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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 204 114 208
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.20% 11.69% 11.04%
As % of the General category 19.15% 18.87% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 75 94
10th Percentile £363 £414 £250
25th Percentile £463 £500 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £652
90th Percentile £688 £750 £750
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.52% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 65
10th Percentile £14.82 £17.79 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.79 -
Median hourly rate £17.73 £19.40 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% -49.11% -22.20%
75th Percentile £24.49 £50.25 -
90th Percentile £35.53 £66.88 -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.45 £26.97
% change year-on-year -32.78% +31.42% +4.90%

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 1,065 604 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.02% 61.95% 60.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 324 418
10th Percentile £191 £200 £234
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 114 449
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.58 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £20.09 £30.55 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -34.24% -19.86% +90.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.65% -5.75%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +5 59 £625 +8.70% 74
Bedfordshire -1 54 £513 -11.64% 28
Essex +6 44 £500 +6.95% 38
Cambridgeshire +18 35 £509 -4.19% 38
Norfolk -15 7 £625 +13.64% 29
Suffolk -8 5 £465 -10.40% 12
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 6 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.45%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (12.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.41%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.94%) Sage X3
4 5 (2.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.98%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.98%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.98%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.49%) assyst
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.31%) GCP
2 18 (8.82%) Azure
3 15 (7.35%) AWS
3 15 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.39%) SaaS
5 10 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.41%) GitHub
7 8 (3.92%) OCI
8 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (2.45%) Azure AI
9 5 (2.45%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (2.45%) PaaS
10 4 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Serverless
11 2 (0.98%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) VPN
2 4 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.88%) Power BI
2 9 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.94%) Power Query
4 6 (2.94%) ZAP BI
5 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.45%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) Tableau
7 2 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.98%) Metadata
7 2 (0.98%) QlikView
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Git
2 7 (3.43%) JUnit
2 7 (3.43%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.45%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.47%) JIRA
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.49%) GitLab
6 1 (0.49%) Hudson
General
1 75 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.78%) Manufacturing
3 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.39%) Marketing
6 10 (4.90%) Banking
6 10 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (4.41%) Retail
8 8 (3.92%) Local Government
8 8 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.94%) Aviation
10 6 (2.94%) Billing
10 6 (2.94%) Electronics
11 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.47%) Back Office
12 3 (1.47%) Legal
13 2 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (12.25%) Architect
1 25 (12.25%) Project Manager
2 20 (9.80%) Consultant
2 20 (9.80%) Developer
3 19 (9.31%) Senior
4 17 (8.33%) Analyst
4 17 (8.33%) Lead
5 15 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.41%) Business Analyst
7 8 (3.92%) Senior Manager
7 8 (3.92%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (3.43%) Accountant
8 7 (3.43%) Administrator
8 7 (3.43%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.43%) Data Consultant
8 7 (3.43%) Data Migration Consultant
8 7 (3.43%) Migration Consultant
8 7 (3.43%) Software Engineer
9 6 (2.94%) Financial Controller
9 6 (2.94%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (3.92%) REST
3 7 (3.43%) Spring
3 7 (3.43%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.45%) PyTorch
4 5 (2.45%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.45%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.47%) .NET
5 3 (1.47%) Node.js
6 2 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.98%) React
6 2 (0.98%) Web Services
7 1 (0.49%) CSS
7 1 (0.49%) HTML
7 1 (0.49%) IDoc
7 1 (0.49%) Playwright
7 1 (0.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.98%) BYOD
5 2 (0.98%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.98%) Life Science
5 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.49%) CMDB
6 1 (0.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.49%) FMCG
6 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.47%) Windows
1 3 (1.47%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.55%) ERP
2 40 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (18.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 33 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (15.20%) Migration
6 28 (13.73%) Analytics
7 25 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (11.27%) Agile
9 21 (10.29%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.80%) DevOps
10 20 (9.80%) Project Management
11 19 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (9.31%) Change Management
11 19 (9.31%) Decision-Making
12 18 (8.82%) Data Migration
13 16 (7.84%) Process Improvement
13 16 (7.84%) Validation
14 13 (6.37%) Data Modelling
14 13 (6.37%) ITIL
14 13 (6.37%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.29%) SQL
2 13 (6.37%) Python
3 11 (5.39%) Java
4 6 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (2.94%) VBA
5 4 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.47%) Go
7 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.98%) C#
7 2 (0.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.98%) X++
8 1 (0.49%) Bash
8 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (9.31%) Degree
2 11 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.92%) ACCA
3 8 (3.92%) CIMA
3 8 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.45%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.96%) CFA
5 4 (1.96%) PMP
5 4 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) CCSP
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CISSP
7 1 (0.49%) CRISC
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PgMP
7 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.90%) GDPR
3 9 (4.41%) SLA
4 6 (2.94%) PMO
4 6 (2.94%) QA
5 4 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.47%) NIST
7 2 (0.98%) ITGC
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) GMP
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.98%) Ansible
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (25.00%) SAP
2 34 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.67%) Oracle
3 15 (7.35%) Google
4 9 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.43%) Ariba
5 7 (3.43%) Checkmarx
6 6 (2.94%) Sage
6 6 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.45%) Foundry
7 5 (2.45%) IBM
7 5 (2.45%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.96%) Dell
8 4 (1.96%) IFS
9 3 (1.47%) HP
10 2 (0.98%) VMware
11 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.49%) EMC
11 1 (0.49%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.49%) Informatica