Finance Contracts in the East of England

Financial
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 211 220 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.23% 11.06% 11.72%
As % of the General category 18.30% 18.32% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 127 190
10th Percentile £250 £350 £300
25th Percentile £393 £423 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £765 £726
England median daily rate £591 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.52% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 15 10
10th Percentile £18.90 £26.78 £12.50
25th Percentile - £45.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +127.91% +53.57%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 £69.18
England median hourly rate £26.97 £25.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -22.09% +48.51%

All General Skills
East 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 East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,153 1,201 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.36% 60.35% 59.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 656 792
10th Percentile £233 £200 £161
25th Percentile £350 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +7.50% +8.24%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £550
90th Percentile £657 £736 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 256 326
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £21.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.52% +44.83% -3.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Hertfordshire +6 88 £425 -15.00% 97
Bedfordshire -2 56 £555 +6.73% 23
Essex +3 29 £550 +15.79% 69
Cambridgeshire -15 28 £425 -19.05% 82
Suffolk +1 6 £663 +39.47% 31
Norfolk +8 4 £450 -21.74% 32
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 5 (2.37%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (11.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.32%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (15.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.84%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.42%) Primavera
3 3 (1.42%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.42%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.42%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.95%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.95%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.95%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.47%) Magento
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.47%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.47%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.27%) GCP
1 9 (4.27%) Power Platform
2 6 (2.84%) AWS
2 6 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (2.37%) Azure
3 5 (2.37%) Google Sheets
4 3 (1.42%) WhatsApp
5 2 (0.95%) Boomi
5 2 (0.95%) SaaS
6 1 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.47%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.47%) Serverless
6 1 (0.47%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.47%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) VPN
3 2 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.95%) OSPF
3 2 (0.95%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.95%) VLAN
3 2 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.47%) DNS
4 1 (0.47%) MPLS
4 1 (0.47%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.27%) Power BI
2 5 (2.37%) GIS
3 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.42%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (1.42%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.95%) Tableau
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.47%) Big Data
5 1 (0.47%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.47%) Looker
5 1 (0.47%) Metadata
5 1 (0.47%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Git
General
1 111 (52.61%) Social Skills
2 56 (26.54%) Influencing Skills
3 52 (24.64%) Organisational Skills
4 28 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 23 (10.90%) Telecoms
6 18 (8.53%) Manufacturing
7 17 (8.06%) Marketing
8 16 (7.58%) Public Sector
9 12 (5.69%) Electronics
10 11 (5.21%) Banking
10 11 (5.21%) Retail
11 9 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.32%) French Language
12 7 (3.32%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (2.37%) Back Office
13 5 (2.37%) Billing
14 4 (1.90%) Games
14 4 (1.90%) Local Government
15 2 (0.95%) German Language
Job Titles
1 27 (12.80%) Lead
2 18 (8.53%) Developer
3 16 (7.58%) Consultant
4 15 (7.11%) Architect
4 15 (7.11%) Project Manager
5 12 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.27%) Senior
7 6 (2.84%) Data Manager
8 5 (2.37%) Administrator
8 5 (2.37%) Analyst
8 5 (2.37%) Business Analyst
8 5 (2.37%) Coordinator
8 5 (2.37%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (2.37%) Digital Transformation Manager
8 5 (2.37%) Lead Developer
8 5 (2.37%) Project Coordinator
8 5 (2.37%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 5 (2.37%) Technical Leader
8 5 (2.37%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.79%) HTML
2 6 (2.84%) CSS
2 6 (2.84%) React
3 4 (1.90%) REST
4 3 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.42%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.42%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.95%) .NET
5 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.47%) JPA
6 1 (0.47%) Middleware
6 1 (0.47%) Node.js
6 1 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.47%) React Native
6 1 (0.47%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.47%) Spring
6 1 (0.47%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.47%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.90%) Life Science
4 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.42%) NHS
4 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.47%) FMCG
6 1 (0.47%) FPGA
6 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.86%) Project Management
2 55 (26.07%) Business Strategy
3 47 (22.27%) Business Development
4 33 (15.64%) Agile
4 33 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (8.06%) Migration
8 15 (7.11%) ERP
8 15 (7.11%) Project Delivery
9 14 (6.64%) Roadmaps
10 13 (6.16%) Programme Management
11 12 (5.69%) Digital Marketing
12 11 (5.21%) Computer Science
12 11 (5.21%) Data Science
12 11 (5.21%) DevOps
13 10 (4.74%) Decision-Making
13 10 (4.74%) Service Management
14 9 (4.27%) Change Management
14 9 (4.27%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.64%) SQL
2 10 (4.74%) Java
3 7 (3.32%) Python
4 6 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.42%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.42%) C#
7 1 (0.47%) Bash
7 1 (0.47%) C
7 1 (0.47%) C++
7 1 (0.47%) PHP
7 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.47%) R
7 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (15.64%) Degree
2 9 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (4.27%) SC Cleared
2 9 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.84%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.42%) SAP Certification
5 2 (0.95%) ACCA
5 2 (0.95%) CIMA
5 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.95%) PhD
5 2 (0.95%) PMP
6 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.27%) PMO
3 5 (2.37%) QA
4 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.95%) GxP
5 2 (0.95%) IFRS
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
1 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Ansible
1 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.47%) Puppet
1 1 (0.47%) SCCM
1 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (24.64%) SAP
2 12 (5.69%) Ariba
2 12 (5.69%) Google
3 8 (3.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.32%) Oracle
4 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.37%) IFS
7 3 (1.42%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco
8 2 (0.95%) F5
8 2 (0.95%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.95%) Planview
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.47%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.47%) IBM
9 1 (0.47%) Twitter
9 1 (0.47%) Workday