Finance Contracts in Bedfordshire

Financial
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 50 38 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 20.75% 22.22% 29.37%
As % of the General category 27.47% 35.51% 39.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 43
10th Percentile £394 £369 £288
25th Percentile £488 £453 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £550
90th Percentile £756 £600 £648
East of England median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £10.92 - -
25th Percentile £11.18 - -
Median hourly rate £12.05 - -
75th Percentile £12.58 - -
90th Percentile £12.65 - -
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +127.91% +53.57%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 182 107 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 75.52% 62.57% 74.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 70 120
10th Percentile £313 £208 £263
25th Percentile £425 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% +8.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £535
90th Percentile £750 £633 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £468
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.84% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 11
10th Percentile £15.32 - £42.50
25th Percentile £15.39 - £49.38
Median hourly rate £21.50 £90.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.11% +56.52% +270.97%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £65.13
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +92.43% +32.07% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Luton -1 32 £560 +13.42% 4
Bedford +4 7 £738 - 4
Dunstable -2 3 £375 -23.08% 1
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £575 -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (48.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.00%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.00%) Primavera
3 1 (2.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.00%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Azure
1 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (4.00%) WhatsApp
2 1 (2.00%) AWS
2 1 (2.00%) Boomi
2 1 (2.00%) GCP
2 1 (2.00%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) OSPF
1 2 (4.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.00%) VLAN
1 2 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (38.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Billing
6 2 (4.00%) Local Government
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Lead
2 4 (8.00%) Consultant
2 4 (8.00%) Programme Manager
2 4 (8.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (6.00%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Data Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Developer
3 3 (6.00%) Governance Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Administrator
4 2 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) SAP Financial Leader
4 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 2 (4.00%) SAP Support
5 1 (2.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.00%) Quality Manager
5 1 (2.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.00%) Angular 2
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) CSS
3 1 (2.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.00%) HTML5
3 1 (2.00%) IDoc
3 1 (2.00%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.00%) JPA
3 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Life Science
2 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) FMCG
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Project Management
2 11 (22.00%) Project Delivery
3 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (16.00%) Agile
4 8 (16.00%) Service Design
5 7 (14.00%) Analytics
5 7 (14.00%) Knowledge Management
6 6 (12.00%) Accounts Payable
6 6 (12.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (12.00%) Record to Report
7 5 (10.00%) Data Management
7 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) Service Management
8 4 (8.00%) Data Governance
8 4 (8.00%) Order to Cash
8 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (6.00%) Data Design
9 3 (6.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GxP
2 2 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) SAP
2 10 (20.00%) Ariba
3 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 3 (6.00%) Hyperion
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
6 2 (4.00%) F5
6 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.00%) FIS
7 1 (2.00%) IBM
7 1 (2.00%) Remedy
7 1 (2.00%) Salesforce