Finance Contracts 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -11
Contract jobs citing Finance 28 18 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 9.66% 4.58% 8.62%
As % of the General category 17.83% 10.47% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 37
10th Percentile £292 £463 £385
25th Percentile £355 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £515 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £640 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £13.96 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £15.27 £35.42 £31.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £86.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.48% +165.85% -
75th Percentile - £87.80 £33.75
90th Percentile - £87.90 -
UK median hourly rate £42.29 £27.00 £26.85
% change year-on-year +56.62% +0.58% -25.43%

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 common skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 157 172 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 54.14% 43.77% 46.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 86 191
10th Percentile £167 £135 £163
25th Percentile £275 £175 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% -2.63% -2.06%
75th Percentile £483 £552 £585
90th Percentile £588 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 14
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.61 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.25 £10.92
Median hourly rate £25.25 £25.18 £11.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +117.82% -53.76%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.50 £21.02
90th Percentile £45.00 £85.56 £46.14
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £30.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -6.77% -7.12% +43.56%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Wales

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Wales

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Wales over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Wales

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Wales

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 2 June 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
South Wales +9 21 £439 -20.23% 1,097
Dyfed - 3 £375 -
North Wales - 3 £168 - 16
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.57%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.57%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Google Docs
1 4 (14.29%) Google Sheets
1 4 (14.29%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.57%) Serverless
2 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Broadband
2 1 (3.57%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Postman
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) General Ledger
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Business Test Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Financial Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Commvault Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support
4 2 (7.14%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.57%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) JSON
1 3 (10.71%) REST
1 3 (10.71%) SOAP
1 3 (10.71%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (10.71%) Social Media
1 3 (10.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) Accounts Payable
3 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 4 (14.29%) Scrum
5 3 (10.71%) Agile
5 3 (10.71%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Document Management
5 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (10.71%) SDLC
5 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
5 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ACCA
2 3 (10.71%) CIMA
2 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ISEB
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) CCAB
3 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) SEPA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.57%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Xero
4 2 (7.14%) Commvault
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) Sparx