Finance Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Financial
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 8 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 68 66 126
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 15.18% 20.06% 22.99%
As % of the General category 32.23% 33.33% 38.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 86
10th Percentile £292 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £278 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £659
90th Percentile £568 £680 £750
South East median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.70
25th Percentile - - £23.81
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £25.50
90th Percentile - - £26.40
South East median hourly rate £20.63 £28.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year -26.97% -0.88% +27.63%

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 211 198 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 47.10% 60.18% 59.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 128 241
10th Percentile £185 £236 £275
25th Percentile £335 £359 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £650 £750
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile £28.70 £13.21 £15.21
25th Percentile - £15.49 £22.61
Median hourly rate £29.61 £28.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +18.13% +45.45%
75th Percentile - £49.81 £29.25
90th Percentile £30.89 £55.63 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £21.02 £39.93 £49.07
% change year-on-year -47.35% -18.63% +39.19%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Buckinghamshire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -1 60 £425 -5.56% 46
Bletchley -2 2 £274 +54.96%
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.94%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (4.41%) NetSuite
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (2.94%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.94%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) Azure
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.35%) Collibra
5 4 (5.88%) GitHub
5 4 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.41%) Figma
6 3 (4.41%) GCP
7 2 (2.94%) Alation
7 2 (2.94%) OCI
7 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.94%) SaaS
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.47%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) Big Data
1 7 (10.29%) Power BI
2 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.82%) Metadata
3 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.88%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.41%) MySQL
4 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.94%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) JUnit
2 3 (4.41%) Storybook
General
1 37 (54.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Banking
3 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.24%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.35%) Electronics
6 5 (7.35%) General Ledger
6 5 (7.35%) Marketing
7 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.94%) Military
8 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Billing
9 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Developer
3 9 (13.24%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.76%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.82%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Desktop Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Oracle Specialist
8 3 (4.41%) Salesforce Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (5.88%) React
2 3 (4.41%) CSS
2 3 (4.41%) HTML
2 3 (4.41%) RESTful
2 3 (4.41%) Spring
2 3 (4.41%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.41%) Vitest
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (2.94%) REST
3 2 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.94%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.94%) SOAP
4 1 (1.47%) .NET
4 1 (1.47%) Flutter
4 1 (1.47%) JSON
4 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) TM Forum
5 1 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Windows
2 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Agile
2 20 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 11 (16.18%) Analytics
6 10 (14.71%) ETL
6 10 (14.71%) Waterfall
7 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
7 9 (13.24%) Project Management
7 9 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (10.29%) ERP
8 7 (10.29%) ITIL
8 7 (10.29%) Migration
8 7 (10.29%) Programme Management
8 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.82%) AI
9 6 (8.82%) Data Analysis
9 6 (8.82%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (8.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.35%) PL/SQL
3 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.88%) Python
4 3 (4.41%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) R
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (2.94%) ACCA
4 2 (2.94%) CIMA
4 2 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.47%) CISA
5 1 (1.47%) CISM
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.47%) PMP
5 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.76%) GDPR
3 6 (8.82%) QA
4 5 (7.35%) SLA
5 4 (5.88%) PMO
6 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.47%) GRC
7 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.47%) NIST
7 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) SCCM
2 1 (1.47%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
1 13 (19.12%) SAP
2 9 (13.24%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.41%) McAfee
5 2 (2.94%) Databricks
5 2 (2.94%) Informatica
5 2 (2.94%) Planview
5 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.94%) Tanium
6 1 (1.47%) Apple
6 1 (1.47%) BT
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco
6 1 (1.47%) Citrix
6 1 (1.47%) HP
6 1 (1.47%) VMware
6 1 (1.47%) Workday