Finance Contracts in Birmingham

Financial
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 119 137 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.54% 15.26% 17.84%
As % of the General category 29.31% 25.75% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 164
10th Percentile £340 £305 £333
25th Percentile £413 £388 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £594 £601 £620
90th Percentile £725 £705 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £46.80 £23.85 -
25th Percentile - £28.89 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £40.44 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% +128.49% +50.25%
75th Percentile £72.90 £60.94 -
90th Percentile - £82.88 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.50 £45.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year -10.00% +154.24% +10.63%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 406 532 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 53.00% 59.24% 56.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 359 533
10th Percentile £210 £263 £205
25th Percentile £373 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +10.81% +14.97%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 18
10th Percentile £11.78 £11.00 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.73 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.33 £17.39 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +0.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £29.12 £17.94
90th Percentile £56.25 £74.75 £19.28
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (0.84%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.84%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.84%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (0.84%) RMDS
4 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.40%) Azure
2 9 (7.56%) AWS
3 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.36%) OCI
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.68%) Serverless
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.84%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.84%) GCP
7 1 (0.84%) GitHub
7 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) VPN
2 2 (1.68%) 5G
2 2 (1.68%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) LAN
2 2 (1.68%) WAN
2 2 (1.68%) Wireless
3 1 (0.84%) FTP
3 1 (0.84%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.20%) Power BI
2 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.52%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.68%) Power Query
4 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.68%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.84%) Big Data
5 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.84%) MySQL
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) webpack
3 1 (0.84%) Ant
3 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.84%) Gradle
3 1 (0.84%) JIRA
3 1 (0.84%) JUnit
3 1 (0.84%) Maven
3 1 (0.84%) Selenium
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 40 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.24%) Banking
4 8 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.36%) Legal
5 4 (3.36%) Local Government
5 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.52%) German Language
6 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.52%) Marketing
7 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Law
7 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.84%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 22 (18.49%) Project Manager
2 18 (15.13%) Analyst
3 17 (14.29%) Developer
4 16 (13.45%) Architect
5 12 (10.08%) Business Manager
6 11 (9.24%) Lead
7 9 (7.56%) Consultant
7 9 (7.56%) Senior
8 8 (6.72%) IT Manager
9 7 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.04%) AML Project Manager
10 6 (5.04%) Business Project Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Business Transformation Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Business Transformation Project Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) Transformation Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
1 6 (5.04%) Spring
2 5 (4.20%) .NET
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.20%) React
3 2 (1.68%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.68%) Middleware
3 2 (1.68%) Node.js
3 2 (1.68%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.84%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.84%) JDBC
4 1 (0.84%) Kafka
4 1 (0.84%) LDAP
4 1 (0.84%) ODBC
4 1 (0.84%) RESTful
4 1 (0.84%) SOAP
4 1 (0.84%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.84%) XML
4 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Onboarding
1 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.36%) IoT
3 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.68%) FMCG
5 2 (1.68%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (1.68%) Replication
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Windows
2 5 (4.20%) Linux
3 3 (2.52%) Unix
4 2 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.84%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.01%) Agile
2 22 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (17.65%) Project Management
4 20 (16.81%) ERP
5 18 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 12 (10.08%) Change Management
7 12 (10.08%) Roadmaps
8 11 (9.24%) Business Transformation
8 11 (9.24%) CRM
9 10 (8.40%) Analytics
9 10 (8.40%) Budgeting
9 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (7.56%) DevOps
11 8 (6.72%) Data Analysis
11 8 (6.72%) Microservices
11 8 (6.72%) Scrum
11 8 (6.72%) TDD
11 8 (6.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.40%) Java
2 7 (5.88%) Python
3 5 (4.20%) SQL
4 4 (3.36%) C#
5 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.68%) C
6 2 (1.68%) C++
6 2 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.84%) ProC
7 1 (0.84%) R
7 1 (0.84%) Scala
7 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.84%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (6.72%) Degree
2 6 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) ACCA
4 3 (2.52%) CIMA
4 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.84%) CISSP
5 1 (0.84%) CRISC
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) GDPR
1 4 (3.36%) PMO
2 3 (2.52%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) IFRS
4 1 (0.84%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.84%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) IAG
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) PowerCLI
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) Oracle
3 8 (6.72%) SAP
4 3 (2.52%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.68%) Databricks
5 2 (1.68%) Sage
5 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) VMware
6 1 (0.84%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco
6 1 (0.84%) F5
6 1 (0.84%) Progress
6 1 (0.84%) Qualys
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.84%) Splunk
6 1 (0.84%) Sybase
6 1 (0.84%) UiPath