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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,569 3,311 4,685
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.58% 14.46% 15.40%
As % of the General category 23.21% 25.67% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,283 3,432
10th Percentile £283 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £683
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 63 66
10th Percentile £12.34 £16.44 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.36 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.78% +69.70% +65.00%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.31 £37.43
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.10% -14.29% +62.79%

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 11,067 12,900 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.18% 56.34% 55.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,768 11,685
10th Percentile £210 £231 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 734 1,037
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.60 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +41.54% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.09 £37.00
90th Percentile £67.04 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -3 642 £500 -4.76% 1,655
North of England +1 627 £500 -4.76% 961
Midlands +4 378 £548 +9.50% 621
Scotland 0 361 £488 -2.50% 317
North West +5 356 £490 -2.00% 561
South West +3 325 £550 -4.35% 446
West Midlands +3 262 £548 +6.83% 387
Yorkshire -1 247 £500 -9.09% 284
East of England +3 198 £500 -3.85% 318
East Midlands +9 107 £530 +11.58% 232
Northern Ireland -1 32 £443 -4.32% 76
North East +5 19 £500 -16.67% 124
Wales -6 18 £550 +4.76% 110
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 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.83%) Confluence
3 17 (0.66%) SAS
4 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.16%) Apache
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
12 2 (0.078%) CICS
12 2 (0.078%) Traefik
Applications
1 206 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.83%) 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 73 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
2 25 (0.97%) SAP FI
3 24 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
6 19 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
7 17 (0.66%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 16 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
9 13 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
10 12 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
11 11 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
12 10 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
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
1 230 (8.95%) Azure
2 145 (5.64%) Power Platform
3 125 (4.87%) AWS
4 93 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.52%) OCI
8 38 (1.48%) SaaS
9 33 (1.28%) GCP
10 30 (1.17%) Snowflake
11 20 (0.78%) PowerApps
12 19 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 18 (0.70%) Entra ID
14 16 (0.62%) Serverless
15 13 (0.51%) WhatsApp
16 12 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (0.43%) GitHub
17 11 (0.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
18 10 (0.39%) Apigee
18 10 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.10%) WAN
2 44 (1.71%) Firewall
3 43 (1.67%) DMZ
4 33 (1.28%) MPLS
5 32 (1.25%) BGP
5 32 (1.25%) VPN
6 29 (1.13%) LAN
7 26 (1.01%) SSL
8 25 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
9 24 (0.93%) DNS
9 24 (0.93%) Wireless
10 22 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 15 (0.58%) ATM
13 15 (0.58%) Network Security
14 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
15 12 (0.47%) HTTP
15 12 (0.47%) Skype
16 11 (0.43%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (4.63%) Power BI
2 54 (2.10%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.91%) Tableau
4 35 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
5 33 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (1.09%) Big Data
7 20 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 20 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 19 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.62%) DB2
9 16 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 14 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 14 (0.54%) Metadata
11 12 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.43%) OLTP
13 10 (0.39%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
13 10 (0.39%) OLAP
13 10 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 149 (5.80%) JIRA
2 27 (1.05%) Git
3 23 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.39%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) JUnit
6 8 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.27%) JMeter
8 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.19%) Selenium
10 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.12%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.12%) ERwin
11 3 (0.12%) Gradle
11 3 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.12%) Toad
11 3 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 732 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 330 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 329 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 316 (12.30%) Banking
5 219 (8.52%) Telecoms
6 200 (7.79%) Manufacturing
7 195 (7.59%) Marketing
8 131 (5.10%) Electronics
9 123 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
10 114 (4.44%) Legal
11 105 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
12 92 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
13 91 (3.54%) Retail
14 73 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (1.79%) Law
16 45 (1.75%) Billing
16 45 (1.75%) Local Government
17 40 (1.56%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 23 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 406 (15.80%) Analyst
2 333 (12.96%) Project Manager
3 264 (10.28%) Architect
