Finance Contracts in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Financial England / East Midlands
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	3	4	4
Rank change year-on-year	+1	0
Contract jobs citing Finance	244	231	270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands	16.21%	15.04%	16.66%
As % of the General category	45.35%	47.24%	51.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	147	163	154
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£425
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£544	£621	£574
UK excluding London median daily rate	£420	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	4	11
Median hourly rate	£25.50	£9.82	£10.44
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+159.80%	-5.98%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£19.00	£19.25
% change year-on-year	+31.57%	-1.29%

Finance is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills East Midlands
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	538	489	524
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands	35.75%	31.84%	32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	343	323	322
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£423
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+0.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£288	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£534	£600	£562
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	13	19
Median hourly rate	£43.50	£32.50	£10.44
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+33.84%	+211.30%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£24.38	£22.67
% change year-on-year	+23.07%	+7.54%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East Midlands citing Finance as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate trend for Finance in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Finance in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire	+2	84	£450	-	4
Nottinghamshire	+3	69	£400	-3.61%	31
Derbyshire	-3	43	£413	+26.92%	12
Leicestershire	-7	23	£475	+40.74%	9
Lincolnshire	-4	3	-	-	6
Finance England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Finance also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the East Midlands region with a requirement for Finance.

1	102 (21.34%)	Agile Software Development
2	95 (19.87%)	Banking
3	68 (14.23%)	Stakeholder Management
4	59 (12.34%)	SQL
4	59 (12.34%)	Oracle
5	58 (12.13%)	SAP
6	57 (11.92%)	Microsoft
7	54 (11.30%)	SQL Server
8	53 (11.09%)	Project Management
9	50 (10.46%)	Migration
10	49 (10.25%)	Java
11	41 (8.58%)	Retail
11	41 (8.58%)	Analytical Skills
12	39 (8.16%)	JavaScript
13	35 (7.32%)	PRINCE2

13	35 (7.32%)	Windows
13	35 (7.32%)	Scrum
14	32 (6.69%)	ERP
15	31 (6.49%)	ITIL
15	31 (6.49%)	HTML
15	31 (6.49%)	Microsoft Office
15	31 (6.49%)	Business Analysis
16	30 (6.28%)	Manufacturing
17	27 (5.65%)	Microsoft Excel
18	26 (5.44%)	Service Management
19	25 (5.23%)	Data Migration
19	25 (5.23%)	Git (software)
20	24 (5.02%)	CSS
21	23 (4.81%)	Web Services
21	23 (4.81%)	C#

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	21 (4.39%)	SharePoint
2	14 (2.93%)	WebSphere
3	9 (1.88%)	SharePoint 2013
4	8 (1.67%)	Confluence
4	8 (1.67%)	JBoss
4	8 (1.67%)	SAS
5	6 (1.26%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
5	6 (1.26%)	Exchange Server 2003
5	6 (1.26%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	6 (1.26%)	IBM Notes
5	6 (1.26%)	MS Exchange
6	4 (0.84%)	CMS
7	3 (0.63%)	BizTalk Server
7	3 (0.63%)	Drupal
7	3 (0.63%)	Oracle Workflow
8	2 (0.42%)	Alfresco
8	2 (0.42%)	K2 blackpearl
8	2 (0.42%)	Liferay
8	2 (0.42%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	2 (0.42%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	31 (6.49%)	Microsoft Office
2	27 (5.65%)	Microsoft Excel
3	14 (2.93%)	Microsoft Project
4	8 (1.67%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	2 (0.42%)	UserZoom
6	1 (0.21%)	MS Visio
6	1 (0.21%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	14 (2.93%)	Oracle EBS
2	9 (1.88%)	Oracle Applications
3	8 (1.67%)	SAP CO
3	8 (1.67%)	SAP FI
3	8 (1.67%)	SAP FI/CO
4	7 (1.46%)	Oracle 11i
4	7 (1.46%)	Oracle Financials
4	7 (1.46%)	SAP Retail
5	6 (1.26%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	6 (1.26%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	5 (1.05%)	Unit4 Business World
7	4 (0.84%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
8	3 (0.63%)	Demantra
8	3 (0.63%)	SAP ERP
8	3 (0.63%)	SAP SD
8	3 (0.63%)	SnowdropKCS
9	2 (0.42%)	Oracle BPM
9	2 (0.42%)	Oracle iProcurement
9	2 (0.42%)	SAP FSCM
9	2 (0.42%)	SAP GTS

