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 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 363 185 141
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.25% 34.51% 28.78%
As % of the General category 47.83% 50.41% 48.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 123 49
10th Percentile £400 £358 £378
25th Percentile £442 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -1.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £551 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £628
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +7.42% -2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £17.24 - -
25th Percentile £19.10 - -
Median hourly rate £22.20 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% - -
75th Percentile - £16.76 -
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £20.74
% change year-on-year +133.33% -27.68% -

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 759 367 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.25% 68.47% 59.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 243 152
10th Percentile £358 £286 £302
25th Percentile £413 £383 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £571 £551 £579
90th Percentile £685 £638 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +5.49% -5.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 5
10th Percentile £20.14 £15.00 £16.58
25th Percentile £21.98 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% -13.31% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.89 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +12.40% +51.38% -23.03%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 0 339 £525 +10.53% 60
Doncaster - 7 £500 - 8
Barnsley +2 3 £550 +44.74% 8
Rotherham - 1 - - 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 31 (8.54%) Confluence
2 14 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.55%) TPMS
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.55%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.39%) GCP
2 49 (13.50%) AWS
2 49 (13.50%) Azure
3 25 (6.89%) GitHub
4 17 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.58%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.31%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.38%) PaaS
9 5 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.38%) Rubrik
10 4 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.10%) Slack
11 3 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.83%) IaaS
11 3 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.71%) Network Security
2 11 (3.03%) Firewall
3 5 (1.38%) DNS
4 4 (1.10%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.55%) LAN
5 2 (0.55%) Multicast
5 2 (0.55%) SAN
5 2 (0.55%) SNMP
5 2 (0.55%) SSH
5 2 (0.55%) SSL
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.93%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.65%) Metadata
4 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.10%) Power BI
6 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.55%) Big Data
7 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.55%) Db2
8 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.28%) Power Query
8 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.28%) Redis
8 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (11.29%) JIRA
2 31 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.20%) Git
5 5 (1.38%) GitLab
5 5 (1.38%) Liquibase
5 5 (1.38%) Selenium
6 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.55%) Flyway
8 2 (0.55%) git-flow
8 2 (0.55%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.55%) JUnit
8 2 (0.55%) Mockito
8 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 143 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 99 (27.27%) Banking
3 64 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.26%) Financial Institution
5 14 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.31%) Legal
7 11 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.75%) Law
9 9 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.20%) Billing
10 8 (2.20%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.93%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.65%) Retail
13 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.38%) Publishing
14 3 (0.83%) Advertising
14 3 (0.83%) International Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (19.56%) Lead
2 45 (12.40%) Analyst
3 32 (8.82%) Architect
4 31 (8.54%) Developer
5 25 (6.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.61%) Consultant
7 22 (6.06%) Business Analyst
8 18 (4.96%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.41%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 16 (4.41%) Senior
10 14 (3.86%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.31%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.48%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.20%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.20%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.20%) Technical Business Analyst
14 7 (1.93%) Data Analyst
14 7 (1.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (1.93%) Infrastructure Manager
14 7 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.96%) REST
2 14 (3.86%) React
2 14 (3.86%) RESTful
3 12 (3.31%) Node.js
4 10 (2.75%) Kafka
5 9 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (2.48%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (1.93%) OAuth
6 7 (1.93%) OAuth2
6 7 (1.93%) OpenID
6 7 (1.93%) Spring
7 6 (1.65%) JWT
7 6 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.38%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.38%) SAML
9 4 (1.10%) JSON
9 4 (1.10%) Middleware
10 3 (0.83%) JPA
10 3 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 30 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.65%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.96%) Linux
2 10 (2.75%) Windows
3 5 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.10%) VMS
5 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Unix
5 3 (0.83%) zOS
6 2 (0.55%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (27.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 90 (24.79%) CI/CD
3 82 (22.59%) DevOps
4 68 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (17.91%) Agile
6 63 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (15.98%) Roadmaps
9 49 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (12.95%) Risk Management
11 43 (11.85%) DevSecOps
11 43 (11.85%) Observability
12 38 (10.47%) Data Protection
13 37 (10.19%) AI
14 33 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
15 32 (8.82%) Change Management
15 32 (8.82%) Software Engineering
16 31 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (8.26%) Vulnerability Management
18 29 (7.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.18%) Python
2 37 (10.19%) Java
3 25 (6.89%) SQL
4 17 (4.68%) PowerShell
5 15 (4.13%) Go
6 9 (2.48%) Rust
7 6 (1.65%) Bash
7 6 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.38%) VB
9 4 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) C#
11 2 (0.55%) JCL
11 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.55%) PromQL
11 2 (0.55%) VBA
12 1 (0.28%) CLIST
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (8.82%) Degree
2 20 (5.51%) CISM
2 20 (5.51%) CISSP
3 14 (3.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 14 (3.86%) CCSP
3 14 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (3.86%) PMP
4 12 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.20%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.38%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.10%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.10%) JNCIS
9 3 (0.83%) CCSK
9 3 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.55%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.13%) PMO
2 14 (3.86%) GDPR
3 12 (3.31%) NIST
4 10 (2.75%) QA
5 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.38%) GRC
7 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.55%) GLBA
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.28%) MiFID
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (6.06%) Docker
2 9 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.38%) vSphere
4 3 (0.83%) KVM
4 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) ACF2
5 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.55%) RACF
5 2 (0.55%) SRDF
5 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.47%) Ansible
3 28 (7.71%) Terraform
4 16 (4.41%) Grafana
4 16 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.65%) Argo
6 5 (1.38%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.38%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.10%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.10%) Puppet
8 3 (0.83%) Control-M
8 3 (0.83%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.55%) Consul
9 2 (0.55%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.55%) Kiali
9 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.55%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 63 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.34%) Google
3 21 (5.79%) Splunk
4 14 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.31%) Oracle
6 9 (2.48%) VMware
7 8 (2.20%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.38%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.38%) Black Duck
9 5 (1.38%) Databricks
9 5 (1.38%) Dell
9 5 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.38%) IBM
9 5 (1.38%) Okta
10 4 (1.10%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.10%) Juniper
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco
11 2 (0.55%) HP
11 2 (0.55%) SAP