Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Mar 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	2	2	2
Rank change year-on-year	0	0	0
Contract jobs citing Finance	6,449	8,275	13,482
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	21.81%	18.69%	21.39%
As % of the General category	34.69%	32.06%	36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted	4,244	5,542	9,428
10^th Percentile	£350	£350	£400
25^th Percentile	£447	£463	£480
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£575	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.17%	+7.14%
75^th Percentile	£700	£700	£713
90^th Percentile	£825	£800	£810
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£513	£525
% change year-on-year	-2.44%	-2.38%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	104	234	107
10^th Percentile	£18.29	£12.77	£17.65
25^th Percentile	£22.27	£15.17	£21.24
Median hourly rate	£37.06	£27.50	£30.76
Median % change year-on-year	+34.75%	-10.58%	-6.15%
75^th Percentile	£70.63	£38.12	£49.50
90^th Percentile	£79.63	£54.10	£75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£48.82	£30.41	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+60.51%	-13.11%	+66.67%

All General Skills
UK

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills	18,588	25,815	37,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	62.87%	58.30%	58.78%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,841	16,460	25,574
10^th Percentile	£296	£265	£313
25^th Percentile	£407	£413	£438
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.55%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£645	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£763	£750	£775
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£495	£500
% change year-on-year	-4.04%	-1.00%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	681	1,816	1,137
10^th Percentile	£15.00	£12.78	£14.11
25^th Percentile	£20.00	£15.23	£18.09
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£25.90	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+15.85%	-26.01%	+62.79%
75^th Percentile	£58.75	£50.00	£62.55
90^th Percentile	£75.25	£65.00	£70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.97	£24.87	£30.75
% change year-on-year	+12.46%	-19.12%	+75.70%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 23 March 2025.

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 23 March 2025.

Finance
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 March 2025. 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
England	0	5,552	£585	+1.74%	6,400
London	0	3,689	£625	+4.17%	3,760
Work from Home	-1	2,302	£579	+0.61%	3,178
UK excluding London	+1	2,206	£500	-2.44%	3,561
North of England	0	533	£472	-5.60%	790
Scotland	+2	465	£475	-5.00%	241
South East	+1	424	£550	+7.32%	1,195
Midlands	+1	305	£500	-5.66%	536
North West	-2	281	£465	-7.00%	438
South West	+7	271	£510	-11.30%	379
Yorkshire	+3	210	£476	+0.21%	258
West Midlands	-2	192	£525	-	299
East of England	-1	142	£550	+10.00%	368
East Midlands	+9	100	£444	-22.78%	218
Northern Ireland	+1	68	£325	-25.29%	61
North East	+14	42	£458	-8.50%	98
Wales	-7	15	£400	-5.88%	80
Channel Islands	-	1	-	-	3

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	215 (3.33%)	Confluence
2	176 (2.73%)	SharePoint
3	126 (1.95%)	Apache Airflow
4	119 (1.85%)	Apache
5	99 (1.54%)	Apache Spark
6	74 (1.15%)	Microsoft Exchange
7	32 (0.50%)	SAS
8	18 (0.28%)	Oracle Workflow
9	13 (0.20%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	12 (0.19%)	CMS
10	12 (0.19%)	nginx
11	11 (0.17%)	Skype for Business
12	10 (0.16%)	CICS
13	8 (0.12%)	Jupyter
13	8 (0.12%)	WebLogic
14	7 (0.11%)	IBM Notes
14	7 (0.11%)	MQSeries
15	6 (0.093%)	OpenStack
16	5 (0.078%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
16	5 (0.078%)	IBM Domino

Applications
1	291 (4.51%)	Microsoft Excel
2	216 (3.35%)	Microsoft Office
3	159 (2.47%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	100 (1.55%)	Microsoft Project
5	59 (0.91%)	MS Visio
6	36 (0.56%)	Spreadsheet
7	18 (0.28%)	Sketch
8	17 (0.26%)	Oracle Smart View
9	16 (0.25%)	Adobe XD
10	13 (0.20%)	Adobe Creative Suite
11	12 (0.19%)	Trello
12	10 (0.16%)	Chatbot
13	8 (0.12%)	InVision
14	4 (0.062%)	Acrobat
14	4 (0.062%)	AutoCAD
14	4 (0.062%)	SketchUp
15	3 (0.047%)	Adobe Illustrator
15	3 (0.047%)	Photoshop
15	3 (0.047%)	UserZoom
16	2 (0.031%)	Camtasia

Business Applications
1	228 (3.54%)	SAP S/4HANA
2	60 (0.93%)	SAP FI
3	56 (0.87%)	SAP CO
4	54 (0.84%)	Oracle EBS
5	51 (0.79%)	SAP FI/CO
6	47 (0.73%)	Oracle Payables
7	45 (0.70%)	Oracle Financials
8	43 (0.67%)	Oracle Receivables
9	42 (0.65%)	Oracle EBS R12
10	40 (0.62%)	Dynamics CRM
11	33 (0.51%)	Oracle ERP
12	32 (0.50%)	Aladdin
13	28 (0.43%)	Oracle General Ledger
14	26 (0.40%)	Endur
15	22 (0.34%)	Oracle Assets
16	20 (0.31%)	NEC Housing
16	20 (0.31%)	Unit4 Business World
17	19 (0.29%)	Oracle Cash Management
18	16 (0.25%)	Kondor
18	16 (0.25%)	SAP SD

Cloud Services
1	896 (13.89%)	Azure
2	780 (12.09%)	AWS
3	298 (4.62%)	GCP
4	262 (4.06%)	Power Platform
5	218 (3.38%)	Microsoft 365
6	188 (2.92%)	Azure DevOps
7	168 (2.61%)	SaaS
8	129 (2.00%)	dbt
8	129 (2.00%)	Serverless
9	114 (1.77%)	Dynamics 365
10	110 (1.71%)	Entra ID
11	107 (1.66%)	Snowflake
12	100 (1.55%)	OpenShift
13	96 (1.49%)	OCI
14	95 (1.47%)	Amazon S3
15	92 (1.43%)	GitHub
16	86 (1.33%)	AWS Lambda
17	75 (1.16%)	Cloud Computing
18	73 (1.13%)	Amazon ECS
19	70 (1.09%)	Amazon EC2

Communications & Networking
1	174 (2.70%)	Firewall
2	91 (1.41%)	Network Security
3	79 (1.22%)	DNS
4	59 (0.91%)	VPN
5	54 (0.84%)	WAN
6	53 (0.82%)	LAN
7	46 (0.71%)	DHCP
8	41 (0.64%)	TCP/IP
8	41 (0.64%)	Wi-Fi
9	38 (0.59%)	BGP
10	32 (0.50%)	OSPF
10	32 (0.50%)	SAN
11	28 (0.43%)	Wireless
12	25 (0.39%)	Internet
13	24 (0.37%)	HTTP
14	22 (0.34%)	SSL
15	21 (0.33%)	MPLS
16	19 (0.29%)	SD-WAN
17	18 (0.28%)	Multicast
17	18 (0.28%)	Skype

Database & Business Intelligence
1	216 (3.35%)	Power BI
2	203 (3.15%)	SQL Server
3	169 (2.62%)	Data Lake
4	159 (2.47%)	Data Warehouse
5	153 (2.37%)	Relational Database
6	131 (2.03%)	PostgreSQL
7	108 (1.67%)	MongoDB
8	107 (1.66%)	Amazon Athena
9	101 (1.57%)	Apache Iceberg
10	100 (1.55%)	Dremio
11	99 (1.54%)	NoSQL
12	84 (1.30%)	Apache Arrow
12	84 (1.30%)	Big Data
13	83 (1.29%)	Oracle Database
14	75 (1.16%)	Tableau
15	68 (1.05%)	Oracle Reports
16	64 (0.99%)	Apache Ignite
17	58 (0.90%)	Amazon RDS
18	53 (0.82%)	Hadoop
19	46 (0.71%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	378 (5.86%)	JIRA
2	182 (2.82%)	Git
2	182 (2.82%)	Jenkins
3	90 (1.40%)	GitLab
4	61 (0.95%)	JUnit
5	56 (0.87%)	Artifactory
6	42 (0.65%)	Visual Studio
7	37 (0.57%)	Bitbucket
8	35 (0.54%)	Selenium
9	33 (0.51%)	Oracle Forms
9	33 (0.51%)	TeamCity
10	31 (0.48%)	Maven
11	30 (0.47%)	Cucumber
12	24 (0.37%)	Postman
13	22 (0.34%)	Ant
13	22 (0.34%)	Subversion
14	20 (0.31%)	JMeter
15	17 (0.26%)	ERwin
15	17 (0.26%)	Gradle
16	15 (0.23%)	webpack

General
1	1,920 (29.77%)	Social Skills
2	1,430 (22.17%)	Banking
3	850 (13.18%)	Analytical Skills
4	558 (8.65%)	Front Office
5	474 (7.35%)	Public Sector
6	399 (6.19%)	Marketing
7	350 (5.43%)	Manufacturing
8	341 (5.29%)	Investment Banking
9	294 (4.56%)	Telecoms
10	250 (3.88%)	Financial Institution
11	226 (3.50%)	Electronics
12	222 (3.44%)	Legal
13	169 (2.62%)	Presentation Skills
14	168 (2.61%)	Retail
15	130 (2.02%)	Inclusion and Diversity
16	125 (1.94%)	Organisational Skills
17	112 (1.74%)	Influencing Skills
18	103 (1.60%)	Law
19	86 (1.33%)	General Ledger
20	81 (1.26%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	996 (15.44%)	Developer
2	953 (14.78%)	Analyst
3	679 (10.53%)	Senior
4	532 (8.25%)	Project Manager
5	489 (7.58%)	Architect
6	456 (7.07%)	Business Analyst
7	453 (7.02%)	Lead
8	451 (6.99%)	Consultant
9	200 (3.10%)	Software Engineer
10	179 (2.78%)	Data Engineer
11	172 (2.67%)	Java Developer
12	166 (2.57%)	AWS Engineer
13	158 (2.45%)	Python Developer
14	153 (2.37%)	DevOps Engineer
15	151 (2.34%)	Python Engineer
16	150 (2.33%)	Solutions Architect
17	148 (2.29%)	Financial Analyst
18	145 (2.25%)	Programme Manager
19	142 (2.20%)	Senior Developer
20	131 (2.03%)	Data Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	219 (3.40%)	.NET
2	210 (3.26%)	Kafka
3	190 (2.95%)	React
4	147 (2.28%)	Spring
5	137 (2.12%)	AngularJS
6	119 (1.85%)	PySpark
7	110 (1.71%)	Node.js
8	109 (1.69%)	RESTful
9	108 (1.67%)	Oracle Fusion
10	102 (1.58%)	REST
11	98 (1.52%)	Web Services
12	97 (1.50%)	CSS
12	97 (1.50%)	Pandas
13	94 (1.46%)	HTML
14	89 (1.38%)	XML
15	88 (1.36%)	Spring Boot
16	87 (1.35%)	NumPy
17	79 (1.22%)	Middleware
18	71 (1.10%)	SciPy
19	69 (1.07%)	Redux

Miscellaneous
1	331 (5.13%)	Derivative
2	327 (5.07%)	Fixed Income
3	294 (4.56%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	261 (4.05%)	Equities
5	237 (3.67%)	Hedge funds
6	223 (3.46%)	Product Ownership
7	164 (2.54%)	Onboarding
8	153 (2.37%)	Management Information System
9	134 (2.08%)	Data Centre
10	102 (1.58%)	Legacy Systems
11	95 (1.47%)	Greenfield Project
12	92 (1.43%)	Data Structures
13	89 (1.38%)	Data Protection Act
14	79 (1.22%)	Self-Motivation
15	72 (1.12%)	Public Cloud
16	71 (1.10%)	Cloud Native
17	65 (1.01%)	Algorithms
18	60 (0.93%)	Enterprise Software
19	57 (0.88%)	Distributed Systems
20	51 (0.79%)	Life Science

Operating Systems
1	440 (6.82%)	Windows
2	347 (5.38%)	Linux
3	153 (2.37%)	Unix
4	108 (1.67%)	Windows Server
5	83 (1.29%)	Windows 10
6	62 (0.96%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	52 (0.81%)	Apple iOS
8	28 (0.43%)	Android
9	15 (0.23%)	Solaris
10	12 (0.19%)	AIX
11	11 (0.17%)	Windows Server 2016
11	11 (0.17%)	zOS
12	10 (0.16%)	Ubuntu
13	9 (0.14%)	Mac OS
14	8 (0.12%)	Windows 7
15	7 (0.11%)	CentOS
16	5 (0.078%)	HPUX
16	5 (0.078%)	Oracle Linux
16	5 (0.078%)	Windows Server 2012
17	4 (0.062%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	1,587 (24.61%)	Agile
2	1,093 (16.95%)	Problem-Solving
3	853 (13.23%)	Stakeholder Management
4	800 (12.41%)	Project Management
5	754 (11.69%)	Migration
6	649 (10.06%)	DevOps
7	572 (8.87%)	Analytics
8	523 (8.11%)	Business Intelligence
9	517 (8.02%)	CI/CD
10	497 (7.71%)	Risk Management
11	473 (7.33%)	Change Management
12	417 (6.47%)	Software Engineering
13	413 (6.40%)	Project Delivery
14	410 (6.36%)	Roadmaps
15	383 (5.94%)	Asset Management
16	380 (5.89%)	Decision-Making
17	359 (5.57%)	Programme Management
18	334 (5.18%)	ERP
19	321 (4.98%)	Investment Management
20	317 (4.92%)	Continuous Improvement

Programming Languages
1	1,002 (15.54%)	Python
2	897 (13.91%)	SQL
3	617 (9.57%)	Java
4	315 (4.88%)	JavaScript
5	292 (4.53%)	C#
6	219 (3.40%)	PowerShell
7	201 (3.12%)	TypeScript
8	134 (2.08%)	PL/SQL
9	133 (2.06%)	C++
10	110 (1.71%)	Bash
11	76 (1.18%)	Shell Script
12	73 (1.13%)	Go
13	53 (0.82%)	Scala
14	52 (0.81%)	VBA
15	48 (0.74%)	Perl
16	40 (0.62%)	VB
17	32 (0.50%)	R
18	31 (0.48%)	C
18	31 (0.48%)	T-SQL
19	28 (0.43%)	Kotlin

Qualifications
1	572 (8.87%)	Degree
2	438 (6.79%)	Security Cleared
3	328 (5.09%)	SC Cleared
4	111 (1.72%)	PMI Certification
5	104 (1.61%)	Computer Science Degree
6	101 (1.57%)	PMP
7	87 (1.35%)	CISSP
8	84 (1.30%)	Master's Degree
9	81 (1.26%)	DV Cleared
10	55 (0.85%)	Cisco Certification
11	52 (0.81%)	CISM
12	50 (0.78%)	Azure Certification
13	39 (0.60%)	ACCA
14	37 (0.57%)	CRISC
15	35 (0.54%)	AWS Certification
15	35 (0.54%)	CCNP
16	31 (0.48%)	BPSS Clearance
16	31 (0.48%)	CIMA
16	31 (0.48%)	ITIL Certification
17	28 (0.43%)	CISA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	239 (3.71%)	QA
2	208 (3.23%)	PMO
3	179 (2.78%)	Data Quality
4	92 (1.43%)	GDPR
5	90 (1.40%)	Accessibility
6	77 (1.19%)	NIST
6	77 (1.19%)	SLA
7	60 (0.93%)	MiFID
8	58 (0.90%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	51 (0.79%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	40 (0.62%)	PCI DSS
11	39 (0.60%)	GRC
12	25 (0.39%)	IFRS
13	22 (0.34%)	Disclosure Scotland
14	20 (0.31%)	SEPA
15	18 (0.28%)	EMIR
16	17 (0.26%)	PSD2
17	16 (0.25%)	Actionable Recommendations
18	15 (0.23%)	ISO 20022
19	14 (0.22%)	COBIT

System Software
1	254 (3.94%)	Docker
2	218 (3.38%)	Active Directory
3	79 (1.22%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	30 (0.47%)	Virtual Machines
5	19 (0.29%)	Hyper-V
6	18 (0.28%)	VMware ESXi
7	11 (0.17%)	Virtual Desktop
7	11 (0.17%)	vSphere
8	8 (0.12%)	Virtual Servers
9	7 (0.11%)	Veritas Cluster Server
10	6 (0.093%)	Microsoft App-V
10	6 (0.093%)	NFS
10	6 (0.093%)	Oracle RAC
11	5 (0.078%)	Apache ZooKeeper
11	5 (0.078%)	HDFS
12	4 (0.062%)	Firmware
12	4 (0.062%)	VMware NSX
12	4 (0.062%)	XenDesktop
13	3 (0.047%)	Lustre
13	3 (0.047%)	SRDF

Systems Management
1	342 (5.30%)	Kubernetes
2	275 (4.26%)	Terraform
3	178 (2.76%)	Ansible
4	57 (0.88%)	Microsoft Intune
5	45 (0.70%)	SCCM
6	42 (0.65%)	Grafana
7	28 (0.43%)	Prometheus
7	28 (0.43%)	Puppet
7	28 (0.43%)	Single Sign-On
8	21 (0.33%)	Progress Chef
9	11 (0.17%)	Active Directory Federation Services
10	10 (0.16%)	NetBackup
11	9 (0.14%)	Data Guard
11	9 (0.14%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	8 (0.12%)	CASB
12	8 (0.12%)	Control-M
12	8 (0.12%)	FortiGate
12	8 (0.12%)	QRadar
12	8 (0.12%)	Rundeck
12	8 (0.12%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	760 (11.78%)	Microsoft
2	674 (10.45%)	SAP
3	576 (8.93%)	Oracle
4	194 (3.01%)	ServiceNow
5	136 (2.11%)	VMware
6	118 (1.83%)	Google
7	117 (1.81%)	Cisco
8	112 (1.74%)	Salesforce
9	101 (1.57%)	Databricks
10	90 (1.40%)	Splunk
11	84 (1.30%)	IBM
12	73 (1.13%)	Red Hat
13	64 (0.99%)	Workday
14	63 (0.98%)	Ariba
15	61 (0.95%)	HP
16	57 (0.88%)	Adobe
17	56 (0.87%)	Sybase
18	53 (0.82%)	Dell
19	47 (0.73%)	CyberArk
20	44 (0.68%)	Murex

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