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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,036 10,659 15,251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.33% 21.46%
As % of the General category 33.31% 37.75% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 7,747 10,880
10th Percentile £360 £400 £391
25th Percentile £469 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £577 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.92% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 134
10th Percentile £12.79 £18.50 £13.70
25th Percentile £14.63 £21.29 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +69.70%
75th Percentile £38.12 £50.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £52.59
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £37.43
% change year-on-year +0.58% -28.28% +80.39%

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 21,125 28,236 40,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.51% 59.16% 57.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,546 19,887 28,599
10th Percentile £280 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £797 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,811 896 1,293
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.03 £46.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £59.88
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +44.00% +5.88%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 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
London 0 4,659 £601 -4.30% 3,363
South East -4 666 £500 -4.76% 890
North of England +2 631 £500 -8.26% 1,018
Midlands +4 383 £550 +10.00% 603
North West +5 364 £490 -6.67% 638
South West 0 330 £550 -4.35% 477
West Midlands +3 264 £550 +4.76% 373
Yorkshire -2 242 £500 -9.09% 268
East of England +2 189 £500 -3.85% 298
East Midlands +7 110 £550 +15.79% 230
North East +6 20 £513 -14.58% 124
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
1 243 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (3.30%) Apache
3 143 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 96 (1.36%) Confluence
5 77 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 51 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.50%) SAS
8 21 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 21 (0.30%) IIS
9 20 (0.28%) CMS
10 18 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 10 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
13 9 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.11%) MTS
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.071%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.071%) MQSeries
16 4 (0.057%) Drupal
Applications
1 341 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 281 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 93 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 54 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.16%) Sketch
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.085%) InVision
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.057%) InDesign
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.028%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.028%) Revit
12 2 (0.028%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 156 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 39 (0.55%) SAP FI
4 35 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 31 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 31 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 30 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 29 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 29 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
8 27 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 27 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
9 24 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
10 23 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
10 23 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
11 22 (0.31%) Endur
12 18 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
13 17 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (15.02%) Azure
2 822 (11.68%) AWS
3 392 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 366 (5.20%) GCP
5 234 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 227 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
7 178 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 163 (2.32%) dbt
9 117 (1.66%) SaaS
10 107 (1.52%) Entra ID
11 90 (1.28%) WhatsApp
12 87 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 84 (1.19%) PowerApps
14 75 (1.07%) GitHub
15 70 (0.99%) Serverless
16 67 (0.95%) PaaS
17 52 (0.74%) IaaS
18 47 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
19 43 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 193 (2.74%) Firewall
2 94 (1.34%) WAN
3 85 (1.21%) DNS
4 74 (1.05%) VPN
5 61 (0.87%) BGP
6 56 (0.80%) LAN
7 54 (0.77%) MPLS
8 53 (0.75%) Wireless
9 49 (0.70%) Network Security
10 44 (0.63%) DMZ
11 42 (0.60%) SSL
12 38 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 34 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
14 33 (0.47%) OSPF
15 32 (0.45%) TCP/IP
16 30 (0.43%) Internet
17 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
17 29 (0.41%) SAN
18 28 (0.40%) DHCP
19 23 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (4.90%) Power BI
2 256 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 239 (3.40%) Data Lake
4 200 (2.84%) Apache Ignite
5 156 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 155 (2.20%) Dremio
7 153 (2.17%) Apache Arrow
8 125 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 123 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 120 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
11 115 (1.63%) Tableau
12 89 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 87 (1.24%) Big Data
14 78 (1.11%) Metadata
15 73 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 61 (0.87%) MySQL
17 58 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 52 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 52 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
19 44 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 290 (4.12%) JIRA
2 135 (1.92%) Git
3 117 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 68 (0.97%) Cypress.io
5 63 (0.90%) GitLab
6 56 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.68%) JUnit
8 40 (0.57%) Selenium
9 29 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 25 (0.36%) Postman
11 24 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.30%) JMeter
12 21 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 18 (0.26%) ERwin
14 17 (0.24%) LoadRunner
15 16 (0.23%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.23%) Mockito
16 15 (0.21%) Maven
16 15 (0.21%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,755 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 1,582 (22.48%) Banking
3 832 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 601 (8.54%) Front Office
5 531 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 397 (5.64%) Marketing
7 370 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 340 (4.83%) Investment Banking
9 339 (4.82%) Manufacturing
10 248 (3.52%) Electronics
11 247 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 238 (3.38%) Financial Institution
