Finance Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Financial
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Hereford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 17.02% 17.65% 1.72%
As % of the General category 57.14% 42.86% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £500 - -

All General Skills
Hereford

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 general skills in Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 14 7 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 29.79% 41.18% 62.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile - £250 £524
25th Percentile £363 £325 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £500 £476 £800
90th Percentile - £492 £853
Herefordshire median daily rate £438 £593 £605
% change year-on-year -26.16% -2.07% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £18.22 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.44 £11.92
Median % change year-on-year +242.47% +54.66% -
75th Percentile £67.84 £18.65 -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £63.14 £18.44 £11.92
% change year-on-year +242.47% +54.66% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Hereford

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Billing
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Fintech
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Coaching
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft