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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 251 112 100
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 32.77% 33.43% 22.52%
As % of the General category 50.30% 51.38% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 58 38
10th Percentile £317 £425 £402
25th Percentile £400 £483 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £557 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £485
% change year-on-year -2.91% +6.19% -5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.00 - £10.42
% change year-on-year - - +17.47%

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 499 218 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.14% 65.07% 65.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 121 184
10th Percentile £313 £209 £400
25th Percentile £402 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £598 £610
90th Percentile £675 £665 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £497 £513
% change year-on-year -1.81% -3.12% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £13.97 £12.79 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £14.43 £18.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% -9.53% +5.26%
75th Percentile £14.71 £20.38 £35.00
90th Percentile £14.89 £21.05 £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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 -1 243 £475 -11.63% 92
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 58
Barnsley - 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 19 (7.57%) Confluence
2 10 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.39%) TPMS
4 5 (1.99%) CICS
4 5 (1.99%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 36 (14.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.52%) GCP
2 45 (17.93%) AWS
3 31 (12.35%) Serverless
4 24 (9.56%) Azure
4 24 (9.56%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.78%) GitHub
6 8 (3.19%) AWS KMS
7 7 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.79%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.99%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.20%) Collibra
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.80%) npm
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.40%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.19%) Firewall
1 8 (3.19%) SSL
2 7 (2.79%) SSH
3 6 (2.39%) Internet
3 6 (2.39%) Kerberos
3 6 (2.39%) SNMP
4 5 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.59%) DNS
6 2 (0.80%) VPN
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) IPsec
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.40%) Network Security
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.34%) NoSQL
2 28 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.56%) Power BI
4 13 (5.18%) Power Query
5 10 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.39%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.59%) Metadata
7 4 (1.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.40%) Looker
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (20.72%) Jenkins
2 40 (15.94%) JIRA
3 37 (14.74%) GitLab
4 28 (11.16%) Liquibase
5 8 (3.19%) Git
6 7 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.59%) Postman
8 3 (1.20%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.80%) Babel
9 2 (0.80%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.80%) webpack
10 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.40%) Gradle
10 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 119 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 104 (41.43%) Banking
3 45 (17.93%) Financial Institution
4 38 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.19%) Legal
8 6 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Billing
9 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Aviation
11 2 (0.80%) Law
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (21.12%) Analyst
2 25 (9.96%) Senior
3 22 (8.76%) Data Analyst
4 21 (8.37%) Developer
4 21 (8.37%) Project Manager
5 19 (7.57%) Business Analyst
6 18 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.37%) GCP Engineer
8 15 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.58%) Financial Analyst
10 13 (5.18%) Architect
10 13 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.78%) Incident Manager
12 11 (4.38%) Service Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Design Engineer
14 8 (3.19%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.94%) REST
2 33 (13.15%) RESTful
3 31 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.19%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.39%) CSS
5 6 (2.39%) HTML
5 6 (2.39%) OAuth
5 6 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (2.39%) SAML
6 5 (1.99%) Hugging Face
6 5 (1.99%) OpenCV
6 5 (1.99%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.99%) Regular Expression
6 5 (1.99%) SpaCy
6 5 (1.99%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.59%) .NET
7 4 (1.59%) Kafka
8 3 (1.20%) jQuery
8 3 (1.20%) LDAP
8 3 (1.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.14%) Public Cloud
2 34 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.95%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.37%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.97%) Data Centre
6 12 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (4.78%) Mainframe
6 12 (4.78%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.98%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) CMDB
9 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.20%) VSAM
10 2 (0.80%) Clustering
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) IVR
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.33%) Linux
2 13 (5.18%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.80%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.28%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (29.88%) Agile
3 74 (29.48%) DevOps
4 60 (23.90%) CI/CD
5 54 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (17.93%) Change Management
8 43 (17.13%) Containerisation
8 43 (17.13%) Cryptography
9 41 (16.33%) Computer Science
9 41 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (15.54%) Microservices
11 38 (15.14%) Decision-Making
12 36 (14.34%) Data Security
12 36 (14.34%) Root Cause Analysis
12 36 (14.34%) Software Engineering
13 32 (12.75%) Cost Optimisation
14 31 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (11.95%) High Availability
16 29 (11.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.89%) Python
2 38 (15.14%) Go
3 34 (13.55%) SQL
4 17 (6.77%) Java
5 10 (3.98%) VBA
6 5 (1.99%) COBOL
6 5 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.59%) C#
7 4 (1.59%) JCL
8 3 (1.20%) Bash
8 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.80%) Rust
9 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) Bicep
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 45 (17.93%) Degree
2 36 (14.34%) Master's Degree
3 31 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.98%) CISM
5 10 (3.98%) CISSP
6 9 (3.59%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.39%) FFIEC
10 5 (1.99%) PhD
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.20%) PMP
12 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.40%) ACCA
13 1 (0.40%) CCA
13 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.97%) GDPR
2 14 (5.58%) NIST
3 12 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.59%) PMO
5 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.79%) SLA
7 6 (2.39%) GLBA
8 4 (1.59%) QA
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) Basel III
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (13.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
4 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (17.53%) Ansible
3 43 (17.13%) Terraform
4 38 (15.14%) Grafana
5 37 (14.74%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.80%) Control-M
7 2 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
7 2 (0.80%) Kiali
7 2 (0.80%) Nessus
7 2 (0.80%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.13%) Splunk
3 20 (7.97%) Google
4 13 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.19%) SAP
6 7 (2.79%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.39%) Sonatype
8 5 (1.99%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (1.99%) Thales
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle
10 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.20%) Genesys
10 3 (1.20%) VMware
11 2 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.80%) Centrify
11 2 (0.80%) Delphix
11 2 (0.80%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.80%) Tenable
11 2 (0.80%) Thycotic
12 1 (0.40%) Xero