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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 4,673 7,556 10,588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.69% 29.71% 27.39%
As % of the General category 42.57% 46.90% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 5,607 7,531
10th Percentile £400 £419 £413
25th Percentile £505 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £628 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +4.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £713
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 46 39 62
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.70 £23.53
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £32.91
Median hourly rate £25.71 £25.71 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.22% +66.98%
75th Percentile £31.72 £26.61 £49.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £42.95 £50.00
England median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +66.07%

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 10,976 16,110 23,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.68% 63.34% 60.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,837 11,743 17,033
10th Percentile £335 £375 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.91%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 200 283
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £18.09
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.86 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.49% +23.05%
75th Percentile £48.44 £52.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.90 £70.00 £64.55
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 0 703 £600 -7.69% 294
East London 0 87 £585 +0.43% 56
West London +9 31 £375 -26.78% 81
South London -11 21 £560 +6.67% 31
North London +3 4 £561 -0.22% 7
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
1 237 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 224 (4.79%) Apache
3 114 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 65 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 60 (1.28%) Confluence
6 39 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.45%) SAS
8 17 (0.36%) CMS
9 16 (0.34%) IIS
10 14 (0.30%) nginx
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 8 (0.17%) MTS
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.15%) JBoss
13 7 (0.15%) Skype for Business
13 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.11%) MQSeries
15 4 (0.086%) Drupal
16 3 (0.064%) Jupyter
Applications
1 183 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 73 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 41 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.24%) Sketch
8 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.13%) InVision
9 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.086%) InDesign
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.043%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.043%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.043%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.043%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.043%) Revit
11 2 (0.043%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 79 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 28 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 24 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
6 23 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 22 (0.47%) Endur
7 22 (0.47%) Workday HCM
8 20 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 20 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
9 18 (0.39%) NetSuite
10 17 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
10 17 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
11 16 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
12 15 (0.32%) Loan IQ
12 15 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 15 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
13 14 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
14 13 (0.28%) Aligne
14 13 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 821 (17.57%) Azure
2 680 (14.55%) AWS
3 329 (7.04%) GCP
4 247 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 172 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 168 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 156 (3.34%) dbt
8 151 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 132 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 90 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 79 (1.69%) SaaS
12 77 (1.65%) WhatsApp
13 65 (1.39%) Power Automate
14 62 (1.33%) GitHub
15 58 (1.24%) PowerApps
16 56 (1.20%) PaaS
17 55 (1.18%) Serverless
18 44 (0.94%) IaaS
19 39 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
20 36 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.00%) Firewall
2 65 (1.39%) DNS
3 43 (0.92%) WAN
4 40 (0.86%) VPN
5 31 (0.66%) LAN
5 31 (0.66%) Network Security
6 27 (0.58%) BGP
6 27 (0.58%) OSPF
6 27 (0.58%) Wireless
7 23 (0.49%) Internet
8 22 (0.47%) SAN
9 21 (0.45%) DHCP
9 21 (0.45%) MPLS
9 21 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 17 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (0.36%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.34%) SSL
12 15 (0.32%) SSH
13 13 (0.28%) HTTP
14 11 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (4.88%) Power BI
2 210 (4.49%) Data Lake
3 206 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 196 (4.19%) Apache Ignite
5 151 (3.23%) Dremio
6 149 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
6 149 (3.19%) Apache Arrow
7 112 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 108 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 93 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 76 (1.63%) Tableau
11 72 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 67 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 63 (1.35%) Big Data
14 61 (1.31%) Metadata
15 52 (1.11%) MySQL
16 50 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 46 (0.98%) Oracle Database
18 42 (0.90%) KDB
19 36 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 166 (3.55%) JIRA
2 107 (2.29%) Git
3 99 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 66 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 55 (1.18%) GitLab
6 48 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 38 (0.81%) JUnit
8 35 (0.75%) Selenium
9 27 (0.58%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.49%) Postman
11 20 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 17 (0.36%) ERwin
12 17 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 16 (0.34%) Mockito
14 15 (0.32%) JMeter
14 15 (0.32%) LoadRunner
14 15 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 14 (0.30%) Maven
16 13 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 1,302 (27.86%) Banking
2 1,091 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 590 (12.63%) Front Office
4 534 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (7.00%) Investment Banking
6 244 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 197 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 191 (4.09%) Marketing
9 154 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 141 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 139 (2.97%) Retail
12 133 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.25%) Electronics
