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 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 76 43 118
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 14.00% 16.17% 19.47%
As % of the General category 31.02% 28.86% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 33 90
10th Percentile £325 £195 £259
25th Percentile £419 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £550 £508 £668
90th Percentile £623 £588 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £12.91 £40.76 -
25th Percentile £23.18 £64.17 £18.35
Median hourly rate £54.00 £103.81 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.98% +48.30% -
75th Percentile - £144.07 -
90th Percentile - £167.86 £73.50
South East median hourly rate £65.79 £75.00 £26.71
% change year-on-year -12.29% +180.85% +14.61%

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 245 149 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 45.12% 56.02% 53.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 104 219
10th Percentile £204 £195 £250
25th Percentile £325 £263 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £598
90th Percentile £621 £586 £717
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 37
10th Percentile £16.56 £13.50 £12.58
25th Percentile £33.00 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.00% +21.95% -54.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.00 £45.00
90th Percentile - £53.75 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £19.99 £45.00
% change year-on-year +143.78% -55.59% -7.29%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -3 10 £600 +9.09% 1
Staines - 6 £513 -
Woking +2 3 £599 +46.04% 3
Guildford -15 3 £469 -8.76% 9
Egham - 2 - - 1
Weybridge - 2 - -
Camberley 0 1 £325 -23.53% 1
Reigate 0 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 -
Epsom - 1 £288 - 8
Leatherhead - 1 £525 - 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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (7.89%) SAP Business One
3 2 (2.63%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.84%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.53%) Azure
3 4 (5.26%) AWS
4 3 (3.95%) GCP
5 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) LAN
1 4 (5.26%) WAN
2 2 (2.63%) DNS
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Big Data
2 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Tricentis qTest
2 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Financial Institution
4 6 (7.89%) General Ledger
5 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Billing
7 2 (2.63%) Legal
7 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Analyst
2 10 (13.16%) Architect
3 8 (10.53%) PMO Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.89%) Accountant
5 6 (7.89%) Lead
6 5 (6.58%) Consultant
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Financial Accountant
7 4 (5.26%) Information Officer
7 4 (5.26%) Information Security Officer
7 4 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Security Officer
7 4 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.95%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.95%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (1.32%) .NET
2 1 (1.32%) EDI
2 1 (1.32%) IDoc
2 1 (1.32%) JWT
2 1 (1.32%) Kafka
2 1 (1.32%) OAuth
2 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.32%) OpenID
2 1 (1.32%) React
2 1 (1.32%) React Native
2 1 (1.32%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.32%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.32%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.32%) Spring
2 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 7 (9.21%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) FMCG
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.32%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (19.74%) Data Analysis
3 14 (18.42%) Agile
3 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.79%) ERP
4 12 (15.79%) Migration
4 12 (15.79%) Project Management
5 10 (13.16%) Budget Management
5 10 (13.16%) DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.84%) Decision-Making
7 8 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (10.53%) Data Migration
8 7 (9.21%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (9.21%) Capacity Management
8 7 (9.21%) Process Improvement
8 7 (9.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (7.89%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 6 (7.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.26%) SQL
2 2 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (1.32%) ABAP
3 1 (1.32%) C#
3 1 (1.32%) C++
3 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.32%) Python
3 1 (1.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) ACCA
1 9 (11.84%) CIMA
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.32%) PMP
3 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) PMO
2 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.26%) NIST
2 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.95%) QA
4 2 (2.63%) IFRS
5 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.63%) Ansible
2 2 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) SAP
2 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.95%) VMware
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Polycom
6 1 (1.32%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.32%) Teradata