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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 353 413
Rank change year-on-year +25 +60 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 259 383 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.71% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 301 406
10th Percentile £313 £350 £344
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £611
90th Percentile £788 £738 £656
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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
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% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

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 20 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 20 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 +30 239 £550 -4.35% 65
London +46 188 £550 -8.33% 39
Work from Home +78 116 £625 +25.00% 26
UK excluding London +11 60 £500 +11.11% 37
South East 0 23 £375 +47.35% 18
Scotland +48 12 £525 +5.00% 5
Midlands +12 11 £525 -2.33% 3
North of England +12 10 £575 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +16 8 £525 -2.33% 3
North West +18 6 £575 +4.55% 3
East Midlands +16 3 - -
North East +14 2 £588 +80.77% 1
Yorkshire -2 2 £288 -42.50%
South West - 2 - - 1
East of England +8 1 £425 -13.92% 5

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 259 (100.00%) Finance
2 85 (32.82%) Banking
3 76 (29.34%) SQL
4 59 (22.78%) Social Skills
5 57 (22.01%) Asset Management
6 55 (21.24%) Agile
7 53 (20.46%) Investment Management
8 52 (20.08%) Derivative
8 52 (20.08%) Front Office
9 50 (19.31%) Python
10 47 (18.15%) Hedge funds
11 38 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
12 37 (14.29%) ERP
13 36 (13.90%) Business Analysis
14 33 (12.74%) Product Ownership
15 32 (12.36%) Oracle
15 32 (12.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 32 (12.36%) Migration
16 30 (11.58%) Back Office
17 29 (11.20%) AWS
18 27 (10.42%) Fixed Income
18 27 (10.42%) Equities
18 27 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
19 26 (10.04%) SAP
19 26 (10.04%) Artificial Intelligence
19 26 (10.04%) Machine Learning
19 26 (10.04%) Analytics
20 25 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
20 25 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
21 24 (9.27%) Data Migration

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 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.16%) Apache
2 3 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.63%) Aladdin
2 9 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (3.09%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (2.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (2.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.39%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.20%) AWS
2 15 (5.79%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.63%) Azure
4 7 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.93%) SaaS
6 4 (1.54%) Collibra
6 4 (1.54%) Miro
6 4 (1.54%) OCI
7 3 (1.16%) dbt
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.39%) Asana
9 1 (0.39%) IaaS
9 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.39%) Slack
9 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.77%) Wireless
2 1 (0.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.79%) Power BI
2 8 (3.09%) SAP HANA
3 6 (2.32%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.93%) Tableau
5 4 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.16%) Metadata
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.77%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.77%) Dremio
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.39%) QlikView
8 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 8 (3.09%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) Toad
General
1 259 (100.00%) Finance
2 85 (32.82%) Banking
3 59 (22.78%) Social Skills
4 52 (20.08%) Front Office
5 38 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (11.58%) Back Office
7 20 (7.72%) Investment Banking
8 13 (5.02%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.63%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.86%) General Ledger
11 8 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.70%) Billing
12 7 (2.70%) Legal
13 6 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.32%) Retail
14 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.93%) SAP PI
2 4 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.77%) Swagger
3 2 (0.77%) XML
4 1 (0.39%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.39%) JSON
4 1 (0.39%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.08%) Derivative
2 47 (18.15%) Hedge funds
3 33 (12.74%) Product Ownership
4 32 (12.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 27 (10.42%) Equities
5 27 (10.42%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.09%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.16%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.77%) FMCG
9 2 (0.77%) iPad
9 2 (0.77%) iPhone
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.93%) Windows
2 3 (1.16%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (22.01%) Asset Management
2 55 (21.24%) Agile
3 53 (20.46%) Investment Management
4 37 (14.29%) ERP
5 36 (13.90%) Business Analysis
6 32 (12.36%) Migration
7 26 (10.04%) Analytics
7 26 (10.04%) Artificial Intelligence
7 26 (10.04%) Machine Learning
8 25 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (9.27%) Data Migration
10 22 (8.49%) Mentoring
10 22 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (8.49%) User Stories
11 21 (8.11%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.95%) GAP Analysis
12 18 (6.95%) Requirements Gathering
13 15 (5.79%) Project Management
13 15 (5.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (29.34%) SQL
2 50 (19.31%) Python
3 20 (7.72%) C#
4 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.39%) Java
5 1 (0.39%) Scala
5 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.39%) VB
5 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (5.41%) CIMA
2 13 (5.02%) ACCA
2 13 (5.02%) Degree
2 13 (5.02%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.47%) ICAEW
5 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.77%) CISA
5 2 (0.77%) CISM
5 2 (0.77%) CISSP
6 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) ISEB
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.41%) GAAP
3 10 (3.86%) IFRS
4 9 (3.47%) PMO
4 9 (3.47%) QA
5 5 (1.93%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.54%) EMIR
6 4 (1.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.77%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (12.36%) Oracle
2 26 (10.04%) SAP
3 18 (6.95%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.79%) Bloomberg
5 12 (4.63%) BISAM
6 5 (1.93%) 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%) Microgen
8 2 (0.77%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.39%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.39%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.39%) Splunk
9 1 (0.39%) Workday
9 1 (0.39%) Zscaler