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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 613 364 292
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.48% 22.46% 19.82%
As % of the General category 38.85% 36.51% 37.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 256 162
10th Percentile £360 £320 £379
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £584 £619
90th Percentile £691 £675 £715
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 1
10th Percentile £19.69 - -
25th Percentile £23.53 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -78.57% +571.79%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.00 -
90th Percentile - £23.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.65 £28.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.47% -19.55% +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 1,578 997 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 55.29% 61.51% 53.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 652 429
10th Percentile £313 £235 £300
25th Percentile £410 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £649 £667
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 32 32
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +2.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.16 £40.00
90th Percentile £39.79 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.08 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.93% -30.35% +23.08%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +1 348 £514 +11.74% 245
West Yorkshire +5 218 £525 - 449
North Yorkshire +5 29 £461 -5.38% 131
East Yorkshire -9 1 - - 51
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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 12 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.65%) Apache
3 4 (0.65%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.33%) CICS
5 2 (0.33%) nginx
5 2 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.33%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.16%) Maple
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.65%) Maximo
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Exstream
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MRS
Cloud Services
1 118 (19.25%) Azure
2 114 (18.60%) GCP
3 86 (14.03%) AWS
4 40 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 36 (5.87%) GitHub
6 23 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 18 (2.94%) OpenShift
9 17 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (2.28%) SaaS
11 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (1.96%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.14%) Azure AI
14 7 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.14%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.98%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.01%) Network Security
2 12 (1.96%) Firewall
3 9 (1.47%) SSL
4 6 (0.98%) VPN
5 5 (0.82%) DNS
6 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.49%) SAN
7 3 (0.49%) WAN
8 2 (0.33%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.33%) DHCP
8 2 (0.33%) LAN
8 2 (0.33%) Multicast
9 1 (0.16%) DMZ
9 1 (0.16%) HTTP
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.16%) SSH
9 1 (0.16%) VSAN
9 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.24%) Power BI
2 14 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.47%) BigQuery
3 9 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.31%) Metadata
4 8 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.14%) Db2
6 5 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.82%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.65%) SAP BW
7 4 (0.65%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.33%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 55 (8.97%) JIRA
2 25 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.12%) Git
4 6 (0.98%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.98%) JMeter
4 6 (0.98%) Postman
5 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.65%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.65%) Selenium
7 3 (0.49%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.49%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.33%) Applitools
8 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.33%) Flyway
8 2 (0.33%) git-flow
8 2 (0.33%) Newman
8 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 220 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 154 (25.12%) Banking
3 92 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (6.53%) Legal
5 37 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (5.06%) Financial Institution
7 28 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.77%) Retail
10 15 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.96%) Law
12 11 (1.79%) Billing
13 9 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.47%) Private Banking
14 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.98%) Publishing
16 3 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 103 (16.80%) Lead
2 74 (12.07%) Senior
3 63 (10.28%) Architect
4 60 (9.79%) Analyst
5 55 (8.97%) Developer
6 40 (6.53%) Consultant
7 34 (5.55%) Project Manager
8 28 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.43%) Business Analyst
10 20 (3.26%) Administrator
11 19 (3.10%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 16 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.45%) Technical Leader
14 14 (2.28%) Java Developer
14 14 (2.28%) Programme Manager
14 14 (2.28%) Senior Architect
15 13 (2.12%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.12%) Senior Manager
16 12 (1.96%) Financial Analyst
16 12 (1.96%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.69%) Terraform
2 27 (4.40%) Kafka
3 26 (4.24%) REST
4 25 (4.08%) Middleware
5 21 (3.43%) React
6 16 (2.61%) Node.js
7 15 (2.45%) OAuth
8 14 (2.28%) .NET
9 13 (2.12%) OAuth2
10 12 (1.96%) OpenID
10 12 (1.96%) SAML
10 12 (1.96%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.63%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.63%) RESTful
12 9 (1.47%) ISPF
13 8 (1.31%) Spring
14 7 (1.14%) .NET Framework
15 6 (0.98%) JWT
15 6 (0.98%) SailPoint
15 6 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.55%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
4 30 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 29 (4.73%) Mainframe
6 28 (4.57%) Data Centre
7 27 (4.40%) AI Agents
8 22 (3.59%) Virtual Team
9 17 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (2.61%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.96%) Clustering
12 12 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.63%) PKI
13 10 (1.63%) Podcast
13 10 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
14 9 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.24%) Linux
2 15 (2.45%) zOS
3 13 (2.12%) Windows
4 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.14%) Unix
4 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.65%) Android
5 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.65%) VMS
6 2 (0.33%) MVS
7 1 (0.16%) AIX
7 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (35.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 131 (21.37%) CI/CD
3 122 (19.90%) Agile
4 113 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (15.82%) Roadmaps
6 95 (15.50%) DevOps
7 84 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (13.38%) AI
9 81 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 75 (12.23%) Risk Management
11 69 (11.26%) DevSecOps
11 69 (11.26%) Observability
12 68 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
13 67 (10.93%) Change Management
14 59 (9.62%) Migration
14 59 (9.62%) Project Management
15 55 (8.97%) Decision-Making
16 54 (8.81%) Project Delivery
17 48 (7.83%) Analytics
18 46 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (12.89%) Python
2 45 (7.34%) Java
3 42 (6.85%) SQL
4 25 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.61%) Bash
6 15 (2.45%) Go
7 13 (2.12%) C#
8 12 (1.96%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.14%) Rust
10 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.65%) ABAP
13 3 (0.49%) COBOL
13 3 (0.49%) JCL
13 3 (0.49%) Korn
13 3 (0.49%) VBA
14 2 (0.33%) Bicep
14 2 (0.33%) Scala
14 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (6.20%) Degree
2 26 (4.24%) PMP
3 24 (3.92%) CISM
4 22 (3.59%) PMI Certification
5 21 (3.43%) CISSP
6 18 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 18 (2.94%) CCSP
6 18 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 16 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.61%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.98%) CCSK
11 6 (0.98%) CRISC
12 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.65%) CISA
13 4 (0.65%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.65%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.75%) PMO
3 16 (2.61%) QA
4 10 (1.63%) SLA
5 9 (1.47%) NIST
6 8 (1.31%) GDPR
7 7 (1.14%) GRC
8 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.33%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
12 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) P3O
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (3.43%) Docker
2 18 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.12%) RACF
5 9 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.14%) vSphere
7 5 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.65%) ACF2
9 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.16%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.08%) Ansible
3 14 (2.28%) Grafana
3 14 (2.28%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.63%) OMEGAMON
6 8 (1.31%) Control-M
7 7 (1.14%) Kustomize
7 7 (1.14%) Tivoli
8 6 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.65%) Argo
10 4 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.65%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 2 (0.33%) Consul
11 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.33%) Packer
11 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.33%) SCCM
11 2 (0.33%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 101 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.69%) SAP
3 35 (5.71%) Google
4 34 (5.55%) IBM
5 30 (4.89%) Oracle
6 23 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.45%) VMware
8 14 (2.28%) Databricks
9 12 (1.96%) Splunk
10 10 (1.63%) Foundry
10 10 (1.63%) Workday
11 9 (1.47%) Sage
12 8 (1.31%) Ariba
12 8 (1.31%) Concur
13 7 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.98%) Okta
14 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.82%) Delphix