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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 40 39 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 17.54% 23.21% 30.55%
As % of the General category 24.84% 37.14% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 48
10th Percentile £381 £363 £296
25th Percentile £447 £481 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £725 £600 £563
90th Percentile £753 £625 £658
East of England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £11.10 - -
25th Percentile £11.62 - -
Median hourly rate £12.59 - -
75th Percentile £31.35 - -
90th Percentile £42.54 - -
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +101.79%

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 161 105 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 70.61% 62.50% 74.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 68 123
10th Percentile £300 £208 £267
25th Percentile £393 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +4.40%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £535
90th Percentile £730 £633 £638
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 13
10th Percentile £15.34 - £16.75
25th Percentile £15.39 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £90.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.11% +71.43% +238.71%
75th Percentile £45.31 - £65.25
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year +92.43% +27.81% +3.33%

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 14 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Bedfordshire

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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 14 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
Luton 0 24 £560 +9.80% 8
Bedford +4 6 £738 -
Dunstable -2 4 £375 -23.08%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £575 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.50%) Primavera
3 1 (2.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Boomi
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
2 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Veeva
2 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) OSPF
1 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.00%) VLAN
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (27.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Lead
2 4 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (7.50%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Data Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Governance Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Administrator
5 1 (2.50%) Consultant
5 1 (2.50%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Quality Manager
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (2.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) Angular 2
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) IDoc
3 1 (2.50%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.50%) JPA
3 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Life Science
2 2 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.50%) FMCG
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Agile
1 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 8 (20.00%) Project Management
3 7 (17.50%) Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (15.00%) Service Design
5 5 (12.50%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (12.50%) Record to Report
5 5 (12.50%) Service Management
6 4 (10.00%) Accounts Payable
6 4 (10.00%) Data Management
6 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (7.50%) Analytics
7 3 (7.50%) Master Data Management
7 3 (7.50%) Order to Cash
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Java
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
1 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) GxP
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) SAP
2 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (7.50%) Ariba
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) F5
5 2 (5.00%) Hyperion
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) FIS
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce