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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 410 219 330
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.98% 19.08% 18.42%
As % of the General category 37.07% 34.65% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 128 212
10th Percentile £313 £350 £310
25th Percentile £408 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £494
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.30% -3.19%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.43% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £10.42
75th Percentile £22.50 - -
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% - +16.69%

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 1,106 632 1,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 59.30% 55.05% 57.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 352 650
10th Percentile £250 £251 £263
25th Percentile £384 £379 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £497 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -3.36% -1.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £674 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 21
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £15.19 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -
75th Percentile £51.06 £40.13 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £32.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -13.04% +34.19%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 -1 254 £475 -11.42% 49
West Yorkshire +3 134 £513 +9.33% 105
North Yorkshire +2 10 £481 -10.47% 17
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 28 (6.83%) Confluence
2 15 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.46%) CMS
3 6 (1.46%) TPMS
4 5 (1.22%) CICS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 52 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.20%) 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 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.22%) VisionPLUS
4 3 (0.73%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.49%) 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
Cloud Services
1 61 (14.88%) GCP
2 59 (14.39%) AWS
3 47 (11.46%) Azure
4 39 (9.51%) Power Platform
5 33 (8.05%) Serverless
6 15 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.41%) GitHub
7 14 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.20%) AWS KMS
10 7 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.71%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.22%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.73%) Collibra
13 3 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.73%) npm
13 3 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.41%) Firewall
2 8 (1.95%) SSL
3 7 (1.71%) SSH
4 6 (1.46%) Internet
4 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
4 6 (1.46%) SNMP
4 6 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.22%) DNS
6 3 (0.73%) Network Security
7 2 (0.49%) VPN
7 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) IPsec
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.51%) Power BI
2 38 (9.27%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.66%) Power Query
5 13 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.71%) PowerPivot
7 5 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.22%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.98%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.98%) Metadata
9 3 (0.73%) MySQL
10 2 (0.49%) GIS
11 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.24%) IDMS
11 1 (0.24%) Looker
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (13.17%) Jenkins
2 52 (12.68%) JIRA
3 38 (9.27%) GitLab
4 28 (6.83%) Liquibase
5 12 (2.93%) Git
6 8 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.98%) Maven
7 4 (0.98%) Postman
8 3 (0.73%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.73%) Gradle
8 3 (0.73%) Jaeger
8 3 (0.73%) PyCharm
8 3 (0.73%) Selenium
9 2 (0.49%) Babel
9 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.49%) Mockito
9 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.49%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 179 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 127 (30.98%) Banking
3 62 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.68%) Financial Institution
5 23 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.66%) Legal
6 15 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.95%) Retail
10 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.22%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.98%) Billing
12 4 (0.98%) Law
12 4 (0.98%) Marketing
12 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.73%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (18.78%) Analyst
2 46 (11.22%) Senior
3 45 (10.98%) Project Manager
4 35 (8.54%) Business Analyst
5 31 (7.56%) Developer
6 28 (6.83%) Architect
7 24 (5.85%) Data Analyst
8 20 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.90%) Consultant
11 16 (3.90%) GCP Engineer
12 14 (3.41%) Financial Analyst
12 14 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.41%) Support Manager
13 13 (3.17%) IT Manager
13 13 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (2.68%) Incident Manager
14 11 (2.68%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.00%) REST
2 36 (8.78%) RESTful
3 31 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.44%) .NET
4 10 (2.44%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.20%) TensorFlow
6 8 (1.95%) Kafka
7 7 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (1.46%) CSS
8 6 (1.46%) HTML
8 6 (1.46%) JSON
8 6 (1.46%) OAuth
8 6 (1.46%) SAML
8 6 (1.46%) Spring
9 5 (1.22%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.22%) OpenCV
9 5 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.22%) Regular Expression
9 5 (1.22%) SpaCy
10 4 (0.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.76%) Public Cloud
2 35 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.80%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.34%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.37%) Product Ownership
6 21 (5.12%) Data Centre
7 15 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.93%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.98%) CMDB
13 3 (0.73%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.73%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.73%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.95%) Linux
2 26 (6.34%) Windows
3 11 (2.68%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 3 (0.73%) VMS
4 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.73%) Agile
2 88 (21.46%) Cybersecurity
2 88 (21.46%) DevOps
3 86 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 78 (19.02%) CI/CD
6 53 (12.93%) Decision-Making
7 51 (12.44%) Change Management
8 48 (11.71%) Migration
9 47 (11.46%) Containerisation
9 47 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (10.98%) Microservices
10 45 (10.98%) Project Management
11 43 (10.49%) Computer Science
11 43 (10.49%) Cryptography
12 40 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 40 (9.76%) Software Engineering
13 38 (9.27%) Data Security
13 38 (9.27%) Root Cause Analysis
14 36 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 75 (18.29%) Python
2 41 (10.00%) SQL
3 40 (9.76%) Go
4 26 (6.34%) Java
5 10 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.44%) VBA
6 9 (2.20%) C#
7 7 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.22%) COBOL
9 4 (0.98%) Bash
9 4 (0.98%) JCL
9 4 (0.98%) Rust
9 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) Bicep
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 60 (14.63%) Degree
2 36 (8.78%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.41%) CISSP
6 11 (2.68%) CISM
6 11 (2.68%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.20%) ACSP
7 9 (2.20%) ACTC
8 8 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.95%) PMP
9 7 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.46%) FFIEC
11 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.22%) PhD
12 4 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.37%) GDPR
2 19 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.63%) PMO
3 17 (4.15%) NIST
4 11 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.44%) QA
6 8 (1.95%) SLA
7 7 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.46%) GLBA
9 3 (0.73%) PSD2
10 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.49%) COBIT
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
System Software
1 42 (10.24%) Docker
2 15 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) XenApp
4 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (13.66%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.95%) Terraform
3 48 (11.71%) Ansible
4 40 (9.76%) Grafana
5 38 (9.27%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.73%) Control-M
8 3 (0.73%) Kiali
8 3 (0.73%) Puppet
9 2 (0.49%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.49%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.49%) Nessus
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.98%) Splunk
3 32 (7.80%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.88%) Google
4 20 (4.88%) SAP
5 11 (2.68%) Apple
6 9 (2.20%) Oracle
7 8 (1.95%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.46%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.46%) Sonatype
9 5 (1.22%) Thales
10 4 (0.98%) IFS
11 3 (0.73%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.73%) F5
11 3 (0.73%) Genesys
11 3 (0.73%) Planview
11 3 (0.73%) VMware
12 2 (0.49%) Computacenter
12 2 (0.49%) GoldenSource