Finance Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Finance Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Finance Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 353 399
Rank change year-on-year +43 +46 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Finance Manager 24 50 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 40
10th Percentile £469 £348 £474
25th Percentile £494 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £528 £605
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -12.81% +8.52%
75th Percentile £681 £725 £738
90th Percentile £850 £894 £764
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £610
% change year-on-year - +18.85% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.50 £28.62
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year - -12.21% -
75th Percentile - £27.50 £32.89
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £27.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year - -12.21% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Finance Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Finance Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance Manager in the UK excluding London

Finance Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Finance Manager in the UK excluding London

Finance Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance Manager in the UK excluding London

Finance Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance Manager in the UK excluding London

Finance Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance Manager within the UK excluding London 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
South East +34 8 £650 -7.14% 16
Midlands +15 8 £588 +38.24% 4
West Midlands +16 5 £725 +70.59% 1
South West +38 3 £500 -19.15% 8
East of England +33 2 £569 +1.11% 4
North West +15 2 £480 +24.61% 7
East Midlands +12 2 £518 +17.97% 3
North of England +8 2 £480 -4.05% 9
Scotland +4 1 - - 4
Finance Manager
UK

Finance Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Finance Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Finance Manager in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) ERP
3 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Oracle
4 6 (25.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (20.83%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) ACCA
7 3 (12.50%) Local Government
7 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
7 3 (12.50%) Budgeting
7 3 (12.50%) OCI
7 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
8 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (8.33%) IFRS
8 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (8.33%) Financial Modelling
8 2 (8.33%) Product Vision
8 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems

Finance Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 24 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Local Government
5 2 (8.33%) General Ledger
5 2 (8.33%) Law
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Back Office
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Life Science
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ERP
2 6 (25.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 5 (20.83%) Change Management
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Budget Management
5 3 (12.50%) Budgeting
5 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Modelling
6 2 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (8.33%) Product Vision
6 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
6 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ACCA
2 1 (4.17%) CCAB
2 1 (4.17%) CIMA
2 1 (4.17%) CIPFA
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) IFRS
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Anaplan
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Tagetik