Financial Institution Contracts in the West Midlands

Financial Institution
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 110 95
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +63
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 3 2 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.10% 1.68%
As % of the General category 0.35% 0.19% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 35
10th Percentile - £220 £450
25th Percentile - £250 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -40.00% -
75th Percentile - £350 £694
90th Percentile - £380 -
England median daily rate £650 £615 £600
% change year-on-year +5.69% +2.50% -

All General Skills
West Midlands

Financial Institution 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 849 1,080 1,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.66% 56.37% 57.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 747 944
10th Percentile £184 £260 £240
25th Percentile £363 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 111 42
10th Percentile £13.98 £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.07 £19.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -2.56% +18.18%
75th Percentile £24.81 £38.13 £28.56
90th Percentile £34.24 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.27 £32.40
% change year-on-year -9.14% -6.59% +50.70%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the West Midlands

Financial Institution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Institution in the West Midlands

Financial Institution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Institution in the West Midlands

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 - 3 £600 - 15
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Akamai
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CEH
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Imperva
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase