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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 345 227 154
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.94% 35.69% 33.41%
As % of the General category 51.04% 52.30% 54.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 156 62
10th Percentile £372 £326 £400
25th Percentile £440 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £532 £586
90th Percentile £688 £612 £697
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £484 £520
% change year-on-year +6.20% -6.92% -5.45%
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% +99.04%

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 676 434 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 60.63% 68.24% 61.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 291 147
10th Percentile £358 £278 £308
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.89% -8.18%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +7.76% -7.20% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 6
10th Percentile £21.11 £14.54 £15.88
25th Percentile £24.88 £15.00 £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 £18.40 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.50 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £15.68
% change year-on-year +16.40% +41.20% -17.47%

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 29 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 29 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 0 321 £514 +11.14% 73
Doncaster -1 7 £500 +334.78% 21
Barnsley +2 5 £550 +44.74% 5
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 (8.12%) Confluence
2 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.29%) CICS
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) Maple
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.58%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Actimize
3 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 79 (22.90%) GCP
2 59 (17.10%) Azure
3 50 (14.49%) AWS
4 24 (6.96%) GitHub
5 12 (3.48%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.74%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.45%) SaaS
9 4 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.16%) Slack
10 3 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.87%) PaaS
10 3 (0.87%) Serverless
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.41%) Network Security
2 8 (2.32%) Firewall
3 4 (1.16%) DNS
3 4 (1.16%) VPN
4 2 (0.58%) LAN
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
4 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.58%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.19%) Power BI
2 8 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.45%) Db2
5 5 (1.45%) Metadata
6 4 (1.16%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.29%) Looker
9 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.29%) SQLite
9 1 (0.29%) Trino
Development Applications
1 39 (11.30%) JIRA
2 14 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.61%) Git
4 6 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.87%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.58%) Flyway
7 2 (0.58%) git-flow
7 2 (0.58%) JUnit
7 2 (0.58%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.58%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.29%) Gatling
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 137 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.83%) Banking
3 65 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.41%) Financial Institution
5 22 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.19%) Legal
8 10 (2.90%) Law
9 9 (2.61%) Private Banking
10 8 (2.32%) Billing
11 7 (2.03%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.03%) Retail
12 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.45%) Publishing
13 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.87%) International Banking
15 2 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (23.77%) Lead
2 34 (9.86%) Analyst
3 33 (9.57%) Consultant
4 26 (7.54%) Developer
5 21 (6.09%) Senior
6 19 (5.51%) Architect
7 18 (5.22%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 18 (5.22%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.06%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.48%) Business Analyst
11 10 (2.90%) Product Owner
11 10 (2.90%) Technical Manager
12 9 (2.61%) Security Consultant
13 8 (2.32%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.32%) Portfolio Manager
13 8 (2.32%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.32%) Technical Project Manager
14 7 (2.03%) Governance Manager
14 7 (2.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.12%) Terraform
2 18 (5.22%) REST
3 13 (3.77%) Kafka
4 12 (3.48%) Node.js
5 11 (3.19%) OAuth
5 11 (3.19%) React
6 10 (2.90%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.90%) RESTful
7 8 (2.32%) OpenID
7 8 (2.32%) SAML
8 7 (2.03%) Spring
8 7 (2.03%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.74%) JWT
10 5 (1.45%) Middleware
10 5 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.45%) SLSA
11 4 (1.16%) .NET
11 4 (1.16%) JSON
11 4 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.86%) Product Ownership
3 30 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 15 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.77%) Mainframe
6 13 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 11 (3.19%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.03%) PKI
10 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.45%) Replication
12 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.48%) Linux
2 6 (1.74%) Windows
3 4 (1.16%) Unix
3 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.16%) zOS
4 3 (0.87%) VMS
5 2 (0.58%) MVS
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (39.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 87 (25.22%) CI/CD
3 82 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (21.45%) Agile
5 68 (19.71%) DevOps
6 63 (18.26%) Roadmaps
7 60 (17.39%) Risk Management
8 54 (15.65%) DevSecOps
9 53 (15.36%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (12.75%) Observability
12 43 (12.46%) AI
13 41 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (10.72%) Data Protection
15 33 (9.57%) Decision-Making
16 32 (9.28%) Change Management
16 32 (9.28%) Project Management
17 31 (8.99%) Matrix Organization
17 31 (8.99%) Vulnerability Management
18 30 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.23%) Python
2 39 (11.30%) Java
3 22 (6.38%) SQL
4 14 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 13 (3.77%) Go
6 8 (2.32%) Bash
7 7 (2.03%) Rust
8 6 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.16%) C#
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) JCL
12 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.58%) PromQL
13 1 (0.29%) Bicep
13 1 (0.29%) CLIST
13 1 (0.29%) REXX
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (7.25%) Degree
2 21 (6.09%) CISM
3 18 (5.22%) CISSP
4 17 (4.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 17 (4.93%) CCSP
4 17 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (4.64%) PMP
6 10 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.03%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.45%) CCSK
9 5 (1.45%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.16%) CISA
10 4 (1.16%) CRISC
10 4 (1.16%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.16%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.87%) CIMA
11 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.35%) PMO
2 13 (3.77%) QA
3 7 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.03%) NIST
4 6 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.45%) GDPR
6 4 (1.16%) GRC
7 3 (0.87%) SLA
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (4.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) ACF2
3 4 (1.16%) RACF
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.29%) KVM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.67%) Ansible
3 11 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.90%) Grafana
5 6 (1.74%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.16%) Argo
7 4 (1.16%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.87%) Control-M
9 2 (0.58%) Consul
9 2 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.58%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.29%) Autotask
10 1 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.29%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
10 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.09%) Google
3 13 (3.77%) Oracle
3 13 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.32%) IBM
4 8 (2.32%) Splunk
5 7 (2.03%) Databricks
6 6 (1.74%) Okta
7 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.45%) Black Duck
7 5 (1.45%) Delphix
7 5 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.16%) Juniper
8 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.16%) VMware
9 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.58%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.58%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.58%) Solace