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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 425 480
Rank change year-on-year -55 +55 +151
Contract jobs citing Financial Modelling 80 60 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 29
10th Percentile £339 £345 £435
25th Percentile £392 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.86% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £538 £838 £825
90th Percentile £575 - £950
UK median daily rate £496 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -29.14% +21.74% -8.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.44% - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 -
% change year-on-year +66.06% - -

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 30,846 23,044 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.12% 90.26% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,757 14,550 21,943
10th Percentile £313 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 778 2,099
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £73.41 £75.73 £72.07
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -44 37 £450 -37.93% 38
South West -10 18 £350 -53.33% 5
North of England -52 11 £376 -30.96% 11
West Midlands -41 8 £496 - 4
Midlands -47 8 £496 +69.57% 6
Yorkshire - 7 £500 - 4
South East -32 6 £538 +39.61% 16
North East - 3 £308 -
North West -42 1 £388 -28.90% 7
Financial Modelling
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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 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (33.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 5 (6.25%) SaaS
3 4 (5.00%) Azure
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
3 4 (5.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.50%) AWS
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.25%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.25%) IaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Wireless
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) LAN
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
2 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.00%) Tableau
3 3 (3.75%) Looker
4 2 (2.50%) QlikView
5 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Essbase
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (100.00%) Finance
2 28 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.25%) General Ledger
5 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.25%) Marketing
7 4 (5.00%) Banking
7 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Retail
9 2 (2.50%) Front Office
9 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Back Office
10 1 (1.25%) Billing
10 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Analyst
2 11 (13.75%) Finance Modeller
3 10 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (7.50%) Cost Analyst
4 6 (7.50%) Financial Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (5.00%) Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Customer Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Accountant
7 3 (3.75%) C++ Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Data Modeller
7 3 (3.75%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Workday Specialist
8 2 (2.50%) Customer Insight Analyst
8 2 (2.50%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (2.50%) Project Support Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 2 (2.50%) COM
1 2 (2.50%) Qt
1 2 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Equities
6 1 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) Budgeting
2 22 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 15 (18.75%) Analytics
5 14 (17.50%) Decision-Making
6 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (15.00%) Business Case
8 11 (13.75%) Financial Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Data Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Performance Metrics
10 8 (10.00%) Cost Management
10 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.75%) Project Management
12 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (7.50%) Identity Management
12 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (6.25%) Process Improvement
13 5 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) C++
4 4 (5.00%) C#
5 3 (3.75%) R
5 3 (3.75%) VBA
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) C
6 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) CIMA
2 15 (18.75%) ACCA
2 15 (18.75%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) MBA
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CCDE
6 1 (1.25%) CCDP
6 1 (1.25%) CCIE
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) CFA
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.25%) COREP
2 1 (1.25%) FINREP
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Adaptive Insights
2 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.75%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Google
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce