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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 84 142 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.19% 20.91% 14.43%
As % of the General category 24.56% 38.90% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 102 90
10th Percentile £315 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £422 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £542 £684 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.55% - +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £43.65 £23.85
25th Percentile - £48.38 £28.89
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £40.44
Median % change year-on-year - +39.09% +112.86%
75th Percentile - - £60.94
90th Percentile - - £82.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £39.00 £33.39
% change year-on-year -30.23% +16.82% +75.71%

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 342 365 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 61.84% 53.76% 51.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 254 316
10th Percentile £163 £209 £263
25th Percentile £305 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £650
90th Percentile £642 £750 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 21
10th Percentile - £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.64
Median hourly rate £20.03 £20.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -7.78% +27.12%
75th Percentile £26.51 £49.69 £35.08
90th Percentile £27.64 £55.88 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £19.00 £21.74
% change year-on-year +43.21% -12.58% +29.76%

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 3 August 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 7 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.38%) ResourceLink
3 1 (1.19%) CA PPM
3 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (4.76%) Azure
2 4 (4.76%) Google Analytics
3 3 (3.57%) AWS
3 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.38%) GCP
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.38%) SaaS
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.19%) Matillion
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.19%) OCI
5 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DHCP
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) Network Security
1 1 (1.19%) SSH
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Power BI
2 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.76%) Tableau
4 2 (2.38%) Big Data
4 2 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.19%) Parquet
5 1 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) JMeter
3 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.19%) Maven
3 1 (1.19%) MLflow
3 1 (1.19%) Pa11y
3 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.10%) Banking
5 9 (10.71%) Legal
6 8 (9.52%) Marketing
7 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.76%) Brand Awareness
8 4 (4.76%) Electronics
8 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.38%) Law
10 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.38%) Retail
11 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 14 (16.67%) Analyst
3 9 (10.71%) Developer
3 9 (10.71%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Technical Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Automation Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Campaign Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 4 (4.76%) Senior Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Data Analytics Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) Spring
2 3 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (2.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.38%) LDAP
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.38%) SOAP
3 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.19%) Flask
4 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.19%) NumPy
4 1 (1.19%) OLE
4 1 (1.19%) Pandas
4 1 (1.19%) REST
4 1 (1.19%) RESTful
4 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.76%) Social Media
3 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (27.38%) Agile
4 19 (22.62%) Project Management
5 12 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (13.10%) Analytics
6 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.90%) Migration
7 10 (11.90%) Risk Management
8 9 (10.71%) Programme Management
8 9 (10.71%) Project Delivery
9 8 (9.52%) Change Management
9 8 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.52%) DevOps
9 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (8.33%) Data Analytics
10 7 (8.33%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.33%) Service Delivery
10 7 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
11 6 (7.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.52%) SQL
2 5 (5.95%) Java
3 4 (4.76%) Python
4 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.19%) Bash
5 1 (1.19%) C#
5 1 (1.19%) Groovy
5 1 (1.19%) Perl
5 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) OCP
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) PMO
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.19%) PSD2
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Data Guard
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.19%) Argo
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Istio
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) SAP
2 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Adobe
3 4 (4.76%) Blue Prism
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco
4 1 (1.19%) Civica
4 1 (1.19%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.19%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.19%) Databricks
4 1 (1.19%) IFS
4 1 (1.19%) Juniper
4 1 (1.19%) Planview
4 1 (1.19%) Splunk
4 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.19%) Workday