4 228 (8.88%) Lead
5 205 (7.98%) Senior
6 183 (7.12%) Developer
7 147 (5.72%) Consultant
8 110 (4.28%) Business Analyst
9 102 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (3.58%) Data Analyst
11 74 (2.88%) Network Engineer
12 71 (2.76%) IT Manager
13 64 (2.49%) Administrator
14 61 (2.37%) Financial Analyst
14 61 (2.37%) Senior Manager
15 50 (1.95%) Programme Manager
16 46 (1.79%) Delivery Manager
17 45 (1.75%) Finance Manager
17 45 (1.75%) PMO Analyst
18 42 (1.63%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 38 (1.48%) Spring
3 35 (1.36%) React
4 31 (1.21%) Kafka
4 31 (1.21%) Middleware
5 26 (1.01%) .NET
5 26 (1.01%) REST
6 25 (0.97%) HTML
7 24 (0.93%) CSS
8 22 (0.86%) AngularJS
8 22 (0.86%) Node.js
8 22 (0.86%) RESTful
9 21 (0.82%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.51%) Web Services
10 13 (0.51%) XML
11 11 (0.43%) JSON
12 10 (0.39%) Gherkin
12 10 (0.39%) J2EE
12 10 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (0.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.89%) Management Information System
2 67 (2.61%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 51 (1.99%) NHS
5 45 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 44 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 38 (1.48%) Credit Risk
8 35 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (0.97%) Mainframe
11 22 (0.86%) Data Structures
12 17 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.58%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.58%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.47%) CMDB
15 12 (0.47%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.43%) FMCG
16 11 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.53%) Windows
2 80 (3.11%) Linux
3 50 (1.95%) Unix
4 40 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.43%) Android
8 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.39%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.39%) zOS
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
10 7 (0.27%) AIX
10 7 (0.27%) MVS
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.078%) CentOS
14 2 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (19.07%) Project Management
2 487 (18.96%) Agile
3 382 (14.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 317 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
6 247 (9.61%) Migration
7 222 (8.64%) Project Delivery
8 206 (8.02%) Change Management
9 204 (7.94%) ERP
10 202 (7.86%) Programme Management
11 171 (6.66%) DevOps
12 170 (6.62%) Decision-Making
13 161 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 158 (6.15%) PRINCE2
15 148 (5.76%) Analytics
16 137 (5.33%) Roadmaps
17 135 (5.25%) Digital Marketing
18 121 (4.71%) Business Strategy
19 109 (4.24%) Waterfall
20 108 (4.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 182 (7.08%) SQL
2 112 (4.36%) Python
3 109 (4.24%) Java
4 40 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.52%) TypeScript
6 30 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.13%) C#
8 28 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 23 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 20 (0.78%) Perl
11 16 (0.62%) Bash
12 14 (0.54%) R
12 14 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.47%) ABAP
13 12 (0.47%) Scala
14 11 (0.43%) C
15 8 (0.31%) Swift
15 8 (0.31%) X++
16 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 273 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 240 (9.34%) Degree
3 157 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 88 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 47 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (1.52%) PMP
7 36 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.36%) ACCA
9 34 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 32 (1.25%) APMP
10 32 (1.25%) CIMA
11 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 15 (0.58%) CCNA
12 15 (0.58%) CCNP
13 13 (0.51%) CISSP
14 11 (0.43%) DBS Check
14 11 (0.43%) ICAEW
14 11 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.77%) PMO
2 84 (3.27%) QA
3 60 (2.34%) SLA
4 51 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 34 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.09%) GDPR
7 25 (0.97%) IFRS
8 21 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.54%) NIST
11 10 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
12 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.31%) HL7
14 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.23%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 46 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.13%) Docker
3 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.31%) vSphere
6 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.16%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) GPFS
8 3 (0.12%) KVM
8 3 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.078%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) HDFS
10 1 (0.039%) IAG
10 1 (0.039%) iptables
10 1 (0.039%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (1.09%) Terraform
2 27 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 25 (0.97%) Ansible
3 25 (0.97%) Endace
4 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.27%) SCCM
7 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.23%) Puppet
8 5 (0.19%) Nessus
8 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.16%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.16%) Istio
9 4 (0.16%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 359 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 314 (12.22%) SAP
3 164 (6.38%) Oracle
4 102 (3.97%) Cisco
5 64 (2.49%) F5
6 62 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.40%) Juniper
8 34 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 32 (1.25%) Google
11 31 (1.21%) Alteryx
12 30 (1.17%) IBM
13 27 (1.05%) VMware
14 26 (1.01%) Adobe
15 25 (0.97%) Arista
16 24 (0.93%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.90%) Databricks
17 23 (0.90%) IFS
18 17 (0.66%) Apple
19 16 (0.62%) Informatica