Finance Contracts in Leicester

Financial
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Leicester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 4.88% 1.09% 6.09%
As % of the General category 10.00% 2.78% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +27.78% -7.22%
75th Percentile - £588 £650
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £360 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -24.21% +5.56% -7.22%

All General Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40 36 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 48.78% 39.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 25
10th Percentile £226 £247 £329
25th Percentile £250 £307 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £434 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% -8.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £640
90th Percentile £525 £588 £650
Leicestershire median daily rate £316 £388 £450
% change year-on-year -18.45% -13.89% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.45%
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £56.75
Leicestershire median hourly rate £20.90 £21.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.79% -4.44% +21.62%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Leicester

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Finance

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (25.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle