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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 458 190 267
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.27% 21.37% 15.19%
As % of the General category 36.61% 35.32% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 98 167
10th Percentile £323 £309 £319
25th Percentile £423 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £550
90th Percentile £700 £650 £600
England median daily rate £537 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -8.98% +2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £11.61
25th Percentile - - £12.26
Median hourly rate - - £12.99
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year -31.93% +36.13% -

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 1,251 538 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 58.10% 60.52% 56.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 306 599
10th Percentile £287 £252 £198
25th Percentile £400 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +0.64% -10.10%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £558
90th Percentile £683 £650 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 18 49
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.94 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.63 £16.31 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +53.70% -25.69%
75th Percentile £52.38 £28.75 £15.24
90th Percentile £60.15 £36.36 £22.12
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £25.90
% change year-on-year -21.76% +17.59% -20.32%

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 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 4 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 0 304 £500 -6.54% 95
West Yorkshire -5 120 £550 +22.22% 145
North Yorkshire -1 23 £700 +27.27% 43
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 39 (8.52%) Confluence
2 27 (5.90%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.18%) TPMS
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) CICS
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.66%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.44%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.88%) GCP
2 51 (11.14%) Azure
3 49 (10.70%) AWS
4 33 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (6.11%) GitHub
6 27 (5.90%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.80%) Serverless
8 18 (3.93%) Entra ID
8 18 (3.93%) OneDrive
9 15 (3.28%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (1.97%) AWS KMS
12 8 (1.75%) SaaS
13 7 (1.53%) Rubrik
14 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.87%) IaaS
15 4 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.37%) Firewall
2 12 (2.62%) SSL
3 11 (2.40%) DNS
4 10 (2.18%) SNMP
4 10 (2.18%) SSH
5 7 (1.53%) Internet
6 6 (1.31%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.31%) Network Security
7 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.87%) VPN
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.68%) Power BI
4 9 (1.97%) Power Query
5 8 (1.75%) PowerPivot
6 6 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.09%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.87%) Metadata
9 3 (0.66%) GIS
9 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.66%) MySQL
10 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.22%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (14.19%) Jenkins
2 57 (12.45%) JIRA
3 33 (7.21%) GitLab
4 17 (3.71%) Liquibase
5 16 (3.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.75%) Git
6 8 (1.75%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.31%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.31%) Selenium
8 4 (0.87%) Maven
9 3 (0.66%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.66%) Gradle
9 3 (0.66%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.44%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.44%) JUnit
10 2 (0.44%) Log4j
10 2 (0.44%) Mockito
10 2 (0.44%) Subversion
11 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 176 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 130 (28.38%) Banking
3 49 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.26%) Financial Institution
5 29 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.97%) Legal
8 9 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.09%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.09%) Law
10 4 (0.87%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.87%) Retail
11 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.44%) Local Government
12 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (16.38%) Analyst
2 58 (12.66%) Project Manager
3 42 (9.17%) Business Analyst
4 39 (8.52%) Senior
5 37 (8.08%) Architect
6 28 (6.11%) Developer
7 27 (5.90%) Lead
8 18 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.93%) GCP Engineer
9 17 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (3.71%) Consultant
10 15 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (3.28%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.62%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (2.40%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.40%) SAP Manager
12 11 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (2.18%) IT Manager
13 10 (2.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.64%) REST
2 28 (6.11%) RESTful
3 23 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (3.06%) Kafka
6 13 (2.84%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (2.18%) Middleware
9 8 (1.75%) SailPoint
10 7 (1.53%) JSON
10 7 (1.53%) LDAP
11 6 (1.31%) OAuth
11 6 (1.31%) OpenID
11 6 (1.31%) SAML
11 6 (1.31%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.09%) React
13 4 (0.87%) .NET
13 4 (0.87%) FastAPI
13 4 (0.87%) Spring
14 3 (0.66%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.11%) Public Cloud
3 25 (5.46%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.59%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.93%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.31%) SCADA
10 5 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.87%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.66%) CMDB
12 3 (0.66%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 53 (11.57%) Linux
2 26 (5.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.09%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (22.93%) Agile
2 98 (21.40%) DevOps
3 89 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (19.21%) Cybersecurity
4 88 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 86 (18.78%) CI/CD
6 57 (12.45%) Migration
7 51 (11.14%) Project Management
8 47 (10.26%) Decision-Making
8 47 (10.26%) Microservices
9 46 (10.04%) Computer Science
9 46 (10.04%) Roadmaps
10 45 (9.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (9.39%) Identity Access Management
12 40 (8.73%) Observability
12 40 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (8.52%) Cryptography
13 39 (8.52%) Project Delivery
14 38 (8.30%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (8.08%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.25%) Python
2 52 (11.35%) SQL
3 36 (7.86%) Java
4 28 (6.11%) Go
5 17 (3.71%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.97%) Bash
6 9 (1.97%) Rust
6 9 (1.97%) VBA
7 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.87%) C#
8 4 (0.87%) VB
9 3 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.44%) COBOL
10 2 (0.44%) Groovy
10 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.22%) JCL
11 1 (0.22%) Korn
11 1 (0.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 65 (14.19%) Degree
2 31 (6.77%) Master's Degree
3 27 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.71%) CISSP
4 17 (3.71%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.28%) PMP
6 14 (3.06%) CISM
7 10 (2.18%) FFIEC
7 10 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.53%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.09%) PhD
11 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.66%) CCSP
13 2 (0.44%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.24%) GDPR
2 23 (5.02%) NIST
3 22 (4.80%) PMO
4 19 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.84%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.62%) QA
7 10 (2.18%) GLBA
8 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.31%) SLA
10 3 (0.66%) GRC
10 3 (0.66%) PSD2
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.22%) Basel III
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 43 (9.39%) Docker
2 9 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.09%) vSphere
4 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) KVM
5 2 (0.44%) SRDF
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) XenApp
6 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 53 (11.57%) Ansible
3 40 (8.73%) Grafana
4 37 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 36 (7.86%) Terraform
6 8 (1.75%) Kiali
7 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.87%) Puppet
10 3 (0.66%) Control-M
10 3 (0.66%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.44%) Argo
11 2 (0.44%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.44%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
12 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 70 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.01%) Splunk
3 28 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.59%) Google
5 18 (3.93%) SAP
6 14 (3.06%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.40%) Oracle
8 10 (2.18%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (2.18%) Thales
9 9 (1.97%) VMware
10 8 (1.75%) Dell
11 5 (1.09%) IFS
11 5 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.87%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.66%) Apple
13 3 (0.66%) Ariba
13 3 (0.66%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.66%) HP
13 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.66%) Workday