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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 12 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 40.00% 16.67% 68.00%
As % of the General category 50.00% 25.00% 77.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £480 - £452
25th Percentile £506 £606 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +13.95% +21.47%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £569
90th Percentile £713 - £610
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +7.84%

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 24 4 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 80.00% 66.67% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 15
10th Percentile £200 £263 £460
25th Percentile £381 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +18.64%
75th Percentile £534 £578 £556
90th Percentile £645 £603 £603
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £18.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -18.75% -3.74%

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 17 August 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (8.33%) SNA
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Designer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) UX Designer
2 1 (8.33%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Migration
1 8 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Network Design
3 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Use Case
3 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
3 1 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JCL
1 1 (8.33%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (8.33%) IBM