Finance Contracts in the South West

Financial
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 11 13 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 342 425 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.80% 11.67% 14.91%
As % of the General category 20.94% 23.62% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 351 444
10th Percentile £313 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £465 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £653 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £675
England median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 8
10th Percentile £10.42 £18.28 £28.25
25th Percentile £11.87 £23.57 £31.25
Median hourly rate £14.79 £43.68 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.14% +24.79% +120.68%
75th Percentile £18.65 £85.81 £56.88
90th Percentile £35.00 £92.16 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.24 £33.57
% change year-on-year -7.66% -12.90% +50.13%

All General Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,633 1,799 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.56% 49.41% 51.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,324 1,326
10th Percentile £215 £275 £227
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +11.05% +4.57%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 132 135
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £39.04 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +37.30% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.20 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.73 £63.69
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South West 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
Bristol -5 110 £530 -1.40% 148
Wiltshire -1 103 £625 +4.17% 44
Gloucestershire +24 53 £525 -4.55% 41
Somerset +3 22 £550 +7.32% 77
Devon +3 22 £600 +37.93% 54
Dorset +5 15 £513 -16.33% 26
Cornwall - 1 - - 4
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (9.06%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (6.43%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Actimize
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.29%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.94%) Azure
2 20 (5.85%) Power Platform
3 14 (4.09%) AWS
3 14 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.17%) Serverless
7 3 (0.88%) SaaS
7 3 (0.88%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.58%) Apigee
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.58%) IaaS
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.29%) GCP
9 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.29%) npm
9 1 (0.29%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.63%) Firewall
2 8 (2.34%) LAN
2 8 (2.34%) WAN
3 7 (2.05%) 3G
3 7 (2.05%) 4G
4 4 (1.17%) VPN
4 4 (1.17%) Wireless
5 2 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.58%) FTP
5 2 (0.58%) SAN
5 2 (0.58%) Skype
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) ISDN
6 1 (0.29%) PSTN
6 1 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.22%) Power BI
2 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.88%) Metadata
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.88%) SAP HANA
4 3 (0.88%) Tableau
5 2 (0.58%) MySQL
5 2 (0.58%) OLAP
5 2 (0.58%) OLTP
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.29%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.29%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (9.06%) JIRA
2 4 (1.17%) Git
3 3 (0.88%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) git-flow
4 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.58%) JMeter
4 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) ERwin
5 1 (0.29%) GoCD
5 1 (0.29%) NUnit
5 1 (0.29%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Postman
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.29%) webpack
5 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 103 (30.12%) Public Sector
3 80 (23.39%) Marketing
4 78 (22.81%) Telecoms
5 73 (21.35%) Electronics
5 73 (21.35%) Manufacturing
6 50 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (8.48%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.92%) Banking
8 10 (2.92%) Legal
9 7 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.05%) Police
9 7 (2.05%) Publishing
9 7 (2.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.46%) Law
10 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Billing
11 4 (1.17%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (0.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 51 (14.91%) Lead
2 50 (14.62%) Architect
3 44 (12.87%) Analyst
3 44 (12.87%) Project Manager
4 27 (7.89%) Senior
5 24 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (6.73%) Developer
7 20 (5.85%) Project Leader
8 17 (4.97%) Consultant
9 16 (4.68%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.39%) IT Manager
10 15 (4.39%) Technical Architect
11 14 (4.09%) Administrator
11 14 (4.09%) Change Manager
12 12 (3.51%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.51%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.92%) ITIL Manager
14 9 (2.63%) ITIL Change Manager
14 9 (2.63%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.80%) Node.js
2 7 (2.05%) React
3 6 (1.75%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.17%) .NET
4 4 (1.17%) Middleware
5 3 (0.88%) HTML
5 3 (0.88%) Jest
6 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.58%) CSS
6 2 (0.58%) Laravel
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.29%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.29%) JPA
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) OAuth
7 1 (0.29%) RESTful
7 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.22%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.63%) NHS
2 9 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 8 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.58%) Blog
7 2 (0.58%) CMDB
7 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.58%) iPhone
7 2 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.58%) PMI
7 2 (0.58%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.58%) Replication
7 2 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.26%) Windows
2 10 (2.92%) Linux
3 3 (0.88%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.32%) Agile
2 88 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
3 82 (23.98%) Project Management
4 79 (23.10%) Programme Management
5 74 (21.64%) Digital Marketing
6 64 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (14.04%) PRINCE2
8 42 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (11.99%) Project Delivery
10 33 (9.65%) Data Management
11 32 (9.36%) Change Management
12 31 (9.06%) ITIL
13 30 (8.77%) Migration
14 28 (8.19%) Project Planning
15 27 (7.89%) Decision-Making
16 25 (7.31%) Mentoring
16 25 (7.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 25 (7.31%) Workshop Facilitation
17 23 (6.73%) Commercial Awareness
18 21 (6.14%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.39%) SQL
2 10 (2.92%) JavaScript
2 10 (2.92%) TypeScript
3 6 (1.75%) Java
4 5 (1.46%) Python
5 4 (1.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.58%) C#
6 2 (0.58%) PHP
7 1 (0.29%) Bash
7 1 (0.29%) Bicep
7 1 (0.29%) COBOL
7 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 67 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 64 (18.71%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.14%) APMP
5 16 (4.68%) Degree
6 6 (1.75%) CISSP
6 6 (1.75%) PMP
7 5 (1.46%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.17%) CLAS
8 4 (1.17%) HND
8 4 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (1.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.58%) ACCA
9 2 (0.58%) CIMA
9 2 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.28%) PMO
2 15 (4.39%) QA
3 8 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.05%) JSP 440
5 6 (1.75%) RMADS
6 4 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.17%) NIST
7 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.88%) GDPR
7 3 (0.88%) SLA
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.29%) COSO
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) SEPA
9 1 (0.29%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.46%) Docker
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (2.34%) Kubernetes
1 8 (2.34%) Terraform
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.58%) Ansible
3 2 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.58%) SCOrch
3 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Istio
4 1 (0.29%) OPNET
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Puppet
4 1 (0.29%) SCOM
4 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 79 (23.10%) SAP
2 77 (22.51%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.34%) Oracle
4 7 (2.05%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.75%) Adobe
6 4 (1.17%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.17%) VMware
7 3 (0.88%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.88%) Cisco
7 3 (0.88%) Citrix
7 3 (0.88%) Civica
7 3 (0.88%) Dell
7 3 (0.88%) FIS
8 2 (0.58%) Apple
8 2 (0.58%) BT
8 2 (0.58%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.58%) Cognos
8 2 (0.58%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.58%) Pegasus