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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 279 80 87
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 31.35% 29.20% 19.46%
As % of the General category 49.47% 44.94% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 40 30
10th Percentile £358 £449 £351
25th Percentile £417 £490 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -0.56% +2.38%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £653 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.61
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate - - £12.99
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £12.75

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 564 178 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.37% 64.96% 62.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 103 157
10th Percentile £350 £211 £360
25th Percentile £423 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £652 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% +26.98% -48.15%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £13.23
90th Percentile - - £13.52
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £25.00 £14.56
% change year-on-year -14.80% +71.67% -32.27%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 0 271 £500 -6.45% 55
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 7
Barnsley - 1 - - 1
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 (10.39%) Confluence
2 21 (7.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.94%) TPMS
4 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.08%) CICS
5 3 (1.08%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.20%) GCP
2 39 (13.98%) AWS
3 26 (9.32%) Azure
4 24 (8.60%) Serverless
5 23 (8.24%) GitHub
6 20 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.73%) OneDrive
7 16 (5.73%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.02%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.94%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (2.87%) AWS KMS
12 6 (2.15%) Rubrik
13 4 (1.43%) IaaS
13 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (1.08%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.08%) Collibra
14 3 (1.08%) PaaS
15 2 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.02%) Firewall
2 13 (4.66%) SSL
3 11 (3.94%) SNMP
3 11 (3.94%) SSH
4 7 (2.51%) DNS
4 7 (2.51%) Internet
5 6 (2.15%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.43%) Network Security
6 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) DHCP
7 2 (0.72%) VPN
7 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.47%) NoSQL
2 29 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.73%) Power BI
4 8 (2.87%) Power Query
4 8 (2.87%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.43%) Metadata
7 3 (1.08%) MySQL
7 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.72%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.36%) Looker
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (21.51%) Jenkins
2 45 (16.13%) JIRA
3 35 (12.54%) GitLab
4 20 (7.17%) Liquibase
5 14 (5.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.87%) Jaeger
7 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.15%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.15%) Selenium
8 3 (1.08%) Git
8 3 (1.08%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.72%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.36%) Gradle
10 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 135 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 103 (36.92%) Banking
3 42 (15.05%) Financial Institution
4 26 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.23%) Legal
9 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.43%) Law
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Electronics
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (13.98%) Analyst
2 31 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 23 (8.24%) Business Analyst
3 23 (8.24%) Senior
4 22 (7.89%) Architect
5 18 (6.45%) Developer
6 16 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (5.73%) GCP Engineer
6 16 (5.73%) Software Engineer
7 15 (5.38%) Lead
8 14 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Cryptography Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.94%) Technical Business Analyst
11 10 (3.58%) Data Analyst
11 10 (3.58%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.87%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.87%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.54%) REST
2 28 (10.04%) RESTful
3 25 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (3.94%) Kafka
5 11 (3.94%) Middleware
5 11 (3.94%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (2.87%) SailPoint
8 7 (2.51%) LDAP
9 6 (2.15%) OAuth
9 6 (2.15%) OpenID
9 6 (2.15%) SAML
9 6 (2.15%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.08%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.08%) Hugging Face
10 3 (1.08%) Pandas
10 3 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.08%) React
10 3 (1.08%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.54%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.04%) Public Cloud
3 21 (7.53%) Onboarding
4 20 (7.17%) Data Centre
5 16 (5.73%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.02%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.08%) CMDB
10 3 (1.08%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.08%) PMI
11 2 (0.72%) Clustering
11 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.28%) Linux
2 18 (6.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.08%) VMS
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.75%) DevOps
2 81 (29.03%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (26.16%) CI/CD
4 68 (24.37%) Agile
5 58 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (17.56%) Computer Science
8 43 (15.41%) Cryptography
8 43 (15.41%) Microservices
9 40 (14.34%) Root Cause Analysis
10 38 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (13.62%) Observability
11 37 (13.26%) Data Security
12 36 (12.90%) Containerisation
12 36 (12.90%) High Availability
13 35 (12.54%) Identity Access Management
13 35 (12.54%) Software Engineering
14 34 (12.19%) Decision-Making
15 33 (11.83%) Roadmaps
16 32 (11.47%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.09%) Python
2 42 (15.05%) SQL
3 32 (11.47%) Java
4 29 (10.39%) Go
5 15 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.23%) VBA
7 8 (2.87%) Rust
8 5 (1.79%) Bash
9 3 (1.08%) COBOL
9 3 (1.08%) VB
10 2 (0.72%) Groovy
10 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.72%) JCL
10 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.36%) C#
11 1 (0.36%) REXX
Qualifications
1 53 (19.00%) Degree
2 34 (12.19%) Master's Degree
3 31 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.66%) CISM
4 13 (4.66%) CISSP
5 11 (3.94%) FFIEC
6 10 (3.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.87%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.51%) PMP
9 5 (1.79%) PhD
10 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.36%) ACCA
12 1 (0.36%) CCA
12 1 (0.36%) CCSK
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.96%) GDPR
2 18 (6.45%) NIST
3 12 (4.30%) PMO
4 11 (3.94%) GLBA
4 11 (3.94%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.58%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.08%) GRC
7 3 (1.08%) QA
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Basel III
System Software
1 39 (13.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.43%) vSphere
5 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.72%) KVM
6 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.20%) Ansible
3 40 (14.34%) Grafana
4 38 (13.62%) Prometheus
5 34 (12.19%) Terraform
6 8 (2.87%) Kiali
7 6 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.72%) Argo
9 2 (0.72%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.72%) Control-M
9 2 (0.72%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.72%) Nessus
9 2 (0.72%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 56 (20.07%) Splunk
3 19 (6.81%) Google
4 14 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.66%) Sonatype
6 10 (3.58%) Thales
7 9 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (2.15%) VMware
9 5 (1.79%) Oracle
10 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.43%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.08%) SAP
11 3 (1.08%) Workday
12 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.72%) Centrify
12 2 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.72%) Dell
12 2 (0.72%) Delphix
12 2 (0.72%) Pure Storage
12 2 (0.72%) Tenable