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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 195 101 69
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 19.23% 18.81% 9.14%
As % of the General category 33.28% 29.45% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 88 44
10th Percentile £324 £313 £165
25th Percentile £393 £354 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.43% +18.54%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £650
90th Percentile £575 £538 £768
England median daily rate £537 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -9.75% +3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £14.98 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 £14.63 £20.82
Median hourly rate £23.83 £14.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +61.53% -33.78% -20.45%
75th Percentile £24.49 £14.88 £23.73
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £26.73
% change year-on-year -40.44% +49.64% -4.89%

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 586 343 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 57.79% 63.87% 50.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 232 263
10th Percentile £200 £200 £150
25th Percentile £360 £314 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £512 £528
90th Percentile £625 £588 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 12 50
10th Percentile £13.07 £13.84 £12.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.74 £14.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £25.11 £32.26 £32.13
90th Percentile £29.65 £48.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.86% -22.39%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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
Northamptonshire -2 94 £425 +5.72% 32
Nottinghamshire -6 34 £500 +2.04% 62
Leicestershire +10 26 £468 +33.71% 39
Lincolnshire 0 25 £450 -10.00% 16
Derbyshire -7 13 £413 -2.94% 30
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 20 (10.26%) Confluence
2 7 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.51%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (3.59%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (11.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (6.15%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (5.13%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (3.08%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (2.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (1.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (1.03%) ContrOCC
8 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.51%) Actimize
9 1 (0.51%) Avolution ABACUS
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.51%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.79%) AWS
2 22 (11.28%) Google Workspace
3 20 (10.26%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.74%) Google Sheets
5 18 (9.23%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (5.13%) GitHub
7 9 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.59%) GCP
10 5 (2.56%) SaaS
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.54%) IaaS
11 3 (1.54%) PaaS
12 2 (1.03%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.51%) Lucidchart
13 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.26%) Power BI
2 10 (5.13%) Aerospike
3 8 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.59%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.59%) Redis
5 4 (2.05%) Big Data
5 4 (2.05%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.54%) Tableau
7 2 (1.03%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) Metadata
8 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.51%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 29 (14.87%) JIRA
2 10 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.62%) GitLab
4 6 (3.08%) JUnit
5 3 (1.54%) Git
6 1 (0.51%) Hudson
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 97 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.49%) Banking
2 38 (19.49%) Public Sector
3 20 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.74%) Marketing
5 18 (9.23%) Telecoms
6 15 (7.69%) Electronics
7 10 (5.13%) Local Government
7 10 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.10%) General Ledger
9 7 (3.59%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (3.59%) Retail Banking
10 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.54%) Legal
11 3 (1.54%) Retail
12 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (12.82%) Lead
2 23 (11.79%) Analyst
2 23 (11.79%) Programme Manager
2 23 (11.79%) Project Manager
3 19 (9.74%) Architect
3 19 (9.74%) Consultant
4 10 (5.13%) Developer
4 10 (5.13%) Senior
4 10 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.62%) Business Analyst
6 8 (4.10%) Financial Analyst
7 7 (3.59%) Product Owner
8 6 (3.08%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 6 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (3.08%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.08%) IT Support
8 6 (3.08%) SAP Architect
8 6 (3.08%) SAP Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 6 (3.08%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (5.64%) Kafka
2 11 (5.64%) Middleware
3 10 (5.13%) Node.js
4 9 (4.62%) pytest
5 6 (3.08%) Jest
6 5 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (2.56%) PySpark
6 5 (2.56%) Visualforce
7 3 (1.54%) ADO
7 3 (1.54%) J2EE
7 3 (1.54%) OSGi
7 3 (1.54%) REST
7 3 (1.54%) RESTful
8 1 (0.51%) .NET
8 1 (0.51%) ISPF
8 1 (0.51%) JSON
8 1 (0.51%) SOAP
8 1 (0.51%) Web Services
8 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.79%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 13 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.62%) PMI
7 7 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.03%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.03%) EMV
11 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.03%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.51%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.59%) Mac OS
2 6 (3.08%) Android
3 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.03%) Linux
3 2 (1.03%) Unix
3 2 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (28.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 52 (26.67%) Migration
4 48 (24.62%) Agile
5 37 (18.97%) Change Management
5 37 (18.97%) Programme Management
6 36 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (16.92%) Regulatory Compliance
9 29 (14.87%) Project Management
10 28 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.33%) Risk Management
12 24 (12.31%) CI/CD
12 24 (12.31%) Data Modelling
12 24 (12.31%) DevOps
13 23 (11.79%) Analytics
13 23 (11.79%) Data Analysis
13 23 (11.79%) User Experience
14 21 (10.77%) Technology Transformation
15 20 (10.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.38%) SQL
2 14 (7.18%) Java
3 10 (5.13%) Python
4 5 (2.56%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.05%) SOQL
6 2 (1.03%) R
6 2 (1.03%) Swift
7 1 (0.51%) Bash
7 1 (0.51%) JCL
7 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.51%) REXX
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (15.90%) Degree
2 22 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 11 (5.64%) PMP
6 7 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.59%) MBA
6 7 (3.59%) SAFe Agilist
7 4 (2.05%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.51%) AAT
8 1 (0.51%) ACCA
8 1 (0.51%) CIMA
8 1 (0.51%) CISA
8 1 (0.51%) CISM
8 1 (0.51%) CISSP
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) IIBA
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.33%) QA
2 11 (5.64%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) PMO
4 7 (3.59%) Basel III
4 7 (3.59%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.56%) ISO 20022
7 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (2.05%) SLA
8 2 (1.03%) NIST
8 2 (1.03%) PSD2
9 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.51%) COBIT
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.51%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.54%) SCCM
1 3 (1.54%) Terraform
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (20.00%) SAP
2 24 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.77%) Google
4 16 (8.21%) Oracle
5 12 (6.15%) Databricks
6 6 (3.08%) Apple
6 6 (3.08%) Cisco
6 6 (3.08%) Dell
6 6 (3.08%) HP
7 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.05%) Adobe
8 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.54%) Ab Initio
9 3 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.54%) Sage
10 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 2 (1.03%) Liquidlogic
11 1 (0.51%) Ariba
11 1 (0.51%) Epicor
11 1 (0.51%) Genesys