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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 171 130 194
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.95% 11.99% 10.41%
As % of the General category 17.12% 19.91% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 68 128
10th Percentile £293 £313 £246
25th Percentile £440 £466 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £591
90th Percentile £688 £715 £675
England median daily rate £530 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -10.55% +3.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 21
10th Percentile £14.91 £24.70 £13.24
25th Percentile £16.21 £36.06 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.93 £55.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -63.76% +44.28% +8.91%
75th Percentile £23.61 £64.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £24.43 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £23.66 £27.50 £20.97
% change year-on-year -13.95% +31.17% -16.14%

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 999 653 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.12% 60.24% 61.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 308 554
10th Percentile £185 £249 £209
25th Percentile £281 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £686 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 98 335
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.84% +33.75% +0.96%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.69 £53.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £22.58 £30.21 £25.90
% change year-on-year -25.27% +16.66% -0.40%

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 3 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 3 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 +7 56 £575 +12.20% 58
Bedfordshire -4 48 £525 - 27
Cambridgeshire -8 26 £520 -0.95% 36
Essex +12 21 £300 -33.33% 61
Norfolk -14 11 £506 - 22
Suffolk +4 9 £480 -23.20% 15
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 5 (2.92%) Confluence
1 5 (2.92%) SAS
2 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.92%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (13.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.09%) SAP FI
3 6 (3.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (3.51%) SAP MM
4 5 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.92%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (2.92%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.58%) assyst
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.58%) Primavera
7 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.11%) Azure
2 16 (9.36%) AWS
3 15 (8.77%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.26%) Azure AI
4 9 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (5.26%) GCP
4 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.09%) SaaS
6 4 (2.34%) OCI
7 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.75%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.75%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.17%) dbt
8 2 (1.17%) Serverless
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.58%) WAN
1 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.77%) Power BI
2 9 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (3.51%) Metadata
4 6 (3.51%) Power Query
5 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Hudson
1 6 (3.51%) JIRA
2 2 (1.17%) GitLab
2 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.58%) Git
General
1 77 (45.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.45%) Manufacturing
3 23 (13.45%) Marketing
4 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.53%) Telecoms
6 17 (9.94%) Electronics
7 10 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.85%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.68%) Aviation
8 8 (4.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.09%) Banking
10 6 (3.51%) Retail
11 5 (2.92%) Local Government
12 4 (2.34%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.34%) Legal
12 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.17%) Digital Health
14 2 (1.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (13.45%) Consultant
2 19 (11.11%) Analyst
2 19 (11.11%) Architect
3 17 (9.94%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (7.60%) Lead
4 13 (7.60%) Project Manager
5 9 (5.26%) Accountant
6 8 (4.68%) Systems Accountant
7 7 (4.09%) Administrator
7 7 (4.09%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (4.09%) Senior
8 6 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.51%) Coordinator
8 6 (3.51%) IFS Consultant
8 6 (3.51%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
8 6 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 6 (3.51%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (3.51%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.85%) REST
2 9 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 9 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 9 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.51%) SAP Basis
3 6 (3.51%) SAP Business Workflow
3 6 (3.51%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.17%) CSS
5 2 (1.17%) HTML
6 1 (0.58%) JSON
6 1 (0.58%) Middleware
6 1 (0.58%) SOAP
6 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.09%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.17%) FMCG
6 2 (1.17%) NHS
6 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Life Science
7 1 (0.58%) PMI
7 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (18.71%) Analytics
3 29 (16.96%) ERP
4 28 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (12.87%) Migration
8 20 (11.70%) Agile
9 19 (11.11%) Programme Management
9 19 (11.11%) Workflow
10 18 (10.53%) ITSM
11 17 (9.94%) Digital Marketing
12 16 (9.36%) Logistics
13 15 (8.77%) AI
14 12 (7.02%) DevOps
14 12 (7.02%) Microservices
14 12 (7.02%) Roadmaps
14 12 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation
15 11 (6.43%) Customer Service
15 11 (6.43%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.45%) SQL
2 17 (9.94%) Python
3 6 (3.51%) ABAP
3 6 (3.51%) Java
4 5 (2.92%) R
4 5 (2.92%) VBA
5 2 (1.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.17%) VB
6 1 (0.58%) C#
6 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) Degree
4 5 (2.92%) ACCA
4 5 (2.92%) CIMA
5 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.75%) CFA
5 3 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 3 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AAT
7 1 (0.58%) CCAB
7 1 (0.58%) CEH
7 1 (0.58%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.58%) CISM
7 1 (0.58%) CRISC
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) OSCP
7 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) SLA
2 4 (2.34%) PMO
2 4 (2.34%) QA
3 2 (1.17%) GRC
3 2 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) GxP
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 56 (32.75%) SAP
2 29 (16.96%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.70%) Oracle
4 18 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.26%) Foundry
5 9 (5.26%) Google
5 9 (5.26%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.09%) IBM
6 7 (4.09%) IFS
7 6 (3.51%) Dell
7 6 (3.51%) OpenText
8 5 (2.92%) HP
9 3 (1.75%) Ariba
9 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.17%) Cognos
10 2 (1.17%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.58%) Qualys
11 1 (0.58%) Tenable
11 1 (0.58%) Workday