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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 203 106 200
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.10% 11.08% 10.52%
As % of the General category 18.90% 17.88% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 72 88
10th Percentile £363 £408 £246
25th Percentile £463 £500 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +15.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £610 £677 £650
90th Percentile £689 £750 £750
England median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 64
10th Percentile £14.82 £17.79 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.80 -
Median hourly rate £17.73 £21.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% -44.91% -22.20%
75th Percentile £24.49 £48.00 -
90th Percentile £35.53 £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £38.11 £26.97
% change year-on-year -37.48% +41.31% +0.47%

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 1,074 593 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.14% 61.96% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 321 416
10th Percentile £191 £200 £219
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 110 453
10th Percentile £13.94 £15.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £20.09 £31.64 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.50% -17.00% +92.43%
75th Percentile £54.38 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.67 £27.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.97% -8.71% -6.25%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +7 59 £625 +4.17% 77
Bedfordshire 0 53 £513 -11.64% 26
Essex +5 45 £500 +6.95% 38
Cambridgeshire +19 34 £509 -11.48% 41
Norfolk -16 7 £625 +13.64% 27
Suffolk -8 5 £465 -10.40% 10
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 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (12.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.43%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.96%) Sage X3
4 5 (2.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.99%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.99%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.99%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.49%) assyst
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.36%) GCP
2 17 (8.37%) Azure
3 14 (6.90%) AWS
3 14 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.42%) SaaS
5 10 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.43%) GitHub
7 8 (3.94%) OCI
8 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.46%) PaaS
10 4 (1.97%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.97%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.96%) VPN
2 5 (2.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.42%) Power BI
2 9 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.94%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.96%) Power Query
4 6 (2.96%) ZAP BI
5 5 (2.46%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.48%) Tableau
8 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.99%) Metadata
8 2 (0.99%) QlikView
8 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.94%) Git
2 7 (3.45%) JUnit
2 7 (3.45%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.46%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.48%) JIRA
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 73 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.84%) Manufacturing
3 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.42%) Banking
5 11 (5.42%) Marketing
6 10 (4.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (4.43%) Retail
8 8 (3.94%) Local Government
8 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.94%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.96%) Aviation
9 6 (2.96%) Billing
9 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.96%) Electronics
10 4 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.48%) Back Office
11 3 (1.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (12.32%) Architect
1 25 (12.32%) Project Manager
2 21 (10.34%) Developer
3 19 (9.36%) Consultant
3 19 (9.36%) Senior
4 17 (8.37%) Analyst
4 17 (8.37%) Lead
5 15 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 8 (3.94%) Senior Manager
7 8 (3.94%) Senior Project Manager
7 8 (3.94%) Software Engineer
8 7 (3.45%) Accountant
8 7 (3.45%) Administrator
8 7 (3.45%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.45%) Data Consultant
8 7 (3.45%) Data Migration Consultant
8 7 (3.45%) Migration Consultant
9 6 (2.96%) Financial Controller
9 6 (2.96%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.45%) REST
2 7 (3.45%) Spring
2 7 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.97%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.97%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.97%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.48%) .NET
4 3 (1.48%) Node.js
5 2 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.99%) React
5 2 (0.99%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) CSS
6 1 (0.49%) HTML
6 1 (0.49%) IDoc
6 1 (0.49%) Playwright
6 1 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.99%) BYOD
5 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.99%) Life Science
5 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.49%) CMDB
6 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.49%) FMCG
6 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.48%) Windows
1 3 (1.48%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.66%) ERP
2 40 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (18.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 34 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (15.27%) Migration
6 27 (13.30%) Analytics
7 25 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (11.82%) Agile
9 21 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.85%) DevOps
10 20 (9.85%) Project Management
11 19 (9.36%) Change Management
11 19 (9.36%) Decision-Making
12 18 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (8.87%) Data Migration
13 16 (7.88%) Process Improvement
13 16 (7.88%) Validation
14 13 (6.40%) Data Modelling
14 13 (6.40%) ITIL
14 13 (6.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.85%) SQL
2 12 (5.91%) Java
2 12 (5.91%) Python
3 6 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (2.96%) VBA
4 4 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.48%) Go
6 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.99%) C#
6 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.99%) X++
7 1 (0.49%) Bash
7 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (9.36%) Degree
2 11 (5.42%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.94%) ACCA
3 8 (3.94%) CIMA
3 8 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.97%) CFA
5 4 (1.97%) PMP
5 4 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CISSP
7 1 (0.49%) CRISC
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PgMP
7 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.93%) GDPR
3 9 (4.43%) SLA
4 6 (2.96%) PMO
4 6 (2.96%) QA
5 4 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.48%) NIST
7 2 (0.99%) ITGC
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) GMP
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (25.12%) SAP
2 34 (16.75%) Oracle
3 33 (16.26%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.90%) Google
5 9 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.45%) Ariba
6 7 (3.45%) Checkmarx
7 6 (2.96%) Sage
7 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.46%) IBM
9 4 (1.97%) Dell
9 4 (1.97%) Foundry
9 4 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.48%) HP
10 3 (1.48%) IFS
11 2 (0.99%) VMware
12 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.49%) EMC
12 1 (0.49%) Forcepoint
12 1 (0.49%) Informatica