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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 570 364 288
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.96% 23.82% 18.66%
As % of the General category 38.13% 37.80% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 248 170
10th Percentile £382 £325 £392
25th Percentile £415 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £486 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -5.58% -6.36%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £600
90th Percentile £689 £639 £701
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 3
10th Percentile £19.69 - £18.76
25th Percentile £23.53 £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 £32.31 £36.80
% change year-on-year +36.06% -12.20% +43.13%

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 1,495 963 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 52.35% 63.02% 53.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 609 448
10th Percentile £313 £235 £313
25th Percentile £406 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -7.24%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £634 £663
England median daily rate £525 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 40 57
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.66 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £27.45 £25.83
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £41.00
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +35.80%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 £514 +11.14% 48
West Yorkshire -2 196 £525 +5.00% 96
North Yorkshire +3 24 £436 -6.93% 17
East Yorkshire -10 1 - - 7
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 (6.14%) Confluence
2 13 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) CICS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.35%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.18%) Maple
7 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.70%) Maximo
2 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.53%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.18%) Actimize
5 1 (0.18%) Exstream
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 104 (18.25%) Azure
2 99 (17.37%) GCP
3 70 (12.28%) AWS
4 39 (6.84%) Power Platform
5 35 (6.14%) GitHub
6 20 (3.51%) OpenShift
7 18 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (2.81%) SaaS
10 15 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (2.46%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.58%) Azure AI
15 8 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
16 7 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 6 (1.05%) OCI
17 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 5 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.32%) Network Security
2 11 (1.93%) Firewall
3 9 (1.58%) SSL
4 7 (1.23%) VPN
5 6 (1.05%) DNS
6 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.70%) WAN
7 3 (0.53%) LAN
8 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.35%) Multicast
8 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) DMZ
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) SAN
9 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.21%) Power BI
2 12 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.58%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.40%) Metadata
4 8 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.05%) Db2
7 3 (0.53%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.35%) Tableau
9 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (9.12%) JIRA
2 26 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.93%) Git
4 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.70%) JMeter
5 4 (0.70%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.70%) Selenium
6 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.53%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.35%) Flyway
7 2 (0.35%) git-flow
7 2 (0.35%) JUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.35%) Mockito
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
General
1 198 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 140 (24.56%) Banking
3 93 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.07%) Legal
5 31 (5.44%) Financial Institution
6 30 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 18 (3.16%) Retail
10 14 (2.46%) Law
11 9 (1.58%) Billing
11 9 (1.58%) Private Banking
12 8 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Publishing
15 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.70%) Social Science
16 3 (0.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 107 (18.77%) Lead
2 58 (10.18%) Analyst
3 54 (9.47%) Developer
3 54 (9.47%) Senior
4 52 (9.12%) Architect
5 38 (6.67%) Consultant
6 32 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 22 (3.86%) Business Analyst
8 20 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (2.98%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 15 (2.63%) Java Developer
12 14 (2.46%) Administrator
13 11 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
14 10 (1.75%) .NET Developer
14 10 (1.75%) Data Analyst
14 10 (1.75%) Data Engineer
14 10 (1.75%) Designer
14 10 (1.75%) Programme Manager
14 10 (1.75%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.14%) Terraform
2 25 (4.39%) REST
3 21 (3.68%) Kafka
4 18 (3.16%) React
5 15 (2.63%) Middleware
6 14 (2.46%) Node.js
7 13 (2.28%) OAuth
8 12 (2.11%) .NET
8 12 (2.11%) Spring Boot
9 11 (1.93%) OAuth2
10 10 (1.75%) OpenID
10 10 (1.75%) RESTful
10 10 (1.75%) SAML
11 9 (1.58%) ISPF
12 8 (1.40%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.40%) Spring
13 6 (1.05%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.05%) JWT
13 6 (1.05%) YAML
14 5 (0.88%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (5.44%) Mainframe
5 23 (4.04%) AI Agents
6 22 (3.86%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.51%) Virtual Team
8 18 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 14 (2.46%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.11%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.75%) Clustering
12 10 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.75%) Podcast
12 10 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.58%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.68%) Linux
2 14 (2.46%) zOS
3 9 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.58%) Windows
4 5 (0.88%) Android
4 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Unix
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.53%) VMS
6 2 (0.35%) MVS
7 1 (0.18%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (32.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 111 (19.47%) CI/CD
3 107 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 102 (17.89%) Agile
5 91 (15.96%) Roadmaps
6 89 (15.61%) DevOps
7 87 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 73 (12.81%) Risk Management
10 72 (12.63%) AI
11 62 (10.88%) DevSecOps
12 58 (10.18%) Observability
13 57 (10.00%) Change Management
14 56 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (8.77%) Migration
15 50 (8.77%) Project Management
16 45 (7.89%) Data Protection
16 45 (7.89%) Decision-Making
17 39 (6.84%) Project Delivery
18 38 (6.67%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.75%) Python
2 44 (7.72%) Java
3 33 (5.79%) SQL
4 22 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.63%) Bash
6 13 (2.28%) Go
7 9 (1.58%) C#
7 9 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.23%) Rust
9 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.53%) ABAP
10 3 (0.53%) JCL
10 3 (0.53%) Korn
10 3 (0.53%) VBA
11 2 (0.35%) COBOL
11 2 (0.35%) PromQL
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) Bicep
12 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 37 (6.49%) Degree
2 22 (3.86%) CISM
2 22 (3.86%) PMP
3 21 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.33%) CISSP
5 18 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.98%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 16 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.81%) CCSP
7 16 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.05%) CRISC
10 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) CCSK
12 4 (0.70%) ACCA
12 4 (0.70%) CISA
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.39%) PMO
3 16 (2.81%) QA
4 11 (1.93%) NIST
5 10 (1.75%) SLA
6 8 (1.40%) GDPR
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
7 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) IFRS
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
12 1 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (3.33%) Docker
2 13 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.28%) RACF
3 10 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.70%) ACF2
7 2 (0.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.18%) KVM
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.74%) Ansible
3 12 (2.11%) Grafana
4 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.75%) OMEGAMON
6 8 (1.40%) Control-M
7 6 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.70%) Argo
9 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.35%) Consul
10 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.35%) Packer
10 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.18%) vRealize
11 1 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 89 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.44%) Google
3 29 (5.09%) IBM
3 29 (5.09%) SAP
4 28 (4.91%) Oracle
5 17 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.28%) Foundry
7 12 (2.11%) Databricks
8 11 (1.93%) Splunk
9 8 (1.40%) Concur
9 8 (1.40%) Workday
10 6 (1.05%) Apple
10 6 (1.05%) Okta
10 6 (1.05%) VMware
11 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.88%) Black Duck
11 5 (0.88%) Delphix
12 4 (0.70%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.70%) Fortinet