Finance Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Financial
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 175 96 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 19.84% 16.19% 8.39%
As % of the General category 33.02% 25.33% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 71 46
10th Percentile £310 £267 £175
25th Percentile £360 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £420 £482
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -12.86% +7.11%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £544
90th Percentile £638 £656 £731
England median daily rate £540 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.43% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £14.98 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - £20.82
Median hourly rate £23.83 £39.68 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% +78.14% -9.08%
75th Percentile £24.49 - £23.73
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% - +16.69%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 530 379 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.09% 63.91% 48.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 234 255
10th Percentile £191 £250 £160
25th Percentile £353 £314 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -2.72% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £567
90th Percentile £617 £651 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 27
10th Percentile £15.58 £14.97 £13.35
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £15.96
Median hourly rate £22.27 £17.66 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -29.86% +60.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.35 £44.28 £56.90
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -13.04% +34.19%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Northamptonshire 0 80 £410 +2.50% 30
Leicestershire +9 32 £450 +20.00% 22
Nottinghamshire -1 26 £550 +12.24% 44
Lincolnshire +1 21 £158 -60.63% 15
Derbyshire -6 12 £350 -17.65% 14
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.43%) Confluence
2 9 (5.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.57%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.86%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (6.29%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (5.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (4.57%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (4.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.86%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (2.29%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.57%) Actimize
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.57%) AWS
2 21 (12.00%) Azure
3 13 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.71%) GCP
4 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.43%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.29%) GitHub
8 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.29%) Google Sheets
8 4 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.71%) IaaS
9 3 (1.71%) PaaS
9 3 (1.71%) SaaS
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Wireless
2 2 (1.14%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.14%) SSH
2 2 (1.14%) Telnet
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.43%) Power BI
2 9 (5.14%) Big Data
2 9 (5.14%) Hadoop
3 8 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.29%) Aerospike
5 3 (1.71%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.71%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.71%) Metadata
5 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.71%) Tableau
6 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.14%) QlikView
6 2 (1.14%) Redis
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 20 (11.43%) JIRA
2 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.29%) Git
3 4 (2.29%) GitLab
3 4 (2.29%) Selenium
4 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.57%) JMeter
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.57%) Postman
4 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (40.57%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.71%) Banking
3 24 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 20 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 20 (11.43%) Marketing
6 16 (9.14%) Telecoms
7 15 (8.57%) Electronics
8 9 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.00%) General Ledger
10 6 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.29%) Legal
12 3 (1.71%) Back Office
12 3 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.71%) Retail
12 3 (1.71%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.14%) Front Office
14 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 34 (19.43%) Analyst
2 21 (12.00%) Business Analyst
2 21 (12.00%) Project Manager
3 15 (8.57%) Developer
4 14 (8.00%) Programme Manager
5 13 (7.43%) Lead
6 10 (5.71%) Senior
7 9 (5.14%) Consultant
7 9 (5.14%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (4.57%) Architect
9 7 (4.00%) Product Owner
10 6 (3.43%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 6 (3.43%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.43%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.43%) IT Support
10 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 6 (3.43%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.86%) Financial Business Analyst
11 5 (2.86%) SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.00%) Kafka
3 5 (2.86%) .NET
4 4 (2.29%) ADO
4 4 (2.29%) Node.js
4 4 (2.29%) REST
5 3 (1.71%) pytest
6 2 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.14%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) SOAP
6 2 (1.14%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.57%) Blazor
7 1 (0.57%) ISPF
7 1 (0.57%) Jest
7 1 (0.57%) JSON
7 1 (0.57%) Playwright
7 1 (0.57%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.57%) Web Services
7 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.86%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.29%) PMI
9 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
11 1 (0.57%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.71%) Mac OS
2 7 (4.00%) Windows
3 6 (3.43%) Android
4 4 (2.29%) Linux
4 4 (2.29%) Unix
5 3 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.14%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.57%) Agile
2 47 (26.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (18.29%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (17.14%) Migration
5 28 (16.00%) Change Management
6 27 (15.43%) Programme Management
7 26 (14.86%) ERP
8 25 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (14.29%) Project Management
8 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (11.43%) Scrum
10 18 (10.29%) Project Delivery
11 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
11 16 (9.14%) Decision-Making
11 16 (9.14%) Risk Management
12 15 (8.57%) Digital Marketing
12 15 (8.57%) ETL
12 15 (8.57%) Kanban
12 15 (8.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.71%) SQL
2 11 (6.29%) Python
3 8 (4.57%) Java
4 4 (2.29%) Bash
4 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.29%) R
5 3 (1.71%) Scala
6 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.14%) Swift
7 1 (0.57%) C#
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) JCL
7 1 (0.57%) PHP
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) REXX
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.00%) Degree
4 6 (3.43%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.86%) PMP
6 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.71%) MBA
7 3 (1.71%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) CISA
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.57%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.43%) QA
2 10 (5.71%) GDPR
3 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.00%) PMO
4 6 (3.43%) ISO 20022
5 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.29%) SLA
7 3 (1.71%) Basel III
8 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.57%) COBIT
9 1 (0.57%) GRC
9 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.57%) NIST
9 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.57%) Docker
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
5 1 (0.57%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) SCCM
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) Oozie
4 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.71%) SAP
3 21 (12.00%) Oracle
4 9 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.57%) Cisco
5 8 (4.57%) Dell
6 6 (3.43%) Apple
6 6 (3.43%) HP
7 5 (2.86%) Databricks
7 5 (2.86%) Google
8 4 (2.29%) Citrix
8 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.29%) VMware
9 3 (1.71%) Ab Initio
9 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) DocuSign
10 2 (1.14%) Draytek
10 2 (1.14%) Informatica
10 2 (1.14%) Sage
10 2 (1.14%) Splunk