Finance Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Financial
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Gloucester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 9 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 6 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 4.96% 14.81% 3.73%
As % of the General category 11.76% 24.49% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £388 £400 £528
25th Percentile £472 £415 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £473 £588
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -19.57% +11.90%
75th Percentile £626 £516 £644
90th Percentile £713 £570 £723
Gloucestershire median daily rate £626 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.24% -12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £27.40 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% -6.67% -7.69%

All General Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 51 49 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 42.15% 60.49% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 32
10th Percentile £183 £400 £401
25th Percentile £220 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £494 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.99% -14.13% +21.05%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £745
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -21.11% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £24.33 £18.00 -
25th Percentile £29.65 £18.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £39.85 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.74% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £49.96 £22.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £55.23 £23.20 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £15.10 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.24% -5.71% -2.02%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Finance job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Gloucester over the 6 months to 8 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Gloucester

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (16.67%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
1 1 (16.67%) Programme Director
1 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Transformation Director
1 1 (16.67%) Transformation Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (16.67%) People Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) IFS