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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 142 145 127
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.32% 19.03% 16.12%
As % of the General category 25.40% 31.52% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 122 91
10th Percentile £359 £309 £358
25th Percentile £425 £358 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £495
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -15.15% -1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £492 £617
90th Percentile £669 £540 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile - £14.88 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +14.81% -80.71%
75th Percentile - £37.02 £14.25
90th Percentile £28.01 £47.06 -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.29% -10.81% +39.94%

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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 559 460 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.48% 60.37% 53.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 314 276
10th Percentile £225 £213 £195
25th Percentile £393 £325 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £554
90th Percentile £675 £567 £626
England median daily rate £525 £512 £538
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 37 42
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.20 £12.45
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.50 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +40.00% -65.00%
75th Percentile £30.25 £25.15 £42.56
90th Percentile £57.83 £37.80 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.24% -33.58% +27.07%

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 2026. 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
Leicestershire +16 37 £525 +10.53% 35
Nottinghamshire -6 37 £528 +6.57% 59
Northamptonshire -4 32 £436 +8.46% 28
Derbyshire +8 29 £463 - 34
Lincolnshire -16 6 £575 +12.20% 23
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 9 (6.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 14 (9.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.93%) ContrOCC
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.82%) NetSuite
4 4 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.41%) BASE24
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.41%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.15%) Azure
1 13 (9.15%) SaaS
2 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.52%) AWS
3 5 (3.52%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.11%) GitHub
5 3 (2.11%) OCI
6 2 (1.41%) GCP
6 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.41%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.41%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.41%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.70%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) LAN
2 1 (0.70%) SSL
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.34%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.11%) Aerospike
4 2 (1.41%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.41%) Power Query
4 2 (1.41%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.41%) Redis
4 2 (1.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.45%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) Hudson
2 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.11%) Git
4 2 (1.41%) GitLab
4 2 (1.41%) JUnit
5 1 (0.70%) Ant
5 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.38%) Banking
3 14 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Local Government
5 7 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.93%) Retail
6 6 (4.23%) General Ledger
6 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.11%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.11%) Billing
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (9.86%) Analyst
1 14 (9.86%) Lead
2 11 (7.75%) Programme Manager
2 11 (7.75%) Project Manager
2 11 (7.75%) Senior
3 10 (7.04%) Data Manager
3 10 (7.04%) Report Manager
4 9 (6.34%) Consultant
5 8 (5.63%) Business Analyst
6 7 (4.93%) Architect
6 7 (4.93%) Developer
7 6 (4.23%) Accountant
8 5 (3.52%) Administrator
8 5 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.52%) Systems Accountant
9 4 (2.82%) Oracle Project Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Project Officer
9 4 (2.82%) Project Support Officer
9 4 (2.82%) Senior Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.93%) REST
3 4 (2.82%) Kafka
3 4 (2.82%) Middleware
4 3 (2.11%) .NET
4 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.11%) JSON
4 3 (2.11%) Node.js
4 3 (2.11%) PySpark
4 3 (2.11%) pytest
5 2 (1.41%) CSS
5 2 (1.41%) HTML
5 2 (1.41%) Jest
6 1 (0.70%) ISPF
6 1 (0.70%) OAuth
6 1 (0.70%) OpenID
6 1 (0.70%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) SAML
6 1 (0.70%) SOAP
6 1 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.70%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.70%) Digital Currency
6 1 (0.70%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.70%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.70%) IoT
6 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) MVS
2 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.54%) ERP
2 30 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (16.90%) Migration
4 23 (16.20%) Agile
5 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (13.38%) Process Improvement
7 17 (11.97%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (10.56%) Project Management
9 15 (10.56%) Validation
10 12 (8.45%) DevOps
11 11 (7.75%) Change Management
11 11 (7.75%) CRM
11 11 (7.75%) Data Migration
11 11 (7.75%) Decision-Making
12 10 (7.04%) Logistics
13 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (6.34%) Change Control
14 8 (5.63%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.86%) SQL
2 7 (4.93%) Python
3 5 (3.52%) Java
4 2 (1.41%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.41%) VBA
5 1 (0.70%) C#
5 1 (0.70%) JCL
5 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.70%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (6.34%) Degree
2 8 (5.63%) ACCA
2 8 (5.63%) CIMA
3 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.11%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.11%) PMP
5 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.41%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
6 1 (0.70%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.04%) PMO
2 7 (4.93%) QA
3 6 (4.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.11%) GDPR
4 3 (2.11%) IFRS
4 3 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.41%) SLA
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Ansible
1 1 (0.70%) Control-M
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (17.61%) SAP
2 24 (16.90%) Oracle
3 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.93%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.23%) Databricks
5 6 (4.23%) Liquidlogic
6 5 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.11%) Concur
7 3 (2.11%) Google
7 3 (2.11%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.41%) Ariba
8 2 (1.41%) IFS
9 1 (0.70%) BMC
9 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.70%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.70%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.70%) Epicor
9 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.70%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) Workday