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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 149 112 196
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.44% 8.52% 10.54%
As % of the General category 17.29% 15.95% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 50 128
10th Percentile £250 £302 £324
25th Percentile £444 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £638 £597 £591
90th Percentile £688 £678 £671
England median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile £15.36 £13.69 £42.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 -
Median hourly rate £17.30 £32.87 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -32.93% +40.00%
75th Percentile £23.45 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.54 £55.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% +6.96%

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 common skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 862 702 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 60.41% 53.42% 60.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 278 587
10th Percentile £163 £247 £200
25th Percentile £346 £321 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £594
90th Percentile £688 £650 £702
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 150 293
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.46 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.72 £17.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -3.03% -10.55%
75th Percentile £58.25 £59.69 £49.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -21.80% +4.91% +18.53%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 0 47 £500 +3.63% 122
Bedfordshire -5 33 £613 +16.67% 29
Cambridgeshire -6 27 £550 - 66
Essex +14 19 £400 -27.27% 84
Norfolk -5 15 £525 +10.53% 23
Suffolk +3 8 £333 -46.80% 31
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 (3.36%) SAS
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (16.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.37%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.70%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (4.03%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 6 (4.03%) SAP MM
5 4 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.34%) SAP CO
6 2 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.67%) Primavera
7 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) Power Platform
2 14 (9.40%) Azure
3 8 (5.37%) AWS
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.36%) GCP
6 4 (2.68%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.68%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.01%) OCI
7 3 (2.01%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.34%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.34%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.67%) dbt
9 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.67%) npm
9 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) HTTP
1 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.67%) WAN
1 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) Power BI
2 10 (6.71%) Power Query
3 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.03%) Metadata
4 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.34%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.34%) Tableau
7 1 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) Hudson
3 2 (1.34%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 59 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 20 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Manufacturing
5 15 (10.07%) Marketing
6 11 (7.38%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.71%) Electronics
8 9 (6.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.70%) Banking
9 7 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.03%) Legal
10 6 (4.03%) Retail
11 4 (2.68%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.34%) Aviation
13 2 (1.34%) French Language
13 2 (1.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (16.78%) Analyst
2 21 (14.09%) Consultant
3 13 (8.72%) Project Manager
4 11 (7.38%) SAP Consultant
5 10 (6.71%) Architect
5 10 (6.71%) Developer
5 10 (6.71%) Lead
5 10 (6.71%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (4.70%) ERP Analyst
6 7 (4.70%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 6 (4.03%) Accountant
7 6 (4.03%) Senior
7 6 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.03%) Systems Accountant
8 5 (3.36%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.36%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Help Desk Coordinator
8 5 (3.36%) IFS Consultant
8 5 (3.36%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.70%) REST
2 6 (4.03%) SAP Basis
2 6 (4.03%) SAP Business Workflow
2 6 (4.03%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.68%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.68%) scikit-learn
3 4 (2.68%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.01%) HTML
5 2 (1.34%) CSS
5 2 (1.34%) JSON
5 2 (1.34%) SOAP
6 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.67%) Express.js
6 1 (0.67%) FIDO
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) NgRx
6 1 (0.67%) Playwright
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.70%) Credit Risk
2 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.01%) Life Science
4 3 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.34%) FMCG
5 2 (1.34%) NHS
6 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.13%) ERP
2 27 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (16.78%) Agile
3 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (14.77%) Analytics
6 21 (14.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (10.74%) Project Management
7 16 (10.74%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (10.07%) Programme Management
9 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (8.72%) Migration
10 13 (8.72%) Validation
11 12 (8.05%) PRINCE2
12 11 (7.38%) Accounts Payable
12 11 (7.38%) ITSM
13 10 (6.71%) Change Management
13 10 (6.71%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (6.71%) Roadmaps
14 9 (6.04%) AI
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.44%) SQL
2 12 (8.05%) Python
3 7 (4.70%) VBA
4 6 (4.03%) ABAP
4 6 (4.03%) Java
5 5 (3.36%) R
6 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.34%) VB
8 1 (0.67%) C#
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.70%) Degree
4 6 (4.03%) ACCA
4 6 (4.03%) CIMA
5 5 (3.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.67%) CEH
8 1 (0.67%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.67%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) CISSP
8 1 (0.67%) CRISC
8 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) OSCP
8 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) PMO
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) SLA
3 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.68%) NIST
4 3 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) GxP
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.67%) IFRS
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.67%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Nexpose
2 1 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 45 (30.20%) SAP
2 30 (20.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.72%) Oracle
3 13 (8.72%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.04%) IFS
5 6 (4.03%) OpenText
6 4 (2.68%) Foundry
6 4 (2.68%) Google
6 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.01%) Ariba
8 2 (1.34%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.34%) Cognos
8 2 (1.34%) Dell
8 2 (1.34%) HP
8 2 (1.34%) IBM
8 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.67%) Sage
9 1 (0.67%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.67%) Workday