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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 356 176 138
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.04% 34.51% 27.77%
As % of the General category 47.47% 50.43% 47.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 116 44
10th Percentile £400 £359 £378
25th Percentile £442 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +1.41% -15.91%
75th Percentile £669 £564 £576
90th Percentile £688 £631 £617
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £17.24 - -
25th Percentile £19.10 - -
Median hourly rate £22.20 £15.00 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% +13.38% -
75th Percentile - £16.76 -
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £19.51
% change year-on-year +133.33% -23.10% -

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 750 349 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.29% 68.43% 58.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 226 147
10th Percentile £358 £285 £298
25th Percentile £413 £380 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -6.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £566 £576
90th Percentile £688 £638 £622
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 7
10th Percentile £20.14 £15.00 £13.02
25th Percentile £21.98 £15.78 £13.60
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% -13.31% +90.91%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £21.75
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -23.03%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 0 332 £525 +10.53% 68
Doncaster - 7 £500 - 9
Barnsley +2 3 £550 +44.74% 6
Rotherham - 1 - - 4
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 (8.43%) Confluence
2 15 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) TPMS
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.97%) 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 73 (20.51%) GCP
2 49 (13.76%) AWS
2 49 (13.76%) Azure
3 23 (6.46%) GitHub
4 18 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.65%) OneDrive
5 13 (3.65%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.40%) PaaS
8 5 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 5 (1.40%) Rubrik
9 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.12%) Slack
10 3 (0.84%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.84%) IaaS
10 3 (0.84%) SaaS
11 2 (0.56%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.87%) Network Security
2 12 (3.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.12%) DNS
3 4 (1.12%) VPN
4 3 (0.84%) SNMP
4 3 (0.84%) SSH
4 3 (0.84%) SSL
5 2 (0.56%) DHCP
5 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.56%) LAN
5 2 (0.56%) Multicast
5 2 (0.56%) SAN
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.97%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.69%) Metadata
4 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.12%) Power BI
6 2 (0.56%) Big Data
6 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.56%) Db2
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.28%) Power Query
7 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (11.80%) JIRA
2 33 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.25%) Git
5 7 (1.97%) GitLab
5 7 (1.97%) Selenium
6 6 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.40%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.12%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.84%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.56%) Flyway
10 2 (0.56%) git-flow
10 2 (0.56%) JUnit
10 2 (0.56%) Mockito
11 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.28%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 143 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.69%) Banking
3 59 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.43%) Financial Institution
5 15 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.37%) Legal
7 10 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.81%) Law
7 10 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.25%) Billing
10 7 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.69%) Retail
12 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.40%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.40%) Publishing
13 3 (0.84%) Advertising
13 3 (0.84%) International Banking
13 3 (0.84%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (18.26%) Lead
2 40 (11.24%) Analyst
3 33 (9.27%) Architect
4 31 (8.71%) Developer
5 25 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.74%) Consultant
7 21 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.34%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.49%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 14 (3.93%) Java Developer
10 14 (3.93%) Senior
11 12 (3.37%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.53%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.25%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.25%) Technical Business Analyst
14 7 (1.97%) Data Engineer
14 7 (1.97%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (1.97%) Infrastructure Manager
14 7 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
14 7 (1.97%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.62%) REST
2 14 (3.93%) React
2 14 (3.93%) RESTful
3 12 (3.37%) Node.js
4 10 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (2.81%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.53%) Kafka
5 9 (2.53%) OpenID
6 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (1.97%) OAuth
7 7 (1.97%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.97%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.97%) Spring
8 6 (1.69%) JWT
8 6 (1.69%) Middleware
9 5 (1.40%) LDAP
9 5 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.40%) SAML
10 4 (1.12%) JSON
11 3 (0.84%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.99%) Data Protection Act
3 30 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.09%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.25%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.84%) Blog
12 3 (0.84%) CCTV
12 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.34%) Linux
2 11 (3.09%) Windows
3 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.12%) VMS
5 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.84%) Unix
5 3 (0.84%) zOS
6 2 (0.56%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 90 (25.28%) CI/CD
3 82 (23.03%) DevOps
4 65 (18.26%) Agile
5 64 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (16.57%) Roadmaps
8 58 (16.29%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (12.92%) Risk Management
9 46 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (12.36%) Observability
11 43 (12.08%) DevSecOps
12 37 (10.39%) Data Protection
13 34 (9.55%) AI
14 32 (8.99%) Change Management
14 32 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (8.99%) Matrix Organization
15 31 (8.71%) Identity Access Management
16 30 (8.43%) Software Engineering
16 30 (8.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.98%) Python
2 39 (10.96%) Java
3 27 (7.58%) SQL
4 17 (4.78%) PowerShell
5 14 (3.93%) Go
6 10 (2.81%) Rust
7 6 (1.69%) Bash
8 5 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.40%) VB
9 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.56%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) JCL
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) PromQL
10 2 (0.56%) VBA
11 1 (0.28%) CLIST
11 1 (0.28%) Groovy
11 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (8.99%) Degree
2 20 (5.62%) CISSP
3 19 (5.34%) CISM
4 14 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (3.93%) CCSP
4 14 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (3.93%) PMP
5 12 (3.37%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.25%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.40%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.12%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.12%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.84%) CCSK
11 3 (0.84%) FFIEC
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 15 (4.21%) GDPR
2 14 (3.93%) PMO
3 13 (3.65%) NIST
4 10 (2.81%) QA
5 8 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.40%) GRC
7 3 (0.84%) GLBA
8 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.28%) MiFID
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (6.18%) Docker
2 9 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.69%) 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 58 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.39%) Ansible
3 25 (7.02%) Terraform
4 15 (4.21%) Grafana
4 15 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.40%) Argo
5 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.12%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.12%) Puppet
7 3 (0.84%) Control-M
7 3 (0.84%) Kiali
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%) Nessus
Vendors
1 60 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.74%) Google
3 22 (6.18%) Splunk
4 16 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.81%) Oracle
6 9 (2.53%) VMware
7 8 (2.25%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
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%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.12%) Databricks
10 4 (1.12%) IBM
10 4 (1.12%) Juniper
11 3 (0.84%) Thales
11 3 (0.84%) Workday
12 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike