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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 412 197 316
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.78% 18.66% 17.90%
As % of the General category 37.29% 33.73% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 113 200
10th Percentile £313 £350 £310
25th Percentile £406 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £491
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +4.83% -3.91%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £570
90th Percentile £675 £698 £625
England median daily rate £535 £590 £588
% change year-on-year -9.41% +0.43% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £10.65
25th Percentile - - £10.99
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £11.97
75th Percentile - - £12.96
90th Percentile - - £13.12
England median hourly rate £23.83 £32.80 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +19.25% +10.00%

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 1,105 584 985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 58.40% 55.30% 55.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 325 620
10th Percentile £261 £250 £227
25th Percentile £381 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -1.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £591
90th Percentile £648 £659 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 24
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £12.56
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.22
Median hourly rate £21.30 £21.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +21.43% -13.58%
75th Percentile £53.69 £39.44 £22.16
90th Percentile £74.28 £42.50 £43.15
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +28.11%

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 7 January 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 7 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
South Yorkshire -1 258 £475 -10.71% 69
West Yorkshire +1 128 £550 +20.55% 94
North Yorkshire +6 12 £481 -10.47% 20
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 30 (7.28%) Confluence
2 21 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.18%) TPMS
4 6 (1.46%) CMS
5 5 (1.21%) CICS
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (12.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.73%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) InVision
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.21%) VisionPLUS
4 4 (0.97%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.73%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.49%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 59 (14.32%) GCP
2 56 (13.59%) AWS
3 47 (11.41%) Azure
4 40 (9.71%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.28%) Serverless
6 20 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.61%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.40%) GitHub
9 10 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.18%) AWS KMS
10 9 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.70%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.46%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.21%) SaaS
14 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (0.73%) Azure AKS
15 3 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.88%) Firewall
2 11 (2.67%) SSL
3 10 (2.43%) SSH
4 9 (2.18%) SNMP
5 6 (1.46%) Internet
5 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.21%) DNS
7 3 (0.73%) Network Security
8 2 (0.49%) VPN
8 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.71%) Power BI
2 37 (8.98%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.16%) Power Query
4 13 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.18%) PowerPivot
6 5 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.21%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.97%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.73%) Metadata
8 3 (0.73%) MySQL
9 2 (0.49%) GIS
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) IDMS
10 1 (0.24%) Looker
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 51 (12.38%) JIRA
3 36 (8.74%) GitLab
4 26 (6.31%) Liquibase
5 12 (2.91%) Git
6 8 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.21%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.97%) Maven
9 3 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.73%) Gradle
9 3 (0.73%) Postman
9 3 (0.73%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.49%) Babel
10 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.49%) Log4j
10 2 (0.49%) Mockito
10 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.49%) Selenium
10 2 (0.49%) Subversion
10 2 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 178 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 125 (30.34%) Banking
3 56 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.38%) Financial Institution
5 28 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.40%) Legal
7 14 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.18%) Retail
10 7 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.46%) Law
11 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.21%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.97%) Billing
13 4 (0.97%) Marketing
13 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (17.23%) Analyst
2 53 (12.86%) Project Manager
3 46 (11.17%) Senior
4 34 (8.25%) Business Analyst
5 29 (7.04%) Developer
6 28 (6.80%) Architect
7 20 (4.85%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.85%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.37%) Consultant
9 16 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.40%) Support Manager
12 13 (3.16%) Financial Analyst
12 13 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (2.67%) IT Manager
13 11 (2.67%) Lead
14 10 (2.43%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.47%) REST
2 35 (8.50%) RESTful
3 29 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.91%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.43%) .NET
5 10 (2.43%) Kafka
6 9 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (1.94%) Middleware
8 7 (1.70%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.46%) CSS
9 6 (1.46%) HTML
9 6 (1.46%) JSON
9 6 (1.46%) OAuth
9 6 (1.46%) SAML
9 6 (1.46%) Spring
10 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.97%) Node.js
10 4 (0.97%) Pandas
10 4 (0.97%) React
11 3 (0.73%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.47%) Public Cloud
2 35 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.28%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.07%) Data Centre
5 24 (5.83%) Onboarding
6 23 (5.58%) Product Ownership
7 17 (4.13%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.91%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.97%) SCADA
15 3 (0.73%) CMDB
15 3 (0.73%) Credit Risk
15 3 (0.73%) Online Banking
15 3 (0.73%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.14%) Linux
2 29 (7.04%) Windows
3 11 (2.67%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 3 (0.73%) VMS
4 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.10%) Agile
2 89 (21.60%) Cybersecurity
3 86 (20.87%) DevOps
4 84 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 83 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (18.69%) CI/CD
7 53 (12.86%) Project Management
8 52 (12.62%) Decision-Making
9 48 (11.65%) Change Management
9 48 (11.65%) Migration
10 47 (11.41%) Microservices
11 45 (10.92%) Containerisation
11 45 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (10.68%) Cryptography
13 43 (10.44%) Computer Science
14 40 (9.71%) Roadmaps
14 40 (9.71%) Root Cause Analysis
15 39 (9.47%) Data Security
16 38 (9.22%) Software Engineering
17 37 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 74 (17.96%) Python
2 45 (10.92%) SQL
3 38 (9.22%) Go
4 30 (7.28%) Java
5 11 (2.67%) VBA
6 10 (2.43%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.18%) C#
8 6 (1.46%) Rust
9 5 (1.21%) COBOL
10 4 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) JCL
10 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
12 1 (0.24%) REXX
Qualifications
1 58 (14.08%) Degree
2 34 (8.25%) Master's Degree
3 30 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (3.16%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.16%) CISSP
5 11 (2.67%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.43%) CISM
7 9 (2.18%) ACSP
7 9 (2.18%) ACTC
7 9 (2.18%) FFIEC
7 9 (2.18%) PMP
8 7 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.21%) PhD
11 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.34%) GDPR
2 20 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.61%) PMO
4 17 (4.13%) NIST
5 13 (3.16%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.67%) QA
7 9 (2.18%) GLBA
7 9 (2.18%) SLA
8 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.73%) PSD2
11 2 (0.49%) COBIT
11 2 (0.49%) GRC
12 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.24%) Basel III
System Software
1 42 (10.19%) Docker
2 17 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) XenApp
5 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (13.35%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.92%) Ansible
2 45 (10.92%) Terraform
3 40 (9.71%) Grafana
4 38 (9.22%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.43%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.21%) Kiali
8 3 (0.73%) Control-M
9 2 (0.49%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.49%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.49%) Nessus
9 2 (0.49%) Puppet
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.65%) Splunk
3 28 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.61%) SAP
5 17 (4.13%) Google
6 11 (2.67%) Apple
7 9 (2.18%) Oracle
8 8 (1.94%) Thales
9 6 (1.46%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (1.46%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.46%) IFS
9 6 (1.46%) Sonatype
10 3 (0.73%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.73%) F5
10 3 (0.73%) Genesys
10 3 (0.73%) Planview
10 3 (0.73%) VMware
11 2 (0.49%) Ariba
11 2 (0.49%) Computacenter
11 2 (0.49%) GoldenSource