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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 268 78 94
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.63% 29.10% 20.98%
As % of the General category 48.91% 43.82% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 42 32
10th Percentile £350 £439 £362
25th Percentile £413 £484 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £611
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £486
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.91% -7.38%
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 548 178 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.63% 66.42% 64.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 106 166
10th Percentile £349 £210 £359
25th Percentile £421 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -
75th Percentile £559 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.44%
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% -48.15%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £13.23
90th Percentile - £16.97 £13.52
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £20.57 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.56% +41.84% -32.56%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 0 261 £487 -8.46% 51
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 6
Barnsley - 1 - -
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 27 (10.07%) Confluence
2 20 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.10%) TPMS
4 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.49%) CICS
5 4 (1.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.16%) GCP
2 38 (14.18%) AWS
3 25 (9.33%) Azure
4 24 (8.96%) Serverless
5 19 (7.09%) GitHub
5 19 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.60%) OneDrive
8 10 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.73%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (2.99%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.24%) Rubrik
12 4 (1.49%) IaaS
12 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.12%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.12%) Collibra
13 3 (1.12%) PaaS
14 2 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.85%) Firewall
1 13 (4.85%) SSL
2 11 (4.10%) SNMP
2 11 (4.10%) SSH
3 7 (2.61%) Internet
4 6 (2.24%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.87%) DNS
6 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.12%) Network Security
8 2 (0.75%) DHCP
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 32 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 27 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.97%) Power BI
4 8 (2.99%) Power Query
4 8 (2.99%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.49%) Metadata
7 3 (1.12%) MySQL
7 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.75%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.37%) Looker
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 56 (20.90%) Jenkins
2 43 (16.04%) JIRA
3 34 (12.69%) GitLab
4 19 (7.09%) Liquibase
5 14 (5.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.99%) Jaeger
7 6 (2.24%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.24%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.24%) Selenium
8 4 (1.49%) 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
1 131 (48.88%) Social Skills
2 104 (38.81%) Banking
3 43 (16.04%) Financial Institution
4 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.21%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.73%) Legal
6 10 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) 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
12 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (14.18%) Analyst
2 32 (11.94%) Project Manager
3 22 (8.21%) Business Analyst
3 22 (8.21%) Senior
4 20 (7.46%) Architect
5 18 (6.72%) Developer
6 15 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
6 15 (5.60%) Software Engineer
7 12 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (4.48%) Lead
8 11 (4.10%) Cryptography Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Technical Business Analyst
9 10 (3.73%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.73%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.06%) REST
2 27 (10.07%) RESTful
3 24 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (4.10%) Middleware
5 11 (4.10%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.73%) Kafka
7 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (2.99%) SailPoint
9 7 (2.61%) LDAP
10 6 (2.24%) OAuth
10 6 (2.24%) OpenID
10 6 (2.24%) SAML
10 6 (2.24%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.49%) React
12 3 (1.12%) NumPy
12 3 (1.12%) OpenCV
12 3 (1.12%) Pandas
12 3 (1.12%) Regular Expression
12 3 (1.12%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.06%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (10.07%) Public Cloud
3 25 (9.33%) Cloud Native
4 21 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 18 (6.72%) Data Centre
6 16 (5.97%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (5.22%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.24%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.49%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.12%) CMDB
11 3 (1.12%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.12%) PMI
12 2 (0.75%) Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.75%) VSAM
13 1 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.91%) Linux
2 17 (6.34%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) VMS
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.48%) Cybersecurity
1 79 (29.48%) DevOps
2 70 (26.12%) Agile
2 70 (26.12%) CI/CD
3 56 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (17.54%) Computer Science
6 43 (16.04%) Cryptography
7 42 (15.67%) Microservices
8 39 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 37 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (13.43%) Data Security
10 36 (13.43%) Observability
11 35 (13.06%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (12.69%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.31%) Containerisation
13 33 (12.31%) High Availability
13 33 (12.31%) Roadmaps
14 32 (11.94%) Change Management
15 31 (11.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.13%) Python
2 41 (15.30%) SQL
3 31 (11.57%) Java
4 28 (10.45%) Go
5 13 (4.85%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.36%) VBA
7 8 (2.99%) Rust
8 4 (1.49%) COBOL
9 3 (1.12%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) JCL
10 2 (0.75%) Groovy
10 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) REXX
11 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (19.03%) Degree
2 34 (12.69%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.10%) CISM
4 11 (4.10%) CISSP
4 11 (4.10%) FFIEC
5 9 (3.36%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (2.99%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.99%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.61%) PMP
8 5 (1.87%) PhD
9 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.37%) ACCA
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 25 (9.33%) GDPR
2 17 (6.34%) NIST
3 11 (4.10%) GLBA
3 11 (4.10%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.36%) PMO
6 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.49%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) GRC
7 3 (1.12%) QA
8 1 (0.37%) Basel III
System Software
1 37 (13.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) KVM
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) XenApp
5 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (17.16%) Kubernetes
2 43 (16.04%) Ansible
3 37 (13.81%) Grafana
4 36 (13.43%) Prometheus
5 31 (11.57%) Terraform
6 8 (2.99%) Kiali
7 6 (2.24%) 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%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (19.40%) Splunk
3 18 (6.72%) Google
4 14 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.85%) Sonatype
6 10 (3.73%) Thales
7 7 (2.61%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (1.87%) Oracle
8 5 (1.87%) SAP
9 4 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.12%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) Workday
11 2 (0.75%) Centrify
11 2 (0.75%) Delphix
11 2 (0.75%) Tenable
12 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.37%) Dell
12 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.37%) Teradata