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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 338 232 151
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 29.89% 36.19% 32.33%
As % of the General category 49.06% 52.49% 52.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 159 60
10th Percentile £400 £326 £400
25th Percentile £443 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.14% -7.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £618 £541 £580
90th Percentile £688 £615 £669
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £485 £515
% change year-on-year +5.98% -5.83% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £17.24 - -
25th Percentile £19.10 - -
Median hourly rate £22.20 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% - -
75th Percentile - £16.76 -
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £20.74
% change year-on-year +108.89% -19.21% -

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 689 442 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 60.92% 68.95% 61.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 292 156
10th Percentile £358 £278 £338
25th Percentile £413 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.07% -8.00%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £580
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 6
10th Percentile £21.11 £15.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £24.88 £15.78 £20.13
Median hourly rate £30.96 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.04% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -23.03%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 0 313 £514 +9.59% 72
Doncaster -2 7 £500 +334.78% 25
Barnsley +2 5 £550 +44.74% 8
Rotherham - 1 - - 5
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 (8.28%) Confluence
2 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.30%) CICS
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Maple
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.59%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Actimize
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.89%) GCP
2 51 (15.09%) Azure
3 46 (13.61%) AWS
4 22 (6.51%) GitHub
5 10 (2.96%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (1.78%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.48%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.48%) SaaS
8 4 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.18%) Slack
9 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.89%) PaaS
10 2 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.99%) Network Security
2 8 (2.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.18%) VPN
4 3 (0.89%) DNS
5 2 (0.59%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.59%) LAN
5 2 (0.59%) Multicast
5 2 (0.59%) SAN
5 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.59%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) HTTP
6 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.66%) Power BI
2 8 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.78%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.48%) Metadata
6 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.18%) Db2
7 3 (0.89%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.59%) Big Data
8 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.30%) Looker
9 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.30%) SQLite
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (10.95%) JIRA
2 16 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.37%) Git
4 6 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.89%) Selenium
7 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.59%) Flyway
7 2 (0.59%) git-flow
7 2 (0.59%) JUnit
7 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.59%) Mockito
8 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.30%) Gatling
8 1 (0.30%) JMeter
8 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.30%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 93 (27.51%) Banking
3 70 (20.71%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.28%) Financial Institution
5 20 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.55%) Legal
8 10 (2.96%) Law
9 9 (2.66%) Billing
9 9 (2.66%) Private Banking
10 7 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.07%) Retail
11 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.48%) Publishing
13 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.89%) International Banking
15 2 (0.59%) Advertising
15 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (24.26%) Lead
2 39 (11.54%) Analyst
3 30 (8.88%) Consultant
4 26 (7.69%) Developer
5 20 (5.92%) Architect
5 20 (5.92%) Senior
6 18 (5.33%) Project Manager
7 17 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.03%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 14 (4.14%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 10 (2.96%) Technical Manager
11 9 (2.66%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.37%) Python Developer
12 8 (2.37%) Technical Project Manager
13 7 (2.07%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.07%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.07%) Security Consultant
14 6 (1.78%) Lead DevOps
14 6 (1.78%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.10%) Terraform
2 18 (5.33%) REST
3 12 (3.55%) Node.js
4 11 (3.25%) Kafka
4 11 (3.25%) OAuth
4 11 (3.25%) React
5 10 (2.96%) OAuth2
5 10 (2.96%) RESTful
6 8 (2.37%) OpenID
6 8 (2.37%) SAML
7 7 (2.07%) Spring
7 7 (2.07%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.78%) JWT
8 6 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.48%) Middleware
10 4 (1.18%) .NET
10 4 (1.18%) JSON
10 4 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.18%) SLSA
11 3 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.88%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 13 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 13 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 12 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.37%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.07%) PKI
9 6 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.89%) Blog
12 3 (0.89%) CCTV
12 3 (0.89%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.25%) Linux
2 8 (2.37%) Windows
3 4 (1.18%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.18%) zOS
4 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.89%) VMS
5 2 (0.59%) MVS
6 1 (0.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 86 (25.44%) CI/CD
3 77 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 68 (20.12%) Agile
5 65 (19.23%) DevOps
6 63 (18.64%) Roadmaps
7 59 (17.46%) Risk Management
8 54 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (14.50%) DevSecOps
11 43 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (11.83%) AI
13 39 (11.54%) Observability
14 37 (10.95%) Data Protection
15 32 (9.47%) Identity Access Management
16 30 (8.88%) Change Management
16 30 (8.88%) Matrix Organization
16 30 (8.88%) Project Management
16 30 (8.88%) Vulnerability Management
17 29 (8.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.38%) Python
2 35 (10.36%) Java
3 19 (5.62%) SQL
4 13 (3.85%) Go
5 10 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.07%) Rust
7 6 (1.78%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.48%) Bash
8 5 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.18%) C#
10 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.89%) VBA
11 2 (0.59%) JCL
11 2 (0.59%) PromQL
11 2 (0.59%) VB
12 1 (0.30%) CLIST
12 1 (0.30%) COBOL
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) REXX
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (8.28%) Degree
2 19 (5.62%) CISM
3 16 (4.73%) CISSP
4 15 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 15 (4.44%) CCSP
4 15 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (4.14%) PMP
6 9 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.07%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.48%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.18%) CCSK
10 4 (1.18%) CISA
10 4 (1.18%) CRISC
10 4 (1.18%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.18%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.89%) ACCA
11 3 (0.89%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.14%) PMO
2 12 (3.55%) QA
3 7 (2.07%) NIST
4 6 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.48%) GDPR
5 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) GRC
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (4.44%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.89%) ACF2
3 3 (0.89%) RACF
4 2 (0.59%) SRDF
5 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.10%) Ansible
3 10 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 9 (2.66%) Grafana
5 5 (1.48%) Kustomize
5 5 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.18%) Argo
6 4 (1.18%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.89%) Control-M
7 3 (0.89%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Consul
8 2 (0.59%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.59%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.30%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
9 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.30%) vRealize
9 1 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.21%) Google
3 12 (3.55%) Oracle
3 12 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.07%) IBM
4 7 (2.07%) Splunk
5 6 (1.78%) Databricks
5 6 (1.78%) Okta
5 6 (1.78%) VMware
6 5 (1.48%) Black Duck
6 5 (1.48%) Delphix
7 4 (1.18%) Broadcom
7 4 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.18%) Juniper
7 4 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.89%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.89%) Dell
9 2 (0.59%) HP