Finance Contracts in Northamptonshire

Financial
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 39 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 26.35% 17.82% 19.01%
As % of the General category 41.94% 32.73% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 32 35
10th Percentile £353 £358 £308
25th Percentile £358 £397 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.92% +15.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £474 £596 £519
90th Percentile £499 £638 £571
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -18.73% +20.88% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.00
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
75th Percentile - - £30.50
90th Percentile - - £31.40
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -51.79% -9.68%

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 93 110 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 62.84% 54.46% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 82 112
10th Percentile £245 £214 £213
25th Percentile £356 £356 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +18.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £475 £547 £488
90th Percentile £537 £620 £550
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +9.88% -11.11% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 11
10th Percentile - - £18.13
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £35.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.57% -31.37% +50.00%
75th Percentile £15.25 £51.50 £51.50
90th Percentile - £57.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £17.00 £21.67
% change year-on-year +35.29% -21.55% +0.79%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Northamptonshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northampton 0 36 £402 -10.67% 27
Brackley - 1 £640 - 1
Finance
East Midlands

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.56%) Actimize
2 1 (2.56%) BASE24
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) SaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.56%) Apigee
4 1 (2.56%) Asana
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Kong
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Apache Hive
1 4 (10.26%) Big Data
1 4 (10.26%) Hadoop
1 4 (10.26%) HBase
1 4 (10.26%) Impala
2 1 (2.56%) Looker
2 1 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
1 2 (5.13%) JMeter
1 2 (5.13%) Postman
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
1 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (28.21%) Banking
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Automotive
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Programme Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.56%) Big Data Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Digital Business Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Payments Business Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Spring
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
2 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.56%) NgRx
2 1 (2.56%) OAuth
2 1 (2.56%) OpenID
2 1 (2.56%) RAML
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) RxJS
2 1 (2.56%) Swagger
2 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.56%) APACS
2 1 (2.56%) Life Science
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) PMI
2 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (20.51%) Project Management
4 6 (15.38%) Business Strategy
4 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 5 (12.82%) Migration
5 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.26%) Business Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Business Case
6 4 (10.26%) Change Management
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.26%) DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) ETL
6 4 (10.26%) KYC
7 3 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (7.69%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 3 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Java
2 6 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (2.56%) C++
4 1 (2.56%) COBOL
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) PMP
2 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) CBAP
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) IIBA
3 1 (2.56%) SAS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (5.13%) GRC
3 2 (5.13%) MiFID
4 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.56%) Basel III
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Nintex
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.56%) HP
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.56%) Splunk