Finance Contracts in the East of England

Financial
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 192 217 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.90% 11.07% 11.96%
As % of the General category 16.77% 18.63% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 124 197
10th Percentile £238 £363 £300
25th Percentile £390 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £641 £625
90th Percentile £750 £781 £700
England median daily rate £592 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 15 14
10th Percentile £15.50 £44.35 £12.50
25th Percentile - - £14.75
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +73.45% +101.79%
75th Percentile - £59.38 £35.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 £58.78
England median hourly rate £27.00 £25.71 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.02% -26.54% +63.55%

All General Skills
East of England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,145 1,165 1,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 59.05% 59.44% 59.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 647 794
10th Percentile £214 £202 £185
25th Percentile £350 £334 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £666 £743 £662
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 238 331
10th Percentile £14.52 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.24
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% +29.99% +1.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £30.71
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the East of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +6 83 £425 -26.09% 87
Bedfordshire -4 42 £525 +0.96% 18
Cambridgeshire -13 30 £425 -15.00% 82
Essex -1 29 £550 +4.76% 72
Suffolk +7 5 £700 +47.37% 24
Norfolk +6 4 £450 -21.74% 13
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.65%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (14.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.13%) SAP SD
3 4 (2.08%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.08%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.04%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.04%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.04%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.04%) Shopify
4 2 (1.04%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.52%) iTrent
5 1 (0.52%) Magento
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.52%) Primavera
5 1 (0.52%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.69%) GCP
2 6 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 5 (2.60%) AWS
3 5 (2.60%) Google Sheets
4 3 (1.56%) Azure
5 2 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.04%) SaaS
5 2 (1.04%) Stripe
6 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.52%) Boomi
6 1 (0.52%) Serverless
6 1 (0.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.52%) Veeva
6 1 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Firewall
1 4 (2.08%) VPN
2 2 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.04%) OSPF
2 2 (1.04%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.04%) VLAN
2 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.52%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Power BI
2 5 (2.60%) GIS
3 2 (1.04%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.04%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.52%) Big Data
4 1 (0.52%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.52%) Metadata
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 102 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 54 (28.13%) Influencing Skills
3 52 (27.08%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.42%) Telecoms
6 15 (7.81%) Manufacturing
6 15 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (6.77%) Marketing
7 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
8 12 (6.25%) Banking
9 11 (5.73%) Retail
10 9 (4.69%) Electronics
11 7 (3.65%) French Language
11 7 (3.65%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (2.60%) Back Office
13 4 (2.08%) Billing
13 4 (2.08%) Local Government
13 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.56%) Games
15 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (9.38%) Developer
2 17 (8.85%) Lead
3 16 (8.33%) Architect
4 15 (7.81%) Consultant
5 13 (6.77%) Project Manager
5 13 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.69%) Senior
7 6 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (2.60%) Administrator
8 5 (2.60%) Analyst
8 5 (2.60%) Business Analyst
8 5 (2.60%) Coordinator
8 5 (2.60%) Digital Transformation
8 5 (2.60%) Digital Transformation Manager
8 5 (2.60%) Programme Manager
8 5 (2.60%) Project Coordinator
8 5 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 5 (2.60%) Transformation Manager
9 4 (2.08%) IT Engineer
9 4 (2.08%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.17%) HTML
2 6 (3.13%) CSS
2 6 (3.13%) React
3 4 (2.08%) REST
4 3 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.56%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.56%) Visualforce
5 2 (1.04%) .NET
5 2 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.52%) JPA
6 1 (0.52%) Middleware
6 1 (0.52%) Node.js
6 1 (0.52%) React Native
6 1 (0.52%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.52%) Spring
6 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.52%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.56%) Life Science
3 3 (1.56%) NHS
3 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.52%) FMCG
5 1 (0.52%) FPGA
5 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Windows
1 2 (1.04%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.94%) Project Management
2 55 (28.65%) Business Strategy
3 47 (24.48%) Business Development
4 35 (18.23%) Agile
5 31 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (7.81%) Migration
8 15 (7.81%) Roadmaps
9 14 (7.29%) ERP
10 12 (6.25%) Project Delivery
11 11 (5.73%) Computer Science
11 11 (5.73%) Data Analysis
11 11 (5.73%) DevOps
12 10 (5.21%) PRINCE2
12 10 (5.21%) Service Delivery
12 10 (5.21%) Service Management
13 9 (4.69%) Change Management
13 9 (4.69%) Digital Marketing
13 9 (4.69%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.29%) SQL
2 11 (5.73%) Java
3 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.13%) Python
4 5 (2.60%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.56%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.56%) C#
6 2 (1.04%) C
7 1 (0.52%) Bash
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) PHP
7 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.52%) R
7 1 (0.52%) Rust
7 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (16.15%) Degree
2 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.56%) PMP
4 3 (1.56%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.04%) ACCA
5 2 (1.04%) CIMA
5 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.04%) PhD
5 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) PMO
2 8 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.08%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) GxP
5 2 (1.04%) IFRS
5 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Ansible
1 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.52%) Puppet
1 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (20.31%) SAP
2 12 (6.25%) Google
3 10 (5.21%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.17%) Oracle
5 6 (3.13%) Ariba
5 6 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.56%) IFS
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco
8 2 (1.04%) F5
8 2 (1.04%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.04%) Planview
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.52%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) Kronos
9 1 (0.52%) Progress
9 1 (0.52%) Remedy