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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 446 204 253
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.35% 22.39% 14.42%
As % of the General category 36.23% 36.69% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 112 157
10th Percentile £324 £339 £319
25th Percentile £418 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +7.03% -11.90%
75th Percentile £625 £578 £550
90th Percentile £700 £649 £605
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.76
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate - - £13.23
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £17.74
England median hourly rate £23.83 £40.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.81% +46.36% -10.21%

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 1,231 556 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 56.16% 61.03% 55.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 329 576
10th Percentile £290 £263 £195
25th Percentile £400 £365 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £555
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 20 65
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.86 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +51.38% -24.56%
75th Percentile £57.25 £30.10 £15.24
90th Percentile £68.75 £47.01 £24.60
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.81% +18.43% -23.12%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 0 303 £496 -2.65% 61
West Yorkshire -8 110 £550 +22.22% 142
North Yorkshire -2 23 £700 +27.27% 19
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 37 (8.30%) Confluence
2 27 (6.05%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.24%) TPMS
4 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.90%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.90%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.67%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (11.88%) GCP
2 49 (10.99%) Azure
3 42 (9.42%) AWS
4 33 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (6.50%) GitHub
5 29 (6.50%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.04%) OneDrive
6 18 (4.04%) Serverless
7 17 (3.81%) Entra ID
8 15 (3.36%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (2.02%) AWS KMS
11 8 (1.79%) SaaS
12 7 (1.57%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.90%) IaaS
14 4 (0.90%) PaaS
15 3 (0.67%) Collibra
15 3 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.26%) Firewall
2 12 (2.69%) SSL
3 11 (2.47%) DNS
4 10 (2.24%) SNMP
4 10 (2.24%) SSH
5 7 (1.57%) Internet
6 6 (1.35%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.35%) Network Security
7 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.90%) VPN
8 2 (0.45%) DHCP
8 2 (0.45%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.45%) SAN
8 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.22%) IPsec
9 1 (0.22%) LAN
9 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.28%) Power BI
3 25 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.79%) Power Query
4 8 (1.79%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.67%) GIS
6 3 (0.67%) Metadata
6 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.67%) MySQL
6 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.45%) Looker
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (13.45%) Jenkins
2 55 (12.33%) JIRA
3 28 (6.28%) GitLab
4 16 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (2.69%) Liquibase
6 8 (1.79%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.35%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.35%) Selenium
8 5 (1.12%) Git
9 3 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.67%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) Gradle
10 1 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 166 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 120 (26.91%) Banking
3 48 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.52%) Financial Institution
5 29 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.47%) Legal
9 10 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Billing
11 5 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.12%) Law
12 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.67%) Retail
14 2 (0.45%) Advertising
14 2 (0.45%) Local Government
14 2 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (15.70%) Analyst
2 59 (13.23%) Project Manager
3 40 (8.97%) Business Analyst
4 37 (8.30%) Architect
5 34 (7.62%) Lead
6 32 (7.17%) Senior
7 22 (4.93%) Developer
8 18 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.04%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (2.69%) Consultant
10 12 (2.69%) Technical Business Analyst
11 11 (2.47%) Programme Manager
11 11 (2.47%) SAP Manager
11 11 (2.47%) Software Engineer
11 11 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (2.24%) Cryptography Engineer
12 10 (2.24%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.02%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.95%) REST
2 22 (4.93%) RESTful
3 19 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (2.69%) Kafka
6 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Graph
6 11 (2.47%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.24%) Middleware
8 8 (1.79%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.57%) LDAP
10 6 (1.35%) OAuth
10 6 (1.35%) OpenID
10 6 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.35%) SAML
11 4 (0.90%) .NET
11 4 (0.90%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.90%) JSON
11 4 (0.90%) React
11 4 (0.90%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.61%) Public Cloud
4 24 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.16%) Data Centre
6 21 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (4.26%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.35%) SCADA
9 5 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.90%) PMI
11 3 (0.67%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.67%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.67%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.99%) Linux
2 22 (4.93%) Windows
3 5 (1.12%) Unix
4 4 (0.90%) VMS
5 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.30%) DevOps
2 94 (21.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (19.96%) Agile
4 88 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (18.39%) CI/CD
6 80 (17.94%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (13.00%) Migration
8 53 (11.88%) Project Management
9 49 (10.99%) Decision-Making
10 46 (10.31%) Roadmaps
11 42 (9.42%) Computer Science
12 41 (9.19%) Microservices
13 40 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (8.97%) Observability
14 39 (8.74%) Identity Access Management
15 38 (8.52%) Project Delivery
16 37 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (8.07%) Process Improvement
18 35 (7.85%) Cryptography
18 35 (7.85%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 70 (15.70%) Python
2 50 (11.21%) SQL
3 31 (6.95%) Java
4 22 (4.93%) Go
5 17 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.24%) Bash
7 9 (2.02%) VBA
8 8 (1.79%) Rust
9 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.12%) VB
10 4 (0.90%) C#
11 2 (0.45%) Groovy
11 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (13.68%) Degree
2 27 (6.05%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.81%) CISSP
6 16 (3.59%) PMP
7 14 (3.14%) CISM
8 11 (2.47%) PMI Certification
9 10 (2.24%) FFIEC
9 10 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.02%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.12%) PhD
12 4 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.67%) CCSP
14 2 (0.45%) ACCA
14 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.83%) PMO
2 24 (5.38%) GDPR
3 19 (4.26%) NIST
4 16 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.14%) QA
6 13 (2.91%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.24%) GLBA
8 5 (1.12%) SLA
9 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.67%) GRC
10 3 (0.67%) PSD2
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.22%) Basel III
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 37 (8.30%) Docker
2 9 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.12%) vSphere
5 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.45%) KVM
6 2 (0.45%) SRDF
6 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.99%) Ansible
3 36 (8.07%) Grafana
4 33 (7.40%) Prometheus
5 30 (6.73%) Terraform
6 8 (1.79%) Kiali
7 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.12%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.67%) Control-M
9 3 (0.67%) PowerCLI
9 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.45%) Argo
10 2 (0.45%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.45%) Nessus
10 2 (0.45%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 66 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.43%) Splunk
3 22 (4.93%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.48%) Google
5 17 (3.81%) SAP
6 15 (3.36%) Oracle
7 14 (3.14%) Sonatype
8 10 (2.24%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (2.24%) Thales
9 9 (2.02%) VMware
10 8 (1.79%) Dell
11 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.12%) IFS
13 4 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 3 (0.67%) Planview
14 3 (0.67%) TOWER Software
14 3 (0.67%) Workday
15 2 (0.45%) AppDynamics
15 2 (0.45%) Centrify
15 2 (0.45%) CrowdStrike