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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 85 64 108
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 13.32% 18.39% 19.57%
As % of the General category 24.50% 32.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 75
10th Percentile £325 £289 £259
25th Percentile £413 £425 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £638
90th Percentile £580 £694 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.35% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.07% +55.56%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £80.50
South East median hourly rate £57.97 £26.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +118.75% -54.89% +161.11%

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 347 200 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.39% 57.47% 58.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 140 231
10th Percentile £300 £204 £203
25th Percentile £375 £250 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +14.71% -19.05%
75th Percentile £562 £548 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 14
10th Percentile £13.35 £13.50 £28.38
25th Percentile £14.31 £15.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.25 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -53.43% +20.00%
75th Percentile £64.53 £28.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £49.55 £77.00
South East median hourly rate £38.00 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +101.38% -67.10% +9.24%

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 11 September 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
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 11 September 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
Staines -2 18 £506 -22.12% 17
Woking +3 9 £568 +74.77% 22
Weybridge - 5 - - 5
Reigate -1 4 £475 -50.00% 3
Leatherhead -6 4 £513 +13.89% 4
Redhill -6 3 £513 -6.82% 7
Guildford -17 3 £438 -20.27% 23
Camberley +5 1 - - 6
Sunbury-on-Thames +2 1 £300 +26.32% 2
Epsom - 1 £288 - 3
Oxted - 1 - -
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 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (10.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.06%) SAP Business One
3 5 (5.88%) Workday HCM
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (2.35%) SAP FI
4 2 (2.35%) SAP SD
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.18%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.24%) Azure
2 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.35%) AWS
3 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.18%) Boomi
4 1 (1.18%) GCP
4 1 (1.18%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.18%) iPaaS
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) LAN
1 3 (3.53%) WAN
2 2 (2.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) Intranet
3 1 (1.18%) DHCP
3 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.18%) VPN
3 1 (1.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Power BI
2 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.18%) Db2
3 1 (1.18%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
1 4 (4.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (54.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.59%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (7.06%) General Ledger
7 6 (7.06%) Legal
8 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.71%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.71%) Local Government
10 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.35%) Billing
11 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.35%) Retail
12 1 (1.18%) Back Office
12 1 (1.18%) Banking
12 1 (1.18%) Law
12 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Project Manager
3 12 (14.12%) Consultant
4 8 (9.41%) IT Manager
4 8 (9.41%) IT Project Manager
4 8 (9.41%) Lead
5 6 (7.06%) Accountant
5 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Senior
6 5 (5.88%) Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) Financial Accountant
7 4 (4.71%) Lecturer
7 4 (4.71%) Programme Director
7 4 (4.71%) SAP Programme Director
7 4 (4.71%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Business Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Records Management Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.71%) .NET
2 3 (3.53%) Middleware
3 2 (2.35%) OAuth
3 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.18%) EDI
4 1 (1.18%) IDoc
4 1 (1.18%) JSON
4 1 (1.18%) JWT
4 1 (1.18%) OpenID
4 1 (1.18%) React Native
4 1 (1.18%) REST
4 1 (1.18%) SAP ALE
4 1 (1.18%) SOAP
4 1 (1.18%) Terraform
4 1 (1.18%) Web Services
4 1 (1.18%) XML
4 1 (1.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) PMI
4 2 (2.35%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (23.53%) Agile
3 19 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (18.82%) Decision-Making
4 16 (18.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (16.47%) ERP
6 13 (15.29%) Data Analysis
7 12 (14.12%) Migration
7 12 (14.12%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (12.94%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 11 (12.94%) Data Migration
8 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.76%) Budgeting
9 10 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (11.76%) Process Improvement
9 10 (11.76%) Validation
10 9 (10.59%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
11 8 (9.41%) Strategic Thinking
11 8 (9.41%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.06%) SQL
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 4 (4.71%) C#
3 4 (4.71%) C++
3 4 (4.71%) Java
3 4 (4.71%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) ACCA
1 13 (15.29%) CIMA
2 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.88%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.71%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.71%) Degree
5 4 (4.71%) PMP
6 2 (2.35%) CBAP
6 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.35%) MBA
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.06%) PMO
4 2 (2.35%) IFRS
5 1 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
1 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) SAP
2 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.88%) Workday
5 4 (4.71%) Adaptive Insights
6 3 (3.53%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.35%) Google
8 1 (1.18%) Citrix
8 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle
8 1 (1.18%) Planview
8 1 (1.18%) Polycom
8 1 (1.18%) Tagetik
8 1 (1.18%) VMware
8 1 (1.18%) Wyse