Finance Contracts in Leeds

Financial
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 61 81 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 13.01% 10.18% 15.72%
As % of the General category 23.02% 19.57% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 61 156
10th Percentile £300 £380 £363
25th Percentile £356 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.27 -

All General Skills
Leeds

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 common skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 265 414 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 56.50% 52.01% 61.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 243 595
10th Percentile £240 £284 £363
25th Percentile £340 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 34 6
10th Percentile £31.59 £11.87 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.76 £12.15 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -28.89% -21.59%
75th Percentile £96.64 £15.19 £57.00
90th Percentile £97.79 - £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
% change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Leeds

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Leeds

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Leeds

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Leeds

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (6.56%) AutoCAD
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (6.56%) SketchUp
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.64%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.64%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) AWS
2 3 (4.92%) GCP
3 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.28%) NuGet
3 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
3 2 (3.28%) PaaS
3 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.28%) Serverless
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.64%) Figma
4 1 (1.64%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
4 1 (1.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
1 3 (4.92%) SSL
2 2 (3.28%) NAS
2 2 (3.28%) SAN
3 1 (1.64%) DHCP
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.64%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) Looker
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (4.92%) Selenium
3 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.28%) JMeter
3 2 (3.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.64%) ERwin
4 1 (1.64%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Banking
3 8 (13.11%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Retail
5 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Project Manager
2 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 5 (8.20%) Consultant
4 5 (8.20%) Designer
4 5 (8.20%) Lead
4 5 (8.20%) Senior
5 4 (6.56%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Developer
6 3 (4.92%) AutoCAD Designer
6 3 (4.92%) CAD Designer
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Business Change Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Business Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Change Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Development Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Business Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) Kafka
1 3 (4.92%) Middleware
2 2 (3.28%) LDAP
2 2 (3.28%) REST
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.64%) FpML
3 1 (1.64%) JSON
3 1 (1.64%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.64%) HPUX
3 1 (1.64%) Solaris
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.23%) Agile
2 13 (21.31%) Project Management
3 9 (14.75%) Change Management
3 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (11.48%) DevOps
4 7 (11.48%) Migration
4 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.84%) Analytics
5 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
5 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (9.84%) Visualisation
6 5 (8.20%) Project Planning
7 4 (6.56%) 3D Visualisation
7 4 (6.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.56%) Contract Management
7 4 (6.56%) Contract Negotiation
7 4 (6.56%) Data Migration
7 4 (6.56%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.56%) Roadmaps
8 3 (4.92%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.56%) Python
3 3 (4.92%) COBOL
3 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.28%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) APMP
2 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.28%) PMP
3 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.64%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 2 (3.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Ansible
1 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.28%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.28%) Puppet
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Oracle
2 4 (6.56%) Adobe
2 4 (6.56%) CheckPoint
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco
3 3 (4.92%) Perforce
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Confluent
4 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 2 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) F5
5 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Sparx
5 1 (1.64%) Veeam