Finance Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Financial
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 188 139 215
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.36% 13.15% 11.32%
As % of the General category 17.99% 21.65% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 132
10th Percentile £350 £331 £250
25th Percentile £475 £481 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £600
90th Percentile £688 £720 £750
England median daily rate £538 £592 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +2.91% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 34
10th Percentile £14.91 £25.70 £14.45
25th Percentile £16.21 £38.56 £36.27
Median hourly rate £19.93 £60.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -66.78% +57.40% -22.20%
75th Percentile £23.61 £66.88 £45.16
90th Percentile £24.43 £71.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £23.79 £35.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -32.99% +47.92% -4.00%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,045 642 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 57.58% 60.74% 62.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 332 561
10th Percentile £186 £227 £225
25th Percentile £300 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £681 £693 £661
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 88 371
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.10 £30.78 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.96% +43.16% +2.38%
75th Percentile £43.68 £68.56 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.54 £31.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.07% +19.23% -13.33%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the East of England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Finance
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 Finance within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
Hertfordshire +1 63 £588 +9.30% 52
Bedfordshire -2 54 £525 -2.33% 17
Cambridgeshire -4 28 £515 +0.49% 40
Essex +13 27 £375 -21.01% 61
Suffolk +2 8 £480 -27.55% 18
Norfolk -18 8 £506 - 17
Finance
England

Finance
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.66%) Confluence
2 5 (2.66%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (15.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.26%) SAP FI
3 6 (3.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (3.19%) SAP MM
4 5 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.66%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (2.13%) Sage X3
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.60%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
7 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.70%) Azure
2 19 (10.11%) Power Platform
3 18 (9.57%) AWS
4 10 (5.32%) GCP
5 9 (4.79%) Azure AI
5 9 (4.79%) Copilot Studio
5 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.26%) SaaS
7 7 (3.72%) OCI
8 4 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.60%) PaaS
9 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.06%) dbt
10 2 (1.06%) Serverless
10 2 (1.06%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.53%) WAN
1 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.11%) Power BI
2 9 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (4.26%) Power Query
4 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.19%) Metadata
5 4 (2.13%) ZAP BI
6 2 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.06%) Tableau
7 1 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Hudson
1 6 (3.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) GitLab
2 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.53%) Git
General
1 90 (47.87%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.43%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.36%) Manufacturing
4 24 (12.77%) Marketing
5 22 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (9.57%) Telecoms
7 17 (9.04%) Electronics
8 11 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (4.26%) Aviation
11 7 (3.72%) Banking
12 5 (2.66%) Billing
12 5 (2.66%) Retail
13 4 (2.13%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.13%) Legal
13 4 (2.13%) Local Government
13 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (14.36%) Consultant
2 22 (11.70%) Architect
3 19 (10.11%) Lead
3 19 (10.11%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (8.51%) Analyst
5 14 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.32%) Developer
6 10 (5.32%) Senior
7 8 (4.26%) Accountant
7 8 (4.26%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.72%) Administrator
8 7 (3.72%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (3.72%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (3.72%) Systems Accountant
9 6 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) IFS Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 6 (3.19%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.85%) REST
2 10 (5.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.79%) PyTorch
3 9 (4.79%) scikit-learn
3 9 (4.79%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.19%) SAP Basis
4 6 (3.19%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (3.19%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.06%) CSS
5 2 (1.06%) HTML
5 2 (1.06%) SOAP
6 1 (0.53%) JSON
6 1 (0.53%) Middleware
6 1 (0.53%) Web Services
6 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.66%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.60%) FMCG
6 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) PMI
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.72%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.06%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (19.15%) Analytics
1 36 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (18.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 30 (15.96%) ERP
4 28 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (13.30%) Migration
7 24 (12.77%) Agile
8 19 (10.11%) Programme Management
8 19 (10.11%) Workflow
9 17 (9.04%) Digital Marketing
9 17 (9.04%) ITSM
10 16 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.51%) Logistics
11 15 (7.98%) AI
12 14 (7.45%) DevOps
13 13 (6.91%) Microservices
13 13 (6.91%) Roadmaps
13 13 (6.91%) Validation
14 12 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.89%) SQL
2 18 (9.57%) Python
3 7 (3.72%) VBA
4 6 (3.19%) ABAP
4 6 (3.19%) Java
5 5 (2.66%) R
6 4 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.06%) VB
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.98%) Degree
4 7 (3.72%) ACCA
4 7 (3.72%) CIMA
5 4 (2.13%) CFA
5 4 (2.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 4 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.06%) PMP
7 2 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.53%) CCAB
8 1 (0.53%) CEH
8 1 (0.53%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.53%) CISM
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) MBA
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) SLA
2 6 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.19%) PMO
3 5 (2.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.60%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) GRC
6 1 (0.53%) GMP
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 60 (31.91%) SAP
2 34 (18.09%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.83%) Oracle
4 17 (9.04%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.79%) Foundry
5 9 (4.79%) Google
5 9 (4.79%) OpenAI
6 7 (3.72%) IBM
7 6 (3.19%) Ariba
7 6 (3.19%) Dell
7 6 (3.19%) IFS
7 6 (3.19%) OpenText
8 5 (2.66%) HP
9 4 (2.13%) Sage
10 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.06%) Cognos
11 2 (1.06%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.53%) Informatica
12 1 (0.53%) Retek
12 1 (0.53%) Tenable