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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 425 174 308
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.35% 18.57% 16.45%
As % of the General category 36.96% 31.75% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 92 197
10th Percentile £325 £326 £310
25th Percentile £431 £414 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £483
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +7.25% -8.10%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £555
90th Percentile £690 £650 £605
England median daily rate £525 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £10.72
25th Percentile - - £11.18
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.54 £29.62 £20.50
% change year-on-year -20.52% +44.46% -18.00%

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 1,150 548 1,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.76% 58.48% 56.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 308 646
10th Percentile £279 £236 £203
25th Percentile £400 £363 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.31% -7.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 18 48
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.68 £11.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £20.57 £14.56
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +41.24% -27.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.80 £15.66
90th Percentile £57.85 £41.80 £22.20
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.21 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.50% +18.47% -5.08%

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 February 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 February 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 0 270 £492 -7.17% 65
West Yorkshire -2 122 £550 +25.00% 131
North Yorkshire +2 20 £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 35 (8.24%) Confluence
2 26 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.59%) TPMS
4 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) CICS
5 3 (0.71%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (11.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.94%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.71%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.71%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.24%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 57 (13.41%) GCP
2 51 (12.00%) AWS
3 48 (11.29%) Azure
4 32 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 25 (5.88%) Serverless
8 24 (5.65%) GitHub
9 16 (3.76%) OneDrive
10 14 (3.29%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (2.12%) AWS KMS
14 6 (1.41%) Rubrik
15 5 (1.18%) SaaS
16 4 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (0.94%) IaaS
16 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.00%) Firewall
2 13 (3.06%) SSL
3 11 (2.59%) SNMP
3 11 (2.59%) SSH
4 9 (2.12%) DNS
5 7 (1.65%) Internet
6 6 (1.41%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.18%) Network Security
7 5 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.47%) DHCP
9 2 (0.47%) VPN
10 1 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.24%) IPsec
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 29 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.59%) Power BI
4 9 (2.12%) Power Query
5 8 (1.88%) PowerPivot
5 8 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.94%) Metadata
8 3 (0.71%) GIS
8 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.71%) MySQL
9 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
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 60 (14.12%) Jenkins
2 56 (13.18%) JIRA
3 35 (8.24%) GitLab
4 19 (4.47%) Liquibase
5 15 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.88%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.65%) Git
8 6 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.41%) Selenium
9 4 (0.94%) Maven
10 3 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.71%) Gradle
10 3 (0.71%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.47%) ChangeMan
11 2 (0.47%) JUnit
11 2 (0.47%) Log4j
11 2 (0.47%) Mockito
11 2 (0.47%) Subversion
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 183 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 120 (28.24%) Banking
3 46 (10.82%) Financial Institution
4 44 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.59%) Legal
7 11 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.65%) Retail
10 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.18%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Law
11 5 (1.18%) Marketing
12 4 (0.94%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.71%) Electronics
13 3 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (14.35%) Analyst
2 57 (13.41%) Project Manager
3 39 (9.18%) Business Analyst
4 38 (8.94%) Senior
5 30 (7.06%) Architect
6 22 (5.18%) Developer
7 18 (4.24%) Lead
8 17 (4.00%) Consultant
8 17 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 15 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.53%) Support Manager
10 13 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (2.82%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.59%) Cryptography Engineer
12 11 (2.59%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (2.59%) Technical Business Analyst
13 10 (2.35%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.24%) REST
2 30 (7.06%) RESTful
3 24 (5.65%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (3.29%) Kafka
5 14 (3.29%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.59%) Middleware
7 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.88%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.65%) JSON
9 7 (1.65%) LDAP
10 6 (1.41%) OAuth
10 6 (1.41%) OpenID
10 6 (1.41%) SAML
10 6 (1.41%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.18%) .NET
11 5 (1.18%) Spring
12 4 (0.94%) React
13 3 (0.71%) Pandas
13 3 (0.71%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (7.06%) Public Cloud
3 29 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.65%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.94%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.24%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.65%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.41%) SCADA
10 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.18%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.94%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.71%) CMDB
12 3 (0.71%) Online Banking
12 3 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.00%) Linux
2 31 (7.29%) Windows
3 12 (2.82%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.94%) VMS
5 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (25.18%) Agile
2 88 (20.71%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (20.47%) DevOps
4 85 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (19.06%) CI/CD
7 53 (12.47%) Migration
8 51 (12.00%) Project Management
9 48 (11.29%) Computer Science
9 48 (11.29%) Decision-Making
10 47 (11.06%) Microservices
11 44 (10.35%) Roadmaps
12 43 (10.12%) Cryptography
13 42 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (9.18%) Containerisation
14 39 (9.18%) Observability
15 38 (8.94%) Change Management
15 38 (8.94%) Identity Access Management
15 38 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.47%) Python
2 48 (11.29%) SQL
3 36 (8.47%) Java
4 30 (7.06%) Go
5 18 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.12%) Rust
6 9 (2.12%) VBA
7 6 (1.41%) Bash
8 4 (0.94%) C#
9 3 (0.71%) COBOL
9 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.47%) Groovy
10 2 (0.47%) JCL
10 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.47%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 62 (14.59%) Degree
2 34 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.76%) CISSP
5 15 (3.53%) Security Cleared
6 13 (3.06%) CISM
6 13 (3.06%) PMP
7 11 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.59%) FFIEC
8 9 (2.12%) ACSP
8 9 (2.12%) ACTC
8 9 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.88%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.18%) PhD
10 5 (1.18%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.59%) GDPR
2 21 (4.94%) NIST
3 19 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.00%) PMO
5 14 (3.29%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.59%) GLBA
6 11 (2.59%) QA
7 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.41%) SLA
9 4 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.71%) GRC
10 3 (0.71%) PSD2
11 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 41 (9.65%) Docker
2 19 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.94%) vSphere
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.47%) KVM
6 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.24%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.53%) Ansible
3 40 (9.41%) Grafana
4 37 (8.71%) Prometheus
5 36 (8.47%) Terraform
6 10 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.88%) Kiali
8 6 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.71%) Control-M
11 2 (0.47%) Argo
11 2 (0.47%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.47%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.47%) Nessus
11 2 (0.47%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.18%) Splunk
3 33 (7.76%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.24%) Google
4 18 (4.24%) SAP
5 13 (3.06%) Sonatype
6 11 (2.59%) Apple
7 10 (2.35%) Thales
8 9 (2.12%) Oracle
9 8 (1.88%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.41%) VMware
11 5 (1.18%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.18%) IFS
12 3 (0.71%) Ariba
12 3 (0.71%) Dell
12 3 (0.71%) F5
12 3 (0.71%) Planview
12 3 (0.71%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.71%) Workday
13 2 (0.47%) CheckPoint