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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 209 118 163
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.53% 9.36% 10.09%
As % of the General category 18.86% 16.16% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 69 62
10th Percentile £363 £363 £316
25th Percentile £450 £485 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% -1.91%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £638
90th Percentile £655 £740 £749
England median daily rate £550 £550 £599
% change year-on-year - -8.18% -0.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 54
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.21 £29.05
25th Percentile £16.43 £17.73 -
Median hourly rate £35.53 £17.80 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +99.66% -53.32% -22.20%
75th Percentile £83.75 £24.75 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £43.20 -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.45 £38.12
% change year-on-year +31.44% -12.26% +46.62%

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 1,108 730 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.55% 57.89% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 331 318
10th Percentile £190 £195 £229
25th Percentile £325 £331 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £558
90th Percentile £656 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 174 368
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.99 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £20.76 £40.39 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% +0.96% +125.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.19 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £81.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

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 7 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

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 7 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
Hertfordshire +6 57 £613 +6.57% 80
Essex +2 55 £505 +14.77% 81
Bedfordshire +6 45 £600 +3.45% 30
Cambridgeshire +17 35 £565 -6.15% 60
Norfolk -8 9 £600 +11.63% 31
Suffolk -13 6 £450 +93.55% 17
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 23
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 4 (1.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (11.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.31%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.87%) Sage X3
4 5 (2.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (1.44%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.96%) Primavera
6 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.96%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.96%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.00%) GCP
2 16 (7.66%) Azure
3 15 (7.18%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.74%) AWS
5 9 (4.31%) GitHub
6 8 (3.83%) OCI
7 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.87%) SaaS
9 5 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.39%) PaaS
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Veeva
12 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.26%) VPN
2 10 (4.78%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) Power BI
2 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.35%) Power Query
4 6 (2.87%) ZAP BI
5 5 (2.39%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.44%) Tableau
7 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.96%) Metadata
7 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.96%) QlikView
8 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.78%) Git
2 7 (3.35%) JUnit
2 7 (3.35%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.39%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.39%) JIRA
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.96%) Banking
3 23 (11.00%) Manufacturing
4 19 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Marketing
5 10 (4.78%) Retail
6 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.35%) Legal
9 6 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.39%) Back Office
10 5 (2.39%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.39%) Local Government
11 4 (1.91%) Billing
12 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (16.27%) Developer
2 30 (14.35%) Project Manager
3 21 (10.05%) Analyst
4 17 (8.13%) Lead
5 16 (7.66%) Architect
5 16 (7.66%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.66%) Senior
6 15 (7.18%) Consultant
6 15 (7.18%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Backend Developer
8 11 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) IAM Developer
8 11 (5.26%) Java Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Software Developer
9 10 (4.78%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.35%) Migration Consultant
11 7 (3.35%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.35%) Spring
2 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.39%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.91%) OAuth
4 4 (1.91%) OpenID
4 4 (1.91%) REST
5 3 (1.44%) .NET
5 3 (1.44%) Node.js
6 2 (0.96%) CSS
6 2 (0.96%) HTML
6 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.96%) React
6 2 (0.96%) Web Services
7 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.48%) IDoc
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) Playwright
7 1 (0.48%) RxJS
7 1 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.78%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.78%) Onboarding
2 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.91%) Life Science
4 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.96%) BYOD
6 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (22.49%) ERP
3 39 (18.66%) Agile
4 34 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (16.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 31 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (13.88%) Migration
7 28 (13.40%) Project Management
8 27 (12.92%) Analytics
9 25 (11.96%) Software Engineering
10 24 (11.48%) Decision-Making
11 23 (11.00%) CI/CD
12 21 (10.05%) Change Management
13 20 (9.57%) DevOps
14 19 (9.09%) Validation
15 18 (8.61%) Data Migration
15 18 (8.61%) Process Improvement
15 18 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
16 15 (7.18%) Roadmaps
17 14 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.00%) Java
2 17 (8.13%) SQL
3 7 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (3.35%) Python
4 6 (2.87%) VBA
5 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.44%) Go
7 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.96%) C#
7 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.96%) X++
8 1 (0.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (7.66%) Degree
2 11 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.78%) ACCA
3 10 (4.78%) CIMA
4 7 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.91%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.91%) PMP
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) APMG
7 1 (0.48%) CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) CRISC
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.78%) GDPR
3 8 (3.83%) PMO
3 8 (3.83%) QA
4 7 (3.35%) SLA
5 3 (1.44%) GRC
5 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) ITGC
6 2 (0.96%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Argo
4 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (20.10%) SAP
2 33 (15.79%) Oracle
3 30 (14.35%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.26%) Google
5 7 (3.35%) Checkmarx
6 6 (2.87%) Sage
6 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.39%) IBM
7 5 (2.39%) VMware
8 4 (1.91%) Ariba
8 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.44%) IFS
10 1 (0.48%) Cegedim Rx
10 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.48%) Databricks
10 1 (0.48%) EMC
10 1 (0.48%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.48%) Planon
10 1 (0.48%) Workday