Financial Analyst Contracts

Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 360 413
Rank change year-on-year +11 +53 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 258 378 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.72% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 301 409
10th Percentile £313 £363 £344
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 £650 £700 £600
90th Percentile £788 £760 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £425
% change year-on-year +6.57% +10.40% -
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

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 11 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 11 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 +20 240 £550 -8.33% 51
London +13 183 £550 -12.00% 29
Work from Home +64 119 £625 +20.19% 22
UK excluding London +14 66 £500 +6.57% 25
South East +3 27 £450 +34.33% 8
Scotland +42 12 £525 +5.00% 4
North of England +15 12 £575 +15.00% 3
Midlands +11 11 £525 - 4
West Midlands +10 8 £525 -2.33% 3
North West +17 7 £463 -15.91% 2
North East +12 3 £588 +62.07%
East Midlands +6 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -13 2 £288 -43.63% 1
South West - 2 - -
East of England 0 1 £425 -13.92% 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 258 (100.00%) Finance
2 80 (31.01%) Banking
3 74 (28.68%) SQL
4 62 (24.03%) Agile
5 55 (21.32%) Social Skills
6 54 (20.93%) Asset Management
7 51 (19.77%) Derivative
7 51 (19.77%) Investment Management
7 51 (19.77%) Front Office
8 49 (18.99%) Python
9 46 (17.83%) Hedge funds
10 41 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
11 38 (14.73%) Product Ownership
12 37 (14.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 35 (13.57%) Business Analysis
14 33 (12.79%) AWS
14 33 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (12.40%) Fixed Income
15 32 (12.40%) Equities
16 31 (12.02%) Migration
16 31 (12.02%) ERP
17 30 (11.63%) Oracle
18 29 (11.24%) Analytics
19 28 (10.85%) Machine Learning
19 28 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
20 27 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
20 27 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
21 25 (9.69%) Power Platform
21 25 (9.69%) Power BI
22 24 (9.30%) Back Office

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 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (0.78%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.65%) Aladdin
2 7 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.39%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.39%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.79%) AWS
2 25 (9.69%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.20%) Azure
4 12 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.33%) dbt
5 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.55%) Collibra
6 4 (1.55%) Miro
6 4 (1.55%) SaaS
7 3 (1.16%) OCI
8 2 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.69%) Power BI
2 11 (4.26%) Tableau
3 7 (2.71%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.33%) SAP HANA
4 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (1.94%) Dremio
5 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.55%) Big Data
6 4 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.16%) Metadata
7 3 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.39%) QlikView
9 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (3.10%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Toad
General
1 258 (100.00%) Finance
2 80 (31.01%) Banking
3 55 (21.32%) Social Skills
4 51 (19.77%) Front Office
5 41 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.30%) Back Office
7 21 (8.14%) Investment Banking
8 15 (5.81%) General Ledger
9 12 (4.65%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.26%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.33%) Legal
12 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.94%) Retail
14 4 (1.55%) Billing
15 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.94%) SAP PI
2 4 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.78%) 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 51 (19.77%) Derivative
2 46 (17.83%) Hedge funds
3 38 (14.73%) Product Ownership
4 37 (14.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (12.40%) Equities
5 32 (12.40%) Fixed Income
6 9 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.78%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.39%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.39%) iPad
11 1 (0.39%) iPhone
11 1 (0.39%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.94%) Windows
2 3 (1.16%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.03%) Agile
2 54 (20.93%) Asset Management
3 51 (19.77%) Investment Management
4 35 (13.57%) Business Analysis
5 33 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (12.02%) ERP
6 31 (12.02%) Migration
7 29 (11.24%) Analytics
8 28 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 28 (10.85%) Machine Learning
9 27 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (9.30%) Data Migration
11 23 (8.91%) User Stories
12 20 (7.75%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.98%) GAP Analysis
13 18 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.20%) Mentoring
14 16 (6.20%) Requirements Gathering
14 16 (6.20%) User Acceptance Testing
15 15 (5.81%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.68%) SQL
2 49 (18.99%) Python
3 14 (5.43%) C#
4 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.39%) Java
5 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.39%) VB
5 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (6.20%) Degree
2 14 (5.43%) CIMA
3 13 (5.04%) ACCA
3 13 (5.04%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.49%) ICAEW
6 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) CISA
6 2 (0.78%) CISM
6 2 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.39%) ISEB
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.04%) GAAP
3 11 (4.26%) IFRS
4 8 (3.10%) PMO
4 8 (3.10%) QA
5 5 (1.94%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.55%) EMIR
6 4 (1.55%) MiFID
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (11.63%) Oracle
2 23 (8.91%) SAP
3 21 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.81%) Bloomberg
5 12 (4.65%) BISAM
6 5 (1.94%) CyberSource
7 4 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.78%) Ariba
8 2 (0.78%) Cadence
8 2 (0.78%) Databricks
8 2 (0.78%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.78%) IFS
8 2 (0.78%) Microgen
8 2 (0.78%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.39%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.39%) Concur
9 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.39%) Workday
9 1 (0.39%) Zscaler