Finance Contracts in Birmingham

Financial
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 83 121 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.90% 15.65% 15.04%
As % of the General category 24.56% 29.58% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 83
10th Percentile £375 £343 £305
25th Percentile £454 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +0.70%
75th Percentile £601 £588 £601
90th Percentile £683 £725 £706
West Midlands median daily rate £533 £545 £513
% change year-on-year -2.16% +6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £46.80 £23.85
25th Percentile - - £28.89
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £40.44
Median % change year-on-year - +39.09% +128.49%
75th Percentile - £72.90 £60.94
90th Percentile - - £82.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.22 £40.50 £39.19
% change year-on-year -40.20% +3.34% +121.43%

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

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

Finance
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

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Birmingham

Finance
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

Finance
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 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.41%) SAP CCM
2 2 (2.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.20%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.43%) Snowflake
2 6 (7.23%) AWS
2 6 (7.23%) Azure
3 4 (4.82%) Adobe Analytics
3 4 (4.82%) Google Analytics
4 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.41%) Akamai
5 2 (2.41%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.41%) OCI
5 2 (2.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.20%) Matillion
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Firewall
1 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.20%) DHCP
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) LAN
2 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.41%) Power BI
3 1 (1.20%) Big Data
3 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.20%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.20%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.20%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
1 3 (3.61%) Gradle
1 3 (3.61%) JUnit
1 3 (3.61%) Maven
1 3 (3.61%) Mockito
2 2 (2.41%) ERwin
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Ant
3 1 (1.20%) JMeter
3 1 (1.20%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.20%) Pa11y
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Banking
3 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.02%) Legal
7 4 (4.82%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (4.82%) Marketing
7 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.41%) International Banking
9 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Project Manager
2 10 (12.05%) Senior
3 9 (10.84%) Developer
4 8 (9.64%) Analyst
5 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
8 4 (4.82%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Campaign Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Performance Manager
9 3 (3.61%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) RESTful
1 4 (4.82%) Spring
2 2 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (2.41%) FpML
2 2 (2.41%) JSON
2 2 (2.41%) LDAP
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.41%) XML
3 1 (1.20%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.20%) J2EE
3 1 (1.20%) Kafka
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.23%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.82%) Social Media
4 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.41%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) CMDB
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) PMI
6 1 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) Project Management
2 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (15.66%) Agile
5 11 (13.25%) ERP
5 11 (13.25%) Migration
5 11 (13.25%) Risk Management
6 8 (9.64%) Analytics
6 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (8.43%) Data Protection
8 6 (7.23%) Budgeting
8 6 (7.23%) Change Management
8 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
8 6 (7.23%) Data Analytics
8 6 (7.23%) Decision-Making
8 6 (7.23%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (6.02%) Data Migration
9 5 (6.02%) Intelligent Automation
9 5 (6.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) SQL
2 9 (10.84%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) Java
4 2 (2.41%) C#
5 1 (1.20%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) Perl
5 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.41%) CEH
3 2 (2.41%) CISSP
3 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.41%) GIAC
3 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) ACCA
4 1 (1.20%) CBAP
4 1 (1.20%) CIMA
4 1 (1.20%) CIPFA
4 1 (1.20%) ICAEW
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) PMO
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Oracle
2 5 (6.02%) Adobe
2 5 (6.02%) SAP
3 4 (4.82%) Databricks
3 4 (4.82%) Google
3 4 (4.82%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.41%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.41%) Civica
4 2 (2.41%) F5
4 2 (2.41%) Imperva
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.41%) Sparx
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco
5 1 (1.20%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.20%) IFS
5 1 (1.20%) Juniper
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk
5 1 (1.20%) Sybase
5 1 (1.20%) Workday