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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,245 2,584 3,440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.55% 12.57% 14.40%
As % of the General category 28.13% 23.00% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 1,575 2,383
10th Percentile £305 £281 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £566 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 192 62
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.30 £16.35
25th Percentile £21.00 £14.13 £22.16
Median hourly rate £42.41 £32.12 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -26.59% +103.49%
75th Percentile £71.88 £38.12 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.47 £56.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.00 £26.85
% change year-on-year +37.24% +0.58% -23.30%

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 7,982 11,233 13,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.39% 54.64% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 6,411 9,211
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 1,648 775
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.50 £13.35
25th Percentile £16.31 £15.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -2.59% +54.67%
75th Percentile £56.58 £53.75 £60.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +47.73%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
North of England 0 528 £475 -5.00% 1,170
Scotland +2 494 £489 +2.95% 388
South East +1 419 £515 +2.97% 1,531
Midlands -1 318 £500 -9.09% 704
South West +8 277 £525 -7.89% 598
North West 0 272 £465 -7.00% 723
Yorkshire +2 216 £500 - 346
West Midlands -3 203 £525 -4.11% 410
East of England 0 128 £575 +9.52% 344
East Midlands +5 105 £447 -17.22% 267
Northern Ireland +1 82 £404 -8.76% 117
North East +11 40 £470 -6.00% 111
Wales +5 16 £375 -31.82% 137
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
1 106 (4.72%) Confluence
2 56 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.16%) SAS
4 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.36%) Apache
8 6 (0.27%) JBoss
8 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.18%) CICS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.089%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.089%) GemFire
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.089%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 129 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.18%) SketchUp
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.089%) InVision
10 2 (0.089%) Open Workbench
11 1 (0.045%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 90 (4.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.94%) SAP CO
3 19 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 19 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
4 18 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
6 13 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.58%) Kondor
6 13 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 10 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.36%) iTrent
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.31%) Primavera
11 7 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
11 7 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.31%) SAP PS
11 7 (0.31%) SAP PSCD
11 7 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 237 (10.56%) Azure
2 172 (7.66%) AWS
3 103 (4.59%) Power Platform
4 56 (2.49%) GCP
4 56 (2.49%) SaaS
5 53 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (1.47%) OCI
9 32 (1.43%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
11 29 (1.29%) Snowflake
12 20 (0.89%) GitHub
13 19 (0.85%) OpenShift
13 19 (0.85%) Serverless
14 15 (0.67%) IaaS
14 15 (0.67%) PaaS
15 14 (0.62%) Amazon S3
15 14 (0.62%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.58%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.65%) Firewall
2 29 (1.29%) Network Security
3 25 (1.11%) DNS
3 25 (1.11%) LAN
4 24 (1.07%) WAN
5 20 (0.89%) DHCP
6 16 (0.71%) VPN
7 12 (0.53%) Wireless
8 11 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.40%) WebEx
10 8 (0.36%) SAN
10 8 (0.36%) Skype
11 7 (0.31%) BGP
11 7 (0.31%) SSL
11 7 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.27%) OSPF
13 4 (0.18%) ATM
13 4 (0.18%) DMZ
13 4 (0.18%) Internet
13 4 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (4.10%) Power BI
2 75 (3.34%) Relational Database
3 48 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 43 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 42 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
7 41 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 33 (1.47%) DB2
9 29 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
10 24 (1.07%) Tableau
11 21 (0.94%) Big Data
11 21 (0.94%) NoSQL
12 16 (0.71%) MySQL
13 15 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.58%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.53%) Apache Hive
15 12 (0.53%) Metadata
16 11 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
17 10 (0.45%) RDBMS
18 8 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 179 (7.97%) JIRA
2 65 (2.90%) Git
3 49 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.87%) JUnit
5 28 (1.25%) Visual Studio
6 24 (1.07%) GitLab
6 24 (1.07%) Selenium
7 15 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.62%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.62%) Mockito
9 13 (0.58%) Gradle
10 12 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
10 12 (0.53%) Postman
11 10 (0.45%) Liquibase
12 9 (0.40%) ERwin
12 9 (0.40%) Maven
13 8 (0.36%) Ant
13 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.31%) Subversion
15 6 (0.27%) JMeter
General
1 748 (33.32%) Social Skills
2 372 (16.57%) Banking
3 344 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 196 (8.73%) Manufacturing
6 182 (8.11%) Marketing
7 181 (8.06%) Telecoms
8 128 (5.70%) Electronics
9 101 (4.50%) Legal
10 79 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 69 (3.07%) Investment Banking
12 65 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
13 62 (2.76%) Financial Institution
14 56 (2.49%) Retail
15 49 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 47 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
17 45 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 43 (1.92%) Front Office
19 42 (1.87%) Law
20 32 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 305 (13.59%) Analyst
2 244 (10.87%) Project Manager
3 223 (9.93%) Developer
4 180 (8.02%) Architect
5 176 (7.84%) Senior
6 144 (6.41%) Consultant
7 142 (6.33%) Lead
8 117 (5.21%) Business Analyst
9 76 (3.39%) Java Developer
10 67 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (2.81%) Programme Manager
12 59 (2.63%) Support Engineer
13 53 (2.36%) IT Manager
14 50 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 45 (2.00%) Senior Manager
16 44 (1.96%) Administrator
16 44 (1.96%) Data Engineer
17 40 (1.78%) SAP Consultant
17 40 (1.78%) Software Engineer
18 39 (1.74%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (3.88%) Spring
2 59 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 57 (2.54%) Kafka
4 51 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 45 (2.00%) .NET
6 37 (1.65%) REST
7 33 (1.47%) Middleware
7 33 (1.47%) Web Services
8 31 (1.38%) RESTful
9 29 (1.29%) JMS
10 28 (1.25%) SOAP
11 27 (1.20%) React
12 21 (0.94%) AngularJS
13 20 (0.89%) CSS
13 20 (0.89%) HTML
14 19 (0.85%) XML
15 18 (0.80%) JSON
15 18 (0.80%) Swagger
16 16 (0.71%) OpenAPI
17 11 (0.49%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 96 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 85 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 72 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 61 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 39 (1.74%) Equities
8 37 (1.65%) Life Science
9 32 (1.43%) Derivative
9 32 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.25%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 22 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.98%) NHS
15 22 (0.98%) PMI
16 21 (0.94%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 150 (6.68%) Windows
2 117 (5.21%) Linux
3 45 (2.00%) Unix
4 23 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.40%) Android
9 8 (0.36%) zOS
10 7 (0.31%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) HPUX
11 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.22%) AIX
12 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.045%) CentOS
14 1 (0.045%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (24.28%) Agile
2 458 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
3 364 (16.21%) Project Management
4 357 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 263 (11.71%) Migration
6 226 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
7 208 (9.27%) Project Delivery
8 197 (8.78%) Change Management
8 197 (8.78%) Programme Management
9 178 (7.93%) Risk Management
10 173 (7.71%) DevOps
11 165 (7.35%) Decision-Making
12 160 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 142 (6.33%) CI/CD
14 135 (6.01%) Analytics
15 130 (5.79%) ERP
15 130 (5.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 129 (5.75%) Digital Marketing
17 124 (5.52%) SDLC
18 105 (4.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 266 (11.85%) SQL
2 191 (8.51%) Python
3 161 (7.17%) Java
4 70 (3.12%) PowerShell
5 55 (2.45%) JavaScript
6 51 (2.27%) C#
7 42 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 40 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 35 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 19 (0.85%) Bash
11 16 (0.71%) Delphi
12 15 (0.67%) R
13 11 (0.49%) VBA
14 10 (0.45%) Scala
15 9 (0.40%) C++
16 8 (0.36%) COBOL
16 8 (0.36%) Perl
17 7 (0.31%) Groovy
17 7 (0.31%) PHP
17 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 167 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 160 (7.13%) Degree
4 60 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 44 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 38 (1.69%) PMP
7 29 (1.29%) CIMA
8 28 (1.25%) ACCA
8 28 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.16%) Dell Certification
10 22 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.94%) CISSP
12 19 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.49%) APMP
17 11 (0.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.63%) PMO
2 76 (3.39%) QA
3 52 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.32%) SLA
4 41 (1.83%) GDPR
5 21 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
6 19 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.71%) IFRS
10 14 (0.62%) NIST
11 12 (0.53%) Basel III
12 11 (0.49%) GRC
13 9 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 9 (0.40%) MiFID
14 8 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.22%) GAAP
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 60 (2.67%) Docker
3 20 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.22%) RACF
6 5 (0.22%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) HDFS
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.089%) NFS
10 1 (0.045%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 52 (2.32%) Ansible
3 47 (2.09%) Terraform
4 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (0.53%) Grafana
7 10 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.45%) Puppet
7 10 (0.45%) SCCM
8 7 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.18%) Data Guard
11 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.18%) vRealize
12 3 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.13%) NSN NetAct
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 309 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 300 (13.36%) SAP
3 207 (9.22%) Oracle
4 65 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 43 (1.92%) HP
6 37 (1.65%) Dell
6 37 (1.65%) Sybase
7 36 (1.60%) Google
7 36 (1.60%) IBM
8 35 (1.56%) VMware
9 31 (1.38%) Databricks
9 31 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.25%) Splunk
11 25 (1.11%) Ariba
12 24 (1.07%) Adobe
13 23 (1.02%) Cisco
14 20 (0.89%) Commvault
14 20 (0.89%) Workday
15 17 (0.76%) CyberArk
16 16 (0.71%) Citrix