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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 173 102 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 20.14% 15.43% 8.50%
As % of the General category 32.95% 25.44% 17.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 73 47
10th Percentile £301 £273 £180
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £403 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -17.69% +8.67%
75th Percentile £505 £503 £569
90th Percentile £638 £649 £728
England median daily rate £538 £578 £588
% change year-on-year -6.93% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £14.98 - £25.74
25th Percentile £17.50 - £33.12
Median hourly rate £23.83 £39.68 £46.14
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% -14.00% +88.32%
75th Percentile £25.00 - £58.43
90th Percentile £30.75 - £65.37
England median hourly rate £23.79 £31.80 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.18% +5.98% +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 525 401 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.12% 60.67% 48.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 237 250
10th Percentile £190 £250 £160
25th Percentile £350 £322 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £641 £687
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 34
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.54 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.21 £15.10 £15.60
Median hourly rate £22.27 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.97% -38.18% +72.20%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.26 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.20 £55.00 £60.95
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 8 December 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 82 £396 -0.94% 136
Leicestershire +7 29 £450 +20.00% 116
Nottinghamshire +1 25 £550 +10.00% 133
Lincolnshire 0 20 £158 -60.63% 104
Derbyshire -1 13 £350 -17.65% 190
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 12 (6.94%) Confluence
2 9 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.58%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.58%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 11 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (6.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (5.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (4.62%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (4.05%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.89%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.89%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (2.31%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.73%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.58%) Actimize
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.58%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.29%) AWS
2 21 (12.14%) Azure
3 12 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.78%) GCP
4 10 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.73%) GitHub
8 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.73%) SaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.16%) IaaS
9 2 (1.16%) PaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.58%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.47%) Wireless
2 2 (1.16%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.16%) SSH
2 2 (1.16%) Telnet
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.94%) Power BI
2 9 (5.20%) Big Data
2 9 (5.20%) Hadoop
3 8 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.73%) Aerospike
4 3 (1.73%) Apache Hive
4 3 (1.73%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.73%) Metadata
4 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.73%) Tableau
5 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.16%) QlikView
6 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.58%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 18 (10.40%) JIRA
2 4 (2.31%) Git
2 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.31%) Selenium
3 3 (1.73%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.58%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) JUnit
5 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.58%) Maven
5 1 (0.58%) Postman
5 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.39%) Banking
3 24 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.98%) Manufacturing
5 19 (10.98%) Marketing
6 15 (8.67%) Telecoms
7 14 (8.09%) Electronics
8 9 (5.20%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.05%) General Ledger
9 7 (4.05%) Legal
9 7 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Back Office
11 3 (1.73%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.16%) Automotive
12 2 (1.16%) Front Office
12 2 (1.16%) Retail
12 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (19.65%) Analyst
2 22 (12.72%) Business Analyst
3 21 (12.14%) Project Manager
4 17 (9.83%) Developer
5 13 (7.51%) Lead
5 13 (7.51%) Programme Manager
6 10 (5.78%) Consultant
6 10 (5.78%) Senior
7 9 (5.20%) Financial Analyst
8 8 (4.62%) Architect
9 7 (4.05%) Change Manager
9 7 (4.05%) Product Owner
9 7 (4.05%) Project Change Manager
10 6 (3.47%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 6 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.47%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.47%) IT Support
10 6 (3.47%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 6 (3.47%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.47%) .NET
2 6 (3.47%) Kafka
3 4 (2.31%) ADO
3 4 (2.31%) REST
4 3 (1.73%) Node.js
4 3 (1.73%) pytest
4 3 (1.73%) RESTful
4 3 (1.73%) SOAP
4 3 (1.73%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.16%) Blazor
5 2 (1.16%) J2EE
5 2 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.16%) Middleware
5 2 (1.16%) PySpark
5 2 (1.16%) Spring
5 2 (1.16%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.58%) FIDO
6 1 (0.58%) Playwright
6 1 (0.58%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.67%) Onboarding
1 15 (8.67%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.16%) PMI
8 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Mac OS
2 7 (4.05%) Windows
3 6 (3.47%) Android
4 5 (2.89%) Unix
5 4 (2.31%) Linux
6 3 (1.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.16%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.48%) Agile
2 41 (23.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (17.34%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.03%) Change Management
6 25 (14.45%) ERP
7 23 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (12.72%) Migration
8 22 (12.72%) Programme Management
8 22 (12.72%) Project Management
8 22 (12.72%) Scrum
9 21 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (11.56%) Project Delivery
11 19 (10.98%) Decision-Making
12 16 (9.25%) CI/CD
13 15 (8.67%) ETL
13 15 (8.67%) KYC
13 15 (8.67%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.09%) Kanban
14 14 (8.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.14%) SQL
2 11 (6.36%) Python
3 9 (5.20%) Java
4 4 (2.31%) Bash
4 4 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.31%) R
5 3 (1.73%) Scala
6 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.16%) Swift
7 1 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.58%) JCL
7 1 (0.58%) PHP
7 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.58%) REXX
Qualifications
1 20 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) Degree
4 4 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.73%) PMP
6 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) MBA
6 2 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.58%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) CISA
7 1 (0.58%) CISM
7 1 (0.58%) CISSP
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.58%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.78%) QA
2 9 (5.20%) GDPR
3 6 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.47%) ISO 20022
3 6 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.47%) PMO
4 4 (2.31%) SLA
5 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.16%) Basel III
5 2 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) COBIT
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.73%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.16%) Docker
4 2 (1.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.58%) HDFS
5 1 (0.58%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (4.62%) SCCM
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.16%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.58%) Kibana
4 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.58%) Oozie
4 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.29%) SAP
3 21 (12.14%) Oracle
4 9 (5.20%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.62%) Cisco
5 8 (4.62%) Dell
6 6 (3.47%) Apple
6 6 (3.47%) HP
7 4 (2.31%) Citrix
7 4 (2.31%) Databricks
7 4 (2.31%) VMware
8 3 (1.73%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.73%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.16%) Draytek
9 2 (1.16%) Informatica
9 2 (1.16%) McAfee
9 2 (1.16%) Sage
9 2 (1.16%) Splunk