Finance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 3,342 5,402 8,348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 22.14% 21.50% 18.88%
As % of the General category 37.66% 36.79% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 3,854 6,254
10th Percentile £398 £400 £400
25th Percentile £481 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £675
90th Percentile £850 £813 £753
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 58 68
10th Percentile £13.31 £20.50 £18.80
25th Percentile £23.63 £25.71 £31.29
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -21.35% +20.68%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.98 £80.00 £57.88
UK median hourly rate £26.99 £25.71 £34.69
% change year-on-year +4.96% -25.88% +54.17%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Finance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Finance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 116 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (2.84%) Apache
3 64 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 42 (1.26%) Confluence
5 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.57%) IIS
7 16 (0.48%) SAS
8 13 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 12 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.21%) CMS
10 7 (0.21%) JBoss
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 5 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
12 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
13 3 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 125 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 54 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 35 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.090%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.090%) SPSS
8 2 (0.060%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.060%) InDesign
8 2 (0.060%) Revit
9 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.030%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.030%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.030%) Sketch
9 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 90 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 34 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 32 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 31 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 29 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
6 29 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
7 28 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
8 23 (0.69%) SAP FI
9 21 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 20 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
10 20 (0.60%) SAP CO
11 18 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
12 17 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
12 17 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
13 16 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
14 15 (0.45%) NetSuite
14 15 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
15 12 (0.36%) Loan IQ
15 12 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 418 (12.51%) Azure
2 340 (10.17%) AWS
3 176 (5.27%) Power Platform
4 152 (4.55%) GCP
5 144 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
6 117 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (3.02%) dbt
8 86 (2.57%) Snowflake
9 68 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
10 56 (1.68%) SaaS
11 50 (1.50%) Power Automate
12 49 (1.47%) OCI
12 49 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 43 (1.29%) WhatsApp
14 41 (1.23%) GitHub
15 36 (1.08%) Entra ID
16 34 (1.02%) PaaS
17 32 (0.96%) IaaS
18 28 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
18 28 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.24%) Firewall
2 42 (1.26%) DNS
3 29 (0.87%) VPN
4 24 (0.72%) WAN
5 23 (0.69%) Intranet
5 23 (0.69%) Network Security
6 22 (0.66%) BGP
7 21 (0.63%) OSPF
8 19 (0.57%) SAN
9 17 (0.51%) LAN
10 14 (0.42%) HTTP
11 13 (0.39%) DHCP
11 13 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.36%) NX-OS
13 11 (0.33%) VLAN
14 10 (0.30%) NAS
15 9 (0.27%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.24%) 4G
16 8 (0.24%) Kerberos
16 8 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (4.64%) Power BI
2 139 (4.16%) SQL Server
3 133 (3.98%) Data Lake
4 98 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 96 (2.87%) Apache Arrow
5 96 (2.87%) Dremio
6 85 (2.54%) Apache Ignite
7 54 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.35%) Big Data
9 41 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 39 (1.17%) MySQL
11 36 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
12 35 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 32 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 31 (0.93%) Oracle Database
15 29 (0.87%) Metadata
16 27 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (0.78%) Tableau
18 20 (0.60%) Relational Database
19 19 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 134 (4.01%) JIRA
2 69 (2.06%) Git
3 57 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.20%) GitLab
5 23 (0.69%) Cucumber
6 18 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.51%) JUnit
8 16 (0.48%) ERwin
9 13 (0.39%) Mockito
10 12 (0.36%) JMeter
10 12 (0.36%) Maven
10 12 (0.36%) Selenium
11 10 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.21%) Gradle
13 7 (0.21%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 897 (26.84%) Banking
2 805 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 339 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (9.40%) Front Office
5 283 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 165 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 162 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 159 (4.76%) Manufacturing
9 153 (4.58%) Marketing
10 125 (3.74%) Retail
11 110 (3.29%) Financial Institution
12 102 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 100 (2.99%) Electronics
14 94 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
17 68 (2.03%) Back Office
18 52 (1.56%) Legal
19 48 (1.44%) General Ledger
20 43 (1.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 498 (14.90%) Analyst
2 494 (14.78%) Developer
3 389 (11.64%) Architect
4 308 (9.22%) Senior
5 290 (8.68%) Consultant
6 281 (8.41%) Project Manager
7 254 (7.60%) Lead
8 246 (7.36%) Business Analyst
9 130 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 116 (3.47%) Financial Analyst
11 113 (3.38%) Software Engineer
