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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 454 222 239
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.92% 23.67% 13.96%
As % of the General category 35.95% 38.01% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 126 147
10th Percentile £324 £331 £320
25th Percentile £415 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +1.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £551
90th Percentile £700 £640 £621
England median daily rate £537 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -6.57% -1.37% -2.83%
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 £47.79 £26.87
% change year-on-year -50.14% +77.88% -12.65%

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 1,263 584 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 55.42% 62.26% 55.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 342 559
10th Percentile £284 £263 £193
25th Percentile £400 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +1.62% -11.90%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £563
90th Percentile £665 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 72
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.31 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.19 £20.39 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% +39.40% -22.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.10 £15.24
90th Percentile £68.75 £37.98 £22.68
England median hourly rate £25.77 £30.00 £26.40
% change year-on-year -14.10% +13.64% -24.57%

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 2 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 2 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 0 308 £493 -2.18% 52
West Yorkshire -10 114 £500 +11.11% 140
North Yorkshire -4 22 £700 +27.27% 20
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 37 (8.15%) Confluence
2 28 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.98%) TPMS
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.88%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.66%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.22%) Actimize
7 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.89%) GCP
2 51 (11.23%) Azure
3 42 (9.25%) AWS
4 34 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (6.61%) GitHub
6 28 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 20 (4.41%) OpenShift
8 19 (4.19%) OneDrive
9 18 (3.96%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.52%) Serverless
11 14 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.98%) AWS KMS
13 9 (1.98%) SaaS
14 7 (1.54%) Rubrik
15 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (1.10%) PaaS
16 4 (0.88%) IaaS
17 3 (0.66%) Azure AI
17 3 (0.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.19%) Firewall
2 11 (2.42%) DNS
2 11 (2.42%) SSL
3 9 (1.98%) SNMP
3 9 (1.98%) SSH
4 8 (1.76%) Network Security
5 7 (1.54%) Internet
6 4 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.88%) VPN
7 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.44%) DHCP
8 2 (0.44%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.44%) LAN
8 2 (0.44%) SAN
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.29%) NoSQL
2 24 (5.29%) Power BI
3 8 (1.76%) Power Query
3 8 (1.76%) PowerPivot
4 5 (1.10%) Metadata
5 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.66%) MySQL
6 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.44%) GIS
7 2 (0.44%) Looker
8 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
8 1 (0.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 59 (13.00%) Jenkins
2 52 (11.45%) JIRA
3 27 (5.95%) GitLab
4 15 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.42%) Liquibase
6 8 (1.76%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.54%) Selenium
8 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.32%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.10%) Git
10 3 (0.66%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.66%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.22%) Hudson
12 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 166 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 122 (26.87%) Banking
3 49 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.15%) Financial Institution
5 28 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.52%) Legal
7 16 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.54%) Law
8 7 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.32%) Billing
9 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.32%) Retail
10 5 (1.10%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.44%) Advertising
12 2 (0.44%) Local Government
12 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.44%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (15.20%) Analyst
2 56 (12.33%) Project Manager
3 43 (9.47%) Lead
4 41 (9.03%) Business Analyst
5 38 (8.37%) Architect
6 33 (7.27%) Senior
7 24 (5.29%) Developer
8 18 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.74%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.30%) Consultant
11 14 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.64%) SAP Manager
13 12 (2.64%) Technical Business Analyst
14 11 (2.42%) Programme Manager
14 11 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
15 10 (2.20%) Infrastructure Manager
15 10 (2.20%) Senior Manager
15 10 (2.20%) Software Engineer
16 9 (1.98%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.17%) REST
2 23 (5.07%) RESTful
3 19 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.86%) Kafka
4 13 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (2.64%) Microsoft Graph
5 12 (2.64%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.20%) Middleware
7 8 (1.76%) SailPoint
8 7 (1.54%) LDAP
8 7 (1.54%) OpenID
9 6 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.10%) React
11 4 (0.88%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.66%) .NET
12 3 (0.66%) JSON
12 3 (0.66%) NumPy
12 3 (0.66%) Pandas
12 3 (0.66%) Spring
13 2 (0.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.29%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.07%) Public Cloud
5 20 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.32%) SCADA
9 5 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.10%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.88%) PMI
10 4 (0.88%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.66%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.66%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.79%) Linux
2 22 (4.85%) Windows
3 5 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.10%) Unix
4 4 (0.88%) VMS
5 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (21.37%) DevOps
2 95 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (18.50%) CI/CD
5 83 (18.28%) Agile
6 77 (16.96%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (13.22%) Migration
8 54 (11.89%) Project Management
9 48 (10.57%) Roadmaps
10 44 (9.69%) Decision-Making
11 43 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (9.03%) Computer Science
13 40 (8.81%) Microservices
13 40 (8.81%) Observability
14 38 (8.37%) Process Improvement
15 37 (8.15%) ERP
16 36 (7.93%) Business Case
16 36 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (7.71%) Identity Access Management
17 35 (7.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (14.98%) Python
2 46 (10.13%) SQL
3 33 (7.27%) Java
4 21 (4.63%) Go
5 19 (4.19%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.20%) Bash
7 9 (1.98%) VBA
8 8 (1.76%) Rust
9 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.10%) VB
10 3 (0.66%) C#
11 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Groovy
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 56 (12.33%) Degree
2 24 (5.29%) Master's Degree
3 21 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.41%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.74%) PMP
6 13 (2.86%) CISSP
7 11 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.20%) CISM
8 10 (2.20%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.98%) FFIEC
10 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.88%) CCSP
11 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.66%) ACCA
12 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.66%) PhD
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.73%) PMO
2 24 (5.29%) GDPR
3 18 (3.96%) NIST
4 16 (3.52%) QA
5 15 (3.30%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.98%) GLBA
8 5 (1.10%) SLA
9 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.66%) GRC
10 3 (0.66%) PSD2
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.22%) Basel III
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 36 (7.93%) Docker
2 9 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.10%) vSphere
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 52 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.79%) Ansible
3 34 (7.49%) Grafana
4 31 (6.83%) Terraform
5 30 (6.61%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.76%) Kiali
7 5 (1.10%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.88%) Puppet
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.66%) PowerCLI
9 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.44%) Argo
10 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 68 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.79%) Splunk
3 21 (4.63%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.41%) Google
5 17 (3.74%) Oracle
5 17 (3.74%) SAP
6 14 (3.08%) Sonatype
7 9 (1.98%) Thales
7 9 (1.98%) VMware
8 8 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
8 8 (1.76%) Dell
9 7 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.32%) IFS
11 5 (1.10%) Foundry
12 4 (0.88%) IBM
13 3 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.66%) Workday
14 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
14 2 (0.44%) Databricks