Finance Contracts in West Yorkshire

Financial
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 88 99 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.88% 9.96% 15.44%
As % of the General category 26.83% 18.20% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 75 183
10th Percentile £305 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £619
90th Percentile £665 £625 £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.27 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.51 £13.23 -
% change year-on-year +39.91% - -

All General Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 328 544 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.21% 54.73% 60.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 311 698
10th Percentile £261 £281 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £676 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £479 £525
% change year-on-year -2.04% -8.81% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 44 9
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%
75th Percentile £36.22 £15.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £91.13 £15.25 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Leeds -3 61 £450 -10.00% 198
Halifax +1 13 £531 - 3
Bradford +12 5 £450 -25.00% 47
Wetherby - 1 - - 1
Finance
Yorkshire

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.95%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (4.55%) AutoCAD
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (4.55%) SketchUp
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Actimize
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) Azure
2 3 (3.41%) AWS
2 3 (3.41%) GCP
3 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
3 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.27%) NuGet
3 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.27%) PaaS
3 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.27%) Serverless
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.14%) Figma
4 1 (1.14%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.14%) OCI
4 1 (1.14%) SaaS
4 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.64%) Firewall
2 3 (3.41%) SSL
3 2 (2.27%) NAS
3 2 (2.27%) SAN
4 1 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.14%) DHCP
4 1 (1.14%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SNA
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.14%) Essbase
3 1 (1.14%) GIS
3 1 (1.14%) Looker
3 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.41%) Selenium
3 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.27%) JMeter
3 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.14%) ERwin
4 1 (1.14%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.23%) Banking
3 8 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Retail
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.14%) Games
6 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
6 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (14.77%) Project Manager
2 12 (13.64%) Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) Firewall Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Lead
5 6 (6.82%) Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Consultant
6 5 (5.68%) Designer
6 5 (5.68%) Senior
7 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.41%) AutoCAD Designer
8 3 (3.41%) CAD Designer
8 3 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Business Consultant
9 2 (2.27%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Development Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) PMO Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) Kafka
1 3 (3.41%) Middleware
1 3 (3.41%) XML
2 2 (2.27%) LDAP
2 2 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (1.14%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.14%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.14%) FpML
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.14%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Clustering
2 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.41%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.27%) NHS
3 2 (2.27%) PMI
4 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.14%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.14%) Replication
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.27%) zOS
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.14%) HPUX
3 1 (1.14%) Solaris
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.59%) Agile
1 19 (21.59%) Migration
2 16 (18.18%) Project Management
3 12 (13.64%) Change Management
4 10 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (10.23%) Network Management
6 8 (9.09%) DevOps
6 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 8 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 7 (7.95%) Analytics
7 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (6.82%) Data Migration
8 6 (6.82%) Visualisation
9 5 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (5.68%) ERP
9 5 (5.68%) Project Planning
10 4 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.55%) PRINCE2
10 4 (4.55%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) SQL
2 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
3 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) Python
4 3 (3.41%) COBOL
5 2 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) JCL
6 1 (1.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.41%) PMP
4 2 (2.27%) APMP
5 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) PMO
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Ansible
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.27%) Grafana
2 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.27%) Puppet
2 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (1.14%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.14%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) CheckPoint
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Adobe
3 4 (4.55%) Cisco
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) SAP
4 3 (3.41%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.41%) IBM
4 3 (3.41%) Perforce
5 2 (2.27%) Confluent
5 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.27%) Google
5 2 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.14%) Sparx
6 1 (1.14%) Veeam
6 1 (1.14%) VMware