Finance Contracts in Halifax

Financial
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Halifax. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 13 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 68.42% 33.33% 44.00%
As % of the General category 86.67% 42.86% 52.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £476 - £442
25th Percentile £495 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.16%
75th Percentile £581 - £613
90th Percentile £638 - £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%

All General Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15 7 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 78.95% 77.78% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 18
10th Percentile £481 - £438
25th Percentile £500 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £330 £550
Median % change year-on-year +53.41% -40.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £542 £434 £606
90th Percentile £613 £496 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Halifax

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Halifax

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Halifax

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Halifax over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Halifax

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Halifax

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 (23.08%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.69%) SNA
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Product Owner
2 2 (15.38%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Migration
1 9 (69.23%) Network Management
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Objectives and Key Results
3 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
3 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (15.38%) Product Vision
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) User Stories
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
4 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) JCL
1 1 (7.69%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) IBM