Finance Contracts in South Wales

Financial
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Finance 29 30 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 10.74% 7.96% 12.84%
As % of the General category 19.21% 16.76% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 38
10th Percentile £292 £391 £411
25th Percentile £361 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £456 £544
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -16.09% +8.75%
75th Percentile £502 £547 £613
90th Percentile £600 £604 £650
Wales median daily rate £463 £494 £531
% change year-on-year -6.33% -7.06% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile - £14.96 -
25th Percentile £13.08 £35.42 £25.50
Median hourly rate £14.54 £86.40 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -83.17% +232.31% -
75th Percentile £16.00 £87.80 £26.50
90th Percentile - £87.90 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.54 £85.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year -82.89% +190.60% -

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 179 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 55.93% 47.48% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 94 142
10th Percentile £182 £127 £180
25th Percentile £285 £143 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £394 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% -2.82%
75th Percentile £478 £538 £600
90th Percentile £539 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £388 £400 £463
% change year-on-year -3.13% -13.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 15
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.15 -
25th Percentile £13.37 £20.12 £10.92
Median hourly rate £14.61 £48.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.56% +269.23% -42.22%
75th Percentile £16.00 £53.75 £20.05
90th Percentile £24.57 £85.56 £41.47
Wales median hourly rate £14.81 £35.30 £15.42
% change year-on-year -58.06% +129.00% -35.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Wales over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Cardiff +10 21 £463 -11.90% 105
Gwent - 4 £465 - 36
Newport +2 2 £465 +16.25% 38
Glamorgan - 1 £288 - 104
Bridgend - 1 - - 3
Finance
Wales

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Google Docs
1 4 (13.79%) Google Sheets
1 4 (13.79%) Google Workspace
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (3.45%) Asana
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Broadband
1 1 (3.45%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (17.24%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Marketing
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Billing
4 1 (3.45%) Electronics
4 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Administrator
3 5 (17.24%) Business Test Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Implementation Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Procurement Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) SAP CO Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) REST
1 5 (17.24%) SOAP
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (17.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Social Media
3 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Data Protection
2 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
3 5 (17.24%) Business Strategy
3 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Software Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Test Strategy
3 5 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Accounts Payable
4 4 (13.79%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) Scrum
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Accounts Receivable
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Document Management
5 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.24%) ISEB
2 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.34%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.45%) ACCA
4 1 (3.45%) CIMA
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) SEPA
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Xero