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 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 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,559 3,363 4,744
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.63% 14.54% 15.45%
As % of the General category 23.20% 25.71% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,560 2,323 3,484
10th Percentile £281 £325 £315
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £740 £720 £680
UK median daily rate £582 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 63 67
10th Percentile £12.30 £16.44 £11.07
25th Percentile £14.22 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £23.39
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +103.08% +33.66%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.31 £37.43
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £50.25
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £26.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.47% -23.30% +59.09%

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 11,029 13,079 17,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.42% 56.54% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,303 8,902 11,804
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £596 £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 1,647 751 1,045
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.66 £37.00
90th Percentile £67.15 £70.00 £55.84
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 20 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 20 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 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
South East -4 632 £500 -4.76% 1,290
North of England +1 610 £500 -4.76% 976
Midlands +4 379 £538 +7.50% 613
Scotland 0 372 £489 -2.25% 298
North West +3 351 £493 -1.40% 559
South West +1 325 £560 -2.61% 454
West Midlands +3 267 £545 +9.00% 390
Yorkshire -2 236 £500 -9.09% 291
East of England +4 208 £525 +0.96% 316
East Midlands +9 103 £528 +11.05% 223
Northern Ireland -1 31 £450 - 77
North East +3 18 £500 -16.67% 133
Wales -8 17 £550 +4.76% 120
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 57 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.84%) 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
1 203 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
6 38 (1.48%) 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 (3.20%) 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
2 149 (5.82%) Power Platform
3 129 (5.04%) AWS
4 93 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
5 72 (2.81%) 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 18 (0.70%) Entra ID
12 18 (0.70%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.66%) Serverless
14 14 (0.55%) WhatsApp
15 13 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.51%) GitHub
16 12 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
17 11 (0.43%) IaaS
17 11 (0.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.11%) WAN
2 43 (1.68%) DMZ
2 43 (1.68%) Firewall
3 33 (1.29%) MPLS
4 32 (1.25%) BGP
4 32 (1.25%) VPN
5 28 (1.09%) LAN
6 26 (1.02%) SSL
7 25 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
7 25 (0.98%) DNS
8 24 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
8 24 (0.94%) Wireless
9 17 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (0.59%) ATM
11 15 (0.59%) Network Security
12 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.47%) DHCP
13 12 (0.47%) HTTP
13 12 (0.47%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.77%) Power BI
2 52 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 50 (1.95%) Tableau
4 36 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
5 34 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (1.13%) Big Data
7 21 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 18 (0.70%) Data Lake
10 17 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 16 (0.63%) DB2
11 16 (0.63%) Metadata
12 15 (0.59%) Hadoop
13 14 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.43%) OLTP
15 11 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (0.39%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
16 10 (0.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 154 (6.02%) JIRA
2 27 (1.06%) Git
3 24 (0.94%) 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%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.12%) Toad
10 3 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 738 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 333 (13.01%) Public Sector
3 331 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (12.04%) Banking
5 216 (8.44%) Telecoms
6 202 (7.89%) Manufacturing
7 195 (7.62%) Marketing
8 133 (5.20%) Electronics
9 119 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
10 113 (4.42%) Legal
11 107 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
12 94 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
13 90 (3.52%) Retail
14 71 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (1.80%) Billing
15 46 (1.80%) Law
16 43 (1.68%) Local Government
17 39 (1.52%) Financial Institution
18 32 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 410 (16.02%) Analyst
2 319 (12.47%) Project Manager
3 259 (10.12%) Architect
4 238 (9.30%) Lead
5 199 (7.78%) Senior
6 181 (7.07%) Developer
7 149 (5.82%) Consultant
8 108 (4.22%) Business Analyst
9 103 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 95 (3.71%) Data Analyst
11 70 (2.74%) Network Engineer
12 63 (2.46%) Administrator
13 60 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
14 58 (2.27%) IT Manager
15 57 (2.23%) Senior Manager
16 49 (1.91%) Finance Manager
17 48 (1.88%) Programme Manager
18 46 (1.80%) Delivery Manager
19 44 (1.72%) SAP Consultant
20 43 (1.68%) 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%) Middleware
5 30 (1.17%) .NET
5 30 (1.17%) Kafka
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
1 104 (4.06%) Management Information System
2 71 (2.77%) Product Ownership
3 60 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 53 (2.07%) NHS
5 45 (1.76%) Onboarding
5 45 (1.76%) Public Cloud
6 40 (1.56%) Credit Risk
7 36 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (0.98%) Mainframe
10 20 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 17 (0.66%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.59%) Driving Licence
12 15 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.47%) CMDB
14 12 (0.47%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.43%) FMCG
15 11 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 144 (5.63%) Windows
2 81 (3.17%) Linux
3 49 (1.91%) Unix
4 41 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.39%) Android
8 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 9 (0.35%) zOS
10 7 (0.27%) AIX
10 7 (0.27%) MVS
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.16%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.078%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (19.42%) Project Management
2 485 (18.95%) Agile
3 386 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 316 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
6 251 (9.81%) Migration
7 217 (8.48%) Project Delivery
8 204 (7.97%) ERP
9 203 (7.93%) Programme Management
10 198 (7.74%) Change Management
11 180 (7.03%) DevOps
12 173 (6.76%) Decision-Making
13 162 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 155 (6.06%) PRINCE2
15 152 (5.94%) Analytics
16 142 (5.55%) Roadmaps
17 137 (5.35%) Digital Marketing
18 121 (4.73%) Business Strategy
19 110 (4.30%) Risk Management
19 110 (4.30%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 185 (7.23%) SQL
2 111 (4.34%) Python
3 105 (4.10%) Java
4 40 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 40 (1.56%) TypeScript
5 33 (1.29%) C#
6 28 (1.09%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 273 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 240 (9.38%) Degree
3 162 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 88 (3.44%) DV Cleared
5 47 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.56%) PMP
7 37 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 36 (1.41%) ACCA
9 34 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.29%) CIMA
10 33 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.25%) APMP
12 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 16 (0.63%) CISSP
15 15 (0.59%) CCNA
15 15 (0.59%) CCNP
16 14 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.43%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (6.60%) PMO
2 82 (3.20%) QA
3 58 (2.27%) SLA
4 55 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 34 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.17%) GDPR
7 25 (0.98%) IFRS
8 21 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.59%) NIST
11 12 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.31%) HL7
14 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 45 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.13%) Docker
3 22 (0.86%) 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 29 (1.13%) Terraform
2 28 (1.09%) 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
9 6 (0.23%) AirWatch
9 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.23%) SCCM
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%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.12%) Netcool
12 3 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 358 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 325 (12.70%) SAP
3 167 (6.53%) Oracle
4 104 (4.06%) Cisco
5 61 (2.38%) F5
5 61 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 36 (1.41%) Juniper
7 33 (1.29%) CheckPoint
8 32 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.21%) Alteryx
10 29 (1.13%) Google
10 29 (1.13%) IBM
11 26 (1.02%) Adobe
11 26 (1.02%) VMware
12 25 (0.98%) Arista
13 24 (0.94%) Databricks
13 24 (0.94%) Palo Alto
14 21 (0.82%) IFS
15 19 (0.74%) Apple
16 18 (0.70%) Dell