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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Finance 153 141 129
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.02% 18.60% 17.27%
As % of the General category 25.46% 30.65% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 119 95
10th Percentile £395 £309 £356
25th Percentile £431 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £489
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -15.13% -6.86%
75th Percentile £584 £492 £588
90th Percentile £661 £570 £735
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.26 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +94.52% -80.71%
75th Percentile - £41.20 £14.25
90th Percentile £28.01 £48.73 £29.51
England median hourly rate £43.96 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.77% -12.03% +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 601 460 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.21% 60.69% 56.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 318 269
10th Percentile £213 £217 £250
25th Percentile £389 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.51% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £485 £575
90th Percentile £670 £588 £632
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 35 37
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.19 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.39 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +25.82% -51.47%
75th Percentile £26.61 £25.15 £50.71
90th Percentile £56.25 £30.30 £53.14
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.02% +38.62%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +9 46 £550 +52.78% 73
Nottinghamshire -6 35 £500 -6.98% 113
Northamptonshire -2 34 £425 +5.72% 54
Derbyshire +4 32 £463 +245.15% 45
Lincolnshire -19 5 £590 - 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 12 (7.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.58%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (5.88%) ContrOCC
2 9 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (5.23%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (4.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.61%) NetSuite
5 4 (2.61%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.31%) BASE24
6 2 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.31%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.65%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.84%) SaaS
2 10 (6.54%) Azure
2 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.58%) Google Workspace
4 5 (3.27%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.61%) Google Sheets
6 3 (1.96%) Intacct
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.31%) AWS
7 2 (1.31%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.31%) OCI
7 2 (1.31%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.65%) GitHub
8 1 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.65%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) LAN
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.54%) Power BI
2 2 (1.31%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.31%) Power Query
2 2 (1.31%) PowerPivot
2 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Aerospike
3 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.65%) Redis
3 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) JIRA
2 3 (1.96%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) Hudson
3 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Ant
4 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) JUnit
4 1 (0.65%) Maven
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (12.42%) Banking
3 11 (7.19%) Local Government
4 9 (5.88%) General Ledger
4 9 (5.88%) Retail
5 8 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.27%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.61%) Billing
8 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Marketing
9 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.31%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (11.11%) Analyst
2 14 (9.15%) Senior
3 13 (8.50%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.84%) Lead
5 11 (7.19%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.54%) Consultant
6 10 (6.54%) Data Manager
6 10 (6.54%) Report Manager
7 9 (5.88%) Accountant
7 9 (5.88%) Trainer
8 8 (5.23%) Administrator
8 8 (5.23%) Oracle Trainer
8 8 (5.23%) Systems Accountant
9 7 (4.58%) Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Financial Analyst
10 6 (3.92%) Finance Business Analyst
10 6 (3.92%) Financial Business Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) Oracle Project Manager
11 5 (3.27%) Programme Manager
12 4 (2.61%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.58%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) .NET
3 3 (1.96%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.96%) JSON
4 2 (1.31%) CSS
4 2 (1.31%) HTML
4 2 (1.31%) Kafka
4 2 (1.31%) RESTful
4 2 (1.31%) SOAP
4 2 (1.31%) Spring
4 2 (1.31%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.31%) XML
5 1 (0.65%) Flash
5 1 (0.65%) ISPF
5 1 (0.65%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (0.65%) Node.js
5 1 (0.65%) OAuth
5 1 (0.65%) OpenID
5 1 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.54%) Public Cloud
2 9 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Digital Currency
6 4 (2.61%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.61%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) MVS
2 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.57%) ERP
2 30 (19.61%) Process Improvement
3 28 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (16.34%) Migration
5 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (14.38%) Project Management
7 21 (13.73%) Agile
7 21 (13.73%) Validation
8 19 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (12.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (10.46%) Data Migration
11 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.50%) Change Management
12 13 (8.50%) CRM
13 12 (7.84%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 12 (7.84%) KYC
14 10 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (6.54%) Logistics
15 9 (5.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.15%) SQL
2 5 (3.27%) Python
3 4 (2.61%) Java
4 2 (1.31%) ABAP
4 2 (1.31%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.31%) VBA
5 1 (0.65%) C#
5 1 (0.65%) JCL
5 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.65%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (8.50%) ACCA
1 13 (8.50%) CIMA
2 12 (7.84%) Degree
3 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.27%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.96%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.96%) PMP
5 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) PMO
2 6 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) IFRS
4 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.65%) Ansible
1 1 (0.65%) Control-M
1 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (20.26%) Oracle
2 22 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.38%) SAP
3 11 (7.19%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.23%) Liquidlogic
5 5 (3.27%) Google
6 4 (2.61%) Adobe
6 4 (2.61%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.96%) Concur
7 3 (1.96%) Databricks
7 3 (1.96%) Sage
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) BMC
8 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.65%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.65%) IFS
8 1 (0.65%) Splunk