Financial Analyst Contracts in England

Finance Analyst
UK > England

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 331 370
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 239 354 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.73% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.77% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 275 367
10th Percentile £313 £355 £343
25th Percentile £453 £453 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.64%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £625
90th Percentile £788 £738 £656
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%
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 median hourly rate £19.22 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +46 188 £550 -8.33% 41
South East 0 23 £375 +47.35% 19
Midlands +12 11 £525 -2.33% 3
North of England +12 10 £575 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +16 8 £525 -2.33% 3
North West +18 6 £575 +4.55% 3
East Midlands +16 3 - -
North East +14 2 £588 +80.77% 1
Yorkshire -2 2 £288 -42.50%
South West - 2 - - 1
South Coast - 2 £500 -
East of England +8 1 £425 -13.92% 5
Financial Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 across the England region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 239 (100.00%) Finance
2 85 (35.56%) Banking
3 76 (31.80%) SQL
4 57 (23.85%) Asset Management
5 55 (23.01%) Agile
6 53 (22.18%) Investment Management
7 52 (21.76%) Derivative
7 52 (21.76%) Front Office
8 50 (20.92%) Python
8 50 (20.92%) Social Skills
9 47 (19.67%) Hedge funds
10 34 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (13.81%) Product Ownership
12 32 (13.39%) Migration
12 32 (13.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 31 (12.97%) ERP
14 30 (12.55%) Back Office
15 28 (11.72%) Business Analysis
15 28 (11.72%) AWS
16 27 (11.30%) Fixed Income
16 27 (11.30%) Equities
17 26 (10.88%) Machine Learning
17 26 (10.88%) Analytics
17 26 (10.88%) Oracle
17 26 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
18 25 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
18 25 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (10.04%) SAP
19 24 (10.04%) Data Migration
20 22 (9.21%) Mentoring

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.02%) Aladdin
2 8 (3.35%) Oracle Financials
3 7 (2.93%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.93%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (2.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (2.51%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (2.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (2.09%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (2.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (2.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (2.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.42%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.42%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.72%) AWS
2 15 (6.28%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.60%) Azure
4 7 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.09%) SaaS
6 4 (1.67%) Collibra
6 4 (1.67%) Miro
6 4 (1.67%) OCI
7 3 (1.26%) dbt
8 2 (0.84%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.42%) Asana
9 1 (0.42%) IaaS
9 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.42%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.42%) Slack
9 1 (0.42%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.84%) Wireless
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.28%) Power BI
2 6 (2.51%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.51%) SAP HANA
3 5 (2.09%) Tableau
4 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Arrow
6 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.84%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.84%) Dremio
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) QlikView
7 1 (0.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.51%) JIRA
2 2 (0.84%) Toad
General
1 239 (100.00%) Finance
2 85 (35.56%) Banking
3 52 (21.76%) Front Office
4 50 (20.92%) Social Skills
5 34 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (12.55%) Back Office
7 20 (8.37%) Investment Banking
8 13 (5.44%) Telecoms
9 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.18%) General Ledger
11 8 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.93%) Billing
12 7 (2.93%) Legal
13 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.51%) Retail
14 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.09%) SAP PI
2 4 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.84%) Swagger
3 2 (0.84%) XML
4 1 (0.42%) JSON
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.76%) Derivative
2 47 (19.67%) Hedge funds
3 33 (13.81%) Product Ownership
4 32 (13.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (11.30%) Equities
5 27 (11.30%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.26%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.84%) iPad
9 2 (0.84%) iPhone
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.67%) Windows
2 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.85%) Asset Management
2 55 (23.01%) Agile
3 53 (22.18%) Investment Management
4 32 (13.39%) Migration
5 31 (12.97%) ERP
6 28 (11.72%) Business Analysis
7 26 (10.88%) Analytics
7 26 (10.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 26 (10.88%) Machine Learning
8 25 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (10.04%) Data Migration
10 22 (9.21%) Mentoring
11 21 (8.79%) Roadmaps
11 21 (8.79%) User Stories
12 19 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (7.53%) GAP Analysis
14 17 (7.11%) Requirements Gathering
15 15 (6.28%) Project Management
15 15 (6.28%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.80%) SQL
2 50 (20.92%) Python
3 20 (8.37%) C#
4 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.42%) Java
5 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.42%) Scala
5 1 (0.42%) VB
5 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (5.44%) Degree
2 12 (5.02%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.77%) CIMA
4 9 (3.77%) ICAEW
5 8 (3.35%) ACCA
6 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.84%) CISA
6 2 (0.84%) CISM
6 2 (0.84%) CISSP
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.86%) GAAP
3 10 (4.18%) IFRS
4 9 (3.77%) QA
5 8 (3.35%) PMO
6 5 (2.09%) ISO 20022
6 5 (2.09%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.67%) EMIR
7 4 (1.67%) MiFID
8 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (10.88%) Oracle
2 24 (10.04%) SAP
3 18 (7.53%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.28%) Bloomberg
5 12 (5.02%) BISAM
6 5 (2.09%) CyberSource
7 2 (0.84%) Apple
7 2 (0.84%) Ariba
7 2 (0.84%) Cadence
7 2 (0.84%) Databricks
7 2 (0.84%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.84%) Microgen
7 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.42%) CA
8 1 (0.42%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.42%) OpenText
8 1 (0.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.42%) Sybase