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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 65 60 107
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 14.54% 17.09% 16.85%
As % of the General category 29.28% 29.70% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 92
10th Percentile £445 £195 £250
25th Percentile £494 £363 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.70% -3.80% -9.29%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £625
90th Percentile £971 £700 £699
South East median daily rate £503 £523 £507
% change year-on-year -3.83% +3.06% -0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £12.91 - -
25th Percentile £23.18 £25.75 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.36% - -
75th Percentile - £29.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £27.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +1.85% +21.84%

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 222 202 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 49.66% 57.55% 51.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 112 239
10th Percentile £204 £180 £208
25th Percentile £256 £245 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -6.86%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £592
90th Percentile £688 £659 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 26
10th Percentile £15.72 £13.25 £12.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £16.37 £12.78
Median hourly rate £54.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.00% +14.29% -61.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.66 £32.50
90th Percentile - £25.85 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £40.68 £37.50
% change year-on-year -44.68% +8.47% -16.67%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +8 15 £631 +7.45% 2
Staines - 7 £1,000 - 3
Camberley -2 4 £475 -13.64% 4
Egham - 2 - - 4
Reigate +7 1 - - 5
Tadworth 0 1 £380 +52.00% 1
Leatherhead 0 1 £525 +10.53% 2
Guildford -6 1 £500 -6.10% 10
Weybridge - 1 £475 - 7
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 (10.77%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.77%) Skype for Business
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.54%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.54%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Azure
1 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.77%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) GCP
3 2 (3.08%) SaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.54%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.54%) OCI
4 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.54%) Serverless
4 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Skype
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) Big Data
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Postman
2 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.54%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.62%) Marketing
4 2 (3.08%) Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Billing
4 2 (3.08%) Legal
4 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Analyst
2 9 (13.85%) Lead
3 8 (12.31%) PMO Analyst
3 8 (12.31%) Support Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) Messaging Support
4 7 (10.77%) Messaging Support Analyst
5 5 (7.69%) Designer
6 4 (6.15%) Information Officer
6 4 (6.15%) Information Security Officer
6 4 (6.15%) Integration Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Security Officer
7 3 (4.62%) Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 2 (3.08%) IT Administrator
8 2 (3.08%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.08%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (3.08%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) ADO
2 1 (1.54%) JSON
2 1 (1.54%) Kafka
2 1 (1.54%) Next.js
2 1 (1.54%) React
2 1 (1.54%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.54%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.54%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.54%) SOAP
2 1 (1.54%) Spring
2 1 (1.54%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.54%) Vue
2 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) ITIL
2 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (18.46%) Project Management
3 11 (16.92%) Information Security
4 10 (15.38%) ITSM
5 9 (13.85%) Agile
5 9 (13.85%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (13.85%) Data Protection
5 9 (13.85%) Migration
6 8 (12.31%) AI
6 8 (12.31%) Budget Management
6 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis
6 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (10.77%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (10.77%) B2B
7 7 (10.77%) Capacity Management
7 7 (10.77%) Problem Management
7 7 (10.77%) Scrum
7 7 (10.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) SQL
2 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.62%) Python
4 2 (3.08%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) ABAP
5 1 (1.54%) Julia
5 1 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) ACCA
3 1 (1.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) PMO
2 7 (10.77%) GDPR
3 5 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.15%) NIST
4 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) GPFS
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.77%) SCOM
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) BladeLogic
2 1 (1.54%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.54%) Kibana
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Splunk
3 7 (10.77%) Cisco
3 7 (10.77%) Remedy
4 6 (9.23%) Google
4 6 (9.23%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.15%) SAP
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) IBM
7 2 (3.08%) VMware
8 1 (1.54%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.54%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.54%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) F5
8 1 (1.54%) HP
8 1 (1.54%) McAfee
8 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.54%) Sage
8 1 (1.54%) Teradata