Finance Contracts in Leicestershire

Financial
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Finance 6 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.94% 1.25% 7.02%
As % of the General category 8.82% 2.74% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £313 - £358
25th Percentile £320 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £750 £420
Median % change year-on-year -46.33% +78.57% -13.40%
75th Percentile £488 - £650
90th Percentile £513 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -18.73% +20.88% +1.11%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 68 73 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 67.33% 45.63% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 68
10th Percentile £203 £185 £261
25th Percentile £250 £255 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £318 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -24.40% -3.45%
75th Percentile £525 £480 £478
90th Percentile £613 £631 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £440 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +9.88% -11.11% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £19.05 £13.55 £16.22
25th Percentile £19.88 £16.25 £18.05
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £21.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +0.42% -38.83%
75th Percentile £26.88 £25.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £27.45 £55.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £17.00 £21.67
% change year-on-year +35.29% -21.55% +0.79%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Leicestershire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Leicestershire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Leicestershire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Leicestershire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Loughborough - 3 £330 - 5
Leicester - 2 £390 - 67
Finance
East Midlands

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) Fintech
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Google