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 have cited Finance over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,985 16,744 17,100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 20.02% 21.81% 19.09%
As % of the General category 33.62% 36.84% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,212 11,444 12,273
10th Percentile £363 £385 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £656
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.48% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 110 173
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.80 £11.19
25th Percentile £18.93 £19.14 £13.74
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.71 £19.20
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +33.91% -18.30%
75th Percentile £49.00 £52.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £75.03 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 £32.50 £15.86
% change year-on-year -19.23% +104.92% -11.40%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,723 45,446 47,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.54% 59.19% 53.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,712 31,074 32,877
10th Percentile £281 £315 £310
25th Percentile £420 £446 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,106 1,212 1,428
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 £25.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% +28.07% -13.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £43.00
90th Percentile £71.28 £70.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.54% -18.05%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 19 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 7 December 2023. 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 7,798 £586 -0.26% 6,287
London 0 5,296 £600 - 3,410
Work from Home +1 3,706 £575 - 3,370
UK excluding London -1 2,751 £523 -0.48% 3,257
North of England +1 722 £500 -0.10% 858
South East -1 642 £518 -2.65% 968
Scotland 0 431 £500 - 250
North West +1 363 £525 +5.00% 506
South West 0 352 £575 +4.55% 354
Yorkshire 0 336 £488 -2.50% 267
Midlands -1 302 £525 +5.00% 488
West Midlands +4 231 £550 +10.00% 319
East of England +2 201 £513 +1.99% 280
East Midlands -6 63 £489 +8.67% 163
Wales +3 58 £450 -5.26% 93
Northern Ireland 0 54 £420 -11.58% 51
North East +26 23 £525 -10.06% 93
Isle of Man - 4 £475 -
Channel Islands 0 2 £200 - 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
1 224 (2.49%) Confluence
2 203 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 114 (1.27%) Apache
4 87 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 55 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 53 (0.59%) SAS
7 36 (0.40%) IIS
8 34 (0.38%) CMS
9 26 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.21%) MS Exchange
12 17 (0.19%) nginx
12 17 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 17 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 9 (0.10%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.089%) WordPress
15 7 (0.078%) IBM Notes
16 6 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
17 5 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
17 5 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 483 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 296 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 208 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 138 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 91 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 9 (0.10%) Sketch
9 7 (0.078%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.078%) InVision
10 6 (0.067%) PlantUML
11 5 (0.056%) Stata
12 4 (0.045%) Trello
13 3 (0.033%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.033%) Simulink
13 3 (0.033%) UXPin
14 2 (0.022%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.022%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.022%) Revit
14 2 (0.022%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 211 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 89 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 79 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 74 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
5 63 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 56 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
7 53 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
8 50 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
8 50 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 49 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
9 49 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
10 48 (0.53%) SAP PSCD
11 47 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
12 46 (0.51%) SAP BRIM
13 45 (0.50%) SAP Hybris
14 31 (0.35%) NetSuite
15 29 (0.32%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
17 27 (0.30%) Loan IQ
18 26 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (13.80%) Azure
2 989 (11.01%) AWS
3 397 (4.42%) GCP
4 356 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 331 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 270 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 203 (2.26%) SaaS
8 193 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 131 (1.46%) Serverless
10 125 (1.39%) GitHub
11 109 (1.21%) IaaS
