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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 208 112 128
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.34% 8.77% 8.39%
As % of the General category 18.46% 14.93% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 60 50
10th Percentile £379 £361 £311
25th Percentile £480 £462 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +8.54% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £600
90th Percentile £638 £750 £701
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 34
10th Percentile £14.69 £16.14 £18.96
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.26 -
Median hourly rate £27.38 £17.79 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +53.91% -53.33% -22.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £18.60 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £25.50 -
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 1,127 750 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 50.61% 58.73% 56.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 299 284
10th Percentile £190 £185 £208
25th Percentile £325 £350 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £551
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 209 297
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.19 £16.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.49 £30.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -21.30% +115.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £79.38 £77.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +6 53 £600 +5.26% 169
Essex +4 51 £510 +9.09% 172
Bedfordshire +8 45 £578 -2.12% 81
Cambridgeshire +17 40 £573 -5.22% 136
Norfolk -10 11 £600 +11.63% 57
Suffolk -15 6 £450 +93.55% 26
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 19
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 (2.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (11.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.33%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (3.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (1.44%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.44%) SAP Travel Management
5 2 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.96%) Primavera
5 2 (0.96%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 28 (13.46%) GCP
2 19 (9.13%) Azure
3 14 (6.73%) AWS
4 10 (4.81%) GitHub
4 10 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.85%) OCI
6 7 (3.37%) SaaS
7 5 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.44%) PaaS
8 3 (1.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.48%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) VPN
2 12 (5.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) ATM
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.37%) Power BI
3 5 (2.40%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (1.44%) Metadata
4 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.96%) Tableau
6 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) Power Query
6 1 (0.48%) QlikView
6 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Git
2 7 (3.37%) JIRA
2 7 (3.37%) JUnit
2 7 (3.37%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.40%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 64 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.87%) Banking
3 21 (10.10%) Manufacturing
4 18 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Marketing
5 9 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Retail
6 8 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.37%) General Ledger
7 7 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.37%) Legal
7 7 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.40%) Back Office
9 5 (2.40%) Local Government
10 4 (1.92%) Billing
10 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.44%) Automotive
11 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (16.83%) Developer
2 33 (15.87%) Project Manager
3 22 (10.58%) Java Developer
4 19 (9.13%) Analyst
5 18 (8.65%) Consultant
5 18 (8.65%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.69%) Lead
7 15 (7.21%) Backend Developer
7 15 (7.21%) IAM Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Architect
8 14 (6.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Java Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Software Developer
9 12 (5.77%) Java Software Developer
9 12 (5.77%) Senior
10 11 (5.29%) SAP Consultant
11 10 (4.81%) Product Manager
12 9 (4.33%) IT Manager
12 9 (4.33%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.37%) OAuth
2 7 (3.37%) OpenID
2 7 (3.37%) Spring
2 7 (3.37%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.40%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.44%) .NET
4 3 (1.44%) CSS
4 3 (1.44%) Node.js
4 3 (1.44%) REST
4 3 (1.44%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) EDI
5 2 (0.96%) HTML
5 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.48%) IDoc
6 1 (0.48%) Kafka
6 1 (0.48%) Playwright
6 1 (0.48%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.92%) Life Science
6 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.96%) BYOD
7 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (21.15%) Agile
2 44 (21.15%) ERP
3 34 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (15.87%) Migration
5 31 (14.90%) Software Engineering
6 29 (13.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 28 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (12.98%) Decision-Making
9 26 (12.50%) Project Management
10 25 (12.02%) CI/CD
11 24 (11.54%) Analytics
12 22 (10.58%) Change Management
13 21 (10.10%) DevOps
14 19 (9.13%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (8.17%) Data Migration
15 17 (8.17%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (8.17%) Process Improvement
16 15 (7.21%) Risk Management
16 15 (7.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.94%) Java
2 9 (4.33%) SQL
3 7 (3.37%) Python
4 6 (2.88%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.44%) Go
6 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.96%) C#
6 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.96%) X++
7 1 (0.48%) Bash
7 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (6.73%) Degree
1 14 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.37%) ACCA
3 7 (3.37%) CIMA
4 5 (2.40%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.40%) PMP
5 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) APMG
7 1 (0.48%) CCSP
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CISSP
7 1 (0.48%) CRISC
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.81%) GDPR
3 9 (4.33%) PMO
3 9 (4.33%) QA
4 5 (2.40%) SLA
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) GRC
5 3 (1.44%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) P3O
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) GxP
7 1 (0.48%) IFRS
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.48%) ITGC
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Argo
3 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (21.15%) SAP
2 34 (16.35%) Oracle
3 29 (13.94%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.29%) Google
5 7 (3.37%) Checkmarx
5 7 (3.37%) IBM
6 6 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.40%) VMware
8 4 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.44%) Ariba
9 3 (1.44%) IFS
10 2 (0.96%) Databricks
11 1 (0.48%) Cegedim Rx
11 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.48%) EMC
11 1 (0.48%) Forcepoint
11 1 (0.48%) GoCardless
11 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.48%) Workday
11 1 (0.48%) Xero
639 Finance jobs in the East of England