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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 115 97 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.09% 11.59% 13.77%
As % of the General category 25.56% 24.56% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 126
10th Percentile £300 £405 £353
25th Percentile £430 £450 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £604 £606 £634
90th Percentile £688 £698 £731
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.02% -6.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £44.14 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.76 £20.74 -
% change year-on-year -19.21% - -

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 450 395 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.06% 47.19% 60.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 231 548
10th Percentile £235 £350 £346
25th Percentile £375 £444 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £652 £650 £722
Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -7.00% -5.66% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 17
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -18.75% -3.74%
75th Percentile £81.25 £18.27 £21.31
90th Percentile - £40.00 £25.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -1 75 £500 -6.98% 188
Bradford +3 14 £573 +47.74% 21
Halifax +1 12 £550 -10.20% 8
Huddersfield -2 1 - - 7
Wakefield - 1 £700 - 9
Wetherby - 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 9 (7.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) CMS
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.87%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.87%) InVision
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.87%) Sketch
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) Actimize
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.87%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.87%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.87%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.83%) Azure
2 6 (5.22%) AWS
3 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (4.35%) GCP
3 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.48%) Figma
5 2 (1.74%) Asana
5 2 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.74%) OCI
5 2 (1.74%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.74%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.74%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.87%) Lucidchart
6 1 (0.87%) NuGet
6 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (0.87%) SNA
2 1 (0.87%) SSL
2 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.87%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) Power BI
2 2 (1.74%) GIS
2 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.87%) Big Data
3 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.87%) Essbase
3 1 (0.87%) IDMS
3 1 (0.87%) Looker
3 1 (0.87%) Power Query
3 1 (0.87%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) JMeter
3 1 (0.87%) Selenium
3 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (36.52%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.30%) Banking
4 7 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.35%) Legal
6 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.48%) Marketing
7 4 (3.48%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (13.04%) Analyst
2 14 (12.17%) Project Manager
3 13 (11.30%) Architect
4 9 (7.83%) Developer
5 8 (6.96%) Firewall Engineer
5 8 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Designer
7 5 (4.35%) IT Project Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Lead
8 4 (3.48%) Consultant
8 4 (3.48%) Programme Manager
9 3 (2.61%) Android Developer
9 3 (2.61%) PMO Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Project Support Officer
9 3 (2.61%) Scrum Master
9 3 (2.61%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) .NET
1 3 (2.61%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (2.61%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.74%) Spring
2 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.74%) SwiftUI
2 2 (1.74%) XML
3 1 (0.87%) EDI
3 1 (0.87%) J2EE
3 1 (0.87%) JPA
3 1 (0.87%) Kafka
3 1 (0.87%) Micronaut
3 1 (0.87%) Middleware
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (0.87%) RESTful
3 1 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) CMDB
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Windows
2 4 (3.48%) Android
3 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.61%) Linux
3 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.87%) HPUX
5 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.87%) Solaris
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) Agile
2 23 (20.00%) Migration
2 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (11.30%) CI/CD
4 13 (11.30%) Project Management
5 12 (10.43%) DevOps
5 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.70%) Change Management
8 9 (7.83%) Project Delivery
9 8 (6.96%) Business Case
9 8 (6.96%) Data Migration
9 8 (6.96%) Decision-Making
9 8 (6.96%) ERP
9 8 (6.96%) Network Management
10 7 (6.09%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.09%) User Experience
11 6 (5.22%) Clean Code
11 6 (5.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.96%) SQL
2 5 (4.35%) PL/SQL
2 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.61%) COBOL
4 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.74%) C#
5 2 (1.74%) Java
5 2 (1.74%) Python
5 2 (1.74%) Swift
6 1 (0.87%) Bash
6 1 (0.87%) C++
6 1 (0.87%) JCL
6 1 (0.87%) REXX
6 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.09%) Degree
2 4 (3.48%) PMP
3 3 (2.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (1.74%) ACCA
4 2 (1.74%) APMP
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.87%) ACSP
5 1 (0.87%) ACTC
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) CIMA
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) IIBA
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) PMO
2 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.61%) QA
3 2 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) COBIT
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) GRC
4 1 (0.87%) IFRS
4 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) Ansible
1 3 (2.61%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.87%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.87%) Puppet
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.87%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) CheckPoint
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) SAP
4 8 (6.96%) Oracle
5 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco
6 3 (2.61%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.61%) Google
6 3 (2.61%) Perforce
7 2 (1.74%) Computacenter
7 2 (1.74%) Dell
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.74%) IBM
7 2 (1.74%) Progress
7 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.74%) Wrike
8 1 (0.87%) Databricks
8 1 (0.87%) F5
8 1 (0.87%) IFS
8 1 (0.87%) LogicMonitor