Finance Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Financial
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Peterborough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing Finance 2 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 1.75% 5.59% 1.83%
As % of the General category 2.22% 8.74% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +43.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £444
90th Percentile - £678 £470
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £600 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.50 £16.38
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year - +52.11% +36.54%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £19.13
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.41 £27.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -39.22% +52.11% +22.41%

All General Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 90 103 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 78.95% 63.98% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £160 £205 £244
25th Percentile £200 £280 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £570 £513
Median % change year-on-year -60.53% +11.22% +60.33%
75th Percentile £450 £588 £613
90th Percentile £498 £633 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 79 163
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £17.75 £16.85 £15.00
90th Percentile £24.84 - £20.56
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -1.74%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Peterborough

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) SnapLogic