Finance Contracts in the West Midlands

Financial
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 257 344 482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.35% 14.45% 13.56%
As % of the General category 23.58% 24.86% 24.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 218 367
10th Percentile £363 £279 £315
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% +1.25% +16.28%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £850 £700 £688
England median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile - £24.97 -
25th Percentile £13.50 £31.69 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £45.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +154.24% +10.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.24 £33.57
% change year-on-year -7.66% -12.90% +50.13%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,090 1,384 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.62% 58.15% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 972 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £395 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 41 53
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%
75th Percentile £39.34 £27.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £23.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham +1 119 £513 +2.50% 141
Warwickshire +1 63 £700 +28.74% 50
Coventry +3 21 £638 +32.81% 24
Worcestershire +4 11 £450 - 17
Shropshire +28 8 £400 -3.03% 16
Solihull -8 8 £512 +80.26% 18
Staffordshire +8 6 £425 +3.03% 34
Wolverhampton +1 1 £475 +131.71% 11
Herefordshire -9 1 - - 6
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) IIS
2 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.78%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.39%) Exstream
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.39%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.28%) Azure
2 18 (7.00%) AWS
3 11 (4.28%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.72%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.95%) CloudFront
7 5 (1.95%) OCI
7 5 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Serverless
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.17%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.39%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.39%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) VPN
2 8 (3.11%) LAN
2 8 (3.11%) WAN
3 6 (2.33%) DNS
3 6 (2.33%) Junos
3 6 (2.33%) Network Security
4 5 (1.95%) BGP
4 5 (1.95%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (1.95%) IPsec
4 5 (1.95%) MPLS
5 3 (1.17%) Intranet
5 3 (1.17%) Wireless
6 2 (0.78%) 5G
6 2 (0.78%) Internet
7 1 (0.39%) Firewall
7 1 (0.39%) FTP
7 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.39%) SSL
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.89%) Power BI
1 10 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.95%) Metadata
2 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.17%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.78%) Power Query
5 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.78%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.39%) Big Data
6 1 (0.39%) DB2
6 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.39%) MS Access
6 1 (0.39%) MySQL
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.11%) JIRA
2 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Git
4 2 (0.78%) webpack
5 1 (0.39%) Ant
5 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.39%) Gradle
5 1 (0.39%) JUnit
5 1 (0.39%) Maven
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.00%) Law
5 17 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.06%) Banking
7 11 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.11%) Legal
8 8 (3.11%) Retail
9 7 (2.72%) Local Government
9 7 (2.72%) Marketing
9 7 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Automotive
13 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) German Language
14 2 (0.78%) Billing
14 2 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 43 (16.73%) Project Manager
2 39 (15.18%) Analyst
3 33 (12.84%) Architect
4 23 (8.95%) Lead
4 23 (8.95%) Senior
5 21 (8.17%) Developer
6 19 (7.39%) IT Manager
7 18 (7.00%) Consultant
8 15 (5.84%) Business Manager
9 12 (4.67%) PMO Analyst
10 11 (4.28%) Change Manager
10 11 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.11%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.72%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.72%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.72%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.72%) Transformation Manager
13 6 (2.33%) AML Project Manager
13 6 (2.33%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.72%) .NET
2 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
2 6 (2.33%) SAML
2 6 (2.33%) Spring
3 5 (1.95%) OAuth
3 5 (1.95%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.95%) React
4 2 (0.78%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.78%) LDAP
4 2 (0.78%) Middleware
4 2 (0.78%) Node.js
4 2 (0.78%) RESTful
4 2 (0.78%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.39%) JDBC
5 1 (0.39%) ODBC
5 1 (0.39%) SOAP
5 1 (0.39%) Web Services
5 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
1 8 (3.11%) Public Cloud
1 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.56%) IoT
6 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.17%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.78%) CCTV
7 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.78%) FMCG
7 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.78%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.00%) Windows
2 6 (2.33%) Linux
3 3 (1.17%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (21.01%) Agile
3 48 (18.68%) Project Management
4 33 (12.84%) Roadmaps
5 27 (10.51%) Change Management
6 25 (9.73%) ERP
6 25 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (8.17%) Decision-Making
9 20 (7.78%) Migration
9 20 (7.78%) Resource Management
10 17 (6.61%) Risk Management
11 16 (6.23%) DevOps
12 15 (5.84%) Budgeting
12 15 (5.84%) Business Transformation
12 15 (5.84%) Project Delivery
13 14 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (5.45%) Change Control
13 14 (5.45%) CRM
14 13 (5.06%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.06%) Java
1 13 (5.06%) SQL
2 10 (3.89%) Python
3 6 (2.33%) C#
4 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.78%) C
5 2 (0.78%) C++
5 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.78%) R
5 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.39%) Bash
6 1 (0.39%) COBOL
6 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.39%) ProC
6 1 (0.39%) Scala
6 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.39%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (6.23%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.45%) Degree
3 9 (3.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.95%) CCNP
5 5 (1.95%) PMP
6 4 (1.56%) CCNA
6 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.17%) ACCA
7 3 (1.17%) CIMA
7 3 (1.17%) ISEB
7 3 (1.17%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.17%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.78%) CISSP
8 2 (0.78%) CRISC
8 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) PMO
2 8 (3.11%) QA
3 7 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) SLA
5 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) GDPR
6 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.33%) Docker
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) IAG
4 1 (0.39%) iptables
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) CEMLI
2 1 (0.39%) Kibana
2 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) logstash
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
2 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.45%) Oracle
2 14 (5.45%) SAP
3 7 (2.72%) Cisco
4 6 (2.33%) Juniper
5 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.17%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.17%) VMware
7 2 (0.78%) Databricks
7 2 (0.78%) Sage
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.39%) IBM
8 1 (0.39%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.39%) Okta
8 1 (0.39%) Progress
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.39%) UiPath