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 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 304 80 75
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 31.02% 28.27% 18.25%
As % of the General category 47.72% 43.48% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 39 22
10th Percentile £358 £448 £302
25th Percentile £418 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £474
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +12.99% -9.81%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £599
90th Percentile £688 £650 £634
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -14.29%
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 - - £12.99

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 637 184 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.00% 65.02% 60.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 102 139
10th Percentile £340 £213 £240
25th Percentile £413 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £587
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £472
% change year-on-year +5.26% +0.64% -10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.05
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - +26.98% -48.15%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £13.23
90th Percentile - - £13.52
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £14.41
% change year-on-year +3.03% +53.70% -25.69%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 0 296 £500 -6.98% 79
Doncaster - 2 £450 - 31
Barnsley 0 1 - - 3
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 31 (10.20%) Confluence
2 23 (7.57%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.29%) TPMS
4 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) CICS
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.80%) GCP
2 35 (11.51%) AWS
3 25 (8.22%) Azure
3 25 (8.22%) GitHub
4 23 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.91%) Serverless
6 18 (5.92%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.93%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.61%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.95%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (2.63%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.30%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.32%) IaaS
15 3 (0.99%) Azure AKS
15 3 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.99%) Collibra
15 3 (0.99%) PaaS
16 2 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.61%) Firewall
2 12 (3.95%) SSL
3 10 (3.29%) SNMP
3 10 (3.29%) SSH
4 7 (2.30%) DNS
4 7 (2.30%) Internet
5 6 (1.97%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.32%) Network Security
6 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.66%) SAN
7 2 (0.66%) VPN
7 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.33%) IPsec
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.54%) NoSQL
3 14 (4.61%) Power BI
4 8 (2.63%) Power Query
4 8 (2.63%) PowerPivot
5 4 (1.32%) Metadata
5 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) MySQL
6 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.33%) Looker
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (20.07%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.47%) JIRA
3 32 (10.53%) GitLab
4 17 (5.59%) Liquibase
5 15 (4.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.63%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.97%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.97%) Selenium
8 3 (0.99%) Git
8 3 (0.99%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.66%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Gradle
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 136 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 111 (36.51%) Banking
3 44 (14.47%) Financial Institution
4 31 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.24%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.63%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Law
9 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Advertising
11 2 (0.66%) Aviation
11 2 (0.66%) Billing
11 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (16.12%) Analyst
2 31 (10.20%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.21%) Architect
4 25 (8.22%) Business Analyst
5 23 (7.57%) Lead
6 22 (7.24%) Developer
6 22 (7.24%) Senior
7 17 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.59%) GCP Engineer
8 14 (4.61%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.95%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (3.62%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.29%) Cryptography Engineer
12 10 (3.29%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.96%) Infrastructure Manager
14 8 (2.63%) Financial Analyst
14 8 (2.63%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.18%) REST
2 26 (8.55%) RESTful
3 23 (7.57%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (3.62%) Kafka
5 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (3.62%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.29%) Middleware
7 8 (2.63%) SailPoint
8 7 (2.30%) LDAP
9 6 (1.97%) OAuth
9 6 (1.97%) OpenID
9 6 (1.97%) SAML
9 6 (1.97%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.32%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.32%) React
11 3 (0.99%) Anaconda
11 3 (0.99%) Hugging Face
11 3 (0.99%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.99%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.22%) Public Cloud
3 21 (6.91%) Onboarding
4 19 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 16 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (4.93%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.61%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.32%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.32%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.99%) CMDB
10 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.99%) PMI
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.66%) Clustering
11 2 (0.66%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.78%) Linux
2 20 (6.58%) Windows
3 4 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.99%) VMS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.28%) DevOps
2 80 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (25.33%) CI/CD
4 68 (22.37%) Agile
5 62 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (15.13%) Computer Science
8 43 (14.14%) Microservices
9 40 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
10 39 (12.83%) Cryptography
10 39 (12.83%) Observability
11 38 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (11.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 35 (11.51%) Data Security
13 35 (11.51%) Software Engineering
14 33 (10.86%) Containerisation
14 33 (10.86%) High Availability
14 33 (10.86%) Roadmaps
15 31 (10.20%) Decision-Making
15 31 (10.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 75 (24.67%) Python
2 44 (14.47%) SQL
3 32 (10.53%) Java
4 26 (8.55%) Go
5 16 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.96%) VBA
7 8 (2.63%) Rust
8 6 (1.97%) Bash
9 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.32%) VB
10 2 (0.66%) COBOL
10 2 (0.66%) Groovy
10 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) C#
11 1 (0.33%) JCL
11 1 (0.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 54 (17.76%) Degree
2 31 (10.20%) Master's Degree
3 27 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.28%) CISM
4 13 (4.28%) CISSP
5 10 (3.29%) FFIEC
5 10 (3.29%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.63%) PMP
7 8 (2.63%) Security Cleared
8 5 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.64%) PhD
9 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.33%) ACCA
11 1 (0.33%) CCA
11 1 (0.33%) CCSK
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.33%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.91%) GDPR
2 19 (6.25%) NIST
3 14 (4.61%) PMO
4 10 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.29%) GLBA
4 10 (3.29%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.99%) GRC
6 3 (0.99%) QA
6 3 (0.99%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 39 (12.83%) Docker
2 9 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.64%) vSphere
4 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) KVM
5 2 (0.66%) SRDF
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
6 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 51 (16.78%) Ansible
3 39 (12.83%) Grafana
4 37 (12.17%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.20%) Terraform
6 8 (2.63%) Kiali
7 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.64%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.99%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.66%) Argo
11 2 (0.66%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.66%) Control-M
11 2 (0.66%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.33%) vRealize
12 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 58 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.76%) Splunk
3 19 (6.25%) Google
4 14 (4.61%) Sonatype
5 13 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.29%) Thales
7 9 (2.96%) BiZZdesign
7 9 (2.96%) VMware
8 6 (1.97%) Oracle
9 5 (1.64%) Dell
9 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.99%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.99%) Workday
11 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.66%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.66%) Centrify
11 2 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.66%) Delphix
11 2 (0.66%) Pure Storage
11 2 (0.66%) Tenable