Finance Contracts in Reading

Financial
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Reading. 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 8 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Finance 97 126 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 16.25% 10.57% 11.72%
As % of the General category 24.01% 17.45% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 84
10th Percentile £525 £312 £374
25th Percentile £580 £463 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.17% -14.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £688
90th Percentile - £675 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.25 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £51.25 £41.03
% change year-on-year +12.20% +24.92% -20.34%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Reading

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (10.31%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (4.12%) Maximo
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle ASCP
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (2.06%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (1.03%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.37%) Azure
2 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.12%) AWS
4 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.06%) GCP
5 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.06%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Network Security
2 2 (2.06%) NGFW
2 2 (2.06%) SSL
2 2 (2.06%) Wireless
3 1 (1.03%) Broadband
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.03%) Junos
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.06%) Power BI
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Git
1 5 (5.15%) Selenium
2 3 (3.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (52.58%) Telecoms
2 40 (41.24%) Marketing
3 33 (34.02%) Electronics
3 33 (34.02%) Manufacturing
3 33 (34.02%) Public Sector
4 24 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
6 10 (10.31%) Retail
7 8 (8.25%) Legal
8 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Billing
10 1 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (28.87%) Architect
2 21 (21.65%) Active Directory Architect
3 13 (13.40%) Consultant
4 10 (10.31%) Functional Consultant
4 10 (10.31%) Oracle Consultant
4 10 (10.31%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 8 (8.25%) Senior
6 7 (7.22%) Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) IT Manager
8 5 (5.15%) IT Operations Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Operations Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Manager
9 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.09%) Commercial Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Finance Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) ADO
1 3 (3.09%) Gherkin
1 3 (3.09%) PySpark
2 2 (2.06%) SAML
2 2 (2.06%) YAML
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.03%) CSS
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.06%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.03%) CMDB
3 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.84%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.08%) Programme Management
2 34 (35.05%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (34.02%) Digital Marketing
4 30 (30.93%) Agile
5 25 (25.77%) Test Automation
6 21 (21.65%) Identity Access Management
7 18 (18.56%) Project Delivery
8 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.34%) Project Management
10 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.28%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 8 (8.25%) DevOps
13 7 (7.22%) Budgeting
13 7 (7.22%) Customer Experience
13 7 (7.22%) Roadmaps
14 6 (6.19%) E-business
15 5 (5.15%) Analytics
15 5 (5.15%) Balanced Scorecard
15 5 (5.15%) Change Management
15 5 (5.15%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.77%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.15%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) Bash
4 3 (3.09%) SQL
5 2 (2.06%) Bicep
5 2 (2.06%) C#
6 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.77%) DV Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.25%) ACCA
5 6 (6.19%) CIMA
6 3 (3.09%) Degree
7 2 (2.06%) CISM
7 2 (2.06%) CISSP
7 2 (2.06%) ISEB
8 1 (1.03%) APMP
8 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) ISACA
8 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.03%) PMP
8 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) IFRS
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
4 2 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) COBIT
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (23.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Ansible
2 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 34 (35.05%) SAP
2 18 (18.56%) Oracle
3 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.15%) Databricks
5 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.12%) IFS
6 3 (3.09%) Splunk
7 2 (2.06%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.06%) VMware
8 1 (1.03%) Adobe
8 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.03%) Ariba
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix
8 1 (1.03%) Dell
8 1 (1.03%) F5
8 1 (1.03%) Facebook
8 1 (1.03%) HP
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) Juniper