Finance Contracts

Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,470 9,620 17,647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 20.47% 20.35% 21.77%
As % of the General category 34.76% 34.21% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,676 6,733 12,103
10th Percentile £358 £365 £385
25th Percentile £463 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £823 £800 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 101 122
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.00 £14.48
25th Percentile £23.82 £18.75 £20.43
Median hourly rate £32.29 £27.50 £31.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% -13.59% +81.86%
75th Percentile £55.25 £50.00 £49.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £73.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.62% -25.71% +120.68%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,493 28,123 47,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.89% 59.48% 59.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,676 18,809 32,900
10th Percentile £285 £288 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £642 £660 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 812 1,118 1,248
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.36
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.71 £16.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% +30.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £57.46 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.65 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £27.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% +20.00% +28.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 November 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
England 0 6,572 £575 -4.17% 3,620
London 0 4,180 £600 -2.04% 1,745
UK excluding London +3 2,635 £507 -3.38% 2,325
Work from Home -1 2,633 £575 - 3,509
North of England +1 733 £515 -1.90% 607
South East -1 564 £525 - 485
Midlands +8 456 £525 - 416
North West +6 426 £508 -3.33% 412
South West +3 345 £525 -8.70% 258
Scotland 0 337 £440 -12.00% 225
West Midlands +4 331 £550 - 248
Yorkshire +1 271 £525 +5.00% 138
East of England -1 116 £519 +3.75% 198
East Midlands +10 115 £420 -14.11% 168
Northern Ireland +1 65 £450 +7.14% 133
Wales -6 38 £406 -15.58% 50
North East -2 32 £475 -9.52% 61
Channel Islands -2 3 - - 1

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 231 (3.09%) Confluence
2 206 (2.76%) Apache
3 205 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 189 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 99 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 52 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 46 (0.62%) SAS
8 20 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 17 (0.23%) CMS
9 17 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 16 (0.21%) IIS
11 14 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.16%) nginx
14 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 9 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 7 (0.094%) IBM Notes
16 7 (0.094%) Skype for Business
16 7 (0.094%) Umbraco
17 6 (0.080%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 327 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 238 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 11 (0.15%) Sketch
10 10 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.094%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.094%) Trello
12 5 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.067%) SPSS
13 4 (0.054%) InVision
14 3 (0.040%) Acrobat
14 3 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.027%) CPLEX
15 2 (0.027%) InDesign
15 2 (0.027%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 200 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 59 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 57 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 55 (0.74%) SAP CO
6 51 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
7 46 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
8 45 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
9 40 (0.54%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.47%) NetSuite
11 34 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
12 32 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
12 32 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 29 (0.39%) SAP ERP
14 28 (0.37%) Endur
15 24 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
16 22 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
17 21 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
17 21 (0.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
18 19 (0.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 999 (13.37%) Azure
2 943 (12.62%) AWS
3 398 (5.33%) GCP
4 357 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 250 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
6 202 (2.70%) dbt
7 198 (2.65%) Snowflake
8 180 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
9 168 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 146 (1.95%) SaaS
11 104 (1.39%) OCI
12 96 (1.29%) Serverless
13 90 (1.20%) Entra ID
14 86 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
15 79 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 78 (1.04%) OpenShift
17 76 (1.02%) GitHub
18 64 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
18 64 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
19 60 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 202 (2.70%) Firewall
2 87 (1.16%) Network Security
3 79 (1.06%) DNS
4 71 (0.95%) LAN
4 71 (0.95%) VPN
5 65 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 63 (0.84%) SAN
7 61 (0.82%) WAN
8 48 (0.64%) DHCP
8 48 (0.64%) Internet
9 46 (0.62%) BGP
10 45 (0.60%) Wireless
11 40 (0.54%) OSPF
12 26 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
14 23 (0.31%) NAS
15 21 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
16 20 (0.27%) SD-WAN
16 20 (0.27%) VLAN
16 20 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (4.20%) Power BI
2 228 (3.05%) Data Lake
3 226 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 178 (2.38%) Dremio
5 166 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 165 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 157 (2.10%) Apache Arrow
8 149 (1.99%) Apache Ignite
9 121 (1.62%) Relational Database
10 116 (1.55%) Tableau
11 99 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
12 89 (1.19%) Oracle Database
13 82 (1.10%) Big Data
14 81 (1.08%) NoSQL
15 79 (1.06%) MongoDB
16 67 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
17 55 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 46 (0.62%) DB2
19 43 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 42 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 430 (5.76%) JIRA
2 175 (2.34%) Git
3 170 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.24%) GitLab
5 67 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 51 (0.68%) Selenium
7 49 (0.66%) JUnit
8 41 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 39 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 33 (0.44%) Postman
11 31 (0.41%) Maven
12 27 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 24 (0.32%) LoadRunner
14 22 (0.29%) Visual Studio
15 21 (0.28%) Liquibase
15 21 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
16 20 (0.27%) JMeter
17 18 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,894 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 1,773 (23.73%) Banking
3 883 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 651 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 526 (7.04%) Front Office
6 508 (6.80%) Marketing
7 450 (6.02%) Telecoms
8 437 (5.85%) Investment Banking
9 424 (5.68%) Manufacturing
10 326 (4.36%) Electronics
