Finance Contracts in the Thames Valley

Financial
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 300 458 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.38% 15.90% 15.58%
As % of the General category 20.60% 26.05% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 299 381
10th Percentile £213 £273 £285
25th Percentile £336 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile - £15.19 £13.58
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.61 £17.96
Median hourly rate £19.23 £23.30 £37.21
Median % change year-on-year -17.49% -37.38% +48.84%
75th Percentile £42.50 £42.79 £52.88
90th Percentile £68.50 £53.49 £67.38
South East median hourly rate £26.71 £31.65 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% -2.62% +32.65%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,456 1,758 2,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.21% 61.04% 60.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 1,131 1,418
10th Percentile £205 £275 £220
25th Percentile £333 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 43 68
10th Percentile £17.62 £14.45 £11.18
25th Percentile £22.58 £20.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% +60.91% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £77.19 £75.40 £49.88
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +150.00% -21.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the Thames Valley

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the Thames Valley

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the Thames Valley

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the Thames Valley

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Berkshire 0 208 £509 -7.55% 137
Buckinghamshire -3 73 £475 +2.70% 94
Oxfordshire +5 19 £438 -15.46% 71
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (3.00%) SAS
1 9 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) CICS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 34 (11.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.67%) Maximo
2 5 (1.67%) SAP FI
2 5 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.33%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.33%) Power Platform
2 20 (6.67%) Azure
3 16 (5.33%) Snowflake
4 13 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.00%) AWS
7 5 (1.67%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.67%) SaaS
8 4 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.00%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.33%) GitHub
11 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.33%) IaaS
11 1 (0.33%) OCI
11 1 (0.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.00%) DMZ
2 7 (2.33%) 5G
3 5 (1.67%) Firewall
4 3 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.00%) Network Security
4 3 (1.00%) NX-OS
4 3 (1.00%) VPN
4 3 (1.00%) WAN
5 2 (0.67%) BGP
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.67%) MPLS
5 2 (0.67%) SSL
6 1 (0.33%) ATM
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.33%) Junos
6 1 (0.33%) LAN
6 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.33%) Power BI
1 22 (7.33%) Tableau
2 5 (1.67%) Big Data
2 5 (1.67%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (1.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.00%) Impala
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.00%) Power Query
4 3 (1.00%) PowerPivot
4 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (0.67%) OLTP
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 11 (3.67%) JIRA
2 6 (2.00%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.33%) Appium
4 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.33%) JMeter
4 1 (0.33%) JUnit
4 1 (0.33%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) MLflow
4 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.33%) TestNG
4 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 59 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (17.67%) Telecoms
3 50 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 43 (14.33%) Legal
5 36 (12.00%) Banking
6 21 (7.00%) Retail
7 18 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (5.33%) Marketing
8 16 (5.33%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.00%) Manufacturing
10 12 (4.00%) Law
11 11 (3.67%) Billing
11 11 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.67%) Electronics
13 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.33%) Wholesale Banking
14 6 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.67%) General Ledger
16 4 (1.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 78 (26.00%) Analyst
2 31 (10.33%) Senior
3 28 (9.33%) Lead
4 27 (9.00%) Project Manager
5 24 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
6 22 (7.33%) Network Engineer
7 20 (6.67%) Data Analyst
8 19 (6.33%) Consultant
8 19 (6.33%) Developer
9 18 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (4.67%) Telecoms Manager
11 13 (4.33%) Coordinator
11 13 (4.33%) Operations Manager
12 12 (4.00%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.67%) Architect
13 11 (3.67%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.00%) Functional Consultant
15 8 (2.67%) Programme Manager
15 8 (2.67%) Senior Manager
15 8 (2.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.33%) React
2 2 (0.67%) Spring
3 1 (0.33%) ADO
3 1 (0.33%) Flash
3 1 (0.33%) Jest
3 1 (0.33%) JSON
3 1 (0.33%) Kafka
3 1 (0.33%) MDX
3 1 (0.33%) NgRx
3 1 (0.33%) NumPy
3 1 (0.33%) OAuth
3 1 (0.33%) OpenID
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.33%) Pandas
3 1 (0.33%) Playwright
3 1 (0.33%) PySpark
3 1 (0.33%) REST
3 1 (0.33%) RxJS
3 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.00%) Credit Risk
2 11 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 5 (1.67%) PMI
6 4 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.67%) FMCG
8 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.67%) NHS
8 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.00%) Windows
1 6 (2.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (18.33%) Project Management
2 39 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (12.00%) Analytics
3 36 (12.00%) Migration
4 35 (11.67%) Project Delivery
5 34 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (9.00%) Agile
8 26 (8.67%) Logistics
9 24 (8.00%) ERP
10 23 (7.67%) Decision-Making
11 21 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
12 20 (6.67%) PRINCE2
12 20 (6.67%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.33%) Change Management
14 18 (6.00%) DevOps
15 17 (5.67%) B2B
15 17 (5.67%) Customer Experience
15 17 (5.67%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.00%) SQL
2 9 (3.00%) Python
3 4 (1.33%) Java
4 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.33%) C#
5 1 (0.33%) COBOL
5 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.33%) JCL
5 1 (0.33%) R
5 1 (0.33%) Scala
5 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (13.33%) Degree
2 23 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (7.00%) Security Cleared
4 15 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.00%) ACCA
6 11 (3.67%) ICAEW
7 9 (3.00%) CIMA
7 9 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.00%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.00%) CCNP
8 6 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.67%) PMP
10 4 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (1.00%) APMP
11 3 (1.00%) CPIM
11 3 (1.00%) ISEB
11 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.67%) PgMP
12 2 (0.67%) RIBA
13 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.67%) PMO
2 15 (5.00%) QA
3 13 (4.33%) IFRS
4 9 (3.00%) GAAP
5 7 (2.33%) SLA
6 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.33%) IFRS 9
7 4 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.00%) GDPR
9 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.67%) ITGC
9 2 (0.67%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.33%) AirWatch
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.00%) Ansible
2 3 (1.00%) Netcool
2 3 (1.00%) Terraform
3 2 (0.67%) Endace
3 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.67%) Nessus
3 2 (0.67%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.33%) Control-M
4 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.67%) Cisco
3 24 (8.00%) SAP
4 21 (7.00%) CheckPoint
5 20 (6.67%) Oracle
6 18 (6.00%) Alteryx
7 17 (5.67%) Arista
8 11 (3.67%) IFS
9 7 (2.33%) MicroStrategy
9 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.00%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.00%) F5
11 5 (1.67%) HP
11 5 (1.67%) Juniper
11 5 (1.67%) Reuters
12 4 (1.33%) Apple
12 4 (1.33%) IBM
12 4 (1.33%) OpenText
12 4 (1.33%) Planview
12 4 (1.33%) Salesforce