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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 263 128 99
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 36.03% 33.16% 24.63%
As % of the General category 52.18% 51.41% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 62 39
10th Percentile £325 £428 £402
25th Percentile £391 £491 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £488
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 - £10.42
% change year-on-year - - +17.47%

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 common skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 504 249 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 69.04% 64.51% 65.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 135 165
10th Percentile £313 £211 £363
25th Percentile £400 £418 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £596 £650
90th Percentile £675 £652 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £21.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +14.47% -

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 0 247 £476 -11.44% 38
Barnsley - 9 £380 - 6
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 9
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 22 (8.37%) Confluence
2 9 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.28%) CICS
3 6 (2.28%) TPMS
4 5 (1.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 38 (14.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.42%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.90%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.73%) GCP
2 40 (15.21%) AWS
3 31 (11.79%) Serverless
4 24 (9.13%) Power Platform
5 20 (7.60%) Azure
6 11 (4.18%) GitHub
7 8 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.28%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.90%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.14%) Collibra
11 3 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.76%) npm
12 2 (0.76%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.38%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.04%) SSL
2 7 (2.66%) SSH
3 6 (2.28%) Firewall
3 6 (2.28%) Internet
3 6 (2.28%) Kerberos
3 6 (2.28%) SNMP
4 5 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.52%) DNS
6 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.76%) VPN
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
7 1 (0.38%) IPsec
7 1 (0.38%) LAN
7 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.38%) Network Security
7 1 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.69%) NoSQL
2 26 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.13%) Power BI
4 13 (4.94%) Power Query
5 10 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.28%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.52%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.52%) Metadata
8 3 (1.14%) MySQL
8 3 (1.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.38%) DB2
10 1 (0.38%) Looker
10 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (19.77%) Jenkins
2 41 (15.59%) JIRA
3 33 (12.55%) GitLab
4 28 (10.65%) Liquibase
5 7 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.28%) Git
6 6 (2.28%) Postman
7 3 (1.14%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.76%) Babel
8 2 (0.76%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.76%) webpack
9 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.38%) Gradle
9 1 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 118 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 101 (38.40%) Banking
3 44 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.73%) Financial Institution
4 17 (6.46%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (3.04%) Legal
6 7 (2.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Billing
8 4 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.76%) Aviation
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (24.33%) Analyst
2 27 (10.27%) Senior
3 22 (8.37%) Business Analyst
3 22 (8.37%) Data Analyst
4 21 (7.98%) Developer
5 18 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (6.84%) Project Manager
5 18 (6.84%) Software Engineer
6 17 (6.46%) Financial Analyst
7 15 (5.70%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (5.70%) Incident Manager
8 14 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.32%) Service Analyst
9 13 (4.94%) Architect
9 13 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (3.80%) Finance Business Analyst
10 10 (3.80%) Financial Business Analyst
11 9 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.04%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.45%) REST
2 33 (12.55%) RESTful
3 31 (11.79%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.04%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.28%) CSS
5 6 (2.28%) HTML
5 6 (2.28%) OAuth
5 6 (2.28%) SAML
6 5 (1.90%) Hugging Face
6 5 (1.90%) OpenCV
6 5 (1.90%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.90%) Regular Expression
6 5 (1.90%) SpaCy
7 4 (1.52%) .NET
8 3 (1.14%) Anaconda
8 3 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.14%) CSS3
8 3 (1.14%) jQuery
8 3 (1.14%) Pandas
8 3 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.45%) Public Cloud
2 32 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.41%) Cloud Native
4 25 (9.51%) Data Centre
5 21 (7.98%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.94%) Mainframe
7 11 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (3.80%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.04%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.14%) CMDB
12 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.14%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.14%) VSAM
13 2 (0.76%) Clustering
13 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.76%) IVR
14 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.73%) Linux
2 12 (4.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) CentOS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.38%) SUSE
4 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (30.42%) Agile
2 71 (27.00%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (27.00%) DevOps
3 56 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (20.15%) CI/CD
5 50 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (18.25%) Change Management
7 43 (16.35%) Cryptography
8 40 (15.21%) Containerisation
8 40 (15.21%) Decision-Making
9 39 (14.83%) Computer Science
9 39 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (14.07%) Data Security
11 36 (13.69%) Microservices
11 36 (13.69%) Software Engineering
12 34 (12.93%) Root Cause Analysis
13 32 (12.17%) Cost Optimisation
14 31 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (11.41%) High Availability
16 28 (10.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 69 (26.24%) Python
2 37 (14.07%) Go
3 28 (10.65%) SQL
4 10 (3.80%) Java
4 10 (3.80%) VBA
5 6 (2.28%) COBOL
6 5 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.90%) JCL
7 4 (1.52%) C#
8 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.76%) Bash
9 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.76%) VB
10 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) Groovy
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) REXX
10 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (16.35%) Degree
2 36 (13.69%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.18%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.80%) CISM
5 10 (3.80%) CISSP
6 8 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.04%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.28%) FFIEC
9 5 (1.90%) PhD
10 4 (1.52%) RIBA
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.76%) PMP
12 2 (0.76%) VCAP
12 2 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.13%) GDPR
2 14 (5.32%) NIST
3 12 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (4.18%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.42%) PMO
6 8 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.66%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.28%) GLBA
9 5 (1.90%) SLA
10 3 (1.14%) QA
11 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) Basel III
11 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (11.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.76%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.38%) XenApp
5 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (17.11%) Ansible
2 44 (16.73%) Kubernetes
3 43 (16.35%) Terraform
4 34 (12.93%) Prometheus
5 33 (12.55%) Grafana
6 6 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.52%) Puppet
8 2 (0.76%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.76%) Control-M
8 2 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.76%) Nessus
8 2 (0.76%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.76%) SCCM
8 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.83%) Splunk
3 20 (7.60%) Google
4 18 (6.84%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.42%) SAP
6 7 (2.66%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.66%) VMware
7 6 (2.28%) Sonatype
8 5 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (1.90%) Thales
9 3 (1.14%) F5
9 3 (1.14%) Genesys
9 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.14%) Oracle
10 2 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.76%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.76%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.76%) Sage
10 2 (0.76%) Tenable