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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,340 2,647 3,270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.77% 12.58% 14.36%
As % of the General category 28.43% 23.47% 25.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 1,592 2,250
10th Percentile £306 £280 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -3.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 213 63
10th Percentile £15.63 £12.51 £16.04
25th Percentile £18.86 £14.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -42.86% +50.77%
75th Percentile £65.75 £38.12 £60.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.00 £27.98
% change year-on-year +49.07% -3.50% -25.25%

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 8,231 11,280 12,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.51% 53.59% 56.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,023 6,366 8,681
10th Percentile £210 £205 £228
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 1,702 722
10th Percentile £13.13 £12.50 £13.32
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.54 £28.34 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +1.78% +42.77%
75th Percentile £51.62 £53.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.38 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £30.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -6.07% -7.12% +43.56%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 0 581 £465 -7.00% 1,725
Scotland +2 518 £480 +1.11% 598
South East 0 396 £523 +4.50% 3,869
Midlands -1 345 £468 -14.47% 932
North West -2 308 £450 -10.00% 1,016
South West +8 290 £525 -4.55% 687
Yorkshire +3 243 £476 -4.75% 536
West Midlands -3 212 £500 -8.68% 486
East Midlands +2 125 £438 -17.45% 414
East of England -4 109 £575 +15.00% 453
Northern Ireland +2 91 £425 -3.95% 195
Wales +12 30 £413 -25.00% 231
North East +6 30 £453 -11.71% 183
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
1 113 (4.83%) Confluence
2 67 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.11%) SAS
4 15 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.43%) JBoss
7 10 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.38%) Apache
8 9 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.21%) CICS
11 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
11 4 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.085%) GemFire
12 2 (0.085%) nginx
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.085%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.043%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 164 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.26%) Trello
8 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.17%) SketchUp
10 2 (0.085%) InVision
10 2 (0.085%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.043%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.043%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 92 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
4 17 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.73%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.64%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 14 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 12 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 11 (0.47%) Kondor
9 10 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 9 (0.38%) SAP PS
11 8 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
11 8 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
11 8 (0.34%) Primavera
12 7 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 244 (10.43%) Azure
2 194 (8.29%) AWS
3 110 (4.70%) Power Platform
4 62 (2.65%) GCP
4 62 (2.65%) SaaS
5 53 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (1.50%) OCI
9 34 (1.45%) Snowflake
10 32 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
11 29 (1.24%) GitHub
12 27 (1.15%) Entra ID
13 21 (0.90%) Serverless
14 19 (0.81%) OpenShift
15 16 (0.68%) IaaS
16 14 (0.60%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.60%) Power Automate
17 13 (0.56%) Adobe Analytics
17 13 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.18%) Firewall
2 44 (1.88%) Broadband
3 26 (1.11%) DNS
3 26 (1.11%) Network Security
4 21 (0.90%) DHCP
4 21 (0.90%) LAN
4 21 (0.90%) WAN
5 18 (0.77%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.68%) WebEx
7 15 (0.64%) VPN
8 11 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.43%) BGP
10 8 (0.34%) OSPF
10 8 (0.34%) SAN
10 8 (0.34%) Wireless
11 7 (0.30%) SSL
11 7 (0.30%) VLAN
12 6 (0.26%) HTTP
13 5 (0.21%) ATM
13 5 (0.21%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.10%) Power BI
2 79 (3.38%) Relational Database
3 57 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 47 (2.01%) SQL Server
6 40 (1.71%) DB2
6 40 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.62%) Oracle Database
8 35 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
9 30 (1.28%) Tableau
10 26 (1.11%) Big Data
11 23 (0.98%) NoSQL
12 16 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.60%) MySQL
14 13 (0.56%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 12 (0.51%) Metadata
16 11 (0.47%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.47%) RDBMS
17 10 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 180 (7.69%) JIRA
2 75 (3.21%) Git
3 64 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.18%) JUnit
5 25 (1.07%) GitLab
6 24 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 21 (0.90%) Postman
8 16 (0.68%) Mockito
8 16 (0.68%) Selenium
9 15 (0.64%) Gradle
10 14 (0.60%) Maven
11 12 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.43%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
14 8 (0.34%) Ant
15 6 (0.26%) ERwin
15 6 (0.26%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 821 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 398 (17.01%) Banking
3 379 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 167 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 159 (6.79%) Telecoms
7 149 (6.37%) Marketing
8 103 (4.40%) Electronics
9 95 (4.06%) Legal
10 78 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (3.21%) Financial Institution
12 70 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (2.95%) Investment Banking
14 66 (2.82%) General Ledger
15 59 (2.52%) Retail
16 53 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 53 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
17 47 (2.01%) Front Office
18 39 (1.67%) Law
19 32 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 395 (16.88%) Analyst
2 237 (10.13%) Developer
3 229 (9.79%) Project Manager
4 219 (9.36%) Senior
5 191 (8.16%) Architect
6 139 (5.94%) Lead
7 131 (5.60%) Business Analyst
8 120 (5.13%) Consultant
9 86 (3.68%) Financial Analyst
10 79 (3.38%) Java Developer
11 70 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 68 (2.91%) Data Analyst
13 65 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
14 56 (2.39%) Programme Manager
15 54 (2.31%) Support Engineer
16 46 (1.97%) Senior Financial Analyst
17 44 (1.88%) Administrator
17 44 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
17 44 (1.88%) Senior Manager
18 41 (1.75%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.93%) Spring
2 62 (2.65%) Kafka
3 56 (2.39%) Spring Boot
4 51 (2.18%) REST
5 46 (1.97%) .NET
6 45 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
7 44 (1.88%) Web Services
8 40 (1.71%) SOAP
9 38 (1.62%) RESTful
10 36 (1.54%) JMS
11 34 (1.45%) Middleware
11 34 (1.45%) React
12 26 (1.11%) AngularJS
13 21 (0.90%) CSS
14 20 (0.85%) HTML
14 20 (0.85%) JSON
14 20 (0.85%) XML
15 17 (0.73%) Swagger
16 16 (0.68%) OpenAPI
17 12 (0.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 78 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 63 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
5 54 (2.31%) Social Media
6 48 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 43 (1.84%) Equities
8 40 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 35 (1.50%) Derivative
10 31 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 29 (1.24%) Driving Licence
12 29 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 28 (1.20%) Life Science
14 25 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.94%) Cloud Native
15 22 (0.94%) Mainframe
16 18 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.11%) Windows
2 129 (5.51%) Linux
3 45 (1.92%) Unix
4 21 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.51%) Android
8 10 (0.43%) Solaris
9 8 (0.34%) zOS
10 7 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.26%) AIX
11 6 (0.26%) HPUX
11 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.043%) CentOS
15 1 (0.043%) SUSE
15 1 (0.043%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (25.43%) Agile
2 465 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
3 422 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 355 (15.17%) Project Management
5 300 (12.82%) Migration
6 212 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
7 205 (8.76%) Project Delivery
8 196 (8.38%) Change Management
9 193 (8.25%) DevOps
10 184 (7.86%) Risk Management
11 183 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 171 (7.31%) Programme Management
13 170 (7.26%) Decision-Making
14 158 (6.75%) CI/CD
15 142 (6.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 138 (5.90%) Analytics
17 136 (5.81%) ERP
18 127 (5.43%) SDLC
19 124 (5.30%) Roadmaps
20 118 (5.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 289 (12.35%) SQL
2 201 (8.59%) Python
3 166 (7.09%) Java
4 71 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 52 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 49 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 47 (2.01%) C#
8 46 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 39 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.77%) Bash
11 14 (0.60%) R
12 12 (0.51%) Delphi
13 10 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.43%) Scala
13 10 (0.43%) VBA
14 9 (0.38%) COBOL
15 8 (0.34%) VB
16 7 (0.30%) C++
16 7 (0.30%) Groovy
16 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 249 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 169 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 165 (7.05%) Degree
4 74 (3.16%) ACCA
5 73 (3.12%) CIMA
6 57 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.71%) PMP
8 38 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 30 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (1.11%) Dell Certification
12 24 (1.03%) CISSP
13 23 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (0.81%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.64%) CISM
17 13 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.47%) APMP
18 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (4.87%) PMO
2 67 (2.86%) QA
3 55 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.14%) SLA
5 43 (1.84%) GDPR
6 25 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 23 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.90%) NIST
9 17 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
9 17 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.68%) Basel III
10 16 (0.68%) GRC
11 15 (0.64%) IFRS
12 13 (0.56%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.56%) MiFID
13 8 (0.34%) P3O
14 7 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.26%) IFRS 9
16 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.44%) Docker
3 24 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.21%) vSphere
7 4 (0.17%) HDFS
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.13%) RACF
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.043%) Firmware
10 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 61 (2.61%) Ansible
3 56 (2.39%) Terraform
4 18 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.73%) Puppet
6 15 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
7 13 (0.56%) SCCM
8 10 (0.43%) Grafana
9 8 (0.34%) NSN NetAct
9 8 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.21%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.17%) AppManager
13 4 (0.17%) Data Guard
13 4 (0.17%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.13%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 368 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 323 (13.80%) SAP
3 223 (9.53%) Oracle
4 73 (3.12%) ServiceNow
5 44 (1.88%) Salesforce
6 43 (1.84%) HP
7 41 (1.75%) Google
8 39 (1.67%) Sybase
9 38 (1.62%) IBM
10 37 (1.58%) VMware
11 35 (1.50%) Dell
12 29 (1.24%) Cisco
13 28 (1.20%) Databricks
14 24 (1.03%) Adobe
15 23 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.98%) Splunk
16 22 (0.94%) Citrix
17 21 (0.90%) Ariba
17 21 (0.90%) Commvault
17 21 (0.90%) Sage