Finance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,561 2,778 3,340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.78% 13.18% 14.39%
As % of the General category 28.86% 24.62% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 1,695 2,290
10th Percentile £308 £283 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 203 80
10th Percentile £15.10 £12.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.80 £14.75 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.12 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% -26.59% +34.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £38.12 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £56.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year +16.07% -8.96% -17.83%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,873 11,282 12,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.62% 53.54% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,374 6,342 8,683
10th Percentile £213 £206 £241
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -2.35% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 738 1,662 804
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.71 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.49 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +21.39% +29.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.54
% change year-on-year -15.02% +4.68% +27.12%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
North of England -1 697 £465 -7.00% 3,309
Scotland +2 561 £485 +2.11% 1,088
South East -1 432 £525 +5.00% 3,217
Midlands -3 361 £450 -14.29% 2,052
North West -3 360 £450 -10.00% 1,972
Yorkshire 0 306 £488 -2.50% 1,068
South West +6 301 £550 - 1,483
West Midlands -3 219 £500 -9.09% 1,257
East Midlands +1 135 £425 -16.17% 775
East of England -7 110 £575 +15.00% 1,271
Northern Ireland +3 89 £425 +117.95% 445
Wales +6 32 £465 -4.62% 455
North East +8 31 £440 -14.15% 279
Finance
UK

Finance
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
1 121 (4.72%) Confluence
2 74 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.05%) SAS
4 15 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.51%) WebSphere
6 12 (0.47%) JBoss
6 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 9 (0.35%) Apache
10 8 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.23%) CICS
11 6 (0.23%) IBM Notes
12 4 (0.16%) IIS
13 2 (0.078%) CMS
13 2 (0.078%) GemFire
13 2 (0.078%) IBM Domino
13 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.078%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.078%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 184 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.84%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.27%) Trello
8 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 2 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.078%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.039%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.039%) Sketch
11 1 (0.039%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 99 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
4 16 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 16 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 16 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 15 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 14 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 13 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
8 12 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
9 11 (0.43%) Kondor
9 11 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 11 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
10 10 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
11 8 (0.31%) Primavera
11 8 (0.31%) SAP PS
12 7 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
12 7 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 260 (10.15%) Azure
2 224 (8.75%) AWS
3 122 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 71 (2.77%) GCP
5 65 (2.54%) SaaS
6 62 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (1.41%) GitHub
9 36 (1.41%) OCI
10 33 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 32 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 26 (1.02%) Entra ID
13 23 (0.90%) Serverless
14 17 (0.66%) IaaS
14 17 (0.66%) OpenShift
15 16 (0.62%) Figma
16 14 (0.55%) PaaS
17 13 (0.51%) Adobe Analytics
17 13 (0.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.19%) Firewall
2 44 (1.72%) Broadband
3 27 (1.05%) DNS
4 25 (0.98%) Network Security
5 22 (0.86%) DHCP
6 20 (0.78%) LAN
6 20 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.78%) WAN
7 17 (0.66%) VPN
8 16 (0.62%) WebEx
9 11 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.39%) BGP
11 8 (0.31%) OSPF
11 8 (0.31%) SAN
11 8 (0.31%) SSL
11 8 (0.31%) Wireless
12 7 (0.27%) HTTP
13 6 (0.23%) VLAN
14 5 (0.20%) ATM
14 5 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.26%) Power BI
2 84 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 55 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 50 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 46 (1.80%) DB2
7 45 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 37 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 36 (1.41%) Tableau
11 26 (1.02%) Big Data
12 20 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 18 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.66%) Power Query
15 13 (0.51%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.51%) MySQL
15 13 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 12 (0.47%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.43%) Apache Hive
18 10 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 203 (7.93%) JIRA
2 88 (3.44%) Git
3 77 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.15%) JUnit
5 31 (1.21%) GitLab
6 29 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 26 (1.02%) Postman
8 24 (0.94%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.74%) Selenium
10 17 (0.66%) Mockito
11 15 (0.59%) Gradle
12 14 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.55%) Maven
13 12 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 11 (0.43%) IntelliJ
15 10 (0.39%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.35%) PyCharm
16 9 (0.35%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 909 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 439 (17.14%) Banking
3 438 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 175 (6.83%) Manufacturing
6 164 (6.40%) Telecoms
7 151 (5.90%) Marketing
8 110 (4.30%) Legal
9 105 (4.10%) Electronics
10 90 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 89 (3.48%) Financial Institution
12 80 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
