Finance Contracts in Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Financial South East / Surrey
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	1	5	4
Rank change year-on-year	+4	-1
Contract jobs citing Finance	316	201	221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey	26.25%	16.16%	16.99%
As % of the General category	68.55%	60.00%	48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	249	144	120
Median daily rate	£438	£450	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.77%	+9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£340	£280	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£420	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	6
Median hourly rate	£15.54	-	£22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.16	-	£18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.91	-	£56.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£19.00	£19.75
% change year-on-year	+31.57%	-3.79%

Finance is in the common skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for common skills.

General Skills Surrey
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills	461	335	452
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey	38.29%	26.93%	34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	339	224	239
Median daily rate	£435	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.35%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£265	£270
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£555
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	21	12	15
Median hourly rate	£24.50	£35.00	£44.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-30.00%	-21.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.50	£11.00	£13.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.00	£44.25	£53.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+20.00%	+11.11%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Surrey citing Finance as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the General category.

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Finance in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate trend for Finance in Surrey

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Finance in Surrey over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Finance in Surrey

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Finance in Surrey

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Redhill	+10	65	£425	+3.03%	5
Guildford	+4	25	£463	+2.77%	16
Epsom	0	24	£389	+115.97%	2
Reigate	-1	24	£425	-5.55%	26
Staines	+9	12	£663	+32.50%	8
Camberley	-2	12	£460	+2.22%
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	11	£387	-
Woking	+7	9	£388	+14.39%	5
Tadworth	+1	5	£525	-
Leatherhead	+20	4	£405	+20.44%	5
Cobham	-2	4	£463	+15.26%
Caterham	-	3	£425	-
Weybridge	+9	1	-	-	5
Dorking	-	1	£480	-
Finance South East

Finance
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Surrey

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Finance also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Surrey region with a requirement for Finance.

1	195 (30.52%)	Oracle
2	167 (26.13%)	Agile Software Development
3	150 (23.47%)	SQL
4	123 (19.25%)	Unix
5	108 (16.90%)	Web Services
6	102 (15.96%)	Relational Database
7	101 (15.81%)	Linux
8	83 (12.99%)	Python
9	81 (12.68%)	Microsoft
10	78 (12.21%)	JavaScript
11	76 (11.89%)	Project Management
12	75 (11.74%)	Data Analysis
13	73 (11.42%)	HTML
14	71 (11.11%)	Business Analysis
15	69 (10.80%)	Stakeholder Management

15	69 (10.80%)	Analytical Skills
16	63 (9.86%)	SDLC
17	62 (9.70%)	Degree
18	59 (9.23%)	REST
18	59 (9.23%)	XML
19	57 (8.92%)	Banking
19	57 (8.92%)	Scrum
20	55 (8.61%)	Oracle Database
21	54 (8.45%)	OO
22	53 (8.29%)	Java
22	53 (8.29%)	C#
23	52 (8.14%)	.NET
24	50 (7.82%)	OOD
25	47 (7.36%)	SQL Server
25	47 (7.36%)	CSS

Finance
Co-occurring IT Skills in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	17 (2.66%)	SharePoint
2	14 (2.19%)	Apache
2	14 (2.19%)	IIS
2	14 (2.19%)	JBoss
2	14 (2.19%)	Tomcat
3	10 (1.56%)	WebLogic
3	10 (1.56%)	WildFly
4	8 (1.25%)	Apache Spark
4	8 (1.25%)	Oracle Workflow
5	7 (1.10%)	MS Exchange
6	6 (0.94%)	SharePoint 2010
7	5 (0.78%)	SAS
7	5 (0.78%)	Skype for Business
8	4 (0.63%)	BizTalk Server
8	4 (0.63%)	Confluence
8	4 (0.63%)	NServiceBus
8	4 (0.63%)	WebSphere
9	3 (0.47%)	nginx
9	3 (0.47%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	3 (0.47%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	30 (4.69%)	MS Visio
2	22 (3.44%)	Microsoft Excel
2	22 (3.44%)	Microsoft Office
3	14 (2.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	9 (1.41%)	Microsoft Project
5	7 (1.10%)	Photoshop
6	4 (0.63%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	11 (1.72%)	Oracle ERP
2	9 (1.41%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	8 (1.25%)	Oracle Payables
3	8 (1.25%)	Oracle Receivables
4	7 (1.10%)	Oracle FAH
5	4 (0.63%)	Dynamics CRM
5	4 (0.63%)	Hyperion Planning
5	4 (0.63%)	Oracle BPM
5	4 (0.63%)	SAP CO
5	4 (0.63%)	SAP FI
5	4 (0.63%)	SAP FI/CO
5	4 (0.63%)	Workday HCM
6	3 (0.47%)	Oracle Assets
7	2 (0.31%)	Actimize
7	2 (0.31%)	Oracle EBS
7	2 (0.31%)	Oracle Financial Analyzer
7	2 (0.31%)	Oracle General Ledger
7	2 (0.31%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7	2 (0.31%)	SAP FSCM
7	2 (0.31%)	SAP PS

