Finance Contracts in Watford

Financial
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 16 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 13.68% 17.81% 10.53%
As % of the General category 24.62% 26.80% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 10
10th Percentile £313 £425 £291
25th Percentile £363 £497 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £748 £375
Median % change year-on-year -43.14% +99.33% +1.19%
75th Percentile £538 £805 £637
90th Percentile £613 £878 £663
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -26.09% +15.00% +16.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.20% +40.00% +6.06%

All General Skills
Watford

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 Watford with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 65 97 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 55.56% 66.44% 50.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 51
10th Percentile £278 £258 £185
25th Percentile £363 £491 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +47.06% +6.25%
75th Percentile £454 £788 £552
90th Percentile £591 £960 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £400 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £13.50 - £31.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.01% +42.89% +105.88%
75th Percentile £16.50 - £38.50
90th Percentile - - £44.80
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £46.78 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -22.04% +22.45% +8.89%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Watford

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Watford

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Watford over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Watford

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Watford

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (6.25%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Marketing
2 8 (50.00%) Electronics
2 8 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (25.00%) Games
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Billing
6 1 (6.25%) Law
6 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Defect Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Finance Systems Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IFS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 5 (31.25%) Defect Management
3 3 (18.75%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
3 3 (18.75%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Time Management
5 1 (6.25%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Apex Code
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) PMP
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) IFS
4 1 (6.25%) OpenText
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle