Financial Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Finance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 347 382
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 58 104 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.44% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.46% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 75 92
10th Percentile £281 £181 £272
25th Percentile £356 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £503
90th Percentile £575 £613 £568
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £14.20 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £19.22 - -
75th Percentile £22.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.22 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,031 22,516 29,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.26% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,791 20,746
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,158 1,469
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.92 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.93
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
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 Financial Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 -2 24 £363 +8.21% 12
Scotland +48 11 £525 +1.06% 3
Midlands +24 11 £525 -2.33% 4
West Midlands +19 8 £525 -3.45% 2
North of England +12 7 £406 -20.34% 11
North West +27 3 - - 7
East Midlands +18 3 - - 2
Yorkshire 0 3 £406 -21.88% 1
South West +23 2 - - 2
South Coast - 2 £500 -
North East +17 1 - - 3
East of England +14 1 £425 -11.69% 5
Financial Analyst
UK

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Financial Analyst 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 Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (29.31%) ERP
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (18.97%) CIMA
5 11 (18.97%) ACCA
5 11 (18.97%) Oracle
6 10 (17.24%) Business Analysis
6 10 (17.24%) IFRS
7 9 (15.52%) ICAEW
7 9 (15.52%) GAAP
8 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
8 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (12.07%) Process Improvement
9 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis
10 6 (10.34%) Agile
10 6 (10.34%) SAP
10 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
10 6 (10.34%) Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (10.34%) Data Migration
11 5 (8.62%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (8.62%) Financial Modelling
11 5 (8.62%) Order to Cash
12 4 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 4 (6.90%) PMO
12 4 (6.90%) Power BI
12 4 (6.90%) Roadmaps

Financial Analyst 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 2 (3.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.72%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.72%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.72%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.72%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.72%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.72%) AWS
3 1 (1.72%) IaaS
3 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
1 2 (3.45%) Toad
General
1 58 (100.00%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.90%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) General Ledger
6 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Billing
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
1 3 (5.17%) Online Banking
2 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) ERP
2 15 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (17.24%) Business Analysis
4 8 (13.79%) Migration
4 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis
5 7 (12.07%) Process Improvement
6 6 (10.34%) Agile
6 6 (10.34%) Data Migration
6 6 (10.34%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (8.62%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (8.62%) Financial Modelling
7 5 (8.62%) Order to Cash
8 4 (6.90%) Budgeting
8 4 (6.90%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 4 (6.90%) Change Management
8 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.90%) Project Delivery
8 4 (6.90%) Roadmaps
8 4 (6.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) ACCA
1 11 (18.97%) CIMA
2 9 (15.52%) ICAEW
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) IFRS
2 9 (15.52%) GAAP
3 4 (6.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) Microgen
3 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) Ariba
4 1 (1.72%) Concur
4 1 (1.72%) Hyperion
4 1 (1.72%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.72%) Planview
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Workday