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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 198 222 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.40% 11.30% 11.56%
As % of the General category 17.29% 18.80% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 126 188
10th Percentile £244 £363 £300
25th Percentile £388 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £616
90th Percentile £750 £744 £700
England median daily rate £590 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 15 11
10th Percentile £15.50 £44.35 £12.50
25th Percentile - - £16.75
Median hourly rate £38.12 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +127.91% +53.57%
75th Percentile - £59.38 £35.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 £65.76
England median hourly rate £26.97 £27.98 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% -20.06% +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 1,181 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 60.17% 60.13% 59.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 640 772
10th Percentile £216 £204 £171
25th Percentile £350 £331 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.50% +10.47%
75th Percentile £564 £627 £551
90th Percentile £650 £738 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 246 326
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% +34.31% -1.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.92 £22.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -6.25% +47.13% +1.40%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +4 85 £425 -15.00% 99
Bedfordshire -3 43 £525 +0.96% 15
Cambridgeshire -17 32 £450 -14.29% 83
Essex 0 30 £550 +4.76% 84
Suffolk +2 5 £700 +47.37% 31
Norfolk +8 4 £450 -21.74% 16
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 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.54%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (13.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.03%) SAP SD
3 4 (2.02%) SAP CO
3 4 (2.02%) SAP FI
3 4 (2.02%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.52%) SAP BPC
5 2 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.01%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.01%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.01%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.51%) iTrent
6 1 (0.51%) Magento
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.51%) Primavera
6 1 (0.51%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.51%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.51%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (4.55%) GCP
2 8 (4.04%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (2.53%) AWS
4 5 (2.53%) Google Sheets
5 3 (1.52%) Azure
6 2 (1.01%) SaaS
6 2 (1.01%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.51%) Boomi
7 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.51%) Serverless
7 1 (0.51%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.51%) Stripe
7 1 (0.51%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.02%) Firewall
1 4 (2.02%) VPN
2 2 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.01%) OSPF
2 2 (1.01%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.01%) VLAN
2 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.51%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.04%) Power BI
2 5 (2.53%) GIS
3 3 (1.52%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.51%) Big Data
5 1 (0.51%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.51%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 103 (52.02%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
3 52 (26.26%) Organisational Skills
4 26 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.61%) Telecoms
6 17 (8.59%) Manufacturing
7 14 (7.07%) Marketing
7 14 (7.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (7.07%) Public Sector
8 12 (6.06%) Banking
9 11 (5.56%) Retail
10 10 (5.05%) Electronics
11 7 (3.54%) French Language
11 7 (3.54%) Mandarin Language
11 7 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.53%) Back Office
13 4 (2.02%) Billing
13 4 (2.02%) Games
13 4 (2.02%) Local Government
14 2 (1.01%) German Language
Job Titles
1 18 (9.09%) Developer
1 18 (9.09%) Lead
2 17 (8.59%) Consultant
3 16 (8.08%) Architect
4 13 (6.57%) Project Manager
4 13 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.55%) Senior
6 6 (3.03%) Administrator
6 6 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (2.53%) Analyst
7 5 (2.53%) Business Analyst
7 5 (2.53%) Coordinator
7 5 (2.53%) Digital Transformation
7 5 (2.53%) Digital Transformation Manager
7 5 (2.53%) Lead Developer
7 5 (2.53%) Programme Manager
7 5 (2.53%) Project Coordinator
7 5 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 5 (2.53%) Technical Leader
7 5 (2.53%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.04%) HTML
2 6 (3.03%) CSS
2 6 (3.03%) React
3 4 (2.02%) REST
4 3 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (1.52%) Visualforce
5 2 (1.01%) .NET
5 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.51%) Java Concurrency
6 1 (0.51%) JPA
6 1 (0.51%) Middleware
6 1 (0.51%) React Native
6 1 (0.51%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.51%) Spring
6 1 (0.51%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.51%) Spring MVC
6 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.02%) Life Science
4 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.52%) NHS
4 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.51%) FMCG
6 1 (0.51%) FPGA
6 1 (0.51%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.01%) Windows
1 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.35%) Project Management
2 55 (27.78%) Business Strategy
3 47 (23.74%) Business Development
4 33 (16.67%) Agile
5 30 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (7.58%) ERP
8 15 (7.58%) Migration
8 15 (7.58%) Roadmaps
9 12 (6.06%) Project Delivery
10 11 (5.56%) Computer Science
10 11 (5.56%) Data Analysis
10 11 (5.56%) DevOps
11 10 (5.05%) Data Science
11 10 (5.05%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (5.05%) PRINCE2
11 10 (5.05%) Programme Management
11 10 (5.05%) Service Delivery
11 10 (5.05%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.07%) SQL
2 11 (5.56%) Java
3 6 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.03%) Python
4 5 (2.53%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.52%) C#
6 1 (0.51%) Bash
6 1 (0.51%) C
6 1 (0.51%) C++
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
6 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.51%) Rust
6 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (15.15%) Degree
2 9 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 9 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.52%) PMP
4 3 (1.52%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.01%) ACCA
5 2 (1.01%) CIMA
5 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.01%) PhD
5 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.51%) PgMP
6 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.55%) PMO
2 8 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.02%) QA
4 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.01%) GxP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
5 2 (1.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Ansible
1 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.51%) Puppet
1 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (20.20%) SAP
2 12 (6.06%) Google
3 9 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.04%) Oracle
5 6 (3.03%) Ariba
5 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.02%) IFS
8 3 (1.52%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.01%) Cisco
9 2 (1.01%) F5
9 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.01%) Planview
9 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.51%) FIS
10 1 (0.51%) Kronos
10 1 (0.51%) Twitter
10 1 (0.51%) Workday