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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 163 118 80
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 19.13% 16.21% 9.76%
As % of the General category 30.24% 27.51% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 87 54
10th Percentile £293 £300 £350
25th Percentile £358 £356 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -14.11% +8.67%
75th Percentile £500 £544 £619
90th Percentile £638 £608 £739
England median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £18.66 - £30.66
25th Percentile £20.40 - £45.41
Median hourly rate £25.00 £39.68 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% -43.31% +171.42%
75th Percentile £37.02 - -
90th Percentile £47.06 - -
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year -28.36% +29.68% +4.98%

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 539 429 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 63.26% 58.93% 49.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 259 286
10th Percentile £213 £260 £199
25th Percentile £350 £341 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £500 £532 £600
90th Percentile £625 £623 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 33
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.82% -38.18% +62.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.50 £55.00 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.14 £30.03
% change year-on-year -22.22% +7.04% +16.78%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 2 November 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 -1 82 £410 +2.50% 35
Nottinghamshire +1 25 £550 +10.00% 82
Leicestershire +8 24 £525 +40.00% 51
Lincolnshire +1 18 £158 -60.63% 32
Derbyshire +1 11 £381 -22.98% 38
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 8 (4.91%) Confluence
2 5 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) JBoss
3 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.45%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (7.36%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (6.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (5.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (4.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 7 (4.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (4.29%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (3.07%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (2.45%) SAP ERP
7 3 (1.84%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.84%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (1.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (1.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (1.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.61%) Actimize
9 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.18%) AWS
2 22 (13.50%) Azure
3 10 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.91%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.29%) GCP
6 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.45%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.84%) SaaS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.61%) Figma
9 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Wireless
2 2 (1.23%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.23%) SSH
2 2 (1.23%) Telnet
3 1 (0.61%) DMZ
3 1 (0.61%) Firewall
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) Big Data
2 8 (4.91%) Hadoop
2 8 (4.91%) Power BI
3 7 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.45%) Tableau
5 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.84%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.84%) Metadata
5 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.84%) Power Query
5 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) QlikView
6 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.61%) DB2
7 1 (0.61%) HBase
7 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.61%) MySQL
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.75%) JIRA
2 5 (3.07%) Git
3 4 (2.45%) Selenium
3 4 (2.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.84%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.23%) JUnit
5 2 (1.23%) Maven
5 2 (1.23%) Mockito
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Gradle
6 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.61%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.61%) Mocha
6 1 (0.61%) Protractor
6 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (26.38%) Banking
3 20 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.20%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.59%) Marketing
5 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.13%) Electronics
6 10 (6.13%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.91%) General Ledger
9 7 (4.29%) Legal
10 6 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (3.07%) Retail
12 3 (1.84%) Back Office
12 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.23%) Automotive
13 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (19.02%) Analyst
2 21 (12.88%) Business Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Developer
4 15 (9.20%) Architect
5 14 (8.59%) Programme Manager
6 13 (7.98%) Project Manager
7 11 (6.75%) Consultant
8 10 (6.13%) Product Owner
9 9 (5.52%) Lead
10 8 (4.91%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Change Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Project Change Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Senior
11 7 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.68%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
12 6 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.68%) Desktop Support
12 6 (3.68%) IT Support
12 6 (3.68%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
13 5 (3.07%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.68%) .NET
3 5 (3.07%) REST
3 5 (3.07%) RESTful
4 4 (2.45%) Spring
5 3 (1.84%) ADO
5 3 (1.84%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.84%) SOAP
5 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.23%) Blazor
6 2 (1.23%) J2EE
6 2 (1.23%) JMS
6 2 (1.23%) Kafka
6 2 (1.23%) Middleware
6 2 (1.23%) RAML
6 2 (1.23%) Web Services
7 1 (0.61%) FIDO
7 1 (0.61%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.61%) Playwright
7 1 (0.61%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.59%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.75%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.13%) Mac OS
2 7 (4.29%) Unix
3 6 (3.68%) Android
3 6 (3.68%) Windows
4 4 (2.45%) Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.99%) Agile
2 35 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (15.34%) Scrum
4 23 (14.11%) ERP
4 23 (14.11%) Migration
5 21 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (12.88%) Change Management
5 21 (12.88%) Decision-Making
6 19 (11.66%) Programme Management
7 18 (11.04%) ETL
7 18 (11.04%) Roadmaps
8 17 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (9.82%) Project Delivery
9 16 (9.82%) Project Management
10 15 (9.20%) Business Strategy
11 14 (8.59%) CI/CD
11 14 (8.59%) Data Migration
11 14 (8.59%) DevOps
11 14 (8.59%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.66%) SQL
2 11 (6.75%) Java
3 6 (3.68%) Python
4 4 (2.45%) Bash
4 4 (2.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.84%) R
5 3 (1.84%) Scala
6 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.61%) C#
7 1 (0.61%) PHP
7 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) Degree
4 5 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) CISA
6 1 (0.61%) CISM
6 1 (0.61%) CISSP
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Server+ Certification
6 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) QA
2 8 (4.91%) GDPR
3 6 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.07%) PMO
5 4 (2.45%) ISO 20022
5 4 (2.45%) SLA
6 3 (1.84%) NIST
7 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.23%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.61%) COBIT
8 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.84%) Docker
4 2 (1.23%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (3.68%) SCCM
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.61%) Kibana
4 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.61%) Oozie
4 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.11%) Oracle
3 21 (12.88%) SAP
4 8 (4.91%) Cisco
4 8 (4.91%) Dell
4 8 (4.91%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.68%) Apple
5 6 (3.68%) HP
6 4 (2.45%) Citrix
6 4 (2.45%) VMware
7 2 (1.23%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.23%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.23%) Draytek
7 2 (1.23%) McAfee
7 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.61%) Databricks
8 1 (0.61%) New Relic
8 1 (0.61%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.61%) Splunk