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 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 307 109 85
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.67% 30.19% 20.19%
As % of the General category 49.44% 45.61% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 62 27
10th Percentile £363 £376 £342
25th Percentile £414 £415 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £434
Median % change year-on-year - +15.21% -17.33%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £578
90th Percentile £688 £650 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -2.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £11.61
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year - +42.49% -
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.51 £13.23
% change year-on-year - +39.91% -

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 621 239 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.04% 66.20% 58.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 144 134
10th Percentile £340 £310 £204
25th Percentile £411 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £462
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +7.26% -16.09%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +2.77% -1.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £12.34
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +38.72% +20.27%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.51 £14.63
% change year-on-year +23.23% +26.56% -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 16 April 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 16 April 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 0 297 £500 - 38
Doncaster - 4 £450 - 6
Barnsley +1 1 £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 32 (10.42%) Confluence
2 23 (7.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.61%) TPMS
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (8.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) Actimize
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.38%) GCP
2 32 (10.42%) Azure
3 26 (8.47%) GitHub
4 25 (8.14%) AWS
5 22 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.86%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.86%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.28%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.63%) PaaS
12 4 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.30%) IaaS
13 3 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.98%) Collibra
14 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.65%) Nutanix
14 2 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.56%) Firewall
2 10 (3.26%) SSL
3 8 (2.61%) SNMP
3 8 (2.61%) SSH
4 7 (2.28%) DNS
5 6 (1.95%) Network Security
6 4 (1.30%) Internet
7 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.65%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
8 2 (0.65%) 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 13 (4.23%) Power BI
2 12 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.61%) Power Query
3 8 (2.61%) PowerPivot
4 6 (1.95%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.65%) Big Data
7 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.65%) DB2
7 2 (0.65%) Looker
7 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.33%) Redis
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (13.36%) JIRA
2 39 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (3.91%) GitLab
5 8 (2.61%) Jaeger
6 7 (2.28%) Selenium
7 6 (1.95%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.95%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.63%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.98%) Git
10 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.33%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 127 (41.37%) Social Skills
2 100 (32.57%) Banking
3 39 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.14%) Financial Institution
5 21 (6.84%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.93%) Legal
7 8 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.95%) Billing
9 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.30%) Law
10 3 (0.98%) Advertising
10 3 (0.98%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Aviation
11 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.68%) Lead
2 40 (13.03%) Analyst
3 32 (10.42%) Architect
4 31 (10.10%) Project Manager
5 21 (6.84%) Business Analyst
6 20 (6.51%) Developer
6 20 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.91%) Senior
7 12 (3.91%) Technical Business Analyst
8 11 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (3.58%) Technical Analyst
9 10 (3.26%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.93%) Infrastructure Manager
10 9 (2.93%) Lead Architect
10 9 (2.93%) Strategy Analyst
11 8 (2.61%) Cryptography Engineer
11 8 (2.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.61%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 7 (2.28%) Data Manager
12 7 (2.28%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.89%) REST
2 14 (4.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.91%) Kafka
3 12 (3.91%) Spring Boot
4 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 10 (3.26%) Middleware
5 10 (3.26%) RESTful
6 8 (2.61%) OpenID
6 8 (2.61%) SailPoint
7 7 (2.28%) LDAP
8 5 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.63%) React
9 4 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.98%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.98%) Spring
11 2 (0.65%) JWT
11 2 (0.65%) ONNX
11 2 (0.65%) Pandas
11 2 (0.65%) SAML
11 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.82%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (6.51%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.54%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.54%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.98%) PMI
10 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) CCTV
11 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.77%) Linux
2 17 (5.54%) Windows
3 4 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.98%) VMS
4 3 (0.98%) zOS
5 2 (0.65%) MVS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (24.10%) DevOps
2 70 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (21.50%) CI/CD
4 65 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (19.54%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (14.33%) Agile
7 39 (12.70%) Roadmaps
8 38 (12.38%) Observability
9 33 (10.75%) Migration
10 32 (10.42%) Project Management
11 31 (10.10%) Identity Access Management
12 29 (9.45%) Data Protection
12 29 (9.45%) Decision-Making
13 28 (9.12%) Data Modelling
13 28 (9.12%) Process Improvement
14 27 (8.79%) Microservices
14 27 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (7.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.92%) Python
2 39 (12.70%) SQL
3 35 (11.40%) Java
4 17 (5.54%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.93%) VBA
6 8 (2.61%) Go
6 8 (2.61%) Rust
7 7 (2.28%) Bash
8 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.63%) VB
9 3 (0.98%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.65%) JCL
10 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) C#
11 1 (0.33%) CLIST
11 1 (0.33%) Groovy
11 1 (0.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 30 (9.77%) Degree
2 11 (3.58%) PMI Certification
2 11 (3.58%) PMP
3 10 (3.26%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.93%) CISM
4 9 (2.93%) CISSP
4 9 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.61%) FFIEC
6 7 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) ACCA
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.65%) CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) CIMA
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) PhD
10 1 (0.33%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.84%) GDPR
2 15 (4.89%) NIST
2 15 (4.89%) PMO
3 11 (3.58%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.61%) GLBA
5 7 (2.28%) QA
6 5 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.98%) GRC
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Basel III
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 26 (8.47%) Docker
2 10 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.63%) vSphere
4 3 (0.98%) KVM
4 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.65%) ACF2
5 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) RACF
5 2 (0.65%) SRDF
5 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
6 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 37 (12.05%) Ansible
3 19 (6.19%) Grafana
4 17 (5.54%) Terraform
5 16 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.61%) Kiali
7 5 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.30%) Puppet
8 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.98%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.65%) Argo
10 2 (0.65%) Control-M
10 2 (0.65%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
11 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.33%) vRealize
11 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 60 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.42%) Splunk
3 13 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.23%) Sonatype
4 12 (3.91%) Google
5 11 (3.58%) Oracle
6 10 (3.26%) VMware
7 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.61%) Thales
8 6 (1.95%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.63%) Dell
10 4 (1.30%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (0.98%) Databricks
11 3 (0.98%) Workday
12 2 (0.65%) Centrify
12 2 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.65%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.65%) Okta
12 2 (0.65%) Pure Storage