Cloud Services
1	12 (2.51%)	Amazon AWS
2	5 (1.05%)	SaaS
3	4 (0.84%)	Microsoft Azure
4	3 (0.63%)	Amazon EC2
5	2 (0.42%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	2 (0.42%)	AWS Lambda
5	2 (0.42%)	Cloud Computing
5	2 (0.42%)	IaaS
5	2 (0.42%)	Office 365
5	2 (0.42%)	PaaS
6	1 (0.21%)	Sage Pay

Communications & Networking
1	6 (1.26%)	VPN
2	3 (0.63%)	Firewall
2	3 (0.63%)	FTP
2	3 (0.63%)	Internet
2	3 (0.63%)	Intranet
2	3 (0.63%)	MVNO
2	3 (0.63%)	NetScaler
2	3 (0.63%)	Network Security
2	3 (0.63%)	SSL
2	3 (0.63%)	Wireshark
3	2 (0.42%)	TCP/IP
3	2 (0.42%)	WAN
4	1 (0.21%)	BGP
4	1 (0.21%)	Cisco ISE
4	1 (0.21%)	Ethernet
4	1 (0.21%)	L2TP
4	1 (0.21%)	MPLS
4	1 (0.21%)	OSPF
4	1 (0.21%)	RS-232
4	1 (0.21%)	RS-485

Database & Business Intelligence
1	54 (11.30%)	SQL Server
2	21 (4.39%)	Oracle Database
3	20 (4.18%)	SQL Server 2012
4	19 (3.97%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	18 (3.77%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	13 (2.72%)	Relational Database
7	10 (2.09%)	Oracle Reports
8	9 (1.88%)	MongoDB
9	8 (1.67%)	Oracle Database 10g
9	8 (1.67%)	SQL Server 2005
10	7 (1.46%)	Oracle Database 11g
10	7 (1.46%)	SQL Server 2016
11	6 (1.26%)	DB2
11	6 (1.26%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
11	6 (1.26%)	MySQL
11	6 (1.26%)	SQL Server 2008
11	6 (1.26%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
12	5 (1.05%)	PostgreSQL
12	5 (1.05%)	RDBMS
12	5 (1.05%)	SAP BW

Development Applications
1	25 (5.23%)	Git (software)
2	20 (4.18%)	JIRA
3	13 (2.72%)	Jenkins
4	10 (2.09%)	Eclipse
4	10 (2.09%)	JUnit
4	10 (2.09%)	Selenium
5	9 (1.88%)	Cucumber
6	7 (1.46%)	Oracle Forms
6	7 (1.46%)	Team Foundation Server
7	6 (1.26%)	Gradle
7	6 (1.26%)	IntelliJ
7	6 (1.26%)	Maven
8	5 (1.05%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	5 (1.05%)	Hudson
8	5 (1.05%)	Jasmine
8	5 (1.05%)	Mockito
8	5 (1.05%)	MyEclipse
9	4 (0.84%)	JProfiler
9	4 (0.84%)	LSMW
9	4 (0.84%)	WebDriver

General
1	95 (19.87%)	Banking
2	41 (8.58%)	Retail
3	30 (6.28%)	Manufacturing
4	18 (3.77%)	Marketing
5	15 (3.14%)	Telecoms
6	13 (2.72%)	Legal
7	8 (1.67%)	Back Office
8	7 (1.46%)	General Ledger
9	6 (1.26%)	Electronics
10	5 (1.05%)	Retail Banking
11	4 (0.84%)	Billing
11	4 (0.84%)	Investment Banking
12	3 (0.63%)	Advertising
12	3 (0.63%)	Aerospace
12	3 (0.63%)	Financial Institution
12	3 (0.63%)	Local Government
12	3 (0.63%)	Pharmaceutical
13	2 (0.42%)	Corporate Banking
13	2 (0.42%)	Law
14	1 (0.21%)	Multimedia

Job Titles
1	118 (24.69%)	Analyst
2	84 (17.57%)	Developer
3	68 (14.23%)	Project Manager
4	61 (12.76%)	Business Analyst
5	32 (6.69%)	Consultant
6	24 (5.02%)	Java Developer
7	23 (4.81%)	Architect
8	21 (4.39%)	Financial Analyst
9	17 (3.56%)	Applications Support
10	16 (3.35%)	Support Analyst
11	15 (3.14%)	Banking Analyst
12	14 (2.93%)	Finance Business Analyst
12	14 (2.93%)	SQL Developer
13	13 (2.72%)	Oracle Analyst
13	13 (2.72%)	Senior Analyst
14	12 (2.51%)	Senior Business Analyst
15	11 (2.30%)	Applications Support Analyst
15	11 (2.30%)	Banking Business Analyst
15	11 (2.30%)	SAP Consultant
15	11 (2.30%)	Service Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	31 (6.49%)	HTML
2	24 (5.02%)	CSS
3	23 (4.81%)	.NET
3	23 (4.81%)	Web Services
4	19 (3.97%)	Spring
5	17 (3.56%)	XML
6	16 (3.35%)	Hibernate
7	15 (3.14%)	J2EE
8	14 (2.93%)	JSON
8	14 (2.93%)	RESTful
9	13 (2.72%)	jQuery
10	12 (2.51%)	AngularJS
11	11 (2.30%)	EJB
11	11 (2.30%)	JPA
11	11 (2.30%)	SOAP
12	10 (2.09%)	HTML5
12	10 (2.09%)	JSP
12	10 (2.09%)	Struts
13	9 (1.88%)	Ajax
14	7 (1.46%)	CSS3

Miscellaneous
1	41 (8.58%)	Analytical Skills
2	12 (2.51%)	Management Information System
3	10 (2.09%)	Data Centre
3	10 (2.09%)	User Experience
4	9 (1.88%)	Credit Risk
4	9 (1.88%)	Mobile App
5	8 (1.67%)	Greenfield Project
6	6 (1.26%)	Blackberry
6	6 (1.26%)	Enterprise Software
6	6 (1.26%)	Mainframe
6	6 (1.26%)	Virtual Team
7	4 (0.84%)	Computer Science
8	3 (0.63%)	Data Structures
8	3 (0.63%)	Fat Client
8	3 (0.63%)	Thin Client
9	2 (0.42%)	Mobile Banking
9	2 (0.42%)	Public Cloud
9	2 (0.42%)	Reference Data
9	2 (0.42%)	Smart Meter
10	1 (0.21%)	Driving Licence

Operating Systems
1	35 (7.32%)	Windows
2	16 (3.35%)	Unix
3	13 (2.72%)	Linux
4	10 (2.09%)	Apple iOS
5	9 (1.88%)	Windows Server 2012
6	8 (1.67%)	Windows 10
6	8 (1.67%)	Windows 7
6	8 (1.67%)	Windows Server 2008
7	7 (1.46%)	HPUX
7	7 (1.46%)	Windows 8
7	7 (1.46%)	Windows Server 2003
8	6 (1.26%)	Windows XP
9	5 (1.05%)	Android
9	5 (1.05%)	Windows Server
10	2 (0.42%)	AIX
10	2 (0.42%)	Solaris
11	1 (0.21%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	102 (21.34%)	Agile Software Development
2	68 (14.23%)	Stakeholder Management
3	53 (11.09%)	Project Management
4	50 (10.46%)	Migration
5	35 (7.32%)	PRINCE2
5	35 (7.32%)	Scrum
6	32 (6.69%)	ERP
7	31 (6.49%)	Business Analysis
7	31 (6.49%)	ITIL
8	26 (5.44%)	Service Management
9	25 (5.23%)	Data Migration
10	23 (4.81%)	Business Intelligence
10	23 (4.81%)	Risk Management
10	23 (4.81%)	Test Automation
11	21 (4.39%)	User Acceptance Testing
12	20 (4.18%)	Change Management
12	20 (4.18%)	ITSM
13	19 (3.97%)	SDLC
14	17 (3.56%)	TDD
15	16 (3.35%)	Data Protection

