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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 428 466
Rank change year-on-year -68 +38 +78
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 141 89 69
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 57 41
10th Percentile £415 £343 £413
25th Percentile £469 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £628
90th Percentile £750 £825 £950
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -30 107 £600 -4.00% 216
Midlands -32 13 £480 +1.05% 10
West Midlands -34 13 £480 +1.05% 7
South East -69 8 £377 -31.55% 46
South West -36 5 £735 - 6
North of England -71 4 £325 -8.45% 18
Yorkshire -42 3 £325 -8.45% 6
East of England - 2 - - 8
North West -56 1 - - 11
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 (5.67%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.42%) SAS
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 43 (30.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.42%) CA PPM
2 2 (1.42%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.71%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.18%) Azure
2 14 (9.93%) SaaS
3 11 (7.80%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.67%) AWS
5 7 (4.96%) GCP
6 6 (4.26%) Serverless
7 5 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.55%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.55%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.13%) Matillion
8 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.09%) Power BI
2 8 (5.67%) BigQuery
2 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.96%) Tableau
4 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.26%) Power Query
5 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.13%) Looker
6 3 (2.13%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Git
2 2 (1.42%) JIRA
General
1 141 (100.00%) Finance
2 66 (46.81%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (36.17%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.89%) Banking
5 12 (8.51%) Legal
6 10 (7.09%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.38%) Front Office
7 9 (6.38%) Games
8 8 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.96%) Retail
10 5 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.84%) Marketing
11 4 (2.84%) Social Housing
12 3 (2.13%) Billing
12 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.42%) Local Government
13 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (16.31%) Analyst
2 21 (14.89%) Developer
3 19 (13.48%) Senior
4 14 (9.93%) Lead
5 8 (5.67%) Data Engineer
5 8 (5.67%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (4.96%) Architect
6 7 (4.96%) Business Development Manager
6 7 (4.96%) Business Manager
6 7 (4.96%) Development Manager
6 7 (4.96%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.26%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (4.26%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Change Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Product Manager
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
7 6 (4.26%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) .NET
2 4 (2.84%) .NET Core
2 4 (2.84%) React
3 3 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) Flash
4 1 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.71%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Market Risk
2 9 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.84%) Derivative
6 4 (2.84%) Equities
6 4 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.84%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.13%) Online Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.04%) Decision-Making
2 43 (30.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (25.53%) Analytics
3 36 (25.53%) Budgeting
4 33 (23.40%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 28 (19.86%) Risk Management
6 27 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (18.44%) AI
8 24 (17.02%) Financial Analysis
9 23 (16.31%) Business Case
9 23 (16.31%) Roadmaps
10 19 (13.48%) Agile
10 19 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (12.77%) Validation
12 16 (11.35%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.64%) Fintech
13 15 (10.64%) Generative AI
14 14 (9.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.86%) SQL
2 22 (15.60%) Python
3 9 (6.38%) C#
4 5 (3.55%) C++
5 4 (2.84%) Korn
5 4 (2.84%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (14.89%) ACCA
1 21 (14.89%) CIMA
2 20 (14.18%) Degree
3 8 (5.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.55%) PhD
6 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.51%) PMO
2 10 (7.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.55%) IFRS
4 4 (2.84%) QA
5 3 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) GAAP
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) ITGC
6 1 (0.71%) P3O
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.13%) Ansible
1 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.38%) Databricks
3 4 (2.84%) Google
3 4 (2.84%) IBM
4 3 (2.13%) Anaplan
4 3 (2.13%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (2.13%) CyberArk
4 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.13%) Workday
4 3 (2.13%) Xero
5 2 (1.42%) Adaptive Insights
5 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.42%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) Ariba
6 1 (0.71%) Cognos
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Sage