Finance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,593 3,372 4,703
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.66% 14.43% 15.46%
As % of the General category 23.31% 25.59% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 2,338 3,463
10th Percentile £281 £320 £313
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £750 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £576 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 60 65
10th Percentile £12.30 £16.22 £10.55
25th Percentile £14.18 £22.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.12 £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.59% +103.49% +20.11%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.16 £35.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £51.00
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -26.54% +55.56%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,126 13,178 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.32% 56.40% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,992 11,677
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 757 1,033
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -4 647 £504 -4.10% 775
North of England +1 622 £500 -4.76% 852
Scotland 0 374 £475 -5.00% 261
Midlands +4 373 £550 +10.00% 564
North West +3 359 £500 - 506
South West +2 333 £570 +3.64% 421
West Midlands +4 264 £548 +6.57% 357
Yorkshire -2 239 £500 -9.09% 253
East of England +4 207 £525 +0.96% 298
East Midlands +7 101 £550 +15.79% 207
Northern Ireland -1 31 £450 - 63
Wales -4 20 £550 +4.76% 94
North East +6 19 £500 -16.67% 98
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 +14.39% 8
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 57 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.77%) Confluence
3 17 (0.66%) SAS
4 15 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.19%) IIS
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.077%) CICS
11 2 (0.077%) CMS
Applications
1 208 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 37 (1.43%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.15%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.077%) InVision
9 2 (0.077%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.039%) Trello
10 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 91 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.12%) SAP FI
3 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
4 22 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 21 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
7 19 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
8 17 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
9 16 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
9 16 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
10 14 (0.54%) SAP Hybris
11 13 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
12 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
13 10 (0.39%) SAP PSCD
14 9 (0.35%) SAP SD
15 8 (0.31%) SAP HR
15 8 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 231 (8.91%) Azure
2 154 (5.94%) Power Platform
3 136 (5.24%) AWS
4 94 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
5 76 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (1.62%) OCI
8 40 (1.54%) SaaS
9 33 (1.27%) GCP
10 30 (1.16%) Snowflake
11 21 (0.81%) Serverless
12 20 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 19 (0.73%) Power Automate
14 18 (0.69%) Entra ID
15 15 (0.58%) IaaS
15 15 (0.58%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 15 (0.58%) WhatsApp
16 13 (0.50%) GitHub
16 13 (0.50%) PaaS
16 13 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.04%) WAN
2 47 (1.81%) Firewall
3 43 (1.66%) DMZ
4 35 (1.35%) VPN
5 33 (1.27%) MPLS
6 32 (1.23%) BGP
7 27 (1.04%) DNS
7 27 (1.04%) LAN
8 26 (1.00%) SSL
9 25 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
9 25 (0.96%) Wireless
10 24 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.62%) Network Security
13 15 (0.58%) ATM
14 14 (0.54%) DHCP
15 12 (0.46%) HTTP
15 12 (0.46%) TCP/IP
15 12 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (4.90%) Power BI
2 52 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 50 (1.93%) Tableau
4 32 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
5 31 (1.20%) Big Data
6 29 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 18 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 18 (0.69%) Metadata
8 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.66%) DB2
10 15 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 14 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
11 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.35%) MySQL
16 8 (0.31%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 150 (5.78%) JIRA
2 29 (1.12%) Git
3 26 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.39%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) JMeter
6 7 (0.27%) Selenium
7 6 (0.23%) JUnit
7 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.12%) Toad
10 3 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 760 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 361 (13.92%) Public Sector
3 337 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (11.80%) Banking
5 234 (9.02%) Telecoms
6 217 (8.37%) Manufacturing
7 205 (7.91%) Marketing
8 147 (5.67%) Electronics
9 121 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
10 116 (4.47%) Legal
11 105 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
12 98 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
13 93 (3.59%) Retail
14 69 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 51 (1.97%) Billing
16 45 (1.74%) Local Government
17 44 (1.70%) Law
18 38 (1.47%) Financial Institution
19 35 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
20 20 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 414 (15.97%) Analyst
2 320 (12.34%) Project Manager
3 260 (10.03%) Architect
4 246 (9.49%) Lead
