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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 579 310 283
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.52% 23.47% 16.53%
As % of the General category 38.02% 37.13% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 200 161
10th Percentile £400 £354 £378
25th Percentile £425 £390 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £580
90th Percentile £700 £650 £656
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 4
10th Percentile £19.69 - £14.74
25th Percentile £22.20 - £17.01
Median hourly rate £35.00 £15.00 £19.51
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -23.10% -
75th Percentile - £16.76 £33.06
90th Percentile £43.96 £17.81 £55.22
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +28.57% -6.67%

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 1,523 835 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.99% 63.21% 56.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 509 536
10th Percentile £313 £256 £233
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £648
England median daily rate £525 £517 £533
% change year-on-year +1.55% -3.00% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 79
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.30 -
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.31 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.89 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% +51.38% -23.03%
75th Percentile £36.61 £22.88 £18.51
90th Percentile £58.40 £57.86 £35.00
England median hourly rate £32.81 £27.17 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -17.67% +10.00%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 0 360 £519 +10.43% 86
West Yorkshire -2 181 £500 - 151
North Yorkshire +3 30 £558 +1.36% 28
East Yorkshire -11 1 - - 11
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 (6.04%) Confluence
2 24 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.35%) TPMS
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.17%) CICS
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.52%) Maximo
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.35%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.17%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 95 (16.41%) Azure
2 94 (16.23%) GCP
3 70 (12.09%) AWS
4 33 (5.70%) GitHub
5 32 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.18%) Power Platform
7 26 (4.49%) OpenShift
8 24 (4.15%) Entra ID
9 22 (3.80%) Microsoft Copilot
10 15 (2.59%) SaaS
11 14 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.25%) OneDrive
13 10 (1.73%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.38%) Copilot Studio
15 7 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (1.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (1.04%) PaaS
16 6 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.87%) Network Security
2 15 (2.59%) Firewall
3 11 (1.90%) SSL
4 8 (1.38%) DNS
5 6 (1.04%) VPN
6 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.52%) DHCP
7 3 (0.52%) LAN
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
7 3 (0.52%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.35%) Internet
8 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.35%) Multicast
8 2 (0.35%) SNMP
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
8 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (2.42%) Power BI
2 10 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.38%) Metadata
4 7 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.86%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.52%) Db2
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.52%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.35%) Tableau
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
9 1 (0.17%) Looker
9 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 52 (8.98%) JIRA
2 43 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.55%) Git
5 7 (1.21%) GitLab
5 7 (1.21%) Selenium
6 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.86%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.52%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.35%) Flyway
10 2 (0.35%) git-flow
10 2 (0.35%) JUnit
10 2 (0.35%) Mockito
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.17%) Hudson
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 198 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.63%) Banking
3 76 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.74%) Legal
5 35 (6.04%) Financial Institution
6 27 (4.66%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.42%) Law
10 13 (2.25%) Retail
11 10 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.55%) Billing
13 8 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.86%) Private Banking
14 5 (0.86%) Publishing
15 4 (0.69%) Social Science
16 3 (0.52%) International Banking
16 3 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (14.85%) Lead
2 71 (12.26%) Analyst
3 61 (10.54%) Architect
4 57 (9.84%) Developer
5 34 (5.87%) Business Analyst
5 34 (5.87%) Senior
6 33 (5.70%) Project Manager
7 32 (5.53%) Consultant
8 28 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (2.76%) DevSecOps Consultant
10 15 (2.59%) Java Developer
11 14 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.07%) Administrator
12 12 (2.07%) Designer
12 12 (2.07%) Python Developer
13 11 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
13 11 (1.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 11 (1.90%) Programme Manager
14 10 (1.73%) Data Engineer
14 10 (1.73%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.15%) REST
2 20 (3.45%) React
3 16 (2.76%) Kafka
4 15 (2.59%) Middleware
4 15 (2.59%) Spring Boot
5 14 (2.42%) RESTful
6 13 (2.25%) Node.js
7 11 (1.90%) OpenID
8 10 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (1.55%) ISPF
9 9 (1.55%) OAuth
9 9 (1.55%) SailPoint
10 8 (1.38%) .NET
10 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.38%) OAuth2
10 8 (1.38%) Spring
11 7 (1.21%) SAML
12 6 (1.04%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.04%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.04%) Data Protection Act
2 35 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.97%) Mainframe
4 22 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.11%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.59%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.25%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.73%) Clustering
12 8 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.69%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.66%) Linux
2 14 (2.42%) Windows
3 13 (2.25%) zOS
4 10 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.86%) Android
6 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.69%) Unix
7 4 (0.69%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) MVS
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 114 (19.69%) CI/CD
3 109 (18.83%) DevOps
4 102 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (15.89%) Agile
6 88 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 77 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 63 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
10 61 (10.54%) AI
11 58 (10.02%) Observability
12 56 (9.67%) Risk Management
13 54 (9.33%) Migration
14 53 (9.15%) Change Management
15 50 (8.64%) DevSecOps
16 47 (8.12%) Project Management
17 44 (7.60%) Data Protection
18 40 (6.91%) Matrix Organization
18 40 (6.91%) Project Delivery
19 37 (6.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 74 (12.78%) Python
2 45 (7.77%) Java
3 40 (6.91%) SQL
4 25 (4.32%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.59%) Go
6 14 (2.42%) Bash
7 10 (1.73%) Rust
8 7 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.04%) C#
9 6 (1.04%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.86%) VB
11 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.52%) ABAP
12 3 (0.52%) JCL
12 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) Korn
13 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.35%) PromQL
13 2 (0.35%) VBA
14 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (7.25%) Degree
2 23 (3.97%) PMP
2 23 (3.97%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.80%) CISSP
4 21 (3.63%) CISM
5 19 (3.28%) PMI Certification
5 19 (3.28%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (2.42%) CCSP
6 14 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.69%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.69%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.52%) CCSK
13 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.15%) PMO
2 18 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.76%) GDPR
3 16 (2.76%) QA
4 15 (2.59%) NIST
5 7 (1.21%) GRC
5 7 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.21%) SLA
6 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) GLBA
8 2 (0.35%) IFRS
8 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (4.15%) Docker
2 13 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.90%) RACF
4 10 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.86%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) KVM
7 2 (0.35%) ACF2
7 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) SRDF
7 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.25%) Ansible
3 36 (6.22%) Terraform
4 17 (2.94%) Grafana
4 17 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.55%) OMEGAMON
7 8 (1.38%) Control-M
8 6 (1.04%) Argo
8 6 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.86%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.86%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.69%) Puppet
11 3 (0.52%) Kiali
11 3 (0.52%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.35%) Consul
12 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 93 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.87%) SAP
3 32 (5.53%) Google
4 24 (4.15%) Oracle
5 23 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.80%) Splunk
7 21 (3.63%) IBM
8 15 (2.59%) Foundry
9 10 (1.73%) VMware
10 9 (1.55%) Dell
11 8 (1.38%) Concur
11 8 (1.38%) Databricks
11 8 (1.38%) Sonatype
12 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.04%) Apple
13 6 (1.04%) Workday
14 5 (0.86%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (0.86%) Black Duck
14 5 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.86%) Okta