Finance Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Financial
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Herefordshire. 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 10 10 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -12
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 14.04% 8.82% 1.43%
As % of the General category 57.14% 25.00% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.15% -11.00% +4.76%

All General Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 14 12 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 24.56% 35.29% 54.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile - £340 £519
25th Percentile £363 £438 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £593 £605
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -2.07% -6.92%
75th Percentile £500 £750 £775
90th Percentile - £900 £851
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £454 £505
% change year-on-year +8.29% -10.03% -1.46%
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 - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £19.00
% change year-on-year +24.36% +28.11% -15.39%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
Hereford -2 8 £500 - 7
Finance
West Midlands

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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