ACCA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for ACCA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing ACCA 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.34% 0.49% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £540 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £900
Median % change year-on-year - - +125.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

ACCA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 449 409 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.26% 28.80% 35.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 168 335
10th Percentile £199 £218 £274
25th Percentile £400 £342 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £675
90th Percentile £666 £600 £747
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -4.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 95 153
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.55 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +86.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.55 £72.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.87
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.54% +19.71%

ACCA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ACCA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

ACCA job vacancy trend in the East of England

ACCA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ACCA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ACCA

ACCA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ACCA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ACCA

ACCA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ACCA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £580 - 1
Hertfordshire -9 1 £500 -
Norfolk - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 7
ACCA
England

ACCA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP CO
1 2 (33.33%) SAP FI
1 2 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Power Query
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) SAP CO Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) SAP FI Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Finance Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Accountant
2 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
1 2 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CIMA
2 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft