Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,106 10,908 14,833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.33% 22.27% 21.17%
As % of the General category 33.21% 37.59% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,943 7,896 10,573
10th Percentile £360 £400 £381
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £730 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £576 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 96 131
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.63 £12.59
25th Percentile £14.83 £21.24 £20.09
Median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +49.25%
75th Percentile £38.12 £49.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.40 £71.25 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -26.54% +55.56%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,396 29,018 39,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.25% 56.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,789 20,378 27,740
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 948 1,301
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.72
90th Percentile £65.50 £70.94 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London 0 4,719 £613 -2.00% 2,706
South East -4 646 £507 -3.43% 752
North of England +1 620 £500 -4.76% 839
Midlands +4 373 £550 +10.00% 544
North West +2 359 £500 - 502
South West +3 333 £570 +3.64% 416
West Midlands +3 264 £548 +6.57% 350
Yorkshire -2 237 £500 -9.09% 253
East of England +4 207 £525 +0.48% 295
East Midlands +7 101 £550 +20.88% 193
North East +6 19 £500 -16.67% 89
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 194 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 180 (2.53%) Apache
3 143 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 90 (1.27%) Confluence
5 78 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 49 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.51%) SAS
8 21 (0.30%) IIS
9 20 (0.28%) CMS
10 18 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 15 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 12 (0.17%) nginx
12 12 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.14%) JBoss
13 10 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.13%) MTS
15 7 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.084%) WebSphere
17 4 (0.056%) BizTalk Server
17 4 (0.056%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 357 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 146 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.20%) Sketch
8 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.13%) InVision
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.070%) Chatbot
13 4 (0.056%) InDesign
14 3 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.042%) Trello
15 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
15 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.028%) Revit
15 2 (0.028%) SPSS
16 1 (0.014%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 184 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 50 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 46 (0.65%) SAP FI
5 43 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 39 (0.55%) SAP CO
7 36 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 36 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
8 35 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
9 34 (0.48%) Aladdin
9 34 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
10 32 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
11 30 (0.42%) Loan IQ
12 29 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
13 26 (0.37%) Endur
14 25 (0.35%) NetSuite
14 25 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
14 25 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
15 24 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
16 23 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (14.40%) Azure
2 765 (10.77%) AWS
3 384 (5.40%) Power Platform
4 336 (4.73%) GCP
5 237 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
6 226 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
7 219 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (2.05%) Snowflake
9 121 (1.70%) SaaS
10 119 (1.67%) dbt
11 102 (1.44%) Entra ID
12 91 (1.28%) WhatsApp
13 83 (1.17%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 78 (1.10%) GitHub
16 75 (1.06%) Serverless
17 68 (0.96%) PaaS
18 62 (0.87%) IaaS
19 56 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
20 49 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.60%) Firewall
2 97 (1.37%) WAN
3 87 (1.22%) DNS
4 79 (1.11%) VPN
5 63 (0.89%) BGP
6 57 (0.80%) LAN
7 56 (0.79%) MPLS
8 53 (0.75%) Wireless
9 47 (0.66%) Network Security
10 45 (0.63%) DMZ
11 41 (0.58%) SSL
12 38 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 34 (0.48%) OSPF
13 34 (0.48%) TCP/IP
14 33 (0.46%) SAN
15 32 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
15 32 (0.45%) DHCP
16 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
17 28 (0.39%) Internet
18 26 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (4.80%) Power BI
2 272 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 193 (2.72%) Data Lake
4 158 (2.22%) Apache Ignite
5 120 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 119 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
7 117 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 112 (1.58%) Apache Arrow
8 112 (1.58%) Dremio
8 112 (1.58%) Tableau
9 111 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
10 89 (1.25%) Metadata
11 84 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 80 (1.13%) Big Data
13 77 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 64 (0.90%) MySQL
15 62 (0.87%) Oracle Database
16 57 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 53 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
18 43 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 270 (3.80%) JIRA
2 128 (1.80%) Git
3 112 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 60 (0.84%) GitLab
5 58 (0.82%) Cypress.io
6 55 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 41 (0.58%) JUnit
8 38 (0.53%) Selenium
9 31 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 24 (0.34%) ERwin
11 23 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 22 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 18 (0.25%) JMeter
14 18 (0.25%) Postman
15 17 (0.24%) Mockito
16 16 (0.23%) Maven
17 15 (0.21%) Gradle
18 14 (0.20%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,808 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 1,542 (21.70%) Banking
3 839 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 587 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 572 (8.05%) Front Office
6 425 (5.98%) Marketing
7 407 (5.73%) Telecoms
8 381 (5.36%) Manufacturing
9 312 (4.39%) Investment Banking
10 283 (3.98%) Electronics
11 251 (3.53%) Financial Institution
12 250 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
13 240 (3.38%) Retail
14 220 (3.10%) Legal
15 182 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
16 171 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
17 148 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 116 (1.63%) Back Office
19 96 (1.35%) Law
20 79 (1.11%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,124 (15.82%) Analyst
2 1,044 (14.69%) Developer
3 695 (9.78%) Project Manager
4 677 (9.53%) Architect
5 671 (9.44%) Senior
6 584 (8.22%) Lead
7 487 (6.85%) Business Analyst
8 478 (6.73%) Consultant
9 249 (3.50%) Software Engineer
10 243 (3.42%) Financial Analyst
11 231 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
12 203 (2.86%) Data Analyst
13 172 (2.42%) Python Developer
14 166 (2.34%) Java Developer
15 140 (1.97%) C# Developer
15 140 (1.97%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 140 (1.97%) Senior Developer
16 139 (1.96%) IT Manager
17 137 (1.93%) Finance Manager
18 128 (1.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (3.90%) React
2 262 (3.69%) .NET
3 188 (2.65%) gRPC
4 180 (2.53%) Protocol Buffers
5 136 (1.91%) AngularJS
6 134 (1.89%) Pandas
7 128 (1.80%) HTML
8 125 (1.76%) NumPy
9 117 (1.65%) Redux
10 107 (1.51%) SciPy
11 106 (1.49%) Node.js
12 100 (1.41%) REST
13 99 (1.39%) XML
14 96 (1.35%) CSS
15 94 (1.32%) Spring
15 94 (1.32%) Web Services
16 91 (1.28%) Kafka
17 76 (1.07%) Material-UI
18 62 (0.87%) FIX Protocol
19 60 (0.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 387 (5.45%) Derivative
2 348 (4.90%) Fixed Income
3 347 (4.88%) Hedge funds
4 272 (3.83%) Equities
5 247 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 234 (3.29%) Management Information System
7 222 (3.12%) Product Ownership
8 124 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 110 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 95 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 88 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 80 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 79 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 74 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 68 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 61 (0.86%) NHS
17 60 (0.84%) Credit Risk
18 59 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
19 50 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
20 46 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 446 (6.28%) Windows
2 274 (3.86%) Linux
3 185 (2.60%) Unix
4 100 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 96 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 37 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.45%) Android
8 32 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.20%) VMS
12 11 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.14%) zOS
14 9 (0.13%) Solaris
15 7 (0.099%) MVS
15 7 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.084%) CentOS
17 4 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,481 (20.84%) Agile
2 891 (12.54%) Project Management
3 818 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
4 760 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 672 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
6 669 (9.41%) DevOps
7 639 (8.99%) Migration
8 548 (7.71%) Change Management
9 492 (6.92%) Software Engineering
10 491 (6.91%) Asset Management
11 456 (6.42%) Analytics
12 417 (5.87%) Project Delivery
13 416 (5.85%) Programme Management
14 389 (5.47%) CI/CD
15 379 (5.33%) Risk Management
16 377 (5.31%) ERP
17 354 (4.98%) Investment Management
18 339 (4.77%) Roadmaps
19 335 (4.71%) Decision-Making
20 327 (4.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 935 (13.16%) SQL
2 851 (11.98%) Python
3 598 (8.42%) Java
4 430 (6.05%) C#
5 372 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 317 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 203 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 103 (1.45%) C++
9 84 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 67 (0.94%) Scala
11 65 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 56 (0.79%) R
13 52 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 47 (0.66%) Go
15 45 (0.63%) Perl
16 44 (0.62%) Bash
17 42 (0.59%) VBA
18 27 (0.38%) Kotlin
18 27 (0.38%) Rust
19 23 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 667 (9.39%) Degree
2 510 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 355 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 131 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 127 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 108 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 96 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 88 (1.24%) CISSP
9 83 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 82 (1.15%) PMP
11 67 (0.94%) CISM
12 59 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 58 (0.82%) ACCA
14 52 (0.73%) CIMA
15 44 (0.62%) CCNP
16 39 (0.55%) CCNA
17 37 (0.52%) AWS Certification
17 37 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 35 (0.49%) APMP
18 35 (0.49%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (4.01%) PMO
2 278 (3.91%) QA
3 205 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 128 (1.80%) SLA
5 95 (1.34%) GDPR
6 84 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.04%) NIST
8 56 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 51 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.70%) IFRS
11 38 (0.53%) GRC
12 36 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 30 (0.42%) MiFID
14 23 (0.32%) GAAP
15 21 (0.30%) ISO 20022
16 20 (0.28%) EMIR
16 20 (0.28%) SEPA
17 16 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 12 (0.17%) IFRS 17
19 11 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 255 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 122 (1.72%) Docker
3 52 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.27%) IAG
6 15 (0.21%) ACF2
6 15 (0.21%) Firmware
6 15 (0.21%) RACF
7 10 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.11%) NFS
8 8 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.084%) HDFS
10 6 (0.084%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.070%) vSphere
12 4 (0.056%) KVM
12 4 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 181 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 146 (2.05%) Terraform
3 105 (1.48%) Ansible
4 62 (0.87%) SCCM
5 34 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 32 (0.45%) Puppet
7 25 (0.35%) Endace
7 25 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 20 (0.28%) Grafana
10 14 (0.20%) Kibana
11 13 (0.18%) logstash
11 13 (0.18%) Netcool
12 12 (0.17%) Tivoli
13 11 (0.15%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.14%) Nessus
14 10 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 907 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 719 (10.12%) SAP
3 486 (6.84%) Oracle
4 231 (3.25%) Cisco
5 191 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 152 (2.14%) Google
7 100 (1.41%) F5
8 91 (1.28%) Databricks
9 88 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 86 (1.21%) VMware
11 85 (1.20%) IBM
12 71 (1.00%) Bloomberg
13 67 (0.94%) Citrix
14 62 (0.87%) CheckPoint
15 56 (0.79%) Palo Alto
16 48 (0.68%) Adobe
17 47 (0.66%) Workday
18 45 (0.63%) Splunk
19 43 (0.61%) Juniper
20 41 (0.58%) Dell