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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 217 123 114
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.29% 9.56% 7.55%
As % of the General category 18.08% 16.12% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 63 49
10th Percentile £368 £363 £310
25th Percentile £478 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £662 £588
90th Percentile £655 £730 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 23
10th Percentile £15.43 £16.05 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.14 £16.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £17.79 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +209.16% -53.33% -22.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £19.40 -
90th Percentile £92.12 £27.00 £47.62
England median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -16.37% +36.13%

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 1,200 763 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 51.37% 59.29% 56.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 297 281
10th Percentile £188 £185 £205
25th Percentile £320 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £553
90th Percentile £648 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 220 287
10th Percentile £14.08 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.75 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.58 £30.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -21.30% +115.12%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +12 63 £600 +9.59% 207
Essex +1 48 £530 +9.28% 168
Cambridgeshire +16 46 £566 -5.75% 172
Bedfordshire +7 44 £600 +3.45% 90
Norfolk -16 8 £513 -4.65% 54
Suffolk -15 6 £450 +28.57% 44
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 24
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 (2.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (11.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.69%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (3.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 5 (2.30%) SAP Travel Management
5 3 (1.38%) SAP GRC
5 3 (1.38%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.92%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.92%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.92%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.92%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.46%) Primavera
7 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.98%) GCP
2 20 (9.22%) Azure
3 15 (6.91%) AWS
4 9 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.69%) OCI
5 8 (3.69%) SaaS
6 7 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.23%) GitHub
7 5 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.38%) PaaS
8 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) VPN
2 12 (5.53%) Firewall
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) ATM
4 1 (0.46%) Broadband
4 1 (0.46%) DNS
4 1 (0.46%) FTP
4 1 (0.46%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) Intranet
4 1 (0.46%) SMTP
4 1 (0.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.07%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.76%) Power BI
3 5 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.38%) Metadata
4 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.92%) Tableau
6 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) Power Query
6 1 (0.46%) QlikView
6 1 (0.46%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Git
2 6 (2.76%) JIRA
3 4 (1.84%) IntelliJ
3 4 (1.84%) JUnit
3 4 (1.84%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 66 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.67%) Banking
3 22 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.76%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.61%) Marketing
5 10 (4.61%) Retail
6 8 (3.69%) Legal
6 8 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.23%) General Ledger
7 7 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.76%) Local Government
8 6 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.30%) Back Office
10 4 (1.84%) Billing
10 4 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (15.67%) Developer
2 30 (13.82%) Project Manager
3 24 (11.06%) Consultant
4 21 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 17 (7.83%) Analyst
5 17 (7.83%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.37%) IT Manager
6 16 (7.37%) Lead
7 15 (6.91%) IAM Developer
7 15 (6.91%) SAP Consultant
8 14 (6.45%) Architect
8 14 (6.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 14 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.99%) Backend Developer
9 13 (5.99%) Java Engineer
9 13 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Java Software Developer
11 10 (4.61%) Product Manager
12 9 (4.15%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (4.15%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.69%) OAuth
2 8 (3.69%) OpenID
3 5 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.84%) Spring
4 4 (1.84%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.38%) .NET
5 3 (1.38%) CSS
5 3 (1.38%) REST
5 3 (1.38%) Terraform
6 2 (0.92%) EDI
6 2 (0.92%) HTML
6 2 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.92%) Node.js
6 2 (0.92%) React
7 1 (0.46%) Flash
7 1 (0.46%) IDoc
7 1 (0.46%) LDAP
7 1 (0.46%) Playwright
7 1 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.15%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.69%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.84%) Life Science
6 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.38%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.92%) BYOD
7 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.46%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 43 (19.82%) Agile
3 39 (17.97%) ERP
4 38 (17.51%) Migration
5 35 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (11.98%) Decision-Making
10 24 (11.06%) Analytics
10 24 (11.06%) Project Management
11 23 (10.60%) Change Management
12 22 (10.14%) CI/CD
13 21 (9.68%) Data Migration
14 19 (8.76%) Process Improvement
15 18 (8.29%) DevOps
15 18 (8.29%) Identity Access Management
16 16 (7.37%) Risk Management
16 16 (7.37%) Roadmaps
16 16 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.44%) Java
2 9 (4.15%) SQL
3 6 (2.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.84%) Python
5 2 (0.92%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.92%) C#
5 2 (0.92%) Go
5 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.92%) X++
6 1 (0.46%) Bash
6 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.53%) Degree
4 8 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.23%) CIMA
6 6 (2.76%) ACCA
7 5 (2.30%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.30%) PMP
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.46%) APMG
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) CRISC
9 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.07%) PMO
3 8 (3.69%) QA
4 7 (3.23%) GDPR
5 5 (2.30%) SLA
6 4 (1.84%) GRC
7 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.38%) NIST
7 3 (1.38%) P3O
8 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.46%) GxP
9 1 (0.46%) IFRS
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.46%) ITGC
9 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.92%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) Argo
3 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (23.04%) SAP
2 35 (16.13%) Oracle
3 29 (13.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.69%) Google
4 8 (3.69%) IBM
5 7 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.23%) Snow
6 5 (2.30%) VMware
7 4 (1.84%) Checkmarx
7 4 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.38%) Ariba
8 3 (1.38%) Workday
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
10 1 (0.46%) Adobe
10 1 (0.46%) Cegedim Rx
10 1 (0.46%) EMC
10 1 (0.46%) GoCardless
10 1 (0.46%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.46%) Planon
10 1 (0.46%) Xero