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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 408 471
Rank change year-on-year -81 +63 +83
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 129 98 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 59 35
10th Percentile £349 £350 £459
25th Percentile £464 £438 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £725 £719
90th Percentile £793 £835 £980
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £586
% change year-on-year -16.00% +6.61% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.70 - -
25th Percentile £29.75 - -
Median hourly rate £36.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.25 - -
90th Percentile £47.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +1.39% - -

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 38,840 25,197 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.30% 90.74% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,270 16,131 18,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,391 1,702
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £18.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.45 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 2 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Financial Modelling in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Financial Modelling in England

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 2 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 -40 86 £586 -9.81% 127
South West -33 11 £425 - 15
West Midlands - 11 £525 - 12
Midlands - 11 £525 - 14
North of England -63 10 £413 +16.20% 23
South East -75 10 £350 -46.15% 32
Yorkshire -37 9 £413 +16.20% 9
East of England -15 1 - - 8
North West -54 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 (6.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.55%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 39 (30.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (11.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) CA PPM
2 2 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.55%) 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 (13.18%) Azure
2 9 (6.98%) Power Platform
2 9 (6.98%) SaaS
3 8 (6.20%) Serverless
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Functions
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Storage
5 4 (3.10%) AWS
6 3 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (2.33%) GCP
6 3 (2.33%) Matillion
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.55%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.78%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.78%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.98%) BigQuery
2 8 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.20%) Power BI
3 6 (4.65%) Tableau
4 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.10%) Power Query
4 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.33%) 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 (6.20%) Git
2 7 (5.43%) JIRA
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
General
1 129 (100.00%) Finance
2 65 (50.39%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (35.66%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Banking
5 9 (6.98%) Games
5 9 (6.98%) Legal
5 9 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (5.43%) General Ledger
7 5 (3.88%) Front Office
7 5 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.88%) Retail
8 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.10%) Marketing
8 4 (3.10%) Social Housing
8 4 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 28 (21.71%) Analyst
2 24 (18.60%) Senior
3 17 (13.18%) Developer
4 11 (8.53%) Data Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) Lead
5 9 (6.98%) Financial Analyst
6 8 (6.20%) C++ Developer
6 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.43%) Senior C++ Developer
7 7 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Consultant
8 6 (4.65%) Cost Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) Quantitative Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Risk Management Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Technical Specialist
9 5 (3.88%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.10%) .NET
1 4 (3.10%) React
2 2 (1.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (1.55%) COM
2 2 (1.55%) Qt
2 2 (1.55%) Web Services
3 1 (0.78%) Flash
3 1 (0.78%) Kafka
3 1 (0.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.53%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.75%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.20%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.43%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.88%) Equities
5 5 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.88%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.10%) Derivative
6 4 (3.10%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.33%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.78%) CMDB
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.78%) FMCG
9 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.33%) Linux
2 2 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.11%) Decision-Making
2 39 (30.23%) Budgeting
3 33 (25.58%) Analytics
3 33 (25.58%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 33 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.83%) AI
6 21 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (15.50%) Financial Analysis
8 18 (13.95%) Business Case
8 18 (13.95%) Validation
9 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
10 15 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
10 15 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (10.85%) Fintech
11 14 (10.85%) Generative AI
11 14 (10.85%) Risk Management
11 14 (10.85%) Roadmaps
11 14 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (10.08%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.16%) Python
2 23 (17.83%) SQL
3 8 (6.20%) C++
4 7 (5.43%) C#
5 5 (3.88%) VBA
6 4 (3.10%) Korn
6 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.55%) R
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) C
8 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (15.50%) Degree
2 18 (13.95%) ACCA
3 17 (13.18%) CIMA
4 7 (5.43%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.88%) PhD
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.08%) PMO
2 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) QA
4 3 (2.33%) IFRS
5 2 (1.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.78%) COREP
6 1 (0.78%) FINREP
6 1 (0.78%) GAAP
6 1 (0.78%) P3O
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (8.53%) Databricks
2 6 (4.65%) Anaplan
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.10%) SAP
3 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.33%) Workday
4 3 (2.33%) Xero
5 2 (1.55%) Adaptive Insights
5 2 (1.55%) Google
5 2 (1.55%) Sage
6 1 (0.78%) Ariba
6 1 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.78%) Cognos
6 1 (0.78%) IBM
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Sparx