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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,238 8,229 12,167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 18.98% 21.52%
As % of the General category 36.04% 33.26% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,731 5,531 8,654
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £719 £725
90th Percentile £815 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 253 115
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.23 £15.72
25th Percentile £23.20 £16.00 £21.83
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -8.96% -17.83%
75th Percentile £64.38 £38.12 £53.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £57.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £32.12 £43.75
% change year-on-year -11.26% -26.59% +34.62%

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 20,082 24,740 33,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.14% 57.08% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,597 15,481 22,828
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.35% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 994 1,941 1,059
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.17 £31.97 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% +4.68% +27.12%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £68.75 £71.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £25.95
% change year-on-year -26.98% +21.39% +29.75%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 17 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 5 July 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
England 0 6,142 £550 -6.50% 28,817
London 0 4,066 £600 -2.04% 17,750
UK excluding London +2 2,561 £492 -1.60% 13,120
Work from Home -1 2,475 £575 -4.17% 12,060
North of England -1 697 £465 -7.00% 3,290
Scotland +2 561 £485 +2.11% 1,076
South East -1 432 £525 +5.00% 3,196
Midlands -3 361 £450 -14.29% 2,040
North West -3 360 £450 -10.00% 1,962
Yorkshire 0 306 £488 -2.50% 1,065
South West +6 301 £550 - 1,474
West Midlands -3 219 £500 -9.09% 1,250
East Midlands +1 135 £425 -16.17% 770
East of England -7 110 £575 +15.00% 1,264
Northern Ireland +3 89 £425 +117.95% 445
Wales +6 32 £465 -4.62% 442
North East +8 31 £440 -14.15% 273

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
1 228 (3.15%) Confluence
2 183 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 125 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 107 (1.48%) Apache
5 93 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 69 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 39 (0.54%) SAS
8 22 (0.30%) CMS
8 22 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 20 (0.28%) JBoss
9 20 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 19 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 15 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.18%) CICS
12 13 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.097%) IBM Notes
13 7 (0.097%) IIS
13 7 (0.097%) MQSeries
14 6 (0.083%) nginx
15 5 (0.069%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 422 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 225 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 194 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 123 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 80 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 28 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
8 18 (0.25%) Sketch
9 15 (0.21%) Trello
10 13 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 10 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.097%) InVision
13 7 (0.097%) Photoshop
14 5 (0.069%) Acrobat
15 4 (0.055%) AutoCAD
15 4 (0.055%) UserZoom
16 3 (0.041%) OmniGraffle
16 3 (0.041%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 258 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 90 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
3 72 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 60 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 60 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
4 60 (0.83%) SAP FI
5 58 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
6 55 (0.76%) SAP CO
7 51 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
7 51 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
8 50 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
9 43 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
9 43 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
10 38 (0.53%) Endur
11 35 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
12 34 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
13 29 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 28 (0.39%) NetSuite
15 27 (0.37%) SAP PS
16 26 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (13.87%) Azure
2 855 (11.81%) AWS
3 366 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 319 (4.41%) GCP
5 230 (3.18%) SaaS
6 213 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 202 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (1.91%) Snowflake
9 132 (1.82%) GitHub
10 129 (1.78%) dbt
11 123 (1.70%) OCI
12 117 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
13 112 (1.55%) Entra ID
14 90 (1.24%) Serverless
15 82 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
16 65 (0.90%) OpenShift
17 60 (0.83%) PaaS
18 59 (0.82%) Amazon S3
19 53 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (0.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (2.49%) Firewall
2 92 (1.27%) DNS
3 80 (1.11%) Network Security
4 68 (0.94%) WAN
5 67 (0.93%) VPN
6 56 (0.77%) DHCP
7 54 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 45 (0.62%) LAN
9 44 (0.61%) Broadband
10 42 (0.58%) BGP
11 35 (0.48%) OSPF
12 34 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (0.46%) HTTP
14 25 (0.35%) WebEx
15 23 (0.32%) Multicast
15 23 (0.32%) SD-WAN
15 23 (0.32%) Wireless
16 21 (0.29%) VLAN
17 20 (0.28%) SAN
18 19 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (4.20%) Power BI
2 247 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 197 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 183 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 160 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 126 (1.74%) Data Lake
7 124 (1.71%) Tableau
8 118 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
9 111 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 111 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 107 (1.48%) Oracle Database
11 104 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
12 103 (1.42%) Dremio
13 102 (1.41%) Big Data
14 99 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
15 95 (1.31%) NoSQL
16 80 (1.11%) DB2
17 55 (0.76%) Hadoop
18 53 (0.73%) Apache Ignite
19 46 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 449 (6.20%) JIRA
2 246 (3.40%) Git
3 216 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.35%) JUnit
5 89 (1.23%) GitLab
6 53 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 48 (0.66%) Gradle
8 41 (0.57%) Postman
9 38 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 37 (0.51%) Maven
10 37 (0.51%) Selenium
11 36 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 31 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 31 (0.43%) Mockito
13 29 (0.40%) Cucumber
14 27 (0.37%) SonarQube
15 26 (0.36%) Subversion
16 24 (0.33%) IntelliJ
16 24 (0.33%) Liquibase
17 23 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,412 (33.32%) Social Skills
2 1,565 (21.62%) Banking
3 1,148 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 539 (7.45%) Front Office
5 431 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 417 (5.76%) Investment Banking
7 334 (4.61%) Marketing
8 313 (4.32%) Manufacturing
9 301 (4.16%) Financial Institution
10 274 (3.79%) Legal
11 253 (3.50%) Telecoms
12 208 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 201 (2.78%) Retail
14 177 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
15 168 (2.32%) Electronics
16 154 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
17 150 (2.07%) General Ledger
18 149 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 119 (1.64%) Back Office
20 111 (1.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,248 (17.24%) Analyst
2 1,076 (14.87%) Developer
3 723 (9.99%) Senior
4 609 (8.41%) Business Analyst
5 576 (7.96%) Project Manager
6 571 (7.89%) Architect
7 498 (6.88%) Lead
8 449 (6.20%) Consultant
9 257 (3.55%) Software Engineer
10 224 (3.09%) Java Developer
11 210 (2.90%) Data Analyst
12 188 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 187 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
14 165 (2.28%) Senior Developer
15 163 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
16 149 (2.06%) Data Engineer
17 144 (1.99%) Programme Manager
18 143 (1.98%) Python Engineer
19 142 (1.96%) Python Developer
20 140 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (3.87%) React
2 245 (3.38%) .NET
3 221 (3.05%) Kafka
4 180 (2.49%) REST
5 179 (2.47%) Spring
6 173 (2.39%) AngularJS
7 136 (1.88%) Node.js
8 125 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
9 122 (1.69%) Pandas
10 116 (1.60%) NumPy
11 114 (1.58%) Web Services
12 110 (1.52%) RESTful
12 110 (1.52%) Spring Boot
13 99 (1.37%) Middleware
14 93 (1.28%) Redux
15 92 (1.27%) SciPy
16 89 (1.23%) CSS
17 85 (1.17%) SOAP
18 83 (1.15%) XML
19 82 (1.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 327 (4.52%) Fixed Income
2 306 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 287 (3.97%) Derivative
4 279 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 251 (3.47%) Equities
6 216 (2.98%) Hedge funds
7 209 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 193 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 152 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 140 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 133 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 122 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
13 118 (1.63%) Cloud Native
14 98 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 91 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
16 87 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 81 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 81 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 80 (1.11%) Market Risk
19 79 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 459 (6.34%) Windows
2 405 (5.60%) Linux
3 138 (1.91%) Unix
4 78 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 72 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 62 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (0.62%) Android
7 45 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.21%) AIX
8 15 (0.21%) Solaris
8 15 (0.21%) zOS
9 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.12%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.12%) VMS
11 7 (0.097%) HPUX
11 7 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.055%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,858 (25.67%) Agile
2 1,335 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
3 1,087 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 866 (11.96%) Migration
5 861 (11.90%) Project Management
6 686 (9.48%) DevOps
7 646 (8.93%) Analytics
8 607 (8.39%) Risk Management
9 597 (8.25%) CI/CD
10 591 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
11 517 (7.14%) Change Management
12 477 (6.59%) Software Engineering
13 472 (6.52%) Project Delivery
14 464 (6.41%) Decision-Making
15 440 (6.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 432 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 422 (5.83%) Roadmaps
18 405 (5.60%) Asset Management
19 388 (5.36%) ERP
20 378 (5.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,122 (15.50%) Python
2 1,108 (15.31%) SQL
3 706 (9.75%) Java
4 371 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 334 (4.61%) C#
6 298 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 220 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 146 (2.02%) PL/SQL
9 136 (1.88%) C++
10 104 (1.44%) Shell Script
11 96 (1.33%) Bash
12 64 (0.88%) VBA
13 60 (0.83%) Go
14 44 (0.61%) R
15 42 (0.58%) Scala
15 42 (0.58%) VB
16 30 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 29 (0.40%) Perl
18 28 (0.39%) Bicep
19 27 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 722 (9.98%) Degree
2 470 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 364 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 156 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 146 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 142 (1.96%) PMP
7 127 (1.75%) ACCA
8 115 (1.59%) CIMA
9 113 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 80 (1.11%) CISSP
11 70 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 69 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 65 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
14 57 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 51 (0.70%) CISM
16 48 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
17 41 (0.57%) AWS Certification
18 34 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
19 32 (0.44%) CCNP
20 30 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (3.23%) QA
2 226 (3.12%) PMO
3 222 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 166 (2.29%) GDPR
5 107 (1.48%) NIST
6 100 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 90 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 85 (1.17%) SLA
9 82 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 76 (1.05%) MiFID
11 61 (0.84%) PCI DSS
12 55 (0.76%) IFRS
13 38 (0.53%) GRC
14 33 (0.46%) EMIR
15 30 (0.41%) Basel III
16 28 (0.39%) SEPA
17 22 (0.30%) SOC 2
18 18 (0.25%) IFRS 9
19 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 16 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 239 (3.30%) Docker
2 209 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.28%) vSphere
7 18 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 9 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (0.083%) Firmware
11 5 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 5 (0.069%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.069%) RACF
11 5 (0.069%) XenApp
12 4 (0.055%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.055%) HDFS
12 4 (0.055%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 304 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 250 (3.45%) Terraform
3 191 (2.64%) Ansible
4 72 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 64 (0.88%) SCCM
6 41 (0.57%) Puppet
7 40 (0.55%) Grafana
8 29 (0.40%) Prometheus
9 20 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 15 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 14 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.18%) Control-M
12 13 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 11 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 11 (0.15%) Istio
13 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.14%) Kibana
14 10 (0.14%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 985 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 742 (10.25%) SAP
3 718 (9.92%) Oracle
4 215 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 161 (2.22%) Google
6 136 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 130 (1.80%) Databricks
8 117 (1.62%) Workday
9 110 (1.52%) Cisco
10 103 (1.42%) VMware
11 96 (1.33%) IBM
12 86 (1.19%) Splunk
13 77 (1.06%) Ariba
14 72 (0.99%) Sybase
15 64 (0.88%) Citrix
16 61 (0.84%) Adobe
17 57 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 53 (0.73%) HP
19 47 (0.65%) Dell
20 43 (0.59%) Murex