Finance Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 1,171 527 612
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 18.52% 15.96% 13.23%
As % of the General category 34.05% 26.97% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 344 386
10th Percentile £350 £305 £316
25th Percentile £405 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £593
90th Percentile £688 £641 £706
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 49
10th Percentile £14.18 - £11.77
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.26 £13.23
Median hourly rate £25.19 £56.25 £15.11
Median % change year-on-year -55.22% +272.39% -46.02%
75th Percentile £56.75 £63.13 £34.21
90th Percentile £75.78 £75.88 £52.78
England median hourly rate £23.83 £38.11 £26.97
% change year-on-year -37.48% +41.31% +4.90%

All General Skills
North of England

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 general skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,439 1,954 2,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.38% 59.19% 54.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,117 1,206 1,493
10th Percentile £281 £235 £265
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.84%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £585
90th Percentile £650 £654 £670
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 139 309
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £12.10
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.13 £13.30
Median hourly rate £32.23 £24.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +31.08% +53.08% -35.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.57 £33.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £73.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.75 £27.38 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.33% -9.23% -7.20%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the North of England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
North West +5 619 £465 - 399
Yorkshire +1 513 £514 +5.44% 262
North East -14 40 £488 +3.72% 89
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 78 (6.66%) Confluence
2 49 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.68%) CICS
5 7 (0.60%) TPMS
6 5 (0.43%) Apache
6 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) Mule
8 2 (0.17%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.085%) JBoss
9 1 (0.085%) nginx
9 1 (0.085%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.37%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.085%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 65 (5.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.68%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.17%) Finacle
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MDG-F
8 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.085%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 161 (13.75%) Azure
2 159 (13.58%) AWS
3 93 (7.94%) GCP
4 59 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (4.36%) Power Platform
6 43 (3.67%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.73%) GitHub
8 31 (2.65%) SaaS
9 28 (2.39%) OpenShift
10 24 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.62%) OneDrive
11 19 (1.62%) Serverless
12 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.20%) PaaS
15 11 (0.94%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (0.77%) IaaS
17 9 (0.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.01%) Firewall
2 28 (2.39%) DNS
3 25 (2.13%) Network Security
4 19 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.37%) VPN
6 14 (1.20%) SSL
7 10 (0.85%) Skype
8 9 (0.77%) DHCP
8 9 (0.77%) SSH
9 7 (0.60%) SNMP
9 7 (0.60%) WAN
10 6 (0.51%) LAN
11 5 (0.43%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.26%) Internet
12 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.26%) MPLS
13 2 (0.17%) BGP
13 2 (0.17%) HTTP
13 2 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.59%) Power BI
2 27 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 15 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.20%) Metadata
6 14 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.11%) DynamoDB
8 10 (0.85%) DataStage
9 8 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.68%) Tableau
10 6 (0.51%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.43%) Power Query
12 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.34%) DB2
12 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.26%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (9.74%) JIRA
2 45 (3.84%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.45%) Git
3 17 (1.45%) GitLab
4 15 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 15 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (1.11%) Selenium
6 8 (0.68%) Jaeger
6 8 (0.68%) Postman
7 7 (0.60%) Hudson
7 7 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.34%) JUnit
8 4 (0.34%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.085%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.085%) JDeveloper
General
1 390 (33.30%) Social Skills
2 266 (22.72%) Banking
3 149 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 46 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
6 41 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.16%) Financial Institution
8 37 (3.16%) Retail
9 32 (2.73%) Legal
10 21 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.20%) Law
12 14 (1.20%) Marketing
13 13 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.85%) Back Office
15 9 (0.77%) Advertising
15 9 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
15 9 (0.77%) Retail Banking
15 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (13.92%) Analyst
2 138 (11.78%) Architect
3 112 (9.56%) Project Manager
4 99 (8.45%) Lead
5 87 (7.43%) Business Analyst
6 85 (7.26%) Developer
7 70 (5.98%) Senior
8 65 (5.55%) Consultant
8 65 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.48%) Accountant
10 26 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 26 (2.22%) Programme Manager
11 23 (1.96%) Java Developer
12 21 (1.79%) SAP Consultant
13 20 (1.71%) Payments Architect
14 19 (1.62%) Designer
14 19 (1.62%) Product Owner
15 18 (1.54%) Payments Solutions Architect
15 18 (1.54%) Security Engineer
16 17 (1.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.10%) Middleware
2 43 (3.67%) REST
3 40 (3.42%) Spring Boot
4 32 (2.73%) Spring
5 25 (2.13%) Kafka
5 25 (2.13%) OAuth
6 23 (1.96%) RESTful
7 20 (1.71%) JSON
8 18 (1.54%) OpenID
9 17 (1.45%) React
9 17 (1.45%) XML
10 16 (1.37%) LDAP
10 16 (1.37%) Node.js
11 15 (1.28%) SailPoint
12 14 (1.20%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.20%) OAuth2
12 14 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
13 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.94%) HTML
14 11 (0.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 62 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.76%) Data Centre
4 44 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
5 41 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.79%) Mainframe
9 20 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.37%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.94%) CMDB
14 10 (0.85%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
15 9 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 8 (0.68%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.38%) Linux
2 50 (4.27%) Windows
3 29 (2.48%) Unix
4 17 (1.45%) Solaris
5 13 (1.11%) AIX
5 13 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.43%) Android
8 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.34%) HPUX
9 4 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.34%) SUSE
9 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.34%) zOS
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.26%) MVS
10 3 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (20.84%) Agile
1 244 (20.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 223 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (14.09%) Migration
4 162 (13.83%) DevOps
5 151 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 146 (12.47%) CI/CD
7 139 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 136 (11.61%) Project Management
9 123 (10.50%) Roadmaps
10 119 (10.16%) ERP
11 101 (8.63%) Change Management
12 95 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
13 91 (7.77%) Risk Management
13 91 (7.77%) Validation
14 90 (7.69%) AI
15 81 (6.92%) Project Delivery
16 77 (6.58%) Data Migration
16 77 (6.58%) Decision-Making
16 77 (6.58%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 113 (9.65%) SQL
2 108 (9.22%) Python
3 99 (8.45%) Java
4 44 (3.76%) PowerShell
5 18 (1.54%) Bash
6 15 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 11 (0.94%) Go
8 11 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.94%) Kotlin
8 11 (0.94%) Rust
9 8 (0.68%) COBOL
9 8 (0.68%) VBA
10 7 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.43%) C#
11 5 (0.43%) VB
12 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.17%) JCL
14 2 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 110 (9.39%) Degree
2 56 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 41 (3.50%) PMP
4 39 (3.33%) CISSP
5 33 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.31%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.79%) CISM
9 20 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.45%) ACCA
12 16 (1.37%) CIMA
13 13 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.77%) CCSP
15 9 (0.77%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.36%) GDPR
2 48 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.84%) PMO
4 44 (3.76%) QA
5 33 (2.82%) NIST
6 20 (1.71%) GRC
7 19 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.20%) SLA
9 13 (1.11%) PSD2
10 12 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.85%) IFRS
11 10 (0.85%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (0.77%) IFRS 17
12 9 (0.77%) SEPA
13 7 (0.60%) GLBA
14 5 (0.43%) ISO 8583
15 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (5.21%) Docker
2 34 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.94%) vSphere
5 10 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.26%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.26%) RACF
8 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.17%) ACF2
9 2 (0.17%) GPFS
9 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.17%) NFS
9 2 (0.17%) SRDF
10 1 (0.085%) Firmware
10 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.085%) XenApp
10 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 91 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 41 (3.50%) Ansible
3 37 (3.16%) Terraform
4 23 (1.96%) Grafana
5 18 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.94%) SCCM
8 8 (0.68%) Kiali
9 6 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.51%) Nessus
9 6 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.43%) CASB
10 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.34%) Puppet
12 3 (0.26%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.26%) vRealize
13 2 (0.17%) IBM Guardium
13 2 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 178 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.54%) SAP
3 54 (4.61%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.44%) Oracle
5 42 (3.59%) Splunk
6 30 (2.56%) Google
7 27 (2.31%) VMware
8 25 (2.13%) IBM
9 24 (2.05%) Sage
10 18 (1.54%) Cisco
11 17 (1.45%) Remedy
12 13 (1.11%) Databricks
12 13 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 12 (1.02%) Citrix
14 11 (0.94%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.85%) IFS
15 10 (0.85%) Sonatype
15 10 (0.85%) Thales
15 10 (0.85%) Workday
16 8 (0.68%) F5