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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 349 407
Rank change year-on-year +18 +58 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 260 379 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.71% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 301 412
10th Percentile £308 £363 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £600
90th Percentile £788 £740 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £457 £425
% change year-on-year +9.48% +7.46% -
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 1 June 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 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
England +11 242 £550 -6.38% 56
London +43 187 £550 -12.00% 34
Work from Home +77 121 £625 +25.00% 53
UK excluding London +4 64 £500 +9.48% 22
South East -4 26 £425 +32.81% 6
Scotland +42 12 £525 +5.00% 2
Midlands +18 11 £525 - 3
North of England +7 11 £463 -7.50% 5
West Midlands +12 8 £525 -2.33% 1
North West +24 7 £463 -15.91% 4
East Midlands +9 3 - - 2
North East +12 2 £588 +62.07%
Yorkshire -1 2 £288 -42.50% 1
South West - 2 - - 1
East of England +2 1 £425 -13.92% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 260 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.31%) Banking
3 75 (28.85%) SQL
4 60 (23.08%) Agile
5 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
6 56 (21.54%) Asset Management
7 53 (20.38%) Investment Management
7 53 (20.38%) Front Office
8 52 (20.00%) Derivative
9 51 (19.62%) Python
10 48 (18.46%) Hedge funds
11 38 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
12 37 (14.23%) Business Analysis
13 36 (13.85%) Product Ownership
14 35 (13.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 34 (13.08%) ERP
16 32 (12.31%) Migration
17 31 (11.92%) Oracle
17 31 (11.92%) AWS
18 30 (11.54%) Fixed Income
18 30 (11.54%) Equities
19 29 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
20 28 (10.77%) Back Office
21 27 (10.38%) Machine Learning
21 27 (10.38%) Analytics
21 27 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
21 27 (10.38%) Microsoft Excel
22 26 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
23 24 (9.23%) Data Migration
24 23 (8.85%) SAP

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 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.92%) Apache
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (10.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.62%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.69%) Oracle Financials
2 7 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.92%) AWS
2 22 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.77%) Azure
4 10 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.92%) dbt
6 5 (1.92%) SaaS
7 4 (1.54%) Collibra
7 4 (1.54%) Miro
8 3 (1.15%) OCI
9 2 (0.77%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.38%) Asana
10 1 (0.38%) IaaS
10 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.38%) Slack
10 1 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.77%) Wireless
2 1 (0.38%) DNS
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.46%) Power BI
2 7 (2.69%) Tableau
3 6 (2.31%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.31%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
5 4 (1.54%) Dremio
5 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.15%) Big Data
6 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.15%) Metadata
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.77%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) Toad
General
1 260 (100.00%) Finance
2 84 (32.31%) Banking
3 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
4 53 (20.38%) Front Office
5 38 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (10.77%) Back Office
7 22 (8.46%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.23%) General Ledger
9 11 (4.23%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.69%) Billing
12 6 (2.31%) Legal
12 6 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.92%) Retail
14 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) SAP PI
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.77%) 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%) Swagger
4 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.00%) Derivative
2 48 (18.46%) Hedge funds
3 36 (13.85%) Product Ownership
4 35 (13.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (11.54%) Equities
5 30 (11.54%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.77%) iPad
8 2 (0.77%) iPhone
8 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.77%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.38%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.08%) Agile
2 56 (21.54%) Asset Management
3 53 (20.38%) Investment Management
4 37 (14.23%) Business Analysis
5 34 (13.08%) ERP
6 32 (12.31%) Migration
7 29 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (10.38%) Analytics
8 27 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 27 (10.38%) Machine Learning
9 26 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (9.23%) Data Migration
11 23 (8.85%) User Stories
12 20 (7.69%) Mentoring
12 20 (7.69%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (6.92%) GAP Analysis
15 17 (6.54%) Requirements Gathering
16 16 (6.15%) User Acceptance Testing
17 15 (5.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (28.85%) SQL
2 51 (19.62%) Python
3 18 (6.92%) C#
4 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.38%) VB
5 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (5.38%) CIMA
1 14 (5.38%) Degree
2 13 (5.00%) ACCA
2 13 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.46%) ICAEW
5 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.77%) CISA
5 2 (0.77%) CISM
5 2 (0.77%) 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 16 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.38%) GAAP
3 10 (3.85%) IFRS
4 9 (3.46%) PMO
4 9 (3.46%) QA
5 5 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.54%) EMIR
6 4 (1.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (11.92%) Oracle
2 23 (8.85%) SAP
3 21 (8.08%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.77%) Bloomberg
5 12 (4.62%) BISAM
6 5 (1.92%) CyberSource
7 4 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.77%) Apple
8 2 (0.77%) Ariba
8 2 (0.77%) Cadence
8 2 (0.77%) Databricks
8 2 (0.77%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.77%) IFS
8 2 (0.77%) Microgen
8 2 (0.77%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.38%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.38%) Concur
9 1 (0.38%) Workday
9 1 (0.38%) Zscaler