Finance Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 215 240 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.14% 14.21% 19.52%
As % of the General category 34.13% 24.84% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 144 289
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £393 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £600
90th Percentile £650 £634 £688
England median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.23 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.91% - -
England median hourly rate £38.11 £27.00 £26.85
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.58% -21.37%

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 common skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 630 966 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 61.95% 57.19% 60.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 558 954
10th Percentile £254 £198 £304
25th Percentile £360 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 79 14
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.07 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%
75th Percentile £22.14 £15.19 £35.24
90th Percentile £38.68 £23.37 £63.82
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Yorkshire

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Yorkshire

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 0 109 £495 +14.06% 69
West Yorkshire +5 87 £500 - 205
North Yorkshire 0 15 £550 +10.00% 47
East Yorkshire +1 1 - - 14
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (11.63%) Confluence
2 4 (1.86%) Apache
2 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.86%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.86%) SketchUp
5 3 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.47%) Actimize
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.47%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.58%) Azure
2 10 (4.65%) GCP
3 9 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.26%) AWS
5 6 (2.79%) OCI
6 4 (1.86%) GitHub
6 4 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.93%) NuGet
8 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.93%) PaaS
8 2 (0.93%) Serverless
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.47%) Figma
9 1 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.51%) Firewall
2 7 (3.26%) Network Security
3 3 (1.40%) DNS
3 3 (1.40%) SAN
3 3 (1.40%) SSL
4 2 (0.93%) DHCP
4 2 (0.93%) NAS
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.47%) SNA
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.23%) Oracle Database
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (4.19%) Power BI
4 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.40%) Flink
5 3 (1.40%) Tableau
6 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Essbase
7 1 (0.47%) GIS
7 1 (0.47%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.47%) Looker
7 1 (0.47%) Presto
7 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (13.02%) JIRA
2 12 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.26%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.26%) Git
3 7 (3.26%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.33%) Selenium
5 3 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.40%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.93%) ERwin
6 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.47%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.47%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 55 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.40%) Banking
3 40 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (5.12%) Retail
5 9 (4.19%) Financial Institution
5 9 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.86%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (13.02%) Project Manager
2 21 (9.77%) Senior
3 19 (8.84%) Analyst
4 16 (7.44%) Lead
5 12 (5.58%) Architect
6 11 (5.12%) IT Manager
7 10 (4.65%) Commvault Engineer
7 10 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.65%) Firewall Engineer
7 10 (4.65%) IT Project Manager
7 10 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 9 (4.19%) Backup Engineer
8 9 (4.19%) Developer
9 8 (3.72%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.72%) Programme Manager
10 6 (2.79%) Data Protection Engineer
10 6 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.79%) Designer
11 5 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (2.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.26%) Gherkin
2 5 (2.33%) Kafka
3 4 (1.86%) REST
3 4 (1.86%) XML
4 3 (1.40%) Middleware
4 3 (1.40%) PySpark
5 2 (0.93%) .NET
5 2 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.93%) Anaconda
5 2 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.93%) FpML
5 2 (0.93%) JSON
5 2 (0.93%) LDAP
5 2 (0.93%) Pandas
5 2 (0.93%) RESTful
5 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.47%) gRPC
6 1 (0.47%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.47%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.77%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.12%) PMI
5 3 (1.40%) Clustering
5 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.40%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.47%) Replication
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Linux
2 7 (3.26%) Unix
2 7 (3.26%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.93%) zOS
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) HPUX
4 1 (0.47%) Solaris
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (26.05%) Agile
3 49 (22.79%) Change Management
4 48 (22.33%) Project Management
5 36 (16.74%) Migration
6 33 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (13.49%) Data Protection
8 22 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (9.77%) Risk Management
10 18 (8.37%) Data Migration
11 17 (7.91%) CI/CD
12 16 (7.44%) DevOps
13 15 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (6.98%) Project Delivery
14 14 (6.51%) Disaster Recovery
14 14 (6.51%) PRINCE2
14 14 (6.51%) Roadmaps
14 14 (6.51%) Translating Business Requirements
15 13 (6.05%) Problem Management
15 13 (6.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.02%) Python
2 20 (9.30%) SQL
3 8 (3.72%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.86%) Java
6 3 (1.40%) Bash
6 3 (1.40%) COBOL
6 3 (1.40%) Ruby
7 2 (0.93%) C#
7 2 (0.93%) Groovy
7 2 (0.93%) VB
8 1 (0.47%) JCL
8 1 (0.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (7.44%) Degree
2 13 (6.05%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.40%) PMP
5 2 (0.93%) APMP
5 2 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.47%) CBAP
6 1 (0.47%) CCNP
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) Dell Certification
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.47%) MBA
6 1 (0.47%) OCP
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.44%) PMO
2 6 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.86%) SLA
5 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.40%) QA
6 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (5.12%) Docker
2 5 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.86%) vSphere
4 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.40%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.47%) HDFS
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (11.16%) Ansible
2 14 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.58%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (3.26%) Puppet
5 4 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.86%) Terraform
6 3 (1.40%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) vRealize
8 1 (0.47%) Control-M
8 1 (0.47%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
8 1 (0.47%) Kiali
8 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.47%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (13.95%) Oracle
2 18 (8.37%) Commvault
3 13 (6.05%) CheckPoint
4 10 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.26%) Cisco
5 7 (3.26%) Google
6 6 (2.79%) SAP
6 6 (2.79%) Splunk
6 6 (2.79%) VMware
7 4 (1.86%) Adobe
7 4 (1.86%) IBM
8 3 (1.40%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.40%) Perforce
8 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.40%) Veritas
9 2 (0.93%) Dell
9 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.93%) F5
9 2 (0.93%) HP
9 2 (0.93%) Veeam