Finance Contract Job Trends in Wales

Financial
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 74 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 17.17% 6.18% 10.29%
As % of the General category 31.09% 11.39% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 11 33
10th Percentile £155 £363 £225
25th Percentile £283 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £488 £709 £575
90th Percentile £611 £750 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £14.73 - -
25th Percentile £16.45 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £17.99 - £40.00
75th Percentile £19.48 - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.54 £29.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -18.84% +8.78% +6.64%

All General Skills
Wales

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 general skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 238 202 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 55.22% 54.30% 47.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 100 129
10th Percentile £169 £160 £173
25th Percentile £240 £209 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £381 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +1.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £488 £502 £550
90th Percentile £639 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 20
10th Percentile £13.31 £15.20 £13.26
25th Percentile £13.33 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -33.33% +64.02%
75th Percentile £23.71 £27.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £45.65 £41.25 £55.38
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £27.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.21% -9.58% +20.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Finance job vacancy trend in Wales

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Wales

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 Wales +19 56 £413 - 157
North Wales - 15 £160 - 7
West Wales - 2 £475 - 10
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.70%) Sketch
4 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (2.70%) Odoo
4 1 (1.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.05%) Azure
4 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.70%) BrowserStack
4 2 (2.70%) Figma
4 2 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.35%) AWS
5 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.35%) CloudFront
5 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.35%) SaaS
5 1 (1.35%) Serverless
5 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) Cisco IOS
1 8 (10.81%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.35%) Power BI
2 1 (1.35%) Power Query
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Git
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.70%) GitLab
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.70%) Postman
2 2 (2.70%) Selenium
2 2 (2.70%) WebDriver
2 2 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.86%) Manufacturing
4 8 (10.81%) Electronics
4 8 (10.81%) Marketing
4 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Welsh Language
8 2 (2.70%) Digital Health
8 2 (2.70%) Dutch Language
8 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.70%) French Language
8 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.92%) Analyst
2 10 (13.51%) Finance Manager
3 8 (10.81%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.81%) Desktop Support
3 8 (10.81%) IT Support
3 8 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.46%) Accountant
5 4 (5.41%) Consultant
5 4 (5.41%) Financial Controller
5 4 (5.41%) Lead
6 3 (4.05%) Designer
6 3 (4.05%) Principal Project Manager
6 3 (4.05%) SAP Financial Leader
7 2 (2.70%) Developer
7 2 (2.70%) ERP Consultant
7 2 (2.70%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Project Accountant
7 2 (2.70%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (2.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) .NET
1 3 (4.05%) HTML
2 2 (2.70%) CSS
2 2 (2.70%) Middleware
2 2 (2.70%) Node.js
2 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.70%) Playwright
2 2 (2.70%) React
2 2 (2.70%) REST
2 2 (2.70%) SOAP
2 2 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.05%) PMI
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Android
1 8 (10.81%) Mac OS
1 8 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.92%) ERP
2 13 (17.57%) Migration
2 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (14.86%) Agile
3 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (13.51%) Computer Science
5 9 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (12.16%) Service Delivery
6 8 (10.81%) Customer Service
6 8 (10.81%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Management
6 8 (10.81%) ITIL
6 8 (10.81%) Logistics
6 8 (10.81%) Programme Management
6 8 (10.81%) Software Licensing
7 7 (9.46%) Business Case
8 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (2.70%) Java
2 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.35%) C#
3 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.35%) SQL
3 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Degree
2 8 (10.81%) ACCA
2 8 (10.81%) CIMA
2 8 (10.81%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (6.76%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.76%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.05%) PMP
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) GAAP
1 4 (5.41%) IFRS
1 4 (5.41%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) P3O
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.92%) SAP
3 8 (10.81%) Cisco
4 4 (5.41%) Sage
5 2 (2.70%) Adobe
5 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) Databricks
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle