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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 182 139 230
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.76% 13.65% 11.89%
As % of the General category 17.58% 22.38% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 80 131
10th Percentile £350 £372 £250
25th Percentile £419 £494 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £610
90th Percentile £675 £750 £750
England median daily rate £537 £592 £575
% change year-on-year -9.25% +2.91% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 48
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.33 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.63 -
Median hourly rate £20.69 £38.90 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +2.05% -22.20%
75th Percentile £23.61 £63.44 -
90th Percentile £24.44 £69.63 £50.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £26.73
% change year-on-year -31.93% +30.94% -4.89%

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 1,035 621 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 55.53% 61.00% 62.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 336 562
10th Percentile £188 £225 £225
25th Percentile £300 £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 £563
90th Percentile £675 £691 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 93 388
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.79 £17.35 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £42.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +58.88% +27.38%
75th Percentile £51.14 £70.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.81 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.21 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.25% +16.19% -20.00%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 67 £575 +4.55% 61
Bedfordshire -5 47 £525 -9.48% 29
Essex +12 29 £375 -21.01% 79
Cambridgeshire -8 25 £496 -0.78% 52
Norfolk -20 8 £588 - 28
Suffolk +1 6 £480 -24.41% 22
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 (3.30%) Confluence
1 6 (3.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.85%) SAP FI
3 6 (3.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (3.30%) Sage X3
3 6 (3.30%) SAP MM
4 5 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.75%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (2.75%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.65%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.54%) Azure
1 21 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 17 (9.34%) AWS
3 10 (5.49%) GCP
4 9 (4.95%) Azure AI
4 9 (4.95%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (4.40%) SaaS
6 7 (3.85%) OCI
7 4 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.65%) PaaS
8 3 (1.65%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.10%) Veeva
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.55%) Boomi
10 1 (0.55%) dbt
10 1 (0.55%) Serverless
10 1 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.55%) WAN
1 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.54%) Power BI
2 9 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (4.40%) Power Query
4 6 (3.30%) Metadata
4 6 (3.30%) ZAP BI
5 3 (1.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.55%) QlikView
7 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) GitLab
2 2 (1.10%) Hudson
2 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) Git
General
1 86 (47.25%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.93%) Public Sector
3 27 (14.84%) Manufacturing
4 23 (12.64%) Marketing
5 17 (9.34%) Telecoms
6 16 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.79%) Electronics
7 11 (6.04%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.40%) Aviation
10 7 (3.85%) Retail
11 6 (3.30%) Banking
11 6 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.20%) Billing
12 4 (2.20%) Local Government
13 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.65%) Legal
13 3 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.10%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (12.64%) Consultant
2 21 (11.54%) Architect
3 20 (10.99%) Lead
4 18 (9.89%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.34%) Project Manager
6 16 (8.79%) Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Senior
8 10 (5.49%) Developer
9 8 (4.40%) Accountant
9 8 (4.40%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.85%) Administrator
10 7 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Systems Accountant
11 6 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Oracle Consultant
11 6 (3.30%) Report Developer
11 6 (3.30%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (3.30%) SQL Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) REST
2 10 (5.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.95%) PyTorch
3 9 (4.95%) scikit-learn
3 9 (4.95%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.30%) SAP Basis
4 6 (3.30%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.10%) SOAP
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.55%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.65%) FMCG
5 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.10%) NHS
5 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) CMDB
6 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.55%) PMI
6 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (20.33%) Analytics
3 35 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (15.93%) ERP
5 27 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (12.09%) Migration
6 22 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.99%) Agile
7 20 (10.99%) Workflow
8 18 (9.89%) Programme Management
9 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (9.34%) ITSM
10 16 (8.79%) Digital Marketing
10 16 (8.79%) Logistics
11 15 (8.24%) AI
11 15 (8.24%) Validation
12 14 (7.69%) DevOps
13 13 (7.14%) Microservices
13 13 (7.14%) Project Delivery
14 12 (6.59%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.19%) SQL
2 12 (6.59%) Python
3 7 (3.85%) VBA
4 6 (3.30%) ABAP
4 6 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.55%) C#
5 1 (0.55%) Java
5 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.79%) Degree
3 15 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.85%) ACCA
4 7 (3.85%) CIMA
5 4 (2.20%) CFA
5 4 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.10%) PMP
7 2 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.55%) AAT
8 1 (0.55%) CCAB
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.14%) SLA
2 8 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.75%) PMO
3 5 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.20%) GDPR
5 3 (1.65%) QA
6 1 (0.55%) GMP
6 1 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.55%) ITGC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (31.87%) SAP
2 33 (18.13%) Microsoft
3 28 (15.38%) Oracle
4 17 (9.34%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.95%) Foundry
5 9 (4.95%) Google
5 9 (4.95%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.30%) Ariba
6 6 (3.30%) Dell
6 6 (3.30%) OpenText
6 6 (3.30%) Sage
7 5 (2.75%) HP
7 5 (2.75%) IBM
8 3 (1.65%) IFS
8 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) Informatica
9 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.55%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.55%) Talend
9 1 (0.55%) Workday