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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 343 232 148
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 29.88% 37.18% 31.29%
As % of the General category 47.77% 52.97% 51.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 155 55
10th Percentile £401 £331 £391
25th Percentile £443 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £485
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -4.64% -9.77%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £594
90th Percentile £688 £620 £659
Yorkshire median daily rate £517 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +8.80% -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 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 - £16.76 -
90th Percentile - £17.81 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £20.74
% change year-on-year +108.89% -19.21% -

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 718 438 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.54% 70.19% 60.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 285 151
10th Percentile £358 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £573 £530 £577
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 5
10th Percentile £20.89 £15.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £22.20 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -24.56%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 0 317 £525 +11.94% 61
Doncaster - 7 £500 - 12
Barnsley +2 5 £550 +44.74% 3
Rotherham - 1 - - 6
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 29 (8.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.29%) CICS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Maple
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.58%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Actimize
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 76 (22.16%) GCP
2 50 (14.58%) Azure
3 46 (13.41%) AWS
4 22 (6.41%) GitHub
5 6 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.75%) OpenShift
5 6 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.46%) SaaS
7 4 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.17%) Slack
8 3 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (0.87%) PaaS
9 2 (0.58%) CloudBees
9 2 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.58%) Network Security
2 9 (2.62%) Firewall
3 4 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.58%) DNS
4 2 (0.58%) iSCSI
4 2 (0.58%) LAN
4 2 (0.58%) Multicast
4 2 (0.58%) SAN
4 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.58%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.46%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.46%) Metadata
3 5 (1.46%) Power BI
3 5 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.17%) Db2
5 3 (0.87%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.58%) Big Data
6 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.29%) Looker
7 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.29%) Redis
7 1 (0.29%) SQLite
7 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (11.08%) JIRA
2 19 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.33%) Git
4 6 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.17%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.87%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.58%) Flyway
7 2 (0.58%) git-flow
7 2 (0.58%) GitLab
7 2 (0.58%) JUnit
7 2 (0.58%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.29%) Gatling
8 1 (0.29%) JMeter
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 126 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.70%) Banking
3 70 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.45%) Financial Institution
5 17 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.50%) Legal
7 11 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.92%) Law
9 9 (2.62%) Billing
9 9 (2.62%) Private Banking
10 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.04%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.04%) Retail
11 5 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.46%) Publishing
12 4 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Advertising
13 3 (0.87%) International Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (23.91%) Lead
2 40 (11.66%) Analyst
3 31 (9.04%) Developer
4 28 (8.16%) Consultant
5 25 (7.29%) Architect
6 21 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.12%) Senior
7 17 (4.96%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.66%) Business Analyst
8 16 (4.66%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 15 (4.37%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.50%) Python Developer
11 9 (2.62%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.33%) Lead Architect
12 8 (2.33%) Technical Manager
13 7 (2.04%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.04%) Data Engineer
13 7 (2.04%) Technical Project Manager
14 6 (1.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 6 (1.75%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.54%) REST
2 12 (3.50%) Node.js
2 12 (3.50%) React
2 12 (3.50%) RESTful
3 11 (3.21%) OAuth
4 10 (2.92%) OAuth2
5 9 (2.62%) Kafka
6 8 (2.33%) OpenID
6 8 (2.33%) SAML
7 7 (2.04%) Spring
7 7 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.75%) JWT
8 6 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.17%) JSON
9 4 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.87%) .NET
10 3 (0.87%) JDBC
10 3 (0.87%) JPA
10 3 (0.87%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.79%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.75%) Data Protection Act
2 30 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.08%) AI Agents
4 13 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.50%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.92%) Mainframe
7 9 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.04%) PKI
10 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.87%) CCTV
12 3 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.08%) Linux
2 8 (2.33%) Windows
3 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.17%) zOS
4 3 (0.87%) VMS
5 2 (0.58%) MVS
6 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (34.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 85 (24.78%) CI/CD
3 75 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (20.41%) DevOps
5 65 (18.95%) Agile
6 59 (17.20%) Roadmaps
7 57 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (16.33%) Risk Management
9 54 (15.74%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (13.99%) DevSecOps
11 45 (13.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 42 (12.24%) AI
13 37 (10.79%) Data Protection
13 37 (10.79%) Observability
14 32 (9.33%) Software Engineering
15 31 (9.04%) Identity Access Management
16 30 (8.75%) Vulnerability Management
17 29 (8.45%) Change Management
17 29 (8.45%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (8.45%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.91%) Python
2 36 (10.50%) Java
3 19 (5.54%) SQL
4 14 (4.08%) Go
5 11 (3.21%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.04%) Rust
7 6 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.46%) Bash
9 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.87%) C#
10 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.87%) VB
11 2 (0.58%) JCL
11 2 (0.58%) PromQL
12 1 (0.29%) CLIST
12 1 (0.29%) COBOL
12 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.29%) REXX
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.75%) Degree
2 19 (5.54%) CISM
3 16 (4.66%) CISSP
4 14 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (4.08%) CCSP
4 14 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.79%) PMP
6 9 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.04%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.46%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.17%) CISA
9 4 (1.17%) CRISC
9 4 (1.17%) JNCIA
9 4 (1.17%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.87%) CCSK
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.50%) PMO
2 11 (3.21%) QA
3 9 (2.62%) NIST
4 6 (1.75%) GDPR
5 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.87%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (5.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.87%) ACF2
3 3 (0.87%) RACF
4 2 (0.58%) SRDF
5 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.58%) Ansible
3 25 (7.29%) Terraform
4 13 (3.79%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.50%) Grafana
6 5 (1.46%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.17%) Argo
7 4 (1.17%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.17%) Puppet
8 3 (0.87%) Control-M
9 2 (0.58%) Consul
9 2 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.58%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.58%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.29%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
10 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.71%) Google
3 12 (3.50%) Oracle
3 12 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.62%) Splunk
5 7 (2.04%) Databricks
5 7 (2.04%) IBM
6 6 (1.75%) Okta
6 6 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.46%) Black Duck
7 5 (1.46%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.46%) VMware
8 4 (1.17%) Broadcom
8 4 (1.17%) Dell
8 4 (1.17%) Delphix
8 4 (1.17%) Juniper
8 4 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.58%) Solace