12 97 (2.90%) Data Analyst
13 85 (2.54%) Banking Analyst
14 79 (2.36%) C# Developer
15 78 (2.33%) Senior Developer
16 75 (2.24%) Java Developer
17 69 (2.06%) IT Manager
18 64 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
19 63 (1.89%) Finance Manager
20 60 (1.80%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.56%) .NET
2 110 (3.29%) gRPC
3 109 (3.26%) React
4 108 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 88 (2.63%) Pandas
6 82 (2.45%) AngularJS
7 81 (2.42%) NumPy
8 80 (2.39%) SciPy
9 72 (2.15%) HTML
10 59 (1.77%) CSS
11 56 (1.68%) XML
12 55 (1.65%) Web Services
13 46 (1.38%) Node.js
14 45 (1.35%) Middleware
15 42 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
16 40 (1.20%) REST
17 34 (1.02%) Kafka
18 33 (0.99%) LDAP
19 30 (0.90%) Spring Boot
20 29 (0.87%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.43%) Derivative
2 182 (5.45%) Hedge funds
3 169 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 136 (4.07%) Equities
5 128 (3.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 85 (2.54%) Product Ownership
7 71 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 65 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 52 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 41 (1.23%) Public Cloud
11 40 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 33 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 32 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (0.93%) Clustering
14 31 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 29 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
16 25 (0.75%) Mainframe
17 24 (0.72%) Virtual Team
18 20 (0.60%) Credit Derivative
18 20 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.30%) Windows
2 117 (3.50%) Linux
3 71 (2.12%) Unix
4 58 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 20 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (0.45%) MVS
9 13 (0.39%) VMS
9 13 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.33%) Android
10 11 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.30%) AIX
12 9 (0.27%) Solaris
13 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 6 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.12%) zOS
17 2 (0.060%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (20.23%) Agile
2 400 (11.97%) Change Management
3 350 (10.47%) Project Management
4 342 (10.23%) DevOps
5 321 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 310 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
7 291 (8.71%) Migration
8 284 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
9 253 (7.57%) Asset Management
10 244 (7.30%) Software Engineering
11 215 (6.43%) ERP
12 204 (6.10%) Analytics
13 199 (5.95%) Investment Management
14 173 (5.18%) CI/CD
15 159 (4.76%) Project Delivery
16 147 (4.40%) Data Modelling
17 139 (4.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 137 (4.10%) Programme Management
19 135 (4.04%) Mentoring
20 134 (4.01%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 437 (13.08%) SQL
2 435 (13.02%) Python
3 305 (9.13%) Java
4 238 (7.12%) JavaScript
5 230 (6.88%) C#
6 157 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 73 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.35%) C++
9 41 (1.23%) R
10 40 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 33 (0.99%) Go
12 32 (0.96%) Perl
13 27 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.78%) Scala
15 24 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 22 (0.66%) Bash
17 17 (0.51%) Ruby
18 16 (0.48%) PHP
19 14 (0.42%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 289 (8.65%) Degree
2 175 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 141 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 56 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 53 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (1.20%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (0.99%) CISSP
9 32 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 28 (0.84%) PMP
12 26 (0.78%) CISM
13 23 (0.69%) PhD
14 22 (0.66%) CCNP
15 20 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
16 19 (0.57%) CCNA
17 17 (0.51%) AWS Certification
18 16 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 15 (0.45%) ACCA
19 15 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.35%) Data Quality
2 109 (3.26%) QA
3 101 (3.02%) PMO
4 61 (1.83%) SLA
5 45 (1.35%) GDPR
6 32 (0.96%) NIST
7 24 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.63%) IFRS
9 21 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.51%) MiFID
11 13 (0.39%) GAAP
11 13 (0.39%) GRC
12 12 (0.36%) SEPA
13 9 (0.27%) EMIR
14 7 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
15 6 (0.18%) COBIT
15 6 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
16 5 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 111 (3.32%) Active Directory
2 53 (1.59%) Docker
3 30 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.45%) IAG
5 14 (0.42%) ACF2
5 14 (0.42%) RACF
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) vSphere
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.18%) Firmware
9 6 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.060%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.060%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.030%) KVM
13 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.030%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (2.27%) Terraform
2 69 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.71%) Ansible
4 37 (1.11%) SCCM
5 22 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.51%) Puppet
7 13 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.27%) Grafana
9 9 (0.27%) Tivoli
10 7 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
10 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.21%) Netcool
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (0.15%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.15%) Kibana
11 5 (0.15%) logstash
12 4 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 336 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 308 (9.22%) SAP
3 266 (7.96%) Oracle
4 110 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 83 (2.48%) Cisco
6 52 (1.56%) IBM
7 47 (1.41%) Databricks
8 46 (1.38%) VMware
9 38 (1.14%) Google
10 35 (1.05%) Qualys
11 33 (0.99%) Splunk
12 31 (0.93%) F5
13 30 (0.90%) Salesforce
14 24 (0.72%) Workday
15 23 (0.69%) Informatica
16 22 (0.66%) Bloomberg
17 21 (0.63%) Adobe
17 21 (0.63%) Citrix
17 21 (0.63%) EMC
17 21 (0.63%) HP