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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton 19.05% 18.97% 4.29%
As % of the General category 30.77% 32.35% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £397 £388 -
25th Percentile £500 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -5.88% -27.35%
75th Percentile £725 £584 £463
90th Percentile £763 £638 -
East Sussex median daily rate £550 £498 £513
% change year-on-year +10.55% -2.93% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £13.15
East Sussex median hourly rate - £52.50 £13.15
% change year-on-year - +299.24% -

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 common skills in Brighton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26 34 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 61.90% 58.62% 72.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 24
10th Percentile £318 £373 £515
25th Percentile £448 £380 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £745
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -42.95% +24.17%
75th Percentile £613 £588 -
90th Percentile £720 £638 -
East Sussex median daily rate £488 £440 £650
% change year-on-year +10.80% -32.31% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £13.05
25th Percentile £22.04 - £13.11
Median hourly rate £22.07 - £13.16
75th Percentile £22.11 - £16.35
90th Percentile - - £22.10
East Sussex median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £13.16
% change year-on-year -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 job vacancy trend in Brighton

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

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 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Brighton

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
1 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Enrichment
5 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Product Management
5 1 (12.50%) Regtech
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (12.50%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Prism