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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,599 3,441 4,743
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.55% 14.37% 15.35%
As % of the General category 22.97% 25.44% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 2,392 3,508
10th Percentile £281 £320 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £595
90th Percentile £750 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 61 63
10th Percentile £12.30 £16.25 £9.69
25th Percentile £14.15 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.12 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +97.67% +20.11%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.00 £35.78
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £29.24 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.66% -16.46% +54.94%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,317 13,526 17,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.67% 56.50% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,455 9,250 11,850
10th Percentile £205 £228 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 783 1,047
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +60.43% -6.50%
75th Percentile £52.95 £61.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.95 £54.45
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.82
% change year-on-year -12.56% +57.28% -3.04%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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 -3 641 £508 -3.33% 719
North of England 0 618 £500 -4.76% 765
Scotland 0 381 £478 -4.50% 279
Midlands +4 366 £550 +10.00% 547
North West +4 362 £500 - 477
South West +3 336 £570 +3.64% 405
West Midlands +4 261 £550 +6.28% 349
Yorkshire -2 233 £500 -9.09% 209
East of England +5 217 £525 +0.96% 289
East Midlands +5 96 £550 +20.88% 197
Northern Ireland -1 32 £443 -1.67% 67
Wales -9 20 £550 +10.00% 86
North East +7 19 £500 -16.67% 83
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 -19.27% 5
South Coast - 3 £500 -
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 58 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.96%) Confluence
3 17 (0.65%) SAS
4 16 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 13 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.23%) IIS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.077%) GemFire
12 2 (0.077%) Traefik
Applications
1 207 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 35 (1.35%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.15%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.077%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.077%) InVision
9 2 (0.077%) Sketch
10 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.038%) Trello
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 91 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.08%) SAP FI
3 24 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 23 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 21 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.81%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
6 19 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
6 19 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
7 17 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
8 16 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
9 15 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 15 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
10 13 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (0.42%) SAP PSCD
11 11 (0.42%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
13 8 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 234 (9.00%) Azure
2 155 (5.96%) Power Platform
3 139 (5.35%) AWS
4 90 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
5 79 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (1.62%) OCI
8 40 (1.54%) SaaS
9 31 (1.19%) GCP
10 30 (1.15%) Snowflake
11 21 (0.81%) PowerApps
11 21 (0.81%) Serverless
12 19 (0.73%) Entra ID
12 19 (0.73%) Power Automate
13 18 (0.69%) IaaS
14 16 (0.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 15 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (0.58%) WhatsApp
16 14 (0.54%) PaaS
17 13 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.15%) WAN
2 51 (1.96%) Firewall
3 43 (1.65%) DMZ
4 38 (1.46%) VPN
5 33 (1.27%) MPLS
6 32 (1.23%) LAN
7 31 (1.19%) BGP
8 29 (1.12%) DNS
9 28 (1.08%) SSL
9 28 (1.08%) Wireless
10 24 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
10 24 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (0.65%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.62%) HTTP
12 16 (0.62%) Network Security
12 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.58%) ATM
13 15 (0.58%) DHCP
14 12 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (4.89%) Power BI
2 53 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 51 (1.96%) Tableau
4 31 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 30 (1.15%) Big Data
5 30 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 19 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 18 (0.69%) Metadata
8 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.62%) DB2
10 14 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 14 (0.54%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 13 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
13 9 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 8 (0.31%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.31%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 153 (5.89%) JIRA
2 29 (1.12%) Git
2 29 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.46%) GitLab
3 12 (0.46%) Selenium
4 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 8 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) JMeter
5 7 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.19%) JUnit
6 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.12%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.12%) Gradle
8 3 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.12%) Toad
8 3 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 768 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 376 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 336 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (11.58%) Banking
5 247 (9.50%) Telecoms
6 234 (9.00%) Manufacturing
7 214 (8.23%) Marketing
8 161 (6.19%) Electronics
9 117 (4.50%) Legal
10 112 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
11 110 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
12 101 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
