Finance Contracts in Bristol

Financial
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 112 94 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 19.38% 8.88% 13.37%
As % of the General category 35.11% 17.50% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 60 128
10th Percentile £314 £312 £342
25th Percentile £361 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £638
90th Percentile £672 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £54.00 £14.52 £32.76
25th Percentile £56.25 £15.17 £38.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £15.99 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year +290.99% -71.33% +59.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £35.00 £73.44
90th Percentile £65.10 £40.25 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £14.79 £38.35
% change year-on-year +305.68% -61.43% +13.63%

All General Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 319 537 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 55.19% 50.71% 45.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 289 382
10th Percentile £213 £246 £300
25th Percentile £355 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £628
90th Percentile £646 £688 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 135 54
10th Percentile £18.13 £36.25 £39.20
25th Percentile £31.00 £43.75 £56.50
Median hourly rate £57.37 £57.29 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -7.60% +77.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £72.50 £79.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £92.63
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +18.56% -23.13% +42.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (6.25%) SAS
1 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.89%) Primavera
1 1 (0.89%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.89%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.86%) AWS
1 20 (17.86%) Azure
2 10 (8.93%) GCP
3 7 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
4 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.68%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.89%) Akamai
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.89%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.79%) Network Security
2 2 (1.79%) Wireless
3 1 (0.89%) DHCP
3 1 (0.89%) DNS
3 1 (0.89%) LAN
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.36%) Power BI
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.89%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.89%) Metadata
4 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) JIRA
2 2 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (0.89%) Ant
3 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.89%) Flyway
3 1 (0.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.89%) NUnit
3 1 (0.89%) Postman
3 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.36%) Marketing
3 33 (29.46%) Telecoms
4 29 (25.89%) Public Sector
5 27 (24.11%) Manufacturing
6 26 (23.21%) Electronics
7 11 (9.82%) Banking
8 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Local Government
11 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.79%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Legal
11 2 (1.79%) Military
11 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Police
11 2 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Developer
2 17 (15.18%) Analyst
3 16 (14.29%) Senior
4 13 (11.61%) Lead
4 13 (11.61%) Project Manager
5 9 (8.04%) Applications Support
5 9 (8.04%) Azure Developer
5 9 (8.04%) C# Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Analytics Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Architect
7 7 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Data Analytics Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Data Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Insight Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Strategy Manager
8 6 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.82%) .NET
2 8 (7.14%) CSS
2 8 (7.14%) HTML
2 8 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.68%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) RESTful
4 2 (1.79%) SOAP
5 1 (0.89%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.89%) Android SDK
5 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.89%) Cocoa
5 1 (0.89%) Cocoa Touch
5 1 (0.89%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.89%) Java EE
5 1 (0.89%) Node.js
5 1 (0.89%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.89%) Spring
5 1 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
2 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) Android
3 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.46%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (28.57%) Project Management
3 27 (24.11%) Programme Management
4 26 (23.21%) Digital Marketing
5 21 (18.75%) Agile
6 19 (16.96%) Migration
7 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (13.39%) CI/CD
8 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.39%) Service Management
9 13 (11.61%) Service Delivery
10 12 (10.71%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 12 (10.71%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (9.82%) Decision-Making
11 11 (9.82%) DevOps
11 11 (9.82%) Software Delivery
11 11 (9.82%) Storytelling
11 11 (9.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) SQL
2 10 (8.93%) C#
2 10 (8.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.25%) R
4 2 (1.79%) Java
4 2 (1.79%) Python
4 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.89%) Ada
5 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.89%) Bash
5 1 (0.89%) C
5 1 (0.89%) C++
5 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.89%) Swift
5 1 (0.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 19 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) AAT
6 2 (1.79%) ACCA
6 2 (1.79%) CIMA
6 2 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CCNP
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) PMO
2 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.89%) GAAP
3 1 (0.89%) GRC
3 1 (0.89%) IFRS
3 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (4.46%) NSN NetAct
2 4 (3.57%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (25.89%) SAP
2 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.61%) Oracle
4 9 (8.04%) Google
5 7 (6.25%) Adobe
5 7 (6.25%) Teradata
6 5 (4.46%) Ericsson
6 5 (4.46%) Nokia
7 4 (3.57%) IFS
8 2 (1.79%) F5
8 2 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.89%) Aruba
9 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.89%) Dell
9 1 (0.89%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.89%) HP
9 1 (0.89%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.89%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.89%) VMware