Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,061 10,769 14,953
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.41% 22.35% 21.27%
As % of the General category 33.33% 37.68% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,923 7,806 10,641
10th Percentile £363 £400 £385
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £730 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £583 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.83% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 98 134
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.50 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.50 £21.24 £20.43
Median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -23.41% +54.34%
75th Percentile £38.12 £49.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £54.00 £73.25 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -26.54% +56.53%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,183 28,577 39,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.22% 59.31% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,071 27,958
10th Percentile £281 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £790 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 929 1,300
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +50.23% -4.10%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London 0 4,704 £613 -2.39% 2,796
South East -4 629 £500 -4.76% 771
North of England +1 609 £500 -4.76% 850
Midlands +4 375 £550 +10.00% 585
North West +3 350 £500 - 513
South West +4 329 £560 -0.44% 416
West Midlands +3 262 £545 +9.00% 367
Yorkshire -2 235 £500 -9.09% 242
East of England +4 209 £525 +0.96% 279
East Midlands +9 104 £550 +15.79% 218
North East +3 19 £500 -16.67% 101
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 212 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 197 (2.79%) Apache
3 143 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 93 (1.32%) Confluence
5 76 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 49 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 37 (0.52%) SAS
8 22 (0.31%) CMS
8 22 (0.31%) IIS
9 21 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 15 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.20%) nginx
12 12 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 10 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.13%) JBoss
14 9 (0.13%) MTS
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 6 (0.085%) Headless CMS
17 5 (0.071%) MQSeries
17 5 (0.071%) WebSphere
Applications
1 352 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 292 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 143 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 100 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 13 (0.18%) Sketch
8 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.11%) InVision
9 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.071%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.057%) InDesign
12 3 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.028%) Revit
13 2 (0.028%) SPSS
13 2 (0.028%) Trello
14 1 (0.014%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 177 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 44 (0.62%) SAP FI
4 42 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 36 (0.51%) SAP CO
6 35 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
7 34 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 34 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
8 32 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
9 31 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
9 31 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
10 26 (0.37%) NetSuite
10 26 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
11 25 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
12 24 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 23 (0.33%) Endur
13 23 (0.33%) Loan IQ
13 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
14 21 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (14.54%) Azure
2 780 (11.05%) AWS
3 383 (5.42%) Power Platform
4 345 (4.89%) GCP
5 234 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
6 226 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
7 221 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 152 (2.15%) Snowflake
9 132 (1.87%) dbt
10 121 (1.71%) SaaS
11 104 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 91 (1.29%) WhatsApp
13 83 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 75 (1.06%) GitHub
16 73 (1.03%) Serverless
17 69 (0.98%) PaaS
18 58 (0.82%) IaaS
19 56 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
20 48 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.62%) Firewall
2 96 (1.36%) WAN
3 86 (1.22%) DNS
4 76 (1.08%) VPN
5 62 (0.88%) BGP
6 56 (0.79%) LAN
7 55 (0.78%) MPLS
8 54 (0.76%) Wireless
9 47 (0.67%) Network Security
10 44 (0.62%) DMZ
11 41 (0.58%) SSL
12 38 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 33 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
13 33 (0.47%) OSPF
14 32 (0.45%) TCP/IP
15 31 (0.44%) Internet
15 31 (0.44%) SAN
16 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
16 29 (0.41%) DHCP
17 25 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (4.82%) Power BI
2 268 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 201 (2.85%) Data Lake
4 173 (2.45%) Apache Ignite
5 131 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
6 125 (1.77%) Apache Arrow
6 125 (1.77%) Dremio
7 123 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 115 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
9 114 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 110 (1.56%) Tableau
11 87 (1.23%) Metadata
12 85 (1.20%) Big Data
13 82 (1.16%) Relational Database
14 77 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 64 (0.91%) MySQL
16 58 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 55 (0.78%) Oracle Database
17 55 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
18 44 (0.62%) KDB
Development Applications
1 278 (3.94%) JIRA
2 131 (1.86%) Git
3 113 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 62 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 60 (0.85%) GitLab
6 54 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 42 (0.59%) JUnit
8 39 (0.55%) Selenium
9 30 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.34%) ERwin
12 23 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 22 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 18 (0.25%) JMeter
14 18 (0.25%) Postman
15 16 (0.23%) Mockito
16 15 (0.21%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.21%) Maven
17 14 (0.20%) Gradle
17 14 (0.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,787 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 1,561 (22.11%) Banking
3 831 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
4 586 (8.30%) Front Office
5 563 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 409 (5.79%) Marketing
7 386 (5.47%) Telecoms
8 366 (5.18%) Manufacturing
9 321 (4.55%) Investment Banking
10 269 (3.81%) Electronics
11 251 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 248 (3.51%) Financial Institution
13 240 (3.40%) Retail
14 212 (3.00%) Legal
15 182 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
16 170 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
17 145 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 111 (1.57%) Back Office
19 93 (1.32%) Law
20 77 (1.09%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,102 (15.61%) Analyst
2 1,053 (14.91%) Developer
3 688 (9.74%) Architect
4 686 (9.72%) Project Manager
5 685 (9.70%) Senior
6 579 (8.20%) Lead
7 471 (6.67%) Business Analyst
8 469 (6.64%) Consultant
9 258 (3.65%) Software Engineer
10 243 (3.44%) Financial Analyst
11 237 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 197 (2.79%) Data Analyst
13 180 (2.55%) Python Developer
14 169 (2.39%) Java Developer
15 146 (2.07%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 140 (1.98%) Senior Developer
17 139 (1.97%) IT Manager
18 137 (1.94%) Finance Manager
19 136 (1.93%) Python Engineer
20 133 (1.88%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (4.01%) React
2 255 (3.61%) .NET
3 205 (2.90%) gRPC
4 197 (2.79%) Protocol Buffers
5 143 (2.03%) Pandas
6 134 (1.90%) HTML
6 134 (1.90%) NumPy
7 132 (1.87%) AngularJS
8 121 (1.71%) Redux
9 117 (1.66%) SciPy
10 108 (1.53%) Node.js
11 100 (1.42%) XML
12 99 (1.40%) REST
13 98 (1.39%) CSS
13 98 (1.39%) Spring
14 96 (1.36%) Kafka
15 93 (1.32%) Web Services
16 79 (1.12%) Material-UI
17 63 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
17 63 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 394 (5.58%) Derivative
2 362 (5.13%) Fixed Income
2 362 (5.13%) Hedge funds
3 284 (4.02%) Equities
4 259 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 230 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 226 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 118 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 111 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 89 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 89 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 79 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 75 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 75 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 64 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 60 (0.85%) Credit Risk
14 58 (0.82%) NHS
15 57 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
16 50 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
17 47 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 437 (6.19%) Windows
2 270 (3.82%) Linux
3 192 (2.72%) Unix
4 99 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 97 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 49 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.47%) Android
9 31 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.21%) VMS
13 13 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 10 (0.14%) zOS
15 8 (0.11%) Solaris
16 7 (0.099%) MVS
17 6 (0.085%) CentOS
17 6 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,493 (21.14%) Agile
2 870 (12.32%) Project Management
3 810 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
4 754 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 675 (9.56%) DevOps
6 655 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
7 633 (8.96%) Migration
8 541 (7.66%) Change Management
9 505 (7.15%) Asset Management
10 501 (7.10%) Software Engineering
11 452 (6.40%) Analytics
12 413 (5.85%) Project Delivery
13 402 (5.69%) Programme Management
14 397 (5.62%) CI/CD
15 378 (5.35%) Risk Management
16 365 (5.17%) ERP
17 364 (5.16%) Investment Management
18 338 (4.79%) Roadmaps
19 333 (4.72%) Decision-Making
20 318 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 939 (13.30%) SQL
2 879 (12.45%) Python
3 624 (8.84%) Java
4 419 (5.93%) C#
5 387 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 331 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 203 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 107 (1.52%) C++
9 80 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 66 (0.93%) Scala
10 66 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 57 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 55 (0.78%) R
13 53 (0.75%) Go
14 47 (0.67%) Bash
14 47 (0.67%) Perl
15 39 (0.55%) VBA
16 28 (0.40%) Rust
17 26 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 23 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 653 (9.25%) Degree
2 514 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 358 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 131 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 104 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 95 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 88 (1.25%) CISSP
9 82 (1.16%) PMP
10 81 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 66 (0.93%) CISM
12 59 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 57 (0.81%) ACCA
14 51 (0.72%) CIMA
15 45 (0.64%) CCNP
16 38 (0.54%) CCNA
16 38 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 36 (0.51%) APMP
17 36 (0.51%) AWS Certification
17 36 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (3.99%) QA
2 276 (3.91%) PMO
3 207 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 122 (1.73%) SLA
5 94 (1.33%) GDPR
6 85 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 76 (1.08%) NIST
8 57 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 51 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 49 (0.69%) IFRS
11 35 (0.50%) GRC
12 32 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 28 (0.40%) MiFID
14 21 (0.30%) GAAP
15 20 (0.28%) ISO 20022
15 20 (0.28%) SEPA
16 18 (0.25%) EMIR
17 16 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 11 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 11 (0.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 256 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 125 (1.77%) Docker
3 50 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.27%) IAG
6 15 (0.21%) ACF2
6 15 (0.21%) RACF
7 14 (0.20%) Firmware
8 9 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.11%) NFS
9 8 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.085%) HDFS
11 6 (0.085%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.085%) vSphere
12 3 (0.042%) KVM
12 3 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 188 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.04%) Terraform
3 107 (1.52%) Ansible
4 64 (0.91%) SCCM
5 34 (0.48%) Puppet
6 33 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (0.35%) Endace
9 22 (0.31%) Grafana
9 22 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.20%) Kibana
11 13 (0.18%) logstash
12 12 (0.17%) Netcool
12 12 (0.17%) PingFederate
13 11 (0.16%) Nessus
13 11 (0.16%) Tivoli
14 10 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (0.14%) Packer
15 9 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 905 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 683 (9.67%) SAP
3 479 (6.78%) Oracle
4 229 (3.24%) Cisco
5 193 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 158 (2.24%) Google
7 102 (1.44%) F5
8 90 (1.27%) Databricks
9 89 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 84 (1.19%) VMware
11 78 (1.10%) IBM
12 72 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 64 (0.91%) Citrix
14 62 (0.88%) CheckPoint
15 57 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 51 (0.72%) Adobe
17 47 (0.67%) Workday
18 46 (0.65%) Splunk
19 44 (0.62%) Juniper
20 39 (0.55%) Qualys