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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 569 366 279
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.83% 24.29% 18.43%
As % of the General category 37.29% 38.41% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 243 163
10th Percentile £400 £323 £379
25th Percentile £414 £381 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £600
90th Percentile £694 £638 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 3
10th Percentile £19.69 - £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% +48.27%

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 1,526 953 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.19% 63.24% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 588 452
10th Percentile £313 £240 £313
25th Percentile £406 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -7.20% -6.98%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £585
90th Percentile £669 £629 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 41 57
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.89 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% +51.38% -23.80%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.11 £25.83
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £41.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 0 338 £517 +13.27% 91
West Yorkshire 0 193 £500 -0.50% 180
North Yorkshire +1 26 £450 -7.69% 43
East Yorkshire -11 1 - - 13
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 34 (5.98%) Confluence
2 14 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) CICS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.35%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Maple
Business Applications
1 18 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.70%) Maximo
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.53%) Workday HCM
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
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 97 (17.05%) GCP
2 95 (16.70%) Azure
3 65 (11.42%) AWS
4 33 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 31 (5.45%) GitHub
6 20 (3.51%) OpenShift
7 19 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (3.34%) SaaS
8 18 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (2.46%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.76%) Azure AI
12 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (1.05%) OCI
15 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.98%) Network Security
2 11 (1.93%) Firewall
3 9 (1.58%) SSL
4 6 (1.05%) VPN
5 5 (0.88%) DNS
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%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) Internet
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.99%) Power BI
2 10 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.41%) Metadata
4 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.88%) Db2
6 3 (0.53%) Neo4j
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.35%) Big Data
7 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.35%) Tableau
8 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 49 (8.61%) JIRA
2 27 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.76%) Git
4 6 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.53%) Liquibase
5 3 (0.53%) Selenium
6 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.35%) Flyway
6 2 (0.35%) git-flow
6 2 (0.35%) JUnit
6 2 (0.35%) Mockito
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.18%) Gatling
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 187 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 135 (23.73%) Banking
3 98 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.91%) Legal
5 33 (5.80%) Financial Institution
6 28 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.64%) Retail
10 14 (2.46%) Law
11 10 (1.76%) Billing
12 9 (1.58%) Private Banking
13 8 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Publishing
17 4 (0.70%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.70%) Social Science
18 3 (0.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 100 (17.57%) Lead
2 66 (11.60%) Analyst
3 58 (10.19%) Developer
4 53 (9.31%) Architect
5 48 (8.44%) Senior
6 36 (6.33%) Consultant
7 32 (5.62%) Project Manager
8 26 (4.57%) Business Analyst
9 22 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (2.99%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 16 (2.81%) Java Developer
13 14 (2.46%) Administrator
14 12 (2.11%) Financial Analyst
14 12 (2.11%) Python Developer
15 11 (1.93%) Designer
16 10 (1.76%) Lead Architect
16 10 (1.76%) Product Owner
16 10 (1.76%) Technical Manager
17 9 (1.58%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.22%) REST
2 19 (3.34%) React
3 15 (2.64%) Kafka
4 14 (2.46%) Node.js
5 13 (2.28%) Middleware
5 13 (2.28%) OAuth
6 12 (2.11%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.93%) OAuth2
7 11 (1.93%) RESTful
8 10 (1.76%) .NET
8 10 (1.76%) OpenID
8 10 (1.76%) SAML
9 9 (1.58%) ISPF
10 8 (1.41%) Spring
11 6 (1.05%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.05%) Hibernate
11 6 (1.05%) JWT
11 6 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.05%) YAML
12 5 (0.88%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
4 28 (4.92%) Mainframe
5 23 (4.04%) AI Agents
6 21 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.51%) Data Centre
8 19 (3.34%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.46%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.76%) Clustering
12 9 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.41%) Podcast
13 8 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
14 7 (1.23%) PKI
14 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.87%) Linux
2 14 (2.46%) zOS
3 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.93%) 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
1 170 (29.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 110 (19.33%) CI/CD
3 104 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (16.34%) DevOps
6 90 (15.82%) Agile
7 86 (15.11%) Roadmaps
8 83 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 73 (12.83%) AI
10 72 (12.65%) Risk Management
11 58 (10.19%) DevSecOps
12 56 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
13 54 (9.49%) Change Management
14 53 (9.31%) Observability
15 51 (8.96%) Migration
16 44 (7.73%) Data Protection
17 43 (7.56%) Project Management
18 42 (7.38%) Decision-Making
19 37 (6.50%) Identity Access Management
19 37 (6.50%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 67 (11.78%) Python
2 40 (7.03%) Java
3 29 (5.10%) SQL
4 20 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.64%) Bash
6 14 (2.46%) Go
7 7 (1.23%) C#
7 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.23%) Rust
8 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.53%) ABAP
10 3 (0.53%) JCL
10 3 (0.53%) Korn
10 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) COBOL
11 2 (0.35%) PromQL
11 2 (0.35%) VB
12 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (7.03%) Degree
2 21 (3.69%) CISM
3 20 (3.51%) PMP
4 18 (3.16%) CISSP
4 18 (3.16%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 15 (2.64%) CCSP
5 15 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (2.64%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.46%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.28%) 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%) CCSK
12 4 (0.70%) CISA
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.87%) PMO
3 15 (2.64%) QA
4 10 (1.76%) NIST
5 9 (1.58%) GDPR
5 9 (1.58%) SLA
6 5 (0.88%) GRC
6 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (3.16%) Docker
2 12 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.11%) RACF
3 9 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.53%) ACF2
7 2 (0.35%) SRDF
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 64 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.15%) Terraform
3 30 (5.27%) Ansible
4 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.11%) Grafana
6 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.76%) OMEGAMON
8 8 (1.41%) Control-M
9 6 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.70%) Argo
11 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.70%) Puppet
12 2 (0.35%) Consul
12 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.35%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 86 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.80%) Google
3 31 (5.45%) SAP
4 28 (4.92%) Oracle
5 25 (4.39%) IBM
6 18 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.64%) Foundry
8 10 (1.76%) Databricks
9 9 (1.58%) Splunk
10 8 (1.41%) Concur
10 8 (1.41%) Workday
11 7 (1.23%) VMware
12 6 (1.05%) Apple
12 6 (1.05%) Dell
12 6 (1.05%) Okta
13 5 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.88%) Black Duck
13 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.70%) Juniper