13 94 (3.62%) Retail
14 66 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 54 (2.08%) Billing
16 45 (1.73%) Law
17 43 (1.65%) Local Government
18 38 (1.46%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
20 21 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (16.08%) Analyst
2 317 (12.20%) Project Manager
3 257 (9.89%) Architect
4 246 (9.47%) Lead
5 191 (7.35%) Senior
6 166 (6.39%) Developer
7 159 (6.12%) Consultant
8 104 (4.00%) Business Analyst
9 101 (3.89%) Data Analyst
10 99 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 76 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 63 (2.42%) IT Manager
13 57 (2.19%) Administrator
13 57 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
14 55 (2.12%) Senior Manager
15 54 (2.08%) SAP Consultant
16 51 (1.96%) Programme Manager
17 50 (1.92%) Finance Manager
18 47 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
19 44 (1.69%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (1.46%) .NET
3 36 (1.39%) React
4 34 (1.31%) Spring
5 31 (1.19%) Middleware
6 28 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 28 (1.08%) REST
7 27 (1.04%) HTML
7 27 (1.04%) Kafka
8 25 (0.96%) CSS
8 25 (0.96%) Node.js
9 21 (0.81%) RESTful
10 18 (0.69%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.50%) JSON
11 13 (0.50%) XML
12 12 (0.46%) Web Services
13 9 (0.35%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.35%) SOAP
14 8 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (0.31%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.16%) Management Information System
2 71 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 61 (2.35%) NHS
5 53 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 47 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 40 (1.54%) Credit Risk
8 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (0.96%) Mainframe
12 18 (0.69%) Data Structures
12 18 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.58%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.46%) CMDB
14 12 (0.46%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.42%) FMCG
15 11 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 154 (5.93%) Windows
2 89 (3.42%) Linux
3 47 (1.81%) Unix
3 47 (1.81%) Windows 10
4 23 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.54%) Windows 7
7 12 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.38%) Android
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
10 8 (0.31%) zOS
11 7 (0.27%) AIX
11 7 (0.27%) MVS
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.077%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (19.35%) Project Management
2 485 (18.66%) Agile
3 383 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 320 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
5 313 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
6 260 (10.00%) Migration
7 238 (9.16%) Programme Management
8 213 (8.20%) Project Delivery
9 205 (7.89%) Change Management
10 204 (7.85%) ERP
11 184 (7.08%) DevOps
12 175 (6.73%) Decision-Making
13 165 (6.35%) Digital Marketing
14 163 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (5.89%) Analytics
16 152 (5.85%) PRINCE2
17 142 (5.46%) Roadmaps
18 126 (4.85%) ITIL
19 121 (4.66%) Business Strategy
20 110 (4.23%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 177 (6.81%) SQL
2 116 (4.46%) Python
3 102 (3.92%) Java
4 47 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 45 (1.73%) C#
6 40 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.08%) Perl
7 28 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 24 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 18 (0.69%) Bash
10 13 (0.50%) R
10 13 (0.50%) Scala
10 13 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.35%) ABAP
12 9 (0.35%) C
12 9 (0.35%) X++
13 8 (0.31%) Swift
14 6 (0.23%) Ruby
15 5 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 281 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 249 (9.58%) Degree
3 174 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 48 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (1.77%) PMP
7 40 (1.54%) ACCA
8 39 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.39%) CIMA
9 36 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 29 (1.12%) APMP
12 19 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.62%) CCNA
13 16 (0.62%) CISSP
14 15 (0.58%) CCNP
15 14 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 12 (0.46%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.81%) PMO
2 83 (3.19%) QA
3 65 (2.50%) SLA
4 58 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 34 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.15%) GDPR
7 27 (1.04%) IFRS
8 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 16 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.50%) NIST
11 10 (0.38%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.31%) HL7
14 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.23%) RMADS
16 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 51 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.00%) Docker
2 26 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Firmware
5 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 4 (0.15%) KVM
7 4 (0.15%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.12%) GPFS
9 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.038%) HDFS
10 1 (0.038%) IAG
10 1 (0.038%) iptables
10 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (1.35%) Terraform
2 28 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.04%) Ansible
4 24 (0.92%) Endace
5 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.38%) Puppet
6 10 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.31%) SCCM
8 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
8 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.19%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.15%) Istio
10 4 (0.15%) Nessus
10 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.15%) PowerBroker
11 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 371 (14.27%) SAP
2 365 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 169 (6.50%) Oracle
4 104 (4.00%) Cisco
5 61 (2.35%) F5
6 49 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.42%) Juniper
8 34 (1.31%) CheckPoint
9 31 (1.19%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.12%) IBM
10 29 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.12%) VMware
11 27 (1.04%) Google
12 25 (0.96%) Arista
12 25 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.92%) Adobe
13 24 (0.92%) Databricks
14 22 (0.85%) Dell
15 19 (0.73%) Apple
15 19 (0.73%) IFS