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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 353 125 109
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.07% 30.86% 23.49%
As % of the General category 47.90% 47.71% 38.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 79 33
10th Percentile £394 £359 £378
25th Percentile £430 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £469 £434
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +8.06% -19.26%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £519
90th Percentile £688 £638 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% -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 £35.00 £18.51 £13.23
% change year-on-year +89.09% +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 737 262 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.78% 64.69% 61.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 161 153
10th Percentile £358 £268 £299
25th Percentile £413 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £560
90th Percentile £671 £650 £618
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £455 £490
% change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £21.26 - £12.34
25th Percentile £22.44 £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 - £18.50 £13.96
90th Percentile £36.61 £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £20.35 £14.63
% change year-on-year +17.97% +39.11% -24.56%

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 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 29 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 0 335 £508 +8.37% 39
Doncaster - 5 £500 - 11
Barnsley 0 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 28 (7.93%) Confluence
2 22 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.42%) TPMS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.27%) 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%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 62 (17.56%) GCP
2 46 (13.03%) Azure
3 44 (12.46%) AWS
4 24 (6.80%) GitHub
5 22 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.10%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.10%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (1.98%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.70%) PaaS
11 5 (1.42%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.13%) IaaS
12 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.13%) Slack
13 3 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.85%) SaaS
14 2 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.95%) Network Security
2 17 (4.82%) Firewall
3 6 (1.70%) DNS
4 5 (1.42%) SNMP
4 5 (1.42%) SSH
4 5 (1.42%) SSL
5 4 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.13%) VPN
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.57%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.28%) HTTP
7 1 (0.28%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.70%) Metadata
2 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.42%) Power BI
4 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.57%) Big Data
6 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.57%) DB2
6 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.57%) Power Query
6 2 (0.57%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 44 (12.46%) JIRA
2 36 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (3.12%) GitLab
5 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.27%) Git
5 8 (2.27%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.98%) Selenium
7 6 (1.70%) 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
1 150 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.20%) Banking
3 53 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.65%) Financial Institution
5 19 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.97%) Law
7 12 (3.40%) Legal
8 10 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.70%) Billing
12 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.42%) Retail
13 4 (1.13%) Publishing
14 3 (0.85%) Advertising
15 2 (0.57%) International Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (16.15%) Lead
2 36 (10.20%) Analyst
2 36 (10.20%) Project Manager
3 32 (9.07%) Architect
4 28 (7.93%) Developer
5 24 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.67%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.53%) Consultant
8 15 (4.25%) Senior
9 14 (3.97%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (2.83%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 9 (2.55%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (2.55%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.27%) Lead Architect
13 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 8 (2.27%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.27%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.95%) REST
2 16 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (4.25%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.97%) RESTful
5 13 (3.68%) Kafka
6 11 (3.12%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (2.83%) Middleware
7 10 (2.83%) Node.js
7 10 (2.83%) OpenID
7 10 (2.83%) React
8 8 (2.27%) SailPoint
9 6 (1.70%) JWT
9 6 (1.70%) LDAP
9 6 (1.70%) OAuth
9 6 (1.70%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.70%) Spring
10 5 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.13%) SAML
12 3 (0.85%) JPA
12 3 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.93%) Cloud Native
1 28 (7.93%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.65%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (5.38%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.12%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.70%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) CCTV
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.85%) PMI
11 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.65%) Linux
2 15 (4.25%) Windows
3 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.13%) 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 92 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 88 (24.93%) CI/CD
3 87 (24.65%) DevOps
4 67 (18.98%) Agile
5 64 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
5 64 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (14.16%) Observability
7 50 (14.16%) Roadmaps
8 46 (13.03%) Risk Management
9 42 (11.90%) DevSecOps
9 42 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (9.92%) Microservices
10 35 (9.92%) Project Management
11 34 (9.63%) Identity Access Management
12 32 (9.07%) Data Protection
12 32 (9.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (9.07%) Matrix Organization
12 32 (9.07%) Migration
12 32 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.56%) Python
2 49 (13.88%) Java
3 33 (9.35%) SQL
4 20 (5.67%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.40%) Rust
6 10 (2.83%) Go
7 8 (2.27%) Bash
8 6 (1.70%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.42%) VB
10 4 (1.13%) VBA
11 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.57%) JCL
12 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) PromQL
13 1 (0.28%) C#
13 1 (0.28%) CLIST
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 33 (9.35%) Degree
2 16 (4.53%) CISM
2 16 (4.53%) CISSP
3 15 (4.25%) PMP
4 12 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 11 (3.12%) CCSP
5 11 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.27%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.42%) FFIEC
10 4 (1.13%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.13%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.85%) CCSK
11 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.82%) GDPR
2 16 (4.53%) PMO
3 14 (3.97%) NIST
4 10 (2.83%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.83%) QA
5 5 (1.42%) GLBA
6 3 (0.85%) GRC
6 3 (0.85%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (8.22%) Docker
2 9 (2.55%) 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
Systems Management
1 57 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.48%) Ansible
3 20 (5.67%) Grafana
3 20 (5.67%) Terraform
4 17 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.27%) Kiali
6 5 (1.42%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.13%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.13%) Puppet
7 4 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.85%) Control-M
8 3 (0.85%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Consul
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 64 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.93%) Splunk
3 20 (5.67%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.82%) Google
5 10 (2.83%) Oracle
6 9 (2.55%) VMware
7 8 (2.27%) Sonatype
8 7 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.42%) Black Duck
9 5 (1.42%) Dell
9 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.42%) Thales
10 4 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (1.13%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.13%) IBM
10 4 (1.13%) Juniper
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
11 3 (0.85%) Databricks
11 3 (0.85%) Workday
12 2 (0.57%) CrowdStrike