Finance Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Financial
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 10 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 13.33% 12.22% 16.90%
As % of the General category 20.41% 20.75% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £293 £341 £334
25th Percentile £432 £384 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £498 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -17.08% +23.08%
75th Percentile £800 £625 £650
90th Percentile £950 £638 £683
South East median daily rate £505 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.24% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £50.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.63 £28.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year -26.97% -0.88% +27.63%

All General Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 49 53 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 65.33% 58.89% 78.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 44
10th Percentile £160 £375 £325
25th Percentile £371 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -0.50% -12.61%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £680 £685 £745
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £12.50 - -
25th Percentile £13.13 £51.25 £50.50
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% +2.94% +47.83%
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £41.00 £49.73
% change year-on-year -46.34% -17.55% +34.76%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Finance job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in East Sussex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in East Sussex

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Brighton +8 8 £650 +26.83% 59
Hove 0 1 £485 +15.48% 1
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Finance Business Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Product Vision
5 1 (10.00%) Story Mapping
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CSPO
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow