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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 28 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.34% 4.89% 6.99%
As % of the General category 20.59% 9.24% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 16
10th Percentile £200 £455 £503
25th Percentile £263 £463 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £720
90th Percentile £556 £655 £788
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -6.00% -16.67% +9.09%
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 136 119 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 55.06% 52.89% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 63 105
10th Percentile £225 £377 £280
25th Percentile £357 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% -7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £527 £613 £650
90th Percentile £589 £695 £736
North East median daily rate £460 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £39.19 £56.75 -
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 21 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 21 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 +10 28 £421 -15.80% 115
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) PeopleSoft Financials
1 3 (10.71%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (3.57%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.57%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
1 5 (17.86%) SaaS
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (7.14%) IaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Kong
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 7 (25.00%) Marketing
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Electronics
2 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
2 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Consultant
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) PeopleSoft Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) User Experience Researcher
5 2 (7.14%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Business Operations Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Operations Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Project Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Project Officer
5 2 (7.14%) Project Support Officer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) pytest
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Jest
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) SAP ALE
2 1 (3.57%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.57%) Sass
2 1 (3.57%) Swagger
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (17.86%) Fintech
2 5 (17.86%) Programme Management
2 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (14.29%) Analytics
3 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 4 (14.29%) Design Thinking
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps
3 4 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
3 4 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
4 3 (10.71%) Product Management
4 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (10.71%) User Research
4 3 (10.71%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) PeopleCode
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.14%) CISM
2 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (7.14%) CRISC
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO 22301
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Grafana
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce