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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 273 142 105
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 36.89% 33.49% 26.85%
As % of the General category 52.40% 53.99% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 60 40
10th Percentile £315 £425 £402
25th Percentile £384 £488 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £543 £628 £600
90th Percentile £653 £700 £628
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £70.00 £10.42
% change year-on-year -78.57% +571.79% +17.47%

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 common skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 521 263 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 70.41% 62.03% 67.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 133 165
10th Percentile £312 £209 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £25.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.44% +28.21% +3.31%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 0 256 £475 -11.63% 37
Barnsley - 9 £380 - 3
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 9
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 25 (9.16%) Confluence
2 9 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.56%) CICS
4 6 (2.20%) CMS
5 4 (1.47%) TPMS
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 45 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (4.40%) MS Visio
4 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.75%) GCP
2 39 (14.29%) AWS
3 31 (11.36%) Serverless
4 23 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.59%) Azure
6 10 (3.66%) GitHub
7 8 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.20%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.83%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.47%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.10%) Collibra
12 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.73%) npm
12 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.37%) IaaS
13 1 (0.37%) PaaS
13 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.76%) Firewall
2 10 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.20%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.83%) Internet
4 5 (1.83%) SSH
4 5 (1.83%) SSL
5 4 (1.47%) SNMP
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.73%) VPN
7 1 (0.37%) IPsec
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.19%) NoSQL
2 26 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.42%) Power BI
4 13 (4.76%) Power Query
5 10 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.20%) PowerPivot
7 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.47%) Metadata
8 3 (1.10%) MySQL
8 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) DB2
10 1 (0.37%) Easytrieve
10 1 (0.37%) Looker
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 41 (15.02%) JIRA
3 33 (12.09%) GitLab
4 27 (9.89%) Liquibase
5 12 (4.40%) Git
5 12 (4.40%) Postman
6 6 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.10%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.73%) Babel
8 2 (0.73%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.73%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.73%) webpack
9 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.37%) Gradle
9 1 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 122 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 102 (37.36%) Banking
3 47 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (15.02%) Financial Institution
5 22 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.93%) Legal
7 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.83%) Billing
9 5 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.10%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.73%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Electronics
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (25.27%) Analyst
2 32 (11.72%) Senior
3 26 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 22 (8.06%) Data Analyst
5 21 (7.69%) Developer
6 19 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 18 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (6.59%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.23%) Financial Analyst
9 15 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (5.49%) Incident Manager
10 14 (5.13%) Architect
10 14 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.13%) Service Analyst
11 13 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (4.03%) Lead
13 10 (3.66%) Finance Business Analyst
13 10 (3.66%) Financial Business Analyst
14 9 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.93%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.19%) REST
2 33 (12.09%) RESTful
3 31 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.93%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.20%) CSS
5 6 (2.20%) HTML
5 6 (2.20%) OAuth
5 6 (2.20%) SAML
6 5 (1.83%) Hugging Face
6 5 (1.83%) OpenCV
6 5 (1.83%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.83%) Regular Expression
6 5 (1.83%) SpaCy
7 4 (1.47%) .NET
8 3 (1.10%) Anaconda
8 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (1.10%) CSS3
8 3 (1.10%) jQuery
8 3 (1.10%) Pandas
8 3 (1.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.55%) Public Cloud
2 31 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.62%) Cloud Native
4 26 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 20 (7.33%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.13%) Mainframe
7 11 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.47%) VSAM
13 3 (1.10%) CMDB
13 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.10%) Online Banking
14 2 (0.73%) Clustering
14 2 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.73%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.85%) Linux
2 13 (4.76%) Windows
3 7 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.10%) AIX
4 3 (1.10%) Solaris
4 3 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.37%) SUSE
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.87%) Agile
2 74 (27.11%) DevOps
3 69 (25.27%) Cybersecurity
4 60 (21.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 54 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (18.32%) CI/CD
7 44 (16.12%) Change Management
8 41 (15.02%) Cryptography
9 39 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 39 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 39 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 38 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (12.82%) Microservices
11 35 (12.82%) Software Engineering
12 34 (12.45%) Data Security
13 33 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 32 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (11.36%) Cost Optimisation
16 28 (10.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.11%) Python
2 36 (13.19%) Go
3 28 (10.26%) SQL
4 10 (3.66%) Java
4 10 (3.66%) VBA
5 7 (2.56%) COBOL
6 6 (2.20%) JCL
7 5 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.83%) VB
8 4 (1.47%) C#
9 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.73%) Bash
10 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) Bicep
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) REXX
11 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (16.85%) Degree
2 36 (13.19%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.66%) CISM
5 10 (3.66%) CISSP
6 8 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.93%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.83%) PhD
9 4 (1.47%) FFIEC
9 4 (1.47%) RIBA
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 2 (0.73%) VCAP
11 2 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.06%) GDPR
2 13 (4.76%) PMO
3 12 (4.40%) NIST
3 12 (4.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.83%) SLA
7 4 (1.47%) GLBA
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 29 (10.62%) Docker
2 12 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.73%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.37%) RACF
6 1 (0.37%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 50 (18.32%) Ansible
2 44 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 42 (15.38%) Terraform
4 34 (12.45%) Prometheus
5 33 (12.09%) Grafana
6 10 (3.66%) Puppet
7 6 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (1.83%) SCCM
9 2 (0.73%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.73%) Control-M
9 2 (0.73%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.73%) Nessus
9 2 (0.73%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.73%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 70 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.55%) Splunk
3 20 (7.33%) Google
4 17 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.40%) VMware
6 9 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.30%) SAP
7 7 (2.56%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
8 5 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.83%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.10%) Thales
10 2 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (0.73%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.73%) Centrify
10 2 (0.73%) Delphix
10 2 (0.73%) Genesys
10 2 (0.73%) Tenable
10 2 (0.73%) Thycotic
10 2 (0.73%) Xero