Finance Contracts in Macclesfield

Financial
Cheshire > Macclesfield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Macclesfield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 14 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Macclesfield 28.57% 15.84% 17.39%
As % of the General category 30.43% 17.02% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £437 £501 £359
25th Percentile £485 £512 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +8.50% -6.10%
75th Percentile - £700 £600
90th Percentile £620 £745 £650
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -15.45% +14.61% +6.64%

All General Skills
Macclesfield

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 Macclesfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 46 94 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield 93.88% 93.07% 80.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 24
10th Percentile £450 £405 £276
25th Percentile £500 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +13.33% +21.62%
75th Percentile £595 £550 £488
90th Percentile £700 £585 £535
Cheshire median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £16.67 £14.30
25th Percentile - £17.02 £14.38
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year - +16.20% -73.48%
75th Percentile - - £16.38
90th Percentile - £17.75 £16.60
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.50 £24.58 £30.54
% change year-on-year +32.22% -19.52% +45.43%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Macclesfield

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Macclesfield

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Macclesfield

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Macclesfield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Macclesfield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Macclesfield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Macclesfield

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Macclesfield

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Macclesfield

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Macclesfield 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:

Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 3 (21.43%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure AI
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 9 (64.29%) Manufacturing
1 9 (64.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Legal
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Expert
4 1 (7.14%) SAP CO Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP FI Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Financial Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
1 3 (21.43%) TensorFlow
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (7.14%) OLE
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Life Science
2 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 4 (28.57%) Inventory Management
2 4 (28.57%) Logistics
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Vision
3 3 (21.43%) Linear Algebra
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
3 3 (21.43%) Multi-Agent System
3 3 (21.43%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (21.43%) Pattern Recognition
3 3 (21.43%) RDF
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) SAP
2 5 (35.71%) Ariba
3 2 (14.29%) Anaplan
3 2 (14.29%) Hyperion
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle