Finance Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Financial
Wales > West Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in West Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Finance 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 7.89% - -
As % of the General category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
Wales median daily rate £406 £469 £350
% change year-on-year -13.33% +33.93% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.38 - -
Median hourly rate £16.75 - -
75th Percentile £17.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £18.18 - £87.80
% change year-on-year - - +170.15%

All General Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 18 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 47.37% 43.33% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £306 £125 £180
25th Percentile £422 £173 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £208
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +116.87% -56.32%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £299
90th Percentile £538 £575 £405
Wales median daily rate £388 £375 £419
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.45% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £17.94 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.50 - -
Wales median hourly rate £20.00 £23.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year -13.98% -34.51% +78.30%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Finance job vacancy trend in West Wales

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

Finance
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
Swansea - 3 £488 - 11
Finance
Wales

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Accountant
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Management Accountant
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ACCA
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CIMA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform