Finance Contracts in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 620 829 999
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 13.21% 14.52% 14.00%
As % of the General category 24.11% 26.22% 27.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 565 710
10th Percentile £313 £363 £315
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £676
England median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 4 21
10th Percentile £11.77 £18.19 £9.23
25th Percentile £13.23 £24.49 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.11 £29.37 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +102.53% -18.99%
75th Percentile £34.21 £44.67 £21.50
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.87 £35.56
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +48.51%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,572 3,162 3,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.81% 55.40% 50.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 2,185 2,585
10th Percentile £256 £300 £206
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £560
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 90 178
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.23 £11.20
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.95 £14.96
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +35.51% +1.72%
75th Percentile £33.00 £37.30 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.02 £50.98
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +4 361 £500 - 520
Yorkshire -2 236 £500 -9.09% 255
North East +6 19 £500 -16.67% 90
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (1.94%) Confluence
2 9 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.65%) IIS
6 3 (0.48%) nginx
7 2 (0.32%) Apache
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Mule
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 55 (8.87%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 18 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 32 (5.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.10%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.13%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.97%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.65%) Sage X3
6 3 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.32%) Primavera
7 2 (0.32%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.32%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.32%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 48 (7.74%) Azure
2 36 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
3 35 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 28 (4.52%) AWS
5 13 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (1.77%) SaaS
7 9 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.45%) GCP
7 9 (1.45%) PaaS
7 9 (1.45%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.29%) IaaS
9 6 (0.97%) Serverless
10 5 (0.81%) Apigee
10 5 (0.81%) Kong
11 4 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.65%) npm
11 4 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.74%) DMZ
1 17 (2.74%) SD-WAN
2 15 (2.42%) Wireless
3 13 (2.10%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (2.10%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (1.77%) DNS
5 9 (1.45%) ATM
6 7 (1.13%) DHCP
6 7 (1.13%) Firewall
7 5 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.65%) HTTP
8 4 (0.65%) SAN
8 4 (0.65%) Skype
9 3 (0.48%) WAN
10 2 (0.32%) DSL
10 2 (0.32%) LAN
10 2 (0.32%) PPP
10 2 (0.32%) RTP
10 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.16%) Power BI
2 22 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.77%) Big Data
4 8 (1.29%) Metadata
4 8 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.97%) Ingres
5 6 (0.97%) Tableau
6 5 (0.81%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.81%) DB2
6 5 (0.81%) OLAP
6 5 (0.81%) OLTP
6 5 (0.81%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (0.65%) MySQL
7 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.48%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.32%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (5.65%) JIRA
2 13 (2.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.13%) Git
4 5 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.65%) ERwin
5 4 (0.65%) JUnit
6 3 (0.48%) JMeter
7 2 (0.32%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) AppScan
8 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.16%) Log4j
8 1 (0.16%) Postman
8 1 (0.16%) RStudio
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 164 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 111 (17.90%) Banking
3 75 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.77%) Manufacturing
6 26 (4.19%) Telecoms
7 23 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (3.55%) Retail
9 21 (3.39%) Marketing
10 16 (2.58%) Electronics
11 13 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.94%) Billing
12 12 (1.94%) Local Government
13 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.77%) Legal
14 9 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (12.74%) Analyst
2 69 (11.13%) Project Manager
3 61 (9.84%) Architect
4 48 (7.74%) Lead
5 33 (5.32%) Consultant
6 32 (5.16%) Developer
6 32 (5.16%) Senior
7 31 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 26 (4.19%) Data Analyst
9 25 (4.03%) Network Engineer
9 25 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.23%) Administrator
11 18 (2.90%) Cutover Manager
12 16 (2.58%) Programme Manager
13 14 (2.26%) Trainer
14 13 (2.10%) SAP Consultant
15 12 (1.94%) Data Centre Engineer
15 12 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
15 12 (1.94%) IT Technician
16 11 (1.77%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.94%) Kafka
2 9 (1.45%) .NET
2 9 (1.45%) Middleware
3 8 (1.29%) React
4 7 (1.13%) Gherkin
4 7 (1.13%) Web Services
5 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.97%) IBM Integration Bus
5 6 (0.97%) REST
5 6 (0.97%) RESTful
5 6 (0.97%) SOAP
5 6 (0.97%) Spring
6 5 (0.81%) J2EE
6 5 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Camel
7 4 (0.65%) Node.js
7 4 (0.65%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.65%) Spring Integration
8 3 (0.48%) CSS
8 3 (0.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 23 (3.71%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 12 (1.94%) Mainframe
5 12 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.45%) EPoS
7 9 (1.45%) Smartphone
8 8 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.13%) Clustering
9 7 (1.13%) NHS
9 7 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.81%) DataPower
11 5 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.81%) Life Science
11 5 (0.81%) PKI
11 5 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.00%) Windows
2 24 (3.87%) Linux
3 11 (1.77%) Unix
4 9 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.29%) VMS
6 7 (1.13%) MVS
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.97%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.97%) zOS
8 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.65%) Android
9 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.32%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (17.74%) Agile
2 96 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 91 (14.68%) Project Management
4 65 (10.48%) Change Management
5 61 (9.84%) Migration
6 59 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (8.39%) DevOps
8 48 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (6.45%) ERP
10 38 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (5.97%) Decision-Making
12 34 (5.48%) Analytics
12 34 (5.48%) CI/CD
12 34 (5.48%) Risk Management
13 33 (5.32%) Waterfall
14 31 (5.00%) ITSM
15 29 (4.68%) Programme Management
16 28 (4.52%) Validation
17 27 (4.35%) ITIL
18 25 (4.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.48%) SQL
2 24 (3.87%) Python
3 21 (3.39%) Java
4 11 (1.77%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.61%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.45%) Bash
7 7 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.81%) C#
8 5 (0.81%) Ruby
9 4 (0.65%) Perl
10 3 (0.48%) C
10 3 (0.48%) Groovy
10 3 (0.48%) R
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) Go
11 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.16%) Scala
12 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 53 (8.55%) Degree
2 36 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 28 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.61%) PMI Certification
4 10 (1.61%) PMP
5 8 (1.29%) CCNA
5 8 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (0.81%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.48%) CISSP
9 3 (0.48%) HNC
9 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.48%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.32%) ACCA
10 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.00%) SLA
2 24 (3.87%) PMO
3 22 (3.55%) QA
4 16 (2.58%) GDPR
5 13 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.81%) NIST
8 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) COSO
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 16 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.13%) Docker
4 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.65%) KVM
5 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.32%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) IAG
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (2.10%) Ansible
2 11 (1.77%) Terraform
3 8 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.81%) Puppet
5 5 (0.81%) SCCM
6 4 (0.65%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.48%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.32%) CFEngine
8 2 (0.32%) Consul
8 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.32%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) linkerd
8 2 (0.32%) Packer
8 2 (0.32%) PowerBroker
8 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.81%) SAP
3 24 (3.87%) Oracle
4 22 (3.55%) F5
5 16 (2.58%) Palo Alto
6 15 (2.42%) Cisco
7 14 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.94%) EMC
9 10 (1.61%) VMware
10 9 (1.45%) Databricks
10 9 (1.45%) IBM
11 7 (1.13%) Avaloq
11 7 (1.13%) Google
11 7 (1.13%) Sparx
12 6 (0.97%) Adobe
12 6 (0.97%) CA
12 6 (0.97%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.97%) Splunk
13 5 (0.81%) Ariba
13 5 (0.81%) Sage