12 238 (3.38%) Retail
13 201 (2.86%) Legal
14 181 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 162 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
16 144 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 97 (1.38%) Back Office
18 88 (1.25%) Law
19 72 (1.02%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,091 (15.51%) Analyst
2 1,074 (15.26%) Developer
3 702 (9.98%) Senior
4 697 (9.91%) Architect
5 672 (9.55%) Project Manager
6 562 (7.99%) Lead
7 474 (6.74%) Business Analyst
8 463 (6.58%) Consultant
9 273 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 243 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
11 234 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 192 (2.73%) Python Developer
13 189 (2.69%) Data Analyst
14 180 (2.56%) Java Developer
15 153 (2.17%) Python Engineer
16 152 (2.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 145 (2.06%) IT Manager
18 143 (2.03%) Senior Developer
19 134 (1.90%) React Developer
20 133 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (4.08%) React
2 251 (3.57%) .NET
3 235 (3.34%) gRPC
4 226 (3.21%) Protocol Buffers
5 164 (2.33%) Pandas
6 157 (2.23%) NumPy
7 140 (1.99%) SciPy
8 137 (1.95%) AngularJS
9 136 (1.93%) HTML
10 125 (1.78%) Redux
11 110 (1.56%) Spring
12 108 (1.53%) Kafka
13 105 (1.49%) Node.js
14 104 (1.48%) REST
15 100 (1.42%) XML
16 98 (1.39%) CSS
17 93 (1.32%) Web Services
18 82 (1.17%) Material-UI
19 69 (0.98%) Spring Boot
20 63 (0.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 404 (5.74%) Derivative
2 387 (5.50%) Hedge funds
3 384 (5.46%) Fixed Income
4 300 (4.26%) Equities
5 287 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 226 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 221 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 116 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 95 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 95 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 81 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 72 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 69 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 65 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 61 (0.87%) Credit Risk
16 52 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
16 52 (0.74%) NHS
17 47 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 411 (5.84%) Windows
2 271 (3.85%) Linux
3 191 (2.71%) Unix
4 93 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 89 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 48 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.51%) Android
8 31 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.38%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.23%) VMS
14 11 (0.16%) zOS
15 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.099%) CentOS
16 7 (0.099%) MVS
16 7 (0.099%) Solaris
17 5 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,541 (21.90%) Agile
2 833 (11.84%) Project Management
3 802 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
4 746 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 682 (9.69%) DevOps
6 634 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
7 618 (8.78%) Migration
8 533 (7.58%) Software Engineering
9 530 (7.53%) Change Management
10 514 (7.31%) Asset Management
11 459 (6.52%) Analytics
12 404 (5.74%) CI/CD
13 394 (5.60%) Project Delivery
14 379 (5.39%) Programme Management
15 376 (5.34%) Investment Management
16 363 (5.16%) Risk Management
17 353 (5.02%) ERP
18 333 (4.73%) Roadmaps
19 317 (4.51%) Decision-Making
20 315 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 924 (13.13%) SQL
2 917 (13.03%) Python
3 658 (9.35%) Java
4 405 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 396 (5.63%) C#
6 347 (4.93%) TypeScript
7 201 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 111 (1.58%) C++
9 74 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 67 (0.95%) Scala
11 61 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 59 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 54 (0.77%) Go
14 53 (0.75%) R
15 51 (0.72%) Bash
16 46 (0.65%) Perl
17 43 (0.61%) VBA
18 30 (0.43%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.37%) Rust
20 23 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 640 (9.10%) Degree
2 515 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 348 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 135 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 134 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 97 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 88 (1.25%) CISSP
9 81 (1.15%) PMP
10 74 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 66 (0.94%) CISM
12 54 (0.77%) ACCA
12 54 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (0.70%) CCNP
13 49 (0.70%) CIMA
14 39 (0.55%) CCNA
14 39 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 37 (0.53%) AWS Certification
16 35 (0.50%) CISA
17 33 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (3.94%) QA
2 270 (3.84%) PMO
3 206 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 114 (1.62%) SLA
5 86 (1.22%) GDPR
5 86 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (1.04%) NIST
7 62 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 54 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 46 (0.65%) IFRS
10 31 (0.44%) GRC
11 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 26 (0.37%) MiFID
13 21 (0.30%) GAAP
14 20 (0.28%) SEPA
15 19 (0.27%) ISO 20022
16 18 (0.26%) EMIR
17 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
19 12 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 255 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 136 (1.93%) Docker
3 47 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.27%) IAG
6 15 (0.21%) ACF2
6 15 (0.21%) RACF
7 13 (0.18%) Firmware
8 9 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.13%) vSphere
9 8 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.085%) HDFS
11 6 (0.085%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.071%) NFS
13 3 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.028%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 204 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.16%) Terraform
3 118 (1.68%) Ansible
4 67 (0.95%) SCCM
5 38 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 36 (0.51%) Puppet
7 33 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.37%) Grafana
10 25 (0.36%) Endace
11 21 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.20%) Nessus
13 13 (0.18%) Kibana
14 12 (0.17%) logstash
14 12 (0.17%) PingFederate
15 11 (0.16%) Netcool
16 10 (0.14%) Tivoli
17 9 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
17 9 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 895 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 637 (9.05%) SAP
3 456 (6.48%) Oracle
4 224 (3.18%) Cisco
5 194 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 174 (2.47%) Google
7 111 (1.58%) F5
8 96 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 93 (1.32%) Databricks
10 77 (1.09%) VMware
11 76 (1.08%) IBM
12 68 (0.97%) Bloomberg
13 66 (0.94%) CheckPoint
14 62 (0.88%) Citrix
15 61 (0.87%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.74%) Adobe
17 48 (0.68%) Splunk
18 47 (0.67%) Workday
19 45 (0.64%) Juniper
20 42 (0.60%) Qualys