Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,075 10,963 15,042
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.35% 22.29% 21.24%
As % of the General category 33.25% 37.64% 37.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,931 7,938 10,717
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £730 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 98 133
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.50 £12.62
25th Percentile £14.67 £21.24 £20.40
Median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.12 £49.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.50 £73.25 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -26.54% +56.53%

All General Skills
England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,277 29,126 40,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.21% 56.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,702 20,455 28,101
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,781 948 1,313
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.12 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.25 £71.64 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.82% +53.73% -2.22%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
London 0 4,700 £613 -2.00% 3,030
South East -3 642 £508 -3.24% 802
North of England +1 617 £500 -4.76% 915
Midlands +4 371 £550 +10.00% 601
North West +3 356 £500 - 540
South West +3 331 £570 +3.64% 432
West Midlands +4 261 £550 +8.64% 380
Yorkshire -2 237 £500 -9.09% 269
East of England +4 207 £525 +0.96% 312
East Midlands +6 101 £550 +15.79% 221
North East +3 19 £500 -16.67% 112
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 204 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (2.66%) Apache
3 143 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 89 (1.26%) Confluence
5 76 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 49 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.51%) SAS
8 21 (0.30%) IIS
9 20 (0.28%) CMS
10 18 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 15 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 12 (0.17%) nginx
12 12 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.14%) JBoss
13 10 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.13%) MTS
15 7 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.085%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.057%) BizTalk Server
17 4 (0.057%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 351 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 289 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 144 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 98 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 13 (0.18%) Sketch
8 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.071%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.057%) InDesign
12 3 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.028%) Revit
13 2 (0.028%) SPSS
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
14 1 (0.014%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 182 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 50 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 46 (0.65%) SAP FI
5 43 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (0.55%) SAP CO
7 36 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 36 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
8 35 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
9 34 (0.48%) Aladdin
9 34 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
10 32 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
11 30 (0.42%) Loan IQ
12 29 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
13 26 (0.37%) Endur
14 25 (0.35%) NetSuite
14 25 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
15 24 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
15 24 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
16 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,019 (14.40%) Azure
2 775 (10.95%) AWS
3 383 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 343 (4.85%) GCP
5 234 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 226 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
7 217 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
8 151 (2.13%) Snowflake
9 125 (1.77%) dbt
10 120 (1.70%) SaaS
11 102 (1.44%) Entra ID
12 91 (1.29%) WhatsApp
13 83 (1.17%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 77 (1.09%) GitHub
16 72 (1.02%) Serverless
17 68 (0.96%) PaaS
18 62 (0.88%) IaaS
19 56 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
20 49 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 182 (2.57%) Firewall
2 96 (1.36%) WAN
3 85 (1.20%) DNS
4 77 (1.09%) VPN
5 62 (0.88%) BGP
6 56 (0.79%) LAN
7 55 (0.78%) MPLS
8 53 (0.75%) Wireless
9 46 (0.65%) Network Security
10 44 (0.62%) DMZ
11 41 (0.58%) SSL
12 38 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 33 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
13 33 (0.47%) OSPF
14 32 (0.45%) TCP/IP
15 31 (0.44%) DHCP
15 31 (0.44%) SAN
16 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
16 29 (0.41%) Internet
17 25 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (4.81%) Power BI
2 266 (3.76%) SQL Server
3 196 (2.77%) Data Lake
4 166 (2.35%) Apache Ignite
5 125 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
6 120 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 118 (1.67%) Apache Arrow
7 118 (1.67%) Dremio
8 115 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 115 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
9 111 (1.57%) Tableau
10 89 (1.26%) Metadata
11 82 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 81 (1.14%) Big Data
13 77 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 64 (0.90%) MySQL
15 59 (0.83%) Oracle Database
16 57 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 53 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
18 43 (0.61%) KDB
Development Applications
1 270 (3.82%) JIRA
2 127 (1.80%) Git
3 112 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 62 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 60 (0.85%) GitLab
6 55 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 41 (0.58%) JUnit
8 38 (0.54%) Selenium
9 31 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 24 (0.34%) ERwin
11 23 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 18 (0.25%) JMeter
13 18 (0.25%) Postman
14 17 (0.24%) Mockito
15 16 (0.23%) Maven
16 15 (0.21%) Gradle
17 14 (0.20%) Artifactory
18 13 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,801 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 1,543 (21.81%) Banking
3 836 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 583 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 578 (8.17%) Front Office
6 419 (5.92%) Marketing
7 402 (5.68%) Telecoms
8 377 (5.33%) Manufacturing
9 314 (4.44%) Investment Banking
10 279 (3.94%) Electronics
11 251 (3.55%) Financial Institution
12 250 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
13 237 (3.35%) Retail
14 219 (3.10%) Legal
15 182 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
16 170 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
17 147 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 115 (1.63%) Back Office
19 96 (1.36%) Law
20 79 (1.12%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,115 (15.76%) Analyst
2 1,047 (14.80%) Developer
3 689 (9.74%) Project Manager
4 679 (9.60%) Architect
5 668 (9.44%) Senior
6 585 (8.27%) Lead
7 482 (6.81%) Business Analyst
8 477 (6.74%) Consultant
9 254 (3.59%) Software Engineer
10 241 (3.41%) Financial Analyst
11 232 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
12 201 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 175 (2.47%) Python Developer
14 168 (2.37%) Java Developer
15 145 (2.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 139 (1.96%) Senior Developer
17 138 (1.95%) IT Manager
18 136 (1.92%) C# Developer
18 136 (1.92%) Finance Manager
19 131 (1.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (3.97%) React
2 256 (3.62%) .NET
3 198 (2.80%) gRPC
4 190 (2.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 137 (1.94%) Pandas
6 133 (1.88%) AngularJS
7 129 (1.82%) HTML
8 128 (1.81%) NumPy
9 120 (1.70%) Redux
10 111 (1.57%) SciPy
11 106 (1.50%) Node.js
12 99 (1.40%) REST
12 99 (1.40%) XML
13 97 (1.37%) CSS
14 95 (1.34%) Spring
15 93 (1.31%) Web Services
16 91 (1.29%) Kafka
17 80 (1.13%) Material-UI
18 62 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
19 60 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 391 (5.53%) Derivative
2 357 (5.05%) Hedge funds
3 354 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 279 (3.94%) Equities
5 251 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 232 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 222 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 120 (1.70%) Data Centre
9 110 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 93 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 88 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 80 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 78 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 73 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 67 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 59 (0.83%) Credit Risk
16 59 (0.83%) NHS
17 58 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
18 50 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
19 45 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 441 (6.23%) Windows
2 276 (3.90%) Linux
3 186 (2.63%) Unix
4 99 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 96 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 37 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.45%) Android
8 32 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.20%) VMS
12 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.14%) zOS
14 9 (0.13%) Solaris
15 7 (0.099%) MVS
15 7 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.085%) CentOS
17 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,481 (20.93%) Agile
2 881 (12.45%) Project Management
3 816 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
4 760 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 667 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
5 667 (9.43%) DevOps
6 637 (9.00%) Migration
7 545 (7.70%) Change Management
8 499 (7.05%) Asset Management
9 497 (7.02%) Software Engineering
10 454 (6.42%) Analytics
11 414 (5.85%) Project Delivery
12 412 (5.82%) Programme Management
13 390 (5.51%) CI/CD
14 375 (5.30%) Risk Management
15 374 (5.29%) ERP
16 358 (5.06%) Investment Management
17 335 (4.73%) Roadmaps
18 333 (4.71%) Decision-Making
19 327 (4.62%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 930 (13.14%) SQL
2 859 (12.14%) Python
3 605 (8.55%) Java
4 424 (5.99%) C#
5 378 (5.34%) JavaScript
6 324 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 203 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 104 (1.47%) C++
9 82 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 67 (0.95%) Scala
11 64 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 55 (0.78%) R
13 52 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 49 (0.69%) Go
15 45 (0.64%) Perl
16 44 (0.62%) Bash
17 39 (0.55%) VBA
18 27 (0.38%) Kotlin
18 27 (0.38%) Rust
19 23 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 659 (9.31%) Degree
2 509 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 354 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 130 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 127 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 106 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 96 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 89 (1.26%) CISSP
9 81 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 81 (1.14%) PMP
10 68 (0.96%) CISM
11 59 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 57 (0.81%) ACCA
13 51 (0.72%) CIMA
14 44 (0.62%) CCNP
15 39 (0.55%) CCNA
16 37 (0.52%) AWS Certification
16 37 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 36 (0.51%) CISA
18 35 (0.49%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (3.96%) PMO
2 278 (3.93%) QA
3 205 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 128 (1.81%) SLA
5 95 (1.34%) GDPR
6 84 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.05%) NIST
8 56 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 51 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.71%) IFRS
11 38 (0.54%) GRC
12 36 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.42%) MiFID
14 23 (0.33%) GAAP
15 20 (0.28%) EMIR
15 20 (0.28%) ISO 20022
15 20 (0.28%) SEPA
16 16 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 12 (0.17%) IFRS 17
18 11 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 254 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 120 (1.70%) Docker
3 52 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.27%) IAG
6 15 (0.21%) ACF2
6 15 (0.21%) Firmware
6 15 (0.21%) RACF
7 10 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.11%) NFS
8 8 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.085%) HDFS
10 6 (0.085%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.071%) vSphere
12 4 (0.057%) KVM
12 4 (0.057%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 182 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.06%) Terraform
3 106 (1.50%) Ansible
4 61 (0.86%) SCCM
5 34 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.47%) Puppet
7 25 (0.35%) Endace
7 25 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.28%) Grafana
10 14 (0.20%) Kibana
11 13 (0.18%) logstash
11 13 (0.18%) Netcool
12 12 (0.17%) Tivoli
13 11 (0.16%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.14%) Nessus
14 10 (0.14%) Packer
15 9 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 903 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 706 (9.98%) SAP
3 481 (6.80%) Oracle
4 227 (3.21%) Cisco
5 193 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 155 (2.19%) Google
7 101 (1.43%) F5
8 91 (1.29%) Databricks
9 87 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 86 (1.22%) VMware
11 83 (1.17%) IBM
12 71 (1.00%) Bloomberg
13 64 (0.90%) Citrix
14 60 (0.85%) CheckPoint
15 56 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 48 (0.68%) Adobe
17 47 (0.66%) Workday
18 45 (0.64%) Splunk
19 43 (0.61%) Juniper
20 40 (0.57%) Dell