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 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 251 152 108
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 36.27% 34.55% 28.20%
As % of the General category 52.07% 54.48% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 60 44
10th Percentile £314 £425 £402
25th Percentile £380 £479 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +2.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.78% +4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £70.00 £10.42
% change year-on-year -78.57% +571.79% +17.47%

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 common skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 482 279 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 69.65% 63.41% 69.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 138 167
10th Percentile £309 £209 £336
25th Percentile £400 £415 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £561
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -10.87% +12.20%
75th Percentile £540 £581 £651
90th Percentile £650 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £44.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -11.44% +31.58% +1.60%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 0 235 £475 -11.42% 49
Barnsley - 9 £380 - 4
Doncaster - 2 £283 - 11
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 23 (9.16%) Confluence
2 9 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) CICS
4 6 (2.39%) CMS
5 3 (1.20%) TPMS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 44 (17.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (4.78%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.39%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.53%) GCP
2 40 (15.94%) AWS
3 31 (12.35%) Serverless
4 20 (7.97%) Azure
5 19 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.59%) GitHub
7 6 (2.39%) AWS KMS
8 5 (1.99%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.59%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.80%) Collibra
10 2 (0.80%) npm
11 1 (0.40%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.40%) IaaS
11 1 (0.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.18%) Firewall
2 10 (3.98%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.39%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 4 (1.59%) SSH
4 4 (1.59%) SSL
5 3 (1.20%) SNMP
6 2 (0.80%) DNS
6 2 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.80%) VPN
7 1 (0.40%) IPsec
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) SAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.94%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (7.57%) Power BI
4 11 (4.38%) Power Query
5 9 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.59%) Metadata
7 3 (1.20%) Tableau
8 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.80%) MySQL
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.80%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.40%) DB2
9 1 (0.40%) Easytrieve
9 1 (0.40%) Looker
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.40%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 56 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.74%) JIRA
3 33 (13.15%) GitLab
4 27 (10.76%) Liquibase
5 12 (4.78%) Git
5 12 (4.78%) Postman
6 4 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.80%) Babel
7 2 (0.80%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.80%) PyCharm
7 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.80%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Gradle
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 112 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 84 (33.47%) Banking
3 42 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (16.33%) Financial Institution
5 23 (9.16%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.39%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.99%) Billing
8 5 (1.99%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (25.50%) Analyst
2 32 (12.75%) Senior
3 23 (9.16%) Business Analyst
4 21 (8.37%) Data Analyst
5 20 (7.97%) Developer
6 18 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 16 (6.37%) Financial Analyst
9 15 (5.98%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (5.98%) Incident Manager
10 14 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.58%) Service Analyst
11 13 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) Architect
13 9 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Finance Business Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Financial Business Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Lead
14 8 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.34%) REST
2 33 (13.15%) RESTful
3 31 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.79%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.39%) CSS
5 6 (2.39%) HTML
5 6 (2.39%) OAuth
5 6 (2.39%) SAML
6 5 (1.99%) Hugging Face
6 5 (1.99%) OpenCV
6 5 (1.99%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.99%) Regular Expression
6 5 (1.99%) SpaCy
7 3 (1.20%) .NET
7 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (1.20%) CSS3
7 3 (1.20%) HTML5
7 3 (1.20%) jQuery
7 3 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.14%) Public Cloud
2 31 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (10.76%) Cloud Native
4 24 (9.56%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.58%) Mainframe
5 14 (5.58%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.38%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.59%) VSAM
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
12 2 (0.80%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.80%) IVR
12 2 (0.80%) Online Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.93%) Linux
2 11 (4.38%) Windows
3 7 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.20%) AIX
4 3 (1.20%) Solaris
4 3 (1.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.40%) SUSE
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.47%) Agile
2 72 (28.69%) DevOps
3 64 (25.50%) Cybersecurity
4 54 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (19.52%) CI/CD
6 47 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (17.93%) Change Management
8 39 (15.54%) Containerisation
9 38 (15.14%) Cryptography
10 37 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.94%) Computer Science
12 34 (13.55%) Decision-Making
12 34 (13.55%) Microservices
13 33 (13.15%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (13.15%) Software Engineering
14 32 (12.75%) Data Security
15 31 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (12.35%) Cost Optimisation
16 28 (11.16%) High Availability
17 27 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.29%) Python
2 36 (14.34%) Go
3 23 (9.16%) SQL
4 10 (3.98%) Java
5 7 (2.79%) COBOL
6 6 (2.39%) JCL
6 6 (2.39%) VB
6 6 (2.39%) VBA
7 5 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.20%) C#
8 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.80%) Bash
9 2 (0.80%) Bicep
9 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 41 (16.33%) Degree
2 33 (13.15%) Master's Degree
3 30 (11.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.19%) CISM
5 8 (3.19%) CISSP
6 7 (2.79%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.59%) RIBA
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.20%) FFIEC
9 3 (1.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.80%) VCAP
10 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.57%) GDPR
2 13 (5.18%) PMO
3 12 (4.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (4.38%) NIST
5 8 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.99%) SLA
7 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.20%) GLBA
8 3 (1.20%) QA
9 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (11.95%) Docker
2 11 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.40%) RACF
6 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 50 (19.92%) Ansible
2 45 (17.93%) Kubernetes
3 42 (16.73%) Terraform
4 34 (13.55%) Prometheus
5 33 (13.15%) Grafana
6 10 (3.98%) Puppet
7 6 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (1.99%) SCCM
9 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.80%) Control-M
10 2 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.80%) Nessus
10 2 (0.80%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 66 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.94%) Splunk
3 20 (7.97%) Google
4 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.38%) VMware
6 10 (3.98%) SAP
7 9 (3.59%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.99%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle
9 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.20%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.80%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.80%) Delphix
11 2 (0.80%) Tenable
11 2 (0.80%) Thales
11 2 (0.80%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.80%) Xero