11 300 (4.02%) Financial Institution
12 194 (2.60%) Legal
13 191 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 171 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
15 158 (2.12%) Retail
16 145 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
17 125 (1.67%) Local Government
18 122 (1.63%) General Ledger
19 109 (1.46%) Law
20 103 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,139 (15.25%) Analyst
2 1,082 (14.48%) Developer
3 825 (11.04%) Senior
4 684 (9.16%) Architect
5 669 (8.96%) Project Manager
6 528 (7.07%) Lead
7 524 (7.01%) Business Analyst
8 494 (6.61%) Consultant
9 227 (3.04%) Java Developer
10 216 (2.89%) Software Engineer
11 210 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
12 199 (2.66%) Financial Analyst
13 180 (2.41%) Senior Manager
14 169 (2.26%) IT Manager
15 168 (2.25%) Data Analyst
15 168 (2.25%) Python Engineer
16 166 (2.22%) Python Developer
16 166 (2.22%) Senior Developer
17 162 (2.17%) Network Engineer
18 148 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (3.47%) .NET
2 191 (2.56%) React
3 186 (2.49%) Pandas
4 176 (2.36%) NumPy
5 175 (2.34%) Kafka
6 170 (2.28%) SciPy
7 165 (2.21%) AngularJS
8 156 (2.09%) gRPC
9 154 (2.06%) Spring
10 150 (2.01%) Protocol Buffers
11 142 (1.90%) HTML
12 125 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
13 116 (1.55%) Node.js
14 115 (1.54%) CSS
15 113 (1.51%) REST
16 92 (1.23%) Spring Boot
17 91 (1.22%) Middleware
18 90 (1.20%) PySpark
19 89 (1.19%) Web Services
20 84 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 330 (4.42%) Fixed Income
2 321 (4.30%) Derivative
3 291 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 281 (3.76%) Hedge funds
5 274 (3.67%) Equities
6 223 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 198 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 171 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 150 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 149 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 126 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 90 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 86 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 79 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 75 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 69 (0.92%) Cloud Native
17 63 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
18 62 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
19 59 (0.79%) Algorithms
20 58 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 520 (6.96%) Windows
2 327 (4.38%) Linux
3 220 (2.95%) Unix
4 135 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 94 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 50 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 42 (0.56%) Android
7 42 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.19%) Solaris
12 12 (0.16%) zOS
13 10 (0.13%) AIX
13 10 (0.13%) VMS
14 5 (0.067%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.067%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.054%) CentOS
15 4 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,612 (21.58%) Agile
2 1,078 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
3 901 (12.06%) Project Management
4 813 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 706 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
6 693 (9.28%) Change Management
7 674 (9.02%) Migration
8 666 (8.92%) DevOps
9 531 (7.11%) Analytics
10 498 (6.67%) CI/CD
11 490 (6.56%) Risk Management
12 470 (6.29%) Programme Management
13 461 (6.17%) Software Engineering
14 455 (6.09%) Project Delivery
15 452 (6.05%) Asset Management
16 377 (5.05%) ERP
17 360 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (4.77%) Decision-Making
19 339 (4.54%) Digital Marketing
20 334 (4.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,086 (14.54%) SQL
2 1,053 (14.10%) Python
3 785 (10.51%) Java
4 410 (5.49%) JavaScript
5 309 (4.14%) C#
6 290 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 259 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 115 (1.54%) Bash
9 111 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 83 (1.11%) Go
11 82 (1.10%) C++
12 68 (0.91%) Scala
13 67 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 65 (0.87%) VBA
15 62 (0.83%) Perl
16 52 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 49 (0.66%) VB
18 48 (0.64%) R
19 43 (0.58%) C
19 43 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 728 (9.75%) Degree
2 603 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 427 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 150 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 132 (1.77%) CISSP
6 122 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 117 (1.57%) PMP
8 115 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 93 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 77 (1.03%) CISM
11 68 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 53 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 51 (0.68%) Azure Certification
14 43 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 43 (0.58%) CCNP
15 41 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
16 27 (0.36%) CISA
16 27 (0.36%) CRISC
17 24 (0.32%) CCNA
17 24 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (3.53%) PMO
2 243 (3.25%) QA
3 213 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 116 (1.55%) NIST
5 106 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 86 (1.15%) GDPR
7 80 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 65 (0.87%) SLA
9 50 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 43 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 37 (0.50%) IFRS
12 36 (0.48%) GRC
13 23 (0.31%) MiFID
14 18 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (0.21%) SEPA
16 15 (0.20%) COBIT
17 14 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
17 14 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 14 (0.19%) EMIR
17 14 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 255 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 221 (2.96%) Docker
3 111 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 30 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.29%) vSphere
9 19 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.15%) Firmware
10 11 (0.15%) XenApp
10 11 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 10 (0.13%) Microcode
12 9 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.11%) NFS
14 7 (0.094%) SRDF
15 5 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.054%) Job Entry Subsystem
16 4 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 313 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 244 (3.27%) Terraform
3 190 (2.54%) Ansible
4 78 (1.04%) SCCM
5 61 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 44 (0.59%) Grafana
7 33 (0.44%) Puppet
8 32 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 24 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 23 (0.31%) Nessus
12 20 (0.27%) Control-M
13 19 (0.25%) WSUS
14 18 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
15 14 (0.19%) vRealize
16 11 (0.15%) FortiGate
17 10 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.13%) ZABBIX
18 9 (0.12%) AirWatch
18 9 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 945 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 832 (11.14%) SAP
3 584 (7.82%) Oracle
4 192 (2.57%) Cisco
4 192 (2.57%) ServiceNow
5 171 (2.29%) VMware
6 165 (2.21%) Google
7 134 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 111 (1.49%) Splunk
9 103 (1.38%) Databricks
10 92 (1.23%) Red Hat
11 88 (1.18%) Bloomberg
12 80 (1.07%) F5
13 75 (1.00%) IBM
14 73 (0.98%) Citrix
15 72 (0.96%) Ariba
16 65 (0.87%) CyberArk
17 63 (0.84%) Adobe
17 63 (0.84%) CheckPoint
17 63 (0.84%) Palo Alto