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 26 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 351 224 147
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.52% 35.67% 32.10%
As % of the General category 50.00% 51.14% 50.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 156 58
10th Percentile £373 £324 £400
25th Percentile £443 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £461 £520
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -11.30% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £539 £597
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 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 - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £44.14
% change year-on-year +133.33% -66.01% +323.56%

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 702 438 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 61.04% 69.75% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 295 150
10th Percentile £358 £278 £213
25th Percentile £425 £369 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £463 £507
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -8.78% -9.63%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £588
90th Percentile £675 £636 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £15.88
25th Percentile £18.80 £14.71 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £15.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.80% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £36.61 £15.88 £21.88
90th Percentile - £17.45 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.70% +5.26%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 0 327 £525 +12.54% 127
Doncaster +1 8 £500 +334.78% 25
Barnsley +2 5 £550 +44.74% 10
Rotherham - 2 £513 - 10
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 27 (7.69%) Confluence
2 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.14%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 3 (0.85%) Apache
4 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.57%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Maple
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.50%) GCP
2 66 (18.80%) Azure
3 62 (17.66%) AWS
4 23 (6.55%) GitHub
5 9 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (2.28%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.42%) SaaS
7 5 (1.42%) Serverless
8 4 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.14%) Slack
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Functions
9 3 (0.85%) Google Gemini
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.40%) Network Security
2 8 (2.28%) Firewall
3 4 (1.14%) DNS
3 4 (1.14%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.28%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.28%) BigQuery
1 8 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (2.28%) Power BI
2 7 (1.99%) Metadata
2 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.42%) Db2
3 5 (1.42%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.57%) Big Data
6 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Power Query
7 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 38 (10.83%) JIRA
2 14 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.56%) Git
4 5 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.85%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.85%) Selenium
7 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Flyway
7 2 (0.57%) git-flow
7 2 (0.57%) JUnit
7 2 (0.57%) Mockito
8 1 (0.28%) GitLab
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 146 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 101 (28.77%) Banking
3 62 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 24 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.85%) Law
7 10 (2.85%) Legal
8 9 (2.56%) Private Banking
9 6 (1.71%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.71%) Publishing
10 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Retail
11 4 (1.14%) Billing
11 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.85%) International Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (21.08%) Lead
2 37 (10.54%) Consultant
3 34 (9.69%) Analyst
4 27 (7.69%) Senior
5 26 (7.41%) Developer
6 23 (6.55%) Architect
7 20 (5.70%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 16 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.56%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.13%) Product Owner
10 11 (3.13%) Technical Leader
10 11 (3.13%) Technical Manager
11 10 (2.85%) Security Consultant
12 9 (2.56%) Risk Analyst
13 8 (2.28%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.28%) Portfolio Manager
13 8 (2.28%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.12%) Terraform
2 18 (5.13%) REST
3 15 (4.27%) Kafka
4 14 (3.99%) OAuth
5 13 (3.70%) Node.js
5 13 (3.70%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.42%) Middleware
6 12 (3.42%) React
7 11 (3.13%) OpenID
7 11 (3.13%) RESTful
7 11 (3.13%) SAML
8 7 (1.99%) JWT
9 6 (1.71%) Spring
9 6 (1.71%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.42%) SLSA
11 4 (1.14%) .NET
11 4 (1.14%) JSON
11 4 (1.14%) LangChain
11 4 (1.14%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 31 (8.83%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.27%) AI Agents
6 15 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 14 (3.99%) Mainframe
8 13 (3.70%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.13%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.56%) PKI
11 8 (2.28%) Replication
12 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.14%) CMDB
14 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.85%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.13%) Linux
2 10 (2.85%) Windows
3 6 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.42%) Unix
5 4 (1.14%) VMS
5 4 (1.14%) zOS
6 2 (0.57%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (42.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 100 (28.49%) CI/CD
3 83 (23.65%) Agile
4 78 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (20.80%) Roadmaps
6 71 (20.23%) DevOps
7 64 (18.23%) Cybersecurity
8 61 (17.38%) DevSecOps
8 61 (17.38%) Risk Management
9 52 (14.81%) AI
10 51 (14.53%) Observability
11 49 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (11.11%) Data Protection
14 37 (10.54%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.26%) Change Management
16 34 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
16 34 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (9.69%) Vulnerability Management
17 33 (9.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.80%) Python
2 39 (11.11%) Java
3 25 (7.12%) SQL
4 17 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 15 (4.27%) Go
6 8 (2.28%) Bash
7 7 (1.99%) Rust
8 6 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.14%) C#
11 3 (0.85%) VBA
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
12 2 (0.57%) COBOL
12 2 (0.57%) JCL
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PromQL
13 1 (0.28%) CLIST
13 1 (0.28%) REXX
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (7.69%) Degree
2 23 (6.55%) CISM
3 20 (5.70%) CISSP
4 19 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 19 (5.41%) CCSP
4 19 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.56%) PMP
6 11 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.85%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.71%) CCSK
9 6 (1.71%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.42%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.14%) CISA
11 4 (1.14%) CRISC
11 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.14%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.85%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 13 (3.70%) PMO
2 11 (3.13%) QA
3 7 (1.99%) NIST
4 6 (1.71%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.42%) GDPR
5 5 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) MiFID
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (4.84%) Docker
2 9 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.28%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.42%) vSphere
5 4 (1.14%) ACF2
5 4 (1.14%) RACF
6 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 75 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.27%) Ansible
3 13 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.13%) Grafana
5 7 (1.99%) Kustomize
5 7 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.71%) Tivoli
7 4 (1.14%) Argo
7 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.14%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (0.85%) Control-M
9 2 (0.57%) Consul
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.57%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.28%) Autotask
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.28%) Packer
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.69%) Google
3 17 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.99%) IBM
5 10 (2.85%) Splunk
5 10 (2.85%) VMware
6 8 (2.28%) Oracle
7 7 (1.99%) Databricks
7 7 (1.99%) Okta
8 6 (1.71%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.42%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.42%) Delphix
10 4 (1.14%) Black Duck
10 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.14%) Juniper
11 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.85%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.85%) Mistral
12 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace