Finance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Financial
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 3,272 5,238 8,433
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 22.35% 21.73% 19.11%
As % of the General category 37.99% 37.08% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,152 3,753 6,349
10th Percentile £400 £400 £397
25th Percentile £488 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £726 £725 £675
90th Percentile £850 £823 £751
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 56 66
10th Percentile £13.28 £21.65 £18.43
25th Percentile £22.25 £24.92 £32.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% -28.93% +30.40%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £54.00 £75.00 £53.19
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% -25.43% +67.83%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,613 14,127 24,222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.84% 58.62% 54.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 9,975 17,680
10th Percentile £329 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 320 333
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.63 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.50 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.99% +46.02% +50.67%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.79 £65.29
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

Finance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Finance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Finance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Finance.

Finance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Finance hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 149 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 130 (3.97%) Apache
3 63 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 41 (1.25%) Confluence
5 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.52%) IIS
8 15 (0.46%) SAS
9 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
11 11 (0.34%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.21%) JBoss
12 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.18%) CMS
13 6 (0.18%) nginx
13 6 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
14 5 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
14 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere Portal
15 3 (0.092%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 117 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.092%) SPSS
10 2 (0.061%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.061%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.061%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.061%) InDesign
10 2 (0.061%) Revit
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.031%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.031%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
3 29 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
4 28 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 27 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
5 27 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
6 25 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
7 21 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 19 (0.58%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
9 17 (0.52%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
11 15 (0.46%) NetSuite
11 15 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
12 14 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
13 13 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
14 12 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
14 12 (0.37%) Workday HCM
15 9 (0.28%) Oracle AGIS
Cloud Services
1 419 (12.81%) Azure
2 373 (11.40%) AWS
3 172 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 161 (4.92%) GCP
5 145 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
6 137 (4.19%) dbt
7 118 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (3.51%) Snowflake
9 70 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 51 (1.56%) SaaS
11 49 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 49 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 40 (1.22%) OCI
13 39 (1.19%) Entra ID
14 38 (1.16%) GitHub
14 38 (1.16%) WhatsApp
15 29 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (0.89%) PaaS
16 23 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.63%) Firewall
2 38 (1.16%) DNS
3 30 (0.92%) VPN
4 27 (0.83%) WAN
5 25 (0.76%) Network Security
6 24 (0.73%) Intranet
7 22 (0.67%) BGP
7 22 (0.67%) OSPF
8 21 (0.64%) LAN
9 17 (0.52%) SAN
10 14 (0.43%) HTTP
10 14 (0.43%) NX-OS
11 13 (0.40%) TCP/IP
12 10 (0.31%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.31%) VLAN
13 9 (0.28%) 4G
13 9 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.24%) ATM
14 8 (0.24%) DHCP
14 8 (0.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (5.20%) Data Lake
2 152 (4.65%) Power BI
3 134 (4.10%) Dremio
4 132 (4.03%) Apache Arrow
5 130 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
5 130 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 114 (3.48%) Apache Ignite
7 52 (1.59%) Big Data
8 51 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (1.22%) MySQL
10 38 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.13%) NoSQL
12 32 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 31 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
14 30 (0.92%) Oracle Database
15 28 (0.86%) Tableau
16 27 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (0.76%) Relational Database
18 18 (0.55%) Metadata
18 18 (0.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 131 (4.00%) JIRA
2 63 (1.93%) Git
3 51 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.98%) GitLab
5 21 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 17 (0.52%) JUnit
6 17 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.43%) JMeter
8 13 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.37%) Mockito
9 12 (0.37%) Selenium
10 11 (0.34%) ERwin
11 9 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.28%) LoadRunner
11 9 (0.28%) Maven
12 8 (0.24%) Postman
12 8 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 895 (27.35%) Banking
2 745 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 337 (10.30%) Front Office
4 322 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 243 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 179 (5.47%) Investment Banking
7 140 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 133 (4.06%) Manufacturing
9 126 (3.85%) Marketing
10 116 (3.55%) Retail
11 103 (3.15%) Financial Institution
11 103 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 99 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
13 85 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 77 (2.35%) Electronics
16 58 (1.77%) Back Office
17 48 (1.47%) General Ledger
18 45 (1.38%) Legal
19 30 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 498 (15.22%) Developer
2 475 (14.52%) Analyst
3 388 (11.86%) Architect
4 338 (10.33%) Senior
5 279 (8.53%) Consultant
6 271 (8.28%) Project Manager
7 245 (7.49%) Lead
8 234 (7.15%) Business Analyst
9 139 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 134 (4.10%) Software Engineer
11 121 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
12 87 (2.66%) Data Analyst
13 81 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
14 78 (2.38%) C# Developer
14 78 (2.38%) Senior Developer
15 75 (2.29%) Java Developer
16 70 (2.14%) Python Engineer
17 69 (2.11%) Senior Manager
18 68 (2.08%) Banking Analyst
18 68 (2.08%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (4.37%) gRPC
2 141 (4.31%) Protocol Buffers
3 119 (3.64%) .NET
4 115 (3.51%) Pandas
5 111 (3.39%) React
6 109 (3.33%) NumPy
7 108 (3.30%) SciPy
8 86 (2.63%) AngularJS
9 74 (2.26%) HTML
10 61 (1.86%) CSS
11 55 (1.68%) Web Services
12 54 (1.65%) XML
13 51 (1.56%) Middleware
14 46 (1.41%) Node.js
15 39 (1.19%) Kafka
15 39 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
16 37 (1.13%) REST
17 32 (0.98%) Redux
18 30 (0.92%) Spring Boot
19 28 (0.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 237 (7.24%) Derivative
2 214 (6.54%) Hedge funds
3 197 (6.02%) Fixed Income
4 168 (5.13%) Equities
5 163 (4.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 93 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 60 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 38 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.01%) Clustering
12 32 (0.98%) Data Structures
13 31 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 29 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 29 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (0.76%) Mainframe
15 25 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
17 19 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
17 19 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 164 (5.01%) Windows
2 116 (3.55%) Linux
3 72 (2.20%) Unix
4 52 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 28 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.46%) MVS
9 14 (0.43%) Android
9 14 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.40%) VMS
10 13 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.31%) AIX
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.21%) Solaris
14 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.12%) zOS
17 2 (0.061%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (21.27%) Agile
2 392 (11.98%) Change Management
3 345 (10.54%) DevOps
4 324 (9.90%) Project Management
5 309 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 292 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
7 275 (8.40%) Asset Management
8 265 (8.10%) Migration
8 265 (8.10%) Software Engineering
9 257 (7.85%) Business Intelligence
10 220 (6.72%) Investment Management
11 208 (6.36%) Analytics
12 188 (5.75%) ERP
13 166 (5.07%) CI/CD
14 157 (4.80%) Project Delivery
15 130 (3.97%) Roadmaps
16 129 (3.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 129 (3.94%) Data Modelling
17 124 (3.79%) Mentoring
18 117 (3.58%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 463 (14.15%) Python
2 421 (12.87%) SQL
3 328 (10.02%) Java
4 268 (8.19%) JavaScript
5 220 (6.72%) C#
6 174 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 72 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 48 (1.47%) C++
9 39 (1.19%) Go
10 36 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 35 (1.07%) R
12 28 (0.86%) Perl
12 28 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 23 (0.70%) Bash
14 22 (0.67%) Scala
15 21 (0.64%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.46%) PHP
16 15 (0.46%) VBA
17 13 (0.40%) Ruby
18 11 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 262 (8.01%) Degree
2 168 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 129 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 54 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 45 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 33 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (0.98%) CISSP
10 29 (0.89%) CCNP
11 24 (0.73%) CISM
12 23 (0.70%) PMP
13 21 (0.64%) PMI Certification
14 20 (0.61%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.61%) CCNA
15 18 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 17 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
16 17 (0.52%) PhD
17 15 (0.46%) ACCA
17 15 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 102 (3.12%) QA
3 95 (2.90%) PMO
4 50 (1.53%) SLA
5 39 (1.19%) GDPR
6 33 (1.01%) NIST
7 27 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 20 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.52%) IFRS
11 16 (0.49%) MiFID
12 12 (0.37%) GAAP
12 12 (0.37%) GRC
12 12 (0.37%) SEPA
13 11 (0.34%) EMIR
14 8 (0.24%) COBIT
15 6 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
15 6 (0.18%) P3O
16 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 101 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 59 (1.80%) Docker
3 25 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.46%) IAG
5 14 (0.43%) ACF2
5 14 (0.43%) RACF
6 9 (0.28%) vSphere
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.092%) Firmware
11 2 (0.061%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.031%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 80 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 71 (2.17%) Terraform
3 57 (1.74%) Ansible
4 36 (1.10%) SCCM
5 26 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.49%) Puppet
7 13 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.31%) Grafana
9 9 (0.28%) Data Guard
9 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (0.21%) Tivoli
11 6 (0.18%) Nessus
12 5 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
12 5 (0.15%) logstash
12 5 (0.15%) Netcool
12 5 (0.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 334 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 263 (8.04%) SAP
3 251 (7.67%) Oracle
4 118 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 88 (2.69%) Cisco
6 49 (1.50%) IBM
7 48 (1.47%) Databricks
8 47 (1.44%) Google
9 42 (1.28%) F5
9 42 (1.28%) VMware
10 36 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 34 (1.04%) Splunk
12 30 (0.92%) Qualys
13 23 (0.70%) CheckPoint
13 23 (0.70%) Fortinet
13 23 (0.70%) Informatica
13 23 (0.70%) Workday
14 22 (0.67%) Adobe
15 20 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.61%) Sybase