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 5 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 192 103 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 17.30% 19.25% 12.53%
As % of the General category 33.45% 31.31% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 84 64
10th Percentile £340 £347 £356
25th Percentile £393 £364 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -17.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £641
90th Percentile £600 £542 £770
England median daily rate £540 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.13% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £14.62 £14.75 -
25th Percentile £18.67 £14.94 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +14.81% -51.79%
75th Percentile £24.49 £15.75 £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £36.56 £27.00
% change year-on-year -34.82% +35.39% +5.02%

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 574 329 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 51.71% 61.50% 50.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 213 260
10th Percentile £209 £203 £160
25th Percentile £384 £317 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +9.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £510 £550
90th Percentile £600 £573 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 55
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.54 £12.19
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.90 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +33.82% -21.55%
75th Percentile £25.56 £30.30 £34.13
90th Percentile £74.00 £35.38 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.82% -7.20%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 91 £424 +2.79% 34
Nottinghamshire -14 32 £500 +2.04% 83
Leicestershire +7 29 £459 +14.04% 41
Derbyshire 0 28 £463 +8.82% 35
Lincolnshire -9 10 £588 +14.63% 24
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 20 (10.42%) Confluence
2 5 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.52%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (10.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.56%) ContrOCC
5 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.52%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 21 (10.94%) Azure
2 21 (10.94%) Google Sheets
2 21 (10.94%) Google Workspace
3 20 (10.42%) AWS
4 18 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.21%) GitHub
7 9 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.13%) GCP
8 6 (3.13%) SaaS
9 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.56%) IaaS
9 3 (1.56%) PaaS
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.04%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.04%) OCI
10 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.52%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.50%) Power BI
2 10 (5.21%) Aerospike
3 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.65%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.65%) Redis
5 5 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.56%) Tableau
7 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.04%) Power Query
7 2 (1.04%) PowerPivot
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) Metadata
8 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (14.58%) JIRA
2 10 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.69%) GitLab
4 6 (3.13%) Git
4 6 (3.13%) JUnit
5 2 (1.04%) Hudson
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 92 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.23%) Banking
3 28 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.25%) Local Government
5 12 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.69%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.17%) Marketing
8 7 (3.65%) Corporate Banking
8 7 (3.65%) General Ledger
8 7 (3.65%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.65%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.13%) Retail
10 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.08%) Electronics
11 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Front Office
13 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (12.50%) Lead
2 23 (11.98%) Project Manager
3 22 (11.46%) Analyst
3 22 (11.46%) Programme Manager
4 19 (9.90%) Architect
5 17 (8.85%) Consultant
6 15 (7.81%) Senior
7 12 (6.25%) Developer
8 10 (5.21%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.69%) Data Manager
9 9 (4.69%) Report Manager
10 6 (3.13%) SAP Architect
10 6 (3.13%) SAP Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.13%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Workstream Lead
11 5 (2.60%) Banking Project Manager
11 5 (2.60%) Cloud Consultant
11 5 (2.60%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) Kafka
1 11 (5.73%) Middleware
2 10 (5.21%) Node.js
3 9 (4.69%) pytest
4 8 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.13%) Jest
5 6 (3.13%) REST
6 5 (2.60%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (2.60%) PySpark
6 5 (2.60%) Visualforce
7 4 (2.08%) RESTful
8 3 (1.56%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.56%) J2EE
8 3 (1.56%) JSON
8 3 (1.56%) OSGi
9 2 (1.04%) CSS
9 2 (1.04%) HTML
9 2 (1.04%) ISPF
10 1 (0.52%) SOAP
10 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.85%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.69%) PMI
6 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.04%) EMV
8 2 (1.04%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.04%) Windows
1 2 (1.04%) zOS
2 1 (0.52%) MVS
2 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (28.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 49 (25.52%) Agile
4 47 (24.48%) Migration
5 39 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (18.23%) Change Management
7 32 (16.67%) Project Management
8 31 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.15%) Regulatory Compliance
9 28 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (14.06%) Programme Management
11 26 (13.54%) Data Analysis
12 25 (13.02%) CI/CD
12 25 (13.02%) Risk Management
13 24 (12.50%) Analytics
14 22 (11.46%) Data Modelling
14 22 (11.46%) DevOps
14 22 (11.46%) User Experience
15 21 (10.94%) Dashboard Development
15 21 (10.94%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.23%) SQL
2 14 (7.29%) Java
3 11 (5.73%) Python
4 5 (2.60%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.08%) SOQL
6 3 (1.56%) VBA
7 2 (1.04%) JCL
7 2 (1.04%) REXX
7 2 (1.04%) Swift
7 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (18.23%) Degree
2 14 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 12 (6.25%) PMP
4 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.65%) Master's Degree
5 7 (3.65%) MBA
5 7 (3.65%) SAFe Agilist
6 5 (2.60%) ACCA
6 5 (2.60%) CIMA
7 4 (2.08%) SAP Certification
7 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) AAT
9 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) IIBA
9 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) QA
2 12 (6.25%) PMO
3 10 (5.21%) GDPR
4 7 (3.65%) Basel III
4 7 (3.65%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.56%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.04%) PSD2
7 2 (1.04%) SLA
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) IFRS
8 1 (0.52%) NIST
8 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.52%) SEPA
8 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.56%) Terraform
2 2 (1.04%) SCCM
3 1 (0.52%) Control-M
3 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (16.15%) SAP
2 23 (11.98%) Google
3 21 (10.94%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.81%) Oracle
5 14 (7.29%) Databricks
6 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.56%) Adobe
8 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.56%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.04%) Ariba
9 2 (1.04%) IFS
9 2 (1.04%) Informatica
9 2 (1.04%) Sage
9 2 (1.04%) Splunk
10 1 (0.52%) BMC
10 1 (0.52%) Epicor
10 1 (0.52%) Genesys
10 1 (0.52%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.52%) OpenText