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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 72 38 107
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 13.69% 13.62% 18.29%
As % of the General category 31.30% 25.33% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 30 84
10th Percentile £325 £195 £300
25th Percentile £419 £250 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -14.63% -6.82%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £672
90th Percentile £638 £604 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.88% +2.97% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £12.91 £40.76 -
25th Percentile £23.18 £64.17 £18.35
Median hourly rate £54.00 £103.81 £48.37
Median % change year-on-year -47.98% +114.64% -
75th Percentile - £144.07 £70.00
90th Percentile - £167.86 -
South East median hourly rate £73.60 £70.00 £26.71
% change year-on-year +5.14% +162.12% -15.62%

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 230 150 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 43.73% 53.76% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 106 216
10th Percentile £204 £195 £250
25th Percentile £325 £250 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -15.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £626 £588 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 36
10th Percentile £17.08 £14.80 £12.52
25th Percentile £53.00 £20.00 £15.20
Median hourly rate £57.00 £25.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +128.00% +21.95% -54.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £22.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +122.73% -51.11% -5.26%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +20.00% 4
Staines - 5 £619 - 3
Woking +2 3 £599 +46.04% 3
Guildford -14 3 £469 -18.48% 7
Egham - 2 - -
Reigate +1 1 - - 1
Camberley -1 1 £325 -23.53% 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 -
Weybridge - 1 - - 1
Epsom - 1 £288 - 9
Leatherhead - 1 £525 - 2
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 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (8.33%) SAP Business One
3 2 (2.78%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) AWS
4 3 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) LAN
1 4 (5.56%) WAN
2 2 (2.78%) DNS
2 2 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 5 (6.94%) General Ledger
3 5 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Billing
4 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.78%) Legal
4 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.78%) Marketing
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Local Government
5 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Retail
5 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Analyst
2 10 (13.89%) Architect
3 8 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
4 6 (8.33%) Accountant
4 6 (8.33%) Lead
4 6 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.56%) Financial Accountant
5 4 (5.56%) Information Officer
5 4 (5.56%) Information Security Officer
5 4 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Security Officer
5 4 (5.56%) Senior
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Technical Manager
7 2 (2.78%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.78%) Systems Accountant
7 2 (2.78%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (1.39%) .NET
2 1 (1.39%) EDI
2 1 (1.39%) IDoc
2 1 (1.39%) JWT
2 1 (1.39%) Kafka
2 1 (1.39%) OAuth
2 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.39%) OpenID
2 1 (1.39%) React
2 1 (1.39%) React Native
2 1 (1.39%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.39%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.39%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.39%) Spring
2 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Public Cloud
2 7 (9.72%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Data Analysis
1 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (16.67%) Agile
3 12 (16.67%) ERP
3 12 (16.67%) Migration
3 12 (16.67%) Project Management
4 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (13.89%) Budget Management
5 10 (13.89%) DevOps
6 9 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 7 (9.72%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (9.72%) Capacity Management
8 7 (9.72%) Data Migration
9 6 (8.33%) Budgeting
9 6 (8.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 6 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (6.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (1.39%) ABAP
2 1 (1.39%) Java
2 1 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) ACCA
1 9 (12.50%) CIMA
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
2 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.39%) PMP
3 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) PMO
2 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.56%) NIST
2 4 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.78%) IFRS
3 2 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Ansible
2 2 (2.78%) Terraform
3 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) SAP
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) Polycom
6 1 (1.39%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.39%) Teradata