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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Finance 219 149 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.02% 36.08% 32.62%
As % of the General category 54.21% 56.02% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 57 35
10th Percentile £326 £400 £402
25th Percentile £376 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £542 £580 £600
90th Percentile £614 £649 £665
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -7.50% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
75th Percentile £16.76 - -
90th Percentile £17.81 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 266 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.14% 64.41% 74.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 134 174
10th Percentile £283 £390 £400
25th Percentile £374 £426 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -14.33% +17.65%
75th Percentile £539 £587 £700
90th Percentile £625 £638 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -10.89% -8.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.78 £20.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +10.53% +6.29%
75th Percentile £18.45 £21.88 £19.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £19.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Finance

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Sheffield over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Finance

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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 27 (12.33%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.28%) CICS
4 4 (1.83%) CMS
5 3 (1.37%) Apache
5 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 36 (16.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.59%) GCP
2 16 (7.31%) AWS
3 14 (6.39%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.94%) Azure
5 8 (3.65%) Serverless
6 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.20%) GitHub
7 6 (2.74%) OCI
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.37%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.37%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.91%) npm
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.46%) IaaS
11 1 (0.46%) PaaS
11 1 (0.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.02%) Firewall
2 9 (4.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.83%) Network Security
4 2 (0.91%) DNS
4 2 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.46%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.05%) Oracle Database
2 14 (6.39%) Power BI
3 10 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (4.11%) Power Query
5 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 3 (1.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.37%) Flink
9 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.46%) Easytrieve
10 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.46%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.46%) Metadata
10 1 (0.46%) Presto
10 1 (0.46%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 34 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.16%) JIRA
3 16 (7.31%) Git
4 12 (5.48%) Postman
5 10 (4.57%) Liquibase
6 8 (3.65%) GitLab
7 7 (3.20%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.20%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.37%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.91%) Babel
9 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.91%) webpack
10 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
10 1 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 72 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.68%) Banking
3 57 (26.03%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.05%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (9.59%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Legal
7 5 (2.28%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.83%) Billing
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) International Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 42 (19.18%) Analyst
2 31 (14.16%) Senior
3 18 (8.22%) Project Manager
4 14 (6.39%) Business Analyst
4 14 (6.39%) Data Analyst
4 14 (6.39%) Developer
5 12 (5.48%) Incident Manager
6 10 (4.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 9 (4.11%) Commvault Engineer
7 9 (4.11%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
7 9 (4.11%) Lead
7 9 (4.11%) Service Analyst
8 8 (3.65%) Architect
8 8 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (3.65%) Backup Engineer
8 8 (3.65%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (3.20%) Senior Technical Engineer
10 6 (2.74%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.94%) REST
2 11 (5.02%) RESTful
3 8 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.20%) Gherkin
5 6 (2.74%) CSS
5 6 (2.74%) HTML
6 3 (1.37%) .NET
6 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.37%) CSS3
6 3 (1.37%) HTML5
6 3 (1.37%) Hugging Face
6 3 (1.37%) jQuery
6 3 (1.37%) OpenCV
6 3 (1.37%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.37%) React
6 3 (1.37%) Regular Expression
6 3 (1.37%) SpaCy
6 3 (1.37%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.91%) NestJS
7 2 (0.91%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.16%) Data Centre
2 24 (10.96%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.85%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.02%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.57%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.83%) VSAM
9 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.91%) IVR
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Licensing
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.22%) Linux
2 7 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.20%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.37%) AIX
4 3 (1.37%) Solaris
4 3 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.46%) SUSE
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.42%) Agile
2 69 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (20.09%) Change Management
4 42 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (18.26%) DevOps
6 31 (14.16%) Data Protection
7 29 (13.24%) CI/CD
8 27 (12.33%) Risk Management
9 24 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (10.96%) Project Management
10 23 (10.50%) Decision-Making
10 23 (10.50%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (10.05%) Business Case
12 21 (9.59%) Data Analysis
12 21 (9.59%) Problem Management
13 20 (9.13%) Migration
14 19 (8.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (8.22%) Containerisation
15 18 (8.22%) Translating Business Requirements
16 17 (7.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (24.66%) Python
2 18 (8.22%) SQL
3 12 (5.48%) Go
4 8 (3.65%) Java
4 8 (3.65%) Shell Script
5 7 (3.20%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.74%) VB
7 5 (2.28%) COBOL
7 5 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.28%) JCL
8 4 (1.83%) Bash
8 4 (1.83%) VBA
9 3 (1.37%) C#
9 3 (1.37%) Ruby
10 2 (0.91%) Bicep
10 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (5.48%) Degree
2 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.74%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.74%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.83%) RIBA
6 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.91%) CISM
7 2 (0.91%) CISSP
7 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.91%) VCAP
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) OCP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.31%) PMO
2 13 (5.94%) GDPR
3 10 (4.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.28%) SLA
5 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.83%) NIST
6 3 (1.37%) QA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (7.76%) Docker
2 14 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.74%) vSphere
4 4 (1.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.37%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.46%) HDFS
7 1 (0.46%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.46%) RACF
7 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 39 (17.81%) Ansible
2 24 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.22%) Terraform
4 13 (5.94%) Puppet
5 11 (5.02%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (4.11%) Grafana
7 8 (3.65%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (2.28%) SCCM
9 3 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.91%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.91%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.46%) Control-M
11 1 (0.46%) Istio
11 1 (0.46%) Kiali
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) SCOM
11 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.50%) Oracle
3 16 (7.31%) Commvault
4 15 (6.85%) VMware
5 12 (5.48%) Splunk
6 11 (5.02%) Google
7 10 (4.57%) MuleSoft
8 8 (3.65%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.28%) SAP
10 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.37%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.37%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.91%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.91%) Cisco
12 2 (0.91%) Citrix
12 2 (0.91%) Databricks
12 2 (0.91%) Genesys
12 2 (0.91%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.91%) HP
12 2 (0.91%) Sage