Finance Contracts in Dorset

Financial
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Dorset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 5 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 4.63% 12.82% 10.43%
As % of the General category 10.87% 21.47% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 28 17
10th Percentile - £279 £340
25th Percentile £650 £433 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +11.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £666 £675
90th Percentile - £738 £815
South West median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.50% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.43 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.18 £23.86 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% -10.82% -21.34%
75th Percentile - £36.35 £27.63
90th Percentile - £43.59 -
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £49.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.65% +8.89% +195.08%

All General Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 46 163 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 42.59% 59.71% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 69 52
10th Percentile - £308 £200
25th Percentile £469 £456 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £538
90th Percentile £730 £738 £799
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 55 10
10th Percentile - £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.57 £16.61
Median hourly rate £15.62 £56.49 £37.62
Median % change year-on-year -72.35% +50.18% -30.34%
75th Percentile - £65.98 £56.44
90th Percentile £21.36 £69.62 £64.28
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £54.33 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.23% -9.45% +26.32%

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
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 October 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 -5 4 - - 3
Poole -1 1 £700 +12.00%
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Local Government
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CAD Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft