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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 86 54 106
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 14.50% 18.18% 17.55%
As % of the General category 28.38% 32.14% 32.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 41 77
10th Percentile £325 £250 £260
25th Percentile £419 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -10.32%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £675
90th Percentile £595 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £503 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.29% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile - £40.76 -
25th Percentile £12.91 £64.17 £18.35
Median hourly rate £54.00 £103.81 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.98% +48.30% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £144.07 -
90th Percentile - £167.86 £73.50
South East median hourly rate £73.60 £72.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +1.52% +150.00% -15.08%

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 303 168 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 51.10% 56.57% 53.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 127 234
10th Percentile £280 £193 £203
25th Percentile £358 £269 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £572
90th Percentile £650 £663 £679
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 23
10th Percentile £16.33 £13.50 £16.67
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.38 £19.80
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £32.77 £63.75
90th Percentile - £53.75 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £48.50 £18.87 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.02% -62.26% -4.76%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -8 11 £506 -22.12% 1
Redhill -3 7 £550 - 2
Woking +1 6 £568 +38.54% 11
Weybridge - 5 - - 4
Leatherhead -5 3 £519 +15.28% 4
Guildford -20 3 £469 -14.58% 13
Reigate -3 1 £475 -50.00% 5
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 -
Epsom - 1 £288 - 4
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 (1.16%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.16%) Confluence
1 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (8.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.98%) SAP Business One
3 2 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.33%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.63%) Azure
2 6 (6.98%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.65%) AWS
4 3 (3.49%) GCP
5 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.16%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.16%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.16%) Serverless
6 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) LAN
1 5 (5.81%) WAN
2 3 (3.49%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) Intranet
3 2 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Big Data
3 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.16%) Db2
3 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.47%) Financial Institution
5 6 (6.98%) General Ledger
5 6 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Billing
9 2 (2.33%) Local Government
9 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.33%) Marketing
9 2 (2.33%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Law
10 1 (1.16%) Legal
10 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (19.77%) Analyst
2 13 (15.12%) Project Manager
3 10 (11.63%) Architect
4 9 (10.47%) Lead
5 8 (9.30%) IT Manager
5 8 (9.30%) IT Project Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Accountant
6 6 (6.98%) Senior
7 5 (5.81%) Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) PMO Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Financial Accountant
8 4 (4.65%) Lecturer
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Technical Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.33%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) .NET
1 4 (4.65%) Middleware
2 1 (1.16%) EDI
2 1 (1.16%) IDoc
2 1 (1.16%) JWT
2 1 (1.16%) Kafka
2 1 (1.16%) OAuth
2 1 (1.16%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.16%) OpenID
2 1 (1.16%) React
2 1 (1.16%) React Native
2 1 (1.16%) SAP ALE
2 1 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.16%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.16%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.16%) Spring
2 1 (1.16%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) PMI
4 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) FMCG
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 4 (4.65%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) Android
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (22.09%) Agile
3 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (15.12%) Data Analysis
4 13 (15.12%) Decision-Making
4 13 (15.12%) ERP
4 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.95%) DevOps
6 11 (12.79%) Migration
7 10 (11.63%) Project Management
7 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.30%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (9.30%) Data Migration
9 8 (9.30%) Process Improvement
10 7 (8.14%) Budget Management
10 7 (8.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 7 (8.14%) Strategic Thinking
10 7 (8.14%) Supplier Management
11 6 (6.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.81%) Java
1 5 (5.81%) Python
1 5 (5.81%) SQL
2 4 (4.65%) C#
2 4 (4.65%) C++
2 4 (4.65%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.16%) ABAP
3 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) ACCA
1 9 (10.47%) CIMA
2 5 (5.81%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) PMP
5 2 (2.33%) CBAP
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) MBA
5 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) PMO
2 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.49%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) IFRS
4 1 (1.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
1 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Ansible
2 2 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) SAP
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.33%) VMware
7 1 (1.16%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix
7 1 (1.16%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.16%) Polycom
7 1 (1.16%) Tagetik
7 1 (1.16%) Teradata
7 1 (1.16%) Wyse