Finance Contracts in Sheffield

Financial
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 106 90 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 33.23% 23.75% 36.34%
As % of the General category 48.85% 38.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 29 77
10th Percentile £369 £374 £411
25th Percentile £390 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £434 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -21.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £600
90th Percentile £650 £623 £625
South Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £434 £550
% change year-on-year +14.06% -21.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £12.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.18% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.51 £12.99 -
% change year-on-year +42.49% - -

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 217 233 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.03% 61.48% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 132 249
10th Percentile £323 £375 £383
25th Percentile £389 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -6.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £688
90th Percentile £650 £644 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -13.73% +59.38%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 - £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Sheffield

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Finance in Sheffield

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Sheffield

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Sheffield

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 17 (16.04%) Confluence
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.66%) GCP
2 5 (4.72%) OCI
3 4 (3.77%) GitHub
3 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.83%) Azure
4 3 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.89%) AWS
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) Network Security
2 2 (1.89%) DNS
2 2 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.94%) DHCP
3 1 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.49%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.77%) Power BI
4 3 (2.83%) Flink
5 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.94%) Big Data
6 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Presto
6 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) JIRA
2 10 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.60%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.60%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.72%) Git
5 3 (2.83%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.89%) ERwin
7 1 (0.94%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.94%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.94%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.94%) Selenium
7 1 (0.94%) TestNG
General
1 36 (33.96%) Banking
2 32 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (24.53%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
7 3 (2.83%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Front Office
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) International Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (13.21%) Senior
2 10 (9.43%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 9 (8.49%) Commvault Engineer
3 9 (8.49%) Data Engineer
3 9 (8.49%) Lead
4 8 (7.55%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.66%) Architect
5 6 (5.66%) Data Protection Engineer
5 6 (5.66%) IT Manager
6 5 (4.72%) Analyst
6 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) Database Engineer
6 5 (4.72%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (4.72%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (3.77%) Developer
7 4 (3.77%) Risk Manager
8 3 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (2.83%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (2.83%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.83%) PySpark
3 2 (1.89%) Anaconda
3 2 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.89%) FpML
3 2 (1.89%) JSON
3 2 (1.89%) Kafka
3 2 (1.89%) Pandas
3 2 (1.89%) REST
3 2 (1.89%) XML
4 1 (0.94%) gRPC
4 1 (0.94%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.94%) pytest
4 1 (0.94%) RESTful
4 1 (0.94%) Spring
4 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (12.26%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.83%) PMI
5 2 (1.89%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Licensing
5 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.94%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Unix
2 5 (4.72%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.23%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (31.13%) Agile
3 30 (28.30%) Change Management
4 26 (24.53%) Data Protection
5 22 (20.75%) Project Management
6 20 (18.87%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (16.98%) Risk Management
8 17 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.21%) Migration
11 12 (11.32%) Problem Management
12 11 (10.38%) Data Migration
12 11 (10.38%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (8.49%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (7.55%) Decision-Making
15 7 (6.60%) Business Case
15 7 (6.60%) Containerisation
15 7 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (6.60%) DevOps
15 7 (6.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.58%) Python
2 9 (8.49%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.83%) Ruby
6 2 (1.89%) Bash
6 2 (1.89%) Groovy
6 2 (1.89%) Java
7 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (2.83%) Degree
1 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
1 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.94%) CCNP
3 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.94%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.94%) OCP
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) PMO
2 4 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.89%) SLA
5 1 (0.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.49%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.77%) vSphere
3 3 (2.83%) VirtualBox
4 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Ansible
2 11 (10.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.72%) Puppet
5 2 (1.89%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) Control-M
6 1 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Istio
6 1 (0.94%) Kiali
6 1 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Oracle
2 17 (16.04%) Commvault
3 5 (4.72%) VMware
4 4 (3.77%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.77%) Splunk
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.89%) Sparx
6 2 (1.89%) Veritas
7 1 (0.94%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.94%) Apple
7 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.94%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) F5
7 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.94%) Snow
7 1 (0.94%) Veeam
7 1 (0.94%) xMatters