Finance Contracts in Dorset

Financial
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Finance 16 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.99% 11.32% 16.83%
As % of the General category 19.05% 22.22% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 18
10th Percentile - £463 £434
25th Percentile £419 £506 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £653 £556
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% +17.41% +1.05%
75th Percentile £769 £700 £634
90th Percentile - £738 £698
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.71
25th Percentile - - £22.41
Median hourly rate £11.87 - £24.63
75th Percentile - - £26.66
90th Percentile - - £27.24
South West median hourly rate £15.39 £43.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -64.77% +24.79% +125.01%

All General Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 84 108 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 47.19% 50.94% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 46
10th Percentile £270 £276 £313
25th Percentile £325 £488 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +22.45% +15.29%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £575
90th Percentile £765 £726 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 24
10th Percentile £11.87 £14.45 £17.20
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.09 £38.21
Median hourly rate £16.81 £56.29 £48.62
Median % change year-on-year -70.14% +15.78% -11.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.68 £55.83
90th Percentile £57.33 £70.06 £69.63
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -1.75%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Dorset over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Dorset

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bournemouth -8 6 £438 -16.67% 11
Blandford Forum - 3 - -
Poole - 1 £700 - 13
Finance
South West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 5 (31.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Coordinator
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (31.25%) Business Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) IT Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
2 5 (31.25%) Waterfall
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Community of Practice
5 1 (6.25%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Stability
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) TARGET2
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks