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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 558 273 261
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.44% 23.08% 15.00%
As % of the General category 37.83% 36.40% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 169 146
10th Percentile £372 £348 £379
25th Percentile £430 £385 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £579
90th Percentile £700 £638 £650
England median daily rate £550 £555 £588
% change year-on-year -0.90% -5.53% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £22.20 £15.35 £12.05
25th Percentile £23.53 £15.88 £12.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% +26.64% -
75th Percentile £39.48 £17.63 £19.51
90th Percentile £43.96 £18.16 £40.44
England median hourly rate £35.27 £40.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year -12.39% +43.75% +0.07%

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 1,475 750 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.03% 63.40% 55.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 446 533
10th Percentile £313 £238 £198
25th Percentile £408 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £645
England median daily rate £520 £520 £534
% change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 34 85
10th Percentile £16.55 £12.62 -
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.27 £12.15
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +51.38% -18.11%
75th Percentile £36.61 - £18.27
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.37 £34.33
England median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%

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 20 June 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 June 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 June 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 0 361 £514 +10.35% 66
West Yorkshire -3 162 £525 +5.00% 103
North Yorkshire +2 24 £700 +27.27% 13
East Yorkshire -11 1 - - 10
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 36 (6.45%) Confluence
2 33 (5.91%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.90%) TPMS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.08%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.36%) Maximo
4 2 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Actimize
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.18%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 88 (15.77%) Azure
2 86 (15.41%) GCP
3 64 (11.47%) AWS
4 38 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.56%) GitHub
6 28 (5.02%) Entra ID
7 26 (4.66%) OpenShift
8 24 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 21 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 19 (3.41%) OneDrive
10 19 (3.41%) SaaS
11 9 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.43%) Rubrik
13 7 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.25%) PaaS
14 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.90%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.56%) Network Security
2 16 (2.87%) Firewall
3 12 (2.15%) SSL
4 8 (1.43%) DNS
5 6 (1.08%) VPN
6 5 (0.90%) SNMP
6 5 (0.90%) SSH
7 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.54%) DHCP
8 3 (0.54%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) BIG-IP
9 2 (0.36%) Internet
9 2 (0.36%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) HTTP
10 1 (0.18%) LAN
10 1 (0.18%) PSTN
10 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (2.33%) Power BI
2 9 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.25%) Metadata
4 6 (1.08%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.54%) Db2
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.54%) Power Query
7 2 (0.36%) Big Data
7 2 (0.36%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.36%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.36%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.36%) Tableau
8 1 (0.18%) Looker
8 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (9.68%) JIRA
2 42 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.25%) Git
4 7 (1.25%) GitLab
5 6 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.08%) Selenium
6 5 (0.90%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.90%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.36%) Flyway
8 2 (0.36%) git-flow
8 2 (0.36%) JUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Mockito
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) Hudson
9 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 121 (21.68%) Banking
3 70 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.45%) Legal
5 30 (5.38%) Financial Institution
6 22 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.69%) Law
11 11 (1.97%) Retail
12 10 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.25%) Billing
14 7 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.90%) Publishing
16 3 (0.54%) Advertising
16 3 (0.54%) International Banking
16 3 (0.54%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.54%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 76 (13.62%) Lead
2 68 (12.19%) Analyst
3 58 (10.39%) Architect
4 48 (8.60%) Project Manager
5 45 (8.06%) Developer
6 34 (6.09%) Senior
7 32 (5.73%) Business Analyst
8 28 (5.02%) Consultant
9 27 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.51%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 13 (2.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 12 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (1.97%) Programme Manager
13 11 (1.97%) Python Developer
14 10 (1.79%) Administrator
14 10 (1.79%) Data Architect
14 10 (1.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (1.79%) Infrastructure Manager
14 10 (1.79%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.76%) REST
2 17 (3.05%) Middleware
2 17 (3.05%) React
3 16 (2.87%) Kafka
3 16 (2.87%) Spring Boot
4 14 (2.51%) RESTful
5 12 (2.15%) Microsoft Graph
5 12 (2.15%) Node.js
5 12 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (1.97%) OpenID
7 9 (1.61%) OAuth
8 8 (1.43%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.43%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.25%) ISPF
9 7 (1.25%) SAML
9 7 (1.25%) Spring
10 6 (1.08%) Hibernate
10 6 (1.08%) JWT
10 6 (1.08%) LDAP
11 5 (0.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.76%) Mainframe
6 18 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.51%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 13 (2.33%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.79%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.43%) Clustering
12 8 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.72%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.73%) Linux
2 17 (3.05%) Windows
3 11 (1.97%) zOS
4 10 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.90%) Android
6 5 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) MVS
10 1 (0.18%) AIX
10 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 107 (19.18%) DevOps
3 104 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 93 (16.67%) Agile
4 93 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (13.98%) Roadmaps
7 72 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
9 60 (10.75%) Observability
10 54 (9.68%) Project Management
11 53 (9.50%) Risk Management
12 52 (9.32%) AI
13 50 (8.96%) Migration
14 49 (8.78%) Change Management
15 47 (8.42%) DevSecOps
16 40 (7.17%) Project Delivery
17 39 (6.99%) Identity Access Management
18 38 (6.81%) ERP
19 37 (6.63%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.44%) Python
2 46 (8.24%) Java
3 39 (6.99%) SQL
4 29 (5.20%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.51%) Bash
6 12 (2.15%) Go
7 11 (1.97%) Rust
8 7 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.90%) VB
10 4 (0.72%) VBA
11 3 (0.54%) JCL
11 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.36%) ABAP
12 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.36%) PromQL
13 1 (0.18%) C#
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 42 (7.53%) Degree
2 25 (4.48%) PMP
3 22 (3.94%) CISSP
3 22 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.76%) CISM
5 19 (3.41%) PMI Certification
6 18 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (2.51%) CCSP
7 14 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.90%) FFIEC
13 4 (0.72%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.72%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.54%) CCSK
14 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.48%) PMO
2 19 (3.41%) GDPR
3 18 (3.23%) NIST
4 15 (2.69%) QA
5 12 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.43%) SLA
8 6 (1.08%) GRC
9 5 (0.90%) GLBA
10 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.18%) GxP
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 24 (4.30%) Docker
2 14 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.61%) RACF
5 5 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.90%) vSphere
6 3 (0.54%) KVM
7 2 (0.36%) ACF2
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.36%) SRDF
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.17%) Ansible
3 30 (5.38%) Terraform
4 17 (3.05%) Grafana
4 17 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.43%) Control-M
7 7 (1.25%) OMEGAMON
8 6 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.90%) Kiali
9 5 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.72%) Argo
10 4 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.72%) Puppet
11 3 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.54%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.36%) Consul
12 2 (0.36%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 93 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.20%) Google
3 28 (5.02%) SAP
4 26 (4.66%) Splunk
5 23 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.94%) Oracle
7 19 (3.41%) IBM
8 10 (1.79%) Foundry
8 10 (1.79%) VMware
9 9 (1.61%) Dell
10 8 (1.43%) Sonatype
10 8 (1.43%) Workday
11 7 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.08%) Apple
12 6 (1.08%) Databricks
13 5 (0.90%) Black Duck
13 5 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.90%) Okta
13 5 (0.90%) Thales
14 4 (0.72%) Juniper