Finance Contracts in the North East

Financial
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 32 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.49% 6.09% 7.63%
As % of the General category 18.60% 11.80% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 23
10th Percentile £208 £463 £402
25th Percentile £291 £481 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £537 £597 £680
90th Percentile £568 £650 £724
England median daily rate £575 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.52% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.25 -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £27.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +50.00% +5.02% -26.54%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 172 161 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 56.39% 51.60% 50.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 79 144
10th Percentile £200 £253 £202
25th Percentile £355 £404 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £600
90th Percentile £588 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 37 0
10th Percentile - £11.32 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £19.38 £46.00 -
90th Percentile £20.49 £48.75 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.50 £31.96
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.57% +48.65%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North East

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North East

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North East

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North East

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Tyne and Wear +8 25 £386 -22.90% 117
Durham 0 3 £525 -10.64% 16
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (9.38%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 3 (9.38%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (6.25%) SAP CO
2 2 (6.25%) SAP FI
2 2 (6.25%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.13%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) SaaS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Kong
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 4 (12.50%) Marketing
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Electronics
2 2 (6.25%) Legal
2 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
1 8 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) PeopleSoft Consultant
3 3 (9.38%) User Experience Researcher
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Operations Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Project Support Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Project Support Officer
4 2 (6.25%) SAP CO Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP FI Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
1 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
1 1 (3.13%) pytest
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SAP ALE
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (3.13%) Swagger
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (15.63%) Agile
2 5 (15.63%) Fintech
2 5 (15.63%) Project Management
3 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (12.50%) Analytics
3 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 4 (12.50%) Design Thinking
3 4 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analysis
4 3 (9.38%) ERP
4 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
4 3 (9.38%) User Research
4 3 (9.38%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PeopleCode
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) CISM
2 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.25%) CRISC
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ACCA
3 1 (3.13%) CIMA
3 1 (3.13%) MCP
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) PMO
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.50%) SAP
2 3 (9.38%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Sage
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.13%) Workday