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 in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 213 276 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.44% 13.50% 14.22%
As % of the General category 23.13% 25.21% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 212 209
10th Percentile £305 £339 £313
25th Percentile £405 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £638
90th Percentile £651 £788 £731
England median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 6
10th Percentile £24.52 - £15.47
25th Percentile £24.97 £13.50 £23.29
Median hourly rate £25.72 £37.50 £39.19
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -4.32% +106.28%
75th Percentile £26.46 £56.25 £48.44
90th Percentile £26.91 £59.58 £73.13
England median hourly rate £37.57 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +34.16% -6.67% -14.29%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 921 1,095 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.44% 53.55% 55.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 743 866
10th Percentile £193 £250 £259
25th Percentile £350 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £661 £750 £725
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.85% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 122 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.24 £13.60 £14.03
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -15.56% +32.35%
75th Percentile £34.18 £33.51 £31.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.40% +9.65% +30.28%

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 28 June 2025.

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
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 28 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
Birmingham -2 81 £486 -2.80% 279
Warwickshire -4 59 £500 -26.61% 71
Shropshire +17 35 £402 +27.62% 40
Solihull +11 10 £594 +6.12% 9
Coventry -12 7 £220 -64.80% 38
Staffordshire +3 6 £550 +15.79% 154
Wolverhampton +1 4 £269 -43.42% 16
Herefordshire +15 3 - - 9
Worcestershire -3 1 - - 29
Walsall - 1 £425 - 4
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 12 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.88%) Confluence
2 4 (1.88%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.88%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.47%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.47%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.33%) Azure
2 15 (7.04%) AWS
3 13 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.76%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.82%) GCP
7 5 (2.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.88%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.88%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.88%) OCI
8 4 (1.88%) SaaS
9 3 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.94%) Boomi
10 2 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.88%) Firewall
2 3 (1.41%) DHCP
2 3 (1.41%) DNS
2 3 (1.41%) Network Security
2 3 (1.41%) WebEx
3 2 (0.94%) BGP
3 2 (0.94%) EIGRP
3 2 (0.94%) HTTP
3 2 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.94%) IPsec
3 2 (0.94%) OSPF
3 2 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.94%) SSL
3 2 (0.94%) TACACS
3 2 (0.94%) VLAN
3 2 (0.94%) VPN
3 2 (0.94%) Wireless
4 1 (0.47%) PPP
4 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.10%) Power BI
2 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.88%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.41%) Tableau
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.94%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.47%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (3.76%) JIRA
2 5 (2.35%) JUnit
3 4 (1.88%) Maven
4 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.41%) Gradle
4 3 (1.41%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Ant
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.47%) Git
6 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.47%) Pa11y
6 1 (0.47%) Postman
6 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.86%) Law
5 20 (9.39%) Banking
6 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.76%) Legal
8 8 (3.76%) Marketing
8 8 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.88%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.41%) Electronics
12 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.94%) Automotive
12 2 (0.94%) Billing
12 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (19.72%) Analyst
2 31 (14.55%) Project Manager
3 19 (8.92%) Developer
3 19 (8.92%) Senior
4 15 (7.04%) Engagement Manager
5 12 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (5.63%) PMO Analyst
6 10 (4.69%) Architect
7 8 (3.76%) Business Analyst
7 8 (3.76%) Lead
8 7 (3.29%) Consultant
8 7 (3.29%) Data Engineer
8 7 (3.29%) Java Developer
9 6 (2.82%) IT Manager
9 6 (2.82%) IT Project Manager
9 6 (2.82%) Programme Manager
9 6 (2.82%) Report Manager
9 6 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (2.82%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.35%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) Spring
2 4 (1.88%) LDAP
2 4 (1.88%) RESTful
3 3 (1.41%) .NET
3 3 (1.41%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.41%) ADO
3 3 (1.41%) Kafka
4 2 (0.94%) Django
4 2 (0.94%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.94%) MACH
4 2 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.47%) J2EE
5 1 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.47%) OLE
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.47%) REST
5 1 (0.47%) Web Services
5 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.57%) Data Centre
2 11 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.88%) Social Media
7 3 (1.41%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.94%) CMDB
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) iSeries
9 1 (0.47%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.47%) PMI
9 1 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.29%) Windows
2 4 (1.88%) Linux
3 2 (0.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (26.29%) Agile
3 42 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (19.72%) Project Management
4 32 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (12.68%) Migration
5 27 (12.68%) Project Delivery
6 20 (9.39%) Change Management
6 20 (9.39%) Risk Management
7 18 (8.45%) Analytics
7 18 (8.45%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 18 (8.45%) ITIL
8 17 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (7.51%) Change Control
9 16 (7.51%) Programme Management
10 15 (7.04%) Resource Management
10 15 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (6.57%) Data Analysis
11 14 (6.57%) Decision-Making
11 14 (6.57%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.33%) SQL
2 12 (5.63%) Java
3 7 (3.29%) Python
4 6 (2.82%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.94%) R
7 1 (0.47%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.47%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) COBOL
7 1 (0.47%) Perl
7 1 (0.47%) RPG
7 1 (0.47%) RPG/400
7 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (6.57%) Degree
2 7 (3.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.94%) OCP
7 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.43%) PMO
2 6 (2.82%) GDPR
2 6 (2.82%) QA
3 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.47%) COBIT
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.47%) P3O
5 1 (0.47%) PSD2
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.35%) Docker
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.94%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.94%) Nagios
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.98%) SAP
3 14 (6.57%) Oracle
4 9 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.82%) Google
6 5 (2.35%) Blue Prism
6 5 (2.35%) Cisco
6 5 (2.35%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) Adobe
7 4 (1.88%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.88%) Lotus
7 4 (1.88%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.88%) Workday
8 3 (1.41%) Apple
8 3 (1.41%) Citrix
8 3 (1.41%) Juniper
8 3 (1.41%) Sage
9 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.94%) SolarWinds