Finance Contract Job Trends in Brentwood

Financial
Essex > Brentwood

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Brentwood. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Finance 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 25.00% - -
As % of the General category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £476 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median daily rate £485 £425 £570
% change year-on-year +14.12% -25.44% +13.72%

All General Skills
Brentwood

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 in Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 87.50% 72.73% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £85 £66 £300
25th Percentile £147 £105 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £170 £320
Median % change year-on-year +50.15% -46.88% +35.59%
75th Percentile £368 £235 £364
90th Percentile £433 £274 £453
Essex median daily rate £400 £350 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -33.33% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £35.60 - -
25th Percentile £36.86 - -
Median hourly rate £40.35 - £65.00
75th Percentile £42.46 - -
90th Percentile £42.91 - -
Essex median hourly rate £22.50 £50.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -55.45% -27.86% +127.64%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Brentwood

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Finance

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes