Finance Contracts in the South West

Financial
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 13 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 325 384 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.27% 11.07% 14.98%
As % of the General category 20.15% 22.79% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 312 443
10th Percentile £305 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £613
90th Percentile £775 £749 £688
England median daily rate £596 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -0.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 9
10th Percentile £10.42 £18.05 £24.95
25th Percentile £11.87 £21.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £14.79 £38.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.43% +9.57% +120.68%
75th Percentile £22.11 £68.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £47.25 £76.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.57
% change year-on-year +4.90% -23.41% +56.50%

All General Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,613 1,685 1,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 50.96% 48.56% 50.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,241 1,315
10th Percentile £222 £275 £239
25th Percentile £413 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £599
90th Percentile £700 £715 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 112 144
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.35 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +42.84% -0.59%
75th Percentile £70.66 £70.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.66 £64.80
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +1 102 £625 +4.17% 57
Bristol -6 91 £525 -1.18% 176
Gloucestershire +18 52 £475 -13.64% 46
Somerset +7 25 £541 +8.20% 61
Devon +9 22 £600 +37.93% 59
Dorset +3 16 £513 -21.46% 38
Cornwall - 1 - - 8
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (1.23%) Confluence
2 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.62%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (9.54%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Actimize
2 4 (1.23%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 34 (10.46%) Azure
2 19 (5.85%) Power Platform
3 12 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.15%) AWS
6 2 (0.62%) Apigee
6 2 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.62%) SaaS
6 2 (0.62%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.31%) Matillion
7 1 (0.31%) npm
7 1 (0.31%) OCI
7 1 (0.31%) PaaS
7 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.31%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.31%) Serverless
7 1 (0.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) 3G
1 7 (2.15%) 4G
2 6 (1.85%) LAN
2 6 (1.85%) WAN
3 4 (1.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.62%) FTP
4 2 (0.62%) SAN
4 2 (0.62%) Skype
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) ISDN
5 1 (0.31%) PSTN
5 1 (0.31%) SMS
5 1 (0.31%) VPN
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.38%) Power BI
2 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.92%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.92%) Metadata
4 3 (0.92%) Tableau
5 2 (0.62%) OLAP
5 2 (0.62%) OLTP
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.31%) Big Data
6 1 (0.31%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.31%) DataStage
6 1 (0.31%) MySQL
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (9.85%) JIRA
2 3 (0.92%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) JMeter
3 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.31%) ERwin
4 1 (0.31%) git-flow
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) GoCD
4 1 (0.31%) NUnit
4 1 (0.31%) Postman
4 1 (0.31%) Selenium
4 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.31%) webpack
4 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 88 (27.08%) Public Sector
3 66 (20.31%) Marketing
4 63 (19.38%) Telecoms
5 59 (18.15%) Manufacturing
6 58 (17.85%) Electronics
7 54 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (9.85%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.08%) Banking
10 8 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.46%) Legal
11 7 (2.15%) Publishing
12 6 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.85%) Police
12 6 (1.85%) Retail
13 5 (1.54%) Law
14 3 (0.92%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.92%) Military
14 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (16.62%) Lead
2 49 (15.08%) Architect
3 44 (13.54%) Project Manager
4 42 (12.92%) Analyst
5 24 (7.38%) Project Leader
6 23 (7.08%) Senior
6 23 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.15%) Consultant
8 19 (5.85%) Developer
9 16 (4.92%) Administrator
9 16 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
9 16 (4.92%) Technical Architect
10 14 (4.31%) Data Analyst
10 14 (4.31%) IT Manager
11 11 (3.38%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.77%) Senior Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.46%) Support Officer
14 7 (2.15%) Business Analyst
14 7 (2.15%) Change Manager
14 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.08%) Node.js
2 6 (1.85%) GraphQL
3 5 (1.54%) Middleware
3 5 (1.54%) React
4 3 (0.92%) .NET
4 3 (0.92%) Jest
5 2 (0.62%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.62%) HTML
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.31%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.31%) CSS
6 1 (0.31%) JPA
6 1 (0.31%) Laravel
6 1 (0.31%) OAuth
6 1 (0.31%) REST
6 1 (0.31%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.08%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.46%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.46%) Public Cloud
3 6 (1.85%) NHS
3 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.92%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.62%) Blog
6 2 (0.62%) CMDB
6 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.62%) iPhone
6 2 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.62%) PMI
6 2 (0.62%) Replication
6 2 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.31%) Contactless
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.23%) Windows
2 9 (2.77%) Linux
3 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.31%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.85%) Agile
2 83 (25.54%) Project Management
3 73 (22.46%) Business Intelligence
4 66 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 64 (19.69%) Programme Management
6 59 (18.15%) Digital Marketing
7 52 (16.00%) PRINCE2
8 47 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (13.85%) Project Delivery
10 37 (11.38%) Data Management
11 30 (9.23%) Project Planning
12 29 (8.92%) Workshop Facilitation
13 28 (8.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 27 (8.31%) Commercial Awareness
15 26 (8.00%) Migration
16 25 (7.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
16 25 (7.69%) Mentoring
17 24 (7.38%) Change Management
17 24 (7.38%) Decision-Making
18 21 (6.46%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.92%) SQL
2 10 (3.08%) TypeScript
3 7 (2.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.23%) Java
4 4 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.92%) Python
6 2 (0.62%) C#
7 1 (0.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.31%) PHP
7 1 (0.31%) R
7 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (36.31%) Security Cleared
2 68 (20.92%) DV Cleared
3 61 (18.77%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.69%) APMP
5 16 (4.92%) Degree
6 5 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
6 5 (1.54%) CISSP
7 4 (1.23%) CLAS
7 4 (1.23%) HND
7 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.23%) PMP
7 4 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.62%) ACCA
8 2 (0.62%) CIMA
8 2 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.15%) PMO
2 15 (4.62%) QA
3 10 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.85%) JSP 440
4 6 (1.85%) RMADS
5 5 (1.54%) NIST
6 4 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.23%) GDPR
7 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.31%) COSO
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.31%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) SEPA
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (1.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) NFS
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.92%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.62%) Ansible
4 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.62%) SCOrch
4 2 (0.62%) Terraform
4 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Istio
5 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.31%) Puppet
5 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 79 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.00%) SAP
3 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.85%) Adobe
5 5 (1.54%) Oracle
5 5 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (0.92%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.92%) Cisco
6 3 (0.92%) Citrix
6 3 (0.92%) Civica
6 3 (0.92%) Dell
6 3 (0.92%) FIS
6 3 (0.92%) Refinitiv
6 3 (0.92%) VMware
7 2 (0.62%) BT
7 2 (0.62%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.62%) Databricks
7 2 (0.62%) Google
7 2 (0.62%) Palo Alto