Finance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,557 3,344 4,697
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.60% 14.53% 15.42%
As % of the General category 23.17% 25.71% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 2,314 3,446
10th Percentile £281 £325 £313
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £740 £719 £679
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 60 66
10th Percentile £12.30 £16.22 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.36 £22.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.75 £22.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +90.67% +29.63%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.16 £37.43
90th Percentile £57.00 £75.00 £50.63
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -26.54% +57.52%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,038 13,006 16,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.38% 56.52% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,866 11,696
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 739 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.16 £36.12
90th Percentile £67.04 £70.00 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
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 Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 -3 628 £500 -4.76% 1,204
North of England +1 609 £500 -4.76% 888
Midlands +3 378 £548 +9.50% 598
Scotland 0 372 £489 -2.25% 283
North West +3 348 £500 - 508
South West +2 327 £550 -4.35% 431
West Midlands +3 264 £525 +5.00% 380
Yorkshire -2 237 £500 -9.09% 271
East of England +4 209 £525 +0.96% 298
East Midlands +7 105 £550 +18.28% 218
Northern Ireland 0 31 £450 - 68
North East +4 19 £500 -16.67% 117
Wales -10 17 £550 +4.76% 117
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 +96.20% 6
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
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 59 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.88%) Confluence
3 18 (0.70%) SAS
4 15 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.20%) IIS
9 4 (0.16%) Apache
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.078%) Traefik
Applications
1 204 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
6 39 (1.53%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.16%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.078%) InVision
9 2 (0.078%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.039%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.039%) Trello
10 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 82 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.02%) SAP FI
3 25 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
6 19 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
6 19 (0.74%) SAP CO
7 17 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
9 14 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
10 13 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
12 9 (0.35%) SAP SD
12 9 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
13 8 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 8 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 230 (8.99%) Azure
2 151 (5.91%) Power Platform
3 133 (5.20%) AWS
4 94 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (1.60%) OCI
8 40 (1.56%) SaaS
9 34 (1.33%) GCP
10 30 (1.17%) Snowflake
11 20 (0.78%) PowerApps
12 19 (0.74%) Serverless
13 18 (0.70%) Entra ID
13 18 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.59%) WhatsApp
15 13 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.51%) GitHub
16 12 (0.47%) IaaS
16 12 (0.47%) PaaS
16 12 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.07%) WAN
2 44 (1.72%) Firewall
3 43 (1.68%) DMZ
4 33 (1.29%) MPLS
5 32 (1.25%) BGP
5 32 (1.25%) VPN
6 27 (1.06%) LAN
7 26 (1.02%) SSL
8 25 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
8 25 (0.98%) DNS
9 24 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
9 24 (0.94%) Wireless
10 17 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (0.59%) ATM
12 15 (0.59%) Network Security
13 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
14 12 (0.47%) DHCP
14 12 (0.47%) HTTP
14 12 (0.47%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.85%) Power BI
2 51 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.92%) Tableau
4 35 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
5 33 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (1.21%) Big Data
7 21 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 16 (0.63%) DB2
10 16 (0.63%) Metadata
11 14 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
11 14 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 12 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (0.39%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.39%) OLAP
14 10 (0.39%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 154 (6.02%) JIRA
2 27 (1.06%) Git
3 25 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.39%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) JUnit
5 8 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.27%) JMeter
7 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.23%) ERwin
7 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.20%) Selenium
9 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Gradle
10 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.12%) Toad
10 3 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 733 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 338 (13.22%) Public Sector
3 332 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (11.89%) Banking
5 219 (8.56%) Telecoms
6 205 (8.02%) Manufacturing
7 197 (7.70%) Marketing
8 137 (5.36%) Electronics
9 119 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 114 (4.46%) Legal
11 105 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
12 94 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
13 89 (3.48%) Retail
14 70 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (1.80%) Billing
16 44 (1.72%) Law
17 43 (1.68%) Local Government
18 39 (1.53%) Financial Institution
19 33 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
20 20 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 409 (16.00%) Analyst
2 317 (12.40%) Project Manager
3 261 (10.21%) Architect
4 239 (9.35%) Lead
5 198 (7.74%) Senior
6 182 (7.12%) Developer
7 149 (5.83%) Consultant
8 106 (4.15%) Business Analyst
9 105 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 96 (3.75%) Data Analyst
11 70 (2.74%) Network Engineer
12 61 (2.39%) Administrator
13 60 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
14 58 (2.27%) IT Manager
15 56 (2.19%) Senior Manager
16 49 (1.92%) Finance Manager
17 48 (1.88%) Programme Manager
18 46 (1.80%) Delivery Manager
19 44 (1.72%) SAP Consultant
20 40 (1.56%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 36 (1.41%) Spring
3 35 (1.37%) React
4 32 (1.25%) .NET
5 30 (1.17%) Kafka
5 30 (1.17%) Middleware
6 27 (1.06%) REST
7 25 (0.98%) HTML
8 24 (0.94%) CSS
9 23 (0.90%) AngularJS
9 23 (0.90%) Node.js
10 22 (0.86%) RESTful
11 21 (0.82%) Spring Boot
12 13 (0.51%) Web Services
12 13 (0.51%) XML
13 11 (0.43%) JSON
14 10 (0.39%) J2EE
14 10 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (0.39%) SOAP
15 9 (0.35%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 103 (4.03%) Management Information System
2 71 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 60 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.07%) NHS
5 45 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 43 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 36 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 20 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.59%) Driving Licence
15 14 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.47%) CMDB
17 12 (0.47%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 11 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 144 (5.63%) Windows
2 80 (3.13%) Linux
3 49 (1.92%) Unix
4 42 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 11 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.39%) Android
10 9 (0.35%) VMS
10 9 (0.35%) zOS
11 7 (0.27%) AIX
11 7 (0.27%) MVS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (19.32%) Project Management
2 480 (18.77%) Agile
3 385 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
6 252 (9.86%) Migration
7 213 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 207 (8.10%) Programme Management
9 204 (7.98%) ERP
10 198 (7.74%) Change Management
11 180 (7.04%) DevOps
12 170 (6.65%) Decision-Making
13 161 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 154 (6.02%) PRINCE2
15 153 (5.98%) Analytics
16 142 (5.55%) Roadmaps
17 141 (5.51%) Digital Marketing
18 119 (4.65%) Business Strategy
19 112 (4.38%) ITIL
20 109 (4.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (7.16%) SQL
2 111 (4.34%) Python
3 105 (4.11%) Java
4 40 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 40 (1.56%) TypeScript
5 33 (1.29%) C#
6 28 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 27 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 22 (0.86%) Perl
8 22 (0.86%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.63%) Bash
10 14 (0.55%) Scala
11 13 (0.51%) ABAP
11 13 (0.51%) R
11 13 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.39%) C
13 8 (0.31%) Swift
13 8 (0.31%) X++
14 5 (0.20%) Groovy
14 5 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 274 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 240 (9.39%) Degree
3 162 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 47 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.56%) PMP
7 37 (1.45%) ACCA
8 36 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 34 (1.33%) CIMA
9 34 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.25%) APMP
12 19 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (0.59%) CCNA
14 15 (0.59%) CCNP
14 15 (0.59%) CISSP
15 14 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.43%) DBS Check
16 11 (0.43%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.37%) PMO
2 81 (3.17%) QA
3 58 (2.27%) SLA
4 56 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 34 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.17%) GDPR
7 26 (1.02%) IFRS
8 19 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.51%) NIST
11 12 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.31%) HL7
14 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.23%) RMADS
16 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 46 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.21%) Docker
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.27%) vSphere
6 4 (0.16%) NFS
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.12%) Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) GPFS
7 3 (0.12%) KVM
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.039%) HDFS
9 1 (0.039%) IAG
9 1 (0.039%) iptables
9 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (1.29%) Terraform
2 31 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.06%) Ansible
4 25 (0.98%) Endace
5 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.35%) Puppet
8 7 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.27%) SCCM
9 6 (0.23%) AirWatch
9 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.20%) Nessus
10 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.16%) Istio
11 4 (0.16%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 3 (0.12%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 362 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 328 (12.83%) SAP
3 166 (6.49%) Oracle
4 105 (4.11%) Cisco
5 61 (2.39%) F5
6 60 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.45%) Juniper
8 33 (1.29%) CheckPoint
9 31 (1.21%) Alteryx
9 31 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.13%) IBM
11 28 (1.10%) Google
12 27 (1.06%) VMware
13 26 (1.02%) Adobe
14 25 (0.98%) Arista
15 24 (0.94%) Databricks
15 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.78%) IFS
17 19 (0.74%) Apple
18 18 (0.70%) Dell