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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 359 375 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 13.41% 12.07% 12.95%
As % of the General category 25.12% 23.06% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 266 365
10th Percentile £276 £363 £303
25th Percentile £388 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £731 £688 £700
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 5 20
10th Percentile £11.77 £14.69 £9.23
25th Percentile £13.31 £15.72 £12.57
Median hourly rate £16.05 £27.98 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.66% +92.97% -18.99%
75th Percentile £34.32 £32.89 £23.31
90th Percentile £52.78 £61.16 £36.73
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +49.25%

All General Skills
North West

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,429 1,626 2,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.36% 52.35% 49.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 1,121 1,403
10th Percentile £300 £306 £227
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £687 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 76 116
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £17.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.60 £23.78
Median % change year-on-year -33.38% +11.87% +5.68%
75th Percentile £37.18 £37.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £53.17 £64.00
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.44%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 +5 175 £475 -9.52% 286
Cheshire +2 83 £525 +8.30% 91
Cumbria +6 37 £575 +35.29% 27
Merseyside +8 30 £258 -48.50% 52
Lancashire +18 28 £425 -15.00% 48
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 8 (2.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.84%) nginx
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) Traefik
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Mule
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 41 (11.42%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.62%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.51%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (5.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.23%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.67%) Temenos T24
4 4 (1.11%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.56%) Primavera
5 2 (0.56%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.56%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.56%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.28%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.03%) Azure
2 25 (6.96%) AWS
3 18 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (2.51%) SaaS
6 8 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.67%) GCP
8 6 (1.67%) IaaS
8 6 (1.67%) PaaS
9 5 (1.39%) Apigee
9 5 (1.39%) Kong
9 5 (1.39%) Serverless
10 4 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.11%) npm
10 4 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.11%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.74%) DMZ
1 17 (4.74%) SD-WAN
2 15 (4.18%) Wireless
3 13 (3.62%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (3.62%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (2.51%) ATM
5 5 (1.39%) DNS
5 5 (1.39%) Firewall
6 4 (1.11%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) Skype
8 2 (0.56%) DSL
8 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
8 2 (0.56%) PPP
8 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.56%) WAN
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.28%) DHCP
9 1 (0.28%) MPLS
9 1 (0.28%) Network Security
9 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.01%) Power BI
2 12 (3.34%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.23%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.39%) DB2
4 5 (1.39%) Metadata
4 5 (1.39%) OLAP
4 5 (1.39%) OLTP
4 5 (1.39%) Oracle OLAP
4 5 (1.39%) Tableau
5 3 (0.84%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.84%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.56%) Big Data
6 2 (0.56%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (6.41%) JIRA
2 8 (2.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.11%) ERwin
3 4 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (1.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.56%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.28%) Log4j
5 1 (0.28%) RStudio
5 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.32%) Public Sector
3 50 (13.93%) Banking
4 34 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.13%) Manufacturing
6 21 (5.85%) Retail
7 19 (5.29%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (3.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (3.06%) Marketing
11 10 (2.79%) Electronics
12 9 (2.51%) Legal
13 8 (2.23%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.95%) Billing
14 7 (1.95%) Local Government
14 7 (1.95%) Mandarin Language
15 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.67%) Police
16 5 (1.39%) Front Office
16 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (12.81%) Project Manager
2 40 (11.14%) Analyst
3 35 (9.75%) Architect
4 26 (7.24%) Lead
5 23 (6.41%) Network Engineer
6 21 (5.85%) Senior
7 20 (5.57%) Developer
8 19 (5.29%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.74%) Consultant
10 16 (4.46%) Administrator
11 14 (3.90%) Programme Manager
12 11 (3.06%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (2.51%) IT Technician
14 8 (2.23%) Cutover Manager
14 8 (2.23%) SAP Consultant
14 8 (2.23%) Service Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.23%) Service Manager
14 8 (2.23%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.06%) Kafka
2 8 (2.23%) Middleware
3 6 (1.67%) .NET
3 6 (1.67%) AngularJS
3 6 (1.67%) IBM Integration Bus
3 6 (1.67%) Spring
3 6 (1.67%) Web Services
4 5 (1.39%) J2EE
4 5 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.39%) RESTful
4 5 (1.39%) SOAP
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Camel
5 4 (1.11%) React
5 4 (1.11%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.11%) Spring Integration
6 3 (0.84%) Node.js
7 2 (0.56%) cloud-init
8 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.28%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.28%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.01%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.74%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.62%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.51%) EPoS
5 9 (2.51%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.39%) DataPower
7 5 (1.39%) Life Science
7 5 (1.39%) NHS
7 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.39%) PKI
8 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.11%) Wiki
9 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.84%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.74%) Linux
2 14 (3.90%) Windows
3 10 (2.79%) Unix
4 5 (1.39%) zOS
5 4 (1.11%) Android
5 4 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.56%) CentOS
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (18.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (17.55%) Project Management
3 62 (17.27%) Agile
4 29 (8.08%) Decision-Making
5 28 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (6.41%) Waterfall
7 22 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (6.13%) DevOps
8 21 (5.85%) Migration
8 21 (5.85%) PRINCE2
8 21 (5.85%) Requirements Gathering
8 21 (5.85%) Risk Management
9 20 (5.57%) Service Delivery
10 19 (5.29%) Business Case
10 19 (5.29%) ITSM
11 18 (5.01%) Software Engineering
12 17 (4.74%) ERP
12 17 (4.74%) Programme Management
13 16 (4.46%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.29%) SQL
2 18 (5.01%) Python
3 15 (4.18%) Java
4 7 (1.95%) PL/SQL
4 7 (1.95%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.39%) Ruby
6 4 (1.11%) Bash
6 4 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.84%) C
7 3 (0.84%) C#
7 3 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.56%) Go
8 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.56%) R
8 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.28%) Groovy
9 1 (0.28%) Julia
9 1 (0.28%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 36 (10.03%) Degree
2 34 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.23%) PMI Certification
4 8 (2.23%) PMP
5 4 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.84%) CISSP
6 3 (0.84%) HNC
6 3 (0.84%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (0.56%) ACCA
7 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.56%) CIMA
7 2 (0.56%) CIPFA
7 2 (0.56%) CISA
7 2 (0.56%) CISM
7 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.13%) SLA
2 15 (4.18%) GDPR
3 10 (2.79%) PMO
4 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.39%) NIST
6 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) QA
7 2 (0.56%) COSO
7 2 (0.56%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.23%) Terraform
2 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.11%) Ansible
3 4 (1.11%) Puppet
4 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.84%) SCCM
4 3 (0.84%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.56%) CFEngine
5 2 (0.56%) Consul
5 2 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.56%) Graphite
5 2 (0.56%) Istio
5 2 (0.56%) linkerd
5 2 (0.56%) Packer
5 2 (0.56%) Podman
5 2 (0.56%) PowerBroker
5 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (11.42%) SAP
2 40 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.13%) F5
4 16 (4.46%) Palo Alto
5 15 (4.18%) Cisco
5 15 (4.18%) Oracle
6 8 (2.23%) IBM
7 7 (1.95%) Avaloq
7 7 (1.95%) Databricks
8 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.39%) TSYS
9 4 (1.11%) Ariba
9 4 (1.11%) Cadence
9 4 (1.11%) Google
9 4 (1.11%) Sage
9 4 (1.11%) Sparx
10 3 (0.84%) CA
10 3 (0.84%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.84%) VMware