Finance Contracts in Hertfordshire

Financial
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 83 77 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.86% 10.17% 10.86%
As % of the General category 16.21% 18.87% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 61
10th Percentile £200 £388 £300
25th Percentile £263 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +16.16% +16.47%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £650
90th Percentile £713 £849 £803
East of England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 13 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £49.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £40.63
90th Percentile - £64.00 £71.25
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +101.79%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 512 408 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 60.81% 53.90% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 207 231
10th Percentile £200 £247 £185
25th Percentile £323 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +14.58% -3.81%
75th Percentile £578 £700 £638
90th Percentile £700 £838 £738
East of England median daily rate £451 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.75% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 85 60
10th Percentile - £46.50 £16.49
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.24
% change year-on-year +92.43% +29.99% +1.60%

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 1 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 June 2024. 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
Stevenage +17 51 - - 14
Watford -1 9 £438 -39.66% 12
Hatfield -6 9 £200 -60.00% 6
Rickmansworth -2 2 £375 -6.25% 1
Royston +7 1 - - 2
Hemel Hempstead +4 1 £575 -4.17% 11
St Albans 0 1 £350 -17.65% 5
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 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.20%) iTrent
3 1 (1.20%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.20%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.82%) AWS
2 2 (2.41%) SaaS
3 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.20%) GCP
3 1 (1.20%) Serverless
3 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.20%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.20%) MySQL
2 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 66 (79.52%) Social Skills
2 49 (59.04%) Influencing Skills
2 49 (59.04%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Marketing
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Electronics
7 3 (3.61%) Games
8 2 (2.41%) Aviation
8 2 (2.41%) French Language
8 2 (2.41%) German Language
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (8.43%) Developer
2 6 (7.23%) Consultant
2 6 (7.23%) Lead
3 4 (4.82%) Coordinator
3 4 (4.82%) Project Coordinator
3 4 (4.82%) Technical Leader
4 3 (3.61%) Architect
4 3 (3.61%) IFS Consultant
4 3 (3.61%) IFS Developer
4 3 (3.61%) Lead Consultant
4 3 (3.61%) Lead Developer
4 3 (3.61%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (3.61%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (3.61%) Technical Developer
5 2 (2.41%) Analyst
5 2 (2.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (2.41%) Project Controller
5 2 (2.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (2.41%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) HTML
2 3 (3.61%) CSS
2 3 (3.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.61%) REST
2 3 (3.61%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.20%) Kafka
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) Node.js
3 1 (1.20%) React
3 1 (1.20%) React Native
3 1 (1.20%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (68.67%) Project Management
2 47 (56.63%) Business Development
2 47 (56.63%) Business Strategy
3 12 (14.46%) Agile
4 10 (12.05%) PRINCE2
5 9 (10.84%) Change Management
6 8 (9.64%) ERP
7 6 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.23%) Contract Management
7 6 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.23%) Service Delivery
8 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (4.82%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (4.82%) Programme Management
9 4 (4.82%) Time Management
10 3 (3.61%) CRM
10 3 (3.61%) Decision-Making
10 3 (3.61%) Migration
10 3 (3.61%) Process Improvement
10 3 (3.61%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.43%) SQL
2 3 (3.61%) Apex Code
2 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.41%) Python
4 1 (1.20%) Bash
4 1 (1.20%) Java
4 1 (1.20%) PHP
4 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) PMP
3 2 (2.41%) ACCA
3 2 (2.41%) CIMA
3 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.20%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.02%) PMO
2 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.20%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Ansible
1 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.20%) Puppet
1 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) SAP
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) IFS
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.20%) Kronos
5 1 (1.20%) OpenText
5 1 (1.20%) Sybase
5 1 (1.20%) Twitter
5 1 (1.20%) Workday