Financial Modelling Contract Job Trends in England

Financial Modelling
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Financial Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 427 450
Rank change year-on-year -75 +23 +105
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 128 91 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 55 41
10th Percentile £385 £349 £440
25th Percentile £469 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £675
90th Percentile £783 £825 £950
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Financial Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Financial Modelling job vacancy trend in England

Financial Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Modelling

Financial Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Modelling in England

Financial Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Modelling

Financial Modelling
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 Modelling within the England region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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 91 £600 -4.00% 40
South East -77 10 £350 -46.15% 14
West Midlands - 10 £509 - 7
Midlands - 10 £509 - 9
South West -42 8 £425 - 14
North of England -72 5 £413 +16.20% 23
Yorkshire -38 4 £413 +16.20% 7
East of England - 2 - - 2
North West -49 1 - - 9
Financial Modelling
UK

Financial Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (28.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (10.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) CA PPM
2 2 (1.56%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.56%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.78%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.78%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.50%) Azure
2 9 (7.03%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.03%) SaaS
3 7 (5.47%) Serverless
4 6 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (4.69%) Azure Functions
4 6 (4.69%) Azure Storage
5 4 (3.13%) AWS
6 3 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (2.34%) Matillion
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.56%) GCP
8 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.78%) IaaS
8 1 (0.78%) PaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 8 (6.25%) Power BI
2 7 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.91%) Tableau
5 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.13%) Power Query
6 2 (1.56%) Looker
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.78%) Metadata
7 1 (0.78%) OLAP
7 1 (0.78%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Git
2 5 (3.91%) JIRA
General
1 128 (100.00%) Finance
2 62 (48.44%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (36.72%) Social Skills
4 19 (14.84%) Banking
5 10 (7.81%) Legal
5 10 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Games
7 7 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.47%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.69%) Front Office
9 5 (3.91%) Retail
10 4 (3.13%) General Ledger
10 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.13%) Social Housing
10 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.34%) Marketing
12 2 (1.56%) Local Government
12 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 22 (17.19%) Senior
2 21 (16.41%) Analyst
3 15 (11.72%) Developer
4 13 (10.16%) Lead
5 10 (7.81%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) Business Development Manager
7 7 (5.47%) Business Manager
7 7 (5.47%) Consultant
7 7 (5.47%) Development Manager
8 6 (4.69%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Quantitative Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Risk Management Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (3.91%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.69%) .NET
2 4 (3.13%) React
3 2 (1.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.78%) Flash
4 1 (0.78%) Kafka
4 1 (0.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.03%) Market Risk
2 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.13%) Derivative
5 4 (3.13%) Equities
5 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.34%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.34%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.78%) CMDB
8 1 (0.78%) FMCG
8 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 39 (30.47%) Budgeting
2 39 (30.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (25.78%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 30 (23.44%) Analytics
5 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.75%) AI
7 19 (14.84%) Business Case
7 19 (14.84%) Financial Analysis
8 18 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 16 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.50%) Validation
10 15 (11.72%) Agile
10 15 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (11.72%) Data Modelling
10 15 (11.72%) Generative AI
11 14 (10.94%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (10.94%) Fintech
12 13 (10.16%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.19%) SQL
2 21 (16.41%) Python
3 7 (5.47%) C#
4 5 (3.91%) C++
5 4 (3.13%) Korn
5 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.56%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.56%) VBA
7 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (17.19%) ACCA
2 21 (16.41%) CIMA
3 19 (14.84%) Degree
4 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.91%) PhD
7 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) PMO
2 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.91%) IFRS
4 4 (3.13%) QA
5 2 (1.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) GAAP
6 1 (0.78%) P3O
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Databricks
2 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.69%) Anaplan
4 4 (3.13%) SAP
4 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.13%) Xero
5 3 (2.34%) Workday
6 2 (1.56%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (1.56%) Sage
6 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Ariba
7 1 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.78%) Cognos
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) Sparx