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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,057 10,822 15,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.39% 22.33% 21.34%
As % of the General category 33.31% 37.70% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,918 7,839 10,777
10th Percentile £363 £400 £385
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £731 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 100 134
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.73 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.50 £21.24 £20.56
Median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.57
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -23.41% +56.50%
75th Percentile £38.12 £49.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £54.00 £72.75 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £26.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.47% -23.30% +59.09%

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 21,189 28,708 40,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.25% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,665 20,155 28,265
10th Percentile £281 £315 £317
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 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 931 1,312
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.59 £70.00 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 4,703 £613 -2.39% 3,585
South East -4 632 £500 -4.76% 1,317
North of England +1 610 £500 -4.76% 963
Midlands +4 379 £538 +7.50% 616
North West +3 351 £493 -1.40% 550
South West +1 325 £560 -2.61% 450
West Midlands +3 267 £545 +9.00% 392
Yorkshire -2 236 £500 -9.09% 288
East of England +4 208 £525 +0.96% 319
East Midlands +9 103 £528 +11.05% 224
North East +3 18 £500 -16.67% 132
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
1 223 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 206 (2.92%) Apache
3 143 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 93 (1.32%) Confluence
5 73 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 50 (0.71%) 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
1 348 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 139 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 99 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 12 (0.17%) Sketch
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.099%) InVision
11 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.071%) Chatbot
13 4 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.057%) InDesign
14 2 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.028%) Revit
14 2 (0.028%) SPSS
14 2 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 174 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 48 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 41 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 41 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 35 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 35 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
6 33 (0.47%) SAP CO
7 31 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 31 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
8 30 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 30 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 26 (0.37%) NetSuite
10 25 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
11 24 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
11 24 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 23 (0.33%) Endur
12 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
13 21 (0.30%) Loan IQ
14 20 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (14.65%) Azure
2 788 (11.17%) AWS
3 387 (5.48%) Power Platform
4 355 (5.03%) GCP
5 228 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 224 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
7 223 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 159 (2.25%) Snowflake
9 139 (1.97%) dbt
10 121 (1.71%) SaaS
11 105 (1.49%) Entra ID
12 90 (1.28%) WhatsApp
13 83 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 79 (1.12%) PowerApps
15 75 (1.06%) GitHub
16 72 (1.02%) Serverless
17 69 (0.98%) PaaS
18 54 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
18 54 (0.77%) IaaS
19 48 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 179 (2.54%) Firewall
2 97 (1.37%) WAN
3 84 (1.19%) DNS
4 75 (1.06%) VPN
5 62 (0.88%) BGP
6 57 (0.81%) LAN
7 54 (0.77%) MPLS
8 53 (0.75%) 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 31 (0.44%) TCP/IP
15 30 (0.43%) Internet
15 30 (0.43%) SAN
16 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
16 29 (0.41%) DHCP
17 25 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (4.86%) Power BI
2 266 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 209 (2.96%) Data Lake
4 181 (2.56%) Apache Ignite
5 137 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
6 132 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
6 132 (1.87%) Dremio
7 123 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 117 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
9 115 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 114 (1.62%) Tableau
11 85 (1.20%) Big Data
11 85 (1.20%) Metadata
12 84 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 75 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 62 (0.88%) MySQL
15 58 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 56 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
17 53 (0.75%) Oracle Database
18 44 (0.62%) KDB
Development Applications
1 282 (4.00%) JIRA
2 133 (1.88%) Git
3 111 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 66 (0.94%) Cypress.io
5 60 (0.85%) GitLab
6 54 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.62%) JUnit
8 39 (0.55%) Selenium
9 30 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 22 (0.31%) ERwin
12 22 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 20 (0.28%) Postman
14 17 (0.24%) JMeter
15 16 (0.23%) Mockito
16 15 (0.21%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.21%) Gradle
16 15 (0.21%) Maven
17 13 (0.18%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,787 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 1,567 (22.20%) Banking
3 834 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 596 (8.45%) Front Office
5 547 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 399 (5.65%) Marketing
7 374 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 353 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 323 (4.58%) Investment Banking
10 255 (3.61%) Electronics
11 248 (3.51%) Financial Institution
11 248 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
12 239 (3.39%) Retail
13 211 (2.99%) Legal
14 181 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
