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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Finance 145 147 118
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 12.48% 19.07% 15.45%
As % of the General category 25.85% 31.61% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 124 87
10th Percentile £361 £309 £358
25th Percentile £431 £358 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £414 £490
Median % change year-on-year +20.85% -15.56% -3.92%
75th Percentile £600 £492 £594
90th Percentile £668 £550 £703
England median daily rate £550 £550 £597
% change year-on-year - -7.80% -0.58%
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 £34.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.29% -10.81% +46.62%

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 561 465 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.28% 60.31% 52.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 318 266
10th Percentile £217 £213 £200
25th Percentile £393 £325 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £550
90th Percentile £675 £575 £625
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 36 40
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.25 £12.67
25th Percentile £14.44 £19.81 £13.52
Median hourly rate £18.75 £24.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +41.43% -58.84%
75th Percentile £30.77 £25.15 £44.67
90th Percentile £57.83 £37.99 £52.01
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +12 39 £538 +28.74% 45
Nottinghamshire -5 37 £528 +2.43% 74
Northamptonshire -4 32 £436 +8.46% 37
Derbyshire +8 30 £463 +245.15% 35
Lincolnshire -16 6 £575 - 30
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 (6.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (11.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.83%) ContrOCC
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (4.14%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (2.76%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.38%) BASE24
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (1.38%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.97%) Azure
1 13 (8.97%) SaaS
2 9 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (6.21%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (2.76%) AWS
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.07%) OCI
6 2 (1.38%) GCP
6 2 (1.38%) GitHub
6 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.38%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.38%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.69%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) LAN
2 1 (0.69%) SSL
2 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.21%) Power BI
2 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.38%) Aerospike
3 2 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.38%) Power Query
3 2 (1.38%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.69%) Redis
4 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) JIRA
2 4 (2.76%) Hudson
3 3 (2.07%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Ant
5 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.79%) Banking
3 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Local Government
5 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.52%) Retail
6 7 (4.83%) General Ledger
6 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.07%) Billing
9 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Automotive
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (9.66%) Analyst
1 14 (9.66%) Lead
2 12 (8.28%) Project Manager
2 12 (8.28%) Senior
3 11 (7.59%) Programme Manager
4 10 (6.90%) Data Manager
4 10 (6.90%) Report Manager
5 9 (6.21%) Consultant
6 8 (5.52%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.83%) Architect
7 7 (4.83%) Developer
8 6 (4.14%) Accountant
9 5 (3.45%) Administrator
9 5 (3.45%) Oracle Project Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.45%) Systems Accountant
10 4 (2.76%) Project Officer
10 4 (2.76%) Project Support Officer
10 4 (2.76%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.83%) REST
3 4 (2.76%) Middleware
4 3 (2.07%) .NET
4 3 (2.07%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.07%) JSON
4 3 (2.07%) Kafka
4 3 (2.07%) PySpark
5 2 (1.38%) CSS
5 2 (1.38%) HTML
5 2 (1.38%) Node.js
5 2 (1.38%) pytest
5 2 (1.38%) XML
6 1 (0.69%) ISPF
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
6 1 (0.69%) OpenID
6 1 (0.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) SAML
6 1 (0.69%) SOAP
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.38%) Digital Currency
6 2 (1.38%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.38%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.69%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) MVS
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.45%) ERP
2 32 (22.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (17.24%) Migration
4 22 (15.17%) Agile
4 22 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (14.48%) Process Improvement
6 18 (12.41%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (11.72%) Project Management
7 17 (11.72%) Validation
8 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (8.97%) Data Migration
10 12 (8.28%) Change Management
11 11 (7.59%) CRM
11 11 (7.59%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.59%) DevOps
12 10 (6.90%) Logistics
13 9 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (6.21%) Change Control
14 8 (5.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.66%) SQL
2 7 (4.83%) Python
3 4 (2.76%) Java
4 2 (1.38%) ABAP
4 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.38%) VBA
5 1 (0.69%) C#
5 1 (0.69%) JCL
5 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.69%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (6.90%) Degree
2 9 (6.21%) ACCA
2 9 (6.21%) CIMA
3 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.07%) PMP
4 3 (2.07%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.38%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.69%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.69%) PhD
6 1 (0.69%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) PMO
2 6 (4.14%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.14%) QA
3 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.07%) GDPR
4 3 (2.07%) IFRS
4 3 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Ansible
1 1 (0.69%) Control-M
1 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (18.62%) SAP
2 26 (17.93%) Oracle
3 15 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.52%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.14%) Liquidlogic
6 5 (3.45%) Databricks
6 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.07%) Concur
7 3 (2.07%) Google
7 3 (2.07%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.38%) Adobe
8 2 (1.38%) Ariba
8 2 (1.38%) IFS
9 1 (0.69%) BMC
9 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.69%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.69%) Epicor
9 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.69%) Workday