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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 191 131 204
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.57% 12.54% 10.83%
As % of the General category 18.16% 20.70% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 71 131
10th Percentile £350 £313 £250
25th Percentile £475 £465 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £600
90th Percentile £698 £700 £725
England median daily rate £537 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -8.60% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 23
10th Percentile £14.91 £22.54 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.21 £30.66 £25.25
Median hourly rate £19.93 £44.88 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -55.58% +17.72% -9.24%
75th Percentile £23.61 £59.66 £49.00
90th Percentile £24.43 £68.11 £58.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -31.93% +63.32% -14.28%

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 1,052 633 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.22% 60.57% 61.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 314 558
10th Percentile £188 £248 £221
25th Percentile £300 £373 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £562
90th Percentile £681 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 88 345
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £26.75 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -30.84% +25.18% +2.99%
75th Percentile £43.00 £66.00 £51.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.34% +18.24% -11.34%

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 February 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 February 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 66 £575 +12.20% 56
Bedfordshire -2 55 £525 - 19
Cambridgeshire -4 28 £515 +0.49% 40
Essex +12 25 £338 -28.91% 67
Norfolk -15 9 £506 - 21
Suffolk 0 8 £480 -23.20% 20
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 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.62%) Confluence
2 5 (2.62%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (11.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.62%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (15.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.19%) SAP FI
3 6 (3.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (3.14%) SAP MM
4 5 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.57%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.57%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.05%) Sage X3
7 2 (1.05%) SAP CO
7 2 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.52%) Azure
2 18 (9.42%) AWS
3 17 (8.90%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.24%) GCP
5 9 (4.71%) Azure AI
5 9 (4.71%) Copilot Studio
5 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.19%) SaaS
7 7 (3.66%) OCI
8 4 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.57%) PaaS
9 3 (1.57%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.57%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.05%) dbt
10 2 (1.05%) Serverless
10 2 (1.05%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
1 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) Power BI
2 9 (4.71%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (3.14%) Metadata
4 6 (3.14%) Power Query
5 4 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.05%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Hudson
1 6 (3.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) GitLab
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 87 (45.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 25 (13.09%) Manufacturing
4 23 (12.04%) Marketing
5 22 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (9.42%) Telecoms
7 17 (8.90%) Electronics
8 11 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (4.19%) Aviation
11 7 (3.66%) Banking
12 6 (3.14%) Retail
13 5 (2.62%) Billing
13 5 (2.62%) Local Government
14 4 (2.09%) General Ledger
14 4 (2.09%) Legal
14 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (14.14%) Consultant
2 22 (11.52%) Architect
3 20 (10.47%) Lead
4 19 (9.95%) Analyst
4 19 (9.95%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (6.81%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.76%) Senior
7 9 (4.71%) Accountant
8 8 (4.19%) Coordinator
8 8 (4.19%) Developer
8 8 (4.19%) Systems Accountant
9 7 (3.66%) Administrator
9 7 (3.66%) Migration Engineer
9 7 (3.66%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.14%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.14%) IFS Consultant
10 6 (3.14%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.14%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.76%) REST
2 10 (5.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (4.71%) PyTorch
3 9 (4.71%) scikit-learn
3 9 (4.71%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.14%) SAP Basis
4 6 (3.14%) SAP Business Workflow
4 6 (3.14%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.05%) CSS
5 2 (1.05%) HTML
5 2 (1.05%) SOAP
6 1 (0.52%) JSON
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
6 1 (0.52%) Web Services
6 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.66%) Credit Risk
3 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.05%) FMCG
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) NHS
6 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.52%) CMDB
7 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) PMI
7 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.66%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (17.80%) Analytics
2 34 (17.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 31 (16.23%) ERP
4 28 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (13.09%) Migration
7 24 (12.57%) Agile
8 19 (9.95%) Programme Management
8 19 (9.95%) Workflow
9 17 (8.90%) Digital Marketing
9 17 (8.90%) ITSM
10 16 (8.38%) Logistics
11 15 (7.85%) AI
12 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (7.33%) DevOps
13 13 (6.81%) Microservices
13 13 (6.81%) Roadmaps
14 12 (6.28%) CI/CD
14 12 (6.28%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.61%) SQL
2 18 (9.42%) Python
3 6 (3.14%) ABAP
3 6 (3.14%) Java
4 5 (2.62%) R
4 5 (2.62%) VBA
5 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.05%) VB
6 1 (0.52%) C#
6 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.85%) Degree
4 8 (4.19%) ACCA
4 8 (4.19%) CIMA
5 4 (2.09%) CFA
5 4 (2.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 4 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.05%) PMP
7 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.52%) CCAB
8 1 (0.52%) CEH
8 1 (0.52%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) SLA
2 6 (3.14%) PMO
3 5 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.09%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) GMP
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) ITGC
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 62 (32.46%) SAP
2 32 (16.75%) Microsoft
3 27 (14.14%) Oracle
4 17 (8.90%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.71%) Foundry
5 9 (4.71%) Google
5 9 (4.71%) OpenAI
6 7 (3.66%) IBM
7 6 (3.14%) Ariba
7 6 (3.14%) Dell
7 6 (3.14%) IFS
7 6 (3.14%) OpenText
8 5 (2.62%) HP
9 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.05%) Cognos
10 2 (1.05%) Sage
10 2 (1.05%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.52%) Talend
11 1 (0.52%) Workday