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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 249 115 100
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 32.89% 33.82% 22.62%
As % of the General category 50.30% 51.57% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 59 38
10th Percentile £318 £425 £402
25th Percentile £400 £486 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £485
% change year-on-year -2.91% +6.19% -5.37%
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 495 223 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.39% 65.59% 65.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 123 181
10th Percentile £313 £209 £400
25th Percentile £402 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £610
90th Percentile £675 £663 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.68% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.79 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.43 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -9.53% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £35.00
90th Percentile - £21.05 £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -

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 15 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 15 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 -1 240 £475 -11.63% 83
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 45
Barnsley - 2 £550 - 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 19 (7.63%) Confluence
2 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.41%) CICS
3 6 (2.41%) TPMS
4 5 (2.01%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (14.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.07%) GCP
2 41 (16.47%) AWS
3 31 (12.45%) Serverless
4 24 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.03%) Azure
6 10 (4.02%) GitHub
7 7 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.41%) AWS KMS
9 5 (2.01%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.01%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.20%) Collibra
11 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.80%) npm
13 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.40%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.21%) SSL
2 7 (2.81%) Firewall
2 7 (2.81%) SSH
3 6 (2.41%) Internet
3 6 (2.41%) Kerberos
3 6 (2.41%) SNMP
4 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) IPsec
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.46%) NoSQL
2 26 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.64%) Power BI
4 13 (5.22%) Power Query
5 10 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.41%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.61%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.61%) Metadata
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.40%) DB2
10 1 (0.40%) Looker
10 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (19.68%) Jenkins
2 36 (14.46%) JIRA
3 33 (13.25%) GitLab
4 28 (11.24%) Liquibase
5 7 (2.81%) Git
5 7 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.01%) Postman
7 3 (1.20%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.80%) Babel
8 2 (0.80%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.80%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.80%) webpack
9 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.40%) Gradle
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 112 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 100 (40.16%) Banking
3 46 (18.47%) Financial Institution
4 40 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.21%) Legal
7 8 (3.21%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Billing
9 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Aviation
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (22.49%) Analyst
2 26 (10.44%) Senior
3 22 (8.84%) Data Analyst
4 21 (8.43%) Business Analyst
4 21 (8.43%) Developer
5 19 (7.63%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.83%) Financial Analyst
8 16 (6.43%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Service Analyst
11 13 (5.22%) Architect
11 13 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (4.82%) Incident Manager
13 10 (4.02%) Finance Business Analyst
13 10 (4.02%) Financial Business Analyst
14 9 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (3.21%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) REST
2 33 (13.25%) RESTful
3 31 (12.45%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.21%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.41%) CSS
5 6 (2.41%) HTML
5 6 (2.41%) OAuth
5 6 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (2.41%) SAML
6 5 (2.01%) Hugging Face
6 5 (2.01%) OpenCV
6 5 (2.01%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.01%) Regular Expression
6 5 (2.01%) SpaCy
7 4 (1.61%) .NET
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.20%) jQuery
8 3 (1.20%) Middleware
8 3 (1.20%) NumPy
8 3 (1.20%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.26%) Public Cloud
2 34 (13.65%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (12.05%) Cloud Native
4 22 (8.84%) Data Centre
5 20 (8.03%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.22%) Mainframe
7 12 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
8 10 (4.02%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
11 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.20%) VSAM
12 2 (0.80%) Clustering
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.80%) IVR
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.67%) Linux
2 12 (4.82%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.80%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (29.72%) DevOps
2 73 (29.32%) Agile
2 73 (29.32%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (22.89%) CI/CD
4 51 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (19.28%) Change Management
6 43 (17.27%) Cryptography
7 41 (16.47%) Computer Science
7 41 (16.47%) Containerisation
8 39 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (15.26%) Decision-Making
9 38 (15.26%) Microservices
10 36 (14.46%) Data Security
10 36 (14.46%) Software Engineering
11 35 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
12 32 (12.85%) Cost Optimisation
13 31 (12.45%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (12.45%) High Availability
14 29 (11.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.31%) Python
2 37 (14.86%) Go
3 30 (12.05%) SQL
4 12 (4.82%) Java
5 10 (4.02%) VBA
6 6 (2.41%) COBOL
7 5 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.01%) JCL
8 4 (1.61%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) Rust
9 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.40%) REXX
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (18.07%) Degree
2 36 (14.46%) Master's Degree
3 31 (12.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.02%) CISM
5 10 (4.02%) CISSP
6 8 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.21%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.41%) FFIEC
9 5 (2.01%) PhD
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.80%) PMP
12 1 (0.40%) CCA
12 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.40%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.43%) GDPR
2 14 (5.62%) NIST
3 11 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.21%) PMO
6 7 (2.81%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.41%) GLBA
8 5 (2.01%) SLA
9 3 (1.20%) QA
10 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) Basel III
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (13.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.40%) RACF
5 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.40%) XenApp
5 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 43 (17.27%) Ansible
3 41 (16.47%) Terraform
4 37 (14.86%) Prometheus
5 36 (14.46%) Grafana
6 6 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.80%) Control-M
8 2 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.80%) Kiali
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.80%) Nessus
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.47%) Splunk
3 20 (8.03%) Google
4 9 (3.61%) SAP
4 9 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.81%) CyberArk
6 6 (2.41%) Sonatype
7 5 (2.01%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (2.01%) Thales
8 4 (1.61%) VMware
9 3 (1.20%) Genesys
10 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.80%) Centrify
10 2 (0.80%) GoldenSource
10 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle
10 2 (0.80%) Sage
10 2 (0.80%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.80%) Xero