Finance Contracts in the North West

Financial
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 366 346 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 13.37% 11.42% 12.97%
As % of the General category 25.00% 21.95% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 239 369
10th Percentile £269 £350 £315
25th Percentile £388 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £714 £688 £700
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 20
10th Percentile £11.77 £15.20 £11.41
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.43 £13.08
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.53 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.23% +55.38% -18.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.21 £35.84
90th Percentile £52.78 £47.02 £48.94
England median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +66.07%

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,464 1,576 2,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.47% 52.00% 50.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 1,088 1,422
10th Percentile £295 £305 £226
25th Percentile £394 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 79 111
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.73 £10.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £14.82
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.44% +9.79%
75th Percentile £37.25 £35.02 £50.71
90th Percentile £51.89 £53.73 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +4 179 £463 -11.90% 339
Cheshire +2 89 £525 -4.55% 80
Cumbria +11 38 £575 +31.43% 22
Lancashire +14 28 £425 -15.00% 70
Merseyside +6 26 £200 -60.78% 74
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (2.73%) Confluence
2 6 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) Apache
3 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.82%) nginx
4 2 (0.55%) Traefik
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) Mule
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 40 (10.93%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.83%) MS Visio
4 13 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.19%) Temenos T24
3 7 (1.91%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.09%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.55%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) Primavera
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.27%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.38%) Azure
2 27 (7.38%) AWS
3 15 (4.10%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (1.91%) Apigee
5 7 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.91%) GCP
5 7 (1.91%) Kong
5 7 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.91%) SaaS
6 6 (1.64%) Serverless
7 4 (1.09%) npm
7 4 (1.09%) WhatsApp
8 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.82%) IaaS
8 3 (0.82%) PaaS
9 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.64%) DMZ
1 17 (4.64%) SD-WAN
2 15 (4.10%) Wireless
3 13 (3.55%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (3.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (2.46%) ATM
5 5 (1.37%) DNS
5 5 (1.37%) Firewall
6 4 (1.09%) HTTP
7 3 (0.82%) Network Security
7 3 (0.82%) Skype
8 2 (0.55%) PPP
8 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.55%) WAN
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.27%) DHCP
9 1 (0.27%) LAN
9 1 (0.27%) MPLS
9 1 (0.27%) VPN
9 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.10%) Power BI
2 13 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.91%) OLAP
5 7 (1.91%) OLTP
6 6 (1.64%) DB2
6 6 (1.64%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.09%) Tableau
8 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.82%) Data Hub
8 3 (0.82%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.55%) Big Data
9 2 (0.55%) Metadata
9 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (7.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.09%) Git
2 4 (1.09%) GitLab
2 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.55%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.27%) ERwin
4 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.27%) Log4j
4 1 (0.27%) RStudio
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.21%) Banking
3 44 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.64%) Retail
6 15 (4.10%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.46%) Marketing
10 7 (1.91%) Legal
10 7 (1.91%) Local Government
10 7 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.64%) Police
12 5 (1.37%) Billing
12 5 (1.37%) Front Office
12 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (13.39%) Project Manager
2 39 (10.66%) Analyst
3 38 (10.38%) Architect
4 26 (7.10%) Network Engineer
5 24 (6.56%) Developer
6 23 (6.28%) Lead
6 23 (6.28%) Senior
7 20 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.92%) Administrator
8 18 (4.92%) Consultant
9 17 (4.64%) Business Analyst
10 14 (3.83%) Programme Manager
11 11 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (2.46%) AWS Architect
12 9 (2.46%) IT Technician
12 9 (2.46%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (2.46%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.19%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.19%) Service Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.19%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.55%) Kafka
1 13 (3.55%) Spring
2 9 (2.46%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.19%) IBM Integration Bus
3 8 (2.19%) Middleware
3 8 (2.19%) RESTful
3 8 (2.19%) Web Services
4 7 (1.91%) J2EE
4 7 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.91%) SOAP
5 6 (1.64%) Apache Camel
5 6 (1.64%) Spring Integration
6 5 (1.37%) .NET
6 5 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.37%) React
7 4 (1.09%) Node.js
8 3 (0.82%) Java EE
9 2 (0.55%) cloud-init
9 2 (0.55%) PySpark
10 1 (0.27%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.92%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.55%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.46%) EPoS
5 9 (2.46%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (1.91%) DataPower
8 6 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.37%) Derivative
9 5 (1.37%) NHS
9 5 (1.37%) PKI
10 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.09%) Life Science
10 4 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.92%) Linux
2 14 (3.83%) Windows
3 10 (2.73%) Unix
4 6 (1.64%) zOS
5 5 (1.37%) Android
5 5 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.55%) CentOS
7 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.55%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 62 (16.94%) Project Management
3 59 (16.12%) Agile
4 27 (7.38%) Decision-Making
5 26 (7.10%) Risk Management
6 22 (6.01%) Design Patterns
6 22 (6.01%) Waterfall
7 21 (5.74%) Migration
7 21 (5.74%) PRINCE2
8 20 (5.46%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (5.46%) Service Delivery
9 19 (5.19%) Business Case
9 19 (5.19%) Microservices
9 19 (5.19%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (4.92%) DevOps
10 18 (4.92%) ITSM
11 17 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (4.64%) ETL
12 15 (4.10%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.01%) Java
2 20 (5.46%) SQL
3 16 (4.37%) Python
4 7 (1.91%) PL/SQL
5 6 (1.64%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.09%) Bash
6 4 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) C
7 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.82%) Ruby
8 2 (0.55%) Go
8 2 (0.55%) Scala
8 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.27%) C#
9 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.27%) Groovy
9 1 (0.27%) R
9 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 32 (8.74%) Degree
1 32 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 24 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.19%) PMI Certification
3 8 (2.19%) PMP
4 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.82%) CISSP
5 3 (0.82%) HNC
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.82%) NVQ Level 4
6 2 (0.55%) ACCA
6 2 (0.55%) CIMA
6 2 (0.55%) CIPFA
6 2 (0.55%) CISA
6 2 (0.55%) CISM
6 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.46%) SLA
2 12 (3.28%) PMO
3 11 (3.01%) GDPR
4 6 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.64%) NIST
5 5 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) QA
7 2 (0.55%) COSO
7 2 (0.55%) ISO 31000
7 2 (0.55%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.27%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (1.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.64%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) SCCM
3 3 (0.82%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Consul
4 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.55%) Graphite
4 2 (0.55%) HAProxy
4 2 (0.55%) Istio
4 2 (0.55%) linkerd
4 2 (0.55%) Packer
4 2 (0.55%) Podman
4 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.55%) Puppet
4 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.10%) F5
3 25 (6.83%) SAP
4 17 (4.64%) Oracle
5 16 (4.37%) Palo Alto
6 15 (4.10%) Cisco
7 10 (2.73%) IBM
8 8 (2.19%) Databricks
9 7 (1.91%) Avaloq
9 7 (1.91%) TSYS
10 5 (1.37%) Google
10 5 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.09%) Cadence
11 4 (1.09%) Sage
11 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.82%) CA
12 3 (0.82%) Facebook
12 3 (0.82%) Splunk
12 3 (0.82%) VMware