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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 571 361 278
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.06% 24.61% 17.51%
As % of the General category 37.39% 39.11% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 242 164
10th Percentile £400 £327 £379
25th Percentile £422 £384 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £506
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -4.40% -7.95%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £642 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% -1.25%
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 £32.89 £38.12
% change year-on-year +33.66% -13.72% +36.24%

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 1,527 923 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.64% 62.92% 54.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 575 482
10th Percentile £312 £255 £295
25th Percentile £408 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £585
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 40 63
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.66 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.48 £12.83
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.03 £22.00
90th Percentile £44.17 £81.25 £40.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.15% -34.02% +27.07%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 0 350 £522 +12.02% 73
West Yorkshire -2 182 £500 -1.72% 174
North Yorkshire 0 28 £488 -6.02% 28
East Yorkshire -12 1 - - 10
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 (5.43%) Confluence
2 17 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) CICS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.35%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Maple
Business Applications
1 18 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.53%) Maximo
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
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 (16.81%) GCP
2 95 (16.64%) Azure
3 67 (11.73%) AWS
4 32 (5.60%) GitHub
4 32 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 26 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 24 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 19 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 17 (2.98%) SaaS
10 14 (2.45%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.75%) Azure AI
12 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (1.05%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.78%) Network Security
2 12 (2.10%) Firewall
3 9 (1.58%) SSL
4 8 (1.40%) DNS
5 6 (1.05%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) LAN
7 3 (0.53%) SAN
7 3 (0.53%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 1 (0.18%) DMZ
9 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.80%) Power BI
2 14 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.23%) Metadata
4 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.88%) Db2
6 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.35%) Big Data
7 2 (0.35%) Tableau
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.18%) Looker
8 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
8 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 47 (8.23%) JIRA
2 34 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.58%) Git
4 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.70%) Liquibase
5 4 (0.70%) Selenium
6 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.53%) GitLab
7 2 (0.35%) Flyway
7 2 (0.35%) git-flow
7 2 (0.35%) JUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Mockito
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) Gradle
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
8 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 191 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.94%) Banking
3 92 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.71%) Legal
5 32 (5.60%) Financial Institution
6 28 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 26 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.45%) Law
9 14 (2.45%) Retail
10 10 (1.75%) Billing
10 10 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.40%) Private Banking
13 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.88%) Publishing
15 4 (0.70%) Social Science
16 3 (0.53%) Advertising
16 3 (0.53%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (16.81%) Lead
2 64 (11.21%) Analyst
3 60 (10.51%) Developer
4 59 (10.33%) Architect
5 44 (7.71%) Senior
6 33 (5.78%) Consultant
7 30 (5.25%) Project Manager
8 26 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (4.03%) Business Analyst
10 17 (2.98%) Java Developer
10 17 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (2.80%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 13 (2.28%) Administrator
12 13 (2.28%) Financial Analyst
13 12 (2.10%) Python Developer
14 10 (1.75%) Data Architect
14 10 (1.75%) Data Engineer
14 10 (1.75%) Designer
14 10 (1.75%) Lead Architect
14 10 (1.75%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.55%) REST
2 19 (3.33%) React
3 15 (2.63%) Kafka
4 13 (2.28%) Middleware
4 13 (2.28%) Node.js
4 13 (2.28%) RESTful
5 12 (2.10%) OAuth
5 12 (2.10%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.75%) .NET
6 10 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 10 (1.75%) OpenID
7 9 (1.58%) ISPF
7 9 (1.58%) SAML
8 8 (1.40%) Spring
9 7 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.05%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.05%) Hibernate
10 6 (1.05%) JWT
10 6 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.95%) Data Protection Act
2 34 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.73%) Mainframe
4 22 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 21 (3.68%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.15%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.75%) Clustering
9 10 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.23%) Podcast
11 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
12 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.03%) Linux
2 14 (2.45%) zOS
3 12 (2.10%) Windows
4 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.88%) Android
6 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.70%) Unix
7 4 (0.70%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) MVS
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (27.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 110 (19.26%) CI/CD
3 100 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 99 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (17.16%) DevOps
6 90 (15.76%) Agile
7 82 (14.36%) Roadmaps
8 78 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 69 (12.08%) AI
10 68 (11.91%) Risk Management
11 58 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
12 55 (9.63%) DevSecOps
13 53 (9.28%) Change Management
13 53 (9.28%) Observability
14 48 (8.41%) Migration
15 45 (7.88%) Data Protection
16 42 (7.36%) Project Management
17 40 (7.01%) Decision-Making
18 38 (6.65%) Project Delivery
19 36 (6.30%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 74 (12.96%) Python
2 41 (7.18%) Java
3 29 (5.08%) SQL
4 23 (4.03%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.45%) Bash
5 14 (2.45%) Go
6 7 (1.23%) C#
6 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.23%) Rust
7 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.70%) VB
9 3 (0.53%) ABAP
9 3 (0.53%) JCL
9 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.35%) COBOL
10 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.35%) PromQL
11 1 (0.18%) REXX
11 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (7.01%) Degree
2 22 (3.85%) CISM
3 21 (3.68%) PMP
4 19 (3.33%) CISSP
4 19 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (2.45%) CCSP
6 14 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.05%) CRISC
10 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.70%) CISA
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.85%) PMO
3 15 (2.63%) QA
4 11 (1.93%) GDPR
5 10 (1.75%) NIST
6 9 (1.58%) SLA
7 5 (0.88%) GRC
7 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.18%) GxP
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (3.50%) Docker
2 12 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.10%) RACF
3 11 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.88%) vSphere
6 3 (0.53%) ACF2
6 3 (0.53%) KVM
7 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) SRDF
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 65 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.30%) Ansible
2 36 (6.30%) Terraform
3 14 (2.45%) Grafana
3 14 (2.45%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.75%) OMEGAMON
6 8 (1.40%) Control-M
7 6 (1.05%) Argo
7 6 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.88%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.70%) Puppet
10 3 (0.53%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.35%) Consul
11 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 89 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.78%) Google
3 30 (5.25%) SAP
4 25 (4.38%) IBM
4 25 (4.38%) Oracle
5 19 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.63%) Foundry
7 12 (2.10%) Splunk
8 10 (1.75%) VMware
9 9 (1.58%) Databricks
10 8 (1.40%) Concur
11 7 (1.23%) Dell
11 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.05%) Apple
12 6 (1.05%) Okta
12 6 (1.05%) Workday
13 5 (0.88%) Black Duck
13 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.70%) Cisco
14 4 (0.70%) Juniper