Finance Contracts in the North West

Financial
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 7 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 296 365 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 15.08% 13.43% 11.41%
As % of the General category 25.65% 25.03% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 249 240
10th Percentile £317 £270 £350
25th Percentile £380 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% -5.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £570 £594 £600
90th Percentile £638 £713 £688
England median daily rate £575 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.52% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 43 8
10th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.38 £13.31 £20.43
Median hourly rate £50.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +154.93% -11.23% +55.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £29.21
90th Percentile £75.50 £52.78 £47.02
England median hourly rate £40.50 £27.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +50.00% +5.02% -26.54%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,154 1,458 1,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.79% 53.64% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 881 1,089
10th Percentile £276 £288 £307
25th Percentile £381 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £675 £672 £675
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 196 77
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.90% -19.23% +15.56%
75th Percentile £57.81 £37.25 £37.30
90th Percentile £76.13 £51.89 £54.11
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -2 135 £450 -2.70% 560
Cheshire 0 96 £442 -15.76% 119
Merseyside +5 39 £505 +152.50% 78
Lancashire -11 14 £500 +17.65% 283
Cumbria -16 9 - - 21
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (4.73%) Confluence
2 7 (2.36%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.03%) SAS
3 6 (2.03%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.69%) JBoss
4 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.35%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.01%) CICS
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.34%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.38%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.35%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.35%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.68%) InVision
6 2 (0.68%) Trello
6 2 (0.68%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (6.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.05%) Kondor
3 7 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (2.03%) SAP PS
5 5 (1.69%) Primavera
6 4 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (1.01%) Finacle
8 2 (0.68%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.34%) Maximo
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.34%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.34%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.53%) Azure
2 33 (11.15%) AWS
3 14 (4.73%) GCP
3 14 (4.73%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.70%) SaaS
6 6 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.69%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.35%) Azure AI
8 4 (1.35%) Figma
8 4 (1.35%) Google Gemini
9 3 (1.01%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.01%) Serverless
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.69%) Network Security
3 4 (1.35%) LAN
4 3 (1.01%) DMZ
4 3 (1.01%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.68%) ATM
5 2 (0.68%) BGP
5 2 (0.68%) Calico
5 2 (0.68%) DHCP
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
5 2 (0.68%) Multicast
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.34%) Broadband
6 1 (0.34%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) DWDM
6 1 (0.34%) GPRS
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
6 1 (0.34%) OSPF
6 1 (0.34%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.39%) Power BI
2 13 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.70%) Siebel EIM
5 7 (2.36%) DB2
6 6 (2.03%) Metadata
6 6 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.69%) Tableau
8 4 (1.35%) Essbase
8 4 (1.35%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.01%) Bigtable
9 3 (1.01%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.01%) MySQL
9 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (6.42%) JIRA
2 16 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.39%) Git
4 11 (3.72%) Gradle
4 11 (3.72%) JUnit
5 10 (3.38%) Liquibase
5 10 (3.38%) Mockito
6 9 (3.04%) GitLab
7 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.35%) ERwin
9 3 (1.01%) ER Studio
9 3 (1.01%) Maven
10 2 (0.68%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.34%) Hudson
11 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 73 (24.66%) Banking
3 52 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.49%) Legal
5 30 (10.14%) Manufacturing
5 30 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.08%) Marketing
7 14 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (4.39%) Retail
9 11 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.38%) Electronics
11 9 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.70%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (2.03%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.03%) Law
15 5 (1.69%) Retail Banking
16 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (16.22%) Analyst
2 25 (8.45%) Architect
2 25 (8.45%) Business Analyst
3 24 (8.11%) Developer
3 24 (8.11%) Project Manager
4 22 (7.43%) Senior
5 16 (5.41%) Consultant
6 13 (4.39%) Lead
6 13 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.04%) Test Manager
8 8 (2.70%) Scrum Master
9 7 (2.36%) Data Analyst
9 7 (2.36%) Java Developer
9 7 (2.36%) Siebel Developer
9 7 (2.36%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.03%) Designer
10 6 (2.03%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 6 (2.03%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.03%) Security Engineer
10 6 (2.03%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.76%) SOAP
2 19 (6.42%) Spring
2 19 (6.42%) Spring Boot
3 13 (4.39%) Kafka
3 13 (4.39%) REST
3 13 (4.39%) Web Services
4 12 (4.05%) React
5 10 (3.38%) OpenAPI
5 10 (3.38%) Swagger
6 8 (2.70%) JMS
7 5 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.69%) CSS
7 5 (1.69%) HTML
7 5 (1.69%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.35%) EJB
8 4 (1.35%) JSP
8 4 (1.35%) MDX
8 4 (1.35%) Node.js
8 4 (1.35%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.35%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.36%) Derivative
5 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.03%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.35%) Life Science
7 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.35%) Social Media
8 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.68%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.68%) Replication
9 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.11%) Linux
2 12 (4.05%) Unix
3 11 (3.72%) Windows
4 4 (1.35%) Android
4 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.68%) HPUX
6 2 (0.68%) Solaris
6 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.70%) Agile
2 61 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (17.57%) Migration
5 40 (13.51%) Project Management
6 33 (11.15%) DevOps
7 31 (10.47%) Risk Management
8 27 (9.12%) Change Management
8 27 (9.12%) CI/CD
8 27 (9.12%) Decision-Making
9 24 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (8.11%) Data Modelling
9 24 (8.11%) SDLC
10 23 (7.77%) Analytics
11 22 (7.43%) Business Analysis
12 20 (6.76%) Roadmaps
13 18 (6.08%) Containerisation
13 18 (6.08%) Microservices
13 18 (6.08%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.22%) SQL
2 27 (9.12%) Java
3 19 (6.42%) Python
4 11 (3.72%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.04%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.01%) Scala
9 2 (0.68%) C#
9 2 (0.68%) COBOL
9 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.68%) JCL
9 2 (0.68%) MUMPS
10 1 (0.34%) Perl
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) REXX
10 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.45%) Degree
4 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.35%) CIMA
5 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.01%) ACCA
6 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.01%) PMP
6 3 (1.01%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.68%) AAT
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CISM
7 2 (0.68%) CISSP
7 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CCIE
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.70%) Basel III
1 8 (2.70%) GDPR
1 8 (2.70%) QA
2 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.36%) GRC
2 7 (2.36%) MiFID
2 7 (2.36%) PMO
3 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.69%) NIST
4 4 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (7.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.03%) Terraform
3 4 (1.35%) HP ALM
4 3 (1.01%) Ansible
5 2 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 65 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.20%) SAP
3 32 (10.81%) Oracle
4 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.04%) Sybase
6 8 (2.70%) Siebel
7 5 (1.69%) Ariba
7 5 (1.69%) Splunk
8 4 (1.35%) HP
8 4 (1.35%) IBM
9 3 (1.01%) Cisco
9 3 (1.01%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.01%) Databricks
9 3 (1.01%) Dell
9 3 (1.01%) FIS
9 3 (1.01%) IDERA
9 3 (1.01%) Murex
9 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.01%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.68%) OneTrust