Finance Contracts in Dorset

Financial
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Dorset. 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 13 13 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing Finance 11 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 11.22% 9.09% 8.80%
As % of the General category 17.74% 19.74% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 14
10th Percentile £307 - £468
25th Percentile £408 £419 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -16.33% +10.21%
75th Percentile £513 £769 £688
90th Percentile £644 - £696
South West median daily rate £510 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £11.87 -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £14.79 £43.68
% change year-on-year +322.58% -66.14% +24.79%

All General Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 62 76 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 63.27% 46.06% 49.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 44
10th Percentile £285 £193 £241
25th Percentile £413 £325 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -20.45% +11.68%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £750 £676
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 33 35
10th Percentile £14.56 £11.87 £14.80
25th Percentile £14.78 £13.69 £17.79
Median hourly rate £15.31 £15.62 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -72.25% +11.33%
75th Percentile £16.92 £47.83 £61.35
90th Percentile £17.79 £57.33 £69.08
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +2 7 £425 -2.86% 129
Poole - 2 £556 - 6
Finance
South West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (63.64%) OneDrive
2 6 (54.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 6 (54.55%) Entra ID
2 6 (54.55%) SaaS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Skype
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VoIP
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) B2B
1 6 (54.55%) Data Loss Prevention
1 6 (54.55%) E-Discovery
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
3 1 (9.09%) Data Science
3 1 (9.09%) Data Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (9.09%) Due Diligence
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Stability
3 1 (9.09%) Post-Merger Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (27.27%) PingFederate
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) AppManager
4 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Ivanti
2 1 (9.09%) VMware