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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Finance 167 115 72
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 18.83% 16.13% 8.98%
As % of the General category 30.25% 27.71% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 83 51
10th Percentile £291 £303 £288
25th Percentile £358 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £420 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -14.11% +8.67%
75th Percentile £498 £510 £597
90th Percentile £612 £619 £750
England median daily rate £537 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -6.61% -3.36% +1.28%
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% +311.76%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £42.25 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +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 552 415 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 62.23% 58.20% 48.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 245 273
10th Percentile £210 £255 £185
25th Percentile £350 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £453
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -1.77% -4.63%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £588
90th Percentile £623 £629 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 33
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.54 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.94 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -38.18% +66.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.90 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.83 £55.00 £69.00
England median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £32.00
% change year-on-year -23.87% -0.09% +24.47%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 83 £393 -1.88% 47
Leicestershire +5 26 £475 +26.67% 51
Nottinghamshire 0 25 £513 +2.50% 85
Lincolnshire 0 19 £158 -60.63% 34
Derbyshire +1 11 £350 -23.91% 33
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 (5.39%) Confluence
2 7 (4.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (5.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (4.19%) Oracle Cash Management
4 7 (4.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (3.59%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (2.40%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.60%) Actimize
10 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.97%) Azure
2 24 (14.37%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.39%) GCP
6 6 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (2.40%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.80%) SaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.20%) IaaS
10 2 (1.20%) PaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.60%) Figma
11 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) Wireless
2 2 (1.20%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.20%) SSH
2 2 (1.20%) Telnet
3 1 (0.60%) DMZ
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) Power BI
2 11 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.99%) Big Data
4 9 (5.39%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.40%) Metadata
5 4 (2.40%) Tableau
6 3 (1.80%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.80%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.80%) Power Query
6 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.20%) QlikView
8 1 (0.60%) HBase
8 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (8.38%) JIRA
2 6 (3.59%) Git
3 3 (1.80%) Selenium
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Maven
4 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) Gradle
5 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.60%) JMeter
5 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.60%) Mocha
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) Protractor
5 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.55%) Banking
3 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.58%) Manufacturing
4 16 (9.58%) Marketing
4 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.59%) Electronics
5 11 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.19%) Legal
8 6 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.59%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.20%) Automotive
12 1 (0.60%) Front Office
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Analyst
2 21 (12.57%) Business Analyst
3 19 (11.38%) Developer
4 16 (9.58%) Project Manager
5 14 (8.38%) Programme Manager
6 13 (7.78%) Architect
7 11 (6.59%) Lead
8 10 (5.99%) Product Owner
9 9 (5.39%) Consultant
10 8 (4.79%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (4.79%) Senior
11 7 (4.19%) Change Manager
11 7 (4.19%) Project Change Manager
12 6 (3.59%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
12 6 (3.59%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.59%) Desktop Support
12 6 (3.59%) IT Support
12 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
13 5 (2.99%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.99%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.59%) .NET
3 5 (2.99%) REST
3 5 (2.99%) RESTful
4 3 (1.80%) ADO
4 3 (1.80%) Kafka
4 3 (1.80%) SOAP
4 3 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.20%) Blazor
5 2 (1.20%) J2EE
5 2 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.20%) Middleware
5 2 (1.20%) Spring
5 2 (1.20%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.60%) CSS3
6 1 (0.60%) FIDO
6 1 (0.60%) HTML5
6 1 (0.60%) Playwright
6 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.38%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.78%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.79%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.60%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.60%) PMI
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.99%) Mac OS
2 7 (4.19%) Windows
3 6 (3.59%) Android
4 5 (2.99%) Unix
5 4 (2.40%) Linux
6 3 (1.80%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.20%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.20%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.74%) Agile
2 39 (23.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (14.37%) ERP
5 23 (13.77%) Change Management
5 23 (13.77%) Scrum
6 22 (13.17%) Decision-Making
7 20 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (11.98%) ETL
7 20 (11.98%) Migration
8 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (11.38%) Programme Management
9 18 (10.78%) Project Delivery
9 18 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (10.18%) Roadmaps
11 16 (9.58%) Business Strategy
11 16 (9.58%) Project Management
12 15 (8.98%) DevOps
12 15 (8.98%) Risk Management
13 14 (8.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.57%) SQL
2 9 (5.39%) Java
3 8 (4.79%) Python
4 4 (2.40%) Bash
4 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.40%) R
5 3 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.80%) Scala
6 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.20%) Swift
7 1 (0.60%) C#
7 1 (0.60%) JCL
7 1 (0.60%) PHP
7 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.60%) REXX
7 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.19%) Degree
4 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) CISA
6 1 (0.60%) CISM
6 1 (0.60%) CISSP
6 1 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.60%) MBA
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) PMP
6 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.60%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) GDPR
1 10 (5.99%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.59%) PMO
4 4 (2.40%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.40%) SLA
5 3 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.80%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.20%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.60%) Basel III
7 1 (0.60%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.80%) BitLocker
3 3 (1.80%) Docker
4 2 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (4.19%) SCCM
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.60%) Oozie
4 1 (0.60%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) Oracle
2 20 (11.98%) SAP
3 9 (5.39%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.79%) Cisco
4 8 (4.79%) Dell
5 6 (3.59%) Apple
5 6 (3.59%) HP
6 4 (2.40%) Citrix
6 4 (2.40%) VMware
7 3 (1.80%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.20%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.20%) Draytek
8 2 (1.20%) Informatica
8 2 (1.20%) McAfee
8 2 (1.20%) Sage
8 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.20%) Splunk