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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 348 227 152
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.47% 35.25% 32.48%
As % of the General category 49.57% 51.47% 51.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 157 61
10th Percentile £366 £324 £400
25th Percentile £430 £380 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £460 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -11.54% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 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 - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +133.33% -78.57% +571.79%

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 702 441 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 61.47% 68.48% 62.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 298 153
10th Percentile £358 £284 £218
25th Percentile £425 £380 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -8.48% -8.73%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £588
90th Percentile £679 £641 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 5
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.08 £15.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £14.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £15.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.80% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £21.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +2.98% +13.16%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 0 325 £514 +11.02% 150
Doncaster 0 8 £500 +334.78% 32
Barnsley +2 5 £550 +44.74% 6
Rotherham - 2 £513 - 10
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 25 (7.18%) Confluence
2 4 (1.15%) Apache
2 4 (1.15%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.57%) nginx
4 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.29%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Maple
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (25.86%) GCP
2 66 (18.97%) Azure
3 61 (17.53%) AWS
4 20 (5.75%) GitHub
5 11 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.87%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 8 (2.30%) OpenShift
9 6 (1.72%) Serverless
10 5 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.15%) Slack
12 3 (0.86%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.86%) Google Gemini
12 3 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.86%) SaaS
13 2 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.06%) Network Security
2 8 (2.30%) Firewall
3 4 (1.15%) DNS
3 4 (1.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) Multicast
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTP
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.29%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (2.30%) Power BI
1 8 (2.30%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.01%) BigQuery
3 6 (1.72%) Metadata
4 5 (1.44%) Db2
4 5 (1.44%) Neo4j
5 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Looker
8 1 (0.29%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 36 (10.34%) JIRA
2 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.59%) Git
4 5 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.15%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.86%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Flyway
7 2 (0.57%) git-flow
7 2 (0.57%) JUnit
7 2 (0.57%) Mockito
7 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) Gatling
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 141 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 105 (30.17%) Banking
3 61 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.05%) Financial Institution
5 24 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.87%) Law
7 10 (2.87%) Legal
8 9 (2.59%) Private Banking
9 7 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.72%) Publishing
11 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.15%) Retail
13 3 (0.86%) Billing
13 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.86%) International Banking
13 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (21.26%) Lead
2 36 (10.34%) Consultant
3 35 (10.06%) Analyst
4 30 (8.62%) Senior
5 24 (6.90%) Developer
6 21 (6.03%) Architect
7 19 (5.46%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 19 (5.46%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.74%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.16%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.16%) Technical Manager
12 10 (2.87%) Security Consultant
13 9 (2.59%) Risk Analyst
14 8 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.30%) Portfolio Manager
14 8 (2.30%) Product Owner
14 8 (2.30%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.20%) Terraform
2 18 (5.17%) REST
3 16 (4.60%) Kafka
4 14 (4.02%) OAuth
5 13 (3.74%) Middleware
5 13 (3.74%) Node.js
5 13 (3.74%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.45%) React
7 11 (3.16%) OpenID
7 11 (3.16%) SAML
8 10 (2.87%) RESTful
9 6 (1.72%) JWT
9 6 (1.72%) Spring
9 6 (1.72%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.44%) SLSA
11 4 (1.15%) .NET
11 4 (1.15%) FIDO
11 4 (1.15%) JSON
11 4 (1.15%) LangChain
11 4 (1.15%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
2 30 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.31%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.74%) Mainframe
7 12 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.87%) PKI
8 10 (2.87%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.59%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.30%) Replication
11 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.01%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.15%) CMDB
12 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.86%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.46%) Linux
2 10 (2.87%) Windows
3 6 (1.72%) Unix
3 6 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) VMS
4 4 (1.15%) zOS
5 2 (0.57%) MVS
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (43.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 99 (28.45%) CI/CD
3 87 (25.00%) Agile
4 84 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (20.40%) Roadmaps
6 70 (20.11%) DevOps
7 64 (18.39%) Risk Management
8 62 (17.82%) Cybersecurity
9 59 (16.95%) DevSecOps
10 51 (14.66%) Observability
11 50 (14.37%) AI
11 50 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (11.78%) Change Management
13 40 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (11.21%) Project Management
15 38 (10.92%) Data Protection
15 38 (10.92%) Decision-Making
16 35 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
17 34 (9.77%) Software Engineering
17 34 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (18.39%) Python
2 37 (10.63%) Java
3 25 (7.18%) SQL
4 17 (4.89%) PowerShell
5 15 (4.31%) Go
6 9 (2.59%) Bash
7 7 (2.01%) Rust
8 5 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.44%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.15%) C#
10 3 (0.86%) VBA
11 2 (0.57%) Bicep
11 2 (0.57%) COBOL
11 2 (0.57%) JCL
11 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.57%) PromQL
12 1 (0.29%) CLIST
12 1 (0.29%) REXX
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (7.47%) Degree
2 22 (6.32%) CISM
3 20 (5.75%) PMP
4 19 (5.46%) CISSP
5 18 (5.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 18 (5.17%) CCSP
5 18 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.31%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.72%) CCSK
9 6 (1.72%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.15%) CISA
11 4 (1.15%) CRISC
11 4 (1.15%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.15%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.31%) PMO
2 13 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.16%) QA
4 6 (1.72%) NIST
5 5 (1.44%) GRC
6 4 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.86%) GDPR
7 3 (0.86%) SLA
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.29%) MiFID
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (4.60%) Docker
2 10 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.72%) vSphere
5 4 (1.15%) ACF2
5 4 (1.15%) RACF
6 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 72 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.75%) Ansible
3 14 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.45%) Grafana
5 7 (2.01%) Kustomize
6 6 (1.72%) Tivoli
7 5 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.15%) Argo
8 4 (1.15%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.15%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 3 (0.86%) Control-M
10 2 (0.57%) Consul
10 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.57%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.29%) Autotask
11 1 (0.29%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.18%) Google
3 18 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.74%) IBM
5 11 (3.16%) VMware
6 10 (2.87%) Splunk
7 8 (2.30%) Oracle
8 6 (1.72%) Okta
8 6 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.44%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.44%) Databricks
9 5 (1.44%) Delphix
10 4 (1.15%) Black Duck
10 4 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.15%) Juniper
11 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.86%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.86%) Mistral
11 3 (0.86%) SAP