Finance Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Financial
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Finance 22 35 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.36% 6.72% 6.55%
As % of the General category 12.15% 11.78% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 25
10th Percentile £383 £168 £359
25th Percentile £486 £201 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £625
90th Percentile £686 £555 £725
East of England median daily rate £575 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.76% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile £16.76 £13.24 -
Median hourly rate £17.11 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% - -
75th Percentile £17.45 - -
90th Percentile £17.66 £22.70 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -53.31% -22.20% +40.00%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 181 297 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 60.54% 57.01% 66.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 93 140
10th Percentile £200 £221 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £540 £525
90th Percentile £660 £582 £603
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 135 162
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.69 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £24.15 £21.46 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.98 £57.50 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £18.26
% change year-on-year -17.00% +108.82% +17.77%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Cambridgeshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Cambridgeshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Cambridgeshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Cambridgeshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Cambridge -4 13 £563 +70.45% 240
Huntingdon - 4 £605 - 7
Peterborough +8 3 £525 - 124
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.55%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.55%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.55%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) npm
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.55%) iPaaS
3 1 (4.55%) OCI
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) Hudson
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Financial Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Angular Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Data Migration Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) IFS Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) IT Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Migration Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Procurement Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.09%) Express.js
1 2 (9.09%) NgRx
1 2 (9.09%) Playwright
1 2 (9.09%) REST
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
1 2 (9.09%) RxJS
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Life Science
1 2 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) ERP
1 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (22.73%) Validation
2 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
2 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (13.64%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.09%) Change Management
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Data Management
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
1 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) IFRS
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) SAP
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) IFS
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Ariba
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) SnapLogic