Finance Contracts in the Midlands

Financial
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 383 461 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.72% 14.10% 13.15%
As % of the General category 25.30% 25.77% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 314 515
10th Percentile £358 £308 £317
25th Percentile £445 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £600
90th Percentile £775 £713 £688
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 7
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.48 £14.42
25th Percentile £12.94 £22.00 £17.70
Median hourly rate £15.00 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +136.84% +53.35%
75th Percentile £52.31 £50.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £67.90 £75.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +63.55%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,514 1,789 2,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 54.23% 54.71% 55.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,278 2,069
10th Percentile £206 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £565
90th Percentile £725 £700 £663
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 73 96
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.84 £10.68
25th Percentile £13.90 £13.31 £13.84
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.26 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +20.32% +25.42%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £27.50
90th Percentile £52.56 £51.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +3 264 £550 +4.76% 372
East Midlands +7 110 £550 +15.79% 229
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.26%) MetaMask
4 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.09%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.78%) Exstream
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.78%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.78%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.52%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.10%) Azure
2 39 (10.18%) AWS
3 23 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 17 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.39%) SaaS
6 8 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.09%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.83%) OCI
8 5 (1.31%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.78%) Azure Functions
10 3 (0.78%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.78%) Serverless
11 2 (0.52%) GCP
12 1 (0.26%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.26%) GitHub
12 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.18%) VPN
2 9 (2.35%) LAN
2 9 (2.35%) WAN
3 7 (1.83%) BGP
3 7 (1.83%) Firewall
3 7 (1.83%) MPLS
3 7 (1.83%) Network Security
4 6 (1.57%) DNS
4 6 (1.57%) Junos
5 5 (1.31%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (1.31%) IPsec
6 3 (0.78%) Intranet
7 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.52%) OSPF
7 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.52%) Wireless
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) LTE
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.70%) Power BI
3 9 (2.35%) Hadoop
4 7 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.31%) DB2
5 5 (1.31%) Impala
5 5 (1.31%) Metadata
6 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.78%) Big Data
7 3 (0.78%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.78%) SAP BW
7 3 (0.78%) Tableau
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.52%) Power Query
8 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 11 (2.87%) JIRA
2 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.52%) Git
4 2 (0.52%) webpack
5 1 (0.26%) Ant
5 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Gradle
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Maven
5 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 113 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (10.18%) Banking
5 25 (6.53%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.48%) Law
7 18 (4.70%) Legal
8 14 (3.66%) Marketing
9 11 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.87%) Retail
10 10 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.83%) Local Government
13 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Electronics
13 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.78%) Billing
15 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 72 (18.80%) Analyst
2 56 (14.62%) Architect
3 52 (13.58%) Project Manager
4 33 (8.62%) Senior
5 32 (8.36%) Lead
6 31 (8.09%) IT Manager
7 30 (7.83%) Consultant
8 28 (7.31%) Developer
9 20 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (4.70%) Business Manager
11 15 (3.92%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.66%) Change Manager
12 14 (3.66%) PMO Analyst
13 13 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.13%) Network Architect
15 11 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
15 11 (2.87%) Service Delivery Manager
15 11 (2.87%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
1 9 (2.35%) React
2 8 (2.09%) .NET
3 7 (1.83%) SAML
4 6 (1.57%) OAuth
4 6 (1.57%) RESTful
4 6 (1.57%) Spring
5 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.31%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.04%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.04%) RAML
6 4 (1.04%) SAP PI
6 4 (1.04%) Swagger
7 3 (0.78%) LDAP
7 3 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.52%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.52%) IDoc
8 2 (0.52%) Middleware
8 2 (0.52%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.52%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.39%) Onboarding
1 13 (3.39%) Public Cloud
1 13 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 7 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (1.57%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.57%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.31%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.31%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.04%) Replication
7 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.78%) Taxonomies
7 3 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.31%) Windows
2 12 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.57%) Linux
4 5 (1.31%) Android
5 4 (1.04%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.52%) Unix
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 69 (18.02%) Agile
3 64 (16.71%) Project Management
4 59 (15.40%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (11.75%) Change Management
6 44 (11.49%) Migration
7 39 (10.18%) Roadmaps
8 38 (9.92%) ERP
9 33 (8.62%) Decision-Making
10 32 (8.36%) Project Delivery
11 31 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (7.31%) Customer Service
12 28 (7.31%) Service Delivery
13 27 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (6.27%) Analytics
14 24 (6.27%) Business Strategy
14 24 (6.27%) CRM
15 21 (5.48%) Waterfall
16 20 (5.22%) Data Migration
16 20 (5.22%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.79%) Java
2 23 (6.01%) SQL
3 22 (5.74%) Python
4 9 (2.35%) C#
5 8 (2.09%) Swift
6 7 (1.83%) ABAP
6 7 (1.83%) C
6 7 (1.83%) R
7 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.78%) C++
8 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.52%) X++
10 1 (0.26%) ProC
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
10 1 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.26%) Solidity
10 1 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 32 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.22%) Degree
4 7 (1.83%) PMI Certification
4 7 (1.83%) PMP
5 6 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.31%) CCNP
6 5 (1.31%) ISEB
6 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.04%) ACCA
7 4 (1.04%) CCNA
7 4 (1.04%) CIMA
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.78%) CBAP
8 3 (0.78%) CISSP
8 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.78%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.83%) PMO
2 12 (3.13%) QA
3 10 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.61%) SLA
4 5 (1.31%) GDPR
5 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.52%) IFRS
7 2 (0.52%) NIST
7 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.57%) Docker
3 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) HDFS
4 1 (0.26%) IAG
4 1 (0.26%) iptables
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
2 2 (0.52%) CEMLI
2 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.26%) Kibana
3 1 (0.26%) logstash
3 1 (0.26%) PowerBroker
3 1 (0.26%) Puppet
3 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 64 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.79%) Oracle
2 26 (6.79%) SAP
3 8 (2.09%) Okta
4 7 (1.83%) Anaplan
4 7 (1.83%) Cisco
5 6 (1.57%) Juniper
5 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.04%) Computacenter
6 4 (1.04%) Databricks
6 4 (1.04%) Guidewire
6 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.04%) Sage
6 4 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.78%) OpenText
7 3 (0.78%) VMware
8 2 (0.52%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.52%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.52%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.52%) Teradata