Finance Contracts in Hertfordshire

Financial
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 85 79 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 9.90% 10.33% 10.75%
As % of the General category 16.35% 18.99% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 58
10th Percentile £200 £388 £306
25th Percentile £272 £425 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £485
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +18.56% +14.12%
75th Percentile £634 £750 £647
90th Percentile £713 £846 £803
East of England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 13 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £49.00 -
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £40.63
90th Percentile - £64.00 £71.25
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +101.79%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 520 416 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 60.54% 54.38% 56.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 220 238
10th Percentile £205 £250 £185
25th Percentile £325 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £700 £638
90th Percentile £700 £838 £720
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 82 65
10th Percentile - £45.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year +92.43% +27.81% +3.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Hertfordshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Stevenage +15 51 - - 14
Hatfield -5 10 £200 -60.00% 5
Watford -4 9 £438 -36.36% 23
Rickmansworth -2 2 £375 -6.25%
Royston +7 1 - - 4
Hemel Hempstead +7 1 £575 -4.17% 13
St Albans -1 1 £350 -17.65% 5
Borehamwood - 1 £550 - 4
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.18%) iTrent
3 1 (1.18%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.71%) AWS
2 2 (2.35%) SaaS
3 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.18%) Azure
3 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.18%) GCP
3 1 (1.18%) Serverless
3 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.18%) MySQL
2 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Git
General
1 66 (77.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (57.65%) Influencing Skills
2 49 (57.65%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Marketing
4 7 (8.24%) Telecoms
5 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Electronics
7 3 (3.53%) Games
8 2 (2.35%) Aviation
8 2 (2.35%) French Language
8 2 (2.35%) German Language
9 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (8.24%) Developer
2 6 (7.06%) Consultant
2 6 (7.06%) Lead
3 4 (4.71%) Coordinator
3 4 (4.71%) Project Coordinator
3 4 (4.71%) Technical Leader
4 3 (3.53%) Architect
4 3 (3.53%) IFS Consultant
4 3 (3.53%) IFS Developer
4 3 (3.53%) Lead Consultant
4 3 (3.53%) Lead Developer
4 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 3 (3.53%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (3.53%) Technical Developer
5 2 (2.35%) Analyst
5 2 (2.35%) Business Analyst
5 2 (2.35%) Project Controller
5 2 (2.35%) Project Manager
5 2 (2.35%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) HTML
2 3 (3.53%) CSS
2 3 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.53%) REST
2 3 (3.53%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.18%) Kafka
3 1 (1.18%) Middleware
3 1 (1.18%) Node.js
3 1 (1.18%) React
3 1 (1.18%) React Native
3 1 (1.18%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) Project Management
2 47 (55.29%) Business Development
2 47 (55.29%) Business Strategy
3 12 (14.12%) Agile
4 10 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 9 (10.59%) Change Management
6 8 (9.41%) ERP
7 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.06%) Contract Management
8 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.06%) Service Delivery
9 5 (5.88%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (5.88%) Programme Management
9 5 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.71%) Time Management
11 3 (3.53%) CRM
11 3 (3.53%) DevOps
11 3 (3.53%) Migration
11 3 (3.53%) Process Improvement
11 3 (3.53%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) SQL
2 3 (3.53%) Apex Code
2 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.35%) Python
4 1 (1.18%) Bash
4 1 (1.18%) Java
4 1 (1.18%) PHP
4 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.53%) Degree
2 3 (3.53%) PMP
3 2 (2.35%) ACCA
3 2 (2.35%) CIMA
3 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) PMO
2 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Terraform
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) SAP
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.53%) IFS
3 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.18%) Kronos
5 1 (1.18%) OpenText
5 1 (1.18%) Sybase
5 1 (1.18%) Twitter
5 1 (1.18%) Workday