Finance Contracts in the Midlands

Financial
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 348 476 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.76% 13.84% 13.60%
As % of the General category 23.25% 24.79% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 316 534
10th Percentile £362 £308 £315
25th Percentile £450 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.78% +15.05%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £588
90th Percentile £788 £694 £688
England median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 9
10th Percentile - £19.54 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £33.39 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -58.06% +88.62% +10.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £31.50
90th Percentile £69.57 £59.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.24 £33.57
% change year-on-year -7.66% -12.90% +50.13%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,497 1,920 2,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.88% 55.81% 54.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,356 2,054
10th Percentile £206 £214 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +3.23% +16.25%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £550
90th Percentile £738 £684 £653
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 82 105
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.41 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +15.31% +10.63%
75th Percentile £38.13 £32.19 £24.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +4 257 £550 +8.64% 342
East Midlands +4 82 £581 +27.75% 177
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) MetaMask
4 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.57%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.57%) RMDS
4 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.57%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.57%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.29%) Exstream
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.79%) Azure
2 33 (9.48%) AWS
3 18 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.59%) SaaS
6 5 (1.44%) CloudFront
6 5 (1.44%) OCI
6 5 (1.44%) Serverless
6 5 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.15%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.15%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.57%) GCP
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.02%) VPN
2 10 (2.87%) LAN
2 10 (2.87%) WAN
3 6 (1.72%) DNS
3 6 (1.72%) Firewall
3 6 (1.72%) Junos
3 6 (1.72%) Network Security
4 5 (1.44%) BGP
4 5 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (1.44%) IPsec
4 5 (1.44%) MPLS
5 3 (0.86%) Intranet
5 3 (0.86%) Wireless
6 2 (0.57%) 5G
6 2 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.29%) FTP
7 1 (0.29%) Multicast
7 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.45%) Power BI
3 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.72%) Big Data
5 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.44%) Metadata
5 5 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.86%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.57%) Power Query
8 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.57%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.57%) Tableau
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.30%) JIRA
2 4 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.15%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.86%) Git
4 2 (0.57%) webpack
5 1 (0.29%) Ant
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.29%) Gradle
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Maven
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 100 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.61%) Banking
6 18 (5.17%) Law
7 16 (4.60%) Legal
7 16 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.02%) Marketing
9 13 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.16%) Retail
11 9 (2.59%) Local Government
12 8 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.01%) Electronics
13 7 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Automotive
14 4 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Social Housing
15 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.86%) German Language
Job Titles
1 59 (16.95%) Analyst
2 50 (14.37%) Project Manager
3 48 (13.79%) Architect
4 27 (7.76%) Consultant
4 27 (7.76%) IT Manager
4 27 (7.76%) Senior
5 26 (7.47%) Lead
6 25 (7.18%) Developer
7 17 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.31%) Business Manager
9 13 (3.74%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (3.74%) PMO Analyst
10 11 (3.16%) Change Manager
10 11 (3.16%) Financial Analyst
10 11 (3.16%) Service Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.16%) Service Manager
11 10 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.59%) Infrastructure Architect
12 9 (2.59%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) .NET
1 7 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (2.01%) SAML
2 6 (1.72%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.72%) OAuth
2 6 (1.72%) RESTful
2 6 (1.72%) Spring
3 5 (1.44%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.44%) React
3 5 (1.44%) Swagger
4 4 (1.15%) OpenAPI
4 4 (1.15%) RAML
5 3 (0.86%) LDAP
6 2 (0.57%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.57%) JSON
6 2 (0.57%) Middleware
6 2 (0.57%) SAP ALE
6 2 (0.57%) SOAP
6 2 (0.57%) Web Dynpro
6 2 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (2.87%) Onboarding
2 9 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.15%) IoT
7 4 (1.15%) Replication
8 3 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.86%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.57%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.62%) Windows
2 9 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.01%) Linux
4 5 (1.44%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.86%) Unix
6 3 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) VMS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 64 (18.39%) Agile
3 54 (15.52%) Project Management
4 47 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (11.49%) Migration
6 38 (10.92%) Change Management
7 34 (9.77%) Roadmaps
8 33 (9.48%) ERP
9 31 (8.91%) Decision-Making
10 29 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (7.47%) Service Delivery
12 24 (6.90%) Project Delivery
13 22 (6.32%) Analytics
13 22 (6.32%) DevOps
14 21 (6.03%) CRM
14 21 (6.03%) Programme Management
15 20 (5.75%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (5.75%) Customer Service
15 20 (5.75%) Resource Management
15 20 (5.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.46%) SQL
2 18 (5.17%) Java
3 15 (4.31%) Python
4 11 (3.16%) C#
5 8 (2.30%) Swift
6 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.86%) C
7 3 (0.86%) C++
8 2 (0.57%) ABAP
8 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.57%) R
8 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.57%) X++
9 1 (0.29%) Rust
9 1 (0.29%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.29%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 29 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.03%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.46%) Degree
4 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.44%) CCNP
6 5 (1.44%) PMP
7 4 (1.15%) ACCA
7 4 (1.15%) CCNA
7 4 (1.15%) CIMA
7 4 (1.15%) ISEB
7 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.86%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.57%) CRISC
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.61%) PMO
2 11 (3.16%) QA
3 10 (2.87%) SLA
4 8 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) GDPR
6 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.57%) IFRS
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) PSD2
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.01%) Docker
3 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.29%) IAG
5 1 (0.29%) iptables
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.57%) CEMLI
2 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.57%) Terraform
3 1 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) logstash
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.29%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 56 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.18%) SAP
3 22 (6.32%) Oracle
4 9 (2.59%) Okta
5 8 (2.30%) Cisco
6 7 (2.01%) Juniper
7 5 (1.44%) Databricks
7 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.44%) VMware
8 4 (1.15%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.86%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.86%) Sage
10 2 (0.57%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.57%) Splunk
10 2 (0.57%) Teradata
10 2 (0.57%) UiPath