Finance Contracts 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 116 156 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.21% 9.73% 11.22%
As % of the General category 15.85% 16.76% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 55 127
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £489 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £669 £625 £600
90th Percentile £744 £728 £736
England median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.37% -1.04% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 55 14
10th Percentile £17.21 £29.90 £27.29
25th Percentile £17.73 - -
Median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% -22.20% +40.00%
75th Percentile £24.75 - -
90th Percentile £43.20 - £57.25
England median hourly rate £32.60 £38.12 £25.71
% change year-on-year -14.48% +48.27% -24.69%

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 common skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 732 931 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.10% 58.04% 57.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 309 591
10th Percentile £189 £246 £209
25th Percentile £341 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £738
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 363 260
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.30 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.48 £40.00 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% +130.85% -11.14%
75th Percentile £65.06 £50.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the East of England

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 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the East of England

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 12 August 2025.

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 12 August 2025. 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
Bedfordshire -10 35 £580 +3.57% 30
Hertfordshire -15 30 £575 +39.39% 93
Cambridgeshire 0 21 £604 +9.82% 114
Essex +7 14 £413 -2.94% 76
Suffolk - 9 £233 - 34
Norfolk -7 7 £538 +13.16% 28
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.59%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.72%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.72%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.72%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.72%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.86%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.86%) Primavera
4 1 (0.86%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.86%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.93%) Power Platform
2 12 (10.34%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.03%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (2.59%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.72%) AWS
7 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.72%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.72%) OCI
8 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.86%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.86%) npm
8 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.86%) SaaS
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) DHCP
1 1 (0.86%) DNS
1 1 (0.86%) HTTP
1 1 (0.86%) LAN
1 1 (0.86%) Network Security
1 1 (0.86%) VLAN
1 1 (0.86%) VoIP
1 1 (0.86%) VPN
1 1 (0.86%) WAN
1 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.07%) Power BI
2 10 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.31%) Power Query
5 2 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.72%) Tableau
6 1 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) Hudson
3 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.86%) Git
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) TestRail
General
1 50 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.66%) Pharmaceutical
3 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.17%) Legal
8 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.45%) Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Electronics
10 3 (2.59%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.59%) Marketing
10 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Retail
11 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.72%) French Language
11 2 (1.72%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (12.93%) Project Manager
2 13 (11.21%) Analyst
2 13 (11.21%) Consultant
3 10 (8.62%) Developer
3 10 (8.62%) Senior
4 7 (6.03%) Architect
4 7 (6.03%) Finance Manager
4 7 (6.03%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (5.17%) Administrator
5 6 (5.17%) Lead
5 6 (5.17%) Programme Manager
5 6 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 5 (4.31%) Finance Project Manager
7 4 (3.45%) IFS Developer
7 4 (3.45%) IT Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Data Centre Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) ERP Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) SAP Financial Specialist
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.59%) REST
3 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.86%) Express.js
3 1 (0.86%) FIDO
3 1 (0.86%) HTML
3 1 (0.86%) JSON
3 1 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.86%) Middleware
3 1 (0.86%) NgRx
3 1 (0.86%) Playwright
3 1 (0.86%) RESTful
3 1 (0.86%) RxJS
3 1 (0.86%) SOAP
3 1 (0.86%) Spring
3 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Life Science
2 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.72%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.86%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 29 (25.00%) ERP
3 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (18.10%) Agile
4 21 (18.10%) Project Management
5 19 (16.38%) Analytics
6 18 (15.52%) Migration
7 16 (13.79%) PRINCE2
8 15 (12.93%) Record to Report
9 14 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.48%) Change Management
11 11 (9.48%) Procure-to-Pay
12 10 (8.62%) Programme Management
13 9 (7.76%) Data Migration
13 9 (7.76%) Risk Management
13 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (6.90%) Data Modelling
14 8 (6.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.21%) SQL
2 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
2 3 (2.59%) PL/SQL
2 3 (2.59%) VBA
3 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (0.86%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.86%) Python
4 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) Degree
2 11 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.59%) PMP
6 2 (1.72%) ACCA
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.72%) CIMA
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.86%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) Data Quality
1 11 (9.48%) PMO
2 7 (6.03%) QA
3 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) NIST
5 2 (1.72%) IFRS
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.86%) GxP
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.86%) ITGC
6 1 (0.86%) P3O
6 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.86%) AppManager
1 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.86%) SCCM
1 1 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (38.79%) SAP
2 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.34%) Ariba
4 9 (7.76%) Oracle
5 7 (6.03%) IFS
6 5 (4.31%) Anaplan
6 5 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.59%) Hyperion
7 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Adobe
8 1 (0.86%) Dell
8 1 (0.86%) Google
8 1 (0.86%) HP
8 1 (0.86%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.86%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.86%) Planview
8 1 (0.86%) Sage
8 1 (0.86%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.86%) VMware
8 1 (0.86%) Workday