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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 259 80 92
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.22% 30.19% 20.81%
As % of the General category 48.41% 44.94% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 41 30
10th Percentile £350 £438 £401
25th Percentile £413 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -1.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.61
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate - - £12.99
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £12.75

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 535 178 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.43% 67.17% 63.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 103 163
10th Percentile £347 £209 £353
25th Percentile £417 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £12.10 £12.19
25th Percentile - £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +14.28% -31.63%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £13.41
90th Percentile - £16.97 £24.77
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.78 £18.64 £14.56
% change year-on-year +16.89% +27.97% -32.27%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -1 250 £480 -9.00% 56
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 17
Barnsley - 1 - - 1
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 (10.42%) Confluence
2 18 (6.95%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.25%) TPMS
4 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.93%) CICS
5 5 (1.93%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.93%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.22%) GCP
2 36 (13.90%) AWS
3 24 (9.27%) Serverless
4 22 (8.49%) Azure
5 19 (7.34%) GitHub
6 16 (6.18%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.02%) OneDrive
9 8 (3.09%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.09%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (3.09%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.54%) IaaS
10 4 (1.54%) Rubrik
11 3 (1.16%) Collibra
11 3 (1.16%) PaaS
12 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.77%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.02%) Firewall
1 13 (5.02%) SSL
2 11 (4.25%) SNMP
2 11 (4.25%) SSH
3 7 (2.70%) Internet
4 6 (2.32%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.93%) DNS
6 4 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.16%) Network Security
8 2 (0.77%) DHCP
8 2 (0.77%) VPN
8 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.39%) IPsec
9 1 (0.39%) LAN
9 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.36%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.18%) Power BI
4 8 (3.09%) Power Query
4 8 (3.09%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.54%) Metadata
7 3 (1.16%) MySQL
7 3 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.77%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.39%) Looker
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (20.85%) Jenkins
2 42 (16.22%) JIRA
3 33 (12.74%) GitLab
4 19 (7.34%) Liquibase
5 14 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.09%) Jaeger
7 5 (1.93%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.93%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.93%) Selenium
8 4 (1.54%) Git
9 3 (1.16%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.77%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.39%) Babel
11 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) Postman
11 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 127 (49.03%) Social Skills
2 101 (39.00%) Banking
3 43 (16.60%) Financial Institution
4 27 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.72%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.86%) Legal
6 10 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.54%) Law
10 3 (1.16%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Aviation
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.39%) Electronics
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (15.06%) Analyst
2 31 (11.97%) Project Manager
3 23 (8.88%) Business Analyst
4 22 (8.49%) Senior
5 18 (6.95%) Architect
5 18 (6.95%) Developer
6 15 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (5.79%) GCP Engineer
6 15 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.25%) Cryptography Engineer
7 11 (4.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.25%) Lead
7 11 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (4.25%) Technical Business Analyst
8 10 (3.86%) Data Analyst
8 10 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.86%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.47%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.13%) REST
2 26 (10.04%) RESTful
3 24 (9.27%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.25%) Middleware
5 11 (4.25%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.86%) Kafka
7 8 (3.09%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.32%) LDAP
8 6 (2.32%) OAuth
8 6 (2.32%) SailPoint
8 6 (2.32%) SAML
9 5 (1.93%) OpenID
9 5 (1.93%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.16%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.16%) NumPy
10 3 (1.16%) Pandas
10 3 (1.16%) React
11 2 (0.77%) OpenCV
11 2 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (10.42%) Public Cloud
3 24 (9.27%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.72%) Onboarding
5 17 (6.56%) Data Centre
6 16 (6.18%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.41%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.25%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.32%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.54%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.16%) CMDB
12 3 (1.16%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.16%) PMI
12 3 (1.16%) VSAM
13 2 (0.77%) Clustering
13 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.53%) Linux
2 17 (6.56%) Windows
3 2 (0.77%) Unix
3 2 (0.77%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.12%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (29.34%) DevOps
3 68 (26.25%) Agile
3 68 (26.25%) CI/CD
4 55 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.15%) Computer Science
7 43 (16.60%) Cryptography
8 41 (15.83%) Microservices
9 39 (15.06%) Root Cause Analysis
10 36 (13.90%) Data Security
10 36 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.51%) Observability
11 35 (13.51%) Roadmaps
12 34 (13.13%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.74%) Containerisation
13 33 (12.74%) High Availability
14 32 (12.36%) Change Management
14 32 (12.36%) Identity Access Management
15 30 (11.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.78%) Python
2 39 (15.06%) SQL
3 29 (11.20%) Java
4 28 (10.81%) Go
5 10 (3.86%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.47%) VBA
7 8 (3.09%) Rust
8 5 (1.93%) COBOL
9 4 (1.54%) JCL
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
11 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.39%) C#
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) REXX
12 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (19.69%) Degree
2 34 (13.13%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.25%) CISM
4 11 (4.25%) CISSP
4 11 (4.25%) FFIEC
5 9 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (3.09%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.70%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.32%) PMP
9 5 (1.93%) PhD
10 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) CCA
12 1 (0.39%) CCSK
12 1 (0.39%) CIMA
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.39%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.49%) GDPR
2 17 (6.56%) NIST
3 11 (4.25%) GLBA
3 11 (4.25%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.47%) PMO
6 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.54%) SLA
7 3 (1.16%) GRC
7 3 (1.16%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) Basel III
System Software
1 36 (13.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
4 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.22%) Ansible
3 37 (14.29%) Grafana
4 36 (13.90%) Prometheus
5 30 (11.58%) Terraform
6 8 (3.09%) Kiali
7 6 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.77%) Control-M
8 2 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.77%) Nessus
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (20.08%) Splunk
2 47 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.18%) Google
4 13 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.02%) Sonatype
5 10 (3.86%) Thales
6 7 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
6 7 (2.70%) SAP
7 4 (1.54%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.54%) Oracle
8 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.16%) Workday
9 2 (0.77%) Centrify
9 2 (0.77%) Delphix
9 2 (0.77%) Tenable
9 2 (0.77%) VMware
10 1 (0.39%) Citrix
10 1 (0.39%) Dell
10 1 (0.39%) Genesys
10 1 (0.39%) Teradata