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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 299 70 85
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 31.11% 26.02% 20.19%
As % of the General category 47.92% 40.94% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 31 30
10th Percentile £358 £438 £318
25th Percentile £425 £490 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £592
90th Percentile £688 £650 £604
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -9.52%
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 - - £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 624 171 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.93% 63.57% 61.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 93 147
10th Percentile £340 £211 £298
25th Percentile £421 £414 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £587
90th Percentile £688 £650 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +26.98% -48.15%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £13.23
90th Percentile - - £13.52
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £14.18
% change year-on-year -5.33% +58.65% -34.03%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 0 292 £500 -6.02% 65
Doncaster - 2 £450 - 5
Barnsley 0 1 - - 1
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 32 (10.70%) Confluence
2 23 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.68%) TPMS
4 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 50 (16.72%) GCP
2 40 (13.38%) AWS
3 26 (8.70%) Azure
4 25 (8.36%) GitHub
5 24 (8.03%) Serverless
6 23 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (6.02%) OneDrive
8 15 (5.02%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.68%) OpenShift
10 12 (4.01%) Entra ID
11 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (2.68%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.34%) Rubrik
14 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.34%) IaaS
16 3 (1.00%) Azure AKS
16 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (1.00%) Collibra
16 3 (1.00%) PaaS
17 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.68%) Firewall
2 13 (4.35%) SSL
3 11 (3.68%) SNMP
3 11 (3.68%) SSH
4 7 (2.34%) DNS
4 7 (2.34%) Internet
5 6 (2.01%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.34%) Network Security
6 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.67%) DHCP
7 2 (0.67%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.67%) VPN
7 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.33%) IPsec
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.70%) NoSQL
2 31 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.02%) Power BI
4 8 (2.68%) Power Query
4 8 (2.68%) PowerPivot
5 4 (1.34%) Metadata
5 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.00%) MySQL
6 3 (1.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Looker
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.05%) JIRA
3 36 (12.04%) GitLab
4 21 (7.02%) Liquibase
5 15 (5.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.68%) Jaeger
7 6 (2.01%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.01%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.01%) Selenium
8 3 (1.00%) Git
8 3 (1.00%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.67%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Gradle
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 136 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 114 (38.13%) Banking
3 45 (15.05%) Financial Institution
4 30 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.34%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.68%) Legal
7 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Law
8 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Aviation
10 2 (0.67%) Billing
10 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (15.38%) Analyst
2 31 (10.37%) Project Manager
3 26 (8.70%) Architect
3 26 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 24 (8.03%) Senior
5 22 (7.36%) Developer
6 19 (6.35%) Lead
7 17 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.69%) GCP Engineer
7 17 (5.69%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.01%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.68%) Cryptography Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.34%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) Infrastructure Manager
14 8 (2.68%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.37%) REST
2 29 (9.70%) RESTful
3 26 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (5.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (3.68%) Kafka
5 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (3.68%) Middleware
5 11 (3.68%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.68%) SailPoint
7 7 (2.34%) LDAP
8 6 (2.01%) OAuth
8 6 (2.01%) OpenID
8 6 (2.01%) SAML
8 6 (2.01%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.34%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.34%) React
10 3 (1.00%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.00%) Hugging Face
10 3 (1.00%) Pandas
10 3 (1.00%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.71%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (9.70%) Cloud Native
3 28 (9.36%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.02%) Onboarding
5 19 (6.35%) Data Centre
6 15 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (5.02%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.68%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.34%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.34%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.00%) CMDB
10 3 (1.00%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.00%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.00%) PMI
11 2 (0.67%) Clustering
11 2 (0.67%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.06%) Linux
2 20 (6.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.34%) Unix
4 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.00%) VMS
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.43%) DevOps
2 82 (27.42%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 71 (23.75%) Agile
5 62 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (16.39%) Computer Science
8 46 (15.38%) Microservices
9 43 (14.38%) Cryptography
10 42 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (13.38%) Observability
12 39 (13.04%) Data Security
12 39 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (13.04%) Software Engineering
13 38 (12.71%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (12.37%) Containerisation
15 36 (12.04%) High Availability
16 34 (11.37%) Decision-Making
16 34 (11.37%) Roadmaps
17 33 (11.04%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.09%) Python
2 44 (14.72%) SQL
3 33 (11.04%) Java
4 30 (10.03%) Go
5 16 (5.35%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.01%) VBA
7 8 (2.68%) Rust
8 6 (2.01%) Bash
9 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.00%) VB
11 2 (0.67%) COBOL
11 2 (0.67%) Groovy
11 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) C#
12 1 (0.33%) JCL
12 1 (0.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 55 (18.39%) Degree
2 34 (11.37%) Master's Degree
3 31 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.35%) CISM
4 13 (4.35%) CISSP
5 11 (3.68%) FFIEC
6 10 (3.34%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.68%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.34%) PMP
9 5 (1.67%) PhD
10 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.33%) ACCA
12 1 (0.33%) CCA
12 1 (0.33%) CCSK
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.70%) GDPR
2 19 (6.35%) NIST
3 12 (4.01%) PMO
4 11 (3.68%) GLBA
4 11 (3.68%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.34%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.00%) GRC
7 3 (1.00%) QA
7 3 (1.00%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 42 (14.05%) Docker
2 8 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.34%) vSphere
5 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.67%) KVM
6 2 (0.67%) SRDF
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.33%) XenApp
7 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (18.39%) Kubernetes
2 53 (17.73%) Ansible
3 42 (14.05%) Grafana
4 40 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 35 (11.71%) Terraform
6 8 (2.68%) Kiali
7 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.34%) Puppet
8 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.67%) Argo
10 2 (0.67%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.67%) Control-M
10 2 (0.67%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.67%) Nessus
10 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 58 (19.40%) Microsoft
1 58 (19.40%) Splunk
2 21 (7.02%) Google
3 16 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.68%) Sonatype
5 10 (3.34%) Thales
6 9 (3.01%) BiZZdesign
7 8 (2.68%) VMware
8 6 (2.01%) Oracle
9 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.34%) Dell
11 3 (1.00%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.00%) Workday
12 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.67%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.67%) Cisco
12 2 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.67%) Delphix
12 2 (0.67%) HP
12 2 (0.67%) SAP