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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 7 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 5.47% 3.20% 5.26%
As % of the General category 9.86% 8.00% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £286 £366 -
25th Percentile - £372 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £456 £628 £650
90th Percentile £488 £701 -
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £500 £531
% change year-on-year -17.50% -5.88% +11.84%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 71 50 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 55.47% 40.00% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 38 51
10th Percentile £132 £188 £160
25th Percentile - £283 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% -13.89% +4.05%
75th Percentile £425 £498 £581
90th Percentile £503 £593 £644
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £449 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% -10.20% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £19.03 £21.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.81 £22.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £20.90 £24.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +8.89% +21.62%
75th Percentile £22.60 £27.13 £44.38
90th Percentile £24.94 £28.10 £56.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.75 £17.00 £42.52
% change year-on-year +39.71% -60.01% +97.74%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Leicestershire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Finance

Finance
DemandTrendContract 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 19 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +3 4 £360 -37.39% 42
Loughborough - 1 £225 - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Change Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Change Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
1 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (14.29%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Google