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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 308 109 91
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.53% 31.14% 21.11%
As % of the General category 48.50% 46.58% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 58 31
10th Percentile £358 £382 £320
25th Percentile £414 £426 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +14.55% -15.24%
75th Percentile £603 £605 £578
90th Percentile £688 £650 £613
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -9.52%
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 - £18.51 £13.23
% change year-on-year - +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 635 234 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.93% 66.86% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 135 139
10th Percentile £340 £337 £210
25th Percentile £411 £411 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £570
90th Percentile £684 £650 £607
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £473
% change year-on-year +6.61% -0.74% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £16.37 £12.19
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.21 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year - +40.15% +18.09%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £13.41
90th Percentile - £18.51 £16.37
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.19 £20.39 £14.63
% change year-on-year +13.76% +39.40% -22.00%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 0 300 £493 -2.86% 39
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 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 30 (9.74%) Confluence
2 23 (7.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.25%) TPMS
4 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.30%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.32%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.29%) GCP
2 31 (10.06%) AWS
3 27 (8.77%) Azure
4 26 (8.44%) GitHub
5 22 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.84%) OneDrive
7 16 (5.19%) OpenShift
7 16 (5.19%) Serverless
8 13 (4.22%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (2.60%) AWS KMS
11 7 (2.27%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.30%) IaaS
14 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.97%) PaaS
15 2 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (0.65%) CloudBees
15 2 (0.65%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.55%) Firewall
2 12 (3.90%) SSL
3 10 (3.25%) SNMP
3 10 (3.25%) SSH
4 7 (2.27%) DNS
5 6 (1.95%) Internet
6 4 (1.30%) Network Security
7 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.65%) DHCP
8 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.65%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) VPN
8 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.32%) IPsec
9 1 (0.32%) LAN
9 1 (0.32%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.79%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.22%) Power BI
4 8 (2.60%) Power Query
4 8 (2.60%) PowerPivot
5 4 (1.30%) Metadata
5 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.97%) MySQL
6 3 (0.97%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.65%) Looker
7 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.32%) Big Data
8 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.32%) Redis
8 1 (0.32%) Tableau
8 1 (0.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 55 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 39 (12.66%) JIRA
3 26 (8.44%) GitLab
4 15 (4.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (3.57%) Liquibase
6 8 (2.60%) Jaeger
7 7 (2.27%) Selenium
8 6 (1.95%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.95%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.97%) Git
9 3 (0.97%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 129 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 107 (34.74%) Banking
3 36 (11.69%) Financial Institution
4 35 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.47%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.92%) Legal
8 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.95%) Billing
10 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.30%) Law
11 3 (0.97%) Retail
12 2 (0.65%) Advertising
12 2 (0.65%) Aviation
12 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (13.31%) Analyst
2 37 (12.01%) Lead
3 31 (10.06%) Architect
3 31 (10.06%) Project Manager
4 22 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 18 (5.84%) Developer
6 16 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.19%) GCP Engineer
7 15 (4.87%) Senior
8 14 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.90%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.25%) Cryptography Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.92%) Lead Architect
13 9 (2.92%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Strategy Analyst
14 8 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.60%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.09%) REST
2 23 (7.47%) RESTful
3 18 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (4.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (3.90%) Kafka
5 12 (3.90%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (3.25%) Middleware
8 8 (2.60%) SailPoint
9 7 (2.27%) LDAP
9 7 (2.27%) OpenID
10 5 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.62%) React
11 4 (1.30%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.97%) NumPy
12 3 (0.97%) OAuth
12 3 (0.97%) Pandas
12 3 (0.97%) SAML
12 3 (0.97%) Spring
13 2 (0.65%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 18 (5.84%) Product Ownership
6 17 (5.52%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.97%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.97%) PMI
9 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.65%) Clustering
10 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.61%) Linux
2 19 (6.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.97%) VMS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.60%) DevOps
2 73 (23.70%) CI/CD
3 71 (23.05%) Cybersecurity
4 68 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (17.86%) Agile
7 40 (12.99%) Microservices
8 39 (12.66%) Computer Science
9 37 (12.01%) Observability
9 37 (12.01%) Roadmaps
10 34 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
12 32 (10.39%) High Availability
12 32 (10.39%) Migration
13 30 (9.74%) Cryptography
13 30 (9.74%) Decision-Making
13 30 (9.74%) Project Management
13 30 (9.74%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (9.09%) Process Improvement
15 27 (8.77%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 64 (20.78%) Python
2 38 (12.34%) SQL
3 32 (10.39%) Java
4 20 (6.49%) Go
5 17 (5.52%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.92%) VBA
7 8 (2.60%) Rust
8 7 (2.27%) Bash
9 5 (1.62%) VB
10 4 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) C#
12 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 44 (14.29%) Degree
2 24 (7.79%) Master's Degree
3 21 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.25%) FFIEC
4 10 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.92%) CISM
5 9 (2.92%) CISSP
5 9 (2.92%) PMP
6 8 (2.60%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.97%) PhD
9 2 (0.65%) ACCA
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.65%) CIMA
10 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.32%) CEH
10 1 (0.32%) SANS
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.14%) GDPR
2 15 (4.87%) NIST
2 15 (4.87%) PMO
3 11 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.25%) GLBA
5 6 (1.95%) QA
6 5 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.97%) GRC
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) Basel III
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 32 (10.39%) Docker
2 9 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.62%) vSphere
4 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 2 (0.65%) SRDF
5 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) XenApp
6 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (15.26%) Ansible
1 47 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.39%) Grafana
3 29 (9.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (8.77%) Terraform
5 8 (2.60%) Kiali
6 5 (1.62%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.65%) Argo
9 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.32%) vRealize
10 1 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 56 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.58%) Splunk
3 18 (5.84%) Google
4 14 (4.55%) Sonatype
5 13 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.57%) Oracle
7 10 (3.25%) Thales
8 9 (2.92%) VMware
9 7 (2.27%) BiZZdesign
9 7 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.62%) Dell
11 3 (0.97%) Workday
12 2 (0.65%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.65%) Centrify
12 2 (0.65%) Commvault
12 2 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.65%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.65%) Databricks
12 2 (0.65%) HP
12 2 (0.65%) Pure Storage