Finance Contracts in Cheshire

Financial
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 4 4 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 85 84 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.93% 16.67% 16.23%
As % of the General category 27.16% 26.84% 27.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 69 64
10th Percentile £355 £342 £350
25th Percentile £380 £463 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +14.61% +6.64%
75th Percentile £580 £627 £622
90th Percentile £688 £738 £679
North West median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £28.04
25th Percentile - - £28.14
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.66 £29.37
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% -9.22% +9.23%
75th Percentile - - £31.66
90th Percentile - - £32.40
North West median hourly rate £52.50 £16.05 £30.76
% change year-on-year +227.20% -47.83% +112.10%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 313 313 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 69.71% 62.10% 58.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 200 205
10th Percentile £325 £276 £219
25th Percentile £388 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £566
90th Percentile £688 £627 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 19
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.57 £14.65
25th Percentile £27.20 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £37.25 £33.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £36.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -5 31 £364 -26.49% 7
Macclesfield +11 14 £580 +6.91% 4
Chester -9 10 £600 -7.69% 133
Alderley Edge - 4 £430 - 2
Crewe 0 3 £575 +15.00% 7
Wilmslow +5 2 £618 +70.34% 2
Warrington -10 1 - - 133
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 4 (4.71%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.71%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.53%) CICS
3 3 (3.53%) JBoss
3 3 (3.53%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.18%) Apache
5 1 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.35%) InVision
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.35%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (8.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.12%) AWS
1 12 (14.12%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) GCP
3 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.71%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (4.71%) Azure AI
4 4 (4.71%) Google Gemini
4 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.35%) SaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) WAN
2 3 (3.53%) Firewall
2 3 (3.53%) LAN
3 2 (2.35%) DMZ
3 2 (2.35%) Internet
4 1 (1.18%) ATM
4 1 (1.18%) BGP
4 1 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.18%) DHCP
4 1 (1.18%) DNS
4 1 (1.18%) DWDM
4 1 (1.18%) GPRS
4 1 (1.18%) IPsec
4 1 (1.18%) L2TP
4 1 (1.18%) MPLS
4 1 (1.18%) OSPF
4 1 (1.18%) SSL
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) DB2
1 6 (7.06%) Power BI
2 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.71%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.53%) Bigtable
4 3 (3.53%) Data Vault
4 3 (3.53%) Tableau
5 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Git
1 8 (9.41%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.53%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.53%) ERwin
3 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) Axure RP
4 2 (2.35%) Selenium
5 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 28 (32.94%) Banking
2 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (27.06%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.18%) Legal
5 13 (15.29%) Manufacturing
5 13 (15.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.53%) Marketing
9 2 (2.35%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.18%) Automotive
10 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Local Government
10 1 (1.18%) Publishing
10 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (15.29%) Analyst
2 10 (11.76%) Architect
3 9 (10.59%) Senior
3 9 (10.59%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.41%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.88%) Scrum Master
6 4 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 4 (4.71%) Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Payments Architect
6 4 (4.71%) Payments Project Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.53%) Banking Project Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Data Modeller
7 3 (3.53%) Network Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
1 4 (4.71%) REST
1 4 (4.71%) Spring
1 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
1 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
1 4 (4.71%) Web Services
2 3 (3.53%) CSS
2 3 (3.53%) EJB
2 3 (3.53%) HTML
2 3 (3.53%) J2EE
2 3 (3.53%) JSP
2 3 (3.53%) RAML
2 3 (3.53%) Servlets
2 3 (3.53%) SOAP
2 3 (3.53%) WSDL
3 2 (2.35%) Kafka
3 2 (2.35%) Middleware
3 2 (2.35%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.18%) .NET
4 1 (1.18%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.71%) Life Science
2 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.71%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.53%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) VSAM
5 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.18%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.18%) PMI
5 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Android
2 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (30.59%) Agile
3 15 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (16.47%) Analytics
4 14 (16.47%) Risk Management
4 14 (16.47%) SDLC
5 12 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (14.12%) Decision-Making
5 12 (14.12%) Migration
6 10 (11.76%) Project Management
7 9 (10.59%) Business Analysis
7 9 (10.59%) Change Management
7 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
8 8 (9.41%) Business Strategy
8 8 (9.41%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.41%) Data Analytics
8 8 (9.41%) Data Migration
8 8 (9.41%) ETL
8 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (8.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) Java
1 10 (11.76%) SQL
2 7 (8.24%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.53%) Scala
5 2 (2.35%) COBOL
5 2 (2.35%) JCL
6 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.18%) Perl
6 1 (1.18%) R
6 1 (1.18%) REXX
6 1 (1.18%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) CISM
4 2 (2.35%) CISSP
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) CBAP
5 1 (1.18%) CCIE
5 1 (1.18%) CCNP
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.18%) PMP
5 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.53%) PMO
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) NIST
2 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.35%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 7 (8.24%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (2.35%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.18%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Kibana
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) SAP
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) Ariba
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
4 4 (4.71%) Splunk
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 3 (3.53%) IDERA
5 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) AlgoSec
6 2 (2.35%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.35%) HP
6 2 (2.35%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco
7 1 (1.18%) Dell
7 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.18%) McAfee
7 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.18%) VMware