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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,589 3,313 4,747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.46% 15.43%
As % of the General category 23.26% 25.70% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,274 3,479
10th Percentile £280 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £577 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -3.92% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 64 70
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.07 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.50 £22.12 £14.44
Median hourly rate £29.41 £48.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.04% +48.46% +85.71%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.16 £37.48
90th Percentile £57.38 £75.00 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £37.43
% change year-on-year +0.58% -28.28% +80.39%

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 11,133 12,891 17,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.65% 56.26% 55.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,295 8,755 11,877
10th Percentile £205 £229 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,687 724 1,043
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £28.07 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +43.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £36.08
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £55.97
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +44.00% +5.88%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 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
South East -4 666 £500 -4.76% 890
North of England +2 631 £500 -8.26% 1,017
Midlands +4 383 £550 +10.00% 603
North West +5 364 £490 -6.67% 637
Scotland 0 359 £475 -5.00% 328
South West 0 330 £550 -4.35% 477
West Midlands +3 264 £550 +4.76% 373
Yorkshire -2 242 £500 -9.09% 268
East of England +2 189 £500 -3.85% 298
East Midlands +7 110 £550 +15.79% 230
Northern Ireland +1 27 £450 -5.26% 84
North East +6 20 £513 -14.58% 124
Wales -4 18 £550 +4.76% 115
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 +96.20% 5
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 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.85%) Confluence
3 17 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (0.58%) SAS
5 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.15%) IIS
9 4 (0.15%) nginx
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.077%) CICS
11 2 (0.077%) CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 204 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 156 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
6 36 (1.39%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.15%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.077%) InVision
9 2 (0.077%) Sketch
10 1 (0.039%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.039%) Trello
10 1 (0.039%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 71 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.97%) SAP FI
3 24 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 21 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 18 (0.70%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
10 13 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
12 10 (0.39%) SAP SD
13 8 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 8 (0.31%) Temenos T24
13 8 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 241 (9.31%) Azure
2 148 (5.72%) Power Platform
3 138 (5.33%) AWS
4 91 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 77 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.54%) SaaS
8 39 (1.51%) OCI
9 35 (1.35%) GCP
10 31 (1.20%) Snowflake
11 23 (0.89%) PowerApps
12 20 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.66%) Entra ID
13 17 (0.66%) Serverless
14 11 (0.42%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.42%) GitHub
14 11 (0.42%) WhatsApp
15 10 (0.39%) PaaS
16 9 (0.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.09%) WAN
2 52 (2.01%) Firewall
3 43 (1.66%) DMZ
4 33 (1.27%) MPLS
5 32 (1.24%) BGP
6 31 (1.20%) VPN
7 29 (1.12%) LAN
8 26 (1.00%) SSL
8 26 (1.00%) Wireless
9 25 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
10 22 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
11 21 (0.81%) DNS
12 17 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (0.62%) Network Security
13 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.58%) ATM
15 10 (0.39%) HTTP
15 10 (0.39%) Skype
15 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (4.63%) Power BI
2 51 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.89%) Tableau
4 36 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 31 (1.20%) Big Data
7 21 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.58%) DB2
11 15 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 13 (0.50%) Metadata
12 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
13 12 (0.46%) Impala
14 11 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.42%) OLTP
15 10 (0.39%) MySQL
15 10 (0.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 155 (5.99%) JIRA
2 27 (1.04%) Git
3 23 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.39%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) JUnit
6 7 (0.27%) JMeter
6 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.19%) Selenium
8 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.12%) ERwin
10 3 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
10 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.12%) Maven
10 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) Toad
10 3 (0.12%) webpack
11 2 (0.077%) CircleCI
General
1 741 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 333 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 321 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 309 (11.94%) Banking
5 219 (8.46%) Telecoms
6 200 (7.72%) Marketing
7 199 (7.69%) Manufacturing
8 132 (5.10%) Electronics
9 116 (4.48%) Legal
10 115 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
11 104 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
12 91 (3.51%) Retail