5 193 (7.44%) Senior
6 175 (6.75%) Developer
7 156 (6.02%) Consultant
8 105 (4.05%) Business Analyst
9 101 (3.90%) Data Analyst
10 100 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 72 (2.78%) Network Engineer
12 61 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
13 60 (2.31%) Administrator
13 60 (2.31%) IT Manager
14 55 (2.12%) Senior Manager
15 52 (2.01%) SAP Consultant
16 49 (1.89%) Finance Manager
16 49 (1.89%) Programme Manager
17 46 (1.77%) Delivery Manager
18 41 (1.58%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 37 (1.43%) React
3 35 (1.35%) Spring
4 33 (1.27%) .NET
5 30 (1.16%) Middleware
6 28 (1.08%) Kafka
7 27 (1.04%) HTML
7 27 (1.04%) REST
8 25 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 25 (0.96%) CSS
8 25 (0.96%) Node.js
9 22 (0.85%) RESTful
10 19 (0.73%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.50%) XML
12 12 (0.46%) JSON
13 11 (0.42%) Web Services
14 9 (0.35%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
15 8 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 68 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 60 (2.31%) Data Centre
4 56 (2.16%) NHS
5 48 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 48 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 38 (1.47%) Credit Risk
7 35 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 20 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 18 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.58%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.46%) CMDB
14 12 (0.46%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.42%) FMCG
15 11 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.78%) Windows
2 83 (3.20%) Linux
3 47 (1.81%) Windows 10
4 45 (1.74%) Unix
5 22 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.50%) Windows 7
7 11 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.39%) Android
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 9 (0.35%) zOS
10 7 (0.27%) AIX
10 7 (0.27%) MVS
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.077%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (19.32%) Project Management
2 482 (18.59%) Agile
3 390 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 322 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (11.53%) Business Intelligence
6 262 (10.10%) Migration
7 221 (8.52%) Programme Management
8 212 (8.18%) Project Delivery
9 211 (8.14%) ERP
10 205 (7.91%) Change Management
11 184 (7.10%) DevOps
12 173 (6.67%) Decision-Making
13 167 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 154 (5.94%) Analytics
14 154 (5.94%) PRINCE2
15 151 (5.82%) Digital Marketing
16 140 (5.40%) Roadmaps
17 122 (4.70%) ITIL
18 117 (4.51%) Business Strategy
19 111 (4.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 179 (6.90%) SQL
2 112 (4.32%) Python
3 103 (3.97%) Java
4 43 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 41 (1.58%) TypeScript
6 35 (1.35%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 25 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 23 (0.89%) Perl
10 17 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 16 (0.62%) Bash
12 14 (0.54%) Scala
13 13 (0.50%) ABAP
13 13 (0.50%) R
14 12 (0.46%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.35%) C
16 8 (0.31%) Swift
16 8 (0.31%) X++
17 6 (0.23%) Ruby
18 5 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 283 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 247 (9.53%) Degree
3 168 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 48 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (1.66%) PMP
7 38 (1.47%) ACCA
8 37 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 36 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.35%) CIMA
11 34 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.23%) APMP
13 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.62%) CCNA
15 16 (0.62%) CISSP
16 15 (0.58%) CCNP
17 11 (0.42%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (6.79%) PMO
2 82 (3.16%) QA
3 62 (2.39%) SLA
4 57 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 36 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.23%) GDPR
7 26 (1.00%) IFRS
8 19 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
11 12 (0.46%) NIST
12 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.31%) HL7
14 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.23%) RMADS
16 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 49 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.12%) Docker
3 25 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.23%) vSphere
8 5 (0.19%) Firmware
9 4 (0.15%) KVM
9 4 (0.15%) NFS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.12%) GPFS
11 2 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.039%) HDFS
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) iptables
12 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (1.35%) Terraform
2 30 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.08%) Ansible
4 25 (0.96%) Endace
5 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.39%) Puppet
6 10 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.27%) SCCM
9 6 (0.23%) AirWatch
9 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.15%) Istio
10 4 (0.15%) Nessus
10 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.12%) Netcool
11 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 364 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 361 (13.92%) SAP
3 167 (6.44%) Oracle
4 106 (4.09%) Cisco
5 62 (2.39%) F5
6 56 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 38 (1.47%) Juniper
8 34 (1.31%) CheckPoint
9 31 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.12%) IBM
10 29 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.12%) VMware
11 28 (1.08%) Google
12 25 (0.96%) Adobe
12 25 (0.96%) Arista
12 25 (0.96%) Databricks
12 25 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 21 (0.81%) Dell
14 20 (0.77%) Apple
15 19 (0.73%) IFS