Finance Contracts in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 652 807 1,020
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 13.55% 14.79% 14.25%
As % of the General category 25.02% 26.49% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 533 715
10th Percentile £317 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +8.90% +10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £692 £688 £675
England median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 8 19
10th Percentile £11.77 £15.20 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.43 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £22.53 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% +55.38% -23.68%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.21 £38.90
90th Percentile £52.78 £47.02 £49.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% -20.06% +68.67%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,606 3,046 3,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.15% 55.82% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,099 2,592
10th Percentile £263 £280 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +4.71% +6.11%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 97 183
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +14.32% +7.21%
75th Percentile £35.23 £35.00 £33.91
90th Percentile £48.75 £50.84 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +5 382 £500 -3.85% 608
Yorkshire -2 245 £500 -9.09% 268
North East +7 20 £513 -12.02% 110
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 26 (3.99%) Confluence
2 8 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.61%) IIS
7 3 (0.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.46%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Mule
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 54 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.61%) MS Visio
4 16 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.53%) SAP FI
3 8 (1.23%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.61%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.61%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.31%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.31%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.31%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.15%) Primavera
8 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.15%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 59 (9.05%) Azure
2 40 (6.13%) AWS
3 32 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 16 (2.45%) SaaS
6 12 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (1.69%) GCP
8 9 (1.38%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.23%) Kong
10 7 (1.07%) Apigee
10 7 (1.07%) Serverless
11 6 (0.92%) PaaS
12 5 (0.77%) IaaS
13 4 (0.61%) npm
13 4 (0.61%) WhatsApp
14 3 (0.46%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.46%) GitHub
15 2 (0.31%) Amazon S3
15 2 (0.31%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.61%) DMZ
1 17 (2.61%) SD-WAN
2 15 (2.30%) Wireless
3 13 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (1.99%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (1.38%) ATM
4 9 (1.38%) Firewall
5 8 (1.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 4 (0.61%) HTTP
7 4 (0.61%) Network Security
7 4 (0.61%) SAN
7 4 (0.61%) Skype
8 3 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.31%) PPP
9 2 (0.31%) RTP
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
10 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.99%) Power BI
2 19 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.69%) Big Data
4 10 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
5 7 (1.07%) OLAP
5 7 (1.07%) OLTP
6 6 (0.92%) DB2
6 6 (0.92%) Ingres
6 6 (0.92%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (0.77%) Tableau
8 4 (0.61%) Data Vault
8 4 (0.61%) MySQL
8 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.46%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (8.74%) JIRA
2 9 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.07%) Git
4 7 (1.07%) JUnit
5 5 (0.77%) GitLab
6 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
7 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.31%) RStudio
9 1 (0.15%) AppScan
9 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.15%) Log4j
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) Postman
9 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 165 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 126 (19.33%) Banking
3 65 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 25 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (3.07%) Marketing
8 18 (2.76%) Retail
9 17 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.15%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.69%) Local Government
12 10 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.23%) Electronics
13 8 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.23%) Legal
13 8 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.07%) Billing
14 7 (1.07%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 78 (11.96%) Project Manager
2 77 (11.81%) Architect
3 65 (9.97%) Analyst
4 44 (6.75%) Consultant
5 43 (6.60%) Lead
6 42 (6.44%) Senior
7 41 (6.29%) Developer
8 30 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 29 (4.45%) Business Analyst
9 29 (4.45%) Network Engineer
10 22 (3.37%) Administrator
11 21 (3.22%) Senior Manager
12 17 (2.61%) Cutover Manager
12 17 (2.61%) Programme Manager
13 14 (2.15%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
14 13 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (1.99%) Trainer
15 12 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
16 11 (1.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.15%) Kafka
1 14 (2.15%) Spring
2 10 (1.53%) Gherkin
2 10 (1.53%) Spring Boot
3 9 (1.38%) Middleware
3 9 (1.38%) Web Services
4 8 (1.23%) .NET
4 8 (1.23%) IBM Integration Bus
4 8 (1.23%) React
4 8 (1.23%) RESTful
4 8 (1.23%) SOAP
5 7 (1.07%) J2EE
5 7 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.92%) Apache Camel
6 6 (0.92%) REST
6 6 (0.92%) Spring Integration
7 4 (0.61%) Node.js
8 3 (0.46%) Java EE
8 3 (0.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.45%) Data Centre
2 20 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
3 15 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.99%) Driving Licence
4 13 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.84%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.38%) EPoS
7 9 (1.38%) Smartphone
8 8 (1.23%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.07%) DataPower
9 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.07%) NHS
10 6 (0.92%) Clustering
10 6 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.77%) Derivative
11 5 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.21%) Windows
2 27 (4.14%) Linux
3 18 (2.76%) Unix
4 8 (1.23%) VMS
5 7 (1.07%) MVS
5 7 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.07%) zOS
6 6 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.77%) Android
7 5 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.61%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (16.72%) Agile
2 99 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 97 (14.88%) Change Management
4 96 (14.72%) Project Management
5 61 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (8.74%) Migration
7 53 (8.13%) DevOps
8 41 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (5.98%) Risk Management
10 37 (5.67%) Decision-Making
10 37 (5.67%) ERP
11 35 (5.37%) Analytics
12 34 (5.21%) Test Automation
13 33 (5.06%) CI/CD
13 33 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (4.75%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (4.45%) Design Patterns
15 29 (4.45%) Waterfall
16 26 (3.99%) Microservices
16 26 (3.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.37%) Java
1 35 (5.37%) SQL
2 22 (3.37%) Python
3 10 (1.53%) PowerShell
4 9 (1.38%) Bash
5 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.61%) Perl
8 3 (0.46%) C
8 3 (0.46%) Groovy
8 3 (0.46%) R
8 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.31%) C#
9 2 (0.31%) Ruby
9 2 (0.31%) Scala
9 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) JCL
10 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 64 (9.82%) Degree
2 32 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.53%) PMP
5 9 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 6 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.77%) CCNA
7 5 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.61%) CISSP
8 4 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.46%) HNC
9 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.46%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.53%) SLA
2 20 (3.07%) QA
3 16 (2.45%) PMO
4 13 (1.99%) NIST
5 11 (1.69%) GDPR
6 10 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.23%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.46%) GRC
9 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.31%) COSO
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 31000
10 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (2.61%) Docker
2 11 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.31%) KVM
6 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.15%) IAG
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (1.84%) Ansible
2 9 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (1.23%) Terraform
4 3 (0.46%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.31%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) Podman
5 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Puppet
5 2 (0.31%) SCCM
5 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.15%) Graphite
6 1 (0.15%) Graylog
6 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.15%) linkerd
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) VxRail
6 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.21%) SAP
3 37 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 27 (4.14%) F5
5 25 (3.83%) Oracle
6 16 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.30%) Cisco
8 12 (1.84%) EMC
9 11 (1.69%) IBM
9 11 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.38%) Databricks
10 9 (1.38%) Google
11 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.23%) Tanium
12 7 (1.07%) Adobe
12 7 (1.07%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.07%) TSYS
13 6 (0.92%) CA
13 6 (0.92%) VMware
14 5 (0.77%) Sage