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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 135 131 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.75% 15.11% 10.44%
As % of the General category 30.96% 28.54% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 88 75
10th Percentile £309 £360 £330
25th Percentile £358 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +1.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £500 £620 £613
90th Percentile £536 £699 £700
England median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% -1.96% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £14.88 - £30.40
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -77.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £37.02 £14.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £47.06 - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.45% -12.13%

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 436 459 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.56% 52.94% 52.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 288 408
10th Percentile £213 £185 £223
25th Percentile £320 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £613
90th Percentile £545 £638 £739
England median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 57 33
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.22 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.34 £13.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £21.39 £16.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -39.53% +13.40%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.77 £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%

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 5 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 -3 73 £402 -11.16% 128
Nottinghamshire 0 34 £490 -7.55% 238
Derbyshire 0 10 £438 -31.51% 182
Lincolnshire +1 9 £513 -24.07% 94
Leicestershire +4 7 £330 -42.61% 128
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 6 (4.44%) Confluence
2 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) JBoss
3 1 (0.74%) Luigi
3 1 (0.74%) SAS
3 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.48%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.48%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.48%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.48%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.74%) Actimize
4 1 (0.74%) BASE24
4 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.22%) AWS
2 16 (11.85%) Azure
3 6 (4.44%) SaaS
4 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.22%) GCP
7 2 (1.48%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (1.48%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.48%) GitHub
8 1 (0.74%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.74%) dbt
8 1 (0.74%) Figma
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.74%) Kong
8 1 (0.74%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) ATM
1 1 (0.74%) DMZ
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.19%) Big Data
2 4 (2.96%) Apache Hive
2 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.96%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.96%) HBase
2 4 (2.96%) Impala
2 4 (2.96%) Power BI
3 2 (1.48%) MySQL
3 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.48%) Power Query
3 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.74%) DB2
4 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.74%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Git
1 8 (5.93%) JIRA
2 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.96%) Postman
4 3 (2.22%) Selenium
4 3 (2.22%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.22%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.48%) JMeter
5 2 (1.48%) JUnit
5 2 (1.48%) Maven
5 2 (1.48%) Mockito
5 2 (1.48%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.74%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.74%) ERwin
6 1 (0.74%) Gradle
6 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.74%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.74%) MagicDraw
General
1 34 (25.19%) Banking
2 27 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.93%) Retail
5 6 (4.44%) Legal
6 4 (2.96%) General Ledger
6 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (17.04%) Architect
2 17 (12.59%) Developer
3 14 (10.37%) Analyst
4 12 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.41%) Consultant
5 10 (7.41%) Lead
6 9 (6.67%) Programme Manager
6 9 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Senior
8 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Product Owner
8 5 (3.70%) Test Leader
9 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Payments Architect
9 4 (2.96%) PHP Developer
9 4 (2.96%) PHP Symfony Developer
9 4 (2.96%) Scrum Master
9 4 (2.96%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) .NET
1 6 (4.44%) REST
2 5 (3.70%) RESTful
2 5 (3.70%) Spring
3 4 (2.96%) Hibernate
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.96%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.96%) Symfony
4 3 (2.22%) React
5 2 (1.48%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.48%) Blazor
5 2 (1.48%) CSS
5 2 (1.48%) HTML
5 2 (1.48%) J2EE
5 2 (1.48%) JMS
5 2 (1.48%) RAML
5 2 (1.48%) SOAP
5 2 (1.48%) Web Services
6 1 (0.74%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.96%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) APACS
8 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.74%) Derivative
8 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.74%) Life Science
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Unix
2 2 (1.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.74%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.37%) Agile
2 27 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 17 (12.59%) Decision-Making
4 17 (12.59%) Migration
4 17 (12.59%) Scrum
5 15 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 15 (11.11%) ETL
5 15 (11.11%) Microservices
5 15 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 13 (9.63%) CI/CD
6 13 (9.63%) Project Management
6 13 (9.63%) Roadmaps
7 12 (8.89%) DevOps
7 12 (8.89%) SDLC
8 11 (8.15%) Data Transformation
8 11 (8.15%) Fintech
8 11 (8.15%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (7.41%) Analytics
9 10 (7.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.85%) Java
2 11 (8.15%) SQL
3 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.44%) Python
4 5 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.96%) PHP
6 3 (2.22%) Scala
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.74%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) COBOL
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.96%) Degree
3 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.22%) PMP
3 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) AAT
4 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.48%) CIMA
4 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.74%) ACCA
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) CBAP
5 1 (0.74%) IIBA
5 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.74%) MBA
5 1 (0.74%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) PMO
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) GAAP
3 3 (2.22%) IFRS
4 2 (1.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) GRC
4 2 (1.48%) MiFID
4 2 (1.48%) NIST
4 2 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.74%) Basel III
5 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) HDFS
2 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Ansible
2 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.63%) Oracle
3 8 (5.93%) SAP
4 3 (2.22%) Databricks
5 2 (1.48%) Nintex
5 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.74%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) Cognos
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.74%) HP
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.74%) Teradata