Finance Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Financial
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Finance 52 47 36
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 13.76% 13.31% 8.74%
As % of the General category 26.80% 28.48% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 29
10th Percentile £351 £371 £360
25th Percentile £425 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -24.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £660 £588 £688
90th Percentile £688 £628 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £35.10
25th Percentile - £55.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - +69.01% +9.23%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £35.75
90th Percentile - - £35.90
South West median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -60.29% +22.45% -8.84%

All General Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 194 165 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 51.32% 46.74% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 102 86
10th Percentile £205 £363 £358
25th Percentile £363 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £590 £688
90th Percentile £626 £749 £756
South West median daily rate £507 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% -9.09% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £24.67 £22.00
25th Percentile £13.84 £28.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.75 £35.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.47% -21.28% -27.67%
75th Percentile £47.03 £66.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £65.11 £70.50 £82.40
South West median hourly rate £24.00 £62.50 £55.65
% change year-on-year -61.60% +12.32% -9.54%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Gloucestershire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Cheltenham +16 11 £367 - 58
Wotton-under-Edge - 10 £450 -
Gloucester -19 6 £588 +26.86% 50
Cirencester 0 5 £450 -21.74% 1
Tewkesbury - 4 - - 2
Finance
South West

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (19.23%) MS Visio
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle ERP
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle SCM
2 3 (5.77%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) OCI
2 10 (19.23%) Lucidchart
3 1 (1.92%) AWS
3 1 (1.92%) Azure
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.92%) GCP
3 1 (1.92%) Matillion
3 1 (1.92%) Mimecast
3 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 22 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Manufacturing
4 6 (11.54%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Local Government
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Analyst
2 12 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 10 (19.23%) Technical Writer
4 7 (13.46%) Product Owner
5 4 (7.69%) Applications Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Coordinator
5 4 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Logistics Coordinator
6 3 (5.77%) Service Desk Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Senior
8 1 (1.92%) Business Improvement Consultant
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Writer
8 1 (1.92%) ETL Tester
8 1 (1.92%) PMO Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Programme Director
8 1 (1.92%) Project Control Officer
8 1 (1.92%) Project Officer
8 1 (1.92%) Transformation Director
8 1 (1.92%) Transformation Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) ERP
2 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.31%) Change Control
4 8 (15.38%) Planning and Forecasting
5 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (9.62%) Agile
8 4 (7.69%) Application Rationalisation
8 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.69%) Logistics
8 4 (7.69%) Order Management
8 4 (7.69%) PRINCE2
8 4 (7.69%) Project Management
8 4 (7.69%) Risk Management
9 3 (5.77%) Coaching
9 3 (5.77%) Incident Management
9 3 (5.77%) Performance Analysis
9 3 (5.77%) Performance Metrics
9 3 (5.77%) Problem Management
9 3 (5.77%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Degree
2 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) APMP
3 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.77%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) IFS
5 1 (1.92%) F5
5 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) Tenable