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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 199 129 216
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.89% 13.58% 11.30%
As % of the General category 18.12% 21.29% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 82 100
10th Percentile £363 £401 £249
25th Percentile £463 £500 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +0.96%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £690 £750 £750
England median daily rate £538 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.52% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 65
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.52 £18.90
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.79 -
Median hourly rate £20.59 £17.80 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -53.31% -22.20%
75th Percentile £23.61 £40.50 -
90th Percentile £24.49 £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £39.06 £27.00
% change year-on-year -39.00% +44.65% +5.02%

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 1,098 606 1,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.06% 63.79% 61.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 328 442
10th Percentile £191 £200 £231
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +9.89% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £679 £660
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 106 457
10th Percentile £13.66 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.09 £31.21 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -35.63% -18.13% +81.52%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.56 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.88 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.15 £27.76 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.61% -8.98% -5.86%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 61 £625 +8.70% 87
Bedfordshire -1 49 £513 -11.64% 44
Essex +6 43 £450 -3.74% 52
Cambridgeshire +13 33 £537 +8.76% 50
Norfolk -21 7 £625 +13.64% 27
Suffolk -3 6 £480 -7.51% 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 3 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.02%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 22 (11.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.52%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (3.02%) Sage X3
4 5 (2.51%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (1.01%) SAP CO
6 2 (1.01%) SAP FI
6 2 (1.01%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.50%) assyst
7 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.50%) Primavera
7 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.54%) GCP
2 16 (8.04%) Azure
3 15 (7.54%) AWS
4 12 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.03%) SaaS
5 9 (4.52%) OCI
6 8 (4.02%) GitHub
7 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.51%) Azure AI
8 5 (2.51%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (2.51%) PaaS
9 3 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Serverless
10 2 (1.01%) Veeva
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) VPN
2 2 (1.01%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.03%) Power BI
2 9 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (3.02%) Power Query
3 6 (3.02%) ZAP BI
4 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.51%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (1.51%) Tableau
6 2 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.01%) Metadata
6 2 (1.01%) QlikView
7 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 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
3 4 (2.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Hudson
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 81 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.06%) Manufacturing
3 18 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.04%) Marketing
6 12 (6.03%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.03%) Electronics
8 9 (4.52%) Retail
9 8 (4.02%) Banking
9 8 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.52%) Local Government
10 7 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.02%) Aviation
11 6 (3.02%) Billing
11 6 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.51%) Back Office
15 2 (1.01%) Automotive
15 2 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (12.06%) Architect
2 21 (10.55%) Consultant
2 21 (10.55%) Project Manager
3 18 (9.05%) Lead
3 18 (9.05%) Senior
4 17 (8.54%) Developer
5 16 (8.04%) Analyst
6 14 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.02%) Accountant
7 8 (4.02%) Business Analyst
8 7 (3.52%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.52%) Data Consultant
8 7 (3.52%) Data Migration Consultant
8 7 (3.52%) Migration Consultant
8 7 (3.52%) Migration Engineer
8 7 (3.52%) Senior Manager
8 7 (3.52%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (3.02%) Report Developer
9 6 (3.02%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (4.02%) REST
3 7 (3.52%) Spring
3 7 (3.52%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.51%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.51%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.51%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.51%) Node.js
6 2 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
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%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.50%) CMDB
6 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.50%) FMCG
6 1 (0.50%) Life Science
6 1 (0.50%) PMI
6 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
6 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 45 (22.61%) ERP
2 38 (19.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (18.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (16.58%) Migration
5 27 (13.57%) Analytics
5 27 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (10.05%) CI/CD
7 20 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.55%) Agile
9 17 (8.54%) DevOps
10 16 (8.04%) Validation
11 15 (7.54%) Change Management
11 15 (7.54%) Data Migration
11 15 (7.54%) Process Improvement
11 15 (7.54%) Project Management
12 14 (7.04%) Decision-Making
12 14 (7.04%) Programme Management
12 14 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (6.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.55%) SQL
2 13 (6.53%) Python
3 8 (4.02%) Java
4 6 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.02%) VBA
5 3 (1.51%) Go
6 2 (1.01%) Apex Code
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
2 15 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.52%) ACCA
4 9 (4.52%) CIMA
5 4 (2.01%) CFA
5 4 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
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 10 (5.03%) GDPR
3 8 (4.02%) SLA
4 7 (3.52%) QA
5 6 (3.02%) PMO
6 5 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.51%) NIST
8 2 (1.01%) ITGC
9 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.50%) GMP
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.51%) Terraform
3 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Argo
4 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (26.63%) SAP
2 36 (18.09%) Oracle
3 30 (15.08%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.54%) Google
5 9 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.52%) Checkmarx
7 6 (3.02%) Ariba
7 6 (3.02%) Sage
7 6 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.51%) Dell
8 5 (2.51%) Foundry
8 5 (2.51%) IBM
8 5 (2.51%) IFS
8 5 (2.51%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.01%) HP
10 2 (1.01%) VMware
11 1 (0.50%) Cadence
11 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.50%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.50%) Informatica