Finance Contracts in the West Midlands

Financial
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 3 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 264 339 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.81% 14.70% 13.80%
As % of the General category 24.47% 25.53% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 218 370
10th Percentile £363 £281 £315
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £600
90th Percentile £850 £714 £688
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.47 -
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.29 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £39.19 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% +121.43% +10.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 -
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.13 -
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +49.25%

All General Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,079 1,328 1,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.43% 57.59% 56.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 936 1,505
10th Percentile £260 £231 £261
25th Percentile £389 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.17% +16.36%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 42 47
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £12.90
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +18.18% +1.54%
75th Percentile £38.13 £28.56 £18.75
90th Percentile £56.25 £56.63 £20.90
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +4 122 £514 +1.53% 151
Warwickshire 0 65 £700 +27.27% 45
Coventry +1 20 £638 +32.81% 25
Shropshire +22 12 £400 -3.03% 13
Worcestershire +5 10 £425 -5.56% 21
Solihull -8 9 £560 +97.36% 9
Staffordshire +6 6 £425 +3.03% 45
Wolverhampton +1 1 £475 +131.71% 11
Herefordshire -10 1 - - 9
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) IIS
2 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.76%) Exstream
4 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.76%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.76%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.38%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.38%) RMDS
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.98%) Azure
2 18 (6.82%) AWS
3 12 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.89%) CloudFront
7 5 (1.89%) OCI
7 5 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Serverless
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.76%) GitHub
10 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.76%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.38%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.38%) GCP
11 1 (0.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) VPN
2 8 (3.03%) LAN
2 8 (3.03%) WAN
3 6 (2.27%) DNS
3 6 (2.27%) Junos
3 6 (2.27%) Network Security
4 5 (1.89%) BGP
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (1.89%) IPsec
4 5 (1.89%) MPLS
5 3 (1.14%) Intranet
5 3 (1.14%) Wireless
6 2 (0.76%) 5G
6 2 (0.76%) Internet
7 1 (0.38%) Firewall
7 1 (0.38%) FTP
7 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.38%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.55%) Power BI
2 10 (3.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.89%) Metadata
3 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.14%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.76%) Power Query
6 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.38%) DB2
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) MS Access
7 1 (0.38%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.03%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.76%) Git
4 2 (0.76%) webpack
5 1 (0.38%) Ant
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Gradle
5 1 (0.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.38%) Maven
5 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.38%) Selenium
5 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 74 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.20%) Law
5 16 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.92%) Banking
7 10 (3.79%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.41%) Marketing
8 9 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.03%) Legal
10 7 (2.65%) Retail
11 6 (2.27%) Local Government
11 6 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.14%) German Language
14 2 (0.76%) Billing
14 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (15.91%) Project Manager
2 41 (15.53%) Analyst
3 34 (12.88%) Architect
4 26 (9.85%) Lead
5 24 (9.09%) Senior
6 19 (7.20%) Consultant
6 19 (7.20%) Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Business Manager
7 18 (6.82%) IT Manager
8 13 (4.92%) Change Manager
9 12 (4.55%) PMO Analyst
10 10 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.03%) Business Change Manager
11 8 (3.03%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.65%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.65%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.65%) Lead Architect
12 7 (2.65%) Transformation Manager
13 6 (2.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.27%) .NET
1 6 (2.27%) AngularJS
1 6 (2.27%) SAML
1 6 (2.27%) Spring
2 5 (1.89%) OAuth
2 5 (1.89%) OAuth2
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.89%) React
3 2 (0.76%) Hibernate
3 2 (0.76%) LDAP
3 2 (0.76%) Middleware
3 2 (0.76%) Node.js
3 2 (0.76%) RESTful
3 2 (0.76%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.38%) Swagger
4 1 (0.38%) Vue
4 1 (0.38%) WinForms
4 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.52%) IoT
7 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.14%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.76%) CCTV
8 2 (0.76%) FMCG
8 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Industry 4.0
8 2 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.82%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
3 3 (1.14%) Unix
3 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 54 (20.45%) Agile
3 53 (20.08%) Project Management
4 33 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 30 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (10.98%) Change Management
7 28 (10.61%) ERP
8 27 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.47%) Decision-Making
10 21 (7.95%) Migration
11 18 (6.82%) Business Transformation
11 18 (6.82%) Project Delivery
11 18 (6.82%) Resource Management
12 17 (6.44%) CRM
12 17 (6.44%) DevOps
12 17 (6.44%) Risk Management
13 15 (5.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (5.30%) Budgeting
14 14 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (4.92%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.92%) Java
2 12 (4.55%) SQL
3 11 (4.17%) Python
4 4 (1.52%) C#
5 2 (0.76%) C
5 2 (0.76%) C++
5 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.76%) R
5 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.38%) COBOL
6 1 (0.38%) ProC
6 1 (0.38%) Scala
6 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.68%) Degree
3 9 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.27%) PMP
5 5 (1.89%) CCNP
5 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.89%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.52%) CCNA
7 3 (1.14%) ACCA
7 3 (1.14%) CIMA
7 3 (1.14%) ISEB
7 3 (1.14%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.14%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.76%) CISSP
8 2 (0.76%) CRISC
8 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.33%) PMO
2 8 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.03%) QA
3 6 (2.27%) GDPR
3 6 (2.27%) SLA
4 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.65%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) IAG
4 1 (0.38%) iptables
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.76%) CEMLI
1 2 (0.76%) Terraform
2 1 (0.38%) Ansible
2 1 (0.38%) Kibana
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) logstash
2 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
2 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.38%) Puppet
2 1 (0.38%) Rancher
2 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.68%) SAP
3 14 (5.30%) Oracle
4 7 (2.65%) Cisco
5 6 (2.27%) Juniper
6 5 (1.89%) Anaplan
6 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.52%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.52%) VMware
8 2 (0.76%) Databricks
8 2 (0.76%) OpenText
8 2 (0.76%) Sage
8 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.38%) IBM
9 1 (0.38%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.38%) Progress
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.38%) Sybase