13 90 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
14 76 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (1.78%) Law
16 44 (1.70%) Local Government
17 42 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 37 (1.43%) Billing
19 23 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 407 (15.72%) Analyst
2 329 (12.71%) Project Manager
3 274 (10.58%) Architect
4 227 (8.77%) Lead
5 216 (8.34%) Senior
6 194 (7.49%) Developer
7 151 (5.83%) Consultant
8 107 (4.13%) Business Analyst
9 98 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 94 (3.63%) Data Analyst
11 76 (2.94%) Network Engineer
12 70 (2.70%) IT Manager
13 69 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 67 (2.59%) Administrator
15 65 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
16 50 (1.93%) Programme Manager
17 47 (1.82%) Delivery Manager
18 44 (1.70%) SAP Consultant
19 43 (1.66%) Finance Manager
20 41 (1.58%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.62%) Spring
2 41 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (1.27%) React
4 32 (1.24%) Kafka
4 32 (1.24%) Middleware
5 27 (1.04%) REST
6 26 (1.00%) .NET
7 25 (0.97%) HTML
8 24 (0.93%) RESTful
8 24 (0.93%) Spring Boot
9 23 (0.89%) Node.js
10 22 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 21 (0.81%) CSS
12 13 (0.50%) Web Services
13 11 (0.42%) JSON
13 11 (0.42%) XML
14 10 (0.39%) ADO
14 10 (0.39%) J2EE
14 10 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (3.63%) Management Information System
2 63 (2.43%) Data Centre
2 63 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 49 (1.89%) NHS
4 42 (1.62%) Onboarding
5 41 (1.58%) Public Cloud
6 37 (1.43%) Credit Risk
7 35 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (0.93%) Mainframe
10 21 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 19 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 18 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.58%) Driving Licence
14 14 (0.54%) CMDB
15 13 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.42%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.52%) Windows
2 81 (3.13%) Linux
3 50 (1.93%) Unix
4 39 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.42%) zOS
8 10 (0.39%) Android
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 9 (0.35%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.27%) AIX
11 7 (0.27%) MVS
11 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.077%) CentOS
13 2 (0.077%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.077%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (18.89%) Agile
2 486 (18.77%) Project Management
3 377 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 327 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
5 283 (10.93%) Business Intelligence
6 253 (9.77%) Migration
7 216 (8.34%) Project Delivery
8 208 (8.03%) ERP
9 205 (7.92%) Change Management
10 198 (7.65%) Programme Management
11 169 (6.53%) DevOps
12 162 (6.26%) Decision-Making
13 158 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 153 (5.91%) PRINCE2
15 149 (5.76%) Analytics
16 136 (5.25%) Digital Marketing
16 136 (5.25%) Roadmaps
17 119 (4.60%) Business Strategy
18 111 (4.29%) Waterfall
19 106 (4.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (7.11%) SQL
2 114 (4.40%) Python
3 110 (4.25%) Java
4 38 (1.47%) TypeScript
5 37 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.16%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.12%) C#
7 29 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.66%) Bash
9 17 (0.66%) Perl
10 15 (0.58%) R
11 13 (0.50%) ABAP
11 13 (0.50%) C
11 13 (0.50%) Scala
11 13 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.31%) Swift
12 8 (0.31%) X++
13 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 280 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 238 (9.19%) Degree
3 157 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 92 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 45 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (1.62%) PMP
7 36 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.35%) ACCA
9 34 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 32 (1.24%) CIMA
10 32 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.16%) APMP
12 18 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 15 (0.58%) CCNP
13 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.50%) CCNA
14 13 (0.50%) CISSP
15 12 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (6.60%) PMO
2 83 (3.21%) QA
3 56 (2.16%) SLA
4 50 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.00%) GDPR
7 24 (0.93%) IFRS
8 20 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.58%) NIST
11 9 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 8 (0.31%) HL7
12 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.19%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 47 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.08%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.39%) vSphere
5 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.039%) GPFS
11 1 (0.039%) HDFS
11 1 (0.039%) IAG
11 1 (0.039%) iptables
11 1 (0.039%) NFS
11 1 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 28 (1.08%) Terraform
2 25 (0.97%) Ansible
2 25 (0.97%) Endace
3 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.39%) Nessus
4 10 (0.39%) SCCM
5 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.23%) Puppet
7 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.19%) WSUS
8 4 (0.15%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.15%) Istio
8 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.12%) Podman
9 3 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 365 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 315 (12.17%) SAP
3 169 (6.53%) Oracle
4 103 (3.98%) Cisco
5 68 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.55%) F5
7 36 (1.39%) Juniper
8 34 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.27%) CheckPoint
9 33 (1.27%) Google
10 32 (1.24%) Alteryx
11 29 (1.12%) IBM
12 27 (1.04%) Adobe
12 27 (1.04%) Databricks
13 25 (0.97%) Arista
14 24 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.93%) VMware
15 23 (0.89%) IFS
16 18 (0.70%) Apple
17 17 (0.66%) Splunk