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 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 199 124 221
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.29% 13.11% 11.63%
As % of the General category 18.27% 20.63% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 80 104
10th Percentile £363 £406 £250
25th Percentile £453 £500 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £641
90th Percentile £688 £750 £750
England median daily rate £537 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.61% -2.25% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 67
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.40 £20.60
25th Percentile £16.86 £17.80 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -44.91% -22.20%
75th Percentile £23.67 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £24.47 £68.25 £47.70
England median hourly rate £23.83 £41.79 £27.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% +54.77% -3.50%

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 1,089 601 1,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.84% 63.53% 62.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 325 473
10th Percentile £191 £211 £250
25th Percentile £325 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 109 445
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £20.09 £42.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +11.49% +81.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £68.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.11% -14.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 60 £625 +8.70% 54
Bedfordshire -2 47 £516 -10.99% 19
Essex +5 42 £450 -3.74% 60
Cambridgeshire +12 36 £509 +3.09% 42
Suffolk +3 7 £480 -24.41% 26
Norfolk -22 7 £625 +13.64% 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 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.02%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 28 (14.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.02%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (3.52%) SAP FI
4 6 (3.02%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 6 (3.02%) Sage X3
4 6 (3.02%) SAP MM
5 5 (2.51%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.50%) assyst
8 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.50%) Primavera
8 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.05%) Azure
2 19 (9.55%) GCP
3 17 (8.54%) AWS
4 15 (7.54%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.53%) SaaS
6 8 (4.02%) GitHub
6 8 (4.02%) OCI
7 7 (3.52%) Azure AI
7 7 (3.52%) Copilot Studio
7 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (2.51%) PaaS
9 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.01%) Serverless
10 2 (1.01%) Veeva
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) VPN
2 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.54%) Power BI
2 9 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (4.02%) Metadata
4 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.02%) Power Query
5 6 (3.02%) ZAP BI
6 5 (2.51%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.51%) Tableau
8 2 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.01%) QlikView
9 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Git
1 7 (3.52%) JUnit
1 7 (3.52%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.51%) IntelliJ
2 5 (2.51%) JIRA
3 2 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.01%) Hudson
3 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
General
1 81 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.07%) Manufacturing
3 19 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.54%) Marketing
5 14 (7.04%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.03%) Electronics
7 9 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (4.02%) Banking
8 8 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.02%) Retail
9 6 (3.02%) Aviation
9 6 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.01%) Billing
11 4 (2.01%) Local Government
11 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.51%) Back Office
13 2 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (13.07%) Consultant
2 23 (11.56%) Architect
3 18 (9.05%) Lead
3 18 (9.05%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.54%) Senior
5 16 (8.04%) Developer
6 15 (7.54%) Analyst
7 14 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (5.53%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (4.02%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) Accountant
10 7 (3.52%) Migration Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.52%) Senior Project Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Financial Controller
11 6 (3.02%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
11 6 (3.02%) SQL BI Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.02%) REST
3 7 (3.52%) PyTorch
3 7 (3.52%) scikit-learn
3 7 (3.52%) Spring
3 7 (3.52%) Spring Boot
3 7 (3.52%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.02%) SAP Basis
4 6 (3.02%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (3.02%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.51%) Node.js
6 2 (1.01%) React
7 1 (0.50%) .NET
7 1 (0.50%) CSS
7 1 (0.50%) HTML
7 1 (0.50%) Playwright
7 1 (0.50%) SOAP
7 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.51%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.50%) CMDB
5 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.50%) Life Science
5 1 (0.50%) PMI
5 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (21.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 39 (19.60%) ERP
3 35 (17.59%) Analytics
3 35 (17.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (15.58%) Migration
5 29 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (11.56%) CI/CD
6 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.05%) Agile
7 20 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (10.05%) DevOps
7 20 (10.05%) Validation
7 20 (10.05%) Workflow
8 15 (7.54%) Change Management
8 15 (7.54%) ITSM
8 15 (7.54%) Process Improvement
9 14 (7.04%) Logistics
9 14 (7.04%) Programme Management
10 13 (6.53%) Data Migration
11 12 (6.03%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.55%) SQL
2 15 (7.54%) Python
3 8 (4.02%) Java
4 6 (3.02%) ABAP
4 6 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.02%) VBA
5 3 (1.51%) Go
6 2 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (8.54%) Degree
1 17 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.52%) ACCA
3 9 (4.52%) CIMA
4 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.01%) CFA
5 4 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.51%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.01%) PMP
8 1 (0.50%) CCAB
8 1 (0.50%) CCSP
8 1 (0.50%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.50%) CISM
8 1 (0.50%) CISSP
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.50%) MBA
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.52%) SLA
3 8 (4.02%) GDPR
3 8 (4.02%) QA
4 5 (2.51%) PMO
4 5 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.50%) GMP
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) ITGC
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Argo
4 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (29.65%) SAP
2 32 (16.08%) Oracle
3 30 (15.08%) Microsoft
4 17 (8.54%) Google
5 16 (8.04%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.52%) Checkmarx
6 7 (3.52%) Foundry
6 7 (3.52%) OpenAI
7 6 (3.02%) Ariba
7 6 (3.02%) Dell
7 6 (3.02%) OpenText
7 6 (3.02%) Sage
8 5 (2.51%) HP
8 5 (2.51%) IBM
8 5 (2.51%) IFS
9 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.01%) VMware
11 1 (0.50%) Cadence
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) Forcepoint