Finance Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Financial
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 523 216 236
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.34% 20.59% 14.22%
As % of the General category 37.38% 33.18% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 130 140
10th Percentile £368 £325 £378
25th Percentile £430 £385 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% -4.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £575
90th Percentile £705 £643 £639
England median daily rate £550 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.52% -0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile - - £12.78
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +39.91% -
75th Percentile - - £17.01
90th Percentile - - £19.51
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.45 £26.97
% change year-on-year -32.78% +31.42% +4.90%

All General Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,399 651 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.41% 62.06% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 382 556
10th Percentile £308 £235 £200
25th Percentile £405 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £568 £569 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 83
10th Percentile £14.60 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.50 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.55 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% +26.84% -21.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.14 £15.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £31.99 £25.83
England median hourly rate £30.78 £27.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.95% -9.65% -5.75%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Yorkshire

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Yorkshire 0 351 £503 +7.30% 56
West Yorkshire -6 141 £525 +5.00% 128
North Yorkshire -1 20 £700 +30.23% 20
East Yorkshire -11 1 - - 11
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 34 (6.50%) Confluence
2 30 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.15%) TPMS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.38%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.19%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.19%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.19%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 84 (16.06%) Azure
2 72 (13.77%) GCP
3 58 (11.09%) AWS
4 43 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (6.12%) GitHub
6 25 (4.78%) Entra ID
7 23 (4.40%) OpenShift
7 23 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.63%) OneDrive
9 18 (3.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (3.25%) SaaS
11 11 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.53%) Rubrik
13 7 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.34%) PaaS
14 6 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.15%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.40%) Network Security
2 21 (4.02%) Firewall
3 13 (2.49%) DNS
4 8 (1.53%) SSL
5 7 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.34%) VPN
6 6 (1.15%) SNMP
6 6 (1.15%) SSH
7 4 (0.76%) DHCP
8 3 (0.57%) Internet
8 3 (0.57%) SAN
8 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.38%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.19%) DMZ
10 1 (0.19%) HTTP
10 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.19%) LAN
10 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (2.87%) Power BI
2 7 (1.34%) Metadata
3 6 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.57%) DB2
6 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.38%) Big Data
7 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.38%) GIS
7 2 (0.38%) Power Query
7 2 (0.38%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.38%) Tableau
8 1 (0.19%) Looker
8 1 (0.19%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (10.52%) JIRA
2 41 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.29%) GitLab
3 12 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.72%) Git
5 8 (1.53%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.53%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.34%) Selenium
7 6 (1.15%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.96%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.38%) Flyway
10 2 (0.38%) git-flow
10 2 (0.38%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Mockito
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.19%) Hudson
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 186 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.75%) Banking
3 61 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 27 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.02%) Legal
8 15 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.68%) Law
10 9 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.72%) Retail
11 7 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.15%) Billing
13 4 (0.76%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.76%) Publishing
14 3 (0.57%) Advertising
15 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (12.24%) Analyst
1 64 (12.24%) Lead
2 61 (11.66%) Project Manager
3 51 (9.75%) Architect
4 39 (7.46%) Business Analyst
5 38 (7.27%) Developer
6 36 (6.88%) Senior
7 27 (5.16%) Consultant
8 25 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.68%) Java Developer
10 13 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (2.49%) Programme Manager
11 12 (2.29%) Infrastructure Manager
11 12 (2.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 10 (1.91%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.72%) DevSecOps Consultant
13 9 (1.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (1.72%) Lead Architect
13 9 (1.72%) Product Owner
13 9 (1.72%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.02%) REST
2 16 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (2.87%) Spring Boot
4 14 (2.68%) Kafka
4 14 (2.68%) RESTful
5 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Graph
5 12 (2.29%) Middleware
6 11 (2.10%) OpenID
7 10 (1.91%) Node.js
7 10 (1.91%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.72%) React
9 8 (1.53%) LDAP
10 7 (1.34%) OAuth
10 7 (1.34%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.15%) JWT
11 6 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.15%) Spring
12 5 (0.96%) SAML
13 4 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 31 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.54%) Data Protection Act
4 24 (4.59%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.06%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.29%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.15%) SCADA
13 5 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.76%) PMI
15 3 (0.57%) CCTV
15 3 (0.57%) Data Structures
15 3 (0.57%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.31%) Linux
2 21 (4.02%) Windows
3 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.96%) Android
4 5 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.96%) Unix
4 5 (0.96%) zOS
5 3 (0.57%) VMS
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) MVS
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (23.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 105 (20.08%) DevOps
3 101 (19.31%) CI/CD
4 96 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (17.59%) Agile
6 70 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
7 67 (12.81%) Roadmaps
8 64 (12.24%) Migration
9 62 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (11.85%) Observability
10 60 (11.47%) Project Management
10 60 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 53 (10.13%) Risk Management
12 47 (8.99%) AI
13 45 (8.60%) Project Delivery
14 43 (8.22%) DevSecOps
15 41 (7.84%) ERP
16 39 (7.46%) Decision-Making
17 38 (7.27%) Identity Access Management
18 37 (7.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 66 (12.62%) Python
2 50 (9.56%) Java
3 40 (7.65%) SQL
4 27 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.29%) Bash
6 11 (2.10%) Rust
7 10 (1.91%) Go
8 6 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.96%) VB
10 4 (0.76%) VBA
11 3 (0.57%) JCL
11 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.38%) PromQL
13 1 (0.19%) C#
13 1 (0.19%) COBOL
13 1 (0.19%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 45 (8.60%) Degree
2 25 (4.78%) PMP
3 21 (4.02%) Security Cleared
4 18 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.25%) CISM
5 17 (3.25%) CISSP
6 15 (2.87%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 10 (1.91%) CCSP
7 10 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.15%) FFIEC
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.76%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.76%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.57%) CCSK
13 3 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.59%) PMO
2 18 (3.44%) GDPR
2 18 (3.44%) NIST
3 17 (3.25%) QA
4 12 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.10%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.34%) SLA
7 6 (1.15%) GLBA
8 5 (0.96%) GRC
9 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (5.93%) Docker
2 12 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.96%) vSphere
6 4 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.57%) KVM
7 3 (0.57%) RACF
8 2 (0.38%) ACF2
8 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.38%) SRDF
8 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.19%) XenApp
9 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (11.28%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.46%) Ansible
3 28 (5.35%) Terraform
4 22 (4.21%) Grafana
5 18 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.53%) Kiali
8 5 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.96%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.76%) Puppet
9 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.57%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.38%) Argo
11 2 (0.38%) Consul
11 2 (0.38%) Control-M
11 2 (0.38%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.38%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.38%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 91 (17.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.93%) Splunk
3 27 (5.16%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.59%) SAP
5 22 (4.21%) Google
6 17 (3.25%) Oracle
7 11 (2.10%) VMware
8 10 (1.91%) IBM
9 9 (1.72%) Dell
9 9 (1.72%) Sonatype
10 8 (1.53%) Foundry
11 7 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.34%) Workday
12 6 (1.15%) Apple
12 6 (1.15%) Databricks
12 6 (1.15%) IFS
12 6 (1.15%) Thales
13 5 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.76%) Broadcom
14 4 (0.76%) Juniper