14 92 (1.97%) Legal
15 86 (1.84%) Back Office
16 83 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
17 79 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 56 (1.20%) General Ledger
18 56 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
19 47 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 911 (19.49%) Developer
2 757 (16.20%) Analyst
3 508 (10.87%) Senior
4 419 (8.97%) Architect
5 387 (8.28%) Project Manager
6 385 (8.24%) Business Analyst
7 340 (7.28%) Lead
8 304 (6.51%) Consultant
9 256 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 187 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
11 186 (3.98%) Python Developer
12 155 (3.32%) Java Developer
13 150 (3.21%) Python Engineer
14 149 (3.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 136 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
16 131 (2.80%) Senior Developer
17 130 (2.78%) React Developer
18 127 (2.72%) Python Software Engineer
19 125 (2.67%) C# Developer
20 116 (2.48%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (5.50%) React
2 230 (4.92%) gRPC
3 223 (4.77%) .NET
4 222 (4.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 159 (3.40%) Pandas
6 151 (3.23%) NumPy
7 136 (2.91%) SciPy
8 125 (2.67%) Redux
9 123 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 117 (2.50%) HTML
11 88 (1.88%) XML
12 86 (1.84%) REST
13 85 (1.82%) CSS
14 83 (1.78%) Kafka
15 82 (1.75%) Material-UI
16 79 (1.69%) Node.js
16 79 (1.69%) Spring
17 75 (1.60%) Web Services
18 62 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
19 52 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 391 (8.37%) Derivative
2 381 (8.15%) Hedge funds
3 378 (8.09%) Fixed Income
4 293 (6.27%) Equities
5 274 (5.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 163 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 145 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 79 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 78 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 64 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 62 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 59 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 57 (1.22%) Data Centre
13 57 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 45 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 40 (0.86%) Public Cloud
15 40 (0.86%) Reference Data
15 40 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
16 36 (0.77%) Solar Panel
17 35 (0.75%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 291 (6.23%) Windows
2 208 (4.45%) Linux
3 158 (3.38%) Unix
4 74 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.49%) Android
9 21 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.39%) Windows 7
11 16 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.15%) VMS
14 6 (0.13%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) CentOS
15 5 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.086%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.064%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.043%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,113 (23.82%) Agile
2 517 (11.06%) DevOps
3 507 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
4 489 (10.46%) Software Engineering
5 479 (10.25%) Asset Management
6 391 (8.37%) Project Management
7 387 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 371 (7.94%) Migration
9 369 (7.90%) Investment Management
10 355 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
11 333 (7.13%) Change Management
12 321 (6.87%) CI/CD
13 315 (6.74%) Analytics
14 267 (5.71%) Risk Management
15 242 (5.18%) Data Modelling
16 209 (4.47%) Full Stack Development
17 198 (4.24%) Roadmaps
18 194 (4.15%) Project Delivery
19 191 (4.09%) Fintech
20 190 (4.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 818 (17.50%) Python
2 775 (16.58%) SQL
3 560 (11.98%) Java
4 367 (7.85%) C#
4 367 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 316 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 169 (3.62%) PowerShell
7 106 (2.27%) C++
8 63 (1.35%) Scala
9 60 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 53 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.05%) T-SQL
12 47 (1.01%) Go
13 41 (0.88%) Perl
13 41 (0.88%) VBA
14 38 (0.81%) R
15 37 (0.79%) Bash
16 28 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.49%) Rust
18 22 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 438 (9.37%) Degree
2 244 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 196 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 102 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (1.58%) CISSP
6 69 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.26%) CISM
8 53 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 43 (0.92%) PMP
10 42 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 37 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (0.73%) CCNP
13 33 (0.71%) CISA
14 31 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
15 26 (0.56%) CCNA
15 26 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.51%) PhD
17 23 (0.49%) ACCA
18 21 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (4.13%) QA
2 165 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 121 (2.59%) PMO
4 64 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (1.26%) SLA
6 56 (1.20%) GDPR
7 52 (1.11%) NIST
8 34 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 32 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.56%) MiFID
11 24 (0.51%) GRC
12 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.43%) IFRS
14 19 (0.41%) SEPA
15 18 (0.39%) EMIR
16 16 (0.34%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 11 (0.24%) GAAP
19 10 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
20 9 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 210 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 109 (2.33%) Docker
3 34 (0.73%) 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 5 (0.11%) HDFS
7 5 (0.11%) NFS
8 4 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.086%) vSphere
9 3 (0.064%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.043%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.021%) vCloud
11 1 (0.021%) XenApp
11 1 (0.021%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 175 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 122 (2.61%) Terraform
3 91 (1.95%) Ansible
4 57 (1.22%) SCCM
5 33 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.64%) Puppet
7 23 (0.49%) Grafana
8 22 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.26%) Kibana
11 12 (0.26%) PingFederate
12 11 (0.24%) logstash
13 9 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.17%) Netcool
15 7 (0.15%) ArcSight ESM
15 7 (0.15%) Packer
16 6 (0.13%) Tivoli
17 5 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 565 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 339 (7.25%) Oracle
3 299 (6.40%) SAP
4 142 (3.04%) Google
5 132 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 124 (2.65%) Cisco
7 73 (1.56%) Databricks
8 65 (1.39%) Bloomberg
9 63 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 57 (1.22%) VMware
11 54 (1.16%) Citrix
12 51 (1.09%) IBM
13 47 (1.01%) F5
14 38 (0.81%) Workday
15 36 (0.77%) Palo Alto
16 35 (0.75%) CheckPoint
16 35 (0.75%) Splunk
17 33 (0.71%) Qualys
18 30 (0.64%) Adobe
19 28 (0.60%) Fortinet