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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 411 456
Rank change year-on-year -87 +45 +107
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 128 95 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.34% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.38% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 59 37
10th Percentile £375 £347 £451
25th Percentile £466 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £688
90th Percentile £788 £835 £950
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £586
% change year-on-year -16.00% +6.61% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.11% - -

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 39,024 25,239 28,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,245 16,077 18,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,443 1,638
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%

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 16 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 16 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 -53 84 £600 -5.88% 53
Midlands - 11 £525 - 15
West Midlands - 11 £525 - 11
South West -45 10 £425 - 12
North of England -70 10 £413 +16.20% 24
South East -80 10 £350 -46.15% 30
Yorkshire -38 9 £413 +16.20% 10
East of England -22 1 - - 3
North West -41 1 - - 7
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 34 (26.56%) 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 17 (13.28%) Azure
2 8 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 8 (6.25%) SaaS
2 8 (6.25%) Serverless
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Functions
3 7 (5.47%) Azure Storage
4 4 (3.13%) AWS
5 3 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.34%) Matillion
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.78%) IaaS
7 1 (0.78%) PaaS
7 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 8 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.47%) Power BI
3 5 (3.91%) Tableau
4 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.13%) Power Query
4 4 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.56%) Looker
6 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.78%) Metadata
6 1 (0.78%) OLAP
6 1 (0.78%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Git
2 5 (3.91%) JIRA
General
1 128 (100.00%) Finance
2 62 (48.44%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (35.16%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.06%) Banking
5 10 (7.81%) Legal
6 9 (7.03%) Games
6 9 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.47%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.69%) General Ledger
9 5 (3.91%) Retail
10 4 (3.13%) Front Office
10 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
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 25 (19.53%) Analyst
2 23 (17.97%) Senior
3 14 (10.94%) Developer
4 13 (10.16%) Lead
5 11 (8.59%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
7 7 (5.47%) Consultant
7 7 (5.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Business Development Manager
8 6 (4.69%) Business Manager
8 6 (4.69%) C++ Developer
8 6 (4.69%) Cost Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Development Manager
8 6 (4.69%) Quantitative Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Risk Management Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) .NET
1 4 (3.13%) React
2 1 (0.78%) Flash
2 1 (0.78%) Kafka
2 1 (0.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.47%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.13%) Derivative
6 4 (3.13%) Equities
6 4 (3.13%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.13%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.34%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.34%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.78%) CMDB
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.94%) Decision-Making
2 39 (30.47%) Budgeting
3 35 (27.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 30 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (22.66%) Analytics
7 23 (17.97%) AI
8 22 (17.19%) Financial Analysis
9 19 (14.84%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (13.28%) Business Case
11 17 (13.28%) Validation
12 16 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 16 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 15 (11.72%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (10.94%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (10.94%) Fintech
14 14 (10.94%) Generative AI
14 14 (10.94%) Risk Management
15 13 (10.16%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.97%) Python
2 20 (15.63%) SQL
3 6 (4.69%) C++
4 5 (3.91%) C#
5 4 (3.13%) Korn
5 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.56%) VBA
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) C
7 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (15.63%) ACCA
1 20 (15.63%) Degree
2 19 (14.84%) CIMA
3 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.91%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.91%) PhD
6 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) PMO
2 7 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.13%) IFRS
3 4 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) GAAP
5 1 (0.78%) P3O
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Databricks
2 8 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.69%) Anaplan
4 4 (3.13%) SAP
4 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.34%) Workday
5 3 (2.34%) Xero
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