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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 459 223 225
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.60% 22.62% 13.52%
As % of the General category 36.08% 35.97% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 134 135
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £416 £388 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £569
90th Percentile £695 £641 £633
England median daily rate £536 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.78% -2.13% -2.08%
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 £43.08 £27.00
% change year-on-year -44.69% +59.54% -11.84%

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 1,272 620 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.31% 62.88% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 372 544
10th Percentile £283 £263 £193
25th Percentile £400 £360 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -1.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £565
90th Percentile £669 £642 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 24 79
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.07
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.33 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +38.97% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.79 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.39 £22.15
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £27.51
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.52% -21.41%

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 17 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 17 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 £500 - 63
West Yorkshire -11 120 £513 +13.89% 116
North Yorkshire -3 21 £700 +27.27% 16
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 (7.63%) Confluence
2 26 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.74%) TPMS
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.87%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.65%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.22%) Actimize
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-AP
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%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.64%) Azure
2 49 (10.68%) GCP
3 38 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (7.63%) AWS
5 28 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.88%) GitHub
7 22 (4.79%) Entra ID
7 22 (4.79%) OpenShift
8 19 (4.14%) OneDrive
9 14 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.61%) SaaS
12 7 (1.53%) PaaS
12 7 (1.53%) Rubrik
13 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.87%) IaaS
16 3 (0.65%) AWS KMS
16 3 (0.65%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.14%) Firewall
2 11 (2.40%) DNS
3 10 (2.18%) SSL
4 9 (1.96%) Network Security
5 8 (1.74%) SNMP
5 8 (1.74%) SSH
6 5 (1.09%) Internet
7 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.87%) VPN
8 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.44%) LAN
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.23%) Power BI
2 13 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.74%) Power Query
3 8 (1.74%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.53%) Metadata
5 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.44%) Big Data
7 2 (0.44%) DB2
7 2 (0.44%) GIS
7 2 (0.44%) Looker
8 1 (0.22%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
8 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (10.89%) JIRA
2 41 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.83%) GitLab
4 12 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.74%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.53%) Selenium
7 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.31%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.09%) Git
8 5 (1.09%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.22%) Hudson
11 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 165 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 117 (25.49%) Banking
3 53 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.10%) Financial Institution
5 27 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (5.23%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.49%) Legal
7 16 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.74%) Retail
10 7 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.53%) Law
11 6 (1.31%) Billing
12 5 (1.09%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.65%) Advertising
15 2 (0.44%) Local Government
15 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.44%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 64 (13.94%) Analyst
2 58 (12.64%) Project Manager
3 47 (10.24%) Lead
4 41 (8.93%) Architect
5 38 (8.28%) Business Analyst
6 36 (7.84%) Senior
7 26 (5.66%) Developer
8 21 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.70%) Consultant
10 12 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (2.61%) SAP Manager
11 11 (2.40%) Programme Manager
12 10 (2.18%) Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (2.18%) Product Owner
12 10 (2.18%) Technical Business Analyst
13 9 (1.96%) Data Manager
13 9 (1.96%) Lead Architect
13 9 (1.96%) Senior Manager
13 9 (1.96%) Strategy Analyst
13 9 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.49%) REST
2 14 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (2.83%) Kafka
4 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.61%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.18%) Middleware
5 10 (2.18%) RESTful
6 9 (1.96%) OpenID
7 8 (1.74%) LDAP
7 8 (1.74%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.09%) React
10 3 (0.65%) .NET
10 3 (0.65%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.65%) OAuth
10 3 (0.65%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.65%) SAML
10 3 (0.65%) Spring
11 2 (0.44%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 26 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.36%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.74%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.31%) SCADA
11 6 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.87%) PMI
13 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.65%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.63%) Linux
2 21 (4.58%) Windows
3 5 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.09%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) Android
4 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.65%) zOS
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.44%) MVS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (19.61%) DevOps
4 76 (16.56%) CI/CD
5 69 (15.03%) Agile
6 68 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (13.07%) Migration
8 58 (12.64%) Project Management
9 56 (12.20%) Roadmaps
10 44 (9.59%) Observability
11 41 (8.93%) Decision-Making
12 39 (8.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (8.28%) AI
13 38 (8.28%) Business Case
13 38 (8.28%) ERP
14 37 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (8.06%) Project Delivery
15 35 (7.63%) Process Improvement
16 34 (7.41%) Data Modelling
16 34 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.85%) Python
2 48 (10.46%) SQL
3 36 (7.84%) Java
4 19 (4.14%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.18%) Bash
6 9 (1.96%) Go
6 9 (1.96%) VBA
7 8 (1.74%) Rust
8 6 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.09%) VB
10 3 (0.65%) C#
10 3 (0.65%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.44%) JCL
11 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) CLIST
12 1 (0.22%) Groovy
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
12 1 (0.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 42 (9.15%) Degree
2 19 (4.14%) PMP
3 18 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.61%) CISSP
4 12 (2.61%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.18%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.18%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.96%) CISM
6 9 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.74%) FFIEC
8 7 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.09%) CCSP
9 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ACCA
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.23%) GDPR
1 24 (5.23%) PMO
2 19 (4.14%) NIST
3 18 (3.92%) QA
4 16 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.05%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.74%) GLBA
7 5 (1.09%) SLA
8 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.65%) GRC
9 3 (0.65%) PSD2
10 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) Basel III
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 30 (6.54%) Docker
2 10 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.09%) vSphere
5 3 (0.65%) KVM
6 2 (0.44%) ACF2
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.44%) RACF
6 2 (0.44%) SRDF
6 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.84%) Ansible
3 21 (4.58%) Grafana
3 21 (4.58%) Terraform
4 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.74%) Kiali
6 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.87%) Puppet
8 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.65%) Control-M
9 3 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.44%) Argo
10 2 (0.44%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
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 77 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.41%) Splunk
3 18 (3.92%) SAP
3 18 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 17 (3.70%) Oracle
5 14 (3.05%) Google
6 11 (2.40%) Sonatype
7 10 (2.18%) VMware
8 8 (1.74%) Dell
8 8 (1.74%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.74%) Thales
9 7 (1.53%) IBM
10 6 (1.31%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.31%) IFS
11 5 (1.09%) Apple
11 5 (1.09%) Foundry
12 4 (0.87%) Broadcom
12 4 (0.87%) Databricks
13 3 (0.65%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.65%) Workday