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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 211 112 189
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.30% 9.46% 10.02%
As % of the General category 18.62% 16.18% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 69 71
10th Percentile £404 £400 £250
25th Percentile £463 £500 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -8.88%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £658 £750 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 65
10th Percentile £14.79 £17.24 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.79 -
Median hourly rate £35.53 £17.80 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +99.61% -53.31% -22.20%
75th Percentile £77.50 £28.50 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £45.60 -
England median hourly rate £39.00 £36.51 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.82% +21.70% -

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 1,133 692 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.91% 58.45% 59.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 333 393
10th Percentile £185 £195 £225
25th Percentile £318 £325 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £563
90th Percentile £663 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 146 435
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £21.25 £32.07 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% -15.87% +108.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.46 £81.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +10 57 £601 +4.43% 57
Essex +6 55 £505 +14.77% 70
Bedfordshire +1 47 £525 -9.48% 49
Cambridgeshire +14 36 £573 -2.55% 46
Norfolk -14 9 £600 +11.63% 35
Suffolk -13 5 £450 +3.57% 16
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 21
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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.37%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (12.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.27%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.84%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.42%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.95%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.95%) Primavera
5 2 (0.95%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.95%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.95%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.47%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.37%) GCP
2 19 (9.00%) Azure
3 15 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.64%) AWS
5 10 (4.74%) SaaS
6 9 (4.27%) GitHub
7 8 (3.79%) OCI
8 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.84%) PaaS
9 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.95%) IaaS
11 2 (0.95%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.95%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Serverless
11 2 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.95%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.74%) VPN
2 9 (4.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) Intranet
3 1 (0.47%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.69%) Power BI
2 9 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.79%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.32%) Power Query
5 6 (2.84%) ZAP BI
6 5 (2.37%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.42%) Tableau
9 2 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.95%) Metadata
9 2 (0.95%) QlikView
10 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Git
2 7 (3.32%) JUnit
2 7 (3.32%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.37%) IntelliJ
3 5 (2.37%) JIRA
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 72 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.90%) Manufacturing
3 22 (10.43%) Banking
4 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.74%) Retail
6 9 (4.27%) Marketing
6 9 (4.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.79%) Legal
8 6 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.84%) Local Government
8 6 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.37%) Billing
9 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Back Office
10 4 (1.90%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.95%) Automotive
12 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 31 (14.69%) Developer
2 29 (13.74%) Project Manager
3 22 (10.43%) Lead
4 21 (9.95%) Architect
5 17 (8.06%) Analyst
6 16 (7.58%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.58%) Senior
7 15 (7.11%) Consultant
8 14 (6.64%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Backend Developer
10 11 (5.21%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 11 (5.21%) IAM Developer
10 11 (5.21%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.74%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Product Manager
12 9 (4.27%) Java Software Developer
13 7 (3.32%) Coordinator
13 7 (3.32%) Data Consultant
13 7 (3.32%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (3.32%) Spring
2 7 (3.32%) Spring Boot
3 5 (2.37%) REST
3 5 (2.37%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.90%) OAuth
4 4 (1.90%) OpenID
5 3 (1.42%) .NET
5 3 (1.42%) Node.js
6 2 (0.95%) CSS
6 2 (0.95%) HTML
6 2 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.95%) React
6 2 (0.95%) Web Services
7 1 (0.47%) IDoc
7 1 (0.47%) Playwright
7 1 (0.47%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.47%) RxJS
7 1 (0.47%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.90%) Life Science
4 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
6 2 (0.95%) BYOD
6 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.95%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
1 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (21.80%) ERP
1 46 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 39 (18.48%) Agile
3 37 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 29 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (13.27%) Migration
6 28 (13.27%) Project Management
7 26 (12.32%) Analytics
8 24 (11.37%) Software Engineering
9 23 (10.90%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.43%) DevOps
11 21 (9.95%) Change Management
11 21 (9.95%) Data Migration
11 21 (9.95%) Decision-Making
12 18 (8.53%) Validation
13 17 (8.06%) Process Improvement
14 16 (7.58%) Workshop Facilitation
15 15 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (7.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.43%) Java
2 19 (9.00%) SQL
3 9 (4.27%) Python
4 7 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.84%) VBA
6 5 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.42%) Go
8 2 (0.95%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.95%) C#
8 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.95%) X++
9 1 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (7.58%) Degree
2 10 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.27%) ACCA
3 9 (4.27%) CIMA
4 7 (3.32%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.84%) PMP
5 6 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.47%) CCSP
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CISSP
7 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) GDPR
3 8 (3.79%) QA
3 8 (3.79%) SLA
4 7 (3.32%) PMO
5 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
7 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.95%) ITGC
8 1 (0.47%) GMP
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.42%) Terraform
3 2 (0.95%) Ansible
3 2 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
4 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (21.33%) SAP
2 30 (14.22%) Oracle
3 28 (13.27%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.21%) Google
5 7 (3.32%) Checkmarx
6 6 (2.84%) Sage
6 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.84%) VMware
7 5 (2.37%) Ariba
8 3 (1.42%) IFS
9 2 (0.95%) IBM
10 1 (0.47%) Databricks
10 1 (0.47%) Dell
10 1 (0.47%) EMC
10 1 (0.47%) HP
10 1 (0.47%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.47%) StreamSets