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 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 6 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 2,600 3,284 4,699
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.42% 15.41%
As % of the General category 23.22% 25.63% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,576 2,260 3,445
10th Percentile £280 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 64 69
10th Percentile £12.41 £16.07 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.50 £22.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £48.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.97% +48.46% +89.86%
75th Percentile £38.12 £60.16 £37.50
90th Percentile £57.75 £75.00 £52.60
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £26.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% -25.43% +67.83%

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 11,199 12,812 17,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.77% 56.25% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 8,701 11,756
10th Percentile £205 £228 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,693 722 1,032
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £56.00
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
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
Scotland 0 361 £475 -5.00% 304
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
Northern Ireland 0 28 £443 -6.84% 72
North East +5 19 £500 -16.67% 123
Wales -7 18 £550 +4.76% 110
Isle of Man 0 7 £388 +96.20% 5
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 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) Confluence
3 17 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 15 (0.58%) SAS
5 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.15%) IIS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.077%) CICS
11 2 (0.077%) CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 206 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
6 36 (1.38%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.15%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.077%) InVision
9 2 (0.077%) Sketch
10 1 (0.038%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.038%) Trello
10 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 74 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.96%) SAP FI
3 24 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 21 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
6 18 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
6 18 (0.69%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
9 14 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
10 13 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
11 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
12 10 (0.38%) 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
1 241 (9.27%) Azure
2 150 (5.77%) Power Platform
3 137 (5.27%) AWS
4 91 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
5 77 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.54%) SaaS
8 39 (1.50%) OCI
9 35 (1.35%) GCP
10 31 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 23 (0.88%) PowerApps
12 20 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.65%) Entra ID
13 17 (0.65%) Serverless
14 11 (0.42%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.42%) GitHub
14 11 (0.42%) WhatsApp
15 10 (0.38%) PaaS
16 9 (0.35%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.08%) WAN
2 52 (2.00%) Firewall
3 43 (1.65%) DMZ
4 33 (1.27%) MPLS
5 32 (1.23%) BGP
6 31 (1.19%) VPN
7 29 (1.12%) LAN
8 26 (1.00%) SSL
8 26 (1.00%) Wireless
9 25 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
10 22 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
11 21 (0.81%) DNS
12 17 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 16 (0.62%) Network Security
13 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 15 (0.58%) ATM
15 10 (0.38%) HTTP
15 10 (0.38%) Skype
15 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.69%) Power BI
2 52 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 49 (1.88%) Tableau
4 36 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 31 (1.19%) Big Data
7 21 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.77%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.58%) DB2
11 15 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 14 (0.54%) Metadata
13 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
14 12 (0.46%) Impala
15 11 (0.42%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.42%) OLTP
16 10 (0.38%) MySQL
16 10 (0.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 154 (5.92%) JIRA
2 26 (1.00%) Git
3 23 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.35%) GitLab
4 9 (0.35%) JUnit
5 7 (0.27%) JMeter
5 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.19%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.19%) Selenium
7 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.12%) ERwin
9 3 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.12%) Maven
9 3 (0.12%) Toad
9 3 (0.12%) webpack
10 2 (0.077%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.077%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 743 (28.58%) Social Skills
2 334 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 322 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 312 (12.00%) Banking
5 219 (8.42%) Telecoms
6 199 (7.65%) Manufacturing
6 199 (7.65%) Marketing
7 132 (5.08%) Electronics
8 116 (4.46%) Legal
8 116 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
9 106 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 93 (3.58%) Retail
11 90 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 76 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 46 (1.77%) Law
14 44 (1.69%) Local Government
15 42 (1.62%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.42%) Billing
17 25 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 408 (15.69%) Analyst
2 332 (12.77%) Project Manager
3 275 (10.58%) Architect
4 228 (8.77%) Lead
5 218 (8.38%) Senior
6 196 (7.54%) Developer
7 152 (5.85%) Consultant
8 108 (4.15%) Business Analyst
9 99 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
10 94 (3.62%) Data Analyst
11 76 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 71 (2.73%) IT Manager
13 69 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 67 (2.58%) Administrator
15 64 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
16 50 (1.92%) Programme Manager
17 47 (1.81%) Delivery Manager
18 44 (1.69%) SAP Consultant
19 43 (1.65%) Finance Manager
20 41 (1.58%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.62%) Spring
2 41 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 33 (1.27%) React
4 32 (1.23%) Kafka
4 32 (1.23%) Middleware
5 27 (1.04%) REST
6 26 (1.00%) .NET
7 25 (0.96%) HTML
8 24 (0.92%) RESTful
8 24 (0.92%) Spring Boot
9 23 (0.88%) Node.js
10 22 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 21 (0.81%) CSS
12 13 (0.50%) Web Services
13 11 (0.42%) JSON
13 11 (0.42%) XML
14 10 (0.38%) ADO
14 10 (0.38%) J2EE
14 10 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (3.62%) Management Information System
2 64 (2.46%) Product Ownership
3 63 (2.42%) Data Centre
4 49 (1.88%) NHS
5 42 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 38 (1.46%) Credit Risk
8 35 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 22 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 18 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.58%) Driving Licence
16 14 (0.54%) CMDB
17 13 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.42%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.50%) Windows
2 80 (3.08%) Linux
3 50 (1.92%) Unix
4 39 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.42%) zOS
8 10 (0.38%) Android
9 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 9 (0.35%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.27%) AIX
10 7 (0.27%) MVS
10 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.077%) CentOS
12 2 (0.077%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.077%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (18.85%) Agile
2 487 (18.73%) Project Management
3 380 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 328 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
6 253 (9.73%) Migration
7 218 (8.38%) Project Delivery
8 209 (8.04%) ERP
9 207 (7.96%) Change Management
10 199 (7.65%) Programme Management
11 168 (6.46%) DevOps
12 164 (6.31%) Decision-Making
13 158 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 154 (5.92%) PRINCE2
15 152 (5.85%) Analytics
16 137 (5.27%) Roadmaps
17 136 (5.23%) Digital Marketing
18 120 (4.62%) Business Strategy
19 111 (4.27%) Waterfall
20 106 (4.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (7.08%) SQL
2 113 (4.35%) Python
3 110 (4.23%) Java
4 38 (1.46%) TypeScript
5 37 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.12%) C#
7 29 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 26 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.65%) Perl
10 16 (0.62%) Bash
11 15 (0.58%) R
12 13 (0.50%) ABAP
12 13 (0.50%) C
12 13 (0.50%) Scala
12 13 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.31%) Swift
13 8 (0.31%) X++
14 5 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 282 (10.85%) Security Cleared
2 238 (9.15%) Degree
3 157 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 94 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 45 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (1.62%) PMP
7 36 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.35%) ACCA
9 34 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 32 (1.23%) CIMA
10 32 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (1.15%) APMP
12 18 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 15 (0.58%) CCNP
13 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.50%) CCNA
14 13 (0.50%) CISSP
15 12 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.42%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (6.62%) PMO
2 84 (3.23%) QA
3 56 (2.15%) SLA
4 51 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.00%) GDPR
7 24 (0.92%) IFRS
8 20 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.58%) NIST
11 9 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
11 9 (0.35%) GAAP
12 8 (0.31%) HL7
12 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.19%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 47 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.04%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.38%) vSphere
5 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.038%) Firmware
11 1 (0.038%) GPFS
11 1 (0.038%) HDFS
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) iptables
11 1 (0.038%) NFS
11 1 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 27 (1.04%) Terraform
2 25 (0.96%) Endace
3 24 (0.92%) Ansible
4 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.38%) Nessus
5 10 (0.38%) SCCM
6 7 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.23%) Puppet
8 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.19%) WSUS
9 4 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.12%) Netcool
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 368 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 317 (12.19%) SAP
3 169 (6.50%) Oracle
4 103 (3.96%) Cisco
5 68 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.54%) F5
7 36 (1.38%) Juniper
8 34 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 33 (1.27%) CheckPoint
10 32 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 32 (1.23%) Google
11 29 (1.12%) IBM
12 27 (1.04%) Adobe
12 27 (1.04%) Databricks
13 25 (0.96%) Arista
14 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.92%) VMware
15 23 (0.88%) IFS
16 18 (0.69%) Apple
17 17 (0.65%) Splunk