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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Finance 157 137 137
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 13.59% 18.46% 16.25%
As % of the General category 27.64% 30.72% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 113 93
10th Percentile £360 £309 £360
25th Percentile £413 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £619
90th Percentile £664 £540 £688
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 £42.30 £35.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.68% +2.70% +4.84%

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 568 446 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.18% 60.11% 54.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 296 292
10th Percentile £261 £213 £185
25th Percentile £398 £319 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £669 £554 £627
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 34 52
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.16 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.41 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.20 £15.82
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +40.34% -58.92%
75th Percentile £28.75 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.45 £38.38 £51.91
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.53% -24.43% +14.60%

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 17 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 17 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 +2 50 £448 +11.32% 37
Nottinghamshire -5 37 £514 +4.85% 75
Leicestershire +12 34 £525 +30.43% 44
Derbyshire +7 29 £463 +2.78% 38
Lincolnshire -14 6 £638 +24.39% 59
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 (6.37%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 18 (11.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.46%) ContrOCC
3 5 (3.18%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.18%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.91%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.27%) BASE24
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.27%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.64%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.55%) Azure
2 12 (7.64%) Google Workspace
2 12 (7.64%) SaaS
3 11 (7.01%) Google Sheets
4 9 (5.73%) AWS
4 9 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.55%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.91%) GitHub
8 2 (1.27%) GCP
8 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.27%) OCI
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.64%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.64%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Firewall
1 1 (0.64%) LAN
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) Power BI
2 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.91%) Aerospike
4 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.27%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.27%) Power Query
4 2 (1.27%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.27%) Redis
4 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) Hudson
3 3 (1.91%) Git
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) JUnit
General
1 50 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.01%) Banking
3 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.01%) Local Government
6 7 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Retail
7 5 (3.18%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Billing
9 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (13.38%) Programme Manager
2 17 (10.83%) Lead
3 15 (9.55%) Analyst
4 12 (7.64%) Architect
4 12 (7.64%) Consultant
4 12 (7.64%) Project Manager
5 11 (7.01%) Senior
6 10 (6.37%) Data Manager
6 10 (6.37%) Report Manager
7 9 (5.73%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.46%) Developer
8 7 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.82%) Accountant
10 5 (3.18%) Systems Accountant
11 4 (2.55%) Oracle Project Manager
11 4 (2.55%) Project Officer
11 4 (2.55%) Project Support Officer
11 4 (2.55%) SAP Architect
11 4 (2.55%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (2.55%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.73%) Middleware
3 7 (4.46%) REST
4 4 (2.55%) Kafka
4 4 (2.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (2.55%) RESTful
4 4 (2.55%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.91%) .NET
5 3 (1.91%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.91%) J2EE
5 3 (1.91%) JSON
5 3 (1.91%) Node.js
5 3 (1.91%) OSGi
5 3 (1.91%) PySpark
5 3 (1.91%) pytest
6 2 (1.27%) CSS
6 2 (1.27%) HTML
6 2 (1.27%) Jest
7 1 (0.64%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (0.64%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.64%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.64%) PMI
8 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) MVS
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
1 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.66%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (22.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 31 (19.75%) ERP
4 30 (19.11%) Migration
5 26 (16.56%) Agile
6 21 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.74%) Change Management
7 20 (12.74%) Process Improvement
8 18 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (11.46%) DevOps
8 18 (11.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (10.83%) Project Management
10 16 (10.19%) Programme Management
11 15 (9.55%) Data Analysis
11 15 (9.55%) Validation
12 14 (8.92%) CI/CD
12 14 (8.92%) Risk Management
13 13 (8.28%) Analytics
14 12 (7.64%) Mentoring
14 12 (7.64%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.65%) SQL
2 8 (5.10%) Java
3 6 (3.82%) Python
4 4 (2.55%) Apex Code
4 4 (2.55%) SOQL
5 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.27%) VBA
6 1 (0.64%) C#
6 1 (0.64%) JCL
6 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.64%) REXX
Qualifications
1 17 (10.83%) Degree
2 8 (5.10%) ACCA
2 8 (5.10%) CIMA
3 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.91%) PMP
4 3 (1.91%) SAP Certification
4 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.64%) AAT
6 1 (0.64%) IIBA
6 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) QA
2 10 (6.37%) PMO
3 7 (4.46%) GDPR
4 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.91%) IFRS
5 3 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.64%) NIST
7 1 (0.64%) SEPA
7 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Control-M
Vendors
1 30 (19.11%) SAP
2 23 (14.65%) Oracle
3 13 (8.28%) Google
4 12 (7.64%) Microsoft
5 11 (7.01%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.82%) Databricks
6 6 (3.82%) Liquidlogic
7 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.55%) Adobe
9 3 (1.91%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.27%) Ariba
10 2 (1.27%) Concur
10 2 (1.27%) IFS
11 1 (0.64%) BMC
11 1 (0.64%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.64%) DocuSign
11 1 (0.64%) Epicor
11 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.64%) Sage
11 1 (0.64%) Workday