Cloud Services
1	31 (4.85%)	Microsoft Azure
2	24 (3.76%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (1.88%)	SaaS
4	9 (1.41%)	PaaS
5	6 (0.94%)	IaaS
5	6 (0.94%)	Office 365
6	4 (0.63%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	3 (0.47%)	Adobe Analytics
7	3 (0.47%)	GitHub
7	3 (0.47%)	IBM Blueworks
8	1 (0.16%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	1 (0.16%)	Cloud Computing
8	1 (0.16%)	Heroku
8	1 (0.16%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	28 (4.38%)	SAN
2	25 (3.91%)	NAS
3	13 (2.03%)	SSH
4	11 (1.72%)	Firewall
4	11 (1.72%)	LDAP
5	7 (1.10%)	TCP/IP
6	6 (0.94%)	DNS
6	6 (0.94%)	Skype
7	5 (0.78%)	F5 BIG-IP GTM
7	5 (0.78%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
7	5 (0.78%)	Fibre Channel
8	4 (0.63%)	FTP
8	4 (0.63%)	iSCSI
8	4 (0.63%)	LAN
8	4 (0.63%)	Network Security
8	4 (0.63%)	VPN
8	4 (0.63%)	WAN
9	3 (0.47%)	CTI
9	3 (0.47%)	Internet
9	3 (0.47%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	102 (15.96%)	Relational Database
2	55 (8.61%)	Oracle Database
3	47 (7.36%)	SQL Server
4	20 (3.13%)	Data Warehouse
4	20 (3.13%)	Hadoop
5	16 (2.50%)	Big Data
5	16 (2.50%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	14 (2.19%)	SQLPlus
7	13 (2.03%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	12 (1.88%)	Oracle Database 12c
8	12 (1.88%)	RDBMS
9	6 (0.94%)	Azure SQL Database
9	6 (0.94%)	NoSQL
10	5 (0.78%)	Essbase
10	5 (0.78%)	SQL Server Integration Services
11	4 (0.63%)	DB2
11	4 (0.63%)	MySQL
11	4 (0.63%)	OLAP
11	4 (0.63%)	Oracle BI EE
11	4 (0.63%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	41 (6.42%)	Git (software)
2	39 (6.10%)	Jenkins
3	26 (4.07%)	Team Foundation Server
4	21 (3.29%)	JIRA
5	18 (2.82%)	ProC
6	17 (2.66%)	Subversion
7	10 (1.56%)	Maven
7	10 (1.56%)	Selenium
8	9 (1.41%)	TeamCity
8	9 (1.41%)	Visual Studio
9	8 (1.25%)	Oracle Forms
10	7 (1.10%)	Octopus Deploy
11	6 (0.94%)	MSBuild
12	5 (0.78%)	WebDriver
13	4 (0.63%)	JSUnit
13	4 (0.63%)	Protractor
14	3 (0.47%)	Gerrit
14	3 (0.47%)	GoCD
14	3 (0.47%)	HP UFT
14	3 (0.47%)	NUnit

General
1	57 (8.92%)	Banking
2	30 (4.69%)	Legal
3	22 (3.44%)	Marketing
3	22 (3.44%)	Retail
4	19 (2.97%)	Investment Banking
4	19 (2.97%)	Telecoms
5	16 (2.50%)	Financial Institution
6	12 (1.88%)	Advertising
7	11 (1.72%)	Manufacturing
8	9 (1.41%)	Electronics
9	8 (1.25%)	Back Office
10	5 (0.78%)	Front Office
10	5 (0.78%)	General Ledger
11	4 (0.63%)	Law
12	3 (0.47%)	Games
12	3 (0.47%)	Pharmaceutical
13	2 (0.31%)	Billing
13	2 (0.31%)	Publishing
13	2 (0.31%)	Retail Banking
14	1 (0.16%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	198 (30.99%)	Analyst
2	151 (23.63%)	Developer
3	77 (12.05%)	Systems Analyst
4	75 (11.74%)	Project Manager
5	64 (10.02%)	Business Analyst
6	37 (5.79%)	Financial Analyst
7	36 (5.63%)	Pensions Analyst
8	35 (5.48%)	Web Developer
9	31 (4.85%)	.NET Developer
9	31 (4.85%)	Administrator
10	30 (4.69%)	Architect
10	30 (4.69%)	Oracle Developer
11	29 (4.54%)	Django Developer
11	29 (4.54%)	Python Developer
11	29 (4.54%)	Python Web Developer
11	29 (4.54%)	Python/Django Developer
11	29 (4.54%)	Service Analyst
11	29 (4.54%)	Technical Analyst
12	28 (4.38%)	Oracle Analyst
13	25 (3.91%)	Database Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	108 (16.90%)	Web Services
2	73 (11.42%)	HTML
3	59 (9.23%)	REST
3	59 (9.23%)	XML
4	52 (8.14%)	.NET
5	47 (7.36%)	CSS
6	40 (6.26%)	AngularJS
6	40 (6.26%)	jQuery
7	39 (6.10%)	Django
8	25 (3.91%)	HTML5
8	25 (3.91%)	Middleware
9	20 (3.13%)	Spring
10	18 (2.82%)	React
11	15 (2.35%)	CSS3
12	14 (2.19%)	Ajax
13	12 (1.88%)	.NET Framework
13	12 (1.88%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	12 (1.88%)	Oracle Fusion
14	11 (1.72%)	JSON
14	11 (1.72%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	69 (10.80%)	Analytical Skills
2	20 (3.13%)	Enterprise Storage
3	16 (2.50%)	Greenfield Project
4	14 (2.19%)	User Experience
5	10 (1.56%)	Client/Server
6	9 (1.41%)	Management Information System
7	8 (1.25%)	Data Centre
7	8 (1.25%)	Replication
8	5 (0.78%)	Public Cloud
9	4 (0.63%)	AS400
9	4 (0.63%)	Computer Science
9	4 (0.63%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	4 (0.63%)	iSeries
9	4 (0.63%)	PMI
9	4 (0.63%)	Social Media
9	4 (0.63%)	Virtual Team
10	3 (0.47%)	Derivative
10	3 (0.47%)	IVR
10	3 (0.47%)	Linux Command Line
10	3 (0.47%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	123 (19.25%)	Unix
2	101 (15.81%)	Linux
3	42 (6.57%)	Windows
4	29 (4.54%)	Solaris
5	20 (3.13%)	AIX
6	19 (2.97%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	14 (2.19%)	Windows Server 2008
8	13 (2.03%)	Windows Server 2012
9	8 (1.25%)	Windows Server
10	5 (0.78%)	Android
11	4 (0.63%)	HPUX
12	3 (0.47%)	Windows XP
13	2 (0.31%)	Windows 7
14	1 (0.16%)	Apple iOS
14	1 (0.16%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	167 (26.13%)	Agile Software Development
2	76 (11.89%)	Project Management
3	75 (11.74%)	Data Analysis
4	71 (11.11%)	Business Analysis
5	69 (10.80%)	Stakeholder Management
6	63 (9.86%)	SDLC
7	57 (8.92%)	Scrum
8	54 (8.45%)	OO
9	50 (7.82%)	OOD
10	47 (7.36%)	TDD
11	42 (6.57%)	Web Development
12	41 (6.42%)	Change Management
13	36 (5.63%)	E-Commerce
14	34 (5.32%)	DevOps
15	31 (4.85%)	Configuration Management
15	31 (4.85%)	Continuous Integration
16	30 (4.69%)	Business Intelligence
16	30 (4.69%)	Requirements Analysis
16	30 (4.69%)	Workflow
17	29 (4.54%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	150 (23.47%)	SQL
2	83 (12.99%)	Python
3	78 (12.21%)	JavaScript
4	53 (8.29%)	C#
4	53 (8.29%)	Java
5	33 (5.16%)	PL/SQL
6	32 (5.01%)	Shell Script
7	21 (3.29%)	C
8	20 (3.13%)	PowerShell
9	16 (2.50%)	Perl
10	13 (2.03%)	PHP
11	11 (1.72%)	VB.NET
12	8 (1.25%)	T-SQL
13	5 (0.78%)	Ruby
14	4 (0.63%)	Korn
15	3 (0.47%)	Bash Shell
15	3 (0.47%)	Groovy
15	3 (0.47%)	VBA
16	1 (0.16%)	Apple Swift
16	1 (0.16%)	Bourne shell

