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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 477 224 231
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.91% 21.92% 13.73%
As % of the General category 36.33% 35.22% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 138 138
10th Percentile £354 £346 £325
25th Percentile £413 £389 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £569
90th Percentile £689 £650 £638
England median daily rate £537 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.61% -2.25% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile - - £12.78
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +39.91% -
75th Percentile - - £17.01
90th Percentile - - £19.51
England median hourly rate £23.83 £41.79 £27.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% +54.77% -3.50%

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 1,313 636 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.80% 62.23% 56.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 865 380 556
10th Percentile £283 £263 £195
25th Percentile £400 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -1.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £575
90th Percentile £669 £646 £648
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 79
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.07
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.33 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +38.97% -18.75%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.79 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.39 £22.15
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.11% -14.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 0 320 £500 - 62
West Yorkshire -9 126 £500 +2.56% 100
North Yorkshire -4 21 £700 +27.27% 23
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 (7.34%) Confluence
2 27 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.68%) TPMS
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.63%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.63%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.21%) Actimize
7 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI-AP
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.21%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.58%) Azure
2 53 (11.11%) GCP
3 39 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (7.97%) AWS
5 28 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.66%) GitHub
7 23 (4.82%) OpenShift
8 22 (4.61%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.98%) OneDrive
10 15 (3.14%) SaaS
11 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.47%) PaaS
13 7 (1.47%) Rubrik
14 6 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.84%) IaaS
16 3 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.98%) Firewall
2 11 (2.31%) DNS
3 10 (2.10%) Network Security
3 10 (2.10%) SSL
4 8 (1.68%) SNMP
4 8 (1.68%) SSH
5 5 (1.05%) Internet
5 5 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.84%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) SAN
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.21%) PSTN
9 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.03%) Power BI
2 13 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.68%) Power Query
3 8 (1.68%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.47%) Metadata
5 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.42%) Big Data
7 2 (0.42%) DB2
7 2 (0.42%) GIS
7 2 (0.42%) Looker
8 1 (0.21%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (10.69%) JIRA
2 42 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.73%) GitLab
4 12 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.68%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.47%) Selenium
7 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.26%) Git
7 6 (1.26%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.21%) Hudson
11 1 (0.21%) Postman
11 1 (0.21%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
General
1 173 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 121 (25.37%) Banking
3 57 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.87%) Financial Institution
5 27 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.35%) Legal
9 10 (2.10%) Retail
10 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.68%) Law
12 6 (1.26%) Billing
13 5 (1.05%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.63%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.42%) Marketing
16 2 (0.42%) Publishing
16 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (13.84%) Analyst
2 62 (13.00%) Project Manager
3 49 (10.27%) Lead
4 43 (9.01%) Architect
5 40 (8.39%) Business Analyst
6 38 (7.97%) Senior
7 27 (5.66%) Developer
8 23 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.77%) Consultant
10 12 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (2.52%) Programme Manager
11 11 (2.31%) SAP Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Product Owner
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Project Manager
13 9 (1.89%) IT Manager
13 9 (1.89%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.35%) REST
2 14 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (2.73%) Kafka
4 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.52%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.31%) RESTful
6 10 (2.10%) Middleware
6 10 (2.10%) OpenID
7 8 (1.68%) LDAP
7 8 (1.68%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.05%) React
10 4 (0.84%) OAuth
10 4 (0.84%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.84%) SAML
11 3 (0.63%) .NET
11 3 (0.63%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.63%) JWT
11 3 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.56%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.89%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.26%) SCADA
9 6 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) PMI
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.34%) Linux
2 22 (4.61%) Windows
3 5 (1.05%) Android
3 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Unix
4 4 (0.84%) VMS
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) zOS
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 106 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 96 (20.13%) DevOps
3 80 (16.77%) CI/CD
4 77 (16.14%) Agile
5 70 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
6 61 (12.79%) Migration
6 61 (12.79%) Roadmaps
7 60 (12.58%) Project Management
8 45 (9.43%) Observability
9 42 (8.81%) Decision-Making
10 40 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (8.39%) ERP
10 40 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 39 (8.18%) AI
11 39 (8.18%) Project Delivery
12 38 (7.97%) Business Case
13 36 (7.55%) Process Improvement
14 34 (7.13%) Data Modelling
15 33 (6.92%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.00%) Python
2 48 (10.06%) SQL
3 38 (7.97%) Java
4 20 (4.19%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.31%) Bash
6 9 (1.89%) Go
6 9 (1.89%) VBA
7 8 (1.68%) Rust
8 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.05%) VB
10 3 (0.63%) C#
10 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.42%) JCL
11 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) CLIST
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) Korn
12 1 (0.21%) REXX
Qualifications
1 43 (9.01%) Degree
2 20 (4.19%) PMP
3 18 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.31%) CISSP
6 10 (2.10%) CISM
6 10 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.10%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.68%) FFIEC
9 7 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.84%) CCSP
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.63%) ACCA
13 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.42%) CIMA
13 2 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.03%) PMO
2 22 (4.61%) GDPR
3 18 (3.77%) NIST
3 18 (3.77%) QA
4 16 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.73%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.68%) GLBA
7 5 (1.05%) SLA
8 3 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.21%) Basel III
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (6.08%) Docker
2 11 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.05%) vSphere
5 3 (0.63%) KVM
6 2 (0.42%) ACF2
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) RACF
6 2 (0.42%) SRDF
6 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) XenApp
7 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.76%) Ansible
3 23 (4.82%) Terraform
4 21 (4.40%) Grafana
5 17 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.68%) Kiali
6 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.84%) Puppet
8 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.63%) Control-M
9 3 (0.63%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.42%) Argo
10 2 (0.42%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.42%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.21%) Nessus
11 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 78 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.13%) Splunk
3 19 (3.98%) SAP
4 18 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.56%) Oracle
6 14 (2.94%) Google
7 11 (2.31%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.31%) VMware
8 8 (1.68%) Dell
8 8 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.68%) Thales
9 7 (1.47%) IBM
10 6 (1.26%) Apple
10 6 (1.26%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.26%) IFS
10 6 (1.26%) Workday
11 5 (1.05%) Foundry
12 4 (0.84%) Broadcom
12 4 (0.84%) Databricks
13 3 (0.63%) Okta