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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 78 48 103
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.98% 15.69% 17.58%
As % of the General category 34.06% 30.19% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 40 89
10th Percentile £411 £194 £250
25th Percentile £463 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -9.27% -6.82%
75th Percentile £660 £563 £638
90th Percentile £753 £700 £740
South East median daily rate £503 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.29% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £12.91 £41.30 -
25th Percentile £23.18 £64.62 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £104.99 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +472.14% -
75th Percentile - £145.10 £20.45
90th Percentile - £168.27 £24.22
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £72.50 £26.73
% change year-on-year -41.72% +171.23% -33.18%

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 general skills in Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 229 159 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 46.93% 51.96% 54.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 106 225
10th Percentile £204 £175 £239
25th Percentile £325 £230 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £595
90th Percentile £680 £646 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 33
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.65 £12.37
25th Percentile £44.75 £20.00 £12.78
Median hourly rate £54.00 £24.66 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +118.98% +34.39% -59.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.63 £32.50
90th Percentile - £53.75 £45.00
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £24.42 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.68% -42.54% -5.56%

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 17 April 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Surrey

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 17 April 2026. 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 +4 15 £600 +11.63% 4
Staines - 8 £1,000 - 2
Woking -2 3 £599 +30.16% 7
Guildford -12 3 £469 -12.79% 19
Camberley -4 2 £400 -5.88% 3
Egham - 2 - - 1
Weybridge - 2 £475 -
Reigate +5 1 - - 4
Leatherhead - 1 £525 - 8
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 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.28%) Confluence
1 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (20.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.69%) SAP Business One
3 2 (2.56%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
3 9 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
5 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) LAN
1 4 (5.13%) WAN
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.28%) Big Data
2 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.41%) General Ledger
4 5 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Billing
6 2 (2.56%) Legal
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Analyst
2 10 (12.82%) Lead
3 9 (11.54%) Architect
4 8 (10.26%) PMO Analyst
5 6 (7.69%) Accountant
5 6 (7.69%) Designer
6 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.13%) Financial Accountant
7 4 (5.13%) Information Officer
7 4 (5.13%) Information Security Officer
7 4 (5.13%) Integration Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) Security Officer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior
7 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.85%) Administrator
8 3 (3.85%) Consultant
8 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.85%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.56%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.56%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.41%) .NET
2 4 (5.13%) Middleware
3 1 (1.28%) EDI
3 1 (1.28%) IDoc
3 1 (1.28%) Kafka
3 1 (1.28%) React
3 1 (1.28%) SAP ALE
3 1 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.28%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.28%) SAPUI5
3 1 (1.28%) Spring
3 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Public Cloud
2 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.41%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Clustering
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.23%) Migration
2 14 (17.95%) Data Analysis
2 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.38%) ERP
5 11 (14.10%) Project Management
6 10 (12.82%) Agile
6 10 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (11.54%) Data Protection
7 9 (11.54%) DevOps
8 8 (10.26%) AI
8 8 (10.26%) Budget Management
9 7 (8.97%) Analytical Thinking
9 7 (8.97%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (8.97%) Capacity Management
9 7 (8.97%) Data Migration
9 7 (8.97%) ITIL
10 6 (7.69%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.97%) SQL
2 2 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) ABAP
3 1 (1.28%) Java
3 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) ACCA
1 8 (10.26%) CIMA
2 2 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.28%) PMP
3 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) PMO
2 7 (8.97%) GDPR
3 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.13%) NIST
3 4 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.56%) IFRS
5 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.28%) GPFS
3 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Ansible
1 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) BladeLogic
3 1 (1.28%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) SAP
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.97%) Google
3 7 (8.97%) Oracle
4 4 (5.13%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.85%) VMware
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.28%) Dell
7 1 (1.28%) HP
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) Mellanox
7 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.28%) Solarflare
7 1 (1.28%) Teradata