Finance Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 9 13
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Finance 103 89 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.22% 11.51% 10.36%
As % of the General category 31.50% 23.00% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 57 80
10th Percentile £347 £356 £308
25th Percentile £364 £445 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £550 £455
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +20.88% +1.11%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £550
90th Percentile £543 £775 £650
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £14.75 - £17.63
25th Percentile £14.94 £12.75 £20.44
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -51.79% -9.68%
75th Percentile £15.75 £14.25 £36.50
90th Percentile - - £44.60
England median hourly rate £38.11 £27.00 £26.85
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.58% -21.37%

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 327 387 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.01% 50.06% 53.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 255 426
10th Percentile £202 £160 £213
25th Percentile £320 £230 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £575
90th Percentile £578 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 41
10th Percentile £14.45 £12.20 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.68 £13.88 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.40% +0.79%
75th Percentile £30.30 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.91 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 38 £414 -14.11% 42
Nottinghamshire +1 35 £490 -14.78% 106
Derbyshire +8 15 £425 -10.53% 37
Leicestershire +11 6 £403 -46.33% 51
Lincolnshire 0 6 £513 -24.07% 39
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.80%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.97%) Luigi
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.97%) Actimize
3 1 (0.97%) BASE24
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.97%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.97%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.62%) AWS
2 4 (3.88%) Azure
2 4 (3.88%) SaaS
3 3 (2.91%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.94%) BrowserStack
4 2 (1.94%) GCP
4 2 (1.94%) GitHub
5 1 (0.97%) Apigee
5 1 (0.97%) Asana
5 1 (0.97%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (0.97%) dbt
5 1 (0.97%) Figma
5 1 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.97%) Kong
5 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.97%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.97%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Big Data
2 4 (3.88%) Apache Hive
2 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.88%) HBase
2 4 (3.88%) Impala
3 3 (2.91%) MySQL
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.97%) Looker
4 1 (0.97%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.97%) Power BI
4 1 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) JIRA
2 6 (5.83%) Postman
3 5 (4.85%) Git
4 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.94%) JMeter
5 2 (1.94%) Selenium
5 2 (1.94%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.97%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.97%) ERwin
6 1 (0.97%) GitLab
6 1 (0.97%) MagicDraw
General
1 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Banking
3 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (5.83%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (4.85%) Retail
5 3 (2.91%) General Ledger
5 3 (2.91%) Legal
5 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Automotive
7 1 (0.97%) Electronics
7 1 (0.97%) Games
7 1 (0.97%) Local Government
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (11.65%) Lead
2 10 (9.71%) Project Manager
3 9 (8.74%) Analyst
3 9 (8.74%) Architect
3 9 (8.74%) Developer
4 8 (7.77%) Consultant
4 8 (7.77%) Programme Manager
5 7 (6.80%) Senior
6 6 (5.83%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Test Leader
8 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 4 (3.88%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (3.88%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) QA Test Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) .NET
2 5 (4.85%) REST
3 4 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.88%) React
3 4 (3.88%) Symfony
4 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.94%) Spring
5 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.97%) CSS
6 1 (0.97%) Express.js
6 1 (0.97%) HTML
6 1 (0.97%) Kafka
6 1 (0.97%) Node.js
6 1 (0.97%) OAuth
6 1 (0.97%) OpenID
6 1 (0.97%) RESTful
6 1 (0.97%) Sass
6 1 (0.97%) XML
6 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
2 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.97%) APACS
3 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.97%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.97%) Life Science
3 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.97%) PMI
3 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.97%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Agile
2 27 (26.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (17.48%) Project Delivery
4 15 (14.56%) Project Management
4 15 (14.56%) Risk Management
5 12 (11.65%) Migration
5 12 (11.65%) Supplier Management
6 10 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (9.71%) Fintech
6 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (8.74%) Decision-Making
7 9 (8.74%) Microservices
8 8 (7.77%) Business Strategy
8 8 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (6.80%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.80%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (6.80%) ERP
9 7 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.80%) Programme Management
9 7 (6.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.77%) Java
2 7 (6.80%) Python
2 7 (6.80%) SQL
3 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.88%) PHP
5 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.91%) C#
6 3 (2.91%) Scala
7 2 (1.94%) Bash
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) COBOL
8 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.85%) PMP
1 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.88%) PMI Certification
2 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) AAT
4 2 (1.94%) CIMA
5 1 (0.97%) ACCA
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.97%) CBAP
5 1 (0.97%) IIBA
5 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.97%) MBA
5 1 (0.97%) SAS Certification
5 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 7 (6.80%) SLA
3 4 (3.88%) PMO
4 3 (2.91%) GAAP
4 3 (2.91%) IFRS
5 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.94%) GRC
5 2 (1.94%) MiFID
5 2 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.97%) Basel III
6 1 (0.97%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) HDFS
1 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Ansible
2 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
1 10 (9.71%) Oracle
2 8 (7.77%) SAP
3 2 (1.94%) Databricks
3 2 (1.94%) HP
3 2 (1.94%) Nintex
3 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.94%) Splunk
4 1 (0.97%) Ab Initio
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe
4 1 (0.97%) Apple
4 1 (0.97%) Cognos
4 1 (0.97%) Dell
4 1 (0.97%) Google
4 1 (0.97%) Hitachi
4 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow