Finance Contracts 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 820 681 758
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 20.58% 16.40% 14.60%
As % of the General category 33.35% 30.37% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 449 477
10th Percentile £314 £350 £369
25th Percentile £388 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £661 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 20
10th Percentile £16.76 £18.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.61 £20.37 £15.72
Median hourly rate £29.27 £35.00 £18.18
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +92.52% +24.18%
75th Percentile £63.13 £54.00 £22.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.90 £28.47
England median hourly rate £32.31 £38.12 £25.71
% change year-on-year -15.24% +48.27% -20.89%

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 common skills in the North of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,459 2,242 2,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 61.72% 54.00% 56.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,301 1,930
10th Percentile £250 £300 £255
25th Percentile £375 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -0.15% +0.15%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.67% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 165 142
10th Percentile £12.80 £12.69 £14.05
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +3.24% +12.16%
75th Percentile £45.88 £40.00 £35.57
90th Percentile £74.25 £52.26 £56.29
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +13.61%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance 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 19 August 2025.

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 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +1 428 £450 -14.29% 1,000
Yorkshire 0 367 £479 -6.99% 502
North East +4 25 £450 -22.41% 165
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 60 (7.32%) Confluence
2 20 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.71%) WebSphere
4 13 (1.59%) JBoss
5 10 (1.22%) Apache
6 8 (0.98%) CMS
6 8 (0.98%) IIS
6 8 (0.98%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.85%) CICS
8 6 (0.73%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.49%) iPlanet
10 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) Mule
12 1 (0.12%) Mule ESB
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 62 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.37%) InVision
7 3 (0.37%) Sketch
8 2 (0.24%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 41 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.10%) Kondor
3 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.73%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.73%) SAP FI
3 6 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.49%) ContrOCC
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.49%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.49%) VisionPLUS
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.37%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.24%) Primavera
6 2 (0.24%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.63%) AWS
2 76 (9.27%) Azure
3 43 (5.24%) GCP
4 38 (4.63%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.20%) SaaS
6 17 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (1.95%) GitHub
8 15 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (1.59%) Serverless
10 12 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.22%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.10%) Figma
12 9 (1.10%) OCI
12 9 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (0.85%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.85%) Smartsheet
13 7 (0.85%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.37%) Firewall
2 15 (1.83%) Network Security
3 12 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.73%) DNS
5 5 (0.61%) SSL
5 5 (0.61%) VPN
6 4 (0.49%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.49%) SAN
7 3 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.37%) LAN
7 3 (0.37%) NetScaler
7 3 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.24%) ATM
8 2 (0.24%) BGP
8 2 (0.24%) Calico
8 2 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.24%) Internet
8 2 (0.24%) Multicast
8 2 (0.24%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.27%) Power BI
2 27 (3.29%) Oracle Database
3 24 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.93%) Relational Database
4 17 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.46%) Power Query
7 11 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (1.22%) DB2
9 8 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.98%) Siebel EIM
9 8 (0.98%) Tableau
10 7 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.73%) MySQL
12 5 (0.61%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.49%) Big Data
13 4 (0.49%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (10.00%) JIRA
2 61 (7.44%) Jenkins
3 43 (5.24%) Git
4 20 (2.44%) Liquibase
5 18 (2.20%) GitLab
6 14 (1.71%) JUnit
6 14 (1.71%) Postman
7 12 (1.46%) Gradle
8 11 (1.34%) Mockito
9 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (0.73%) CA Release Automation
11 6 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.49%) Maven
12 4 (0.49%) Selenium
13 3 (0.37%) Hudson
13 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 289 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 183 (22.32%) Banking
3 154 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 42 (5.12%) Legal
6 40 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 36 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (4.15%) Financial Institution
9 32 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 23 (2.80%) Marketing
12 21 (2.56%) Retail
13 19 (2.32%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.83%) Electronics
15 12 (1.46%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.10%) Billing
17 9 (1.10%) Retail Banking
18 8 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (16.59%) Analyst
2 67 (8.17%) Developer
2 67 (8.17%) Senior
3 64 (7.80%) Project Manager
4 63 (7.68%) Architect
5 54 (6.59%) Business Analyst
6 40 (4.88%) Consultant
7 35 (4.27%) Lead
8 31 (3.78%) Data Analyst
9 30 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (2.68%) Programme Manager
11 20 (2.44%) IT Manager
12 17 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (1.83%) Designer
13 15 (1.83%) Financial Analyst
13 15 (1.83%) Software Engineer
14 14 (1.71%) Incident Manager
14 14 (1.71%) SAP Consultant
15 13 (1.59%) Scrum Master
15 13 (1.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.63%) REST
2 29 (3.54%) Spring Boot
3 27 (3.29%) Spring
4 22 (2.68%) SOAP
5 19 (2.32%) React
5 19 (2.32%) Web Services
6 17 (2.07%) Kafka
7 15 (1.83%) CSS
7 15 (1.83%) HTML
7 15 (1.83%) RESTful
8 13 (1.59%) JMS
9 12 (1.46%) .NET
9 12 (1.46%) OpenAPI
9 12 (1.46%) Swagger
10 10 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (1.22%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.10%) Middleware
11 9 (1.10%) Node.js
12 8 (0.98%) OAuth
12 8 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.37%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 35 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (2.68%) Cloud Native
4 22 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (1.95%) Mainframe
7 13 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.22%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.10%) Private Cloud
10 8 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.85%) Derivative
11 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.71%) Linux
2 37 (4.51%) Windows
3 25 (3.05%) Unix
4 14 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.10%) Android
5 9 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.85%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.73%) Solaris
8 3 (0.37%) AIX
8 3 (0.37%) HPUX
8 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (27.44%) Agile
2 190 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (13.78%) Migration
5 106 (12.93%) DevOps
6 104 (12.68%) Project Management
7 96 (11.71%) Change Management
8 86 (10.49%) CI/CD
9 79 (9.63%) Risk Management
10 77 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (7.80%) Decision-Making
13 63 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (7.20%) Project Delivery
15 53 (6.46%) Analytics
15 53 (6.46%) Data Protection
16 49 (5.98%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (5.98%) Waterfall
17 48 (5.85%) SDLC
18 46 (5.61%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (11.59%) Python
2 89 (10.85%) SQL
3 48 (5.85%) Java
4 23 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.83%) Shell Script
6 15 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 14 (1.71%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.46%) Go
9 10 (1.22%) COBOL
10 8 (0.98%) JCL
11 6 (0.73%) Bash
11 6 (0.73%) C#
11 6 (0.73%) Groovy
11 6 (0.73%) VB
12 5 (0.61%) R
12 5 (0.61%) VBA
13 4 (0.49%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.49%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (8.78%) Degree
2 46 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 35 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.95%) PMP
7 15 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.46%) CISSP
9 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.34%) ACCA
10 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.34%) CIMA
10 11 (1.34%) CISM
11 10 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.85%) GSEC
14 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.51%) PMO
2 31 (3.78%) GDPR
3 26 (3.17%) QA
4 22 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.83%) NIST
8 12 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.10%) GRC
10 8 (0.98%) Basel III
11 7 (0.85%) MiFID
12 6 (0.73%) PSD2
13 5 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.61%) SEPA
13 5 (0.61%) SLA
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.37%) IFRS
14 3 (0.37%) P3O
System Software
1 52 (6.34%) Docker
2 17 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.73%) vSphere
5 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.37%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.37%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.12%) RACF
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (6.46%) Ansible
2 45 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 28 (3.41%) Terraform
4 14 (1.71%) Puppet
5 12 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (1.34%) Grafana
7 9 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.61%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.61%) QRadar
9 5 (0.61%) SCCM
9 5 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.49%) CA Wily
11 3 (0.37%) CASB
11 3 (0.37%) Istio
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.37%) Nessus
11 3 (0.37%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.24%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 181 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.37%) SAP
3 80 (9.76%) Oracle
4 40 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.66%) Splunk
6 21 (2.56%) Google
7 19 (2.32%) VMware
8 17 (2.07%) Commvault
9 14 (1.71%) CheckPoint
10 13 (1.59%) Cisco
10 13 (1.59%) IBM
11 11 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 11 (1.34%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.22%) Ariba
12 10 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.10%) Sybase
14 8 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.98%) Siebel
15 7 (0.85%) Broadcom
15 7 (0.85%) CyberArk