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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Finance 150 150 131
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.14% 18.32% 16.75%
As % of the General category 23.15% 29.82% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 127 94
10th Percentile £400 £308 £307
25th Percentile £413 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £445
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -6.74% -11.00%
75th Percentile £588 £491 £517
90th Percentile £649 £571 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £12.77 - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.26 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +94.52% -80.71%
75th Percentile £22.00 £41.20 £20.61
90th Percentile £25.00 £48.73 £32.05
England median hourly rate £43.96 £28.50 £34.25
% change year-on-year +54.25% -16.79% +33.22%

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 648 503 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.11% 61.42% 57.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 349 264
10th Percentile £213 £213 £263
25th Percentile £368 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -10.57% -10.10%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £672 £590 £619
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 37 31
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.17 £15.05
Median hourly rate £17.74 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +16.76% -33.38%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £47.28
90th Percentile £56.25 £28.02 £55.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +19.28% -33.38% +32.46%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +4 49 £550 +15.79% 96
Northamptonshire -1 36 £415 +3.23% 56
Nottinghamshire -9 30 £500 +4.99% 164
Derbyshire +7 29 £463 +17.98% 46
Lincolnshire -19 5 £590 +274.60% 50
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (4.00%) ContrOCC
4 6 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (3.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 4 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (2.00%) NetSuite
8 2 (1.33%) BASE24
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (1.33%) SAP FI-GL
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.00%) SaaS
2 7 (4.67%) Google Workspace
2 7 (4.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.00%) Azure
4 5 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.67%) Google Sheets
6 3 (2.00%) AWS
6 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.00%) Intacct
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.33%) GitHub
7 2 (1.33%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.33%) OCI
7 2 (1.33%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) LAN
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.67%) Power BI
2 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.33%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.00%) Git
2 3 (2.00%) Hudson
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Ant
4 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (14.00%) Banking
3 9 (6.00%) General Ledger
3 9 (6.00%) Retail
4 8 (5.33%) Billing
4 8 (5.33%) Local Government
5 7 (4.67%) Marketing
6 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 2 (1.33%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Automotive
10 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (8.67%) Analyst
1 13 (8.67%) Project Manager
2 11 (7.33%) Lead
2 11 (7.33%) Senior
3 10 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 10 (6.67%) Report Manager
4 9 (6.00%) Accountant
4 9 (6.00%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.00%) Trainer
5 8 (5.33%) Administrator
5 8 (5.33%) Oracle Trainer
5 8 (5.33%) Systems Accountant
6 6 (4.00%) Developer
7 5 (3.33%) Architect
7 5 (3.33%) Consultant
7 5 (3.33%) Coordinator
7 5 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
7 5 (3.33%) Programme Manager
8 4 (2.67%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.00%) REST
3 3 (2.00%) .NET
3 3 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.33%) CSS
4 2 (1.33%) HTML
4 2 (1.33%) JSON
4 2 (1.33%) RESTful
4 2 (1.33%) SOAP
4 2 (1.33%) Spring
4 2 (1.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.33%) XML
5 1 (0.67%) Flash
5 1 (0.67%) ISPF
5 1 (0.67%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.67%) Middleware
5 1 (0.67%) OAuth
5 1 (0.67%) OpenID
5 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.33%) Onboarding
1 8 (5.33%) Public Cloud
2 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Digital Currency
5 4 (2.67%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.67%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Replication
7 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) MVS
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.33%) ERP
2 33 (22.00%) Process Improvement
3 28 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.67%) Migration
5 25 (16.67%) Validation
6 20 (13.33%) Project Management
7 18 (12.00%) Agile
7 18 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (11.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (10.67%) Logistics
10 15 (10.00%) Customer Service
10 15 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (8.67%) Change Management
12 11 (7.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 11 (7.33%) CRM
12 11 (7.33%) KYC
13 10 (6.67%) Customer Experience
13 10 (6.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.33%) SQL
2 4 (2.67%) Python
3 3 (2.00%) Java
4 2 (1.33%) ABAP
4 2 (1.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.67%) C#
5 1 (0.67%) JCL
5 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (8.67%) ACCA
1 13 (8.67%) CIMA
2 10 (6.67%) Degree
3 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.33%) PMP
5 2 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.67%) PhD
6 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) PMO
2 6 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.00%) QA
3 3 (2.00%) IFRS
4 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Ansible
1 1 (0.67%) Control-M
1 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (20.00%) Oracle
2 22 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.67%) SAP
3 11 (7.33%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.33%) JD Edwards
5 5 (3.33%) Google
5 5 (3.33%) Liquidlogic
6 4 (2.67%) Adobe
7 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.00%) Concur
7 3 (2.00%) Sage
8 2 (1.33%) Databricks
8 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.33%) Teradata
9 1 (0.67%) BMC
9 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.67%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.67%) IFS
9 1 (0.67%) Splunk