Financial Analyst Contracts

Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 350 410
Rank change year-on-year +12 +60 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 262 382 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.71% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 301 398
10th Percentile £313 £350 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £623
90th Percentile £788 £738 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £14.20 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £19.22 - -
75th Percentile £22.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.22 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the UK 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
England +22 243 £550 -4.35% 61
London +50 192 £550 -8.33% 29
Work from Home +86 116 £625 +25.00% 26
UK excluding London +17 60 £500 +11.11% 31
South East -8 23 £375 +47.35% 11
Scotland +42 11 £525 +1.06% 4
Midlands +21 11 £525 -2.33% 4
North of England +8 10 £575 +15.00% 6
West Midlands +21 8 £525 -2.33% 2
North West +20 5 £575 +4.55% 4
East Midlands +12 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -6 3 £406 -18.75% 1
North East +12 2 £588 +80.77% 1
South West - 2 - - 2
East of England +8 1 £425 -12.82% 4

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Financial Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 262 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.06%) Banking
3 77 (29.39%) SQL
4 59 (22.52%) Social Skills
5 57 (21.76%) Asset Management
6 54 (20.61%) Agile
7 53 (20.23%) Investment Management
8 52 (19.85%) Derivative
8 52 (19.85%) Front Office
9 50 (19.08%) Python
10 47 (17.94%) Hedge funds
11 39 (14.89%) ERP
12 38 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
13 36 (13.74%) Business Analysis
14 35 (13.36%) Oracle
15 33 (12.60%) Migration
15 33 (12.60%) Product Ownership
16 32 (12.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 30 (11.45%) Back Office
18 29 (11.07%) AWS
19 27 (10.31%) Equities
19 27 (10.31%) Fixed Income
19 27 (10.31%) SAP
19 27 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
20 26 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 26 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
20 26 (9.92%) Machine Learning
20 26 (9.92%) Analytics
21 25 (9.54%) Data Migration
21 25 (9.54%) Business Intelligence

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.15%) Apache
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) JBoss
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.58%) Aladdin
2 9 (3.44%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (3.05%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (3.05%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (2.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (2.29%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (2.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (1.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (1.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
9 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.07%) AWS
2 15 (5.73%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.58%) Azure
4 7 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.91%) SaaS
6 4 (1.53%) Collibra
6 4 (1.53%) Miro
6 4 (1.53%) OCI
7 3 (1.15%) dbt
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.38%) Asana
9 1 (0.38%) IaaS
9 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.38%) Slack
9 1 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.76%) Wireless
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.73%) Power BI
2 8 (3.05%) SAP HANA
3 6 (2.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.91%) Tableau
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.15%) Metadata
7 2 (0.76%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.76%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.76%) Dremio
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.38%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (2.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Toad
General
1 262 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.06%) Banking
3 59 (22.52%) Social Skills
4 52 (19.85%) Front Office
5 38 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (11.45%) Back Office
7 20 (7.63%) Investment Banking
8 13 (4.96%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.20%) General Ledger
11 8 (3.05%) Billing
11 8 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.67%) Legal
12 7 (2.67%) Retail
13 6 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.91%) SAP PI
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.76%) Swagger
3 2 (0.76%) XML
4 1 (0.38%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.38%) JSON
4 1 (0.38%) Middleware
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.85%) Derivative
2 47 (17.94%) Hedge funds
3 33 (12.60%) Product Ownership
4 32 (12.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (10.31%) Equities
5 27 (10.31%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.76%) FMCG
9 2 (0.76%) iPad
9 2 (0.76%) iPhone
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.91%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (21.76%) Asset Management
2 54 (20.61%) Agile
3 53 (20.23%) Investment Management
4 39 (14.89%) ERP
5 36 (13.74%) Business Analysis
6 33 (12.60%) Migration
7 26 (9.92%) Analytics
7 26 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 26 (9.92%) Machine Learning
7 26 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (9.54%) Data Migration
9 22 (8.40%) Mentoring
9 22 (8.40%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (8.40%) User Stories
10 21 (8.02%) Roadmaps
11 19 (7.25%) GAP Analysis
12 18 (6.87%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (6.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 15 (5.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 77 (29.39%) SQL
2 50 (19.08%) Python
3 20 (7.63%) C#
4 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Scala
5 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.38%) VB
5 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (5.34%) CIMA
2 13 (4.96%) ACCA
2 13 (4.96%) Degree
2 13 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.44%) ICAEW
5 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.76%) CISA
5 2 (0.76%) CISM
5 2 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.34%) GAAP
3 11 (4.20%) IFRS
4 9 (3.44%) PMO
4 9 (3.44%) QA
5 5 (1.91%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.53%) EMIR
6 4 (1.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (13.36%) Oracle
2 27 (10.31%) SAP
3 19 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.73%) Bloomberg
5 12 (4.58%) BISAM
6 5 (1.91%) CyberSource
7 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.76%) Apple
8 2 (0.76%) Ariba
8 2 (0.76%) Cadence
8 2 (0.76%) Databricks
8 2 (0.76%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.76%) Microgen
8 2 (0.76%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.76%) Workday
9 1 (0.38%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.38%) OpenText
9 1 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.38%) Zscaler