Finance Contracts in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 5 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 634 816 1,015
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 13.36% 14.72% 14.19%
As % of the General category 24.42% 26.43% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 533 713
10th Percentile £313 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £592 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 8 20
10th Percentile £11.77 £15.20 £11.41
25th Percentile £13.29 £20.43 £13.08
Median hourly rate £17.16 £22.53 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +55.38% -21.41%
75th Percentile £34.49 £29.21 £35.84
90th Percentile £52.78 £47.02 £48.94
England median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +63.55%

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,596 3,087 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.70% 55.67% 51.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,122 2,583
10th Percentile £263 £282 £210
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 96 181
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.59 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.52 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% +18.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £48.75 £51.19 £57.95
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North of England 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
North West +5 366 £490 -6.67% 635
Yorkshire -2 243 £500 -9.09% 264
North East +6 20 £513 -14.58% 127
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (2.21%) Confluence
2 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.63%) IIS
7 3 (0.47%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Traefik
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Mule
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (8.36%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.00%) MS Visio
4 16 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 26 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.58%) SAP FI
3 8 (1.26%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.63%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.63%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 3 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.32%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.32%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 50 (7.89%) Azure
2 33 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
3 31 (4.89%) AWS
3 31 (4.89%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (1.89%) GCP
6 10 (1.58%) SaaS
7 9 (1.42%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.10%) Apigee
9 7 (1.10%) Kong
9 7 (1.10%) Serverless
10 6 (0.95%) PaaS
11 5 (0.79%) IaaS
12 4 (0.63%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.63%) npm
12 4 (0.63%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.47%) GitHub
14 2 (0.32%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.68%) DMZ
1 17 (2.68%) SD-WAN
2 15 (2.37%) Wireless
3 13 (2.05%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (2.05%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (1.42%) ATM
4 9 (1.42%) DNS
5 8 (1.26%) Firewall
6 5 (0.79%) DHCP
7 4 (0.63%) HTTP
7 4 (0.63%) SAN
7 4 (0.63%) Skype
8 3 (0.47%) Network Security
8 3 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.32%) PPP
9 2 (0.32%) RTP
9 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.32%) WAN
10 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.42%) Power BI
2 20 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.74%) Big Data
4 10 (1.58%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.10%) OLAP
6 7 (1.10%) OLTP
7 6 (0.95%) DB2
7 6 (0.95%) Ingres
7 6 (0.95%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.79%) Tableau
9 4 (0.63%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.63%) Metadata
9 4 (0.63%) MySQL
10 3 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.47%) Data Hub
10 3 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 43 (6.78%) JIRA
2 10 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.26%) Git
4 7 (1.10%) JUnit
5 5 (0.79%) GitLab
6 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.47%) JMeter
8 2 (0.32%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.32%) RStudio
8 2 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.16%) AppScan
9 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.16%) ERwin
9 1 (0.16%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.16%) Log4j
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) Postman
9 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 162 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 118 (18.61%) Banking
3 63 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 52 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (5.52%) Manufacturing
6 25 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (3.15%) Marketing
8 19 (3.00%) Retail
8 19 (3.00%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.74%) Local Government
11 10 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.42%) Electronics
12 9 (1.42%) Legal
13 8 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.10%) Billing
14 7 (1.10%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (12.15%) Project Manager
2 72 (11.36%) Architect
3 68 (10.73%) Analyst
4 43 (6.78%) Lead
5 41 (6.47%) Developer
6 40 (6.31%) Senior
7 35 (5.52%) Consultant
8 29 (4.57%) Business Analyst
9 28 (4.42%) Network Engineer
10 27 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (3.47%) Administrator
12 19 (3.00%) Senior Manager
13 17 (2.68%) Cutover Manager
13 17 (2.68%) Programme Manager
14 16 (2.52%) Data Analyst
15 14 (2.21%) SAP Consultant
16 13 (2.05%) Trainer
17 12 (1.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 12 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
17 12 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.21%) Kafka
2 13 (2.05%) Spring
3 10 (1.58%) Gherkin
4 9 (1.42%) Middleware
4 9 (1.42%) RESTful
4 9 (1.42%) Spring Boot
4 9 (1.42%) Web Services
5 8 (1.26%) .NET
5 8 (1.26%) IBM Integration Bus
5 8 (1.26%) React
5 8 (1.26%) SOAP
6 7 (1.10%) J2EE
6 7 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (0.95%) Apache Camel
7 6 (0.95%) REST
7 6 (0.95%) Spring Integration
8 5 (0.79%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.79%) Node.js
9 3 (0.47%) HTML
9 3 (0.47%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.57%) Data Centre
2 20 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.05%) Driving Licence
5 12 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.89%) Mainframe
6 10 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.42%) EPoS
7 9 (1.42%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.10%) Clustering
8 7 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.10%) DataPower
8 7 (1.10%) NHS
9 6 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.79%) Derivative
10 5 (0.79%) PKI
10 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.26%) Windows
2 24 (3.79%) Linux
3 10 (1.58%) Unix
4 8 (1.26%) VMS
5 7 (1.10%) MVS
5 7 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.10%) zOS
6 6 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.79%) Android
8 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.63%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (16.88%) Agile
2 102 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (14.51%) Project Management
4 77 (12.15%) Change Management
5 57 (8.99%) Migration
6 53 (8.36%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (7.73%) DevOps
8 43 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (5.99%) ERP
10 35 (5.52%) Decision-Making
10 35 (5.52%) Risk Management
11 33 (5.21%) Analytics
11 33 (5.21%) CI/CD
11 33 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (4.73%) Waterfall
13 29 (4.57%) Design Patterns
14 26 (4.10%) Validation
15 25 (3.94%) Microservices
16 24 (3.79%) ITIL
16 24 (3.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.52%) SQL
2 32 (5.05%) Java
3 23 (3.63%) Python
4 11 (1.74%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.42%) Bash
6 8 (1.26%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.63%) Perl
10 3 (0.47%) C
10 3 (0.47%) Groovy
10 3 (0.47%) R
10 3 (0.47%) Ruby
10 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) C#
11 2 (0.32%) Go
11 2 (0.32%) Scala
11 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.16%) JCL
12 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (7.26%) Degree
2 35 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.10%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.58%) PMP
5 9 (1.42%) PMI Certification
6 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.79%) CCNA
7 5 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CISSP
9 3 (0.47%) HNC
9 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.47%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.94%) SLA
2 20 (3.15%) QA
3 19 (3.00%) PMO
4 12 (1.89%) GDPR
5 10 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.58%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.95%) NIST
7 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.32%) COSO
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 31000
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.42%) Docker
3 7 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.32%) KVM
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.16%) IAG
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (1.74%) Ansible
2 9 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (1.42%) Terraform
3 4 (0.63%) SCCM
4 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.47%) Puppet
4 3 (0.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.32%) Consul
5 2 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.32%) Graphite
5 2 (0.32%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.32%) Istio
5 2 (0.32%) linkerd
5 2 (0.32%) Packer
5 2 (0.32%) Podman
5 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.32%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.73%) SAP
3 29 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 26 (4.10%) F5
5 24 (3.79%) Oracle
6 16 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.37%) Cisco
8 12 (1.89%) EMC
9 11 (1.74%) IBM
10 10 (1.58%) Databricks
11 9 (1.42%) Google
12 7 (1.10%) Adobe
12 7 (1.10%) Avaloq
12 7 (1.10%) TSYS
12 7 (1.10%) VMware
13 6 (0.95%) CA
13 6 (0.95%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.95%) Splunk
14 5 (0.79%) Sage
15 4 (0.63%) Cadence