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 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 351 110 101
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.60% 29.02% 22.30%
As % of the General category 48.82% 45.64% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 67 33
10th Percentile £393 £360 £378
25th Percentile £429 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £469 £434
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +8.06% -19.26%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £519
90th Percentile £688 £632 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% -9.09%
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 £35.00 £18.51 £13.23
% change year-on-year +89.09% +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 719 241 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.69% 63.59% 61.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 147 156
10th Percentile £358 £266 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -2.29% -12.73%
75th Percentile £556 £591 £567
90th Percentile £675 £650 £631
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £21.33 - £12.34
25th Percentile £23.55 £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +38.72% -48.12%
75th Percentile £31.19 £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile £36.61 £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.41 £18.55 £14.63
% change year-on-year +26.17% +26.84% -21.76%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 0 333 £507 +8.00% 48
Doncaster - 5 £500 - 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 29 (8.26%) Confluence
2 22 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.71%) TPMS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 61 (17.38%) GCP
2 45 (12.82%) Azure
3 43 (12.25%) AWS
4 25 (7.12%) GitHub
5 22 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.13%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.99%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.71%) PaaS
11 5 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.14%) IaaS
12 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.14%) Slack
13 3 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.85%) SaaS
14 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.70%) Network Security
2 17 (4.84%) Firewall
3 7 (1.99%) DNS
4 6 (1.71%) SNMP
4 6 (1.71%) SSH
4 6 (1.71%) SSL
5 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.14%) VPN
6 3 (0.85%) DHCP
7 2 (0.57%) Internet
7 2 (0.57%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.57%) SAN
7 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.71%) Metadata
2 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.42%) Power BI
4 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.57%) Big Data
6 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.57%) DB2
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.57%) Power Query
6 2 (0.57%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (12.82%) JIRA
2 37 (10.54%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (3.13%) GitLab
5 8 (2.28%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.28%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.99%) Git
6 7 (1.99%) Selenium
7 6 (1.71%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.42%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.57%) Flyway
9 2 (0.57%) git-flow
9 2 (0.57%) JUnit
9 2 (0.57%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.07%) Banking
3 53 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.98%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.13%) Law
7 10 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.85%) Legal
8 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.71%) Billing
11 5 (1.42%) Retail
12 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.14%) Publishing
13 3 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.57%) International Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (15.67%) Lead
2 37 (10.54%) Analyst
3 36 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 32 (9.12%) Architect
5 28 (7.98%) Developer
6 24 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (5.98%) Business Analyst
8 15 (4.27%) Consultant
8 15 (4.27%) Senior
9 14 (3.99%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (2.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 9 (2.56%) Infrastructure Manager
11 9 (2.56%) Python Developer
11 9 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
12 8 (2.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.28%) Lead Architect
12 8 (2.28%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.28%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.70%) REST
2 16 (4.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (4.27%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.99%) RESTful
5 13 (3.70%) Kafka
6 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (2.85%) Middleware
7 10 (2.85%) Node.js
7 10 (2.85%) OpenID
8 9 (2.56%) React
9 8 (2.28%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.71%) JWT
10 6 (1.71%) LDAP
10 6 (1.71%) OAuth
10 6 (1.71%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.71%) Spring
11 5 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (1.14%) SAML
13 3 (0.85%) JPA
13 3 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.98%) Cloud Native
1 28 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
7 7 (1.99%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.71%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) CCTV
10 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.98%) Linux
2 16 (4.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.14%) Unix
5 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 3 (0.85%) zOS
6 2 (0.57%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 88 (25.07%) CI/CD
3 86 (24.50%) DevOps
4 65 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (18.23%) Agile
5 64 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (14.81%) Observability
7 51 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (14.25%) Roadmaps
9 46 (13.11%) Risk Management
10 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 39 (11.11%) DevSecOps
12 35 (9.97%) Microservices
12 35 (9.97%) Project Management
13 34 (9.69%) Identity Access Management
14 33 (9.40%) Migration
15 32 (9.12%) Data Protection
15 32 (9.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 32 (9.12%) Matrix Organization
16 31 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.66%) Python
2 49 (13.96%) Java
3 33 (9.40%) SQL
4 20 (5.70%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.42%) Rust
6 10 (2.85%) Go
7 8 (2.28%) Bash
8 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.42%) VB
9 4 (1.14%) VBA
10 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.57%) JCL
11 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.57%) PromQL
12 1 (0.28%) CLIST
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 33 (9.40%) Degree
2 15 (4.27%) CISM
2 15 (4.27%) CISSP
2 15 (4.27%) PMP
3 12 (3.42%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 10 (2.85%) CCSP
4 10 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.71%) FFIEC
9 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
9 4 (1.14%) JNCIS
10 3 (0.85%) CCSK
10 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.13%) GDPR
2 16 (4.56%) PMO
3 15 (4.27%) NIST
4 11 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.56%) QA
6 6 (1.71%) GLBA
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) SLA
8 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (8.26%) Docker
2 9 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) vSphere
4 3 (0.85%) KVM
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) ACF2
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) RACF
5 2 (0.57%) SRDF
5 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.54%) Ansible
3 20 (5.70%) Grafana
3 20 (5.70%) Terraform
4 17 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.28%) Kiali
6 5 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.14%) Puppet
7 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.85%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Consul
9 2 (0.57%) Control-M
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.57%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 64 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.26%) Splunk
3 21 (5.98%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.84%) Google
5 10 (2.85%) Oracle
6 9 (2.56%) Sonatype
6 9 (2.56%) VMware
7 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.71%) Thales
9 5 (1.42%) Dell
9 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.14%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.14%) IBM
10 4 (1.14%) Juniper
10 4 (1.14%) Okta
11 3 (0.85%) Black Duck
11 3 (0.85%) Databricks
11 3 (0.85%) Workday
12 2 (0.57%) Solace