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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 165 137 132
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 14.25% 18.69% 15.66%
As % of the General category 28.95% 30.93% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 115 89
10th Percentile £359 £309 £360
25th Percentile £412 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £620
90th Percentile £654 £539 £695
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile - £14.88 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £15.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +14.81% -77.50%
75th Percentile £22.00 £37.02 £14.25
90th Percentile - £47.06 -
England median hourly rate £41.13 £35.89 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.59% +8.76% -1.15%

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 570 443 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.22% 60.44% 53.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 296 284
10th Percentile £262 £216 £186
25th Percentile £394 £320 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £492 £568
90th Percentile £659 £554 £629
England median daily rate £525 £513 £533
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.85% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 33 54
10th Percentile £13.17 £15.15 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.56 £18.38 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +35.25% -56.98%
75th Percentile £29.06 £25.15 £33.44
90th Percentile £62.03 £38.57 £51.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.75 £33.93
% change year-on-year +27.08% -21.16% +11.10%

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 15 July 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
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 15 July 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 51 £447 +11.26% 63
Nottinghamshire -5 44 £500 - 93
Leicestershire +11 35 £525 +30.43% 52
Derbyshire +8 28 £463 +2.78% 45
Lincolnshire -15 6 £638 +24.39% 76
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 11 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 25 (15.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.24%) ContrOCC
3 6 (3.64%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (2.42%) NetSuite
5 4 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.21%) BASE24
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (1.21%) SAP FI
7 2 (1.21%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.61%) Avolution ABACUS
8 1 (0.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.09%) Azure
2 12 (7.27%) Google Workspace
3 11 (6.67%) Google Sheets
3 11 (6.67%) SaaS
4 10 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.45%) AWS
6 8 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.42%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.82%) GitHub
9 2 (1.21%) GCP
9 2 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.21%) OCI
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
1 1 (0.61%) LAN
1 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.06%) Power BI
2 4 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.82%) Aerospike
4 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.21%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.21%) Power Query
4 2 (1.21%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.21%) Redis
4 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (2.42%) Hudson
3 3 (1.82%) Git
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) JUnit
General
1 59 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.33%) Banking
3 21 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.30%) Local Government
5 8 (4.85%) General Ledger
6 7 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Retail
7 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.82%) Billing
8 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.21%) Legal
9 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (14.55%) Lead
2 21 (12.73%) Programme Manager
3 15 (9.09%) Analyst
3 15 (9.09%) Consultant
4 14 (8.48%) Architect
5 13 (7.88%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.67%) Senior
7 10 (6.06%) Data Manager
7 10 (6.06%) Report Manager
8 9 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.24%) Developer
10 6 (3.64%) Accountant
10 6 (3.64%) SAP Architect
10 6 (3.64%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.64%) Workstream Lead
11 5 (3.03%) Lead Consultant
11 5 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (3.03%) Systems Accountant
12 4 (2.42%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.67%) Middleware
1 11 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.24%) REST
3 4 (2.42%) Kafka
3 4 (2.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.42%) RESTful
3 4 (2.42%) Visualforce
4 3 (1.82%) .NET
4 3 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.82%) J2EE
4 3 (1.82%) JSON
4 3 (1.82%) Node.js
4 3 (1.82%) OSGi
4 3 (1.82%) PySpark
4 3 (1.82%) pytest
5 2 (1.21%) CSS
5 2 (1.21%) HTML
5 2 (1.21%) Jest
6 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.73%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.42%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.61%) EMV
8 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) MVS
1 1 (0.61%) Windows
1 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (23.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 33 (20.00%) Migration
4 31 (18.79%) ERP
5 27 (16.36%) Agile
6 24 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.12%) Change Management
8 20 (12.12%) Process Improvement
9 19 (11.52%) Project Management
10 18 (10.91%) Analytics
10 18 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.91%) DevOps
11 16 (9.70%) Programme Management
11 16 (9.70%) Validation
12 15 (9.09%) Data Analysis
12 15 (9.09%) Data Modelling
13 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
13 14 (8.48%) Logistics
13 14 (8.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.94%) SQL
2 8 (4.85%) Java
3 6 (3.64%) Python
4 4 (2.42%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.42%) SOQL
5 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.21%) VBA
6 1 (0.61%) C#
6 1 (0.61%) JCL
6 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.61%) REXX
Qualifications
1 18 (10.91%) Degree
2 8 (4.85%) ACCA
2 8 (4.85%) CIMA
3 7 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.42%) PMP
4 4 (2.42%) SAP Certification
4 4 (2.42%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.82%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.21%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.61%) AAT
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) IIBA
7 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.27%) QA
2 10 (6.06%) PMO
3 7 (4.24%) GDPR
3 7 (4.24%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.82%) IFRS
4 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.21%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) PSD2
6 1 (0.61%) SEPA
6 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (22.42%) SAP
2 24 (14.55%) Oracle
3 13 (7.88%) Google
4 12 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 11 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.64%) Databricks
6 6 (3.64%) Liquidlogic
7 5 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.42%) Adobe
9 3 (1.82%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.21%) Ariba
10 2 (1.21%) Concur
10 2 (1.21%) IFS
11 1 (0.61%) BMC
11 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.61%) DocuSign
11 1 (0.61%) Epicor
11 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.61%) Sage
11 1 (0.61%) Workday