Finance Contracts in Bedfordshire

Financial
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Finance 40 41 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 17.09% 23.43% 29.60%
As % of the General category 23.39% 37.27% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 44
10th Percentile £384 £375 £290
25th Percentile £458 £456 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £713 £575 £550
90th Percentile £752 £600 £646
East of England median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £10.92 - -
25th Percentile £11.18 - -
Median hourly rate £12.05 - -
75th Percentile £12.58 - -
90th Percentile £12.65 - -
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -22.20% +127.91% +53.57%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 171 110 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 73.08% 62.86% 74.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 118
10th Percentile £305 £208 £263
25th Percentile £406 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.04% +7.22%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £535
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 13
10th Percentile £15.32 - £20.90
25th Percentile £15.39 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £90.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.11% +56.52% +270.97%
75th Percentile £32.90 - £65.25
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.18
% change year-on-year +92.43% +30.50% +1.20%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Luton 0 25 £525 +5.00% 5
Bedford +4 6 £738 - 4
Dunstable -2 3 £375 -23.08%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £575 -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) SAP BPC
3 1 (2.50%) Primavera
3 1 (2.50%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
2 1 (2.50%) Boomi
2 1 (2.50%) GCP
2 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Veeva
2 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) OSPF
1 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.00%) VLAN
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
6 2 (5.00%) Local Government
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Lead
2 4 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (7.50%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Data Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Governance Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 1 (2.50%) Administrator
5 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Data Quality Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Quality Manager
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.50%) Angular 2
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) IDoc
3 1 (2.50%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.50%) JPA
3 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Life Science
2 2 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) FMCG
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
1 8 (20.00%) Project Management
1 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (17.50%) Agile
3 6 (15.00%) Analytics
3 6 (15.00%) Service Design
4 5 (12.50%) Accounts Payable
4 5 (12.50%) ITIL
4 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (12.50%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (12.50%) Record to Report
4 5 (12.50%) Service Management
5 4 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (10.00%) Data Management
5 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (7.50%) Data Design
6 3 (7.50%) Order to Cash
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Java
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
1 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GxP
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) SAP
2 6 (15.00%) Ariba
3 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) F5
5 2 (5.00%) Hyperion
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) FIS
6 1 (2.50%) IBM
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce