Finance Contract Job Trends in Brighton

Financial
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Brighton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	3	6	7
Rank change year-on-year	+3	+1	+5
Contract jobs citing Finance	9	8	11
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton	18.00%	18.60%	18.97%
As % of the General category	39.13%	29.63%	32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	6	6
10^th Percentile	£234	£397	£388
25^th Percentile	£275	£500	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£325	£575	£400
Median % change year-on-year	-43.48%	+43.75%	+49.53%
75^th Percentile	£338	£725	£584
90^th Percentile	£369	£763	£638
East Sussex median daily rate	£325	£550	£498
% change year-on-year	-40.91%	+10.55%	+4.74%

All General Skills
Brighton

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 general skills in Brighton.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills	23	27	34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton	46.00%	62.79%	58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	16	14	19
10^th Percentile	£241	£318	£373
25^th Percentile	£313	£448	£380
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£388	£550	£425
Median % change year-on-year	-29.55%	+29.41%	-42.95%
75^th Percentile	£520	£613	£588
90^th Percentile	£607	£720	£638
East Sussex median daily rate	£388	£488	£440
% change year-on-year	-20.51%	+10.80%	-30.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Median hourly rate	-	£17.50	-
East Sussex median hourly rate	£13.90	£15.50	£52.50
% change year-on-year	-10.32%	-70.48%	+298.94%

Finance Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton.

Finance Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Finance Daily Rate Histogram in Brighton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Brighton over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Brighton

Finance Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Finance Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Finance also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brighton region with a requirement for Finance.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	44.4%	4
2	Android	33.3%	3
2	Android Development	33.3%	3
2	Apple iOS	33.3%	3
2	Continuous Improvement	33.3%	3
2	iOS Development	33.3%	3
2	Matrix Organization	33.3%	3
2	Mobile Application Development	33.3%	3
2	Mobile Development	33.3%	3
2	Problem-Solving	33.3%	3
2	Risk Management	33.3%	3
2	Stakeholder Engagement	33.3%	3
2	Stakeholder Management	33.3%	3
14	Budgeting and Forecasting	22.2%	2
14	Collaborative Culture	22.2%	2
14	Data Protection	22.2%	2
14	Programme Delivery	22.2%	2
14	Programme Governance	22.2%	2
14	Scrum	22.2%	2
20	Actionable Insight	11.1%	1
20	Analytics	11.1%	1
20	BPSS Clearance	11.1%	1
20	Budget Control	11.1%	1
20	Budget Management	11.1%	1
20	Business Intelligence	11.1%	1
20	Capacity Planning	11.1%	1
20	Change Control	11.1%	1
20	Change Management	11.1%	1
20	Commercial Awareness	11.1%	1
20	Confluence	11.1%	1

Finance Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Social Skills	22.2%	2
2	Analytical Skills	11.1%	1
2	Banking	11.1%	1
2	Documentation Skills	11.1%	1
2	Organisational Skills	11.1%	1
2	Public Sector	11.1%	1