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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 567 369 284
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.83% 24.26% 18.73%
As % of the General category 37.70% 38.12% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 249 166
10th Percentile £383 £325 £396
25th Percentile £413 £384 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £483 £515
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -6.21% -6.36%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £597
90th Percentile £694 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 3
10th Percentile £19.69 - £18.76
25th Percentile £22.87 £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 £31.16 £38.12
% change year-on-year +41.10% -18.27% +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 1,504 968 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 52.61% 63.64% 53.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 606 451
10th Percentile £308 £235 £313
25th Percentile £406 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -6.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £669 £638 £665
England median daily rate £525 £508 £540
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.02% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 40 58
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.66 £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% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £27.45 £24.87
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £40.75
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 0 335 £514 +11.14% 84
West Yorkshire -1 195 £500 -0.99% 154
North Yorkshire +4 25 £436 -6.93% 36
East Yorkshire -10 1 - - 14
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 12 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) CICS
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%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) nginx
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.35%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.18%) Maple
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.71%) Maximo
3 4 (0.71%) 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%) 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 (16.93%) Azure
2 95 (16.75%) GCP
3 66 (11.64%) AWS
4 37 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.00%) GitHub
6 20 (3.53%) OpenShift
7 17 (3.00%) Entra ID
7 17 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.00%) SaaS
8 15 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
9 14 (2.47%) PowerApps
10 10 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.59%) Azure AI
11 9 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.06%) OCI
13 6 (1.06%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.00%) Network Security
2 10 (1.76%) Firewall
3 9 (1.59%) SSL
4 5 (0.88%) DNS
4 5 (0.88%) VPN
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) LAN
6 3 (0.53%) SAN
6 3 (0.53%) WAN
7 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.35%) DHCP
7 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.35%) Multicast
8 1 (0.18%) DMZ
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) PSTN
8 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.88%) Power BI
2 11 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.41%) Metadata
3 8 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.88%) Db2
7 3 (0.53%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.35%) Tableau
9 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 49 (8.64%) JIRA
2 28 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.76%) Git
4 6 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.71%) JMeter
5 4 (0.71%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.53%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.35%) Flyway
7 2 (0.35%) git-flow
7 2 (0.35%) JUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.35%) Mockito
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
General
1 192 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 139 (24.51%) Banking
3 97 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.11%) Legal
5 31 (5.47%) Financial Institution
6 27 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (4.23%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.65%) Retail
10 14 (2.47%) Law
11 10 (1.76%) Billing
12 9 (1.59%) Private Banking
13 8 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Publishing
17 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.71%) Social Science
18 3 (0.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 106 (18.69%) Lead
2 61 (10.76%) Analyst
3 54 (9.52%) Developer
4 52 (9.17%) Senior
5 51 (8.99%) Architect
6 37 (6.53%) Consultant
7 31 (5.47%) Project Manager
8 23 (4.06%) Business Analyst
9 20 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 15 (2.65%) Java Developer
12 14 (2.47%) Administrator
13 12 (2.12%) Financial Analyst
14 10 (1.76%) .NET Developer
14 10 (1.76%) Data Engineer
14 10 (1.76%) Designer
14 10 (1.76%) Product Owner
14 10 (1.76%) Programme Manager
15 9 (1.59%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.82%) Terraform
2 25 (4.41%) REST
3 21 (3.70%) Kafka
4 18 (3.17%) React
5 15 (2.65%) Middleware
6 14 (2.47%) Node.js
7 13 (2.29%) OAuth
8 12 (2.12%) .NET
8 12 (2.12%) Spring Boot
9 11 (1.94%) OAuth2
10 10 (1.76%) OpenID
10 10 (1.76%) RESTful
10 10 (1.76%) SAML
11 9 (1.59%) ISPF
12 8 (1.41%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.41%) Spring
13 6 (1.06%) Hibernate
13 6 (1.06%) JWT
13 6 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
13 6 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.82%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (5.47%) Mainframe
5 21 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.53%) AI Agents
6 20 (3.53%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.53%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.47%) Security Posture
8 13 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.76%) Clustering
10 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.59%) Podcast
11 9 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.23%) PKI
12 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.70%) Linux
2 14 (2.47%) zOS
3 11 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (1.94%) 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
1 177 (31.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 113 (19.93%) CI/CD
3 102 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 94 (16.58%) Agile
5 93 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (15.70%) DevOps
7 88 (15.52%) Roadmaps
8 81 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 71 (12.52%) Risk Management
10 68 (11.99%) AI
11 57 (10.05%) DevSecOps
12 56 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
13 55 (9.70%) Change Management
13 55 (9.70%) Observability
14 50 (8.82%) Migration
15 46 (8.11%) Project Management
16 44 (7.76%) Data Protection
17 43 (7.58%) Decision-Making
18 38 (6.70%) Identity Access Management
19 37 (6.53%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 66 (11.64%) Python
2 41 (7.23%) Java
3 30 (5.29%) SQL
4 19 (3.35%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.29%) Bash
5 13 (2.29%) Go
6 9 (1.59%) C#
6 9 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.23%) Rust
8 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.53%) ABAP
9 3 (0.53%) JCL
9 3 (0.53%) Korn
9 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.53%) VBA
10 2 (0.35%) COBOL
10 2 (0.35%) PromQL
10 2 (0.35%) Scala
10 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (6.88%) Degree
2 22 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.70%) CISM
4 19 (3.35%) PMP
4 19 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.17%) CISSP
6 15 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 15 (2.65%) CCSP
6 15 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.47%) PMI Certification
8 11 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.06%) CRISC
10 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.71%) ACCA
12 4 (0.71%) CCSK
12 4 (0.71%) CISA
12 4 (0.71%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.41%) Data Quality
1 25 (4.41%) PMO
2 15 (2.65%) QA
3 9 (1.59%) NIST
3 9 (1.59%) SLA
4 8 (1.41%) GDPR
5 6 (1.06%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
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 19 (3.35%) Docker
2 13 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.12%) RACF
4 9 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.53%) ACF2
8 2 (0.35%) SRDF
8 2 (0.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.11%) Ansible
3 12 (2.12%) Grafana
4 11 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.76%) OMEGAMON
6 8 (1.41%) Control-M
7 6 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.71%) Argo
9 4 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.53%) Puppet
11 2 (0.35%) Consul
11 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.18%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.47%) Google
3 28 (4.94%) IBM
3 28 (4.94%) SAP
4 27 (4.76%) Oracle
5 16 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.29%) Foundry
7 11 (1.94%) Databricks
8 10 (1.76%) Splunk
9 8 (1.41%) Concur
9 8 (1.41%) VMware
9 8 (1.41%) Workday
10 6 (1.06%) Apple
10 6 (1.06%) Dell
10 6 (1.06%) Okta
11 5 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.88%) Black Duck
11 5 (0.88%) Delphix
12 4 (0.71%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.71%) Red Hat