Finance Contracts in Suffolk

Financial
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 5 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 6.76% 13.11% 10.88%
As % of the General category 13.16% 22.86% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £542 £436 £367
25th Percentile £577 £453 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +31.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £693 £750 £584
90th Percentile £728 - £655
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 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 - -
East of England median hourly rate £19.40 £38.12 £49.00
% change year-on-year -49.11% -22.20% +127.91%

All General Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38 35 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 51.35% 57.38% 82.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 99
10th Percentile £200 £233 £435
25th Percentile £205 £451 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% -32.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £475 £594 -
90th Percentile £568 £660 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £20.63 - £13.47
25th Percentile £24.89 £11.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £31.99 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +178.13% -28.13% +12.36%
75th Percentile £39.08 £13.06 £18.75
90th Percentile £43.34 £15.43 £19.84
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -17.00% +81.52% +44.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Suffolk

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Suffolk

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Suffolk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Suffolk

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Suffolk

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 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
Ipswich -3 3 £635 +18.14% 109
Leiston - 1 - - 3
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Process Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft