Finance Contracts in the South West

Financial
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 13 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 329 377 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.05% 11.14% 14.67%
As % of the General category 20.12% 23.53% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 303 432
10th Percentile £300 £401 £365
25th Percentile £425 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £666 £666 £625
90th Percentile £775 £748 £716
England median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 10
10th Percentile £10.42 £24.05 £25.41
25th Percentile £11.87 £30.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £15.99 £49.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.38% +40.00% +125.01%
75th Percentile £29.25 £68.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £40.25 £76.00 £55.60
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.72% -20.06% +68.67%

All General Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,635 1,602 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 49.95% 47.34% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,167 1,335
10th Percentile £240 £284 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 112 138
10th Percentile £12.94 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.15 £39.04 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.65 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +39.64% -1.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £55.84
90th Percentile £73.83 £89.75 £62.66
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Bristol -6 99 £525 - 166
Wiltshire -3 96 £625 +4.17% 58
Gloucestershire +11 56 £475 -13.64% 81
Somerset +5 24 £532 +1.33% 66
Devon +7 22 £600 +37.93% 65
Dorset -1 16 £513 -21.46% 34
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (1.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 42 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (9.42%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (8.81%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Actimize
2 4 (1.22%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 34 (10.33%) Azure
2 21 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 15 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.13%) AWS
7 4 (1.22%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.91%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.91%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.61%) Apigee
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.61%) SaaS
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.30%) GitHub
10 1 (0.30%) npm
10 1 (0.30%) PaaS
10 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.43%) 3G
1 8 (2.43%) 4G
2 5 (1.52%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) LAN
2 5 (1.52%) WAN
3 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.61%) FTP
3 2 (0.61%) SAN
3 2 (0.61%) Skype
4 1 (0.30%) ISDN
4 1 (0.30%) PSTN
4 1 (0.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.34%) Power BI
2 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.91%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.91%) Metadata
4 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.91%) Tableau
5 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.30%) Big Data
6 1 (0.30%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.30%) DataStage
6 1 (0.30%) MySQL
6 1 (0.30%) OLAP
6 1 (0.30%) OLTP
6 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.42%) JIRA
2 3 (0.91%) Git
2 3 (0.91%) JMeter
2 3 (0.91%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.30%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.30%) git-flow
3 1 (0.30%) NUnit
3 1 (0.30%) Postman
3 1 (0.30%) Selenium
3 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.30%) webpack
3 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 82 (24.92%) Public Sector
3 66 (20.06%) Marketing
4 60 (18.24%) Telecoms
5 58 (17.63%) Manufacturing
6 54 (16.41%) Electronics
7 53 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
8 33 (10.03%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.04%) Banking
10 8 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.13%) Legal
11 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.13%) Publishing
11 7 (2.13%) Retail
12 6 (1.82%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.52%) Law
14 4 (1.22%) Police
15 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.91%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 52 (15.81%) Lead
2 50 (15.20%) Architect
3 46 (13.98%) Project Manager
4 40 (12.16%) Analyst
5 25 (7.60%) Senior
6 24 (7.29%) Project Leader
7 21 (6.38%) Consultant
7 21 (6.38%) Developer
7 21 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (4.86%) Administrator
8 16 (4.86%) Technical Architect
9 15 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
10 14 (4.26%) Data Analyst
11 13 (3.95%) IT Manager
12 12 (3.65%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.74%) Senior Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.43%) Support Officer
15 7 (2.13%) Business Analyst
15 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Engineer
15 7 (2.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.04%) Node.js
2 6 (1.82%) GraphQL
2 6 (1.82%) Middleware
3 5 (1.52%) React
4 3 (0.91%) .NET
4 3 (0.91%) Jest
5 2 (0.61%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.61%) HTML
5 2 (0.61%) OAuth
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.30%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.30%) JPA
6 1 (0.30%) Kafka
6 1 (0.30%) Laravel
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) RESTful
6 1 (0.30%) Spring
6 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.52%) NHS
4 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.91%) Housing Association
6 2 (0.61%) Blog
6 2 (0.61%) CMDB
6 2 (0.61%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.61%) iPhone
6 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.61%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.61%) Replication
6 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.56%) Windows
2 8 (2.43%) Linux
3 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (28.88%) Agile
2 84 (25.53%) Project Management
3 68 (20.67%) Business Intelligence
4 62 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (18.54%) Programme Management
6 55 (16.72%) Digital Marketing
7 53 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (14.89%) PRINCE2
9 48 (14.59%) Project Delivery
10 34 (10.33%) Data Management
11 31 (9.42%) Project Planning
12 28 (8.51%) Workshop Facilitation
13 27 (8.21%) Commercial Awareness
13 27 (8.21%) Migration
13 27 (8.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 25 (7.60%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 24 (7.29%) Mentoring
16 21 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (6.08%) Change Management
18 19 (5.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.56%) SQL
2 10 (3.04%) TypeScript
3 7 (2.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.22%) Java
4 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.91%) Python
6 2 (0.61%) C#
7 1 (0.30%) Bash
7 1 (0.30%) Bicep
7 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.30%) PHP
7 1 (0.30%) R
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.76%) DV Cleared
3 55 (16.72%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.60%) APMP
5 16 (4.86%) Degree
6 4 (1.22%) CESG Certified Professional
6 4 (1.22%) CISSP
6 4 (1.22%) HND
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.22%) PMP
6 4 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (0.91%) CLAS
8 2 (0.61%) ACCA
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.61%) CIMA
8 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.89%) PMO
2 15 (4.56%) QA
3 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) JSP 440
4 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.52%) RMADS
5 4 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.22%) GDPR
5 4 (1.22%) NIST
6 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) COSO
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.30%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) SEPA
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (1.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.91%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.61%) SCOrch
4 2 (0.61%) Terraform
4 2 (0.61%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.30%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Istio
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 64 (19.45%) SAP
3 8 (2.43%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.82%) Adobe
5 5 (1.52%) Google
5 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.22%) Cisco
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle
7 3 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.91%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.91%) Civica
7 3 (0.91%) Dell
7 3 (0.91%) FIS
7 3 (0.91%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.61%) BT
8 2 (0.61%) Citrix
8 2 (0.61%) Databricks
8 2 (0.61%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.61%) Veeam
8 2 (0.61%) VMware