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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Finance 26 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.42% 5.42% 7.98%
As % of the General category 16.25% 9.12% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 30
10th Percentile £313 £168 £348
25th Percentile £359 £201 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -19.05% +7.69%
75th Percentile £628 £544 £625
90th Percentile £678 £550 £741
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £17.19 £13.24 -
25th Percentile £17.29 £13.81 -
Median hourly rate £17.53 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.06% - -
75th Percentile £17.69 £24.50 -
90th Percentile £17.76 £31.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -53.31% -22.20% +127.91%

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 160 296 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 57.97% 59.44% 62.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 90 154
10th Percentile £245 £223 £200
25th Percentile £363 £350 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £582 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.78% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 157 143
10th Percentile - £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.62 - £13.83
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £33.05 £50.30 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.21 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.13% +81.52% +44.83%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +6 15 £525 +59.09% 103
Peterborough +16 8 £500 -4.76% 63
Huntingdon - 2 £348 - 1
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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Movex
2 1 (3.85%) iTrent
2 1 (3.85%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.85%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
3 1 (3.85%) npm
3 1 (3.85%) OCI
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.85%) Hudson
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Marketing
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics
4 2 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 3 (11.54%) Administrator
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Business Systems Manager
3 2 (7.69%) C++ Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Developer in Test
3 2 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Linux Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 2 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Systems Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Accountant
4 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Finance Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Visualforce
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) Express.js
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) NgRx
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Life Science
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.54%) Validation
6 2 (7.69%) API Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Business Strategy
6 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office Automation
6 2 (7.69%) Office Automation
6 2 (7.69%) Order Management
6 2 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (7.69%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Apex Code
1 2 (7.69%) C++
1 2 (7.69%) Groovy
1 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.69%) Python
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) CISSP
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.85%) PMP
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) IFRS
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 4 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Ariba
4 2 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) IFS
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic