Finance Contracts in Cheshire

Financial
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 89 74 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.54% 14.57% 17.03%
As % of the General category 26.49% 24.10% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 52 58
10th Percentile £312 £350 £309
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £457
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +20.28% -7.63%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £534
90th Percentile £738 £680 £630
North West median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £22.21 £21.73
25th Percentile £26.66 - £23.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.53 £26.89
Median % change year-on-year +55.35% -16.20% +45.72%
75th Percentile - £27.98 £29.95
90th Percentile - £30.93 £31.64
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £22.53 £14.50
% change year-on-year -11.23% +55.38% -18.99%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 336 307 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.45% 60.43% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 199 186
10th Percentile £311 £255 £200
25th Percentile £394 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +9.65% +3.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £638 £665 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 26
10th Percentile £16.57 £14.45 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.53 £10.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.98 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.09% +36.49% +11.11%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £38.01 £50.63
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £23.06
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.44% +9.79%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Knutsford +15 32 £489 -21.76% 11
Chester +1 22 £650 +18.18% 20
Macclesfield -10 10 £535 +11.46% 5
Warrington +9 7 £276 -38.67% 14
Runcorn - 3 £575 - 5
Wilmslow -2 1 £363 +20.83% 2
Crewe - 1 £500 - 3
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (6.74%) Confluence
1 6 (6.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Mule
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Temenos T24
2 5 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (4.49%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.12%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (1.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.73%) AWS
2 13 (14.61%) Azure
3 7 (7.87%) Apigee
3 7 (7.87%) Kong
4 4 (4.49%) WhatsApp
5 3 (3.37%) SaaS
6 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.12%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) LAN
2 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
1 7 (7.87%) OLAP
1 7 (7.87%) OLTP
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.37%) DB2
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.25%) Big Data
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.12%) Impala
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.12%) Power Query
5 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.12%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.12%) Log4j
3 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.34%) Banking
3 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.62%) Front Office
6 5 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.49%) Legal
7 4 (4.49%) Marketing
7 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Architect
2 22 (24.72%) Project Manager
3 13 (14.61%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.36%) Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Analyst
6 7 (7.87%) AWS Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Accountant
8 4 (4.49%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.49%) Systems Accountant
9 3 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Scrum Master
10 2 (2.25%) Mobile Developer
10 2 (2.25%) Operational Risk Analyst
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Spring
1 9 (10.11%) Spring Boot
2 8 (8.99%) Kafka
2 8 (8.99%) Web Services
3 7 (7.87%) IBM Integration Bus
3 7 (7.87%) J2EE
3 7 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (7.87%) SOAP
4 6 (6.74%) Apache Camel
4 6 (6.74%) Spring Integration
5 3 (3.37%) .NET
5 3 (3.37%) Java EE
5 3 (3.37%) React
5 3 (3.37%) RESTful
6 2 (2.25%) Middleware
7 1 (1.12%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) DataPower
2 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.37%) Life Science
4 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (2.25%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) Equities
5 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.25%) SCADA
5 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Smart City
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Android
1 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Project Management
1 29 (32.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (30.34%) Agile
3 17 (19.10%) Design Patterns
3 17 (19.10%) Risk Management
4 14 (15.73%) Enterprise Architecture
5 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.36%) Microservices
6 11 (12.36%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (11.24%) Decision-Making
7 10 (11.24%) OO
8 9 (10.11%) Architectural Design
8 9 (10.11%) CRM
8 9 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (10.11%) PRINCE2
8 9 (10.11%) SDLC
9 8 (8.99%) Waterfall
10 7 (7.87%) Analytics
10 7 (7.87%) CQRS
10 7 (7.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.98%) Java
2 9 (10.11%) SQL
3 7 (7.87%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.37%) C
5 2 (2.25%) Python
6 1 (1.12%) Bash
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) Groovy
6 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) Ruby
6 1 (1.12%) Scala
6 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (10.11%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.49%) PMP
2 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.25%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.12%) APMP
4 1 (1.12%) CCNA
4 1 (1.12%) CCNP
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.12%) CISSP
4 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) GDPR
1 2 (2.25%) NIST
1 2 (2.25%) PMO
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) NEBOSH
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Oracle
1 8 (8.99%) SAP
2 7 (7.87%) Avaloq
2 7 (7.87%) IBM
2 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) TSYS
3 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.49%) Sage
5 2 (2.25%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco
6 1 (1.12%) Citrix
6 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Symantec
6 1 (1.12%) Teradata