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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 267 85 90
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 31.12% 30.47% 20.59%
As % of the General category 49.72% 45.21% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 43 30
10th Percentile £314 £440 £401
25th Percentile £406 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -0.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £652 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -3.85%
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 537 188 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.59% 67.38% 62.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 108 163
10th Percentile £325 £209 £368
25th Percentile £417 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £12.10 £12.05
25th Percentile - £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +16.43% -32.89%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £13.23
90th Percentile - £16.97 £27.94
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £20.57 £14.41
% change year-on-year +3.56% +42.78% -24.18%

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 23 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 23 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 -1 259 £475 -10.71% 73
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 38
Barnsley - 1 - - 2
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 24 (8.99%) Confluence
2 21 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.12%) TPMS
4 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.87%) CICS
5 5 (1.87%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.48%) GCP
2 38 (14.23%) AWS
3 26 (9.74%) Serverless
4 23 (8.61%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.24%) Azure
6 15 (5.62%) GitHub
6 15 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (4.87%) OneDrive
8 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.00%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (3.00%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.87%) IaaS
11 4 (1.50%) PaaS
11 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.50%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.12%) Collibra
13 2 (0.75%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.87%) SSL
2 12 (4.49%) Firewall
3 11 (4.12%) SNMP
3 11 (4.12%) SSH
4 7 (2.62%) Internet
5 6 (2.25%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.87%) DNS
7 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.75%) DHCP
8 2 (0.75%) Network Security
8 2 (0.75%) VPN
8 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.37%) IPsec
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.73%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.61%) Power BI
4 9 (3.37%) Power Query
5 8 (3.00%) PowerPivot
6 7 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.50%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.50%) Metadata
8 3 (1.12%) MySQL
8 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Looker
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (19.10%) Jenkins
2 40 (14.98%) JIRA
3 33 (12.36%) GitLab
4 22 (8.24%) Liquibase
5 10 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.62%) Jaeger
7 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.87%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.87%) Selenium
8 4 (1.50%) Git
9 3 (1.12%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.75%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.37%) Babel
11 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.37%) Gradle
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) Postman
11 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 127 (47.57%) Social Skills
2 98 (36.70%) Banking
3 45 (16.85%) Financial Institution
4 32 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.49%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.75%) Legal
8 6 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Billing
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.50%) Law
10 3 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Aviation
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (18.73%) Analyst
2 30 (11.24%) Project Manager
3 26 (9.74%) Senior
4 22 (8.24%) Business Analyst
5 18 (6.74%) Data Analyst
5 18 (6.74%) Developer
6 17 (6.37%) Architect
6 17 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.99%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) GCP Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) Financial Analyst
10 12 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Cryptography Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.12%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (3.75%) Lead
12 10 (3.75%) Service Analyst
12 10 (3.75%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (3.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.11%) REST
2 28 (10.49%) RESTful
3 26 (9.74%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (3.75%) Middleware
5 10 (3.75%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.37%) Kafka
7 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.25%) LDAP
8 6 (2.25%) OAuth
8 6 (2.25%) SAML
9 5 (1.87%) OpenID
9 5 (1.87%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.87%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.12%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.12%) NumPy
10 3 (1.12%) Pandas
10 3 (1.12%) React
11 2 (0.75%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.75%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
1 34 (12.73%) Public Cloud
2 27 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.99%) Data Centre
4 20 (7.49%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.99%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.24%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.49%) Mainframe
8 11 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.50%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.12%) CMDB
11 3 (1.12%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.12%) PMI
11 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.12%) VSAM
12 2 (0.75%) Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.35%) Linux
2 16 (5.99%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.75%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.21%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (28.09%) DevOps
3 72 (26.97%) Agile
4 66 (24.72%) CI/CD
5 56 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 49 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.85%) Computer Science
8 42 (15.73%) Cryptography
8 42 (15.73%) Microservices
9 40 (14.98%) Root Cause Analysis
10 38 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (13.86%) Change Management
11 37 (13.86%) Data Security
12 35 (13.11%) Containerisation
13 34 (12.73%) Decision-Making
13 34 (12.73%) High Availability
13 34 (12.73%) Observability
13 34 (12.73%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.99%) Software Engineering
15 30 (11.24%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.22%) Python
2 44 (16.48%) SQL
3 32 (11.99%) Go
4 30 (11.24%) Java
5 11 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 10 (3.75%) VBA
7 7 (2.62%) Rust
8 5 (1.87%) COBOL
9 4 (1.50%) JCL
10 3 (1.12%) Bash
11 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.37%) Bicep
12 1 (0.37%) C#
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) REXX
Qualifications
1 49 (18.35%) Degree
2 34 (12.73%) Master's Degree
3 30 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.12%) FFIEC
5 9 (3.37%) CISM
5 9 (3.37%) CISSP
5 9 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.62%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.25%) PMP
9 5 (1.87%) PhD
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CCA
11 1 (0.37%) CCSK
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.24%) GDPR
2 16 (5.99%) NIST
3 12 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.12%) GLBA
4 11 (4.12%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.00%) PMO
6 5 (1.87%) SLA
7 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.12%) QA
9 2 (0.75%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.37%) Basel III
System Software
1 36 (13.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) XenApp
4 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (17.23%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.36%) Ansible
3 38 (14.23%) Grafana
4 37 (13.86%) Prometheus
5 35 (13.11%) Terraform
6 7 (2.62%) Kiali
7 6 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.75%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.75%) Control-M
8 2 (0.75%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.75%) Nessus
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (18.35%) Microsoft
1 49 (18.35%) Splunk
2 15 (5.62%) Google
3 13 (4.87%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.75%) Thales
5 9 (3.37%) Sonatype
6 7 (2.62%) SAP
7 6 (2.25%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle
9 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.12%) Workday
10 2 (0.75%) Centrify
10 2 (0.75%) Delphix
10 2 (0.75%) Tenable
10 2 (0.75%) VMware
11 1 (0.37%) Citrix
11 1 (0.37%) Genesys
11 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.37%) Teradata