Finance Contracts in Hertfordshire

Financial
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 23 91 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.17% 10.90% 10.72%
As % of the General category 11.79% 17.53% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 48
10th Percentile £501 £197 £376
25th Percentile £531 £272 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -24.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £744 £642 £741
90th Percentile £820 £713 £841
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 53 11
10th Percentile £61.13 - -
25th Percentile £62.81 - -
Median hourly rate £66.25 £38.12 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.79% -22.20% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70.31 - £60.00
90th Percentile £72.38 - £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -53.31% -22.20% +127.91%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 195 519 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 60.75% 62.16% 56.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 141 223
10th Percentile £348 £200 £231
25th Percentile £431 £331 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £520
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £811
East of England median daily rate £500 £461 £488
% change year-on-year +8.40% -5.38% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 245 93
10th Percentile £17.45 - £41.80
25th Percentile £36.48 £38.12 £53.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -21.67% +22.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.78 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.25% +81.52% +44.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Hatfield +2 5 £775 +287.50% 11
Watford +1 5 £556 +27.14% 31
Stevenage -7 5 £550 - 12
Hemel Hempstead +13 1 £400 -30.43% 12
Hitchin - 1 £575 -
Hoddesdon - 1 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - - 8
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (8.70%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (8.70%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) Skype for Business
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) Primavera
1 1 (4.35%) SAP PM
1 1 (4.35%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Cohesity
1 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
1 2 (8.70%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) OCI
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) IMAP
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) Skype
1 2 (8.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Electronics
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Developer
1 4 (17.39%) Programme Manager
1 4 (17.39%) Technical Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Developer
2 3 (13.04%) IFS Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.70%) IT Programme Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Messaging Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Blackberry
1 2 (8.70%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) ERP
1 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (26.09%) Programme Management
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
5 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
6 2 (8.70%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (8.70%) Coaching
6 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.70%) ETL
6 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) MCSA
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ITGC
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) SAP
2 4 (17.39%) IFS
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) NetApp
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Anaplan
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Spotify
4 1 (4.35%) Tagetik