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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 569 335 274
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.99% 23.96% 16.81%
As % of the General category 37.19% 37.98% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 221 160
10th Percentile £400 £350 £378
25th Percentile £413 £388 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £600
90th Percentile £698 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 3
10th Percentile £19.69 - £18.76
25th Percentile £22.20 £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 £42.48 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -2.86% +28.49%

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 1,530 882 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.74% 63.09% 54.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 540 501
10th Percentile £309 £252 £275
25th Percentile £406 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £580
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 41 69
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.48 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -23.80%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.11 £21.50
90th Percentile £46.00 £81.25 £40.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.34% -28.00% +21.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 0 349 £517 +10.07% 82
West Yorkshire -3 184 £500 -2.44% 159
North Yorkshire -2 27 £500 -9.09% 24
East Yorkshire -12 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 32 (5.62%) Confluence
2 17 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.35%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Maple
Business Applications
1 18 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.53%) Maximo
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
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
5 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.18%) Actimize
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
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 94 (16.52%) Azure
2 92 (16.17%) GCP
3 68 (11.95%) AWS
4 34 (5.98%) GitHub
5 31 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.57%) OpenShift
7 24 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (3.51%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 16 (2.81%) SaaS
11 14 (2.46%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.76%) Azure AI
13 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
15 7 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (1.05%) OneDrive
16 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
17 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.98%) Network Security
2 13 (2.28%) Firewall
3 9 (1.58%) SSL
4 8 (1.41%) DNS
5 6 (1.05%) VPN
6 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) LAN
7 3 (0.53%) SAN
7 3 (0.53%) WAN
8 2 (0.35%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.35%) Multicast
9 1 (0.18%) DMZ
9 1 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.18%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.64%) Power BI
2 14 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.23%) Metadata
4 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.70%) Db2
7 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.35%) Tableau
9 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.18%) Looker
9 1 (0.18%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 47 (8.26%) JIRA
2 38 (6.68%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (1.58%) Git
5 5 (0.88%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.70%) GitLab
6 4 (0.70%) Selenium
7 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.35%) Flyway
8 2 (0.35%) git-flow
8 2 (0.35%) JUnit
8 2 (0.35%) Mockito
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) Hudson
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (33.92%) Social Skills
2 133 (23.37%) Banking
3 89 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.38%) Legal
5 33 (5.80%) Financial Institution
6 28 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.46%) Law
9 14 (2.46%) Retail
10 11 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.76%) Billing
11 10 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.41%) Private Banking
13 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.88%) Publishing
15 4 (0.70%) Social Science
16 3 (0.53%) Advertising
16 3 (0.53%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (15.82%) Lead
2 69 (12.13%) Analyst
3 58 (10.19%) Architect
3 58 (10.19%) Developer
4 43 (7.56%) Senior
5 32 (5.62%) Consultant
5 32 (5.62%) Project Manager
6 29 (5.10%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (2.81%) DevSecOps Consultant
8 16 (2.81%) Java Developer
9 14 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.28%) Financial Analyst
11 12 (2.11%) Administrator
11 12 (2.11%) Python Developer
12 11 (1.93%) Designer
13 10 (1.76%) Data Architect
13 10 (1.76%) Data Engineer
13 10 (1.76%) Lead Architect
13 10 (1.76%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.22%) REST
2 19 (3.34%) React
3 15 (2.64%) Kafka
4 14 (2.46%) RESTful
5 13 (2.28%) Middleware
5 13 (2.28%) Node.js
5 13 (2.28%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.76%) OAuth
7 9 (1.58%) .NET
7 9 (1.58%) ISPF
8 8 (1.41%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.41%) OpenID
8 8 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (1.41%) Spring
9 7 (1.23%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.23%) SAML
10 6 (1.05%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.05%) Hibernate
10 6 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
3 32 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.22%) Mainframe
5 23 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.51%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.81%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.46%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.28%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.76%) Clustering
13 8 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
16 5 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.39%) Linux
2 13 (2.28%) Windows
2 13 (2.28%) zOS
3 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.88%) Android
5 5 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.70%) Unix
6 4 (0.70%) VMS
7 2 (0.35%) MVS
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (26.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 109 (19.16%) CI/CD
3 103 (18.10%) DevOps
4 101 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (15.29%) Agile
7 80 (14.06%) Roadmaps
7 80 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 68 (11.95%) AI
9 65 (11.42%) Risk Management
10 60 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (9.67%) Change Management
12 53 (9.31%) Migration
13 51 (8.96%) Observability
14 49 (8.61%) DevSecOps
15 43 (7.56%) Data Protection
16 42 (7.38%) Project Management
17 38 (6.68%) Matrix Organization
17 38 (6.68%) Project Delivery
18 37 (6.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 75 (13.18%) Python
2 40 (7.03%) Java
3 30 (5.27%) SQL
4 23 (4.04%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.64%) Bash
5 15 (2.64%) Go
6 8 (1.41%) Rust
7 7 (1.23%) C#
7 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.88%) VB
10 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.53%) ABAP
11 3 (0.53%) JCL
11 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Korn
12 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.35%) PromQL
13 1 (0.18%) Groovy
13 1 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 42 (7.38%) Degree
2 23 (4.04%) CISM
3 21 (3.69%) CISSP
3 21 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.51%) PMP
5 17 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (2.46%) CCSP
7 14 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.88%) CRISC
12 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.70%) JNCIA
13 4 (0.70%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.39%) PMO
2 22 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.64%) QA
4 12 (2.11%) NIST
5 11 (1.93%) GDPR
6 8 (1.41%) SLA
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.35%) IFRS
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.18%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (3.69%) Docker
2 12 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.11%) RACF
3 11 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.88%) vSphere
6 3 (0.53%) ACF2
6 3 (0.53%) KVM
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 (0.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 61 (10.72%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.21%) Ansible
3 37 (6.50%) Terraform
4 16 (2.81%) Grafana
4 16 (2.81%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.58%) OMEGAMON
7 8 (1.41%) Control-M
8 6 (1.05%) Argo
8 6 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.88%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.70%) Puppet
11 3 (0.53%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.35%) Consul
12 2 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 89 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.27%) Google
2 30 (5.27%) SAP
3 25 (4.39%) Oracle
4 24 (4.22%) IBM
5 20 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.16%) Splunk
7 15 (2.64%) Foundry
8 10 (1.76%) VMware
9 9 (1.58%) Databricks
9 9 (1.58%) Dell
10 8 (1.41%) Concur
11 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.05%) Apple
12 6 (1.05%) Okta
13 5 (0.88%) Black Duck
13 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.88%) Sonatype
13 5 (0.88%) Workday
14 4 (0.70%) Juniper