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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 550 261 252
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.34% 22.62% 14.62%
As % of the General category 37.77% 35.70% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 163 138
10th Percentile £375 £350 £378
25th Percentile £430 £385 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £586
90th Percentile £708 £638 £652
England median daily rate £550 £565 £588
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £20.34 - £12.05
25th Percentile £31.80 - £12.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +89.09% +39.91% -
75th Percentile £37.24 - £19.51
90th Percentile £43.96 - £40.44
England median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +2.79%

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 1,456 731 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.85% 63.34% 55.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 929 437 535
10th Percentile £313 £248 £198
25th Percentile £407 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £648
England median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 31 85
10th Percentile £16.01 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £20.71 £17.29 £12.15
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £18.27
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.15 £34.33
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.97
% change year-on-year +15.76% -12.18% +4.82%

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 14 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Yorkshire

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 14 June 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 0 361 £514 +10.30% 69
West Yorkshire -4 154 £525 +3.96% 137
North Yorkshire +1 22 £700 +27.27% 18
East Yorkshire -10 1 - - 9
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 (6.18%) Confluence
2 33 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.91%) TPMS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 90 (16.36%) Azure
2 85 (15.45%) GCP
3 65 (11.82%) AWS
4 38 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (6.00%) GitHub
6 27 (4.91%) Entra ID
7 25 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 23 (4.18%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (3.45%) OneDrive
10 19 (3.45%) SaaS
11 9 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.45%) Rubrik
13 7 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.27%) PaaS
14 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.27%) Network Security
2 20 (3.64%) Firewall
3 11 (2.00%) DNS
4 10 (1.82%) SSL
5 7 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.09%) VPN
7 5 (0.91%) SNMP
7 5 (0.91%) SSH
8 3 (0.55%) DHCP
8 3 (0.55%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.36%) Internet
9 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) DMZ
10 1 (0.18%) HTTP
10 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.18%) LAN
10 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.18%) Power BI
3 9 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.27%) Metadata
5 6 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.55%) Db2
8 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.55%) Power Query
9 2 (0.36%) Big Data
9 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.36%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.36%) Tableau
10 1 (0.18%) GIS
10 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (10.18%) JIRA
2 43 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (2.18%) GitLab
5 9 (1.64%) Git
6 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.27%) Selenium
8 6 (1.09%) Jaeger
8 6 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.91%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.36%) Flyway
11 2 (0.36%) git-flow
11 2 (0.36%) JUnit
11 2 (0.36%) Mockito
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.18%) Hudson
12 1 (0.18%) Postman
12 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 190 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.82%) Banking
3 66 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.82%) Legal
5 31 (5.64%) Financial Institution
6 21 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (3.27%) Law
10 15 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.64%) Retail
13 8 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.27%) Billing
15 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.73%) Publishing
17 3 (0.55%) Advertising
17 3 (0.55%) Social Science
18 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
18 2 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (13.64%) Lead
2 65 (11.82%) Analyst
3 56 (10.18%) Architect
4 51 (9.27%) Project Manager
5 43 (7.82%) Developer
6 35 (6.36%) Senior
7 32 (5.82%) Business Analyst
8 29 (5.27%) Consultant
9 26 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.55%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.36%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 12 (2.18%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 12 (2.18%) Programme Manager
12 12 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (2.00%) Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (2.00%) Product Owner
14 10 (1.82%) Data Architect
14 10 (1.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (1.82%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.82%) REST
2 16 (2.91%) Kafka
2 16 (2.91%) Spring Boot
3 15 (2.73%) React
4 14 (2.55%) Middleware
4 14 (2.55%) RESTful
5 13 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (2.18%) Node.js
6 12 (2.18%) OpenID
7 10 (1.82%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.45%) OAuth
9 7 (1.27%) LDAP
9 7 (1.27%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.27%) Spring
10 6 (1.09%) JWT
10 6 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.09%) SAML
11 5 (0.91%) ISPF
11 5 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.18%) Cloud Native
1 34 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 31 (5.64%) Data Protection Act
3 25 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 19 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.27%) Mainframe
6 16 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.64%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.09%) Clustering
11 6 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.36%) Linux
2 20 (3.64%) Windows
3 9 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.64%) zOS
4 7 (1.27%) Unix
5 6 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.91%) Android
6 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.55%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) MVS
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (24.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 108 (19.64%) DevOps
3 106 (19.27%) CI/CD
4 95 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (17.09%) Agile
6 74 (13.45%) Roadmaps
7 73 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (12.91%) Cybersecurity
9 68 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 63 (11.45%) Observability
11 53 (9.64%) Project Management
12 51 (9.27%) Migration
13 50 (9.09%) AI
13 50 (9.09%) DevSecOps
13 50 (9.09%) Risk Management
14 42 (7.64%) ERP
15 41 (7.45%) Change Management
16 39 (7.09%) Identity Access Management
17 38 (6.91%) Data Protection
18 37 (6.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 76 (13.82%) Python
2 52 (9.45%) Java
3 42 (7.64%) SQL
4 31 (5.64%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.91%) Bash
6 14 (2.55%) Go
7 11 (2.00%) Rust
8 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.91%) VB
10 4 (0.73%) VBA
11 3 (0.55%) JCL
11 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.36%) C#
12 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.36%) PromQL
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) Groovy
13 1 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 41 (7.45%) Degree
2 24 (4.36%) PMP
3 21 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.64%) CISM
4 20 (3.64%) CISSP
5 19 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 16 (2.91%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (2.36%) CCSP
7 13 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.91%) FFIEC
12 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.73%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.73%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.55%) CCSK
13 3 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.55%) PMO
2 19 (3.45%) GDPR
3 18 (3.27%) NIST
4 16 (2.91%) QA
5 13 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.27%) SLA
8 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) GLBA
10 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.18%) GxP
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 28 (5.09%) Docker
2 13 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.27%) RACF
6 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.91%) vSphere
7 3 (0.55%) KVM
8 2 (0.36%) ACF2
8 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.36%) SRDF
8 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.64%) Ansible
3 32 (5.82%) Terraform
4 21 (3.82%) Grafana
5 18 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.09%) Control-M
7 6 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.09%) Kiali
8 5 (0.91%) OMEGAMON
8 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.91%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.73%) Argo
9 4 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.73%) Puppet
10 3 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.55%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.36%) Consul
11 2 (0.36%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 91 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.27%) Splunk
3 27 (4.91%) Google
3 27 (4.91%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.55%) SAP
5 20 (3.64%) Oracle
6 16 (2.91%) IBM
7 10 (1.82%) Foundry
7 10 (1.82%) VMware
8 9 (1.64%) Dell
9 8 (1.45%) Sonatype
9 8 (1.45%) Workday
10 7 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.09%) Apple
11 6 (1.09%) Databricks
12 5 (0.91%) Black Duck
12 5 (0.91%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.91%) IFS
12 5 (0.91%) Thales
13 4 (0.73%) Juniper