07%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 2 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Clojure
6 1 (1.72%) Elixir
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) Haskell
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) PeopleCode
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) Rust
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) CFA
3 2 (3.45%) MBA
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) CEH
4 1 (1.72%) CISSP
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) GIAC
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) MiFID
2 2 (3.45%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) EMIR
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.45%) HDFS
3 1 (1.72%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Nagios
4 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) ION Trading
2 3 (5.17%) F5
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Cisco
3 2 (3.45%) Murex
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.72%) Charles River
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Imperva
4 1 (1.72%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) SimCorp
4 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase
4 1 (1.72%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.72%) VMware