Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,058 12,043 18,018
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.78% 21.45% 20.57%
As % of the General category 32.59% 36.62% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 8,577 12,763
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £463 £495 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £675
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 107 149
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.50 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.28 £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.97 £27.98 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -20.06% +60.92%
75th Percentile £38.12 £51.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.00 £53.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +53.23% +77.14%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,727 32,883 49,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.62% 58.56% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,561 22,792 34,447
10th Percentile £275 £313 £324
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,973 991 1,415
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.56 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.57% +42.77% +0.31%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -1 7,050 £590 -1.67% 6,403
London 0 4,681 £600 -4.76% 3,003
Work from Home +1 3,288 £600 - 2,956
UK excluding London +1 2,583 £500 -4.76% 3,601
South East -4 652 £500 -4.76% 827
North of England +2 634 £500 -8.17% 978
Midlands +4 382 £548 +9.50% 613
North West +4 364 £489 -6.86% 581
Scotland 0 361 £475 -5.00% 324
South West +2 329 £550 -4.35% 445
West Midlands +3 263 £535 +1.90% 382
Yorkshire 0 246 £500 -9.09% 276
East of England +1 192 £500 -1.96% 309
East Midlands +8 110 £550 +15.79% 230
Northern Ireland +2 29 £450 -5.26% 76
North East +2 19 £500 -16.67% 129
Wales -7 18 £550 +4.76% 115
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 +96.20% 6

Finance
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
1 241 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 230 (2.85%) Apache
3 178 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 113 (1.40%) Confluence
5 78 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.47%) SAS
8 25 (0.31%) IIS
9 24 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 22 (0.27%) CMS
11 20 (0.25%) nginx
12 17 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 16 (0.20%) JBoss
14 15 (0.19%) Skype for Business
15 13 (0.16%) WebSphere
16 12 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 9 (0.11%) MTS
18 8 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
19 7 (0.087%) WebSphere Application Server
20 5 (0.062%) MQSeries
Applications
1 433 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 308 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 175 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 109 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 65 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 13 (0.16%) Sketch
9 12 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.099%) InVision
12 6 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.062%) CPLEX
14 4 (0.050%) Acrobat
14 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.050%) InDesign
15 3 (0.037%) SPSS
16 2 (0.025%) Adobe After Effects
16 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
16 2 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 183 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 69 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 67 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 57 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 53 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 47 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
6 47 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 43 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
7 43 (0.53%) SAP FI
8 37 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
9 36 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 35 (0.43%) Aladdin
11 34 (0.42%) NetSuite
11 34 (0.42%) SAP CO
12 33 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
13 32 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
14 30 (0.37%) Endur
15 28 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
16 23 (0.29%) Workday HCM
17 21 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,139 (14.14%) Azure
2 877 (10.88%) AWS
3 427 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 389 (4.83%) GCP
5 272 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
6 252 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 244 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 181 (2.25%) Snowflake
9 156 (1.94%) dbt
10 131 (1.63%) SaaS
11 106 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 98 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 94 (1.17%) GitHub
14 91 (1.13%) WhatsApp
15 90 (1.12%) PowerApps
16 84 (1.04%) OCI
17 76 (0.94%) Serverless
18 70 (0.87%) PaaS
19 56 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
20 55 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 209 (2.59%) Firewall
2 102 (1.27%) WAN
3 90 (1.12%) DNS
4 77 (0.96%) VPN
5 67 (0.83%) BGP
6 63 (0.78%) LAN
7 57 (0.71%) MPLS
8 56 (0.69%) Wireless
9 49 (0.61%) Network Security
10 45 (0.56%) DMZ
11 43 (0.53%) SSL
12 40 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 39 (0.48%) OSPF
14 38 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
15 35 (0.43%) Internet
16 34 (0.42%) TCP/IP
17 31 (0.38%) Intranet
18 30 (0.37%) DHCP
18 30 (0.37%) SAN
19 29 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (4.67%) Power BI
2 284 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 236 (2.93%) Data Lake
4 194 (2.41%) Apache Ignite
5 152 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 147 (1.82%) Dremio
7 145 (1.80%) Apache Arrow
8 133 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 129 (1.60%) NoSQL
10 128 (1.59%) Tableau
11 126 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
12 98 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 96 (1.19%) Big Data
14 80 (0.99%) Metadata
14 80 (0.99%) MySQL
14 80 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
15 76 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 65 (0.81%) Oracle Database
17 59 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 44 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 354 (4.39%) JIRA
2 148 (1.84%) Git
3 134 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 74 (0.92%) GitLab
5 69 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 56 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.60%) JUnit
8 46 (0.57%) Selenium
9 33 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 26 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 22 (0.27%) Maven
12 22 (0.27%) Postman
12 22 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 21 (0.26%) JMeter
14 20 (0.25%) ERwin
15 18 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (0.21%) Gradle
17 16 (0.20%) Artifactory
17 16 (0.20%) Mockito
General
1 2,022 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 1,835 (22.77%) Banking
3 959 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 627 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 607 (7.53%) Front Office
6 429 (5.32%) Marketing
7 421 (5.22%) Telecoms
8 382 (4.74%) Manufacturing
9 343 (4.26%) Investment Banking
10 276 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 266 (3.30%) Electronics
11 266 (3.30%) Financial Institution
12 257 (3.19%) Retail
13 230 (2.85%) Legal
14 196 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
15 182 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 181 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
17 110 (1.37%) Back Office
17 110 (1.37%) Law
18 93 (1.15%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,263 (15.67%) Analyst
2 1,163 (14.43%) Developer
3 854 (10.60%) Architect
4 781 (9.69%) Project Manager
5 758 (9.41%) Senior
6 631 (7.83%) Lead
7 551 (6.84%) Business Analyst
8 546 (6.78%) Consultant
9 289 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
10 280 (3.47%) Software Engineer
11 257 (3.19%) Financial Analyst
12 225 (2.79%) Data Analyst
13 200 (2.48%) Java Developer
14 199 (2.47%) Python Developer
15 157 (1.95%) IT Manager
16 155 (1.92%) Python Engineer
17 152 (1.89%) Senior Developer
18 151 (1.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 145 (1.80%) Network Engineer
19 145 (1.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (3.74%) React
2 267 (3.31%) .NET
3 229 (2.84%) gRPC
4 220 (2.73%) Protocol Buffers
5 184 (2.28%) HTML
6 162 (2.01%) Pandas
7 152 (1.89%) NumPy
8 150 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 142 (1.76%) CSS
10 134 (1.66%) SciPy
11 130 (1.61%) Spring
12 126 (1.56%) Redux
13 120 (1.49%) REST
14 116 (1.44%) Kafka
15 115 (1.43%) Web Services
16 112 (1.39%) Node.js
16 112 (1.39%) XML
17 93 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
18 91 (1.13%) Middleware
19 84 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 403 (5.00%) Derivative
2 386 (4.79%) Hedge funds
3 379 (4.70%) Fixed Income
4 297 (3.69%) Equities
5 278 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 258 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 246 (3.05%) Product Ownership
8 143 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 129 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 109 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 102 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 88 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 84 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 77 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 73 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
16 71 (0.88%) Credit Risk
17 68 (0.84%) Algorithms
18 56 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
18 56 (0.69%) Virtual Team
19 55 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 464 (5.76%) Windows
2 311 (3.86%) Linux
3 222 (2.76%) Unix
4 100 (1.24%) Windows 10
4 100 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 57 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 40 (0.50%) Android
7 36 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 18 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 16 (0.20%) VMS
13 15 (0.19%) AIX
13 15 (0.19%) MVS
14 13 (0.16%) Mac OS
14 13 (0.16%) zOS
15 9 (0.11%) Solaris
16 7 (0.087%) CentOS
17 5 (0.062%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (20.94%) Agile
2 949 (11.78%) Project Management
3 919 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
4 864 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 755 (9.37%) DevOps
6 718 (8.91%) Change Management
7 702 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
8 683 (8.48%) Migration
9 568 (7.05%) Software Engineering
10 527 (6.54%) Asset Management
11 505 (6.27%) Analytics
12 457 (5.67%) Project Delivery
13 445 (5.52%) CI/CD
14 440 (5.46%) ERP
15 408 (5.06%) Programme Management
16 392 (4.86%) Risk Management
17 386 (4.79%) Investment Management
18 367 (4.55%) Roadmaps
19 357 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
20 353 (4.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (12.77%) SQL
2 978 (12.14%) Python
3 713 (8.85%) Java
4 448 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 408 (5.06%) C#
6 359 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 220 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 112 (1.39%) C++
9 92 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 85 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 80 (0.99%) Scala
12 64 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 58 (0.72%) Perl
13 58 (0.72%) R
14 55 (0.68%) Go
15 53 (0.66%) Bash
16 45 (0.56%) VBA
17 33 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 26 (0.32%) Rust
19 25 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 747 (9.27%) Degree
2 556 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 380 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 158 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 120 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 109 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 101 (1.25%) CISSP
9 89 (1.10%) PMP
10 83 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 75 (0.93%) CISM
12 66 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 61 (0.76%) ACCA
14 55 (0.68%) CCNP
15 54 (0.67%) CIMA
16 43 (0.53%) AWS Certification
17 42 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 38 (0.47%) CCNA
19 37 (0.46%) CISA
19 37 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (3.88%) PMO
2 292 (3.62%) QA
3 218 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 124 (1.54%) SLA
5 93 (1.15%) GDPR
6 91 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 83 (1.03%) NIST
8 68 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 59 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 48 (0.60%) IFRS
11 34 (0.42%) GRC
12 31 (0.38%) GAAP
13 30 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.32%) MiFID
15 21 (0.26%) SEPA
16 20 (0.25%) ISO 20022
17 18 (0.22%) EMIR
18 17 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 16 (0.20%) HIPAA
20 13 (0.16%) Basel III
System Software
1 269 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 145 (1.80%) Docker
3 51 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.34%) IAG
6 23 (0.29%) ACF2
6 23 (0.29%) RACF
7 14 (0.17%) Firmware
7 14 (0.17%) vSphere
8 12 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
11 8 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.087%) NFS
13 6 (0.074%) HDFS
14 3 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.025%) KVM
15 2 (0.025%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.025%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 213 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 162 (2.01%) Terraform
3 125 (1.55%) Ansible
4 67 (0.83%) SCCM
5 41 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 35 (0.43%) Puppet
7 34 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.34%) Grafana
10 25 (0.31%) Endace
11 21 (0.26%) Progress Chef
12 16 (0.20%) Nessus
13 15 (0.19%) Data Guard
14 13 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
14 13 (0.16%) Kibana
15 12 (0.15%) logstash
15 12 (0.15%) PingFederate
15 12 (0.15%) Tivoli
16 11 (0.14%) Netcool
17 10 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 1,017 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 723 (8.97%) SAP
3 608 (7.55%) Oracle
4 251 (3.11%) Cisco
5 238 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 190 (2.36%) Google
7 126 (1.56%) F5
8 105 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 102 (1.27%) Databricks
10 97 (1.20%) IBM
11 83 (1.03%) VMware
12 70 (0.87%) CheckPoint
13 69 (0.86%) Citrix
13 69 (0.86%) Splunk
14 68 (0.84%) Bloomberg
15 62 (0.77%) Palo Alto
16 61 (0.76%) Adobe
17 50 (0.62%) Alteryx
18 49 (0.61%) Workday
19 48 (0.60%) Juniper