Finance Contracts in Essex

Financial
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Essex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Finance 12 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 15.19% 13.24% 13.98%
As % of the General category 25.00% 25.22% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 18
10th Percentile £336 £318 £159
25th Percentile £416 £394 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -7.37%
75th Percentile £492 £653 £566
90th Percentile £510 £675 £676
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £19.26
25th Percentile - £35.65 £20.03
Median hourly rate £21.00 £61.33 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -65.76% +187.91% -0.93%
75th Percentile - £88.00 £32.53
90th Percentile - - £39.26
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -53.31% -22.20% +127.91%

All General Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 48 115 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 60.76% 52.51% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 92
10th Percentile £221 £250 £186
25th Percentile £318 £300 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -6.94% -8.16%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £531
90th Percentile £514 £643 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 9
10th Percentile - £10.42 £20.79
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.38 £22.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.98 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.71% -14.71% +107.12%
75th Percentile £30.00 £64.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £38.00 £80.88 £76.61
East of England median hourly rate £30.78 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.25% +81.52% +44.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Essex

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Essex

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Essex over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Essex

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Essex

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Essex region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Basildon 0 5 £449 -25.21% 15
Brentwood +6 1 £468 - 2
Thurrock +2 1 - -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) VoIP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Back Office
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
4 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) CRM Manager
2 2 (16.67%) CRM Programme Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Defect Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Programmer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Programmer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) User Stories
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Business Case
3 2 (16.67%) Contact Management
3 2 (16.67%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) AppManager
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Ivanti
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) VMware