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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 273 148 104
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 37.09% 33.41% 27.08%
As % of the General category 53.01% 52.86% 38.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 61 41
10th Percentile £305 £425 £402
25th Percentile £381 £481 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £700 £651
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 515 280 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 69.97% 63.21% 69.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 142 169
10th Percentile £304 £210 £313
25th Percentile £400 £422 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
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 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.44% +25.00% +6.95%

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 12 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 12 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% 48
Barnsley - 9 £380 - 3
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 8
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 7 (2.56%) CICS
2 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.20%) CMS
4 4 (1.47%) TPMS
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 45 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (4.40%) MS Visio
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 44 (16.12%) GCP
2 40 (14.65%) AWS
3 31 (11.36%) Serverless
4 20 (7.33%) Azure
5 19 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.40%) GitHub
7 9 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.20%) AWS KMS
9 5 (1.83%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.83%) 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 19 (6.96%) Power BI
4 10 (3.66%) Power Query
4 10 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.47%) Metadata
6 3 (1.10%) MySQL
6 3 (1.10%) PowerPivot
6 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.37%) DB2
8 1 (0.37%) Easytrieve
8 1 (0.37%) Looker
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (21.61%) 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
1 121 (44.32%) Social Skills
2 99 (36.26%) Banking
3 45 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 23 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.93%) Legal
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 67 (24.54%) Analyst
2 32 (11.72%) Senior
3 26 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 21 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 21 (7.69%) Developer
5 19 (6.96%) Project Manager
6 18 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (6.59%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.23%) Financial Analyst
8 15 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
8 15 (5.49%) Incident Manager
9 14 (5.13%) Service Analyst
10 13 (4.76%) Architect
10 13 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Finance Business Analyst
11 10 (3.66%) Financial Business Analyst
11 10 (3.66%) Lead
12 9 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
13 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 3 (1.10%) Anaconda
7 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.10%) CSS3
7 3 (1.10%) HTML5
7 3 (1.10%) NumPy
7 3 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.10%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.92%) Public Cloud
2 31 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.26%) Cloud Native
4 23 (8.42%) Data Centre
5 20 (7.33%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.13%) Mainframe
7 10 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.47%) VSAM
12 3 (1.10%) CMDB
12 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.10%) Online Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Clustering
13 2 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.73%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.22%) 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 90 (32.97%) Agile
2 76 (27.84%) DevOps
3 68 (24.91%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (18.68%) CI/CD
7 44 (16.12%) Change Management
8 40 (14.65%) Containerisation
8 40 (14.65%) Cryptography
9 38 (13.92%) Computer Science
9 38 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (13.55%) Decision-Making
11 35 (12.82%) Microservices
12 34 (12.45%) Data Security
12 34 (12.45%) Software Engineering
13 33 (12.09%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
14 31 (11.36%) Cost Optimisation
14 31 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (10.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.74%) Python
2 36 (13.19%) Go
3 24 (8.79%) SQL
4 10 (3.66%) Java
5 7 (2.56%) COBOL
5 7 (2.56%) VBA
6 6 (2.20%) JCL
6 6 (2.20%) VB
7 5 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.10%) C#
8 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.73%) Bash
9 2 (0.73%) Bicep
9 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) REXX
Qualifications
1 45 (16.48%) Degree
2 35 (12.82%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.30%) CISM
5 9 (3.30%) CISSP
6 8 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.93%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.47%) FFIEC
8 4 (1.47%) PhD
8 4 (1.47%) RIBA
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
10 2 (0.73%) VCAP
10 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 30 (10.99%) Docker
2 12 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
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 53 (19.41%) Ansible
2 45 (16.48%) 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 3 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.73%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.73%) Control-M
10 2 (0.73%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.73%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 72 (26.37%) 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 6 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.83%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.10%) Oracle
10 3 (1.10%) Thales
11 2 (0.73%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.73%) Cisco
11 2 (0.73%) F5
11 2 (0.73%) Genesys
11 2 (0.73%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.73%) Sage