Finance Contracts in the West Midlands

Financial
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 268 322 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.12% 14.55% 14.35%
As % of the General category 24.47% 25.93% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 212 389
10th Percentile £340 £313 £315
25th Percentile £450 £414 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% +16.71%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £788 £731 £689
England median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.47 -
25th Percentile £13.88 £23.29 -
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.19 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +121.43% +36.15%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £18.60
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.13 £19.14
England median hourly rate £28.00 £27.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.07% -20.06% +70.73%

All General Skills
West Midlands

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,095 1,242 2,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.62% 56.12% 57.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 870 1,537
10th Percentile £250 £262 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +17.02%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £703 £675
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 45 45
10th Percentile £11.15 £12.20 £11.55
25th Percentile £13.93 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.30 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +23.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £34.73 £28.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £54.00 £22.25
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the West Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +4 125 £500 -4.76% 169
Warwickshire -1 67 £694 +26.14% 37
Coventry +2 19 £625 +27.55% 29
Solihull -1 12 £470 +65.64% 10
Shropshire -4 10 £315 -3.08% 12
Worcestershire -1 9 £275 -38.89% 19
Staffordshire +1 5 £438 -7.89% 51
Wolverhampton +3 1 £475 +187.44% 14
Herefordshire -12 1 - - 9
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.37%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (3.36%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.12%) Exstream
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.75%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.75%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.37%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.19%) Azure
2 20 (7.46%) AWS
3 17 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.36%) OCI
5 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.24%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.87%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.75%) GCP
10 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.75%) Serverless
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub
11 1 (0.37%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.37%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.73%) VPN
2 8 (2.99%) LAN
2 8 (2.99%) WAN
3 7 (2.61%) DNS
4 6 (2.24%) Junos
4 6 (2.24%) Network Security
5 5 (1.87%) BGP
5 5 (1.87%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (1.87%) IPsec
5 5 (1.87%) MPLS
6 3 (1.12%) Intranet
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) Firewall
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.34%) Power BI
2 8 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.87%) Metadata
5 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.12%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.75%) Power Query
7 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.75%) Tableau
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.37%) MS Access
8 1 (0.37%) MySQL
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.87%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.75%) webpack
4 1 (0.37%) Ant
4 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Gradle
4 1 (0.37%) JUnit
4 1 (0.37%) Maven
4 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 75 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.84%) Law
5 16 (5.97%) Banking
5 16 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.73%) Legal
7 9 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.99%) Marketing
8 8 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.61%) Retail
10 6 (2.24%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.87%) Billing
11 5 (1.87%) Local Government
11 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 49 (18.28%) Analyst
2 40 (14.93%) Project Manager
3 32 (11.94%) Architect
3 32 (11.94%) Senior
4 29 (10.82%) Lead
5 23 (8.58%) Consultant
6 21 (7.84%) Developer
7 20 (7.46%) IT Manager
8 18 (6.72%) Business Manager
9 14 (5.22%) Change Manager
10 11 (4.10%) PMO Analyst
11 10 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 8 (2.99%) Business Change Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Financial Analyst
13 8 (2.99%) IT Analyst
13 8 (2.99%) Service Analyst
14 7 (2.61%) Lead Architect
14 7 (2.61%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.36%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.61%) AngularJS
2 7 (2.61%) React
3 6 (2.24%) SAML
3 6 (2.24%) Spring
4 5 (1.87%) OAuth
4 5 (1.87%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.49%) .NET
6 3 (1.12%) Vue
7 2 (0.75%) CSS
7 2 (0.75%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.75%) HTML
7 2 (0.75%) HTML5
7 2 (0.75%) LDAP
7 2 (0.75%) Middleware
7 2 (0.75%) RESTful
7 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (0.37%) ADO
8 1 (0.37%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.10%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.36%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.36%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.75%) CCTV
7 2 (0.75%) FMCG
7 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.09%) Windows
2 5 (1.87%) Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Android
3 3 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (19.03%) Project Management
3 45 (16.79%) Agile
4 34 (12.69%) Roadmaps
5 32 (11.94%) ERP
5 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (10.82%) Change Management
7 26 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (8.58%) Decision-Making
9 21 (7.84%) Migration
10 20 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (6.72%) Risk Management
12 16 (5.97%) Business Transformation
12 16 (5.97%) CRM
12 16 (5.97%) Project Delivery
12 16 (5.97%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (5.60%) Resource Management
14 14 (5.22%) Coaching
14 14 (5.22%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.97%) SQL
2 13 (4.85%) Java
3 12 (4.48%) Python
4 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.12%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.12%) C#
5 3 (1.12%) R
5 3 (1.12%) SOQL
6 2 (0.75%) C
6 2 (0.75%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) Bash
7 1 (0.37%) COBOL
7 1 (0.37%) ProC
7 1 (0.37%) Scala
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.97%) Degree
3 10 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.61%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.61%) PMP
5 6 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.24%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.87%) CCNP
6 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) CCNA
8 3 (1.12%) ACCA
8 3 (1.12%) CIMA
8 3 (1.12%) ISEB
8 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.12%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.75%) CISSP
9 2 (0.75%) CRISC
9 2 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) PMO
2 10 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.99%) QA
4 6 (2.24%) SLA
5 5 (1.87%) GDPR
6 3 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS
8 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.24%) Docker
3 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) IAG
5 1 (0.37%) iptables
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) XenApp
5 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) SCCM
2 2 (0.75%) AirWatch
2 2 (0.75%) CEMLI
2 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Kibana
3 1 (0.37%) logstash
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.37%) Puppet
3 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.09%) Oracle
3 13 (4.85%) SAP
4 7 (2.61%) Anaplan
4 7 (2.61%) Cisco
5 6 (2.24%) Juniper
5 6 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.24%) VMware
6 4 (1.49%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.12%) Databricks
7 3 (1.12%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.12%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.12%) OpenText
7 3 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
7 3 (1.12%) Sage
8 2 (0.75%) Apple
8 2 (0.75%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.75%) Samsung
8 2 (0.75%) Workday