Programming Languages
1	59 (12.34%)	SQL
2	49 (10.25%)	Java
3	39 (8.16%)	JavaScript
4	23 (4.81%)	C#
5	13 (2.72%)	T-SQL
6	12 (2.51%)	PowerShell
7	11 (2.30%)	VBA
8	10 (2.09%)	VB.NET
9	8 (1.67%)	PL/SQL
9	8 (1.67%)	Python
10	7 (1.46%)	VBScript
11	6 (1.26%)	ABAP
11	6 (1.26%)	VB
12	4 (0.84%)	VB6
13	3 (0.63%)	Apple Swift
13	3 (0.63%)	C
13	3 (0.63%)	Objective-C
13	3 (0.63%)	SAS Macro
13	3 (0.63%)	Scala
14	2 (0.42%)	ES6

Qualifications
1	21 (4.39%)	Security Cleared
2	18 (3.77%)	Degree
3	14 (2.93%)	ISEB
4	13 (2.72%)	ITIL Certification
4	13 (2.72%)	SC Cleared
5	10 (2.09%)	PRINCE2 Certification
6	9 (1.88%)	PMP
7	8 (1.67%)	PMI Certification
8	6 (1.26%)	Microsoft Certification
9	5 (1.05%)	CISM
9	5 (1.05%)	CISSP
9	5 (1.05%)	ISTQB
9	5 (1.05%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
10	4 (0.84%)	APMP
10	4 (0.84%)	BPSS Clearance
11	3 (0.63%)	CBAP
11	3 (0.63%)	CISA
11	3 (0.63%)	Computer Science Degree
11	3 (0.63%)	CRISC
11	3 (0.63%)	IIBA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (4.81%)	PMO
2	10 (2.09%)	QA
3	6 (1.26%)	IFRS
3	6 (1.26%)	SLA
4	5 (1.05%)	IFRS 9
4	5 (1.05%)	ISO 9001
5	3 (0.63%)	Data Quality
5	3 (0.63%)	GDPR
6	2 (0.42%)	IAS 39
7	1 (0.21%)	COBIT
7	1 (0.21%)	COSO
7	1 (0.21%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.21%)	FATCA
7	1 (0.21%)	GCP
7	1 (0.21%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	1 (0.21%)	PCI DSS
7	1 (0.21%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.21%)	WAI

System Software
1	10 (2.09%)	Active Directory
2	7 (1.46%)	Docker
3	6 (1.26%)	XenDesktop
4	2 (0.42%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	1 (0.21%)	Apache Flume
5	1 (0.21%)	Firmware
5	1 (0.21%)	HDFS
5	1 (0.21%)	Hyper-V
5	1 (0.21%)	Oracle RAC
5	1 (0.21%)	Samba
5	1 (0.21%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Systems Management
1	6 (1.26%)	MOM
2	3 (0.63%)	HP Quality Center
3	2 (0.42%)	Ansible
3	2 (0.42%)	Ganglia
3	2 (0.42%)	Kibana
3	2 (0.42%)	nmon
3	2 (0.42%)	Opscode Chef
3	2 (0.42%)	SCCM
4	1 (0.21%)	Grafana
4	1 (0.21%)	Hadoop YARN
4	1 (0.21%)	logstash
4	1 (0.21%)	Nagios
4	1 (0.21%)	Oracle RMAN
4	1 (0.21%)	Puppet
4	1 (0.21%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
4	1 (0.21%)	Tivoli

Vendors
1	59 (12.34%)	Oracle
2	58 (12.13%)	SAP
3	57 (11.92%)	Microsoft
4	12 (2.51%)	HP
5	11 (2.30%)	Citrix
6	9 (1.88%)	IBM
7	7 (1.46%)	Salesforce.com
8	6 (1.26%)	Lotus
9	5 (1.05%)	Cisco
9	5 (1.05%)	JD Edwards
10	4 (0.84%)	Perforce
10	4 (0.84%)	Remedy
11	3 (0.63%)	CheckPoint
11	3 (0.63%)	Cognos
11	3 (0.63%)	ComArch
11	3 (0.63%)	Gemalto
12	2 (0.42%)	OpenText
12	2 (0.42%)	Sage
12	2 (0.42%)	VMware
12	2 (0.42%)	webMethods