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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Finance 144 136 135
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.53% 18.43% 16.42%
As % of the General category 25.85% 30.56% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 112 95
10th Percentile £362 £309 £359
25th Percentile £425 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £619
90th Percentile £661 £540 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
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 £42.48 £34.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.55% -0.16% +28.49%

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 557 445 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.48% 60.30% 53.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 295 287
10th Percentile £260 £213 £196
25th Percentile £400 £319 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £558
90th Percentile £669 £555 £633
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 35 49
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.17 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.35 £18.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £23.00 £15.10
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +52.32% -60.78%
75th Percentile £29.38 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.30 £38.18 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.16 £35.71
% change year-on-year +29.93% -26.74% +19.03%

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 21 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 21 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 44 £450 +11.94% 24
Leicestershire +12 34 £525 +30.43% 35
Nottinghamshire -8 31 £514 +4.85% 61
Derbyshire +8 29 £463 - 28
Lincolnshire -16 5 £575 +12.20% 20
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 9 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (9.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.86%) ContrOCC
3 5 (3.47%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.47%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.78%) NetSuite
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.39%) BASE24
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.39%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.42%) Azure
2 11 (7.64%) SaaS
3 10 (6.94%) Google Sheets
3 10 (6.94%) Google Workspace
4 9 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.56%) AWS
5 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (1.39%) GCP
8 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.39%) OCI
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.69%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
1 1 (0.69%) LAN
1 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) Power BI
2 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.08%) Aerospike
4 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.39%) Power Query
4 2 (1.39%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.39%) Redis
4 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) JIRA
2 4 (2.78%) Hudson
3 3 (2.08%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) GitLab
4 2 (1.39%) JUnit
General
1 44 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.89%) Banking
3 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Local Government
5 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.86%) Retail
7 5 (3.47%) General Ledger
8 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.08%) Billing
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (13.19%) Programme Manager
2 15 (10.42%) Analyst
3 13 (9.03%) Lead
4 11 (7.64%) Project Manager
4 11 (7.64%) Senior
5 10 (6.94%) Architect
5 10 (6.94%) Consultant
5 10 (6.94%) Data Manager
5 10 (6.94%) Report Manager
6 9 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.86%) Developer
8 6 (4.17%) Accountant
9 5 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Systems Accountant
10 4 (2.78%) Oracle Project Manager
10 4 (2.78%) Project Officer
10 4 (2.78%) Project Support Officer
10 4 (2.78%) Support Officer
11 3 (2.08%) Finance Business Analyst
11 3 (2.08%) SAP Financial Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.86%) REST
3 5 (3.47%) Middleware
4 4 (2.78%) Kafka
4 4 (2.78%) RESTful
5 3 (2.08%) .NET
5 3 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.08%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (2.08%) JSON
5 3 (2.08%) Node.js
5 3 (2.08%) OSGi
5 3 (2.08%) PySpark
5 3 (2.08%) pytest
6 2 (1.39%) CSS
6 2 (1.39%) HTML
6 2 (1.39%) Jest
7 1 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.64%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.69%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.69%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) MVS
1 1 (0.69%) Windows
1 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 31 (21.53%) ERP
2 31 (21.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (20.83%) Migration
4 24 (16.67%) Agile
5 20 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.89%) Process Improvement
6 18 (12.50%) Change Management
7 17 (11.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.42%) Data Analysis
8 15 (10.42%) DevOps
8 15 (10.42%) Programme Management
8 15 (10.42%) Project Management
9 14 (9.72%) Risk Management
9 14 (9.72%) Validation
10 12 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
11 11 (7.64%) CI/CD
11 11 (7.64%) Roadmaps
11 11 (7.64%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.28%) SQL
2 7 (4.86%) Java
3 6 (4.17%) Python
4 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.39%) VBA
5 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.69%) C#
5 1 (0.69%) JCL
5 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.69%) REXX
5 1 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (5.56%) ACCA
2 8 (5.56%) CIMA
3 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) PMP
5 2 (1.39%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.69%) AAT
6 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) IIBA
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) PMO
2 8 (5.56%) QA
3 7 (4.86%) GDPR
4 6 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.08%) IFRS
5 3 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) SAP
2 23 (15.97%) Oracle
3 11 (7.64%) Google
3 11 (7.64%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.17%) Databricks
5 6 (4.17%) Liquidlogic
6 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.78%) Adobe
8 3 (2.08%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.39%) Ariba
9 2 (1.39%) Concur
9 2 (1.39%) IFS
10 1 (0.69%) BMC
10 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.69%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.69%) Epicor
10 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.69%) Sage
10 1 (0.69%) Workday