Finance Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Financial
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Blackpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 1 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 4.00% 5.00% 17.50%
As % of the General category 6.67% 20.00% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £516
25th Percentile - £259 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £268 £586
Median % change year-on-year - -54.37% +51.29%
75th Percentile - £276 £642
90th Percentile - - £645
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £396 £550
% change year-on-year +13.56% -27.95% +29.41%

All General Skills
Blackpool

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 general skills in Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 15 5 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 60.00% 25.00% 67.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 42
10th Percentile £249 - £456
25th Percentile £328 £259 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £268 £630
Median % change year-on-year +38.32% -57.54% +7.23%
75th Percentile £440 £451 £688
90th Percentile £504 £556 £720
Lancashire median daily rate £455 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -11.65% -6.36% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £23.71 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £40.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.65% -13.38% +15.39%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Finance job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) IMS/DB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Syncsort