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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 10 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.47% 9.33% 10.51%
As % of the General category 12.20% 20.29% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 22
10th Percentile £203 - £339
25th Percentile £206 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -12.77% +11.90%
75th Percentile £571 £769 £688
90th Percentile £595 - £738
South West median daily rate £553 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +6.29% -9.57% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.43
Median hourly rate - £25.18 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year - +5.55% -3.13%
75th Percentile - - £36.35
90th Percentile - - £43.59
South West median hourly rate £28.55 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.48% -5.71% -2.78%

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 82 69 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 69.49% 46.00% 54.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 35 61
10th Percentile £203 £278 £213
25th Percentile £363 £361 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £550 £629 £650
90th Percentile £575 £761 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 40
10th Percentile £15.19 - £13.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.69 £17.50
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £54.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -71.34% +12.40%
75th Percentile £15.75 £47.83 £59.41
90th Percentile £17.21 £56.89 £70.78
South West median hourly rate £22.63 £48.00 £56.27
% change year-on-year -52.85% -14.70% +25.27%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +4 7 £525 +20.00% 23
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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) VLAN
1 3 (30.00%) VoIP
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
1 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Manager
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (20.00%) Due Diligence
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Post-Merger Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) AppManager
3 2 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Ivanti
2 3 (30.00%) VMware