12 101 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 92 (1.02%) PaaS
14 82 (0.91%) WhatsApp
15 75 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
16 72 (0.80%) Snowflake
17 70 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
18 63 (0.70%) OpenShift
19 61 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
19 61 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 232 (2.58%) Firewall
2 122 (1.36%) DNS
3 101 (1.12%) Network Security
4 100 (1.11%) LAN
5 99 (1.10%) VPN
6 95 (1.06%) WAN
7 57 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 53 (0.59%) DHCP
9 49 (0.55%) Wireless
10 44 (0.49%) Internet
10 44 (0.49%) SAN
11 39 (0.43%) HTTP
12 31 (0.35%) SSL
13 29 (0.32%) SD-WAN
13 29 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (0.29%) BGP
15 21 (0.23%) DSL
16 20 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
16 20 (0.22%) MPLS
16 20 (0.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 307 (3.42%) Power BI
3 176 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 116 (1.29%) Oracle Database
6 104 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 103 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 96 (1.07%) Big Data
9 94 (1.05%) MySQL
9 94 (1.05%) Tableau
10 82 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 76 (0.85%) Metadata
11 76 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
12 63 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 57 (0.63%) NoSQL
14 52 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 51 (0.57%) Hadoop
16 45 (0.50%) Apache Ignite
17 43 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
18 38 (0.42%) DB2
Development Applications
1 436 (4.85%) JIRA
2 243 (2.70%) Git
3 228 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 83 (0.92%) GitLab
5 64 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 56 (0.62%) Selenium
7 50 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 49 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 48 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 44 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 35 (0.39%) JUnit
12 31 (0.35%) ERwin
13 30 (0.33%) Visual Studio
14 28 (0.31%) Liquibase
14 28 (0.31%) Maven
15 26 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
16 23 (0.26%) Cucumber
16 23 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
17 19 (0.21%) Gradle
18 18 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,243 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 1,921 (21.38%) Banking
3 936 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 744 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 515 (5.73%) Front Office
6 467 (5.20%) Telecoms
7 444 (4.94%) Marketing
8 424 (4.72%) Investment Banking
9 422 (4.70%) Manufacturing
10 323 (3.59%) Legal
11 319 (3.55%) Financial Institution
12 315 (3.51%) Electronics
13 265 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 223 (2.48%) Retail
15 219 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 187 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
17 156 (1.74%) Billing
18 151 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
19 147 (1.64%) Back Office
20 118 (1.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,502 (16.72%) Analyst
2 1,239 (13.79%) Developer
3 863 (9.60%) Project Manager
4 783 (8.71%) Architect
5 693 (7.71%) Senior
6 686 (7.63%) Business Analyst
7 609 (6.78%) Lead
8 579 (6.44%) Consultant
9 281 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
10 230 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
11 226 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 199 (2.21%) .NET Developer
13 197 (2.19%) Data Analyst
14 187 (2.08%) Support Engineer
15 183 (2.04%) C# Developer
16 171 (1.90%) Software Engineer
17 165 (1.84%) Python Developer
18 164 (1.83%) Java Developer
19 159 (1.77%) Data Engineer
19 159 (1.77%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (4.86%) .NET
2 247 (2.75%) React
3 184 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
4 160 (1.78%) AngularJS
4 160 (1.78%) REST
5 156 (1.74%) Kafka
6 151 (1.68%) HTML
7 135 (1.50%) Node.js
8 115 (1.28%) Spring
9 113 (1.26%) CSS
10 104 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
11 103 (1.15%) XML
12 100 (1.11%) .NET Core
13 99 (1.10%) Web Services
14 92 (1.02%) .NET Framework
15 87 (0.97%) Redux
16 85 (0.95%) ASP.NET
17 83 (0.92%) JSON
18 77 (0.86%) Pandas
19 76 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 352 (3.92%) Derivative
2 265 (2.95%) Management Information System
3 233 (2.59%) Product Ownership
4 209 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 185 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 185 (2.06%) Equities
5 185 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 172 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 172 (1.91%) Hedge funds
7 144 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 137 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 103 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 103 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 103 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 98 (1.09%) Market Risk
11 86 (0.96%) Credit Risk
12 74 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 67 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 67 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 62 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 661 (7.36%) Windows
2 534 (5.94%) Linux
3 243 (2.70%) Unix
4 177 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 126 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 92 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 58 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 35 (0.39%) Android
9 33 (0.37%) Solaris
9 33 (0.37%) Windows 7
10 27 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
12 22 (0.24%) AIX
13 20 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.11%) Ubuntu
15 9 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.089%) Mac OS X
16 8 (0.089%) VMS
16 8 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.078%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,860 (20.70%) Agile
2 1,127 (12.54%) Project Management
3 1,010 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
4 988 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 864 (9.62%) DevOps
6 857 (9.54%) Change Management
7 836 (9.30%) Migration
8 677 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
9 620 (6.90%) Project Delivery
10 602 (6.70%) Analytics
11 558 (6.21%) Risk Management
12 543 (6.04%) CI/CD
13 485 (5.40%) Roadmaps
14 484 (5.39%) Programme Management
15 479 (5.33%) ERP
16 413 (4.60%) Decision-Making
17 410 (4.56%) Software Engineering
18 397 (4.42%) Data Modelling
19 385 (4.28%) ITIL
20 368 (4.10%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (12.78%) SQL
2 1,101 (12.25%) Python
3 639 (7.11%) Java
4 520 (5.79%) C#
5 406 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 323 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 230 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 143 (1.59%) C++
9 142 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 139 (1.55%) Bash
11 118 (1.31%) Perl
12 102 (1.14%) Ruby
13 96 (1.07%) Scala
14 92 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 92 (1.02%) VBA
15 88 (0.98%) Go
16 87 (0.97%) Shell Script
17 80 (0.89%) VB
18 53 (0.59%) R
19 44 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 830 (9.24%) Degree
2 538 (5.99%) Security Cleared
3 440 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 176 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 156 (1.74%) CISSP
6 125 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 110 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 102 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 90 (1.00%) PMP
10 86 (0.96%) CISM
11 69 (0.77%) ACCA
12 68 (0.76%) CIMA
13 59 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 55 (0.61%) Azure Certification
15 52 (0.58%) CRISC
16 50 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 49 (0.55%) AWS Certification
18 47 (0.52%) CCNA
19 46 (0.51%) DV Cleared
20 44 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (4.83%) QA
2 311 (3.46%) PMO
3 270 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 127 (1.41%) SLA
5 118 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 116 (1.29%) NIST
7 88 (0.98%) GDPR
8 51 (0.57%) EMIR
8 51 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 48 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 47 (0.52%) GRC
11 42 (0.47%) MiFID
12 36 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
13 34 (0.38%) Accessibility
13 34 (0.38%) IFRS
14 29 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 19 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 18 (0.20%) COBIT
16 18 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 14 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 274 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 188 (2.09%) Docker
3 100 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 36 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.20%) XenDesktop
8 16 (0.18%) IAG
9 15 (0.17%) RACF
10 13 (0.14%) ACF2
11 12 (0.13%) Firmware
11 12 (0.13%) NFS
11 12 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.11%) vSphere
13 7 (0.078%) XenApp
14 6 (0.067%) HDFS
15 4 (0.045%) Cronacle
15 4 (0.045%) GPFS
15 4 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 293 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 291 (3.24%) Terraform
3 258 (2.87%) Ansible
4 82 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (0.86%) SCCM
6 72 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 72 (0.80%) Puppet
7 41 (0.46%) Grafana
8 39 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 38 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 31 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (0.32%) Control-M
12 27 (0.30%) PowerBroker
13 21 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.19%) Kibana
15 16 (0.18%) ArcSight ESM
16 15 (0.17%) CFEngine
17 13 (0.14%) Data Guard
17 13 (0.14%) HP ALM
18 12 (0.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 1,070 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 942 (10.48%) SAP
3 771 (8.58%) Oracle
4 202 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 178 (1.98%) Cisco
6 161 (1.79%) Google
7 150 (1.67%) IBM
8 141 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 140 (1.56%) VMware
10 129 (1.44%) Splunk
11 123 (1.37%) Citrix
12 122 (1.36%) Red Hat
13 106 (1.18%) Databricks
14 78 (0.87%) CyberArk
15 66 (0.73%) Ariba
16 61 (0.68%) TOWER Software
17 59 (0.66%) HP
18 58 (0.65%) Informatica
19 57 (0.63%) Bloomberg
20 52 (0.58%) Atlassian