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 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 171 133 178
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.69% 12.09% 10.19%
As % of the General category 17.81% 20.12% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 70 120
10th Percentile £288 £312 £259
25th Percentile £433 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +5.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £553
90th Percentile £688 £715 £650
England median daily rate £535 £593 £582
% change year-on-year -9.70% +1.80% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 16
10th Percentile £14.91 £28.49 £13.24
25th Percentile £16.21 £45.53 £15.78
Median hourly rate £19.93 £55.00 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -63.76% +36.39% +15.21%
75th Percentile £23.61 £59.69 £49.25
90th Percentile £24.43 £68.13 £50.00
England median hourly rate £23.75 £29.12 £23.38
% change year-on-year -18.43% +24.56% -6.50%

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 960 661 1,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 60.00% 60.09% 61.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 305 521
10th Percentile £185 £250 £208
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £560
90th Percentile £687 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 111 303
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £49.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £29.69
% change year-on-year -23.33% +1.06% +15.46%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 53 £570 +11.22% 121
Bedfordshire 0 50 £548 +4.29% 91
Cambridgeshire -7 25 £515 -4.19% 89
Essex +13 21 £300 -33.33% 107
Norfolk -10 13 £506 +1.25% 84
Suffolk +1 9 £480 -16.08% 71
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%) SAS
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.68%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.09%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (3.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 6 (3.51%) SAP MM
5 5 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (2.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (1.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (1.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (1.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.58%) assyst
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payroll
9 1 (0.58%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.11%) Azure
2 17 (9.94%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.77%) AWS
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
6 5 (2.92%) SaaS
7 4 (2.34%) OCI
7 4 (2.34%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.58%) dbt
10 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.58%) WAN
1 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.94%) Power BI
2 9 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.68%) Power Query
4 6 (3.51%) Metadata
4 6 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Hudson
2 5 (2.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.17%) GitLab
3 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.58%) Git
General
1 74 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.13%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.62%) Manufacturing
4 24 (14.04%) Marketing
5 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 18 (10.53%) Electronics
8 11 (6.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (4.09%) Aviation
11 7 (4.09%) Banking
11 7 (4.09%) Retail
12 5 (2.92%) Local Government
13 4 (2.34%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.34%) Legal
13 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (14.04%) Consultant
2 22 (12.87%) Analyst
3 19 (11.11%) Architect
4 16 (9.36%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.60%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.85%) Lead
7 9 (5.26%) Accountant
8 8 (4.68%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (4.68%) Systems Accountant
8 8 (4.68%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (4.09%) Administrator
9 7 (4.09%) ERP Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Developer
10 6 (3.51%) IFS Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) Senior
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 7 (4.09%) Credit Risk
1 7 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.17%) FMCG
4 2 (1.17%) Life Science
4 2 (1.17%) NHS
4 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Windows 10
2 3 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.88%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (18.71%) Analytics
3 31 (18.13%) ERP
4 25 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 21 (12.28%) Programme Management
7 20 (11.70%) Migration
8 19 (11.11%) Agile
8 19 (11.11%) Workflow
9 18 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
9 18 (10.53%) ITSM
10 17 (9.94%) Logistics
11 15 (8.77%) AI
11 15 (8.77%) Workshop Facilitation
12 13 (7.60%) Roadmaps
13 12 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.02%) Microservices
14 11 (6.43%) CI/CD
14 11 (6.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.04%) SQL
2 16 (9.36%) Python
3 7 (4.09%) VBA
4 6 (3.51%) ABAP
4 6 (3.51%) Java
5 5 (2.92%) R
6 2 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.17%) VB
7 1 (0.58%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) Degree
4 6 (3.51%) ACCA
4 6 (3.51%) CIMA
5 5 (2.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.75%) CFA
6 3 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) AAT
8 1 (0.58%) CCAB
8 1 (0.58%) CEH
8 1 (0.58%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CRISC
8 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) OSCP
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 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 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 60 (35.09%) SAP
2 27 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.11%) Oracle
4 18 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.26%) Foundry
5 9 (5.26%) Google
5 9 (5.26%) OpenAI
6 8 (4.68%) IFS
7 6 (3.51%) Dell
7 6 (3.51%) IBM
7 6 (3.51%) OpenText
8 5 (2.92%) HP
9 4 (2.34%) Ariba
10 2 (1.17%) Cognos
10 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.58%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.58%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.58%) Qualys
11 1 (0.58%) Retek