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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 209 117 183
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.32% 9.48% 10.27%
As % of the General category 18.63% 16.67% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 70 68
10th Percentile £395 £363 £259
25th Percentile £463 £489 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £651
90th Percentile £655 £750 £733
England median daily rate £550 £550 £589
% change year-on-year - -6.65% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 60
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.21 £23.17
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.73 -
Median hourly rate £42.77 £17.80 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +140.32% -53.32% -22.20%
75th Percentile £90.25 £24.75 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £43.20 -
England median hourly rate £42.48 £35.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.17% +2.70% +28.49%

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 1,122 702 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.04% 56.89% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 330 369
10th Percentile £186 £195 £225
25th Percentile £325 £340 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £563
90th Percentile £665 £675 £657
England median daily rate £525 £513 £534
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.03% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 153 402
10th Percentile £13.57 £15.57 £15.01
25th Percentile £15.30 £17.35 £16.30
Median hourly rate £21.25 £36.00 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year -40.97% -9.49% +110.45%
75th Percentile £64.06 £66.50 £52.81
90th Percentile £73.84 £81.35 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.34% -24.91% +16.57%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +9 56 £600 +4.39% 42
Essex +3 56 £505 +8.02% 49
Bedfordshire +3 45 £531 -8.41% 19
Cambridgeshire +14 36 £573 -4.58% 38
Norfolk -9 9 £600 +11.63% 28
Suffolk -11 5 £450 +28.57% 11
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 19
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 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.39%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (12.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.31%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.87%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.44%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (1.44%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.96%) Primavera
5 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.96%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.96%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.00%) GCP
2 18 (8.61%) Azure
3 14 (6.70%) AWS
3 14 (6.70%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.31%) GitHub
4 9 (4.31%) SaaS
5 8 (3.83%) OCI
6 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.87%) PaaS
8 4 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.96%) IaaS
10 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.96%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.96%) Serverless
10 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.78%) VPN
2 9 (4.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) Network Security
3 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.26%) Power BI
2 9 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.83%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.35%) Power Query
5 6 (2.87%) ZAP BI
6 5 (2.39%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.44%) Tableau
8 2 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.96%) Metadata
8 2 (0.96%) QlikView
9 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Git
2 7 (3.35%) JUnit
2 7 (3.35%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.39%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.91%) JIRA
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 69 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.00%) Banking
2 23 (11.00%) Manufacturing
3 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.31%) Marketing
4 9 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.31%) Retail
5 8 (3.83%) Legal
6 6 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Billing
7 5 (2.39%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.39%) Local Government
7 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Back Office
8 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.96%) Automotive
9 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (15.31%) Developer
2 29 (13.88%) Project Manager
3 21 (10.05%) Lead
4 18 (8.61%) Analyst
4 18 (8.61%) Architect
5 16 (7.66%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.66%) Senior
6 14 (6.70%) Consultant
6 14 (6.70%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.74%) Backend Developer
8 11 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) IAM Developer
8 11 (5.26%) Software Developer
9 10 (4.78%) Java Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.35%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.35%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.35%) Spring
2 7 (3.35%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.39%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.91%) OAuth
4 4 (1.91%) OpenID
4 4 (1.91%) REST
5 3 (1.44%) .NET
5 3 (1.44%) Node.js
6 2 (0.96%) CSS
6 2 (0.96%) HTML
6 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.96%) React
6 2 (0.96%) Web Services
7 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.48%) Flash
7 1 (0.48%) IDoc
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) RxJS
7 1 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.91%) Life Science
4 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.96%) BYOD
6 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.48%) Linux
1 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.97%) ERP
1 48 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (18.18%) Agile
3 35 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (16.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 30 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 30 (14.35%) Migration
5 27 (12.92%) Project Management
6 25 (11.96%) Analytics
7 24 (11.48%) Software Engineering
8 22 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.05%) Data Migration
9 21 (10.05%) Decision-Making
10 20 (9.57%) Change Management
10 20 (9.57%) DevOps
11 19 (9.09%) Validation
12 18 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (8.13%) Process Improvement
14 14 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (6.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.53%) Java
2 18 (8.61%) SQL
3 8 (3.83%) Python
4 7 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.87%) VBA
6 5 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.44%) Go
8 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.96%) C#
8 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.96%) X++
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (7.18%) Degree
2 10 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) ACCA
3 9 (4.31%) CIMA
4 6 (2.87%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.87%) PMP
4 6 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.48%) APMG
6 1 (0.48%) CFA
6 1 (0.48%) CISM
6 1 (0.48%) CRISC
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) PgMP
6 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.26%) GDPR
3 8 (3.83%) QA
4 7 (3.35%) PMO
4 7 (3.35%) SLA
5 4 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.44%) GRC
6 3 (1.44%) NIST
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) ITGC
8 1 (0.48%) GMP
8 1 (0.48%) GxP
8 1 (0.48%) IFRS
8 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.48%) Argo
4 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (21.05%) SAP
2 32 (15.31%) Oracle
3 29 (13.88%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.78%) Google
5 7 (3.35%) Checkmarx
6 6 (2.87%) Sage
6 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.87%) VMware
7 5 (2.39%) Ariba
7 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.44%) IBM
8 3 (1.44%) IFS
9 1 (0.48%) Cegedim Rx
9 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.48%) Databricks
9 1 (0.48%) EMC
9 1 (0.48%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.48%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.48%) StreamSets