Finance Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 109 96 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.22% 21.01% 31.64%
As % of the General category 45.42% 35.16% 42.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 31 79
10th Percentile £370 £356 £414
25th Percentile £393 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £434 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -21.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £539 £588
90th Percentile £650 £619 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £12.99 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.49% - -
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 common skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 240 273 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.34% 59.74% 74.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 154 269
10th Percentile £306 £296 £300
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £12.34 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.50 £13.96 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £37.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Finance in South Yorkshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in South Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in South Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in South Yorkshire

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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 106 £490 +12.90% 104
Barnsley +7 1 - - 5
Finance
Yorkshire

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (15.60%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.50%) GCP
2 5 (4.59%) OCI
2 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.67%) GitHub
4 3 (2.75%) Azure
4 3 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.83%) AWS
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Network Security
2 2 (1.83%) DNS
2 2 (1.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.92%) DHCP
3 1 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.26%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (4.59%) Power BI
4 3 (2.75%) Flink
5 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.83%) Tableau
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Hazelcast
6 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) JIRA
2 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.42%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.42%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.59%) Git
5 3 (2.75%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.92%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.92%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.92%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.92%) TestNG
General
1 36 (33.03%) Banking
2 33 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.34%) Financial Institution
4 8 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.75%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Back Office
8 1 (0.92%) Front Office
8 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.92%) International Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.92%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (12.84%) Senior
2 10 (9.17%) Lead
2 10 (9.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 9 (8.26%) Commvault Engineer
3 9 (8.26%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (7.34%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.50%) Analyst
5 6 (5.50%) Architect
5 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Engineer
5 6 (5.50%) IT Manager
6 5 (4.59%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) Database Engineer
6 5 (4.59%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (3.67%) Developer
7 4 (3.67%) Risk Manager
8 3 (2.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.75%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (2.75%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) Gherkin
2 3 (2.75%) PySpark
3 2 (1.83%) Anaconda
3 2 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.83%) FpML
3 2 (1.83%) JSON
3 2 (1.83%) Kafka
3 2 (1.83%) Pandas
3 2 (1.83%) REST
3 2 (1.83%) XML
4 1 (0.92%) gRPC
4 1 (0.92%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (0.92%) pytest
4 1 (0.92%) RESTful
4 1 (0.92%) Spring
4 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (11.93%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.59%) PMI
5 2 (1.83%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Licensing
5 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.92%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (0.92%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Unix
2 5 (4.59%) Linux
3 4 (3.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.71%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (31.19%) Agile
3 31 (28.44%) Change Management
4 26 (23.85%) Data Protection
5 24 (22.02%) Project Management
6 20 (18.35%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (17.43%) Risk Management
8 18 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (13.76%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.76%) Migration
10 12 (11.01%) Problem Management
11 11 (10.09%) Data Migration
11 11 (10.09%) Translating Business Requirements
12 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.26%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 8 (7.34%) Portfolio Management
14 7 (6.42%) Business Case
14 7 (6.42%) Data Analysis
14 7 (6.42%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) Python
2 10 (9.17%) SQL
3 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.75%) Ruby
6 2 (1.83%) Bash
6 2 (1.83%) Groovy
6 2 (1.83%) Java
7 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
2 4 (3.67%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.92%) CBAP
5 1 (0.92%) CCNP
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.92%) OCP
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) PMO
2 4 (3.67%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.67%) vSphere
3 3 (2.75%) VirtualBox
4 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (18.35%) Ansible
2 11 (10.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (9.17%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.59%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.83%) Terraform
6 1 (0.92%) Control-M
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Istio
6 1 (0.92%) Kiali
6 1 (0.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (19.27%) Oracle
2 17 (15.60%) Commvault
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.59%) VMware
4 4 (3.67%) Google
4 4 (3.67%) Splunk
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Sparx
6 2 (1.83%) Veritas
7 1 (0.92%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.92%) Apple
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) F5
7 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.92%) Snow
7 1 (0.92%) Veeam
7 1 (0.92%) xMatters