Finance Contracts in Cheshire

Financial
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 81 86 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.17% 15.96% 18.46%
As % of the General category 26.05% 27.48% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 64 63
10th Percentile £330 £350 £300
25th Percentile £475 £423 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +8.03% -6.01%
75th Percentile £635 £622 £531
90th Percentile £738 £679 £630
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £28.04 £21.73
25th Percentile - £28.14 £23.57
Median hourly rate £26.66 £29.37 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% +9.23% +50.20%
75th Percentile - £31.66 £29.95
90th Percentile - £32.40 £31.64
North West median hourly rate £16.05 £30.76 £14.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +112.10% -18.99%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 311 313 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.08% 58.07% 59.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 207 185
10th Percentile £290 £221 £207
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +0.90%
75th Percentile £565 £568 £538
90th Percentile £628 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 21
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.95 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.07 £11.21
Median hourly rate £24.58 £29.26 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +39.33% +17.32%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.42 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.50 £58.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Knutsford +8 27 £559 +24.28% 9
Chester +1 16 £650 +22.35% 17
Macclesfield -8 16 £543 +8.50% 6
Warrington +14 8 £276 - 26
Runcorn - 3 £575 - 4
Wilmslow -4 1 £363 +20.83% 2
Crewe - 1 £500 - 3
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (6.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Mule
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.17%) Temenos T24
3 4 (4.94%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.23%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (1.23%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.23%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) AWS
2 12 (14.81%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.17%) Apigee
4 5 (6.17%) Kong
5 4 (4.94%) WhatsApp
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) DSL
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) LAN
2 1 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Power BI
2 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.17%) OLAP
2 5 (6.17%) OLTP
2 5 (6.17%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (2.47%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Big Data
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Essbase
4 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.23%) Power Query
4 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (27.16%) JIRA
2 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.23%) Log4j
3 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Banking
3 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.17%) Front Office
6 5 (6.17%) Legal
7 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Project Manager
2 14 (17.28%) Architect
3 10 (12.35%) Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.64%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Developer
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Accountant
8 4 (4.94%) Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Systems Accountant
9 3 (3.70%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Scrum Master
9 3 (3.70%) Senior
10 2 (2.47%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.47%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Risk Business Analyst
10 2 (2.47%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Kafka
1 6 (7.41%) Web Services
2 5 (6.17%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (6.17%) J2EE
2 5 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (6.17%) SOAP
3 4 (4.94%) Apache Camel
3 4 (4.94%) Spring
3 4 (4.94%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.94%) Spring Integration
4 2 (2.47%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Virtual Team
2 7 (8.64%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.17%) DataPower
5 4 (4.94%) Life Science
6 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.47%) SCADA
6 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.23%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.23%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Linux
1 8 (9.88%) Unix
2 7 (8.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.23%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (30.86%) Project Management
3 23 (28.40%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.81%) Design Patterns
5 12 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (13.58%) Decision-Making
6 11 (13.58%) DevOps
6 11 (13.58%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (12.35%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.11%) Analytics
8 9 (11.11%) PRINCE2
9 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.88%) CRM
9 8 (9.88%) Knowledge Transfer
9 8 (9.88%) Project Delivery
9 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
9 8 (9.88%) Use Case
10 7 (8.64%) Business Strategy
10 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.58%) SQL
2 8 (9.88%) Java
3 7 (8.64%) PL/SQL
3 7 (8.64%) Ruby
4 4 (4.94%) Python
5 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.23%) Groovy
5 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.23%) Julia
5 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.23%) R
5 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.94%) PMP
3 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) APMP
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CCNA
4 1 (1.23%) CCNP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CISSP
4 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.47%) PMO
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.23%) GxP
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.23%) NEBOSH
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Ansible
1 7 (8.64%) CFEngine
1 7 (8.64%) PowerBroker
1 7 (8.64%) Progress Chef
1 7 (8.64%) Puppet
2 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) SAP
2 7 (8.64%) Atlassian
2 7 (8.64%) Avaloq
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle
4 5 (6.17%) IBM
4 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.17%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.17%) TSYS
5 4 (4.94%) Ariba
5 4 (4.94%) Sage
6 2 (2.47%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) F5
7 1 (1.23%) Google
7 1 (1.23%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.23%) Symantec
7 1 (1.23%) Teradata
7 1 (1.23%) Zscaler