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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 401 232 333
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.95% 19.50% 18.20%
As % of the General category 36.89% 35.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 137 214
10th Percentile £315 £350 £310
25th Percentile £409 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +6.19% -4.01%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £624
England median daily rate £540 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £10.42
75th Percentile £20.00 - -
90th Percentile £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.60% +0.98% +16.69%

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 common skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,087 652 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 59.50% 54.79% 57.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 365 665
10th Percentile £230 £250 £275
25th Percentile £384 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +0.49%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 23 21
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +18.42% -
75th Percentile £52.38 £40.13 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £32.00
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.41 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -7.85% +29.31%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -1 249 £475 -11.63% 79
West Yorkshire +1 131 £500 +5.26% 160
North Yorkshire +5 11 £488 -9.30% 35
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 28 (6.98%) Confluence
2 14 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.50%) CICS
3 6 (1.50%) CMS
3 6 (1.50%) TPMS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (12.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.25%) VisionPLUS
4 3 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.75%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI-CA
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 56 (13.97%) GCP
2 54 (13.47%) AWS
3 41 (10.22%) Azure
4 39 (9.73%) Power Platform
5 33 (8.23%) Serverless
6 15 (3.74%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.74%) GitHub
10 7 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.50%) AWS KMS
11 6 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.25%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.25%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.75%) Collibra
13 3 (0.75%) npm
13 3 (0.75%) PaaS
14 2 (0.50%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.74%) Firewall
2 8 (2.00%) SSL
3 7 (1.75%) SSH
4 6 (1.50%) Internet
4 6 (1.50%) Kerberos
4 6 (1.50%) SNMP
5 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.75%) Network Security
7 2 (0.50%) DNS
7 2 (0.50%) VPN
7 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) IPsec
8 1 (0.25%) LAN
8 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.73%) Power BI
2 38 (9.48%) NoSQL
3 28 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.74%) Power Query
5 13 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.75%) PowerPivot
7 5 (1.25%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.00%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.00%) Metadata
9 3 (0.75%) MySQL
10 2 (0.50%) GIS
10 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.25%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.25%) DB2
11 1 (0.25%) IDMS
11 1 (0.25%) Looker
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (12.47%) Jenkins
2 48 (11.97%) JIRA
3 33 (8.23%) GitLab
4 28 (6.98%) Liquibase
5 10 (2.49%) Git
6 8 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.25%) Postman
8 4 (1.00%) Maven
9 3 (0.75%) Gradle
9 3 (0.75%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.50%) Babel
10 2 (0.50%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.50%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.50%) JUnit
10 2 (0.50%) Log4j
10 2 (0.50%) Mockito
10 2 (0.50%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.50%) Subversion
10 2 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 171 (42.64%) Social Skills
2 122 (30.42%) Banking
3 65 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.97%) Financial Institution
5 22 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.49%) Legal
7 14 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.00%) Retail
10 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.25%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.00%) Billing
12 4 (1.00%) Marketing
12 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.75%) Electronics
13 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (19.95%) Analyst
2 45 (11.22%) Senior
3 42 (10.47%) Project Manager
4 37 (9.23%) Business Analyst
5 34 (8.48%) Developer
6 28 (6.98%) Architect
7 24 (5.99%) Data Analyst
8 20 (4.99%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.24%) Financial Analyst
10 17 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.99%) GCP Engineer
12 14 (3.49%) Consultant
12 14 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.49%) Service Analyst
12 14 (3.49%) Support Manager
13 13 (3.24%) IT Manager
13 13 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.73%) REST
2 36 (8.98%) RESTful
3 31 (7.73%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (2.24%) .NET
4 9 (2.24%) TensorFlow
5 7 (1.75%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.50%) CSS
6 6 (1.50%) HTML
6 6 (1.50%) JSON
6 6 (1.50%) OAuth
6 6 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.50%) SAML
7 5 (1.25%) Hugging Face
7 5 (1.25%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.25%) Regular Expression
7 5 (1.25%) SpaCy
8 4 (1.00%) Kafka
8 4 (1.00%) Pandas
8 4 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.98%) Public Cloud
2 34 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.98%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.74%) Data Centre
6 21 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.49%) Management Information System
9 13 (3.24%) Mainframe
10 10 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (1.00%) CMDB
16 3 (0.75%) Credit Risk
16 3 (0.75%) Mobile App
16 3 (0.75%) Online Banking
16 3 (0.75%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.22%) Linux
2 24 (5.99%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.75%) Android
4 3 (0.75%) VMS
4 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (31.42%) Agile
2 85 (21.20%) DevOps
3 82 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
3 82 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (18.70%) CI/CD
5 54 (13.47%) Decision-Making
6 53 (13.22%) Change Management
7 47 (11.72%) Migration
8 44 (10.97%) Containerisation
8 44 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (10.72%) Cryptography
9 43 (10.72%) Microservices
10 42 (10.47%) Computer Science
10 42 (10.47%) Project Management
11 39 (9.73%) Roadmaps
11 39 (9.73%) Software Engineering
12 38 (9.48%) Data Security
13 36 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (8.98%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (17.46%) Python
2 38 (9.48%) Go
3 35 (8.73%) SQL
4 17 (4.24%) Java
5 10 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.49%) VBA
6 8 (2.00%) C#
7 6 (1.50%) COBOL
8 5 (1.25%) JCL
9 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.75%) Rust
11 2 (0.50%) Swift
11 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.25%) Bash
12 1 (0.25%) Bicep
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 59 (14.71%) Degree
2 36 (8.98%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.49%) CISSP
6 11 (2.74%) CISM
7 10 (2.49%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.24%) ACSP
8 9 (2.24%) ACTC
9 8 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.75%) PMP
10 7 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.50%) FFIEC
12 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.25%) PhD
13 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.00%) ACCA
13 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.99%) GDPR
2 18 (4.49%) PMO
3 17 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.24%) NIST
4 11 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.49%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.24%) QA
6 9 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.50%) GLBA
8 5 (1.25%) SLA
9 3 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.50%) COBIT
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) Basel III
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS
System Software
1 38 (9.48%) Docker
2 15 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.25%) RACF
5 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.25%) XenApp
5 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.47%) Ansible
2 46 (11.47%) Terraform
3 37 (9.23%) Prometheus
4 36 (8.98%) Grafana
5 10 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.00%) Puppet
8 3 (0.75%) Control-M
9 2 (0.50%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.50%) IBM Guardium
9 2 (0.50%) Kiali
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.50%) Nessus
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) SCCM
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 72 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.22%) Splunk
3 28 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.99%) Google
4 20 (4.99%) SAP
5 11 (2.74%) Apple
6 8 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.50%) BiZZdesign
7 6 (1.50%) Sonatype
8 5 (1.25%) Oracle
8 5 (1.25%) Thales
9 4 (1.00%) VMware
10 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) F5
10 3 (0.75%) Genesys
11 2 (0.50%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.50%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.50%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.50%) Xero