Finance Contracts in the Midlands

Financial
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 373 469 666
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.73% 13.97% 13.43%
As % of the General category 24.88% 25.27% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 313 515
10th Percentile £358 £308 £315
25th Percentile £445 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £661 £625 £588
90th Percentile £788 £700 £688
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 9
10th Percentile - £18.48 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £14.00 £33.39 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -58.06% +88.62% +22.07%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £31.50
90th Percentile £69.57 £59.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +50.00%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,499 1,856 2,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.19% 55.27% 54.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,320 2,021
10th Percentile £208 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +1.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £611 £595 £550
90th Percentile £738 £694 £653
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 78 100
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.31 £13.39
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.84 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +16.74% +13.33%
75th Percentile £36.25 £41.75 £26.94
90th Percentile £52.34 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +4 264 £548 +8.15% 357
East Midlands +6 101 £550 +15.79% 205
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.27%) IIS
3 1 (0.27%) MetaMask
3 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.80%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.80%) SAP FI
3 3 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.54%) Exstream
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.54%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.54%) RMDS
4 2 (0.54%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.54%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.21%) Azure
2 38 (10.19%) AWS
3 19 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.83%) Dynamics 365
5 15 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (3.49%) SaaS
7 10 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.34%) CloudFront
9 5 (1.34%) OCI
9 5 (1.34%) Serverless
9 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.07%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.54%) GCP
11 2 (0.54%) GitHub
11 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.27%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.29%) VPN
2 10 (2.68%) LAN
2 10 (2.68%) WAN
3 8 (2.14%) Firewall
4 7 (1.88%) BGP
4 7 (1.88%) MPLS
4 7 (1.88%) Network Security
5 6 (1.61%) DNS
5 6 (1.61%) Junos
6 5 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (1.34%) IPsec
7 3 (0.80%) Intranet
7 3 (0.80%) Wireless
8 2 (0.54%) 5G
8 2 (0.54%) Internet
8 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.54%) OSPF
8 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.27%) Multicast
9 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.75%) Power BI
3 9 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 7 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.61%) Big Data
5 6 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.34%) DB2
6 5 (1.34%) Impala
6 5 (1.34%) Metadata
7 4 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.80%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.80%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.54%) Power Query
9 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.54%) Tableau
10 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 13 (3.49%) JIRA
2 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.80%) Git
4 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.54%) webpack
6 1 (0.27%) Ant
6 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) Gradle
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 108 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (8.58%) Banking
5 25 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.09%) Law
7 16 (4.29%) Legal
8 15 (4.02%) Marketing
9 14 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.68%) Retail
12 8 (2.14%) Local Government
13 7 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.34%) Electronics
15 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.07%) Social Housing
16 3 (0.80%) German Language
17 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 67 (17.96%) Analyst
2 56 (15.01%) Architect
3 49 (13.14%) Project Manager
4 29 (7.77%) Lead
4 29 (7.77%) Senior
5 28 (7.51%) Consultant
6 27 (7.24%) Developer
7 26 (6.97%) IT Manager
8 20 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.83%) Business Manager
10 15 (4.02%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.49%) Change Manager
11 13 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.49%) PMO Analyst
12 11 (2.95%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.95%) Financial Analyst
12 11 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (2.95%) Service Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.95%) Service Manager
13 9 (2.41%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.68%) .NET
2 9 (2.41%) React
3 7 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (1.88%) SAML
4 6 (1.61%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.61%) OAuth
4 6 (1.61%) RESTful
4 6 (1.61%) Spring
5 5 (1.34%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.34%) Swagger
6 4 (1.07%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.07%) RAML
7 3 (0.80%) LDAP
7 3 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (0.80%) SAP PI
8 2 (0.54%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.54%) Middleware
8 2 (0.54%) Node.js
8 2 (0.54%) SAP ALE
8 2 (0.54%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (3.49%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.49%) Public Cloud
3 11 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.34%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.07%) IoT
8 4 (1.07%) Replication
9 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.80%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.54%) CCTV
10 2 (0.54%) FMCG
10 2 (0.54%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.04%) Windows
2 12 (3.22%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.14%) Linux
4 6 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.34%) Android
6 4 (1.07%) Unix
6 4 (1.07%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.27%) AIX
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (21.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 72 (19.30%) Agile
3 64 (17.16%) Project Management
4 56 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (11.80%) Migration
6 42 (11.26%) Change Management
7 36 (9.65%) ERP
7 36 (9.65%) Roadmaps
8 35 (9.38%) Decision-Making
9 32 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (7.51%) Analytics
10 28 (7.51%) Project Delivery
11 26 (6.97%) Service Delivery
12 24 (6.43%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (6.43%) Business Strategy
12 24 (6.43%) CRM
13 23 (6.17%) Customer Service
13 23 (6.17%) DevOps
14 21 (5.63%) Business Transformation
14 21 (5.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.70%) Java
2 23 (6.17%) SQL
3 22 (5.90%) Python
4 10 (2.68%) C#
5 8 (2.14%) Swift
6 7 (1.88%) C
6 7 (1.88%) R
7 6 (1.61%) ABAP
8 5 (1.34%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.80%) C++
11 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.54%) X++
12 1 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) Rust
12 1 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.27%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 30 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.63%) Degree
2 21 (5.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (1.61%) PMP
5 5 (1.34%) CCNP
5 5 (1.34%) ISEB
5 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.07%) ACCA
6 4 (1.07%) CCNA
6 4 (1.07%) CIMA
6 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.80%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.54%) CBAP
8 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.97%) PMO
2 11 (2.95%) QA
3 10 (2.68%) SLA
4 9 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.61%) GDPR
6 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.54%) IFRS
8 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) PSD2
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.14%) Docker
3 4 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) HDFS
5 1 (0.27%) IAG
5 1 (0.27%) iptables
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
2 3 (0.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) CEMLI
3 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.27%) Kibana
4 1 (0.27%) logstash
4 1 (0.27%) PowerBroker
4 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.27%) Puppet
4 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.77%) SAP
3 23 (6.17%) Oracle
4 8 (2.14%) Cisco
4 8 (2.14%) Okta
5 7 (1.88%) Juniper
6 6 (1.61%) VMware
7 5 (1.34%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.34%) Databricks
7 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.07%) Computacenter
8 4 (1.07%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.80%) Sage
10 2 (0.54%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.54%) OpenText
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) Teradata