Qualifications
1	62 (9.70%)	Degree
2	19 (2.97%)	ISEB
3	17 (2.66%)	ISTQB
4	9 (1.41%)	PMI Certification
5	8 (1.25%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	6 (0.94%)	CIMA
6	6 (0.94%)	PMP
7	4 (0.63%)	ACCA
7	4 (0.63%)	CISM
7	4 (0.63%)	CISSP
8	3 (0.47%)	CRISC
8	3 (0.47%)	Microsoft Certification
9	2 (0.31%)	Computer Science Degree
9	2 (0.31%)	MCITP
9	2 (0.31%)	RHCE
9	2 (0.31%)	VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
9	2 (0.31%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	1 (0.16%)	ITIL Certification
10	1 (0.16%)	Master's Degree
10	1 (0.16%)	SANS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (4.07%)	PMO
2	24 (3.76%)	QA
3	10 (1.56%)	GDPR
3	10 (1.56%)	PCI DSS
4	5 (0.78%)	SLA
5	4 (0.63%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	3 (0.47%)	Data Quality
6	3 (0.47%)	GAAP
7	2 (0.31%)	NEBOSH
7	2 (0.31%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.16%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	1 (0.16%)	FATCA
8	1 (0.16%)	GAMP
8	1 (0.16%)	IFRS
8	1 (0.16%)	IFRS 9
8	1 (0.16%)	ISO 9000
8	1 (0.16%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.16%)	ISO/IEC 27005
8	1 (0.16%)	MiFID
8	1 (0.16%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	28 (4.38%)	Active Directory
2	22 (3.44%)	Veritas File System
3	20 (3.13%)	Veritas Cluster Server
4	17 (2.66%)	VMware ESXi
4	17 (2.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	12 (1.88%)	Docker
6	11 (1.72%)	NFS
7	7 (1.10%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	5 (0.78%)	vSphere
8	5 (0.78%)	XenApp
9	4 (0.63%)	ProxySG
9	4 (0.63%)	Virtual Servers
10	3 (0.47%)	XenDesktop
11	2 (0.31%)	BitLocker
11	2 (0.31%)	Veritas Volume Manager
11	2 (0.31%)	Virtual Desktop
11	2 (0.31%)	Virtual Machines
11	2 (0.31%)	VMware Workstation
11	2 (0.31%)	XenServer
12	1 (0.16%)	Samba

Systems Management
1	31 (4.85%)	NetBackup
2	11 (1.72%)	Ansible
3	10 (1.56%)	Puppet
4	8 (1.25%)	Hadoop YARN
4	8 (1.25%)	Opscode Chef
5	5 (0.78%)	Norton AntiVirus
5	5 (0.78%)	Terraform
6	4 (0.63%)	EMC Navisphere
6	4 (0.63%)	HP Quality Center
6	4 (0.63%)	Nagios
6	4 (0.63%)	Tivoli
6	4 (0.63%)	Veritas Storage Foundation
7	3 (0.47%)	BladeLogic
8	2 (0.31%)	Control-M
8	2 (0.31%)	EMC NetWorker
8	2 (0.31%)	McAfee ePO
8	2 (0.31%)	OpenView
8	2 (0.31%)	SCCM
8	2 (0.31%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
8	2 (0.31%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	195 (30.52%)	Oracle
2	81 (12.68%)	Microsoft
3	37 (5.79%)	SAP
4	36 (5.63%)	Veritas
5	30 (4.69%)	Red Hat
6	25 (3.91%)	Symantec
7	24 (3.76%)	VMware
8	18 (2.82%)	Sun
9	16 (2.50%)	Citrix
10	13 (2.03%)	HP
10	13 (2.03%)	IBM
11	12 (1.88%)	Workday
12	11 (1.72%)	McAfee
12	11 (1.72%)	NetApp
13	9 (1.41%)	Brocade
13	9 (1.41%)	EMC
13	9 (1.41%)	Hyperion
14	8 (1.25%)	CheckPoint
14	8 (1.25%)	Tableau
15	7 (1.10%)	Informatica