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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Finance 149 164 132
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.88% 19.50% 17.14%
As % of the General category 22.27% 31.36% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 138 98
10th Percentile £399 £308 £307
25th Percentile £427 £358 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -1.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £533
90th Percentile £679 £610 £591
England median daily rate £550 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £12.77 - £15.44
25th Percentile £14.63 £15.25 £19.48
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £26.59
Median % change year-on-year - -32.31% -62.01%
75th Percentile £22.00 £37.02 £33.32
90th Percentile £23.50 £47.06 £37.14
England median hourly rate £42.48 £27.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.02% -21.71% +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 669 523 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.87% 62.19% 58.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 366 271
10th Percentile £213 £219 £255
25th Percentile £356 £350 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% -7.87% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £528
90th Percentile £675 £613 £613
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 36 25
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 £13.06
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.17 £15.10
Median hourly rate £17.35 £21.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +25.82% -38.18%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £42.25
90th Percentile £46.83 £25.83 £55.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +2 48 £550 +15.79% 75
Northamptonshire 0 37 £405 +0.75% 61
Nottinghamshire -6 29 £514 +5.38% 136
Derbyshire +2 27 £550 +33.33% 49
Lincolnshire -20 6 £590 +21.03% 37
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 8 (5.37%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (14.77%) 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 6 (4.03%) ContrOCC
3 6 (4.03%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (3.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 5 (3.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.34%) BASE24
6 2 (1.34%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.34%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.38%) 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%) AWS
5 4 (2.68%) OCI
6 3 (2.01%) Google Sheets
6 3 (2.01%) Intacct
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub
7 2 (1.34%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.34%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) Firewall
1 2 (1.34%) SSL
2 1 (0.67%) LAN
2 1 (0.67%) WAN
2 1 (0.67%) X.509
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%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) JIRA
2 2 (1.34%) GitLab
2 2 (1.34%) Hudson
3 1 (0.67%) Ant
3 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.67%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.67%) Maven
3 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.42%) Banking
4 8 (5.37%) Billing
4 8 (5.37%) General Ledger
4 8 (5.37%) Local Government
4 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.37%) Retail
5 7 (4.70%) Marketing
6 4 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.34%) Legal
8 2 (1.34%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Automotive
9 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (11.41%) Analyst
2 14 (9.40%) Project Manager
3 13 (8.72%) Senior
4 12 (8.05%) Business Analyst
5 11 (7.38%) Lead
6 9 (6.04%) Accountant
6 9 (6.04%) Trainer
7 8 (5.37%) Administrator
7 8 (5.37%) Data Manager
7 8 (5.37%) Oracle Trainer
7 8 (5.37%) Systems Accountant
8 7 (4.70%) Report Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Architect
9 6 (4.03%) Programme Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Coordinator
10 5 (3.36%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Oracle Project Manager
11 4 (2.68%) Developer
11 4 (2.68%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.68%) REST
3 2 (1.34%) .NET
3 2 (1.34%) SOAP
3 2 (1.34%) Spring
3 2 (1.34%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.34%) Terraform
3 2 (1.34%) XML
4 1 (0.67%) Flash
4 1 (0.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.67%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (0.67%) JSON
4 1 (0.67%) Kafka
4 1 (0.67%) Middleware
4 1 (0.67%) OAuth
4 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.67%) OpenID
4 1 (0.67%) RESTful
4 1 (0.67%) SAML
4 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%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
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%) PKI
8 1 (0.67%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 32 (21.48%) Process Improvement
3 31 (20.81%) ERP
4 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (17.45%) Migration
6 25 (16.78%) Validation
7 24 (16.11%) Project Management
8 16 (10.74%) Agile
8 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (10.74%) Logistics
9 15 (10.07%) Customer Service
9 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (9.40%) Change Management
10 14 (9.40%) Data Migration
11 12 (8.05%) Decision-Making
12 10 (6.71%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 10 (6.71%) KYC
12 10 (6.71%) Project Delivery
13 9 (6.04%) Order to Cash
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.38%) SQL
2 3 (2.01%) Java
2 3 (2.01%) Python
3 2 (1.34%) ABAP
4 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.40%) ACCA
1 14 (9.40%) CIMA
2 10 (6.71%) Degree
3 7 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.34%) CCAB
7 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.34%) PMP
7 2 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) PMO
2 6 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) IFRS
4 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.67%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) P3O
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.67%) Ansible
1 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (19.46%) Oracle
2 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.09%) SAP
4 11 (7.38%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.37%) JD Edwards
6 5 (3.36%) Liquidlogic
7 4 (2.68%) Adobe
7 4 (2.68%) Google
8 3 (2.01%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.01%) Concur
8 3 (2.01%) Sage
9 2 (1.34%) Teradata
10 1 (0.67%) Databricks
10 1 (0.67%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.67%) VMware