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 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 351 109 98
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.74% 28.76% 21.78%
As % of the General category 48.95% 45.23% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 65 33
10th Percentile £392 £360 £378
25th Percentile £426 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £469 £434
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +8.06% -19.26%
75th Percentile £638 £568 £519
90th Percentile £688 £635 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £517 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +8.51% -4.75% -9.09%
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 717 241 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.78% 63.59% 61.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 146 157
10th Percentile £358 £265 £342
25th Percentile £413 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -5.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £630
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £21.33 - £12.34
25th Percentile £23.55 £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% +38.72% -48.12%
75th Percentile £31.19 £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile £36.61 £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £18.55 £14.63
% change year-on-year +22.96% +26.84% -21.76%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 0 333 £500 +6.61% 45
Doncaster - 5 £500 - 5
Barnsley -1 1 £550 - 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 (8.26%) Confluence
2 22 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.71%) TPMS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 60 (17.09%) GCP
2 47 (13.39%) Azure
3 43 (12.25%) AWS
4 25 (7.12%) GitHub
5 22 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.13%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.99%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.71%) PaaS
10 6 (1.71%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.14%) IaaS
11 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.14%) Slack
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.85%) SaaS
13 2 (0.57%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.98%) Network Security
2 18 (5.13%) Firewall
3 8 (2.28%) DNS
4 7 (1.99%) SSL
5 6 (1.71%) SNMP
5 6 (1.71%) SSH
6 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.42%) VPN
7 3 (0.85%) DHCP
8 2 (0.57%) Internet
8 2 (0.57%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.57%) SAN
8 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.28%) HTTP
9 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.71%) Metadata
2 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.71%) Power BI
3 4 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.57%) Big Data
5 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.57%) DB2
5 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.57%) Power Query
5 2 (0.57%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.28%) Looker
6 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.28%) Redis
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
6 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (12.82%) JIRA
2 37 (10.54%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (3.13%) GitLab
5 8 (2.28%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.28%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.99%) Git
6 7 (1.99%) Selenium
7 6 (1.71%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.42%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.57%) Flyway
9 2 (0.57%) git-flow
9 2 (0.57%) JUnit
9 2 (0.57%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 95 (27.07%) Banking
3 52 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.26%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.13%) Law
7 10 (2.85%) Legal
8 9 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.28%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.71%) Billing
11 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.42%) Retail
12 4 (1.14%) Publishing
13 3 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.57%) International Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (15.38%) Lead
2 37 (10.54%) Analyst
3 36 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 31 (8.83%) Architect
5 27 (7.69%) Developer
6 24 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (5.98%) Business Analyst
8 16 (4.56%) Consultant
9 15 (4.27%) Senior
10 14 (3.99%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (2.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 9 (2.56%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (2.28%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.28%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 8 (2.28%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.28%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.28%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.70%) REST
2 16 (4.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (4.27%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.99%) RESTful
5 13 (3.70%) Kafka
6 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (2.85%) Middleware
7 10 (2.85%) OpenID
8 9 (2.56%) Node.js
9 8 (2.28%) React
9 8 (2.28%) SailPoint
10 7 (1.99%) LDAP
11 6 (1.71%) JWT
11 6 (1.71%) OAuth
11 6 (1.71%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.71%) Spring
12 5 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (1.14%) SAML
14 3 (0.85%) JPA
14 3 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.98%) Cloud Native
1 28 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (4.84%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.99%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.99%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.71%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) CCTV
9 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.85%) PMI
9 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.98%) Linux
2 16 (4.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.14%) Unix
5 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.85%) VMS
5 3 (0.85%) zOS
6 2 (0.57%) MVS
7 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 88 (25.07%) CI/CD
3 85 (24.22%) DevOps
4 64 (18.23%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (17.95%) Agile
6 52 (14.81%) Observability
7 50 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (14.25%) Roadmaps
8 46 (13.11%) Risk Management
9 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 38 (10.83%) DevSecOps
11 35 (9.97%) Microservices
11 35 (9.97%) Project Management
12 34 (9.69%) Migration
13 33 (9.40%) Identity Access Management
14 32 (9.12%) Data Protection
15 31 (8.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (8.83%) Matrix Organization
15 31 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.38%) Python
2 49 (13.96%) Java
3 33 (9.40%) SQL
4 20 (5.70%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.13%) Rust
6 9 (2.56%) Go
7 8 (2.28%) Bash
8 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.42%) VB
9 4 (1.14%) VBA
10 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.57%) JCL
11 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.57%) PromQL
12 1 (0.28%) CLIST
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 32 (9.12%) Degree
2 15 (4.27%) CISM
2 15 (4.27%) CISSP
2 15 (4.27%) PMP
3 12 (3.42%) PMI Certification
4 10 (2.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 10 (2.85%) CCSP
4 10 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.71%) FFIEC
9 4 (1.14%) JNCIA
9 4 (1.14%) JNCIS
10 3 (0.85%) CCSK
10 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.13%) GDPR
2 16 (4.56%) PMO
3 15 (4.27%) NIST
4 11 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.56%) QA
6 6 (1.71%) GLBA
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) SLA
8 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (8.26%) Docker
2 10 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) vSphere
4 3 (0.85%) KVM
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) ACF2
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) RACF
5 2 (0.57%) SRDF
5 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) XenApp
6 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.54%) Ansible
3 20 (5.70%) Grafana
3 20 (5.70%) Terraform
4 17 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.28%) Kiali
6 5 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.14%) Puppet
7 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.85%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Consul
9 2 (0.57%) Control-M
9 2 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.57%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 65 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.26%) Splunk
3 21 (5.98%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.56%) Google
5 11 (3.13%) Oracle
6 10 (2.85%) VMware
7 9 (2.56%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.71%) Thales
10 5 (1.42%) Dell
10 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.14%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.14%) IBM
11 4 (1.14%) Juniper
11 4 (1.14%) Okta
12 3 (0.85%) Black Duck
12 3 (0.85%) Databricks
12 3 (0.85%) Workday
13 2 (0.57%) CrowdStrike