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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 436 178 309
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.69% 18.76% 16.72%
As % of the General category 37.49% 31.96% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 94 197
10th Percentile £325 £329 £310
25th Percentile £428 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +6.74% -8.10%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £555
90th Percentile £688 £650 £605
England median daily rate £534 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -9.49% +2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £10.72
25th Percentile - - £11.18
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.75 £28.37 £20.25
% change year-on-year -16.27% +40.07% -19.00%

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 1,163 557 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.86% 58.69% 56.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 315 642
10th Percentile £283 £250 £201
25th Percentile £400 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -6.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 45
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.68 £11.23
25th Percentile £15.06 £15.88 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £20.57 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +41.84% -32.56%
75th Percentile £56.69 £32.80 £16.90
90th Percentile £65.53 £41.80 £22.44
England median hourly rate £22.92 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.61% +18.24% -1.12%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -1 271 £480 -9.77% 66
West Yorkshire 0 132 £550 +27.91% 130
North Yorkshire +3 20 £700 +27.27% 19
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 (8.49%) Confluence
2 25 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.52%) TPMS
4 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.92%) CICS
5 4 (0.92%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.92%) VisionPLUS
4 3 (0.69%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.30%) GCP
2 52 (11.93%) AWS
3 50 (11.47%) Azure
4 31 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.73%) Entra ID
6 25 (5.73%) Serverless
7 24 (5.50%) GitHub
8 15 (3.44%) OneDrive
9 13 (2.98%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.06%) AWS KMS
11 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.38%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.15%) SaaS
14 4 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.92%) IaaS
14 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.13%) Firewall
2 13 (2.98%) SSL
3 11 (2.52%) SNMP
3 11 (2.52%) SSH
4 9 (2.06%) DNS
5 7 (1.61%) Internet
6 6 (1.38%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) VPN
10 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.23%) IPsec
10 1 (0.23%) LAN
10 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.80%) NoSQL
2 30 (6.88%) Power BI
3 29 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.29%) Power Query
5 9 (2.06%) PowerPivot
6 8 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.92%) Metadata
9 3 (0.69%) GIS
9 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.69%) MySQL
10 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.23%) IDMS
11 1 (0.23%) Looker
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 59 (13.53%) JIRA
3 35 (8.03%) GitLab
4 19 (4.36%) Liquibase
5 15 (3.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.83%) Git
6 8 (1.83%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.38%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.38%) Selenium
8 4 (0.92%) Maven
9 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.69%) Gradle
9 3 (0.69%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.46%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.46%) JUnit
10 2 (0.46%) Log4j
10 2 (0.46%) Mockito
10 2 (0.46%) Subversion
11 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 185 (42.43%) Social Skills
2 125 (28.67%) Banking
3 47 (10.78%) Financial Institution
4 46 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.65%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.21%) Legal
8 11 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Retail
10 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.38%) Law
11 6 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.15%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.15%) Marketing
13 4 (0.92%) Digital Health
13 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.69%) Electronics
14 3 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (14.22%) Analyst
2 58 (13.30%) Project Manager
3 39 (8.94%) Business Analyst
3 39 (8.94%) Senior
4 35 (8.03%) Architect
5 24 (5.50%) Developer
6 19 (4.36%) Consultant
7 17 (3.90%) Software Engineer
8 16 (3.67%) Lead
9 15 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (3.44%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.44%) Support Manager
10 13 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (2.75%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.52%) Cryptography Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Data Analyst
12 11 (2.52%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.26%) REST
2 30 (6.88%) RESTful
3 24 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (3.21%) Spring Boot
5 13 (2.98%) Kafka
6 11 (2.52%) Middleware
7 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.83%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.61%) LDAP
10 6 (1.38%) .NET
10 6 (1.38%) JSON
10 6 (1.38%) OAuth
10 6 (1.38%) OpenID
10 6 (1.38%) SAML
10 6 (1.38%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.15%) React
11 5 (1.15%) Spring
12 3 (0.69%) OpenCV
12 3 (0.69%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (6.88%) Public Cloud
3 29 (6.65%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.82%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.38%) SCADA
10 4 (0.92%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.69%) CMDB
11 3 (0.69%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (11.70%) Linux
2 31 (7.11%) Windows
3 12 (2.75%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.92%) VMS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (25.46%) Agile
2 90 (20.64%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (20.64%) DevOps
3 85 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 56 (12.84%) Migration
6 51 (11.70%) Decision-Making
6 51 (11.70%) Project Management
7 48 (11.01%) Computer Science
8 47 (10.78%) Microservices
9 45 (10.32%) Roadmaps
10 43 (9.86%) Cryptography
11 42 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (9.63%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (8.94%) Change Management
12 39 (8.94%) Containerisation
13 38 (8.72%) Data Security
13 38 (8.72%) Identity Access Management
14 37 (8.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 68 (15.60%) Python
2 48 (11.01%) SQL
3 36 (8.26%) Java
4 30 (6.88%) Go
5 17 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.06%) Rust
6 9 (2.06%) VBA
7 6 (1.38%) Bash
8 5 (1.15%) C#
8 5 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.92%) COBOL
10 3 (0.69%) JCL
10 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.23%) C++
12 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 63 (14.45%) Degree
2 34 (7.80%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.44%) CISSP
4 15 (3.44%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.98%) PMP
6 12 (2.75%) CISM
7 11 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.52%) FFIEC
8 9 (2.06%) ACSP
8 9 (2.06%) ACTC
8 9 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.15%) PhD
10 5 (1.15%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.42%) GDPR
2 21 (4.82%) NIST
3 19 (4.36%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.67%) PMO
5 14 (3.21%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.75%) QA
7 11 (2.52%) GLBA
8 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.38%) SLA
10 4 (0.92%) GRC
10 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.69%) PSD2
12 2 (0.46%) COBIT
13 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 41 (9.40%) Docker
2 19 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.92%) vSphere
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) KVM
6 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) XenApp
7 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.47%) Ansible
3 40 (9.17%) Grafana
4 37 (8.49%) Terraform
5 36 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.83%) Kiali
8 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.69%) Control-M
11 2 (0.46%) Argo
11 2 (0.46%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.46%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.46%) Nessus
11 2 (0.46%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.61%) Splunk
3 34 (7.80%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.59%) SAP
5 18 (4.13%) Google
6 13 (2.98%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.52%) Apple
8 10 (2.29%) Oracle
8 10 (2.29%) Thales
9 8 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.38%) IFS
10 6 (1.38%) VMware
11 5 (1.15%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.92%) Dell
12 4 (0.92%) F5
13 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.69%) Ariba
13 3 (0.69%) Planview
13 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.69%) Workday