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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 154 126 199
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.21% 9.84% 10.74%
As % of the General category 16.70% 18.18% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 58 130
10th Percentile £250 £311 £311
25th Percentile £426 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £631 £628 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £652
England median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.13% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £15.77 £13.69 £42.50
25th Percentile £16.79 £14.71 -
Median hourly rate £19.93 £17.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% -64.80% +40.00%
75th Percentile £23.61 £52.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £24.38 £55.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +15.38%

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 922 693 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.14% 54.14% 61.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 284 597
10th Percentile £163 £250 £200
25th Percentile £332 £324 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £688 £659 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 144 292
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.35 £17.47 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -1.40% -12.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £60.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £71.70 £65.70 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £31.40
% change year-on-year -23.87% +1.82% +23.14%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -1 49 £525 +7.14% 105
Bedfordshire -6 31 £600 -7.69% 26
Cambridgeshire -7 28 £538 -2.27% 50
Essex +16 22 £388 -29.55% 87
Norfolk -6 15 £525 +10.53% 31
Suffolk +6 9 £480 -23.20% 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 (3.25%) SAS
2 4 (2.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.60%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (13.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.19%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.55%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (3.90%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 6 (3.90%) SAP MM
5 4 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.30%) NetSuite
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (1.30%) SAP CO
6 2 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.65%) Primavera
7 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.34%) Power Platform
2 15 (9.74%) Azure
3 8 (5.19%) AWS
4 6 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.25%) GCP
6 4 (2.60%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.60%) OCI
6 4 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.95%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.30%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.65%) dbt
9 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.65%) npm
9 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) HTTP
1 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
1 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.69%) Power BI
2 10 (6.49%) Power Query
3 6 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.90%) Metadata
4 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.30%) Tableau
7 1 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) JIRA
2 6 (3.90%) Hudson
3 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.30%) Git
4 2 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
General
1 63 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.99%) Manufacturing
5 19 (12.34%) Marketing
6 15 (9.74%) Telecoms
7 14 (9.09%) Electronics
8 10 (6.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (4.55%) Banking
9 7 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.90%) Legal
10 6 (3.90%) Retail
11 5 (3.25%) General Ledger
11 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.30%) Aviation
14 2 (1.30%) Digital Health
14 2 (1.30%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 25 (16.23%) Analyst
2 19 (12.34%) Consultant
3 14 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 10 (6.49%) Architect
4 10 (6.49%) Developer
4 10 (6.49%) Lead
4 10 (6.49%) Systems Analyst
5 9 (5.84%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (5.19%) Accountant
7 7 (4.55%) ERP Analyst
7 7 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 7 (4.55%) Systems Accountant
8 6 (3.90%) IFS Consultant
8 6 (3.90%) Senior
8 6 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.25%) Coordinator
9 5 (3.25%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.25%) Help Desk Coordinator
9 5 (3.25%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.55%) REST
2 6 (3.90%) SAP Basis
2 6 (3.90%) SAP Business Workflow
2 6 (3.90%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (3.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.60%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.60%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.60%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.95%) HTML
6 2 (1.30%) CSS
6 2 (1.30%) JSON
6 2 (1.30%) SOAP
7 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.65%) Express.js
7 1 (0.65%) FIDO
7 1 (0.65%) Middleware
7 1 (0.65%) NgRx
7 1 (0.65%) Playwright
7 1 (0.65%) RESTful
7 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.55%) Credit Risk
2 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.95%) Life Science
4 3 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.30%) FMCG
5 2 (1.30%) NHS
5 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.95%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.13%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (19.48%) ERP
3 26 (16.88%) Agile
3 26 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (12.99%) Analytics
5 20 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (12.34%) Programme Management
7 16 (10.39%) Project Management
7 16 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
8 14 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
9 13 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (8.44%) ITSM
9 13 (8.44%) Migration
9 13 (8.44%) PRINCE2
9 13 (8.44%) Workflow
10 12 (7.79%) Accounts Payable
11 11 (7.14%) Logistics
11 11 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 11 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.58%) SQL
2 12 (7.79%) Python
3 7 (4.55%) VBA
4 6 (3.90%) ABAP
4 6 (3.90%) Java
5 5 (3.25%) R
6 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.30%) VB
8 1 (0.65%) C#
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.84%) Degree
4 7 (4.55%) ACCA
4 7 (4.55%) CIMA
5 5 (3.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.30%) PMP
8 1 (0.65%) AAT
8 1 (0.65%) CEH
8 1 (0.65%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.65%) CISM
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
8 1 (0.65%) CRISC
8 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) QA
2 7 (4.55%) PMO
2 7 (4.55%) SLA
3 4 (2.60%) NIST
4 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.30%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) GxP
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.65%) IFRS
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.65%) P3O
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Nexpose
2 1 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 44 (28.57%) SAP
2 30 (19.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.09%) Oracle
4 13 (8.44%) ServiceNow
5 10 (6.49%) IFS
6 6 (3.90%) OpenText
7 4 (2.60%) Foundry
7 4 (2.60%) Google
7 4 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.95%) Ariba
9 2 (1.30%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.30%) Cognos
9 2 (1.30%) Dell
9 2 (1.30%) HP
9 2 (1.30%) IBM
9 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.65%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.65%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.65%) Tenable
10 1 (0.65%) Workday