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 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 358 163 132
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.06% 33.89% 26.77%
As % of the General category 47.54% 49.24% 45.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 107 41
10th Percentile £398 £357 £378
25th Percentile £439 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year +12.04% +4.04% -19.09%
75th Percentile £669 £545 £560
90th Percentile £688 £630 £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +9.95% -4.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £17.24 £15.35 £11.59
25th Percentile £19.10 £15.88 £12.21
Median hourly rate £22.20 £16.76 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% +26.64% -
75th Percentile - £17.63 -
90th Percentile - £18.16 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £15.75
% change year-on-year +108.89% +6.38% -

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 753 331 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.22% 68.81% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 213 147
10th Percentile £358 £285 £298
25th Percentile £413 £380 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £578
90th Percentile £688 £638 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +7.07% -6.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 9
10th Percentile £19.68 £16.24 £12.34
25th Percentile £21.77 £18.10 £12.70
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% +37.60% +20.27%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £21.50
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -20.95%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 0 335 £519 +10.61% 47
Doncaster - 7 £500 - 6
Barnsley +2 3 £550 +44.74% 2
Rotherham - 1 - - 3
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 30 (8.38%) Confluence
2 19 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.12%) TPMS
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.56%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 70 (19.55%) GCP
2 49 (13.69%) Azure
3 47 (13.13%) AWS
4 23 (6.42%) GitHub
5 21 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.47%) OneDrive
7 14 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.63%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.07%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.68%) PaaS
10 6 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.68%) Rubrik
11 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.12%) IaaS
12 4 (1.12%) Slack
13 3 (0.84%) SaaS
14 2 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.56%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.82%) Network Security
2 12 (3.35%) Firewall
3 4 (1.12%) DNS
3 4 (1.12%) SNMP
3 4 (1.12%) SSH
3 4 (1.12%) SSL
3 4 (1.12%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) DHCP
4 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.56%) SAN
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) Multicast
5 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.68%) Metadata
2 6 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.40%) Power BI
3 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.56%) Big Data
4 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.56%) Db2
4 2 (0.56%) Power Query
5 1 (0.28%) Looker
5 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.28%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.28%) Redis
5 1 (0.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (11.73%) JIRA
2 33 (9.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.96%) Git
4 7 (1.96%) GitLab
5 6 (1.68%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.68%) Selenium
6 5 (1.40%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.12%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.56%) Flyway
8 2 (0.56%) git-flow
8 2 (0.56%) JUnit
8 2 (0.56%) Mockito
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
9 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.42%) Banking
3 60 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.38%) Financial Institution
5 16 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.35%) Legal
7 11 (3.07%) Law
8 10 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.23%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.96%) Billing
12 6 (1.68%) Retail
13 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.84%) Advertising
14 3 (0.84%) International Banking
14 3 (0.84%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (17.04%) Lead
2 41 (11.45%) Analyst
3 32 (8.94%) Architect
4 30 (8.38%) Developer
5 25 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.70%) Project Manager
7 23 (6.42%) Consultant
8 21 (5.87%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.47%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 15 (4.19%) Senior
11 13 (3.63%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.35%) Python Developer
13 9 (2.51%) Product Owner
14 8 (2.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.23%) Lead Architect
14 8 (2.23%) Technical Business Analyst
15 7 (1.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (1.96%) Infrastructure Manager
15 7 (1.96%) Microsoft 365 Architect
15 7 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.31%) REST
2 13 (3.63%) RESTful
3 12 (3.35%) Node.js
3 12 (3.35%) React
4 11 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 10 (2.79%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.51%) Kafka
6 9 (2.51%) OpenID
7 8 (2.23%) Middleware
8 7 (1.96%) OAuth
8 7 (1.96%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.96%) SailPoint
9 6 (1.68%) JWT
9 6 (1.68%) Spring
10 5 (1.40%) LDAP
10 5 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.40%) SAML
11 3 (0.84%) JPA
11 3 (0.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Data Protection Act
2 31 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.47%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.07%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.23%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.68%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.87%) Linux
2 12 (3.35%) Windows
3 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.84%) Unix
4 3 (0.84%) VMS
4 3 (0.84%) zOS
5 2 (0.56%) MVS
6 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 89 (24.86%) CI/CD
3 83 (23.18%) DevOps
4 65 (18.16%) Agile
5 64 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (17.04%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (16.20%) Roadmaps
9 48 (13.41%) Risk Management
10 47 (13.13%) Observability
11 46 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (11.73%) DevSecOps
13 36 (10.06%) Data Protection
14 33 (9.22%) Identity Access Management
15 32 (8.94%) AI
15 32 (8.94%) Matrix Organization
16 31 (8.66%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (8.38%) Change Management
17 30 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (8.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.88%) Python
2 37 (10.34%) Java
3 28 (7.82%) SQL
4 19 (5.31%) PowerShell
5 13 (3.63%) Go
6 11 (3.07%) Rust
7 6 (1.68%) Bash
8 5 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.40%) VB
9 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.84%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) JCL
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) PromQL
11 1 (0.28%) CLIST
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 33 (9.22%) Degree
2 20 (5.59%) CISSP
3 19 (5.31%) CISM
4 15 (4.19%) PMP
5 14 (3.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 14 (3.91%) CCSP
5 14 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.35%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.23%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.23%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.40%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.12%) FFIEC
10 4 (1.12%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.12%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.84%) CCSK
11 3 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.75%) GDPR
2 15 (4.19%) PMO
3 14 (3.91%) NIST
4 9 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.51%) QA
5 4 (1.12%) GLBA
5 4 (1.12%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.28%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (6.15%) Docker
2 9 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.40%) vSphere
5 3 (0.84%) KVM
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) ACF2
6 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) RACF
6 2 (0.56%) SRDF
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 56 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.34%) Ansible
3 23 (6.42%) Terraform
4 15 (4.19%) Grafana
4 15 (4.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.12%) Argo
6 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.12%) Kiali
6 4 (1.12%) Puppet
7 3 (0.84%) Control-M
7 3 (0.84%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.84%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.56%) Consul
8 2 (0.56%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.56%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.56%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 64 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.70%) Splunk
3 22 (6.15%) Google
4 16 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.79%) Oracle
6 9 (2.51%) VMware
7 8 (2.23%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.40%) Black Duck
9 5 (1.40%) Dell
9 5 (1.40%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.40%) Okta
10 4 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.12%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.12%) IBM
10 4 (1.12%) Juniper
10 4 (1.12%) Thales
10 4 (1.12%) Workday
11 3 (0.84%) Databricks
12 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike