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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,704 7,672 10,457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.95% 29.65% 27.12%
As % of the General category 42.71% 46.81% 44.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,469 5,650 7,409
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £508 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +4.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £706
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 45 64
10th Percentile £16.39 £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 £33.57
% change year-on-year +4.90% -23.41% +54.34%

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 11,014 16,388 23,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.10% 63.33% 60.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,866 11,862 16,811
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 233 212 294
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.40 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.18 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -17.33% +31.88%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 0 695 £600 -7.69% 310
East London 0 92 £590 +1.20% 85
West London +8 32 £400 -23.81% 71
South London -7 23 £555 +5.71% 27
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
1 211 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 194 (4.12%) Apache
3 113 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 66 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 57 (1.21%) Confluence
6 37 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.45%) SAS
8 19 (0.40%) CMS
9 16 (0.34%) IIS
10 11 (0.23%) nginx
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.19%) MTS
12 8 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.15%) JBoss
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.13%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.11%) MQSeries
16 4 (0.085%) WebSphere
17 3 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 196 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 81 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 45 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.28%) Sketch
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.17%) InVision
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.085%) InDesign
11 3 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.043%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.043%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.043%) Revit
12 2 (0.043%) SPSS
13 1 (0.021%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.021%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 81 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 28 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 26 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
6 23 (0.49%) Endur
6 23 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 23 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
7 22 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 22 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 19 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
9 18 (0.38%) NetSuite
10 17 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
10 17 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 16 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
12 15 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
13 14 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 797 (16.94%) Azure
2 640 (13.61%) AWS
3 312 (6.63%) GCP
4 238 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 177 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (2.76%) dbt
7 130 (2.76%) Snowflake
8 129 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 86 (1.83%) Entra ID
10 83 (1.76%) SaaS
11 73 (1.55%) WhatsApp
12 63 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 61 (1.30%) GitHub
14 57 (1.21%) Serverless
15 56 (1.19%) PaaS
15 56 (1.19%) PowerApps
16 47 (1.00%) IaaS
17 38 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
17 38 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.95%) Firewall
2 66 (1.40%) DNS
3 46 (0.98%) WAN
4 40 (0.85%) VPN
5 33 (0.70%) LAN
6 30 (0.64%) Network Security
7 29 (0.62%) Wireless
8 28 (0.60%) BGP
9 27 (0.57%) OSPF
10 24 (0.51%) SAN
11 22 (0.47%) DHCP
11 22 (0.47%) Internet
11 22 (0.47%) MPLS
11 22 (0.47%) TCP/IP
12 21 (0.45%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (0.32%) HTTP
14 15 (0.32%) SSH
14 15 (0.32%) SSL
15 12 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (4.68%) Power BI
2 213 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 180 (3.83%) Data Lake
4 173 (3.68%) Apache Ignite
5 128 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
6 125 (2.66%) Apache Arrow
6 125 (2.66%) Dremio
7 104 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 104 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
8 88 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
9 71 (1.51%) Tableau
10 70 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 67 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 66 (1.40%) Metadata
13 59 (1.25%) Big Data
14 53 (1.13%) MySQL
15 51 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 49 (1.04%) Oracle Database
17 44 (0.94%) KDB
18 34 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 152 (3.23%) JIRA
2 103 (2.19%) Git
3 92 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 51 (1.08%) GitLab
6 46 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.72%) JUnit
7 34 (0.72%) Selenium
8 28 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 22 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 19 (0.40%) ERwin
10 19 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.34%) Mockito
12 16 (0.34%) Postman
13 14 (0.30%) Maven
14 13 (0.28%) Gradle
14 13 (0.28%) SpecFlow
15 12 (0.26%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.26%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,291 (27.44%) Banking
2 1,119 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 578 (12.29%) Front Office
4 536 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 312 (6.63%) Investment Banking
6 253 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 211 (4.49%) Financial Institution
8 194 (4.12%) Marketing
9 151 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 147 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 143 (3.04%) Retail
12 141 (3.00%) Manufacturing
13 110 (2.34%) Electronics
14 105 (2.23%) Legal
15 98 (2.08%) Back Office
16 88 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 84 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
18 65 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
19 59 (1.25%) General Ledger
20 54 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 900 (19.13%) Developer
2 764 (16.24%) Analyst
3 499 (10.61%) Senior
4 428 (9.10%) Architect
5 409 (8.69%) Project Manager
6 383 (8.14%) Business Analyst
7 337 (7.16%) Lead
8 309 (6.57%) Consultant
9 240 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 192 (4.08%) Financial Analyst
11 177 (3.76%) Python Developer
12 150 (3.19%) Java Developer
13 144 (3.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 136 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 134 (2.85%) Python Engineer
16 129 (2.74%) C# Developer
16 129 (2.74%) Senior Developer
17 125 (2.66%) React Developer
18 118 (2.51%) Data Analyst
19 114 (2.42%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (5.31%) React
2 222 (4.72%) .NET
3 204 (4.34%) gRPC
4 197 (4.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 142 (3.02%) Pandas
6 132 (2.81%) NumPy
7 120 (2.55%) Redux
8 117 (2.49%) SciPy
9 115 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 115 (2.44%) HTML
10 88 (1.87%) XML
11 84 (1.79%) CSS
12 80 (1.70%) REST
13 79 (1.68%) Material-UI
13 79 (1.68%) Node.js
14 75 (1.59%) Web Services
15 74 (1.57%) Kafka
16 73 (1.55%) Spring
17 60 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
18 49 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 385 (8.18%) Derivative
2 362 (7.70%) Fixed Income
3 358 (7.61%) Hedge funds
4 280 (5.95%) Equities
5 253 (5.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 162 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 144 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 75 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 74 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 69 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 62 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 59 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 56 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 48 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
15 45 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
16 43 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 41 (0.87%) Solar Panel
18 40 (0.85%) Reference Data
19 37 (0.79%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 308 (6.55%) Windows
2 213 (4.53%) Linux
3 157 (3.34%) Unix
4 74 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 62 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.45%) Android
9 20 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (0.40%) Windows 7
11 16 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 6 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.13%) 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 (0.043%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (22.81%) Agile
2 521 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
3 496 (10.54%) DevOps
4 467 (9.93%) Asset Management
5 456 (9.69%) Software Engineering
6 416 (8.84%) Project Management
7 387 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 380 (8.08%) Migration
9 358 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
10 352 (7.48%) Change Management
11 351 (7.46%) Investment Management
12 307 (6.53%) CI/CD
13 303 (6.44%) Analytics
14 278 (5.91%) Risk Management
15 244 (5.19%) Data Modelling
16 215 (4.57%) Project Delivery
17 204 (4.34%) Full Stack Development
18 199 (4.23%) Roadmaps
19 198 (4.21%) ERP
20 197 (4.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 785 (16.69%) Python
2 782 (16.62%) SQL
3 538 (11.44%) Java
4 383 (8.14%) C#
5 348 (7.40%) JavaScript
6 298 (6.34%) TypeScript
7 172 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 101 (2.15%) C++
9 65 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 63 (1.34%) Scala
11 53 (1.13%) T-SQL
12 51 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 45 (0.96%) Go
14 42 (0.89%) Perl
14 42 (0.89%) R
15 37 (0.79%) VBA
16 34 (0.72%) Bash
17 25 (0.53%) Rust
18 24 (0.51%) Kotlin
19 20 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 449 (9.55%) Degree
2 243 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 198 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 75 (1.59%) CISSP
7 60 (1.28%) CISM
8 49 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 48 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (0.98%) PMP
11 40 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 34 (0.72%) CISA
14 32 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
15 30 (0.64%) CCNP
16 29 (0.62%) PhD
17 25 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
18 24 (0.51%) ACCA
19 23 (0.49%) CCNA
20 20 (0.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (4.27%) QA
2 156 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 132 (2.81%) PMO
4 66 (1.40%) SLA
5 65 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.23%) NIST
7 56 (1.19%) GDPR
8 29 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 28 (0.60%) GRC
9 28 (0.60%) MiFID
10 22 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.45%) IFRS
12 19 (0.40%) SEPA
13 18 (0.38%) EMIR
14 16 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 11 (0.23%) GAAP
17 10 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
18 9 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 209 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 95 (2.02%) Docker
3 33 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.64%) 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 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.043%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.021%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.021%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 158 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 108 (2.30%) Terraform
3 78 (1.66%) Ansible
4 56 (1.19%) SCCM
5 28 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 27 (0.57%) Puppet
7 22 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.40%) Grafana
9 17 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.28%) Kibana
12 12 (0.26%) logstash
12 12 (0.26%) PingFederate
13 10 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.19%) Netcool
15 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.17%) Packer
16 7 (0.15%) ArcSight ESM
16 7 (0.15%) Tivoli
17 6 (0.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 577 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 359 (7.63%) Oracle
3 311 (6.61%) SAP
4 132 (2.81%) Google
4 132 (2.81%) ServiceNow
5 126 (2.68%) Cisco
6 72 (1.53%) Databricks
7 67 (1.42%) Bloomberg
8 58 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.21%) VMware
10 56 (1.19%) Citrix
10 56 (1.19%) IBM
11 42 (0.89%) F5
12 39 (0.83%) Workday
13 35 (0.74%) Splunk
14 34 (0.72%) Qualys
15 32 (0.68%) Palo Alto
16 31 (0.66%) CheckPoint
17 30 (0.64%) Red Hat
18 29 (0.62%) Adobe