13 79 (3.08%) Investment Banking
14 69 (2.69%) General Ledger
15 64 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (2.34%) Retail
17 54 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.76%) Law
19 44 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
20 43 (1.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 455 (17.77%) Analyst
2 255 (9.96%) Project Manager
3 234 (9.14%) Developer
4 232 (9.06%) Senior
5 202 (7.89%) Architect
6 151 (5.90%) Lead
7 145 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 128 (5.00%) Consultant
9 86 (3.36%) Data Analyst
10 84 (3.28%) Financial Analyst
11 82 (3.20%) Java Developer
12 73 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
13 69 (2.69%) Programme Manager
14 66 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
15 54 (2.11%) Administrator
16 47 (1.84%) IT Manager
17 46 (1.80%) Senior Financial Analyst
18 45 (1.76%) Senior Manager
19 43 (1.68%) Delivery Manager
20 42 (1.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (3.79%) Spring
2 66 (2.58%) Kafka
3 63 (2.46%) REST
4 58 (2.26%) Spring Boot
5 49 (1.91%) SOAP
6 44 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 44 (1.72%) Web Services
7 40 (1.56%) .NET
8 37 (1.44%) JMS
8 37 (1.44%) RESTful
9 36 (1.41%) Middleware
9 36 (1.41%) React
10 25 (0.98%) CSS
10 25 (0.98%) HTML
11 24 (0.94%) AngularJS
12 20 (0.78%) JSON
13 18 (0.70%) XML
14 17 (0.66%) Swagger
15 16 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (0.62%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 124 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 99 (3.87%) Management Information System
3 80 (3.12%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
5 55 (2.15%) Social Media
6 49 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 47 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 44 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (1.52%) Equities
10 37 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 33 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 32 (1.25%) Life Science
14 31 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.17%) Derivative
15 30 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
16 29 (1.13%) Cloud Native
17 24 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
18 23 (0.90%) Driving Licence
18 23 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 152 (5.94%) Linux
2 144 (5.62%) Windows
3 53 (2.07%) Unix
4 26 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.70%) Android
6 18 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.39%) Solaris
9 9 (0.35%) zOS
10 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.23%) AIX
11 6 (0.23%) HPUX
12 5 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.039%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (25.65%) Agile
2 496 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
3 467 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 368 (14.37%) Project Management
5 337 (13.16%) Migration
6 233 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
7 227 (8.86%) Project Delivery
8 219 (8.55%) Change Management
8 219 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 214 (8.36%) DevOps
10 205 (8.00%) Risk Management
11 196 (7.65%) Decision-Making
12 186 (7.26%) CI/CD
13 175 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 173 (6.76%) Programme Management
15 152 (5.94%) Analytics
16 143 (5.58%) SDLC
17 139 (5.43%) Roadmaps
18 137 (5.35%) ERP
19 134 (5.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 301 (11.75%) SQL
2 222 (8.67%) Python
3 187 (7.30%) Java
4 74 (2.89%) PowerShell
5 60 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 51 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 49 (1.91%) Shell Script
8 46 (1.80%) C#
9 38 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.66%) Bash
11 15 (0.59%) R
12 12 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.47%) VBA
13 10 (0.39%) COBOL
13 10 (0.39%) Go
13 10 (0.39%) Scala
14 9 (0.35%) VB
15 8 (0.31%) Delphi
15 8 (0.31%) Swift
16 7 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 244 (9.53%) Security Cleared
2 187 (7.30%) Degree
3 165 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.36%) ACCA
5 85 (3.32%) CIMA
6 61 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 47 (1.84%) PMP
8 41 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 39 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.94%) CISSP
12 23 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.70%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.70%) CISM
15 17 (0.66%) Dell Certification
16 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.72%) PMO
2 77 (3.01%) QA
3 71 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 64 (2.50%) GDPR
5 41 (1.60%) SLA
6 35 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 27 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.02%) NIST
9 23 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.82%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.66%) IFRS
12 16 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
12 16 (0.62%) GRC
13 15 (0.59%) Basel III
14 14 (0.55%) MiFID
15 8 (0.31%) RMADS
16 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.27%) P3O
17 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 80 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.42%) Docker
3 25 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.23%) vSphere
6 5 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.16%) HDFS
7 4 (0.16%) RACF
8 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.039%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 83 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 73 (2.85%) Ansible
2 73 (2.85%) Terraform
3 22 (0.86%) Puppet
4 19 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
5 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (0.62%) SCCM
7 13 (0.51%) Grafana
8 9 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.31%) Data Guard
9 8 (0.31%) NSN NetAct
9 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.20%) Istio
13 4 (0.16%) AppManager
13 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 426 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 345 (13.47%) SAP
3 227 (8.86%) Oracle
4 95 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 51 (1.99%) Google
5 51 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.60%) Sybase
6 41 (1.60%) VMware
7 39 (1.52%) IBM
8 31 (1.21%) HP
9 29 (1.13%) Cisco
10 27 (1.05%) Databricks
11 26 (1.02%) Citrix
11 26 (1.02%) Dell
11 26 (1.02%) IFS
11 26 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 26 (1.02%) Splunk
12 24 (0.94%) Ariba
13 22 (0.86%) Sage
14 21 (0.82%) Commvault