Financial Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Finance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Finance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 345 371
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 60 101 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.44% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 71 94
10th Percentile £272 £181 £289
25th Percentile £350 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £525
90th Percentile £575 £613 £573
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £14.20 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £19.22 - -
75th Percentile £22.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.22 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Financial Analyst in the UK excluding London

Financial Analyst
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 Financial Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 0 23 £375 +47.35% 19
Scotland +48 12 £525 +5.00% 5
Midlands +12 11 £525 -2.33% 3
North of England +12 10 £575 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +16 8 £525 -2.33% 3
North West +18 6 £575 +4.55% 3
East Midlands +16 3 - -
North East +14 2 £588 +80.77% 1
Yorkshire -2 2 £288 -42.50%
South West - 2 - - 1
South Coast - 2 £500 -
East of England +8 1 £425 -13.92% 5
Financial Analyst
UK

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Financial Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Finance
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (26.67%) ERP
3 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (20.00%) Oracle
7 11 (18.33%) ACCA
7 11 (18.33%) CIMA
8 10 (16.67%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) IFRS
9 9 (15.00%) ICAEW
9 9 (15.00%) GAAP
10 8 (13.33%) Business Analysis
10 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (11.67%) Process Improvement
11 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
11 7 (11.67%) Data Migration
11 7 (11.67%) Agile
11 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
11 7 (11.67%) Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (10.00%) Order to Cash
12 6 (10.00%) Project Management
12 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
12 6 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
13 5 (8.33%) Financial Modelling
13 5 (8.33%) SQL
13 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (8.33%) Banking
13 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery

Financial Analyst Skill Set
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 2 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle FAH
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.67%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.67%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.67%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.67%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.33%) OCI
4 1 (1.67%) AWS
4 1 (1.67%) IaaS
4 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (1.67%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
1 2 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 60 (100.00%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.33%) Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Retail
7 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.33%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.67%) Billing
9 1 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (5.00%) Online Banking
2 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) ERP
2 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (16.67%) Migration
4 8 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (11.67%) Agile
5 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
5 7 (11.67%) Data Migration
5 7 (11.67%) Process Improvement
5 7 (11.67%) Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (10.00%) Order to Cash
6 6 (10.00%) Project Management
7 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (8.33%) Financial Modelling
7 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 4 (6.67%) Budgeting
8 4 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
8 4 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) ACCA
1 11 (18.33%) CIMA
2 9 (15.00%) ICAEW
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) GAAP
1 9 (15.00%) IFRS
2 4 (6.67%) PMO
3 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Microgen
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Ariba
5 1 (1.67%) Concur
5 1 (1.67%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.67%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Workday