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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 303 94 91
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.58% 29.28% 21.11%
As % of the General category 48.40% 45.19% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 50 31
10th Percentile £358 £375 £320
25th Percentile £415 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £510 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +14.54% -15.23%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £578
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £495 £463
% change year-on-year +1.01% +7.03% -11.90%
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 - - £13.23

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 626 208 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.17% 64.80% 59.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 125 141
10th Percentile £329 £312 £250
25th Percentile £413 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £576
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - +26.98% -48.15%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £13.23
90th Percentile - - £13.52
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +3.03% +51.38% -24.56%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 0 296 £500 -1.38% 51
Doncaster - 2 £450 - 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 31 (10.23%) Confluence
2 23 (7.59%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.30%) TPMS
4 8 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (14.19%) GCP
2 31 (10.23%) AWS
3 26 (8.58%) Azure
3 26 (8.58%) GitHub
4 22 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.94%) OneDrive
6 17 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 17 (5.61%) Serverless
7 15 (4.95%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (2.64%) AWS KMS
11 7 (2.31%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.32%) IaaS
14 3 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.99%) Collibra
14 3 (0.99%) PaaS
15 2 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.66%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.62%) Firewall
2 12 (3.96%) SSL
3 10 (3.30%) SNMP
3 10 (3.30%) SSH
4 7 (2.31%) DNS
5 6 (1.98%) Internet
5 6 (1.98%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.32%) Network Security
7 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.66%) DHCP
8 2 (0.66%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.66%) SAN
8 2 (0.66%) VPN
8 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.33%) IPsec
9 1 (0.33%) LAN
9 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.25%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.61%) Power BI
4 8 (2.64%) Power Query
4 8 (2.64%) PowerPivot
5 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) Metadata
6 3 (0.99%) MySQL
6 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) Looker
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (18.81%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.52%) JIRA
3 27 (8.91%) GitLab
4 16 (5.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (3.96%) Liquibase
6 8 (2.64%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.98%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.98%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.98%) Selenium
8 3 (0.99%) Git
8 3 (0.99%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Gradle
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 130 (42.90%) Social Skills
2 104 (34.32%) Banking
3 35 (11.55%) Financial Institution
4 33 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.63%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.97%) Legal
9 6 (1.98%) Billing
9 6 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.32%) Law
11 2 (0.66%) Advertising
11 2 (0.66%) Aviation
11 2 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (14.52%) Analyst
2 32 (10.56%) Project Manager
3 29 (9.57%) Lead
4 28 (9.24%) Architect
5 22 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 18 (5.94%) Developer
6 18 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.61%) GCP Engineer
7 17 (5.61%) Senior
8 15 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.30%) Cryptography Engineer
12 10 (3.30%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.97%) Strategy Analyst
14 8 (2.64%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.64%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.90%) REST
2 22 (7.26%) RESTful
3 19 (6.27%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (5.28%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (3.63%) Kafka
5 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (3.63%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.30%) Middleware
7 8 (2.64%) SailPoint
8 7 (2.31%) LDAP
9 6 (1.98%) OAuth
9 6 (1.98%) OpenID
9 6 (1.98%) SAML
10 5 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.32%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.32%) React
11 4 (1.32%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.99%) NumPy
12 3 (0.99%) Pandas
13 2 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.26%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.60%) Data Centre
4 19 (6.27%) Onboarding
4 19 (6.27%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.32%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.99%) PMI
8 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.66%) Clustering
9 2 (0.66%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.51%) Linux
2 19 (6.27%) Windows
3 4 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.99%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.71%) DevOps
2 75 (24.75%) CI/CD
3 72 (23.76%) Cybersecurity
4 69 (22.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (19.47%) Agile
5 59 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (13.86%) Computer Science
7 39 (12.87%) Microservices
7 39 (12.87%) Observability
8 36 (11.88%) Identity Access Management
9 35 (11.55%) Cryptography
9 35 (11.55%) Decision-Making
10 34 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (11.22%) Roadmaps
11 33 (10.89%) Migration
12 31 (10.23%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (9.57%) Data Security
13 29 (9.57%) High Availability
13 29 (9.57%) Project Management
13 29 (9.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.11%) Python
2 43 (14.19%) SQL
3 30 (9.90%) Java
4 21 (6.93%) Go
5 16 (5.28%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.97%) VBA
7 8 (2.64%) Rust
8 7 (2.31%) Bash
9 5 (1.65%) VB
10 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) Groovy
11 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 49 (16.17%) Degree
2 27 (8.91%) Master's Degree
3 22 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.29%) CISM
4 13 (4.29%) CISSP
5 10 (3.30%) FFIEC
5 10 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (2.97%) PMP
6 9 (2.97%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.65%) PhD
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.33%) CCA
9 1 (0.33%) CCSK
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.93%) GDPR
2 15 (4.95%) NIST
2 15 (4.95%) PMO
3 10 (3.30%) GLBA
3 10 (3.30%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.65%) QA
6 3 (0.99%) GRC
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 34 (11.22%) Docker
2 9 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.65%) vSphere
4 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) KVM
5 2 (0.66%) SRDF
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
6 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (15.84%) Ansible
1 48 (15.84%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.55%) Grafana
3 33 (10.89%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.91%) Terraform
5 8 (2.64%) Kiali
6 6 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.65%) Puppet
7 5 (1.65%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.99%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.66%) Argo
9 2 (0.66%) Control-M
9 2 (0.66%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.66%) Nessus
9 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.33%) vRealize
10 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 57 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.50%) Splunk
3 18 (5.94%) Google
4 14 (4.62%) Sonatype
5 13 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.63%) Oracle
7 10 (3.30%) Thales
8 9 (2.97%) BiZZdesign
8 9 (2.97%) VMware
9 6 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.65%) Dell
11 3 (0.99%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.99%) Workday
12 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.66%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.66%) Centrify
12 2 (0.66%) Commvault
12 2 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.66%) Pure Storage
12 2 (0.66%) Tenable