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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 559 361 278
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.77% 24.34% 18.15%
As % of the General category 37.02% 38.49% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 242 164
10th Percentile £400 £325 £382
25th Percentile £418 £384 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £476 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% -7.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £694 £642 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £597
% change year-on-year - -7.80% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 3
10th Percentile £19.32 - £18.76
25th Percentile £22.20 £15.00 £19.51
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -19.21% -
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.13 £45.37
90th Percentile - £23.05 £60.15
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.29% -10.81% +46.62%

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 1,510 938 817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.39% 63.25% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 581 455
10th Percentile £308 £240 £309
25th Percentile £406 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £586
90th Percentile £675 £626 £658
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 40 59
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.66 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -23.80%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.03 £23.91
90th Percentile £44.17 £81.25 £40.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 0 337 £525 +13.39% 93
West Yorkshire -1 186 £500 -0.50% 219
North Yorkshire 0 25 £463 -5.13% 38
East Yorkshire -10 1 - - 13
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 31 (5.55%) Confluence
2 15 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.36%) CICS
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.18%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.36%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Maple
Business Applications
1 18 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.54%) Maximo
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.36%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Exstream
6 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI-AP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 96 (17.17%) GCP
2 94 (16.82%) Azure
3 65 (11.63%) AWS
4 32 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 30 (5.37%) GitHub
6 21 (3.76%) OpenShift
7 20 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.40%) SaaS
9 18 (3.22%) Entra ID
9 18 (3.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (2.50%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.79%) Azure AI
12 8 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.43%) Copilot Studio
13 7 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (1.07%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.90%) Network Security
2 12 (2.15%) Firewall
3 9 (1.61%) SSL
4 6 (1.07%) VPN
5 5 (0.89%) DNS
6 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.54%) LAN
7 3 (0.54%) SAN
7 3 (0.54%) WAN
8 2 (0.36%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.36%) DHCP
8 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.36%) Multicast
9 1 (0.18%) DMZ
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) Internet
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.86%) Power BI
2 12 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.43%) Metadata
5 7 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.89%) Db2
7 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.54%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.54%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.36%) Big Data
9 2 (0.36%) Tableau
10 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.18%) Looker
10 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.18%) Redis
10 1 (0.18%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 46 (8.23%) JIRA
2 29 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.79%) Git
4 6 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.72%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.54%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.36%) Flyway
7 2 (0.36%) git-flow
7 2 (0.36%) GitLab
7 2 (0.36%) JUnit
7 2 (0.36%) Mockito
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.18%) Gatling
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 185 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 131 (23.43%) Banking
3 94 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.69%) Legal
5 32 (5.72%) Financial Institution
6 26 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.50%) Law
8 14 (2.50%) Retail
9 10 (1.79%) Billing
10 9 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.43%) Private Banking
12 7 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.89%) Publishing
14 4 (0.72%) Social Science
15 3 (0.54%) Advertising
15 3 (0.54%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (17.71%) Lead
2 66 (11.81%) Analyst
3 59 (10.55%) Developer
4 55 (9.84%) Architect
5 48 (8.59%) Senior
6 34 (6.08%) Consultant
7 31 (5.55%) Project Manager
8 25 (4.47%) Business Analyst
9 24 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (2.86%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 16 (2.86%) Java Developer
12 13 (2.33%) Administrator
13 12 (2.15%) Financial Analyst
13 12 (2.15%) Python Developer
14 11 (1.97%) Designer
15 10 (1.79%) Lead Architect
15 10 (1.79%) Product Owner
16 9 (1.61%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 9 (1.61%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.47%) REST
2 19 (3.40%) React
3 15 (2.68%) Kafka
4 14 (2.50%) Node.js
5 13 (2.33%) Middleware
5 13 (2.33%) OAuth
6 12 (2.15%) RESTful
6 12 (2.15%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.97%) OAuth2
8 10 (1.79%) .NET
8 10 (1.79%) OpenID
8 10 (1.79%) SAML
9 9 (1.61%) ISPF
10 8 (1.43%) Spring
11 6 (1.07%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.07%) Hibernate
11 6 (1.07%) JWT
11 6 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.07%) YAML
12 5 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.72%) Data Protection Act
4 27 (4.83%) Mainframe
5 23 (4.11%) AI Agents
6 20 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.40%) Data Centre
8 18 (3.22%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.33%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.15%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.79%) Clustering
14 9 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.61%) Mobile App
15 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.25%) PKI
15 7 (1.25%) Podcast
15 7 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.94%) Linux
2 14 (2.50%) zOS
3 12 (2.15%) Windows
4 11 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.89%) Android
6 5 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) MVS
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (28.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 108 (19.32%) CI/CD
3 99 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 97 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (16.82%) DevOps
6 88 (15.74%) Agile
7 85 (15.21%) Roadmaps
8 80 (14.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 68 (12.16%) AI
9 68 (12.16%) Risk Management
10 56 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (10.02%) DevSecOps
11 53 (9.48%) Change Management
11 53 (9.48%) Observability
12 47 (8.41%) Migration
13 42 (7.51%) Data Protection
13 42 (7.51%) Project Management
14 40 (7.16%) Decision-Making
15 36 (6.44%) Matrix Organization
15 36 (6.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (12.16%) Python
2 40 (7.16%) Java
3 28 (5.01%) SQL
4 19 (3.40%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.50%) Go
6 12 (2.15%) Bash
7 7 (1.25%) C#
7 7 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.25%) Rust
8 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.72%) VB
9 3 (0.54%) ABAP
9 3 (0.54%) JCL
9 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) COBOL
10 2 (0.36%) Korn
10 2 (0.36%) PromQL
11 1 (0.18%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (7.16%) Degree
2 22 (3.94%) CISM
3 20 (3.58%) PMP
4 19 (3.40%) CISSP
5 18 (3.22%) Security Cleared
6 15 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (2.50%) CCSP
7 14 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.07%) CRISC
11 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.72%) CISA
13 4 (0.72%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.72%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.94%) PMO
3 14 (2.50%) QA
4 10 (1.79%) NIST
5 9 (1.61%) GDPR
5 9 (1.61%) SLA
6 5 (0.89%) GRC
6 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.36%) IFRS
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (3.58%) Docker
2 12 (2.15%) RACF
3 11 (1.97%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.54%) ACF2
8 2 (0.36%) SRDF
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.08%) Terraform
3 31 (5.55%) Ansible
4 14 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.15%) Grafana
6 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.79%) OMEGAMON
8 8 (1.43%) Control-M
9 6 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.89%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.72%) Argo
11 4 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.72%) Puppet
12 2 (0.36%) Consul
12 2 (0.36%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.36%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.36%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.18%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 85 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.72%) Google
3 31 (5.55%) SAP
4 26 (4.65%) Oracle
5 25 (4.47%) IBM
6 18 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.68%) Foundry
8 10 (1.79%) Databricks
8 10 (1.79%) Splunk
9 8 (1.43%) Concur
9 8 (1.43%) Workday
10 7 (1.25%) Dell
11 6 (1.07%) Apple
11 6 (1.07%) Okta
11 6 (1.07%) VMware
12 5 (0.89%) Black Duck
12 5 (0.89%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.72%) Cisco
13 4 (0.72%) Juniper