15 167 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
16 147 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 109 (1.54%) Back Office
18 95 (1.35%) Law
19 76 (1.08%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,097 (15.54%) Analyst
2 1,066 (15.11%) Developer
3 687 (9.74%) Senior
4 686 (9.72%) Architect
5 683 (9.68%) Project Manager
6 576 (8.16%) Lead
7 473 (6.70%) Business Analyst
8 469 (6.65%) Consultant
9 263 (3.73%) Software Engineer
10 239 (3.39%) Financial Analyst
11 237 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 196 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 187 (2.65%) Python Developer
14 175 (2.48%) Java Developer
15 151 (2.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 142 (2.01%) Senior Developer
17 141 (2.00%) Python Engineer
18 140 (1.98%) IT Manager
19 136 (1.93%) Finance Manager
20 134 (1.90%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (4.08%) React
2 250 (3.54%) .NET
3 215 (3.05%) gRPC
4 207 (2.93%) Protocol Buffers
5 146 (2.07%) Pandas
6 138 (1.96%) NumPy
7 136 (1.93%) HTML
8 135 (1.91%) AngularJS
9 124 (1.76%) Redux
10 121 (1.71%) SciPy
11 107 (1.52%) Node.js
12 104 (1.47%) REST
13 102 (1.45%) Spring
14 100 (1.42%) CSS
14 100 (1.42%) XML
15 96 (1.36%) Kafka
16 94 (1.33%) Web Services
17 83 (1.18%) Material-UI
18 65 (0.92%) Spring Boot
19 64 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 395 (5.60%) Derivative
2 373 (5.29%) Hedge funds
3 365 (5.17%) Fixed Income
4 290 (4.11%) Equities
5 263 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 230 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 224 (3.17%) Product Ownership
8 118 (1.67%) Data Centre
9 110 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 90 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 89 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 81 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 77 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 73 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 66 (0.94%) Algorithms
16 63 (0.89%) Credit Risk
17 58 (0.82%) NHS
18 56 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
19 48 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
20 47 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 429 (6.08%) Windows
2 269 (3.81%) Linux
3 192 (2.72%) Unix
4 95 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 93 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 34 (0.48%) Android
8 33 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (0.44%) Windows 7
10 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (0.23%) 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 1,511 (21.41%) Agile
2 868 (12.30%) Project Management
3 805 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
4 756 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 680 (9.64%) DevOps
6 645 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
7 623 (8.83%) Migration
8 536 (7.60%) Change Management
9 514 (7.28%) Asset Management
10 511 (7.24%) Software Engineering
11 453 (6.42%) Analytics
12 410 (5.81%) Project Delivery
13 403 (5.71%) CI/CD
14 388 (5.50%) Programme Management
15 381 (5.40%) Risk Management
16 370 (5.24%) Investment Management
17 361 (5.12%) ERP
18 336 (4.76%) Roadmaps
19 331 (4.69%) Decision-Making
20 317 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 939 (13.31%) SQL
2 892 (12.64%) Python
3 638 (9.04%) Java
4 417 (5.91%) C#
5 393 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 336 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 199 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 107 (1.52%) C++
9 79 (1.12%) PL/SQL
10 66 (0.94%) Scala
11 65 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 57 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 55 (0.78%) R
14 54 (0.77%) Go
15 46 (0.65%) Bash
15 46 (0.65%) Perl
16 41 (0.58%) VBA
17 31 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.40%) Rust
19 22 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 652 (9.24%) Degree
2 511 (7.24%) Security Cleared
3 355 (5.03%) SC Cleared
4 137 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 128 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 103 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 96 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 90 (1.28%) CISSP
9 82 (1.16%) PMP
10 81 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 68 (0.96%) CISM
12 58 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 56 (0.79%) ACCA
14 50 (0.71%) CIMA
15 45 (0.64%) CCNP
16 38 (0.54%) CCNA
16 38 (0.54%) CISA
16 38 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 35 (0.50%) APMP
18 34 (0.48%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (4.00%) QA
2 279 (3.95%) PMO
3 202 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 121 (1.71%) SLA
5 91 (1.29%) GDPR
6 87 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 76 (1.08%) NIST
8 59 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 49 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 47 (0.67%) IFRS
11 35 (0.50%) GRC
12 31 (0.44%) 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 (0.26%) 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
1 253 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 124 (1.76%) Docker
3 47 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.62%) 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
10 7 (0.099%) 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 (0.043%) KVM
12 3 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.043%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 187 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 144 (2.04%) Terraform
3 106 (1.50%) Ansible
4 62 (0.88%) SCCM
5 35 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 33 (0.47%) Puppet
7 32 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.35%) Endace
10 22 (0.31%) Grafana
10 22 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.20%) Kibana
12 13 (0.18%) logstash
13 12 (0.17%) Netcool
13 12 (0.17%) PingFederate
14 11 (0.16%) Nessus
14 11 (0.16%) Tivoli
15 10 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
15 10 (0.14%) Packer
16 9 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 892 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 664 (9.41%) SAP
3 474 (6.72%) Oracle
4 225 (3.19%) Cisco
5 197 (2.79%) ServiceNow
6 165 (2.34%) Google
7 102 (1.45%) F5
8 90 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 89 (1.26%) Databricks
10 81 (1.15%) VMware
11 77 (1.09%) IBM
12 71 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 63 (0.89%) Citrix
14 62 (0.88%) CheckPoint
15 57 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 53 (0.75%) Adobe
17 46 (0.65%) Splunk
17 46 (0.65%) Workday
18 43 (0.61%) Juniper
19 40 (0.57%) Qualys