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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 202 109 190
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.94% 9.60% 9.93%
As % of the General category 18.04% 16.34% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 67 73
10th Percentile £383 £400 £238
25th Percentile £463 £500 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +15.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 64
10th Percentile £14.82 £17.24 £15.57
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 -
Median hourly rate £18.27 £17.80 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -53.31% -22.20%
75th Percentile £63.50 £28.50 -
90th Percentile £91.75 £45.60 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.95 £28.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% +28.38% -6.67%

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 1,120 667 1,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.58% 58.77% 58.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 327 397
10th Percentile £175 £195 £217
25th Percentile £313 £320 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £565
90th Percentile £669 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.25% -2.99% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 136 434
10th Percentile £13.94 £15.59 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.95 £16.30
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.16 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -20.88% +108.82%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.69 £81.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.25 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.29% -17.18% +9.65%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +7 56 £600 +4.39% 61
Essex +6 50 £503 +14.20% 72
Bedfordshire 0 49 £513 -11.64% 25
Cambridgeshire +13 34 £510 -13.19% 50
Norfolk -12 9 £600 +11.63% 34
Suffolk -15 3 £488 +12.20% 15
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 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 25 (12.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.46%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.97%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.99%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.99%) Primavera
5 2 (0.99%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.99%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.99%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.99%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.90%) GCP
2 16 (7.92%) Azure
3 15 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.94%) AWS
5 11 (5.45%) SaaS
6 9 (4.46%) GitHub
7 7 (3.47%) OCI
8 6 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.97%) PaaS
9 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.99%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Serverless
11 2 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.96%) VPN
2 7 (3.47%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.50%) Network Security
3 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) Power BI
2 9 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.47%) Power Query
4 6 (2.97%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.97%) ZAP BI
5 5 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (2.48%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.49%) Tableau
7 2 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.99%) Metadata
7 2 (0.99%) QlikView
8 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Git
2 7 (3.47%) JUnit
2 7 (3.47%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.48%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 70 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.90%) Manufacturing
3 17 (8.42%) Banking
4 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.95%) Retail
6 8 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.47%) Local Government
7 7 (3.47%) Marketing
7 7 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.97%) Legal
9 5 (2.48%) Billing
9 5 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.98%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.49%) Aviation
11 3 (1.49%) Back Office
11 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (13.37%) Project Manager
2 26 (12.87%) Developer
3 24 (11.88%) Architect
4 18 (8.91%) Lead
5 17 (8.42%) Analyst
6 16 (7.92%) Consultant
6 16 (7.92%) Senior
7 11 (5.45%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.45%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.46%) Backend Developer
10 8 (3.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (3.96%) Product Manager
10 8 (3.96%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Accountant
11 7 (3.47%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.47%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.47%) Financial Controller
11 7 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (3.47%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.47%) Spring
2 7 (3.47%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.48%) REST
4 4 (1.98%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (1.49%) .NET
5 3 (1.49%) Node.js
6 2 (0.99%) CSS
6 2 (0.99%) HTML
6 2 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.99%) OAuth
6 2 (0.99%) OpenID
6 2 (0.99%) React
6 2 (0.99%) Web Services
7 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.50%) IDoc
7 1 (0.50%) Kafka
7 1 (0.50%) RxJS
7 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.46%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.49%) Life Science
4 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
5 2 (0.99%) BYOD
5 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
1 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (20.79%) ERP
3 36 (17.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 35 (17.33%) Agile
4 35 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (14.36%) Migration
6 28 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (12.87%) Analytics
7 26 (12.87%) Project Management
8 21 (10.40%) Change Management
8 21 (10.40%) CI/CD
8 21 (10.40%) Data Migration
8 21 (10.40%) Decision-Making
9 20 (9.90%) DevOps
10 19 (9.41%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.91%) Validation
12 17 (8.42%) Process Improvement
13 14 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (6.93%) Workshop Facilitation
14 13 (6.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.41%) SQL
2 17 (8.42%) Java
3 9 (4.46%) Python
4 7 (3.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.97%) VBA
6 5 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.49%) Go
8 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.99%) X++
9 1 (0.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (6.93%) Degree
2 10 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) ACCA
3 9 (4.46%) CIMA
4 7 (3.47%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.97%) PMP
5 6 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.50%) CCSP
7 1 (0.50%) CFA
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CISM
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.42%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.45%) GDPR
3 8 (3.96%) QA
3 8 (3.96%) SLA
4 7 (3.47%) PMO
5 3 (1.49%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.99%) GRC
6 2 (0.99%) ITGC
7 1 (0.50%) GMP
7 1 (0.50%) IFRS
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.49%) Terraform
2 2 (0.99%) Ansible
2 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.50%) Argo
3 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (21.29%) SAP
2 29 (14.36%) Oracle
3 27 (13.37%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.45%) Google
5 7 (3.47%) Checkmarx
6 6 (2.97%) Sage
6 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.48%) VMware
8 4 (1.98%) Ariba
9 3 (1.49%) IBM
9 3 (1.49%) IFS
10 1 (0.50%) Cadence
10 1 (0.50%) Cegedim Rx
10 1 (0.50%) Databricks
10 1 (0.50%) Foundry
10 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.50%) StreamSets