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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Finance 147 147 118
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.91% 19.37% 15.65%
As % of the General category 24.87% 31.55% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 123 88
10th Percentile £375 £310 £359
25th Percentile £431 £358 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £498
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.09% -5.24%
75th Percentile £598 £490 £588
90th Percentile £667 £550 £699
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 4
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 -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.31 £38.12
% change year-on-year +36.06% -15.24% +48.27%

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 591 466 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.89% 61.40% 54.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 319 265
10th Percentile £222 £217 £218
25th Percentile £397 £331 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £483 £575
90th Percentile £675 £578 £624
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 36 40
10th Percentile £12.80 £15.68 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £18.47 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +35.71% -58.84%
75th Percentile £27.88 £25.15 £44.67
90th Percentile £56.25 £33.66 £52.01
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +14 44 £550 +52.78% 42
Nottinghamshire -8 35 £500 -4.99% 35
Northamptonshire -5 31 £425 +5.72% 27
Derbyshire +5 30 £463 +245.15% 35
Lincolnshire -18 5 £590 - 23
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 13 (8.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.44%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (4.76%) ContrOCC
3 7 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (4.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
6 3 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (1.36%) BASE24
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.36%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.16%) Azure
1 12 (8.16%) SaaS
2 10 (6.80%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.40%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.72%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.36%) AWS
7 2 (1.36%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.36%) Intacct
7 2 (1.36%) OCI
7 2 (1.36%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.68%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) SSL
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) Power BI
2 2 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Power Query
2 2 (1.36%) PowerPivot
2 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) Aerospike
3 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (0.68%) Redis
3 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (10.20%) JIRA
2 4 (2.72%) Hudson
3 3 (2.04%) Git
4 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) Ant
5 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.93%) Banking
3 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.80%) Retail
5 9 (6.12%) Local Government
6 8 (5.44%) General Ledger
7 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.04%) Billing
8 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (10.88%) Analyst
2 13 (8.84%) Lead
3 12 (8.16%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.16%) Senior
4 11 (7.48%) Business Analyst
5 10 (6.80%) Consultant
5 10 (6.80%) Data Manager
5 10 (6.80%) Report Manager
6 8 (5.44%) Accountant
7 7 (4.76%) Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Systems Accountant
7 7 (4.76%) Trainer
8 6 (4.08%) Administrator
8 6 (4.08%) Architect
8 6 (4.08%) Finance Business Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Financial Business Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Oracle Trainer
8 6 (4.08%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.40%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.76%) REST
3 3 (2.04%) .NET
3 3 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.04%) JSON
3 3 (2.04%) Middleware
4 2 (1.36%) CSS
4 2 (1.36%) HTML
4 2 (1.36%) Kafka
4 2 (1.36%) PySpark
4 2 (1.36%) RESTful
4 2 (1.36%) SOAP
4 2 (1.36%) Spring
4 2 (1.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.36%) XML
5 1 (0.68%) Flash
5 1 (0.68%) ISPF
5 1 (0.68%) Node.js
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth
5 1 (0.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.16%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.72%) Digital Currency
4 4 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.04%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.04%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) MVS
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.45%) ERP
2 27 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (17.01%) Migration
3 25 (17.01%) Process Improvement
4 21 (14.29%) Agile
5 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.61%) Project Management
5 20 (13.61%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (13.61%) Validation
6 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.20%) Data Migration
9 12 (8.16%) Change Management
9 12 (8.16%) CRM
9 12 (8.16%) Decision-Making
10 11 (7.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 11 (7.48%) DevOps
10 11 (7.48%) KYC
11 10 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (6.12%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.52%) SQL
2 6 (4.08%) Python
3 4 (2.72%) Java
4 2 (1.36%) ABAP
4 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.36%) VBA
5 1 (0.68%) C#
5 1 (0.68%) JCL
5 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.68%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (8.16%) ACCA
1 12 (8.16%) CIMA
1 12 (8.16%) Degree
2 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.40%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.04%) PMP
4 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) CIPFA
5 1 (0.68%) PhD
5 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) PMO
2 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.72%) QA
4 3 (2.04%) IFRS
4 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.68%) Ansible
1 1 (0.68%) Control-M
1 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (19.73%) Oracle
2 24 (16.33%) SAP
3 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.80%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.08%) Liquidlogic
6 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.72%) Databricks
8 3 (2.04%) Adobe
8 3 (2.04%) Concur
8 3 (2.04%) Google
8 3 (2.04%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.36%) Ariba
9 2 (1.36%) IFS
9 2 (1.36%) Sage
10 1 (0.68%) BMC
10 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.68%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.68%) OpenText
10 1 (0.68%) Splunk