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 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 170 132 180
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.17% 12.05% 9.97%
As % of the General category 17.38% 19.94% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 122
10th Percentile £328 £313 £251
25th Percentile £442 £464 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £588
90th Percentile £688 £715 £673
England median daily rate £540 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -9.24% +3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 17
10th Percentile £14.91 £24.70 £13.24
25th Percentile £16.21 £36.06 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.93 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.76% +22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £23.61 £64.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £24.43 £70.00 £71.20
England median hourly rate £23.75 £27.31 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.03% -14.00%

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 978 662 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.53% 60.46% 61.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 307 541
10th Percentile £185 £254 £213
25th Percentile £289 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £528 £545
% change year-on-year -5.21% -3.21% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 106 319
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £14.53
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.58 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +29.13% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.69 £50.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £29.12 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.02% +11.98% +1.13%

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 27 January 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
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 27 January 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 £563 +9.76% 123
Bedfordshire -1 49 £529 +0.71% 90
Cambridgeshire -8 25 £515 -4.19% 93
Essex +11 21 £300 -33.33% 111
Norfolk -13 13 £506 +6.58% 81
Suffolk +2 9 £480 -16.08% 73
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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 5 (2.94%) SAS
2 3 (1.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (15.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.71%) SAP FI
3 7 (4.12%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (3.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 6 (3.53%) SAP MM
5 5 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (2.94%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (1.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (1.18%) SAP CO
7 2 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.59%) assyst
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.76%) Azure
2 17 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 16 (9.41%) AWS
4 9 (5.29%) Azure AI
4 9 (5.29%) Copilot Studio
4 9 (5.29%) GCP
4 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.53%) SaaS
7 5 (2.94%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.35%) OCI
9 3 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.76%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) dbt
10 2 (1.18%) Serverless
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.59%) WAN
1 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.00%) Power BI
2 9 (5.29%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.71%) Power Query
4 7 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (3.53%) Metadata
6 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Hudson
1 6 (3.53%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) GitLab
2 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.59%) Git
General
1 75 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 24 (14.12%) Manufacturing
4 23 (13.53%) Marketing
5 22 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.59%) Telecoms
7 17 (10.00%) Electronics
8 11 (6.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (4.71%) Aviation
12 7 (4.12%) Banking
13 6 (3.53%) Retail
14 5 (2.94%) Local Government
15 4 (2.35%) General Ledger
15 4 (2.35%) Legal
15 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
16 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (14.12%) Consultant
2 21 (12.35%) Analyst
3 19 (11.18%) Architect
4 17 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.06%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.47%) Lead
7 9 (5.29%) Accountant
8 8 (4.71%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (4.71%) Systems Accountant
8 8 (4.71%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (4.12%) Administrator
9 7 (4.12%) ERP Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.53%) Developer
10 6 (3.53%) IFS Consultant
10 6 (3.53%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 6 (3.53%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.88%) REST
2 9 (5.29%) PyTorch
2 9 (5.29%) scikit-learn
2 9 (5.29%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.53%) SAP Basis
3 6 (3.53%) SAP Business Workflow
3 6 (3.53%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.18%) CSS
5 2 (1.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.59%) JSON
6 1 (0.59%) Middleware
6 1 (0.59%) SOAP
6 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.12%) Credit Risk
1 7 (4.12%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.18%) FMCG
4 2 (1.18%) Life Science
4 2 (1.18%) NHS
4 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.59%) PMI
5 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.12%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.00%) Analytics
2 33 (19.41%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (17.65%) ERP
4 27 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 25 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (12.35%) Migration
8 19 (11.18%) Agile
8 19 (11.18%) Programme Management
8 19 (11.18%) Workflow
9 18 (10.59%) ITSM
10 17 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
10 17 (10.00%) Logistics
11 15 (8.82%) AI
12 13 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (7.06%) DevOps
13 12 (7.06%) Microservices
13 12 (7.06%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.47%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.12%) SQL
2 17 (10.00%) Python
3 7 (4.12%) VBA
4 6 (3.53%) ABAP
4 6 (3.53%) Java
5 5 (2.94%) R
6 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.18%) VB
7 1 (0.59%) C#
7 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.65%) Degree
4 6 (3.53%) ACCA
4 6 (3.53%) CIMA
5 4 (2.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.76%) CFA
6 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) AAT
8 1 (0.59%) CEH
8 1 (0.59%) CISSP
8 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.59%) CRISC
8 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) OSCP
8 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) SLA
2 4 (2.35%) QA
3 3 (1.76%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) GRC
4 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) GxP
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 58 (34.12%) SAP
2 26 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.18%) Oracle
4 18 (10.59%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.29%) Foundry
5 9 (5.29%) Google
5 9 (5.29%) OpenAI
6 7 (4.12%) IBM
6 7 (4.12%) IFS
7 6 (3.53%) Dell
7 6 (3.53%) OpenText
8 5 (2.94%) HP
9 4 (2.35%) Ariba
10 2 (1.18%) Cognos
10 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.18%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.59%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.59%) Tenable
11 1 (0.59%) Workday