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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 348 197 140
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 29.64% 36.15% 28.75%
As % of the General category 47.22% 52.39% 48.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 132 51
10th Percentile £400 £350 £378
25th Percentile £438 £381 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -1.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £584
90th Percentile £688 £625 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -9.09%
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 £15.00 £20.74
% change year-on-year +133.33% -27.68% -

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 737 376 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.78% 68.99% 59.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 245 153
10th Percentile £358 £294 £304
25th Percentile £413 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 6
10th Percentile £20.14 £15.00 £16.98
25th Percentile £21.98 £15.78 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% -13.31% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
% change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -23.80%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 0 322 £519 +10.32% 52
Doncaster - 7 £500 - 10
Barnsley +2 4 £552 +45.26% 7
Rotherham - 1 - - 4
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 8 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) TPMS
Applications
1 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Maple
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.57%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Actimize
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 72 (20.69%) GCP
2 49 (14.08%) Azure
3 48 (13.79%) AWS
4 24 (6.90%) GitHub
5 12 (3.45%) OpenShift
6 11 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.59%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (1.72%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.44%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.15%) SaaS
10 4 (1.15%) Slack
11 3 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.86%) PaaS
11 3 (0.86%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.05%) Network Security
2 10 (2.87%) Firewall
3 5 (1.44%) DNS
4 4 (1.15%) VPN
5 2 (0.57%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.57%) LAN
5 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.29%) SNMP
6 1 (0.29%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.72%) Metadata
4 5 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.15%) Power BI
6 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.86%) Db2
7 2 (0.57%) Big Data
7 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.29%) Looker
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.29%) Power Query
8 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (11.21%) JIRA
2 28 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (2.30%) Git
5 5 (1.44%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.15%) GitLab
6 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.57%) Flyway
8 2 (0.57%) git-flow
8 2 (0.57%) JUnit
8 2 (0.57%) Mockito
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 135 (38.79%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.30%) Banking
3 66 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 13 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.45%) Legal
7 11 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.87%) Law
9 9 (2.59%) Billing
9 9 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.01%) Private Banking
11 7 (2.01%) Retail
12 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.44%) Publishing
13 3 (0.86%) Advertising
13 3 (0.86%) International Banking
13 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (20.69%) Lead
2 43 (12.36%) Analyst
3 29 (8.33%) Developer
4 28 (8.05%) Architect
5 26 (7.47%) Consultant
6 25 (7.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (5.75%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.46%) Senior
9 17 (4.89%) Project Manager
10 16 (4.60%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 13 (3.74%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.45%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.30%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.30%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.30%) Product Owner
14 7 (2.01%) Data Analyst
14 7 (2.01%) Technical Manager
14 7 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
15 6 (1.72%) Operations Manager
15 6 (1.72%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.17%) REST
2 13 (3.74%) React
2 13 (3.74%) RESTful
3 12 (3.45%) Node.js
4 9 (2.59%) Kafka
5 8 (2.30%) OAuth
5 8 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (2.30%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.01%) OAuth2
6 7 (2.01%) Spring
7 6 (1.72%) JWT
7 6 (1.72%) OpenID
7 6 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.44%) JSON
8 5 (1.44%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.44%) SAML
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.86%) SLSA
10 3 (0.86%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.20%) Cloud Native
1 32 (9.20%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.31%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.16%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.72%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.60%) Linux
2 10 (2.87%) Windows
3 6 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) VMS
5 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) zOS
6 2 (0.57%) MVS
7 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (29.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 84 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 75 (21.55%) DevOps
4 72 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (17.53%) Agile
6 60 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (16.09%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (16.09%) Roadmaps
8 52 (14.94%) Risk Management
9 48 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 42 (12.07%) DevSecOps
11 38 (10.92%) AI
11 38 (10.92%) Observability
12 37 (10.63%) Data Protection
13 33 (9.48%) Change Management
14 31 (8.91%) Software Engineering
15 30 (8.62%) Matrix Organization
16 29 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 29 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
17 28 (8.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.68%) Python
2 32 (9.20%) Java
3 20 (5.75%) SQL
4 15 (4.31%) Go
4 15 (4.31%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.30%) Rust
6 6 (1.72%) Bash
6 6 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.44%) VB
8 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.57%) C#
10 2 (0.57%) JCL
10 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.57%) PromQL
10 2 (0.57%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) CLIST
11 1 (0.29%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 30 (8.62%) Degree
2 22 (6.32%) CISM
3 20 (5.75%) CISSP
4 14 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (4.02%) CCSP
4 14 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.74%) PMP
6 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.30%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.30%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.15%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.15%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.86%) CCSK
11 3 (0.86%) CISA
11 3 (0.86%) CRISC
11 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.31%) PMO
2 11 (3.16%) NIST
2 11 (3.16%) QA
3 10 (2.87%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.15%) GRC
6 3 (0.86%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.29%) GLBA
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (5.75%) Docker
2 9 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.44%) vSphere
4 3 (0.86%) ACF2
4 3 (0.86%) KVM
4 3 (0.86%) RACF
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) SRDF
5 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 58 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.63%) Ansible
3 28 (8.05%) Terraform
4 15 (4.31%) Grafana
4 15 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.72%) Argo
6 5 (1.44%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.44%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.15%) Puppet
8 3 (0.86%) Control-M
8 3 (0.86%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.57%) Consul
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.57%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.29%) Kiali
Vendors
1 56 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.32%) Google
3 19 (5.46%) Splunk
4 14 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.45%) Oracle
6 9 (2.59%) VMware
7 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.72%) IBM
8 6 (1.72%) Okta
8 6 (1.72%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.44%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.44%) Black Duck
9 5 (1.44%) Databricks
9 5 (1.44%) Dell
9 5 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.15%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.15%) Juniper
11 2 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.57%) Solace