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 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 272 85 98
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 32.27% 30.14% 22.02%
As % of the General category 50.84% 45.21% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 43 33
10th Percentile £315 £440 £404
25th Percentile £403 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% -2.91% +5.77%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £663 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -3.15%
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 £25.00 - £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 535 188 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.46% 66.67% 64.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 106 168
10th Percentile £315 £209 £396
25th Percentile £408 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £552 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +0.98% -2.75% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £12.44 £12.19
25th Percentile - £13.49 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £16.19 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +24.63% -31.63%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £14.92
90th Percentile - £19.43 £29.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.78 £20.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.91% +37.93% -28.40%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 0 264 £475 -10.71% 57
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 24
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 24 (8.82%) Confluence
2 20 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.68%) TPMS
4 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.84%) CICS
5 5 (1.84%) CMS
Applications
1 35 (12.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.54%) GCP
2 39 (14.34%) AWS
3 27 (9.93%) Serverless
4 23 (8.46%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.72%) Azure
6 15 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.15%) GitHub
8 12 (4.41%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.94%) AWS KMS
9 8 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.94%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.84%) IaaS
12 4 (1.47%) PaaS
12 4 (1.47%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.47%) Rubrik
13 3 (1.10%) Collibra
14 2 (0.74%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.74%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.78%) Firewall
2 12 (4.41%) SSL
3 10 (3.68%) SNMP
3 10 (3.68%) SSH
4 6 (2.21%) Internet
4 6 (2.21%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.47%) DNS
7 2 (0.74%) VPN
8 1 (0.37%) DHCP
8 1 (0.37%) IPsec
8 1 (0.37%) LAN
8 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.37%) Network Security
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
8 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.46%) Power BI
4 9 (3.31%) Power Query
4 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.94%) PowerPivot
6 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.10%) Metadata
7 3 (1.10%) MySQL
7 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.37%) Looker
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (19.12%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.34%) JIRA
3 33 (12.13%) GitLab
4 24 (8.82%) Liquibase
5 9 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.57%) Git
6 7 (2.57%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.47%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.10%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.74%) Babel
9 2 (0.74%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) webpack
10 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.37%) Gradle
10 1 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 131 (48.16%) Social Skills
2 103 (37.87%) Banking
3 45 (16.54%) Financial Institution
4 33 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.68%) Legal
8 6 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Billing
9 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.47%) Law
10 3 (1.10%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.74%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (18.01%) Analyst
2 31 (11.40%) Project Manager
3 28 (10.29%) Senior
4 21 (7.72%) Business Analyst
5 19 (6.99%) Architect
6 18 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (6.62%) Data Analyst
6 18 (6.62%) Developer
6 18 (6.62%) Software Engineer
7 16 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
8 13 (4.78%) Financial Analyst
8 13 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.68%) Cryptography Engineer
10 10 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.68%) Service Analyst
10 10 (3.68%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (3.68%) Technical Business Analyst
11 9 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.24%) REST
2 29 (10.66%) RESTful
3 27 (9.93%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (3.68%) Middleware
5 10 (3.68%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.31%) Kafka
7 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.21%) OAuth
8 6 (2.21%) SAML
9 5 (1.84%) LDAP
9 5 (1.84%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.47%) OpenID
10 4 (1.47%) React
10 4 (1.47%) SailPoint
11 3 (1.10%) .NET
11 3 (1.10%) CSS
11 3 (1.10%) HTML
11 3 (1.10%) NumPy
11 3 (1.10%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.24%) Public Cloud
2 35 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.93%) Cloud Native
4 24 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 20 (7.35%) Onboarding
6 17 (6.25%) Product Ownership
7 15 (5.51%) Management Information System
8 12 (4.41%) Mainframe
9 11 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.10%) CMDB
12 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.10%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.10%) PMI
12 3 (1.10%) VSAM
13 2 (0.74%) Clustering
13 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.74%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.01%) Linux
2 17 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (0.74%) Unix
3 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (28.68%) Agile
3 76 (27.94%) DevOps
4 67 (24.63%) CI/CD
5 60 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.54%) Computer Science
8 44 (16.18%) Microservices
9 42 (15.44%) Cryptography
10 39 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (14.34%) Root Cause Analysis
11 38 (13.97%) Change Management
12 37 (13.60%) Containerisation
13 36 (13.24%) Data Security
13 36 (13.24%) Decision-Making
14 34 (12.50%) High Availability
15 33 (12.13%) Project Management
15 33 (12.13%) Roadmaps
15 33 (12.13%) Software Engineering
16 32 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.90%) Python
2 42 (15.44%) SQL
3 34 (12.50%) Go
4 30 (11.03%) Java
5 10 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.31%) VBA
7 7 (2.57%) Rust
8 5 (1.84%) COBOL
9 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.47%) JCL
10 3 (1.10%) Bash
10 3 (1.10%) C#
10 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) Bicep
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.37%) REXX
Qualifications
1 49 (18.01%) Degree
2 35 (12.87%) Master's Degree
3 30 (11.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.68%) FFIEC
5 9 (3.31%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.94%) CISM
6 8 (2.94%) CISSP
7 7 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.57%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (2.21%) PMP
9 5 (1.84%) PhD
10 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CCA
12 1 (0.37%) CCSK
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.37%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.72%) GDPR
2 14 (5.15%) NIST
3 12 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.68%) GLBA
4 10 (3.68%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.94%) PMO
6 6 (2.21%) SLA
7 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.10%) QA
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) Basel III
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 36 (13.24%) Docker
2 5 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) XenApp
4 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.44%) Ansible
3 39 (14.34%) Grafana
4 38 (13.97%) Prometheus
5 37 (13.60%) Terraform
6 7 (2.57%) Kiali
7 6 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.74%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.74%) Control-M
8 2 (0.74%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.74%) Nessus
8 2 (0.74%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.65%) Splunk
3 15 (5.51%) Google
4 11 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.31%) Thales
6 8 (2.94%) Sonatype
7 7 (2.57%) SAP
8 5 (1.84%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.47%) Oracle
10 3 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.10%) Genesys
10 3 (1.10%) VMware
10 3 (1.10%) Workday
11 2 (0.74%) Centrify
11 2 (0.74%) Delphix
11 2 (0.74%) Tenable
12 1 (0.37%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.37%) Red Hat