Finance Contracts in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,719 7,774 10,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.74% 29.64% 26.98%
As % of the General category 42.33% 46.81% 44.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,469 5,717 7,358
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £508 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £706
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 45 64
10th Percentile £16.54 £18.60 £21.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £31.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.71 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -42.22% +66.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £27.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £52.50 £45.25 £50.43
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +49.25%

All General Skills
London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,147 16,608 23,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.17% 63.32% 60.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,946 12,031 16,682
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 212 295
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.40 £19.75
25th Percentile £18.19 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.92 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -14.88% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £57.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Central London 0 701 £600 -7.69% 306
East London 0 93 £585 +1.74% 82
West London +8 32 £405 -22.86% 67
South London -7 23 £555 +5.71% 30
North London 0 4 £561 -0.22% 9
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 193 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (3.75%) Apache
3 115 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 67 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 56 (1.19%) Confluence
6 37 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.45%) SAS
8 17 (0.36%) CMS
9 15 (0.32%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.19%) MTS
11 9 (0.19%) nginx
12 8 (0.17%) JBoss
12 8 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.11%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.085%) Headless CMS
16 3 (0.064%) Drupal
16 3 (0.064%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 199 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (1.40%) MS Visio
5 46 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.30%) Sketch
8 9 (0.19%) InVision
9 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.085%) InDesign
12 3 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.042%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.042%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.042%) Revit
13 2 (0.042%) SPSS
13 2 (0.042%) Trello
14 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 82 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 30 (0.64%) Loan IQ
4 29 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
5 28 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 26 (0.55%) Endur
6 26 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 24 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
7 24 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 22 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
8 22 (0.47%) Workday HCM
9 20 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
10 18 (0.38%) NetSuite
10 18 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
11 17 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
11 17 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
11 17 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 16 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
13 15 (0.32%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 791 (16.76%) Azure
2 623 (13.20%) AWS
3 304 (6.44%) GCP
4 237 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 179 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
6 156 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
8 124 (2.63%) Snowflake
9 117 (2.48%) dbt
10 84 (1.78%) Entra ID
11 83 (1.76%) SaaS
12 73 (1.55%) WhatsApp
13 64 (1.36%) GitHub
14 63 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 57 (1.21%) Serverless
16 56 (1.19%) PowerApps
17 54 (1.14%) PaaS
18 49 (1.04%) IaaS
19 39 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
20 38 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 137 (2.90%) Firewall
2 67 (1.42%) DNS
3 46 (0.97%) WAN
4 40 (0.85%) VPN
5 33 (0.70%) LAN
6 30 (0.64%) Network Security
7 29 (0.61%) BGP
8 28 (0.59%) OSPF
8 28 (0.59%) Wireless
9 26 (0.55%) SAN
10 25 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 24 (0.51%) DHCP
12 23 (0.49%) MPLS
13 21 (0.45%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.42%) Internet
15 15 (0.32%) HTTP
15 15 (0.32%) SSH
15 15 (0.32%) SSL
16 14 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (0.28%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (4.64%) Power BI
2 216 (4.58%) SQL Server
3 171 (3.62%) Data Lake
4 158 (3.35%) Apache Ignite
5 116 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
6 112 (2.37%) Apache Arrow
6 112 (2.37%) Dremio
7 101 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 100 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
10 72 (1.53%) Tableau
11 71 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 69 (1.46%) Relational Database
13 66 (1.40%) Metadata
14 55 (1.17%) Oracle Database
15 54 (1.14%) Big Data
16 53 (1.12%) MySQL
17 50 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 42 (0.89%) KDB
19 33 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 149 (3.16%) JIRA
2 99 (2.10%) Git
3 90 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.17%) Cypress.io
5 51 (1.08%) GitLab
6 47 (1.00%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.72%) JUnit
8 32 (0.68%) Selenium
9 29 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.40%) ERwin
10 19 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.36%) Mockito
12 16 (0.34%) Postman
12 16 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 15 (0.32%) Maven
14 14 (0.30%) Gradle
15 13 (0.28%) SpecFlow
16 12 (0.25%) JMeter
17 11 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,274 (27.00%) Banking
2 1,120 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 565 (11.97%) Front Office
4 541 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (6.44%) Investment Banking
6 255 (5.40%) Public Sector
7 216 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 201 (4.26%) Marketing
9 152 (3.22%) Telecoms
10 150 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 145 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 142 (3.01%) Retail
13 114 (2.42%) Electronics
14 111 (2.35%) Legal
15 103 (2.18%) Back Office
16 90 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 85 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
18 66 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
19 59 (1.25%) General Ledger
20 57 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 895 (18.97%) Developer
2 781 (16.55%) Analyst
3 488 (10.34%) Senior
4 419 (8.88%) Architect
5 413 (8.75%) Project Manager
6 399 (8.46%) Business Analyst
7 335 (7.10%) Lead
8 313 (6.63%) Consultant
9 231 (4.90%) Software Engineer
10 191 (4.05%) Financial Analyst
11 170 (3.60%) Python Developer
12 147 (3.12%) Java Developer
13 138 (2.92%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 135 (2.86%) C# Developer
15 133 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
16 129 (2.73%) Senior Developer
17 124 (2.63%) Python Engineer
18 121 (2.56%) Data Analyst
19 120 (2.54%) React Developer
20 108 (2.29%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (5.13%) React
2 228 (4.83%) .NET
3 187 (3.96%) gRPC
4 180 (3.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 133 (2.82%) Pandas
6 123 (2.61%) NumPy
7 117 (2.48%) AngularJS
8 116 (2.46%) Redux
9 107 (2.27%) HTML
9 107 (2.27%) SciPy
10 87 (1.84%) XML
11 81 (1.72%) REST
12 80 (1.70%) CSS
13 78 (1.65%) Web Services
14 76 (1.61%) Material-UI
15 75 (1.59%) Node.js
16 71 (1.50%) Kafka
16 71 (1.50%) Spring
17 62 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
18 53 (1.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 379 (8.03%) Derivative
2 348 (7.37%) Fixed Income
3 343 (7.27%) Hedge funds
4 268 (5.68%) Equities
5 242 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 160 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 145 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 79 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
9 72 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 68 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 66 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 56 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 49 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 45 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
16 43 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 41 (0.87%) Solar Panel
18 40 (0.85%) Reference Data
19 37 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 313 (6.63%) Windows
2 215 (4.56%) Linux
3 150 (3.18%) Unix
4 73 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 61 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 30 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.42%) Android
9 19 (0.40%) Windows 7
10 18 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.17%) Solaris
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.11%) VMS
15 4 (0.085%) CentOS
15 4 (0.085%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.064%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.042%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (22.38%) Agile
2 526 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
3 486 (10.30%) DevOps
4 453 (9.60%) Asset Management
5 445 (9.43%) Software Engineering
6 431 (9.13%) Project Management
7 388 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 381 (8.07%) Migration
9 367 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
10 356 (7.54%) Change Management
11 341 (7.23%) Investment Management
12 307 (6.51%) Analytics
13 299 (6.34%) CI/CD
14 280 (5.93%) Risk Management
15 260 (5.51%) Data Modelling
16 217 (4.60%) Project Delivery
17 208 (4.41%) ERP
18 199 (4.22%) Full Stack Development
18 199 (4.22%) Roadmaps
19 193 (4.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 780 (16.53%) SQL
2 758 (16.06%) Python
3 514 (10.89%) Java
4 392 (8.31%) C#
5 331 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 284 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 172 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.06%) C++
9 69 (1.46%) PL/SQL
10 64 (1.36%) Scala
11 54 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 47 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 43 (0.91%) R
14 40 (0.85%) Perl
14 40 (0.85%) VBA
15 39 (0.83%) Go
16 31 (0.66%) Bash
17 25 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.51%) Rust
19 22 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 456 (9.66%) Degree
2 233 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 190 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 74 (1.57%) CISSP
7 60 (1.27%) CISM
8 51 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 48 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (0.95%) PMP
11 40 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 33 (0.70%) CISA
14 31 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
15 30 (0.64%) PhD
16 29 (0.61%) CCNP
17 25 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.51%) ACCA
19 23 (0.49%) CCNA
20 20 (0.42%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (4.20%) QA
2 155 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 132 (2.80%) PMO
4 68 (1.44%) SLA
5 64 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.21%) GDPR
6 57 (1.21%) NIST
7 31 (0.66%) GRC
8 29 (0.61%) MiFID
8 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.47%) IFRS
12 20 (0.42%) EMIR
13 19 (0.40%) SEPA
14 17 (0.36%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 12 (0.25%) GAAP
17 11 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
18 10 (0.21%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 206 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 94 (1.99%) Docker
3 32 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.34%) IAG
6 13 (0.28%) ACF2
6 13 (0.28%) Firmware
6 13 (0.28%) RACF
7 7 (0.15%) NFS
7 7 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.11%) HDFS
9 4 (0.085%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.085%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.085%) vSphere
10 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.042%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.021%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.021%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 151 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 108 (2.29%) Terraform
3 75 (1.59%) Ansible
4 55 (1.17%) SCCM
5 27 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.51%) Puppet
7 23 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.36%) Grafana
9 16 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.28%) Kibana
12 12 (0.25%) logstash
13 11 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.21%) Netcool
15 9 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.17%) Packer
16 8 (0.17%) Tivoli
17 7 (0.15%) ArcSight ESM
17 7 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 577 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 366 (7.76%) Oracle
3 317 (6.72%) SAP
4 132 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 128 (2.71%) Cisco
6 126 (2.67%) Google
7 72 (1.53%) Databricks
8 66 (1.40%) Bloomberg
9 65 (1.38%) IBM
10 59 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.23%) Citrix
11 58 (1.23%) VMware
12 39 (0.83%) F5
13 38 (0.81%) Workday
14 34 (0.72%) Qualys
14 34 (0.72%) Splunk
15 30 (0.64%) CheckPoint
15 30 (0.64%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.61%) Red Hat
17 27 (0.57%) Informatica