Finance Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Financial
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 11 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -15
Contract jobs citing Finance 29 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.89% 5.35% 6.61%
As % of the General category 21.32% 10.00% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 18
10th Percentile £208 £425 £507
25th Percentile £291 £463 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £618
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -19.03% +23.50%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £720
90th Percentile £550 £650 £777
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -6.00% -16.67% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
North East median hourly rate - £15.25 -

All General Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 136 130 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 55.74% 53.50% 47.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 70 131
10th Percentile £268 £364 £280
25th Percentile £356 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £565
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -7.52% +13.00%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £666
90th Percentile £596 £678 £756
North East median daily rate £465 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -11.00% -2.79% +10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £14.07 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% - -
75th Percentile £26.69 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £41.88 £61.75 -
North East median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -33.49% - -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Tyne and Wear

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Tyne and Wear

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Tyne and Wear

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Tyne and Wear

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +4 28 £350 -30.00% 96
Sunderland - 1 £450 - 12
Finance
North East

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 3 (10.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (3.45%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.45%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.90%) IaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Kong
3 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
2 2 (6.90%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 11 (37.93%) Public Sector
2 8 (27.59%) Electronics
2 8 (27.59%) Manufacturing
2 8 (27.59%) Marketing
2 8 (27.59%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Lead DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) PeopleSoft Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) User Experience Researcher
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Project Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Project Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Project Support Officer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) CSS
1 2 (6.90%) HTML
1 2 (6.90%) Jest
1 2 (6.90%) Node.js
1 2 (6.90%) pytest
1 2 (6.90%) Sass
2 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SAP ALE
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Digital Marketing
1 8 (27.59%) Programme Management
2 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.24%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
4 4 (13.79%) Design Thinking
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Fintech
5 3 (10.34%) A/B Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.34%) User Experience
5 3 (10.34%) User Research
5 3 (10.34%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Java
1 3 (10.34%) PeopleCode
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) Degree
4 2 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) CRISC
5 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) WCAG
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Workday