Finance Contracts in Northampton

Financial
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Northampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 35 24 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 28.46% 18.90% 16.30%
As % of the General category 42.68% 34.78% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 15
10th Percentile £349 £380 £358
25th Percentile £358 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £470 £538 £525
90th Percentile £488 £622 £620
Northamptonshire median daily rate £414 £482 £400
% change year-on-year -14.11% +20.50% -11.11%

All General Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 82 69 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 66.67% 54.33% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 55 58
10th Percentile £247 £318 £226
25th Percentile £356 £364 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.25% -12.09%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £497
90th Percentile £527 £620 £550
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £38.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -61.84% -25.49% +50.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Northampton

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Northampton

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Northampton

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Northampton

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.86%) Actimize
2 1 (2.86%) BASE24
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) BrowserStack
2 2 (5.71%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Apigee
3 1 (2.86%) Asana
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (2.86%) Azure
3 1 (2.86%) Kong
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
1 4 (11.43%) Big Data
1 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
1 4 (11.43%) HBase
1 4 (11.43%) Impala
2 1 (2.86%) Looker
2 1 (2.86%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) JMeter
1 2 (5.71%) Postman
1 2 (5.71%) Selenium
1 2 (5.71%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (28.57%) Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Programme Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Finance Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.86%) NgRx
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
2 1 (2.86%) RAML
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) RESTful
2 1 (2.86%) RxJS
2 1 (2.86%) Swagger
2 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) APACS
2 1 (2.86%) Life Science
2 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.86%) PMI
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 6 (17.14%) Business Strategy
3 6 (17.14%) Project Management
3 6 (17.14%) Risk Management
4 5 (14.29%) Migration
4 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.43%) Business Analysis
5 4 (11.43%) Business Case
5 4 (11.43%) Change Management
5 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.43%) ETL
5 4 (11.43%) KYC
5 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (8.57%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (8.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (8.57%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Java
1 6 (17.14%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) Scala
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) COBOL
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) PMP
2 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) CBAP
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) IIBA
3 1 (2.86%) SAS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) PMO
3 2 (5.71%) GRC
3 2 (5.71%) MiFID
4 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.86%) Basel III
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Nintex
2 1 (2.86%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.86%) HP
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.86%) Splunk