Finance Contracts in Central London

Financial
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 703 1,154 1,263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 29.34% 30.94% 28.11%
As % of the General category 44.33% 49.42% 49.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 817 848
10th Percentile £350 £455 £350
25th Percentile £475 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +4.45%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £695
90th Percentile £838 £865 £788
London median daily rate £601 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -4.30% +4.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £38.93 - -
25th Percentile £56.81 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £87.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.29% +34.62% +79.74%
75th Percentile £118.31 - £33.88
90th Percentile £136.58 - £45.05
London median hourly rate £25.71 £25.71 £44.50
% change year-on-year - -42.22% +66.98%

All General Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,586 2,335 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 66.19% 62.60% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,645 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £325 £339
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
London median daily rate £575 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 29
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £14.88 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.18 £20.71 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -48.88% +102.50%
75th Percentile £35.69 £38.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £49.60 £53.35 £61.90
London median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year - -15.49% +22.73%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London 0 653 £600 -8.40% 252
City of Westminster +1 8 £700 +164.15% 4
Camden +2 5 £425 - 3
Southwark +7 4 £525 +5.00%
West End of London -4 4 £275 +3.77% 4
Lambeth - 1 £245 -
Finance
London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 37 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.71%) Confluence
4 7 (1.00%) CMS
4 7 (1.00%) SAS
5 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.57%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.43%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 37 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) SPSS
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.43%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.43%) SAP MRS
4 3 (0.43%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.28%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 126 (17.92%) Azure
2 63 (8.96%) AWS
3 47 (6.69%) Power Platform
4 37 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (4.55%) WhatsApp
6 27 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
7 25 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.56%) GCP
8 21 (2.99%) PowerApps
9 20 (2.84%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.70%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.56%) SaaS
12 10 (1.42%) GitHub
13 9 (1.28%) Collibra
14 8 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.00%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.69%) Firewall
2 12 (1.71%) SAN
3 10 (1.42%) DNS
4 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.85%) VoIP
5 5 (0.71%) SSL
5 5 (0.71%) VPN
6 4 (0.57%) HTTP
6 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.57%) SSH
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) FTP
7 3 (0.43%) ICMP
7 3 (0.43%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.43%) Network Security
7 3 (0.43%) POP3
7 3 (0.43%) SMTP
8 2 (0.28%) CTI
8 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.97%) Power BI
2 19 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 14 (1.99%) Metadata
5 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.71%) Tableau
6 9 (1.28%) KDB
7 8 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.00%) Big Data
8 7 (1.00%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (0.85%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.57%) Siebel EIM
11 3 (0.43%) MySQL
11 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.70%) JIRA
2 16 (2.28%) GitLab
2 16 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.56%) Git
4 5 (0.71%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.57%) Selenium
6 3 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.43%) webpack
7 2 (0.28%) Appium
7 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.28%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.28%) JUnit
7 2 (0.28%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Darcs
8 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 174 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 146 (20.77%) Banking
3 72 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.97%) Financial Institution
5 32 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (4.13%) Investment Banking
8 28 (3.98%) Legal
9 24 (3.41%) Retail
10 20 (2.84%) Marketing
11 16 (2.28%) Front Office
12 14 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.85%) Law
14 12 (1.71%) General Ledger
14 12 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.56%) Advertising
16 9 (1.28%) Back Office
16 9 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (18.07%) Analyst
2 88 (12.52%) Developer
3 72 (10.24%) Architect
4 64 (9.10%) Senior
5 63 (8.96%) Business Analyst
6 61 (8.68%) Consultant
7 60 (8.53%) Project Manager
8 45 (6.40%) Lead
9 36 (5.12%) Data Analyst
10 24 (3.41%) Financial Analyst
11 21 (2.99%) Support Engineer
12 18 (2.56%) Security Architect
13 17 (2.42%) Microsoft Consultant
14 16 (2.28%) Finance Business Analyst
14 16 (2.28%) Security Consultant
15 14 (1.99%) Java Developer
15 14 (1.99%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.85%) Senior Developer
17 12 (1.71%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.13%) HTML
2 20 (2.84%) .NET
2 20 (2.84%) React
3 18 (2.56%) XML
4 17 (2.42%) CSS
5 16 (2.28%) REST
6 12 (1.71%) Kafka
7 11 (1.56%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (1.28%) Web Services
9 8 (1.14%) JSON
9 8 (1.14%) OpenID
9 8 (1.14%) SAML
10 7 (1.00%) Node.js
10 7 (1.00%) Spring
11 6 (0.85%) ASP.NET
11 6 (0.85%) jQuery
11 6 (0.85%) Middleware
11 6 (0.85%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.56%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.28%) Onboarding
3 16 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
4 15 (2.13%) Derivative
5 14 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.42%) PKI
9 9 (1.28%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.14%) Equities
11 7 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.71%) Credit Risk
13 5 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.71%) Photography
13 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.11%) Windows
2 24 (3.41%) Linux
3 14 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 14 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (1.85%) Unix
5 7 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.43%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (18.63%) Agile
2 82 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 75 (10.67%) DevOps
3 75 (10.67%) Project Management
4 71 (10.10%) Migration
5 70 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (7.97%) Business Intelligence
7 54 (7.68%) CI/CD
8 52 (7.40%) Risk Management
9 48 (6.83%) Analytics
10 45 (6.40%) Change Management
11 44 (6.26%) User Acceptance Testing
12 42 (5.97%) Cybersecurity
13 40 (5.69%) Data Management
14 37 (5.26%) User Stories
15 36 (5.12%) Requirements Gathering
16 35 (4.98%) Information Security
17 33 (4.69%) Computer Science
18 32 (4.55%) Data Analysis
18 32 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.79%) SQL
2 84 (11.95%) Python
3 46 (6.54%) Java
4 38 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 35 (4.98%) C#
6 29 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.85%) C++
8 9 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.14%) R
9 8 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.00%) Bash
11 6 (0.85%) Rust
11 6 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.71%) VBA
13 4 (0.57%) ABAP
13 4 (0.57%) Go
13 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.43%) Perl
14 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 79 (11.24%) Degree
2 29 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (1.42%) CISSP
7 8 (1.14%) CISM
7 8 (1.14%) CRISC
7 8 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.14%) PMP
8 7 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.85%) ACCA
9 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.57%) CISA
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.43%) CCNA
12 3 (0.43%) CCNP
12 3 (0.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.26%) QA
2 35 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.56%) PMO
4 21 (2.99%) NIST
5 18 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.14%) GDPR
9 6 (0.85%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.71%) GRC
11 4 (0.57%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.57%) SLA
12 3 (0.43%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) IFRS
13 2 (0.28%) P3O
13 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.99%) Docker
3 8 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (3.27%) Terraform
2 21 (2.99%) SCCM
3 20 (2.84%) Ansible
4 19 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.28%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.71%) Grafana
8 5 (0.71%) Kibana
8 5 (0.71%) logstash
8 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.71%) Puppet
9 4 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.43%) Control-M
10 3 (0.43%) Packer
10 3 (0.43%) QRadar
11 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 121 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.12%) Oracle
3 35 (4.98%) SAP
4 24 (3.41%) Cisco
5 20 (2.84%) Google
6 17 (2.42%) Citrix
7 16 (2.28%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.13%) CheckPoint
8 15 (2.13%) IBM
9 14 (1.99%) Avaya
10 13 (1.85%) HP
10 13 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.71%) EMC
12 9 (1.28%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.14%) Adobe
13 8 (1.14%) Databricks
13 8 (1.14%) Okta
14 7 (1.00%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.85%) VMware
16 5 (0.71%) Fortinet