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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 296 87 81
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.27% 29.79% 19.15%
As % of the General category 47.59% 45.08% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 46 24
10th Percentile £358 £394 £306
25th Percentile £424 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £596
90th Percentile £688 £650 £626
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.50% +8.11% -11.90%
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 622 193 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 63.60% 66.10% 59.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 113 136
10th Percentile £340 £267 £250
25th Percentile £416 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £587
90th Percentile £688 £650 £619
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £477 £471
% change year-on-year +4.82% +1.27% -10.29%
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 £22.54 £22.14 £14.52
% change year-on-year +1.80% +52.53% -25.12%

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 10 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 10 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 0 288 £500 -4.76% 57
Doncaster - 2 £450 - 9
Barnsley 0 1 - - 5
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 (10.47%) Confluence
2 23 (7.77%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.38%) TPMS
4 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.35%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.86%) GCP
2 32 (10.81%) AWS
3 26 (8.78%) GitHub
4 25 (8.45%) Azure
5 23 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.08%) OneDrive
6 18 (6.08%) Serverless
7 15 (5.07%) OpenShift
7 15 (5.07%) Power Platform
8 12 (4.05%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (2.70%) AWS KMS
11 7 (2.36%) Rubrik
12 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.35%) IaaS
14 3 (1.01%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.01%) Collibra
14 3 (1.01%) PaaS
15 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.73%) Firewall
2 12 (4.05%) SSL
3 10 (3.38%) SNMP
3 10 (3.38%) SSH
4 7 (2.36%) DNS
4 7 (2.36%) Internet
5 6 (2.03%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.35%) Network Security
6 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) DHCP
7 2 (0.68%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.68%) SAN
7 2 (0.68%) VPN
7 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) LAN
8 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.07%) Power BI
4 8 (2.70%) Power Query
4 8 (2.70%) PowerPivot
5 4 (1.35%) Metadata
5 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.01%) MySQL
6 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.68%) Looker
7 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.34%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (19.93%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.86%) JIRA
3 29 (9.80%) GitLab
4 15 (5.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (4.73%) Liquibase
6 8 (2.70%) Jaeger
7 6 (2.03%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.03%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.03%) Selenium
8 3 (1.01%) Git
8 3 (1.01%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) Gradle
10 1 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 128 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 106 (35.81%) Banking
3 36 (12.16%) Financial Institution
4 31 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.70%) Legal
9 4 (1.35%) Billing
9 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.35%) Law
9 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Advertising
10 2 (0.68%) Aviation
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (15.20%) Analyst
2 31 (10.47%) Project Manager
3 28 (9.46%) Architect
4 23 (7.77%) Lead
5 22 (7.43%) Business Analyst
6 20 (6.76%) Developer
6 20 (6.76%) Senior
7 17 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.74%) GCP Engineer
8 15 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.05%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (3.72%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (3.38%) Cryptography Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (3.04%) Strategy Analyst
14 8 (2.70%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 8 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.81%) REST
2 23 (7.77%) RESTful
3 20 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (3.72%) Kafka
5 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (3.72%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.38%) Middleware
7 8 (2.70%) SailPoint
8 7 (2.36%) LDAP
9 6 (2.03%) OAuth
9 6 (2.03%) OpenID
9 6 (2.03%) SAML
9 6 (2.03%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.35%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.35%) React
11 3 (1.01%) Hugging Face
11 3 (1.01%) Pandas
11 3 (1.01%) PyTorch
11 3 (1.01%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.43%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.09%) Onboarding
5 20 (6.76%) Data Centre
6 17 (5.74%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (5.07%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.73%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.01%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.01%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.01%) PMI
11 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.68%) Clustering
12 2 (0.68%) EMC VMAX
12 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.22%) Linux
2 20 (6.76%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.01%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.39%) DevOps
2 75 (25.34%) CI/CD
3 70 (23.65%) Cybersecurity
4 63 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (20.95%) Agile
6 59 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.53%) Computer Science
8 40 (13.51%) Microservices
9 39 (13.18%) Observability
10 36 (12.16%) Cryptography
10 36 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (11.49%) Identity Access Management
12 33 (11.15%) Decision-Making
12 33 (11.15%) Roadmaps
12 33 (11.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 32 (10.81%) Data Security
13 32 (10.81%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.47%) Migration
15 30 (10.14%) Containerisation
15 30 (10.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.32%) Python
2 42 (14.19%) SQL
3 31 (10.47%) Java
4 23 (7.77%) Go
5 16 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.04%) VBA
7 8 (2.70%) Rust
8 7 (2.36%) Bash
9 5 (1.69%) VB
10 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.68%) Groovy
11 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 50 (16.89%) Degree
2 28 (9.46%) Master's Degree
3 24 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.39%) CISM
4 13 (4.39%) CISSP
5 10 (3.38%) FFIEC
5 10 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (3.04%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.04%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.70%) PMP
8 5 (1.69%) PhD
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) CCA
11 1 (0.34%) CCSK
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.09%) GDPR
2 15 (5.07%) NIST
3 14 (4.73%) PMO
4 10 (3.38%) GLBA
4 10 (3.38%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.35%) GRC
7 3 (1.01%) QA
7 3 (1.01%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
System Software
1 36 (12.16%) Docker
2 9 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) vSphere
4 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.68%) KVM
5 2 (0.68%) SRDF
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) XenApp
6 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (17.23%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.55%) Ansible
3 36 (12.16%) Grafana
4 34 (11.49%) Prometheus
5 29 (9.80%) Terraform
6 8 (2.70%) Kiali
7 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.69%) Puppet
8 5 (1.69%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.01%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.68%) Argo
10 2 (0.68%) Control-M
10 2 (0.68%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.68%) Nessus
10 2 (0.68%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.34%) vRealize
11 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 56 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 51 (17.23%) Splunk
3 19 (6.42%) Google
4 14 (4.73%) Sonatype
5 13 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.38%) Thales
7 9 (3.04%) BiZZdesign
7 9 (3.04%) VMware
8 8 (2.70%) Oracle
9 6 (2.03%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.69%) Dell
11 3 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.01%) Workday
12 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.68%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.68%) Centrify
12 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.68%) Delphix
12 2 (0.68%) Pure Storage
12 2 (0.68%) Tenable