Finance Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Financial
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 354 148 117
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.13% 33.48% 23.98%
As % of the General category 47.64% 49.66% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 98 36
10th Percentile £387 £357 £378
25th Percentile £431 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% +5.29% -20.09%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £505
90th Percentile £688 £625 £616
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £16.62 - £11.61
25th Percentile £17.55 - £12.26
Median hourly rate £19.10 £18.51 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +42.49% -
75th Percentile £20.65 - £13.23
90th Percentile £21.58 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £18.51 £13.23
% change year-on-year +89.09% +39.91% -

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 general skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 743 298 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.23% 67.42% 59.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 192 155
10th Percentile £358 £270 £335
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -7.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £551 £570
90th Percentile £678 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 9
10th Percentile £18.30 - £12.34
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +38.72% -48.12%
75th Percentile £28.48 £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile £36.61 £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -18.75%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in South Yorkshire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Sheffield 0 333 £514 +9.59% 51
Doncaster - 6 £500 - 7
Barnsley +1 2 £550 +46.86% 1
Rotherham - 1 - - 4
Finance
Yorkshire

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (7.91%) Confluence
2 23 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.41%) TPMS
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.64%) GCP
2 47 (13.28%) Azure
3 46 (12.99%) AWS
4 24 (6.78%) GitHub
5 23 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.08%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.24%) OpenShift
8 14 (3.95%) Entra ID
9 12 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.98%) Rubrik
11 6 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.69%) PaaS
12 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.13%) IaaS
13 4 (1.13%) Slack
14 3 (0.85%) SaaS
15 2 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (0.56%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.78%) Network Security
2 16 (4.52%) Firewall
3 6 (1.69%) DNS
4 5 (1.41%) SNMP
4 5 (1.41%) SSH
4 5 (1.41%) SSL
5 4 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.13%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) DHCP
6 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.56%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.28%) HTTP
7 1 (0.28%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.69%) Metadata
2 6 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.69%) Power BI
3 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.85%) Power Query
4 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.56%) Big Data
5 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.56%) Db2
5 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.56%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.28%) Looker
6 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
6 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (12.43%) JIRA
2 35 (9.89%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (3.11%) GitLab
5 8 (2.26%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.98%) Git
6 7 (1.98%) Selenium
7 6 (1.69%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.41%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.56%) Flyway
9 2 (0.56%) git-flow
9 2 (0.56%) JUnit
9 2 (0.56%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 93 (26.27%) Banking
3 54 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.06%) Financial Institution
5 18 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.95%) Law
7 13 (3.67%) Legal
8 9 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.26%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.69%) Billing
11 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.41%) Retail
12 4 (1.13%) Publishing
13 3 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.56%) International Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (16.38%) Lead
2 38 (10.73%) Analyst
3 32 (9.04%) Architect
4 30 (8.47%) Project Manager
5 28 (7.91%) Developer
6 23 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (5.65%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.37%) Consultant
9 16 (4.52%) Senior
10 14 (3.95%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.39%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 10 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (2.54%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.26%) Infrastructure Manager
14 8 (2.26%) Lead Architect
14 8 (2.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 8 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
15 7 (1.98%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.65%) REST
2 14 (3.95%) RESTful
3 13 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (3.39%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.11%) Kafka
5 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
6 10 (2.82%) Node.js
6 10 (2.82%) OpenID
6 10 (2.82%) React
7 8 (2.26%) Middleware
7 8 (2.26%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.69%) JWT
8 6 (1.69%) LDAP
8 6 (1.69%) OAuth
8 6 (1.69%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.69%) Spring
9 5 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.13%) SAML
11 3 (0.85%) JPA
11 3 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.63%) Data Protection Act
3 26 (7.34%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.06%) Linux
2 15 (4.24%) Windows
3 5 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.13%) Unix
5 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 3 (0.85%) zOS
6 2 (0.56%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 87 (24.58%) CI/CD
3 84 (23.73%) DevOps
4 67 (18.93%) Agile
5 64 (18.08%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (14.41%) Roadmaps
9 49 (13.84%) Observability
10 44 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 42 (11.86%) DevSecOps
12 41 (11.58%) Risk Management
13 33 (9.32%) Data Protection
14 32 (9.04%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (9.04%) Microservices
14 32 (9.04%) Project Management
15 31 (8.76%) Matrix Organization
16 30 (8.47%) AI
16 30 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.36%) Python
2 47 (13.28%) Java
3 31 (8.76%) SQL
4 21 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.39%) Go
6 10 (2.82%) Rust
7 8 (2.26%) Bash
8 6 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.41%) VB
10 4 (1.13%) VBA
11 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.56%) JCL
12 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.56%) PromQL
13 1 (0.28%) C#
13 1 (0.28%) CLIST
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 33 (9.32%) Degree
2 18 (5.08%) CISM
2 18 (5.08%) CISSP
3 15 (4.24%) PMP
4 13 (3.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 13 (3.67%) CCSP
4 13 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.26%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.41%) FFIEC
10 4 (1.13%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.13%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.13%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) CCSK
11 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.37%) GDPR
2 16 (4.52%) PMO
3 15 (4.24%) NIST
4 10 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.82%) QA
5 5 (1.41%) GLBA
6 4 (1.13%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 26 (7.34%) Docker
2 9 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.41%) vSphere
4 3 (0.85%) KVM
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) ACF2
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) RACF
5 2 (0.56%) SRDF
5 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.45%) Ansible
3 21 (5.93%) Terraform
4 19 (5.37%) Grafana
5 16 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.69%) Kiali
7 5 (1.41%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.13%) Argo
8 4 (1.13%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.13%) Puppet
8 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.85%) Control-M
9 3 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.85%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.56%) Consul
10 2 (0.56%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.56%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.56%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.34%) Splunk
3 20 (5.65%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.80%) Google
5 10 (2.82%) Oracle
6 9 (2.54%) VMware
7 8 (2.26%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.41%) Black Duck
9 5 (1.41%) Dell
9 5 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.41%) Thales
10 4 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.13%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.13%) IBM
10 4 (1.13%) Juniper
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
10 4 (1.13%) Workday
11 3 (0.85%) Databricks
12 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike