Finance Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Financial
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Finance 16 35 35
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 6.13% 15.56% 20.83%
As % of the General category 10.26% 28.69% 35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 15
10th Percentile £198 £168 £405
25th Percentile £315 £250 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £320 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -39.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £669 £335 £588
90th Percentile £868 £427 £717
North West median daily rate £456 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £10.38
25th Percentile - £21.00 £10.61
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
75th Percentile - £23.00 £12.20
90th Percentile - - £12.92
North West median hourly rate £22.85 £37.00 £16.68
% change year-on-year -38.24% +121.82% -17.63%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 156 122 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 59.77% 54.22% 58.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 67 47
10th Percentile £133 £149 £194
25th Percentile £151 £188 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £320 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -36.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £488 £575
90th Percentile £630 £615 £610
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile - £13.49 £11.64
25th Percentile £15.18 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.94 £18.07 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.75% +0.36% -0.61%
75th Percentile £38.15 £22.30 £21.50
90th Percentile £44.94 £23.53 £28.83
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £27.13 £23.83
% change year-on-year +9.12% +13.83% +19.15%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Merseyside over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Merseyside

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Liverpool -12 15 £425 +70.00% 66
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) NetScaler
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) IT Manager
1 3 (18.75%) IT Programme Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Programme Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Finance Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Accountant
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) EPoS
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Agile
1 3 (18.75%) Logistics
1 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
1 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
1 3 (18.75%) Project Management
1 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
2 2 (12.50%) API Integration
2 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) ERP
2 2 (12.50%) Fintech
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Stability
2 2 (12.50%) Presales
2 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 2 (12.50%) PMP
1 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) IFRS
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) F5
1 2 (12.50%) Veeam
1 2 (12.50%) VMware