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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Finance 149 145 137
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.10% 17.99% 17.30%
As % of the General category 23.14% 29.35% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 122 100
10th Percentile £397 £309 £323
25th Percentile £413 £358 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £418 £453
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -7.73% -9.50%
75th Percentile £584 £492 £575
90th Percentile £647 £574 £659
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £16.43 - -
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £26.26 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.84% +94.52% -80.71%
75th Percentile £22.00 £41.20 £20.61
90th Percentile £26.51 £48.73 £32.05
England median hourly rate £43.96 £28.55 £35.00
% change year-on-year +53.98% -18.43% +36.13%

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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 644 494 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.99% 61.29% 57.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 342 273
10th Percentile £213 £219 £263
25th Percentile £372 £332 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £669 £594 £627
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 37 31
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.17 £15.05
Median hourly rate £17.97 £21.39 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +16.76% -33.38%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £47.28
90th Percentile £56.25 £30.30 £55.00
England median hourly rate £30.66 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.89% -35.26% +41.27%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +5 48 £550 +15.79% 102
Northamptonshire -2 36 £405 +0.75% 59
Nottinghamshire -8 30 £500 +3.09% 150
Derbyshire +7 29 £463 +17.98% 49
Lincolnshire -16 5 £590 - 47
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 10 (6.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.03%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (5.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (4.03%) ContrOCC
4 6 (4.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.68%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (2.01%) NetSuite
7 2 (1.34%) BASE24
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (1.34%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.05%) SaaS
2 7 (4.70%) Google Workspace
2 7 (4.70%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.03%) Azure
4 5 (3.36%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.68%) Google Sheets
6 3 (2.01%) AWS
6 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.01%) Intacct
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub
7 2 (1.34%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.34%) OCI
7 2 (1.34%) 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 (1.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) LAN
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) Power BI
2 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.34%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.34%) 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 11 (7.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.01%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Hudson
3 2 (1.34%) 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 48 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.09%) Banking
3 20 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.04%) General Ledger
4 9 (6.04%) Retail
5 8 (5.37%) Local Government
6 7 (4.70%) Billing
7 6 (4.03%) Marketing
7 6 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (9.40%) Analyst
2 13 (8.72%) Project Manager
3 11 (7.38%) Lead
3 11 (7.38%) Senior
4 10 (6.71%) Business Analyst
4 10 (6.71%) Data Manager
4 10 (6.71%) Report Manager
5 9 (6.04%) Accountant
5 9 (6.04%) Trainer
6 8 (5.37%) Administrator
6 8 (5.37%) Oracle Trainer
6 8 (5.37%) Systems Accountant
7 6 (4.03%) Developer
7 6 (4.03%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Architect
8 5 (3.36%) Consultant
8 5 (3.36%) Finance Business Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Oracle Project Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.03%) REST
3 3 (2.01%) .NET
3 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.34%) CSS
4 2 (1.34%) HTML
4 2 (1.34%) JSON
4 2 (1.34%) RESTful
4 2 (1.34%) SOAP
4 2 (1.34%) Spring
4 2 (1.34%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.34%) Terraform
4 2 (1.34%) 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 (5.37%) Onboarding
1 8 (5.37%) Public Cloud
2 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.68%) Digital Currency
5 4 (2.68%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.68%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
7 2 (1.34%) 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 (2.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) MVS
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.82%) ERP
2 32 (21.48%) Process Improvement
3 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.78%) Migration
6 24 (16.11%) Validation
7 20 (13.42%) Project Management
8 18 (12.08%) Agile
8 18 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.41%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (10.07%) Data Migration
10 15 (10.07%) Logistics
10 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (8.72%) Change Management
11 13 (8.72%) Customer Service
12 12 (8.05%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 12 (8.05%) KYC
13 11 (7.38%) CRM
14 10 (6.71%) Customer Experience
14 10 (6.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.40%) SQL
2 4 (2.68%) Python
3 3 (2.01%) Java
4 2 (1.34%) ABAP
4 2 (1.34%) 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 (8.72%) ACCA
1 13 (8.72%) CIMA
2 10 (6.71%) Degree
3 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.34%) PMP
5 2 (1.34%) 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 (5.37%) PMO
2 6 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) IFRS
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) 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 (20.13%) Oracle
2 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 22 (14.77%) SAP
4 11 (7.38%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.70%) JD Edwards
6 5 (3.36%) Google
6 5 (3.36%) Liquidlogic
7 4 (2.68%) Adobe
8 3 (2.01%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.01%) Concur
8 3 (2.01%) Sage
9 2 (1.34%) Databricks
9 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.34%) Teradata
10 1 (0.67%) BMC
10 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.67%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.67%) IFS
10 1 (0.67%) Splunk