Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in England. 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 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,077 11,257 14,926
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.27% 20.98%
As % of the General category 32.77% 37.59% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,911 8,133 10,616
10th Percentile £356 £400 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £721 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +11.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 98 134
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.68 £12.64
25th Percentile £15.17 £21.24 £20.43
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.24 £33.57
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% -12.90% +50.13%
75th Percentile £38.12 £49.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.50 £75.00 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £30.76 £34.69
% change year-on-year -12.21% -11.34% +54.17%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England 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
London 0 4,697 £600 -4.00% 2,773
South East -3 643 £509 -3.05% 691
North of England 0 618 £500 -4.76% 752
North West +5 364 £500 - 474
Midlands +4 348 £550 +10.00% 519
South West +2 342 £570 +3.64% 413
West Midlands +4 257 £550 +8.64% 343
Yorkshire -2 231 £500 -9.09% 204
East of England +5 216 £525 +0.96% 300
East Midlands +4 82 £581 +27.75% 175
North East +9 19 £500 -16.67% 78
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 157 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (2.05%) Apache
2 145 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.36%) Confluence
4 82 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 43 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 32 (0.45%) SAS
7 25 (0.35%) IIS
8 23 (0.32%) CMS
9 18 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 14 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 12 (0.17%) Skype for Business
11 12 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.14%) nginx
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
13 9 (0.13%) MTS
14 7 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.071%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.057%) BizTalk Server
16 4 (0.057%) Drupal
Applications
1 358 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 143 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.21%) Sketch
8 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.14%) InVision
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.057%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.057%) InDesign
13 3 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.028%) Revit
14 2 (0.028%) SPSS
14 2 (0.028%) Trello
15 1 (0.014%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 171 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 46 (0.65%) SAP FI
4 44 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 40 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (0.55%) SAP CO
7 37 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
8 35 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
9 34 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
10 33 (0.47%) Loan IQ
10 33 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
11 32 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
12 28 (0.40%) Aladdin
13 27 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
14 25 (0.35%) Endur
14 25 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
15 23 (0.32%) NetSuite
16 22 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
17 21 (0.30%) Workday HCM
18 20 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 997 (14.09%) Azure
2 720 (10.17%) AWS
3 376 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 308 (4.35%) GCP
5 251 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 217 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
7 214 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (1.77%) SaaS
9 123 (1.74%) Snowflake
10 103 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 99 (1.40%) dbt
12 85 (1.20%) WhatsApp
13 81 (1.14%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.12%) GitHub
15 76 (1.07%) PowerApps
16 75 (1.06%) Serverless
17 66 (0.93%) PaaS
18 65 (0.92%) IaaS
19 51 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
20 50 (0.71%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 192 (2.71%) Firewall
2 99 (1.40%) WAN
3 89 (1.26%) DNS
4 85 (1.20%) VPN
5 63 (0.89%) LAN
6 59 (0.83%) BGP
7 57 (0.81%) Wireless
8 56 (0.79%) MPLS
9 48 (0.68%) Network Security
10 46 (0.65%) DMZ
11 40 (0.57%) SD-WAN
12 38 (0.54%) SSL
13 36 (0.51%) SAN
14 35 (0.49%) TCP/IP
15 33 (0.47%) DHCP
15 33 (0.47%) OSPF
16 30 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
17 28 (0.40%) Internet
18 27 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
18 27 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (4.71%) Power BI
2 270 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 172 (2.43%) Data Lake
4 125 (1.77%) Apache Ignite
5 118 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 114 (1.61%) Tableau
7 112 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 100 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 92 (1.30%) Apache Arrow
9 92 (1.30%) Dremio
9 92 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 84 (1.19%) Metadata
11 75 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 73 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 68 (0.96%) Oracle Database
14 67 (0.95%) Big Data
15 64 (0.90%) MySQL
16 57 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
16 57 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (0.62%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 261 (3.69%) JIRA
2 116 (1.64%) Git
3 115 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 63 (0.89%) GitLab
5 51 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 43 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 41 (0.58%) Selenium
8 34 (0.48%) JUnit
9 28 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 22 (0.31%) ERwin
10 22 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 21 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 18 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 17 (0.24%) Mockito
13 17 (0.24%) Postman
14 15 (0.21%) Gradle
14 15 (0.21%) Maven
15 14 (0.20%) JMeter
16 13 (0.18%) SpecFlow
17 11 (0.16%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,818 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 1,497 (21.15%) Banking
3 815 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 606 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 533 (7.53%) Front Office
6 447 (6.32%) Marketing
7 429 (6.06%) Telecoms
8 412 (5.82%) Manufacturing
9 312 (4.41%) Electronics
10 295 (4.17%) Investment Banking
11 253 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
12 245 (3.46%) Financial Institution
13 236 (3.33%) Retail
14 226 (3.19%) Legal
15 192 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
16 167 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
17 145 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 117 (1.65%) Back Office
19 102 (1.44%) Law
20 84 (1.19%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,119 (15.81%) Analyst
2 1,020 (14.41%) Developer
3 706 (9.98%) Project Manager
4 663 (9.37%) Architect
5 640 (9.04%) Senior
6 556 (7.86%) Lead
7 487 (6.88%) Consultant
8 479 (6.77%) Business Analyst
9 236 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
10 224 (3.17%) Software Engineer
11 219 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
12 192 (2.71%) Data Analyst
13 159 (2.25%) Java Developer
14 152 (2.15%) Python Developer
15 147 (2.08%) C# Developer
16 143 (2.02%) IT Manager
17 137 (1.94%) Finance Manager
18 135 (1.91%) Senior Developer
19 128 (1.81%) Support Engineer
20 127 (1.79%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (3.80%) .NET
2 250 (3.53%) React
3 151 (2.13%) gRPC
4 144 (2.03%) Protocol Buffers
5 130 (1.84%) HTML
6 125 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 118 (1.67%) Pandas
8 109 (1.54%) NumPy
9 102 (1.44%) Node.js
9 102 (1.44%) Redux
9 102 (1.44%) REST
10 96 (1.36%) CSS
10 96 (1.36%) XML
11 91 (1.29%) SciPy
12 88 (1.24%) Spring
13 84 (1.19%) Kafka
13 84 (1.19%) Web Services
14 66 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
15 63 (0.89%) .NET Core
16 62 (0.88%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 367 (5.19%) Derivative
2 313 (4.42%) Fixed Income
3 303 (4.28%) Hedge funds
4 239 (3.38%) Equities
5 230 (3.25%) Management Information System
6 225 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 210 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 131 (1.85%) Data Centre
9 107 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 93 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 83 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 80 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 73 (1.03%) Data Structures
14 68 (0.96%) NHS
15 65 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 64 (0.90%) Algorithms
17 60 (0.85%) Credit Risk
17 60 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
18 50 (0.71%) Cloud Native
18 50 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 460 (6.50%) Windows
2 271 (3.83%) Linux
3 180 (2.54%) Unix
4 107 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 92 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 47 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 35 (0.49%) Windows 7
9 29 (0.41%) Android
10 24 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (0.20%) VMS
13 11 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.13%) Solaris
15 8 (0.11%) zOS
16 7 (0.099%) MVS
16 7 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
17 6 (0.085%) CentOS
18 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,408 (19.90%) Agile
2 895 (12.65%) Project Management
3 816 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
4 750 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 680 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
6 658 (9.30%) DevOps
7 642 (9.07%) Migration
8 572 (8.08%) Change Management
9 464 (6.56%) Asset Management
10 454 (6.42%) Software Engineering
11 446 (6.30%) Programme Management
12 437 (6.17%) Analytics
13 422 (5.96%) Project Delivery
14 389 (5.50%) CI/CD
15 380 (5.37%) Risk Management
16 364 (5.14%) ERP
17 334 (4.72%) Decision-Making
18 328 (4.63%) Roadmaps
19 320 (4.52%) Data Modelling
20 319 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 908 (12.83%) SQL
2 792 (11.19%) Python
3 549 (7.76%) Java
4 443 (6.26%) C#
5 358 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 280 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 192 (2.71%) PowerShell
8 94 (1.33%) C++
9 89 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 70 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 69 (0.97%) Scala
12 52 (0.73%) R
13 50 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 49 (0.69%) Perl
15 46 (0.65%) Go
16 45 (0.64%) VBA
17 43 (0.61%) Bash
18 26 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 26 (0.37%) VB
19 25 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 673 (9.51%) Degree
2 508 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 366 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 128 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 100 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 98 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 86 (1.22%) CISSP
9 84 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 81 (1.14%) PMP
11 64 (0.90%) CISM
12 59 (0.83%) ACCA
13 53 (0.75%) CIMA
13 53 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 42 (0.59%) CCNP
15 38 (0.54%) CISA
16 37 (0.52%) CCNA
17 35 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 34 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
18 34 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (3.98%) PMO
2 276 (3.90%) QA
3 197 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 130 (1.84%) SLA
5 87 (1.23%) GDPR
6 79 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 70 (0.99%) NIST
8 53 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 51 (0.72%) IFRS
10 41 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 38 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 34 (0.48%) GRC
13 33 (0.47%) MiFID
14 24 (0.34%) GAAP
15 20 (0.28%) EMIR
15 20 (0.28%) SEPA
16 17 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 13 (0.18%) IFRS 17
17 13 (0.18%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 259 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 118 (1.67%) Docker
3 52 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.30%) IAG
6 17 (0.24%) ACF2
6 17 (0.24%) RACF
7 16 (0.23%) Firmware
8 10 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.11%) NFS
11 7 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.085%) HDFS
12 6 (0.085%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.057%) KVM
13 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.057%) vSphere
14 3 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 170 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 151 (2.13%) Terraform
3 103 (1.46%) Ansible
4 65 (0.92%) SCCM
5 38 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (0.51%) Puppet
7 25 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 25 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (0.32%) Endace
10 18 (0.25%) Grafana
11 14 (0.20%) Kibana
12 13 (0.18%) Netcool
13 12 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 12 (0.17%) logstash
13 12 (0.17%) Tivoli
14 11 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.14%) Packer
15 10 (0.14%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 891 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 719 (10.16%) SAP
3 502 (7.09%) Oracle
4 222 (3.14%) Cisco
5 193 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 135 (1.91%) Google
7 91 (1.29%) F5
8 87 (1.23%) Databricks
8 87 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 84 (1.19%) IBM
9 84 (1.19%) VMware
10 77 (1.09%) Citrix
11 66 (0.93%) Bloomberg
12 62 (0.88%) CheckPoint
13 52 (0.73%) Palo Alto
14 47 (0.66%) Adobe
14 47 (0.66%) Workday
15 44 (0.62%) Splunk
16 43 (0.61%) Dell
17 41 (0.58%) Juniper