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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 204 114 137
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.23% 8.96% 8.78%
As % of the General category 18.38% 15.36% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 62 50
10th Percentile £363 £363 £346
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £647 £597
90th Percentile £638 £749 £713
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 42
10th Percentile £14.54 £17.09 £24.25
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.67 -
Median hourly rate £30.86 £17.79 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% -53.33% -22.20%
75th Percentile £71.25 £19.40 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £27.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £36.80
% change year-on-year +46.53% -18.48% +43.13%

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 1,110 742 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.23% 58.29% 56.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 305 295
10th Percentile £190 £186 £238
25th Percentile £325 £350 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £682 £642
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 200 322
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £24.05 £31.64 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -17.00% +115.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £51.43
90th Percentile £75.38 £80.10 £64.93
England median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +28.68% -34.02% +37.42%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -2 53 £588 +2.17% 87
Essex +4 52 £508 +23.03% 82
Bedfordshire +6 44 £578 -0.43% 29
Cambridgeshire +16 36 £565 -6.61% 33
Norfolk -10 11 £600 +11.63% 28
Suffolk -16 6 £450 +93.55% 13
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 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 4 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.45%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (10.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (3.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (1.47%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.98%) Primavera
5 2 (0.98%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.98%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.49%) Postilion
6 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.49%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.25%) GCP
2 17 (8.33%) Azure
3 13 (6.37%) AWS
4 11 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.41%) GitHub
6 8 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (3.43%) OCI
7 7 (3.43%) SaaS
8 5 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.47%) PaaS
10 2 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.98%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 1 (0.49%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.39%) VPN
2 10 (4.90%) Firewall
3 2 (0.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) ATM
4 1 (0.49%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) Intranet
4 1 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.41%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.92%) Power BI
3 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.45%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.47%) Power Query
4 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.98%) Metadata
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.98%) QlikView
5 2 (0.98%) Tableau
5 2 (0.98%) ZAP BI
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.49%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (4.90%) Git
2 7 (3.43%) JUnit
2 7 (3.43%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.45%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.45%) JIRA
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 63 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.22%) Banking
3 20 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 18 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.90%) Retail
6 9 (4.41%) Marketing
6 9 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.43%) General Ledger
7 7 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.43%) Legal
7 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.45%) Back Office
9 5 (2.45%) Local Government
10 4 (1.96%) Billing
10 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.47%) Automotive
11 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 34 (16.67%) Developer
2 33 (16.18%) Project Manager
3 19 (9.31%) Analyst
4 18 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.84%) Lead
6 15 (7.35%) Consultant
6 15 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.37%) Architect
7 13 (6.37%) Senior
8 12 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 12 (5.88%) IAM Developer
9 11 (5.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Java Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (5.39%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.90%) Product Manager
11 9 (4.41%) IT Manager
11 9 (4.41%) Java Software Developer
11 9 (4.41%) Oracle Developer
12 8 (3.92%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.43%) Spring
2 7 (3.43%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.94%) OAuth
3 6 (2.94%) OpenID
4 5 (2.45%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.47%) .NET
5 3 (1.47%) CSS
5 3 (1.47%) Node.js
5 3 (1.47%) REST
5 3 (1.47%) Terraform
6 2 (0.98%) EDI
6 2 (0.98%) HTML
6 2 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.98%) React
7 1 (0.49%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.49%) IDoc
7 1 (0.49%) Kafka
7 1 (0.49%) Playwright
7 1 (0.49%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.90%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.96%) Life Science
6 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.98%) BYOD
8 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.49%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.98%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (21.57%) ERP
3 41 (20.10%) Agile
4 32 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.71%) Migration
6 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (13.24%) Software Engineering
8 26 (12.75%) Project Management
9 25 (12.25%) Decision-Making
10 24 (11.76%) Analytics
10 24 (11.76%) Change Management
11 22 (10.78%) CI/CD
12 19 (9.31%) DevOps
12 19 (9.31%) Process Improvement
12 19 (9.31%) Workshop Facilitation
13 17 (8.33%) Data Migration
14 15 (7.35%) Risk Management
14 15 (7.35%) Validation
15 14 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.25%) Java
2 11 (5.39%) SQL
3 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 6 (2.94%) Python
4 3 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.47%) Go
5 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
5 2 (0.98%) C#
5 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.98%) VBA
5 2 (0.98%) X++
6 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (6.86%) Degree
1 14 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.92%) ACCA
3 8 (3.92%) CIMA
4 4 (1.96%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.96%) PMP
5 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.49%) APMG
6 1 (0.49%) CCSP
6 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.49%) CISSP
6 1 (0.49%) CRISC
6 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
6 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.90%) GDPR
3 8 (3.92%) QA
4 7 (3.43%) PMO
5 5 (2.45%) SLA
6 3 (1.47%) GRC
6 3 (1.47%) NIST
6 3 (1.47%) P3O
7 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.49%) GxP
8 1 (0.49%) IFRS
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.49%) ITGC
8 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.98%) Ansible
3 1 (0.49%) Argo
3 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (19.12%) SAP
2 33 (16.18%) Oracle
3 28 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.39%) Google
5 7 (3.43%) Checkmarx
5 7 (3.43%) IBM
6 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.45%) VMware
8 4 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.47%) Ariba
9 3 (1.47%) IFS
10 2 (0.98%) Sage
11 1 (0.49%) Cegedim Rx
11 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.49%) Databricks
11 1 (0.49%) EMC
11 1 (0.49%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.49%) Workday
11 1 (0.49%) Xero
272 Finance jobs in the East of England