Finance Contracts in Staffordshire

Financial
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Staffordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing Finance 6 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.96% 5.61% 3.36%
As % of the General category 14.29% 9.38% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £526 £253 £339
25th Percentile £528 £313 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £603 £463 £459
90th Percentile £609 £515 £476
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £548 £523
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.78% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £24.22 £37.50 £10.45
Median % change year-on-year -35.41% +258.85% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.22 £40.50 £39.19
% change year-on-year -40.20% +3.34% +121.43%

All General Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42 64 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 62.69% 59.81% 60.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 68
10th Percentile £140 £211 £160
25th Percentile £150 £300 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -21.05% +26.67%
75th Percentile £488 £481 £650
90th Percentile £563 £541 £708
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £512
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.29% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 4
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.95 £12.60
25th Percentile £13.40 £14.71 £15.83
Median hourly rate £15.89 £15.61 £20.02
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -22.03% +2.64%
75th Percentile £20.31 £16.67 £22.41
90th Percentile £28.13 £44.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -4.58% +5.56% +5.88%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Staffordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Staffordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Staffordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Lichfield - 2 £550 - 2
Stoke-on-Trent +1 1 - - 11
Cannock - 1 - - 5
Leek - 1 - - 4
Finance
West Midlands

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (16.67%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Boomi
2 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Product Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Django
1 2 (33.33%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) API Development
1 2 (33.33%) API Integration
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) CRM
1 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) ETL
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Microservices
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) R
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle