Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in England. 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 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,057 10,587 15,096
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 19.13% 22.30% 21.41%
As % of the General category 33.22% 37.71% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,922 7,700 10,764
10th Percentile £360 £400 £390
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £688
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 132
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.50 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.50 £21.29 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +66.07%
75th Percentile £38.12 £50.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £52.62
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% -25.43% +67.83%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,245 28,077 40,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 59.14% 57.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,632 19,766 28,317
10th Percentile £280 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 893 1,284
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London 0 4,673 £601 -4.30% 3,115
South East -4 667 £500 -4.76% 859
North of England +2 633 £500 -8.26% 958
Midlands +4 383 £550 +10.00% 579
North West +4 366 £490 -5.77% 585
South West 0 331 £550 -4.35% 463
West Midlands +3 264 £550 +4.76% 363
Yorkshire -2 243 £500 -9.09% 262
East of England +1 193 £500 -3.85% 281
East Midlands +7 110 £550 +15.79% 216
North East +5 19 £500 -16.67% 123
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 239 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 228 (3.23%) Apache
3 144 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 95 (1.35%) Confluence
5 77 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 51 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.50%) SAS
8 21 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 21 (0.30%) IIS
9 20 (0.28%) CMS
10 17 (0.24%) nginx
11 14 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 11 (0.16%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.13%) JBoss
13 9 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.11%) MTS
14 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.071%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.071%) MQSeries
16 4 (0.057%) Drupal
Applications
1 343 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 283 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 94 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 11 (0.16%) Sketch
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.11%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.085%) InVision
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.057%) InDesign
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.028%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.028%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.028%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.028%) Revit
12 2 (0.028%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 160 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 39 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 39 (0.55%) SAP FI
4 35 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 33 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 31 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 30 (0.43%) NetSuite
8 29 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
8 29 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
9 27 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
9 27 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
10 24 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
11 23 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
11 23 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 23 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 22 (0.31%) Endur
13 18 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
14 17 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,060 (15.02%) Azure
2 817 (11.58%) AWS
3 395 (5.60%) Power Platform
4 363 (5.14%) GCP
5 236 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
6 227 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
6 227 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
7 174 (2.47%) Snowflake
8 159 (2.25%) dbt
9 117 (1.66%) SaaS
10 107 (1.52%) Entra ID
11 90 (1.28%) WhatsApp
12 87 (1.23%) Power Automate
13 84 (1.19%) PowerApps
14 75 (1.06%) GitHub
15 70 (0.99%) Serverless
16 67 (0.95%) PaaS
17 52 (0.74%) IaaS
18 47 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
19 44 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 193 (2.73%) Firewall
2 94 (1.33%) WAN
3 85 (1.20%) DNS
4 74 (1.05%) VPN
5 61 (0.86%) BGP
6 56 (0.79%) LAN
7 54 (0.77%) MPLS
8 53 (0.75%) Wireless
9 49 (0.69%) Network Security
10 44 (0.62%) DMZ
11 42 (0.60%) SSL
12 38 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 34 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
14 33 (0.47%) OSPF
15 32 (0.45%) TCP/IP
16 30 (0.43%) Internet
17 29 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
17 29 (0.41%) SAN
18 28 (0.40%) DHCP
19 23 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (4.93%) Power BI
2 258 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 235 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 196 (2.78%) Apache Ignite
5 152 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
6 151 (2.14%) Dremio
7 149 (2.11%) Apache Arrow
8 125 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 123 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 120 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
11 115 (1.63%) Tableau
12 88 (1.25%) Relational Database
13 87 (1.23%) Big Data
14 79 (1.12%) Metadata
15 73 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 62 (0.88%) MySQL
17 59 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 52 (0.74%) Oracle Database
18 52 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
19 43 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 288 (4.08%) JIRA
2 134 (1.90%) Git
3 119 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 68 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 62 (0.88%) GitLab
6 56 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 48 (0.68%) JUnit
8 40 (0.57%) Selenium
9 29 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 25 (0.35%) Postman
11 24 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.30%) JMeter
12 21 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 18 (0.26%) ERwin
14 17 (0.24%) LoadRunner
15 16 (0.23%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.23%) Maven
15 16 (0.23%) Mockito
16 15 (0.21%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,760 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 1,582 (22.42%) Banking
3 833 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 601 (8.52%) Front Office
5 530 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 396 (5.61%) Marketing
7 370 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 339 (4.80%) Manufacturing
9 336 (4.76%) Investment Banking
10 248 (3.51%) Electronics
11 247 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
12 240 (3.40%) Retail
13 238 (3.37%) Financial Institution
14 201 (2.85%) Legal
15 182 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
16 163 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
17 144 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 99 (1.40%) Back Office
19 88 (1.25%) Law
20 75 (1.06%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,093 (15.49%) Analyst
2 1,077 (15.26%) Developer
3 705 (9.99%) Senior
4 695 (9.85%) Architect
5 677 (9.59%) Project Manager
6 563 (7.98%) Lead
7 473 (6.70%) Business Analyst
8 464 (6.58%) Consultant
9 273 (3.87%) Software Engineer
10 242 (3.43%) Financial Analyst
11 233 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 191 (2.71%) Python Developer
13 190 (2.69%) Data Analyst
14 179 (2.54%) Java Developer
15 152 (2.15%) Python Engineer
16 151 (2.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 146 (2.07%) IT Manager
18 143 (2.03%) Senior Developer
19 134 (1.90%) React Developer
19 134 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (4.08%) React
2 252 (3.57%) .NET
3 231 (3.27%) gRPC
4 222 (3.15%) Protocol Buffers
5 160 (2.27%) Pandas
6 153 (2.17%) NumPy
7 139 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 136 (1.93%) HTML
8 136 (1.93%) SciPy
9 126 (1.79%) Redux
10 110 (1.56%) Spring
11 107 (1.52%) Kafka
12 106 (1.50%) Node.js
13 104 (1.47%) REST
14 100 (1.42%) XML
15 98 (1.39%) CSS
16 93 (1.32%) Web Services
17 82 (1.16%) Material-UI
18 69 (0.98%) Spring Boot
19 62 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 404 (5.72%) Derivative
2 385 (5.46%) Hedge funds
3 380 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 298 (4.22%) Equities
5 283 (4.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 228 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 222 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 116 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 115 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 96 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 95 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 82 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 72 (1.02%) Public Cloud
14 69 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 65 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 61 (0.86%) Credit Risk
17 52 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
17 52 (0.74%) NHS
18 47 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
19 45 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 414 (5.87%) Windows
2 270 (3.83%) Linux
3 191 (2.71%) Unix
4 93 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 90 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 49 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.51%) Android
8 30 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (0.38%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.23%) VMS
14 11 (0.16%) zOS
15 10 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.099%) CentOS
16 7 (0.099%) MVS
16 7 (0.099%) Solaris
17 5 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,544 (21.88%) Agile
2 837 (11.86%) Project Management
3 802 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
4 748 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 682 (9.66%) DevOps
6 637 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
7 620 (8.79%) Migration
8 531 (7.52%) Change Management
8 531 (7.52%) Software Engineering
9 514 (7.28%) Asset Management
10 462 (6.55%) Analytics
11 406 (5.75%) CI/CD
12 395 (5.60%) Project Delivery
13 380 (5.38%) Investment Management
14 379 (5.37%) Programme Management
15 364 (5.16%) Risk Management
16 356 (5.04%) ERP
17 334 (4.73%) Roadmaps
18 319 (4.52%) Decision-Making
19 316 (4.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 929 (13.16%) SQL
2 916 (12.98%) Python
3 656 (9.30%) Java
4 404 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 401 (5.68%) C#
6 345 (4.89%) TypeScript
7 201 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 112 (1.59%) C++
9 75 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 67 (0.95%) Scala
11 62 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 59 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 54 (0.77%) Go
14 53 (0.75%) R
15 50 (0.71%) Bash
16 46 (0.65%) Perl
17 43 (0.61%) VBA
18 30 (0.43%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.37%) Rust
20 23 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 641 (9.08%) Degree
2 517 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 348 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 137 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 134 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 97 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 88 (1.25%) CISSP
9 81 (1.15%) PMP
10 75 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 66 (0.94%) CISM
12 54 (0.77%) ACCA
12 54 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 49 (0.69%) CCNP
13 49 (0.69%) CIMA
14 39 (0.55%) CCNA
14 39 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 37 (0.52%) AWS Certification
16 35 (0.50%) CISA
17 33 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (3.95%) QA
2 269 (3.81%) PMO
3 209 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 115 (1.63%) SLA
5 87 (1.23%) GDPR
6 86 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 73 (1.03%) NIST
8 62 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 54 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.65%) IFRS
11 31 (0.44%) GRC
12 29 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 26 (0.37%) MiFID
14 21 (0.30%) GAAP
15 20 (0.28%) SEPA
16 19 (0.27%) ISO 20022
17 18 (0.26%) EMIR
18 15 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 13 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
20 12 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 256 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 136 (1.93%) Docker
3 47 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.27%) IAG
6 15 (0.21%) ACF2
6 15 (0.21%) RACF
7 13 (0.18%) Firmware
8 9 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.13%) vSphere
9 8 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.085%) HDFS
11 6 (0.085%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.071%) NFS
13 3 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.028%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 203 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 152 (2.15%) Terraform
3 117 (1.66%) Ansible
4 67 (0.95%) SCCM
5 38 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 36 (0.51%) Puppet
7 33 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.37%) Grafana
10 25 (0.35%) Endace
11 21 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.20%) Nessus
13 13 (0.18%) Kibana
14 12 (0.17%) logstash
14 12 (0.17%) PingFederate
15 11 (0.16%) Netcool
16 10 (0.14%) Tivoli
17 9 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
17 9 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 898 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 640 (9.07%) SAP
3 457 (6.48%) Oracle
4 224 (3.17%) Cisco
5 196 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 173 (2.45%) Google
7 111 (1.57%) F5
8 96 (1.36%) Salesforce
9 93 (1.32%) Databricks
10 77 (1.09%) VMware
11 76 (1.08%) IBM
12 68 (0.96%) Bloomberg
13 66 (0.94%) CheckPoint
14 63 (0.89%) Citrix
15 61 (0.86%) Palo Alto
16 52 (0.74%) Adobe
17 49 (0.69%) Splunk
18 47 (0.67%) Workday
19 45 (0.64%) Juniper
20 42 (0.60%) Qualys