Finance Contracts in Bedfordshire

Financial
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 56 56 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 35.67% 22.86% 21.74%
As % of the General category 41.18% 29.32% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 23
10th Percentile - £381 £380
25th Percentile £500 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £560 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £600
90th Percentile £750 £756 £718
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £12.05 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -53.31% -22.20% +127.91%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 136 191 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.62% 77.96% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 107 75
10th Percentile £350 £308 £208
25th Percentile £500 £406 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £681 £586 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £641
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 34 3
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.32 £59.00
25th Percentile £27.94 £15.39 £70.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.07% -76.11% +56.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £32.90 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £30.78 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.25% +81.52% +44.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Luton +2 41 £580 +3.57% 29
Dunstable +2 1 - - 3
Bedford -7 1 £600 -18.64% 15
Shefford - 1 - -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (51.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (12.50%) Workday HCM
3 6 (10.71%) SAP CO
3 6 (10.71%) SAP FI
3 6 (10.71%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (5.36%) SAP BPC
5 1 (1.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) Power Automate
3 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Power BI
2 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 26 (46.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.14%) Aviation
6 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Games
8 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.79%) Local Government
8 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Consultant
2 10 (17.86%) Functional Consultant
3 8 (14.29%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) Lead
5 6 (10.71%) Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (8.93%) Architect
6 5 (8.93%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Functional Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (7.14%) Insight Analyst
7 4 (7.14%) Training Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Analytics Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Supply Chain Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) .NET
1 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (3.57%) Express.js
2 1 (1.79%) MDX
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 22 (39.29%) Life Science
2 4 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 4 (7.14%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Analytics
2 18 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (30.36%) Record to Report
4 15 (26.79%) Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (17.86%) Business Transformation
7 10 (17.86%) Migration
7 10 (17.86%) Project Management
7 10 (17.86%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (16.07%) Business Analysis
9 8 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 6 (10.71%) Agile
11 6 (10.71%) Data Migration
11 6 (10.71%) User Experience
12 5 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
12 5 (8.93%) Data Management
12 5 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) CCA
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) QA
5 1 (1.79%) GxP
5 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 34 (60.71%) SAP
2 10 (17.86%) Ariba
3 7 (12.50%) Workday
4 5 (8.93%) Anaplan
4 5 (8.93%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.79%) Cognos
6 1 (1.79%) IBM
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle