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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 255 81 92
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 30.61% 29.78% 20.63%
As % of the General category 49.32% 44.26% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 42 30
10th Percentile £349 £439 £401
25th Percentile £413 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £532 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% -1.02% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £652 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
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 - - £12.75

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 517 183 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.06% 67.28% 63.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 106 165
10th Percentile £350 £209 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £12.10 £12.19
25th Percentile - £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £13.85 £14.85 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +14.28% -31.63%
75th Percentile - £16.68 £13.41
90th Percentile - £16.97 £24.77
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.78 £20.57 £14.45
% change year-on-year +5.91% +42.31% -32.78%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 0 247 £480 -9.43% 72
Doncaster - 3 £450 - 29
Barnsley - 1 - - 2
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 (9.02%) Confluence
2 18 (7.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.31%) TPMS
4 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.96%) CICS
5 5 (1.96%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) VisionPLUS
2 4 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.86%) GCP
2 38 (14.90%) AWS
3 26 (10.20%) Serverless
4 22 (8.63%) Azure
5 17 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.88%) GitHub
6 15 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (5.10%) OneDrive
8 9 (3.53%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.14%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (3.14%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.96%) IaaS
11 4 (1.57%) PaaS
11 4 (1.57%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.18%) Collibra
13 2 (0.78%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.10%) SSL
2 12 (4.71%) Firewall
3 11 (4.31%) SNMP
3 11 (4.31%) SSH
4 7 (2.75%) Internet
5 6 (2.35%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.96%) DNS
7 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.18%) Network Security
9 2 (0.78%) DHCP
9 2 (0.78%) VPN
9 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.39%) IPsec
10 1 (0.39%) LAN
10 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.67%) Power BI
4 8 (3.14%) Power Query
4 8 (3.14%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.57%) Metadata
7 3 (1.18%) MySQL
7 3 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.39%) Looker
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 38 (14.90%) JIRA
3 33 (12.94%) GitLab
4 22 (8.63%) Liquibase
5 10 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.75%) Jaeger
7 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.96%) REST Assured
7 5 (1.96%) Selenium
8 4 (1.57%) Git
9 3 (1.18%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.78%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.39%) Babel
11 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) Postman
11 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 122 (47.84%) Social Skills
2 96 (37.65%) Banking
3 45 (17.65%) Financial Institution
4 28 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.92%) Legal
8 7 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.57%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Aviation
12 2 (0.78%) Billing
12 2 (0.78%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.39%) Electronics
13 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (14.90%) Analyst
2 30 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 23 (9.02%) Senior
4 19 (7.45%) Business Analyst
5 18 (7.06%) Developer
6 17 (6.67%) Architect
7 16 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (6.27%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Cryptography Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Lead
12 9 (3.53%) Financial Analyst
12 9 (3.53%) Technical Business Analyst
13 8 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (3.14%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.73%) REST
2 28 (10.98%) RESTful
3 26 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (3.92%) Middleware
5 10 (3.92%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.53%) Kafka
7 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.35%) LDAP
8 6 (2.35%) OAuth
8 6 (2.35%) SAML
9 5 (1.96%) OpenID
9 5 (1.96%) SailPoint
9 5 (1.96%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.18%) Anaconda
10 3 (1.18%) NumPy
10 3 (1.18%) Pandas
10 3 (1.18%) React
11 2 (0.78%) PyTorch
11 2 (0.78%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (12.16%) Public Cloud
3 27 (10.59%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 18 (7.06%) Data Centre
6 16 (6.27%) Product Ownership
7 14 (5.49%) Management Information System
8 11 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (3.14%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.96%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.57%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.18%) CMDB
12 3 (1.18%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.18%) PMI
12 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.18%) VSAM
13 2 (0.78%) Clustering
13 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 49 (19.22%) Linux
2 16 (6.27%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (30.98%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (28.63%) DevOps
3 70 (27.45%) Agile
4 66 (25.88%) CI/CD
5 53 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (18.04%) Computer Science
8 42 (16.47%) Cryptography
8 42 (16.47%) Microservices
9 40 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
10 37 (14.51%) Data Security
10 37 (14.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (13.73%) Containerisation
12 34 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 34 (13.33%) High Availability
12 34 (13.33%) Observability
12 34 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 33 (12.94%) Change Management
13 33 (12.94%) Software Engineering
14 30 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.92%) Python
2 39 (15.29%) SQL
3 31 (12.16%) Go
3 31 (12.16%) Java
4 11 (4.31%) PowerShell
5 9 (3.53%) VBA
6 7 (2.75%) Rust
7 5 (1.96%) COBOL
8 4 (1.57%) JCL
9 2 (0.78%) Bash
9 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) C#
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 50 (19.61%) Degree
2 34 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 31 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.31%) FFIEC
5 10 (3.92%) CISM
5 10 (3.92%) CISSP
6 9 (3.53%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.35%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.35%) PMP
9 5 (1.96%) PhD
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CCA
11 1 (0.39%) CCSK
11 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.39%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) GDPR
2 17 (6.67%) NIST
3 11 (4.31%) GLBA
3 11 (4.31%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.75%) PMO
6 5 (1.96%) SLA
7 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.18%) QA
9 2 (0.78%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) Basel III
System Software
1 36 (14.12%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) XenApp
4 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (18.04%) Kubernetes
2 40 (15.69%) Ansible
3 38 (14.90%) Grafana
4 37 (14.51%) Prometheus
5 34 (13.33%) Terraform
6 7 (2.75%) Kiali
7 6 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.78%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.78%) Control-M
8 2 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.78%) Nessus
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (19.22%) Splunk
2 47 (18.43%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.88%) Google
4 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.92%) Thales
6 9 (3.53%) Sonatype
7 7 (2.75%) BiZZdesign
7 7 (2.75%) SAP
8 4 (1.57%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.57%) Oracle
9 3 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.18%) Workday
10 2 (0.78%) Centrify
10 2 (0.78%) Delphix
10 2 (0.78%) Tenable
10 2 (0.78%) VMware
11 1 (0.39%) Citrix
11 1 (0.39%) Genesys
11 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.39%) Teradata