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 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 203 98 68
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 21.15% 17.35% 8.77%
As % of the General category 35.06% 26.27% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 76 46
10th Percentile £312 £282 £175
25th Percentile £360 £350 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £423 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -13.60% +8.67%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £588
90th Percentile £638 £575 £731
England median daily rate £538 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -9.58% +3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £14.98 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - £20.82
Median hourly rate £23.83 £39.68 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.96% +78.14% -7.19%
75th Percentile £24.49 - £23.73
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.75 £27.31 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.03% -14.00%

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 579 373 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.31% 66.02% 50.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 226 276
10th Percentile £199 £239 £160
25th Percentile £352 £320 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £550
90th Percentile £610 £613 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 17 39
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.92 £13.63
25th Percentile £15.74 £17.00 £14.26
Median hourly rate £20.06 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +27.05% +14.26%
75th Percentile £24.87 £31.76 £34.13
90th Percentile £25.96 £45.81 £51.50
England median hourly rate £22.85 £29.23 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.83% +12.42% +1.13%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -1 92 £420 +3.19% 58
Nottinghamshire -1 38 £531 +7.32% 66
Leicestershire +8 32 £450 +36.36% 61
Lincolnshire +2 23 £304 -24.06% 36
Derbyshire -3 15 £381 -10.29% 55
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 22 (10.84%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.49%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.49%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 15 (7.39%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.96%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (7.88%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (6.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 11 (5.42%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (3.94%) Oracle Cash Management
6 7 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (2.46%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (2.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (1.97%) SAP ERP
9 3 (1.48%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (1.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.49%) Actimize
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
11 1 (0.49%) R3 Corda
11 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
11 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.84%) AWS
1 22 (10.84%) Google Workspace
2 19 (9.36%) Google Sheets
3 18 (8.87%) Azure
3 18 (8.87%) Cloud Computing
3 18 (8.87%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.43%) GCP
6 7 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.45%) GitHub
6 7 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.46%) SaaS
8 4 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.48%) IaaS
9 3 (1.48%) PaaS
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.99%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.49%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.96%) Wireless
2 2 (0.99%) PuTTY
2 2 (0.99%) SSH
2 2 (0.99%) Telnet
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.87%) Power BI
2 7 (3.45%) Aerospike
2 7 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.46%) Big Data
3 5 (2.46%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.46%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.46%) Redis
4 3 (1.48%) Tableau
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Hive
5 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.99%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.99%) Metadata
6 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.49%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 29 (14.29%) JIRA
2 8 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.45%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) JUnit
4 4 (1.97%) Selenium
5 3 (1.48%) Git
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) JMeter
6 1 (0.49%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 101 (49.75%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.73%) Banking
3 34 (16.75%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.85%) Manufacturing
6 17 (8.37%) Marketing
6 17 (8.37%) Telecoms
7 15 (7.39%) Electronics
8 11 (5.42%) General Ledger
9 10 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
11 7 (3.45%) Retail Banking
12 6 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.96%) Local Government
13 3 (1.48%) Back Office
13 3 (1.48%) Legal
14 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.99%) Retail
15 1 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 28 (13.79%) Analyst
2 27 (13.30%) Project Manager
3 26 (12.81%) Programme Manager
4 23 (11.33%) Lead
5 17 (8.37%) Consultant
6 14 (6.90%) Business Analyst
7 13 (6.40%) Architect
8 11 (5.42%) Developer
8 11 (5.42%) Senior
9 8 (3.94%) Financial Analyst
10 7 (3.45%) Product Owner
10 7 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.96%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
11 6 (2.96%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (2.96%) Desktop Support
11 6 (2.96%) IT Support
11 6 (2.96%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 6 (2.96%) Technical Manager
12 5 (2.46%) Oracle Consultant
12 5 (2.46%) SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.94%) Kafka
2 8 (3.94%) Middleware
3 7 (3.45%) Node.js
4 6 (2.96%) pytest
5 5 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (2.46%) Visualforce
6 4 (1.97%) ADO
6 4 (1.97%) Jest
7 3 (1.48%) REST
8 2 (0.99%) .NET
8 2 (0.99%) PySpark
9 1 (0.49%) Blazor
9 1 (0.49%) J2EE
9 1 (0.49%) Playwright
9 1 (0.49%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.49%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.49%) SOAP
9 1 (0.49%) Web Services
9 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.88%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.39%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.42%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.43%) PMI
6 8 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.99%) EMV
10 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.49%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.49%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.93%) Mac OS
2 7 (3.45%) Windows
3 6 (2.96%) Android
4 4 (1.97%) Linux
5 3 (1.48%) Unix
5 3 (1.48%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.99%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.99%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (26.11%) Agile
3 52 (25.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 50 (24.63%) Migration
5 42 (20.69%) Change Management
6 40 (19.70%) Programme Management
7 34 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (15.76%) Project Management
10 30 (14.78%) Regulatory Compliance
11 29 (14.29%) User Experience
12 26 (12.81%) ERP
12 26 (12.81%) Risk Management
13 23 (11.33%) Data Analysis
14 22 (10.84%) CI/CD
15 21 (10.34%) Data Modelling
15 21 (10.34%) Scrum
16 19 (9.36%) DevOps
16 19 (9.36%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.27%) SQL
2 10 (4.93%) Java
2 10 (4.93%) Python
3 5 (2.46%) Apex Code
4 4 (1.97%) Bash
4 4 (1.97%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.97%) SOQL
5 3 (1.48%) R
6 2 (0.99%) Swift
7 1 (0.49%) JCL
7 1 (0.49%) REXX
7 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (15.76%) Degree
2 21 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.91%) PMI Certification
5 11 (5.42%) PMP
6 7 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.45%) MBA
6 7 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (0.99%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AAT
8 1 (0.49%) ACCA
8 1 (0.49%) CIMA
8 1 (0.49%) CISA
8 1 (0.49%) CISM
8 1 (0.49%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) IIBA
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.84%) QA
2 11 (5.42%) GDPR
3 8 (3.94%) PMO
4 7 (3.45%) Basel III
4 7 (3.45%) ISO 20022
5 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.97%) SLA
7 2 (0.99%) NIST
7 2 (0.99%) PSD2
8 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.49%) COBIT
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.48%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Docker
5 1 (0.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 8 (3.94%) SCCM
2 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.48%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
4 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) SAP
2 32 (15.76%) Microsoft
3 22 (10.84%) Oracle
4 21 (10.34%) Google
5 9 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.94%) Cisco
6 8 (3.94%) Databricks
6 8 (3.94%) Dell
7 6 (2.96%) Apple
7 6 (2.96%) HP
8 4 (1.97%) Citrix
8 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.97%) VMware
9 3 (1.48%) Ab Initio
9 3 (1.48%) Sage
9 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.99%) Draytek
10 2 (0.99%) Informatica
10 2 (0.99%) McAfee
10 2 (0.99%) Splunk