Finance Contracts in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,742 7,495 10,615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.82% 29.80% 27.57%
As % of the General category 42.77% 47.02% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,522 5,578 7,554
10th Percentile £400 £413 £419
25th Percentile £500 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £713
90th Percentile £850 £850 £803
England median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 39 62
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.70 £23.40
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £32.91
Median hourly rate £25.71 £25.71 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.22% +93.48%
75th Percentile £31.72 £26.61 £49.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £42.95 £50.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £27.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.07% -20.06% +70.73%

All General Skills
London

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,086 15,941 23,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.70% 63.38% 60.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,920 11,650 17,094
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 201 275
10th Percentile £15.90 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £48.13 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.40 £70.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 0 708 £600 -8.85% 309
East London 0 87 £585 -0.85% 70
West London +13 34 £410 -27.43% 104
South London -11 22 £568 +8.10% 34
North London +1 2 £561 -0.22% 13
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
1 266 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
2 255 (5.38%) Apache
3 110 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 66 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 65 (1.37%) Confluence
6 41 (0.86%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.46%) SAS
8 18 (0.38%) IIS
9 16 (0.34%) CMS
10 14 (0.30%) nginx
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 10 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.15%) JBoss
12 7 (0.15%) MTS
13 6 (0.13%) MQSeries
14 5 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.11%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.084%) Drupal
15 4 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 182 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 133 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.23%) Sketch
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.13%) InVision
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.084%) InDesign
12 2 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.042%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.042%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.042%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.042%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.042%) Revit
12 2 (0.042%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 75 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 29 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 26 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 25 (0.53%) Endur
6 23 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.46%) Workday HCM
8 21 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
8 21 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
9 20 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
10 18 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
10 18 (0.38%) NetSuite
11 17 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
11 17 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
11 17 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
12 15 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
13 14 (0.30%) Loan IQ
14 13 (0.27%) SAP CO
14 13 (0.27%) SAP FI
14 13 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 830 (17.50%) Azure
2 719 (15.16%) AWS
3 355 (7.49%) GCP
4 249 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 186 (3.92%) dbt
6 176 (3.71%) Snowflake
7 170 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 167 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 128 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 89 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 81 (1.71%) SaaS
12 76 (1.60%) WhatsApp
13 64 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 63 (1.33%) GitHub
15 59 (1.24%) Serverless
16 56 (1.18%) PaaS
17 55 (1.16%) PowerApps
18 45 (0.95%) IaaS
19 40 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
20 37 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 148 (3.12%) Firewall
2 67 (1.41%) DNS
3 42 (0.89%) WAN
4 40 (0.84%) VPN
5 32 (0.67%) Network Security
6 30 (0.63%) LAN
7 28 (0.59%) BGP
7 28 (0.59%) OSPF
8 25 (0.53%) Wireless
9 24 (0.51%) Internet
10 22 (0.46%) SAN
11 21 (0.44%) DHCP
11 21 (0.44%) MPLS
11 21 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.42%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (0.32%) HTTP
14 15 (0.32%) SSH
14 15 (0.32%) SSL
15 12 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 229 (4.83%) Power BI
3 222 (4.68%) Apache Ignite
4 206 (4.34%) SQL Server
5 180 (3.80%) Dremio
6 177 (3.73%) Apache Arrow
7 175 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
8 118 (2.49%) NoSQL
9 114 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
10 104 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (1.71%) Tableau
12 79 (1.67%) Relational Database
13 71 (1.50%) Big Data
14 69 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 59 (1.24%) Metadata
16 50 (1.05%) Oracle Database
16 50 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 48 (1.01%) MySQL
18 42 (0.89%) KDB
19 36 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 170 (3.58%) JIRA
2 112 (2.36%) Git
3 100 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 66 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 53 (1.12%) GitLab
6 46 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 36 (0.76%) JUnit
7 36 (0.76%) Selenium
8 27 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 24 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 24 (0.51%) Postman
10 20 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.36%) JMeter
11 17 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 17 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.34%) ERwin
13 15 (0.32%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.30%) Artifactory
14 14 (0.30%) Mockito
15 13 (0.27%) Gradle
General
1 1,349 (28.45%) Banking
2 1,112 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 607 (12.80%) Front Office
4 533 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 349 (7.36%) Investment Banking
6 244 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 197 (4.15%) Financial Institution
8 195 (4.11%) Marketing
9 151 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 144 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 138 (2.91%) Retail
12 133 (2.80%) Manufacturing
13 106 (2.24%) Electronics
14 95 (2.00%) Legal
15 87 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 79 (1.67%) Back Office
16 79 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 59 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 54 (1.14%) General Ledger
19 44 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 927 (19.55%) Developer
2 758 (15.98%) Analyst
3 531 (11.20%) Senior
4 440 (9.28%) Architect
5 390 (8.22%) Business Analyst
6 382 (8.06%) Project Manager
7 357 (7.53%) Lead
8 295 (6.22%) Consultant
9 269 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 195 (4.11%) Python Developer
11 183 (3.86%) Financial Analyst
12 162 (3.42%) Java Developer
12 162 (3.42%) Python Engineer
13 156 (3.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 146 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
15 137 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
16 136 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 132 (2.78%) React Developer
18 121 (2.55%) C# Developer
19 108 (2.28%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (5.48%) React
2 257 (5.42%) gRPC
3 248 (5.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 231 (4.87%) .NET
5 188 (3.96%) Pandas
6 180 (3.80%) NumPy
7 165 (3.48%) SciPy
8 125 (2.64%) AngularJS
8 125 (2.64%) Redux
9 116 (2.45%) HTML
10 95 (2.00%) REST
11 93 (1.96%) Kafka
12 88 (1.86%) CSS
13 86 (1.81%) XML
14 85 (1.79%) Spring
15 81 (1.71%) Material-UI
16 78 (1.64%) Node.js
17 72 (1.52%) Web Services
18 60 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
19 52 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 403 (8.50%) Fixed Income
2 402 (8.48%) Hedge funds
3 400 (8.44%) Derivative
4 311 (6.56%) Equities
5 300 (6.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 166 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 147 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 78 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 74 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 72 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 66 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 59 (1.24%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 56 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 44 (0.93%) Public Cloud
16 41 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
16 41 (0.86%) Reference Data
16 41 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
17 37 (0.78%) Market Risk
18 36 (0.76%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 292 (6.16%) Windows
2 204 (4.30%) Linux
3 160 (3.37%) Unix
4 78 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 25 (0.53%) Android
6 25 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.36%) Windows 7
10 16 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.17%) VMS
13 7 (0.15%) Solaris
14 5 (0.11%) CentOS
14 5 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.084%) zOS
16 3 (0.063%) AIX
16 3 (0.063%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,160 (24.46%) Agile
2 524 (11.05%) DevOps
3 518 (10.92%) Software Engineering
4 513 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
5 499 (10.52%) Asset Management
6 400 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 391 (8.25%) Project Management
8 382 (8.06%) Migration
9 379 (7.99%) Investment Management
10 357 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
11 340 (7.17%) CI/CD
12 330 (6.96%) Analytics
13 327 (6.90%) Change Management
14 264 (5.57%) Risk Management
15 237 (5.00%) Data Modelling
16 212 (4.47%) Full Stack Development
17 208 (4.39%) Roadmaps
18 203 (4.28%) Computer Science
19 199 (4.20%) Project Delivery
20 198 (4.18%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 852 (17.97%) Python
2 791 (16.68%) SQL
3 584 (12.32%) Java
4 385 (8.12%) JavaScript
5 362 (7.63%) C#
6 340 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 171 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 106 (2.24%) C++
9 64 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 63 (1.33%) Scala
11 53 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 52 (1.10%) Go
13 49 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 47 (0.99%) VBA
15 40 (0.84%) Bash
15 40 (0.84%) Perl
16 39 (0.82%) R
17 27 (0.57%) Kotlin
18 26 (0.55%) VB
19 25 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 464 (9.78%) Degree
2 247 (5.21%) Security Cleared
3 201 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 116 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (1.56%) CISSP
6 72 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 60 (1.27%) CISM
8 57 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 47 (0.99%) PMP
10 43 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 41 (0.86%) DV Cleared
12 38 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (0.78%) CCNP
14 33 (0.70%) CISA
15 30 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
16 29 (0.61%) CCNA
17 26 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
18 23 (0.49%) ACCA
18 23 (0.49%) Azure Certification
19 22 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (4.01%) QA
2 170 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 116 (2.45%) PMO
4 63 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.18%) SLA
6 54 (1.14%) GDPR
7 53 (1.12%) NIST
8 33 (0.70%) Accessibility
9 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.57%) MiFID
11 24 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (0.46%) IFRS
13 21 (0.44%) GRC
14 19 (0.40%) EMIR
14 19 (0.40%) SEPA
15 16 (0.34%) ISO 20022
16 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 11 (0.23%) GAAP
18 10 (0.21%) Basel III
18 10 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 201 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 113 (2.38%) Docker
3 36 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.27%) Firmware
6 12 (0.25%) IAG
7 9 (0.19%) ACF2
7 9 (0.19%) RACF
8 6 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.13%) vSphere
9 5 (0.11%) HDFS
9 5 (0.11%) NFS
10 4 (0.084%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.063%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.042%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.042%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.042%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.021%) vCloud
13 1 (0.021%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 187 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 131 (2.76%) Terraform
3 101 (2.13%) Ansible
4 55 (1.16%) SCCM
5 33 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.65%) Puppet
7 23 (0.49%) Grafana
7 23 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.25%) Kibana
10 12 (0.25%) PingFederate
11 11 (0.23%) logstash
12 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.17%) Netcool
13 7 (0.15%) ArcSight ESM
13 7 (0.15%) Control-M
13 7 (0.15%) Packer
14 6 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 561 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 343 (7.23%) Oracle
3 298 (6.28%) SAP
4 147 (3.10%) Google
5 130 (2.74%) Cisco
6 127 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 76 (1.60%) Databricks
8 74 (1.56%) Bloomberg
9 65 (1.37%) Salesforce
10 62 (1.31%) VMware
11 56 (1.18%) Citrix
12 52 (1.10%) F5
13 47 (0.99%) IBM
14 41 (0.86%) Workday
15 39 (0.82%) CheckPoint
15 39 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 37 (0.78%) Splunk
17 33 (0.70%) Fortinet
17 33 (0.70%) Qualys
18 32 (0.67%) Adobe