Finance Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Financial
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Finance 56 82 96
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 13.63% 19.34% 14.77%
As % of the General category 24.56% 31.42% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 64 80
10th Percentile £300 £258 £250
25th Percentile £459 £423 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -3.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £632
90th Percentile £838 £696 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -6.55% +6.09% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -38.89% +44.46%
75th Percentile - £29.25 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £41.25 £25.50
% change year-on-year -48.48% +61.80% +14.17%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 228 261 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 55.47% 61.56% 52.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 162 267
10th Percentile £204 £203 £204
25th Percentile £213 £235 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -13.75% -3.85%
75th Percentile £581 £547 £597
90th Percentile £698 £637 £688
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £15.59 £19.25
Median hourly rate £30.89 £21.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.39 £50.00
90th Percentile - £26.28 £66.50
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -51.08% -15.00% +60.51%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Surrey

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Surrey

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Redhill +9 8 £700 +27.27% 2
Staines +9 7 £1,000 - 1
Camberley -2 7 £488 -11.36% 2
Chertsey +4 2 £300 +13.21% 1
Leatherhead +2 1 £450 -5.26%
Tadworth +1 1 £380 -
Weybridge - 1 £475 - 4
Horley - 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £238 -
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.50%) Mattermost
1 7 (12.50%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (5.36%) NetSuite
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.57%) SAP CO
3 2 (3.57%) SAP FI
3 2 (3.57%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) GCP
3 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.57%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (3.57%) Contentsquare
4 2 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.79%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Skype
2 1 (1.79%) DHCP
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) LAN
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (5.36%) Power BI
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Postman
2 1 (1.79%) Selenium
2 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (55.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Electronics
4 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Legal
4 2 (3.57%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Messaging Support
3 7 (12.50%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Designer
4 5 (8.93%) Lead
5 4 (7.14%) Accountant
5 4 (7.14%) Management Accountant
6 3 (5.36%) DBA
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (5.36%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) ADO
4 1 (1.79%) Next.js
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
4 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) ITIL
2 10 (17.86%) ITSM
2 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 8 (14.29%) Information Security
3 8 (14.29%) Validation
4 7 (12.50%) AI
4 7 (12.50%) B2B
4 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (12.50%) Migration
4 7 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 6 (10.71%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (10.71%) Agile
5 6 (10.71%) ERP
5 6 (10.71%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (8.93%) Incident Response
6 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.93%) SIAM
6 5 (8.93%) User Experience
7 4 (7.14%) Accounts Payable
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.93%) Python
4 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) Julia
5 1 (1.79%) Korn
5 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.14%) ACCA
2 4 (7.14%) CIMA
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.79%) GPFS
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (12.50%) SCOM
2 3 (5.36%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) BladeLogic
3 1 (1.79%) Kibana
3 1 (1.79%) QRadar
3 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) Oracle
3 8 (14.29%) Splunk
4 7 (12.50%) Cisco
4 7 (12.50%) Remedy
5 6 (10.71%) Google
6 4 (7.14%) Salesforce
7 3 (5.36%) SAP
7 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.57%) Adobe
8 2 (3.57%) IBM
8 2 (3.57%) Sybase
9 1 (1.79%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.79%) Citrix
9 1 (1.79%) Dell
9 1 (1.79%) HP
9 1 (1.79%) McAfee
9 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.79%) Sage
9 1 (1.79%) Wyse