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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 310 111 88
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.91% 31.62% 20.66%
As % of the General category 49.36% 47.23% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 62 29
10th Percentile £358 £376 £316
25th Percentile £416 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -15.24%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £650 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £11.61
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year - +42.49% -
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
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 general skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 628 235 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.61% 66.95% 58.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 141 137
10th Percentile £334 £355 £208
25th Percentile £411 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +6.38% -14.55%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £472 £455
% change year-on-year +4.24% +3.74% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £12.34
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +38.72% +20.27%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.64 £14.63
% change year-on-year +22.40% +27.42% -19.80%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 0 300 £500 - 39
Doncaster - 4 £450 - 6
Barnsley +1 1 £550 - 2
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 33 (10.65%) Confluence
2 23 (7.42%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.90%) TPMS
4 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.32%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.26%) GCP
2 31 (10.00%) Azure
3 28 (9.03%) GitHub
4 25 (8.06%) AWS
5 22 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.81%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.81%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.19%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.26%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.61%) PaaS
12 4 (1.29%) IaaS
13 3 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.97%) Collibra
13 3 (0.97%) Serverless
14 2 (0.65%) AWS KMS
14 2 (0.65%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.52%) Firewall
2 11 (3.55%) SSL
3 9 (2.90%) SNMP
3 9 (2.90%) SSH
4 7 (2.26%) DNS
5 6 (1.94%) Internet
5 6 (1.94%) Network Security
6 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.65%) DHCP
7 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.65%) SAN
7 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.32%) IPsec
8 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.32%) LAN
8 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.19%) Power BI
3 11 (3.55%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.58%) Power Query
4 8 (2.58%) PowerPivot
5 6 (1.94%) Metadata
6 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.97%) MySQL
7 3 (0.97%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.65%) Big Data
8 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.65%) Looker
8 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.32%) Redis
9 1 (0.32%) Tableau
9 1 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (13.55%) Jenkins
1 42 (13.55%) JIRA
2 15 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
3 13 (4.19%) GitLab
4 8 (2.58%) Jaeger
5 7 (2.26%) Selenium
6 6 (1.94%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.94%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.61%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.97%) Git
8 3 (0.97%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 128 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 101 (32.58%) Banking
3 38 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.74%) Financial Institution
5 22 (7.10%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.90%) Legal
6 9 (2.90%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.94%) Billing
9 4 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.29%) Law
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.65%) Advertising
11 2 (0.65%) Aviation
11 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.55%) Lead
2 41 (13.23%) Analyst
3 31 (10.00%) Architect
3 31 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 22 (7.10%) Business Analyst
5 20 (6.45%) Developer
6 19 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.19%) Senior
7 13 (4.19%) Technical Business Analyst
8 12 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (3.87%) Technical Analyst
9 10 (3.23%) Product Owner
10 9 (2.90%) Cryptography Engineer
10 9 (2.90%) Infrastructure Manager
10 9 (2.90%) Lead Architect
10 9 (2.90%) Strategy Analyst
11 8 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.58%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 7 (2.26%) Data Manager
12 7 (2.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.16%) REST
2 13 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (3.87%) Kafka
3 12 (3.87%) Spring Boot
4 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Graph
4 11 (3.55%) RESTful
5 10 (3.23%) Middleware
6 8 (2.58%) OpenID
6 8 (2.58%) SailPoint
7 7 (2.26%) LDAP
8 5 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.61%) React
9 4 (1.29%) Pandas
9 4 (1.29%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.97%) NumPy
10 3 (0.97%) OAuth
10 3 (0.97%) SAML
10 3 (0.97%) Spring
11 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.74%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.48%) Data Centre
5 16 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.97%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.97%) PMI
10 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.32%) Linux
2 18 (5.81%) Windows
3 4 (1.29%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.97%) VMS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) MVS
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.16%) DevOps
2 71 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 65 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (20.32%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (14.84%) Agile
6 40 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 37 (11.94%) Observability
8 33 (10.65%) Migration
9 32 (10.32%) Identity Access Management
9 32 (10.32%) Project Management
10 31 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 30 (9.68%) Microservices
12 29 (9.35%) Data Modelling
12 29 (9.35%) Data Protection
12 29 (9.35%) Process Improvement
13 28 (9.03%) Computer Science
14 27 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.74%) Python
2 39 (12.58%) SQL
3 34 (10.97%) Java
4 17 (5.48%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.90%) VBA
6 8 (2.58%) Go
6 8 (2.58%) Rust
7 7 (2.26%) Bash
8 5 (1.61%) VB
9 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) C#
12 1 (0.32%) CLIST
12 1 (0.32%) Groovy
12 1 (0.32%) JCL
12 1 (0.32%) REXX
Qualifications
1 34 (10.97%) Degree
2 12 (3.87%) Master's Degree
3 11 (3.55%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.55%) PMP
4 10 (3.23%) CISM
4 10 (3.23%) CISSP
4 10 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.90%) FFIEC
6 8 (2.58%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.97%) PhD
10 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) ACCA
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.65%) CCSP
10 2 (0.65%) CIMA
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.10%) GDPR
2 15 (4.84%) NIST
2 15 (4.84%) PMO
3 11 (3.55%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.90%) GLBA
5 7 (2.26%) QA
6 5 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.97%) GRC
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) Basel III
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 25 (8.06%) Docker
2 10 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.61%) vSphere
4 3 (0.97%) KVM
4 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) SRDF
5 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) ACF2
6 1 (0.32%) RACF
6 1 (0.32%) XenApp
6 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.94%) Ansible
3 19 (6.13%) Grafana
4 17 (5.48%) Terraform
5 16 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.58%) Kiali
7 5 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.29%) Puppet
8 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.97%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.65%) Argo
10 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.32%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.32%) vRealize
11 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 58 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.97%) Splunk
3 14 (4.52%) Sonatype
4 13 (4.19%) Google
4 13 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.55%) Oracle
6 10 (3.23%) VMware
7 9 (2.90%) Thales
8 8 (2.58%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.26%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (1.61%) Dell
11 3 (0.97%) Broadcom
11 3 (0.97%) Databricks
11 3 (0.97%) Workday
12 2 (0.65%) Centrify
12 2 (0.65%) Cisco
12 2 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.65%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.65%) Okta
12 2 (0.65%) Pure Storage