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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Finance 616 357 286
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.16% 22.78% 19.23%
As % of the General category 38.69% 36.47% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 249 162
10th Percentile £363 £321 £379
25th Percentile £425 £390 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £584 £619
90th Percentile £693 £657 £715
England median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 2
10th Percentile £19.69 - £23.44
25th Percentile £23.53 £15.00 £31.20
Median hourly rate £35.00 £16.76 £44.14
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -62.04% +323.56%
75th Percentile £43.96 £20.13 £57.07
90th Percentile - £23.05 £64.83
England median hourly rate £43.96 £28.53 £35.00
% change year-on-year +54.11% -18.50% +36.13%

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 1,592 979 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.69% 62.48% 53.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 632 440
10th Percentile £313 £219 £300
25th Percentile £411 £364 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £676
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 36 39
10th Percentile £13.47 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.48 £14.06
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +0.43% +5.26%
75th Percentile £36.61 £25.46 £39.38
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +1 350 £522 +13.17% 178
West Yorkshire +5 223 £525 - 373
North Yorkshire +10 28 £448 -8.21% 56
East Yorkshire -9 1 - - 32
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 (6.01%) Confluence
2 12 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.65%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.32%) CICS
6 2 (0.32%) nginx
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.32%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.16%) Maple
7 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.65%) Maximo
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Exstream
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-AP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.16%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 118 (19.16%) Azure
2 113 (18.34%) GCP
3 85 (13.80%) AWS
4 40 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.01%) GitHub
6 22 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 21 (3.41%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (2.76%) SaaS
11 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 13 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.46%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.30%) Copilot Studio
14 8 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.97%) OCI
16 6 (0.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.82%) Network Security
2 12 (1.95%) Firewall
3 9 (1.46%) SSL
4 6 (0.97%) VPN
5 5 (0.81%) DNS
6 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.49%) SAN
7 3 (0.49%) WAN
8 2 (0.32%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.32%) DHCP
8 2 (0.32%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.32%) LAN
8 2 (0.32%) Multicast
9 1 (0.16%) DMZ
9 1 (0.16%) HTTP
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.16%) VSAN
9 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.90%) Power BI
2 13 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.62%) Metadata
5 9 (1.46%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.97%) Db2
9 5 (0.81%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.49%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.32%) Big Data
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.16%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.16%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.16%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 57 (9.25%) JIRA
2 23 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.11%) Git
4 5 (0.81%) JMeter
4 5 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.65%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.65%) Postman
5 4 (0.65%) Selenium
6 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.32%) Flyway
7 2 (0.32%) git-flow
7 2 (0.32%) JUnit
7 2 (0.32%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.32%) Mockito
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 228 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 152 (24.68%) Banking
3 94 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.14%) Legal
5 35 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 30 (4.87%) Financial Institution
8 25 (4.06%) Public Sector
9 18 (2.92%) Retail
10 14 (2.27%) Law
11 11 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.46%) Private Banking
13 8 (1.30%) Billing
13 8 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Publishing
15 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.65%) Social Science
16 3 (0.49%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 103 (16.72%) Lead
2 73 (11.85%) Senior
3 65 (10.55%) Architect
4 60 (9.74%) Developer
5 59 (9.58%) Analyst
6 45 (7.31%) Consultant
7 32 (5.19%) Project Manager
8 28 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.41%) Business Analyst
10 20 (3.25%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 17 (2.76%) Administrator
11 17 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.60%) Java Developer
13 14 (2.27%) Senior Architect
14 13 (2.11%) Technical Leader
15 12 (1.95%) Data Analyst
15 12 (1.95%) Product Owner
15 12 (1.95%) Programme Manager
15 12 (1.95%) Senior Manager
15 12 (1.95%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.33%) Terraform
2 27 (4.38%) REST
3 26 (4.22%) Kafka
4 22 (3.57%) Middleware
4 22 (3.57%) React
5 16 (2.60%) Node.js
5 16 (2.60%) OAuth
6 14 (2.27%) .NET
6 14 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 13 (2.11%) OpenID
7 13 (2.11%) SAML
7 13 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.79%) RESTful
9 10 (1.62%) ASP.NET
10 9 (1.46%) ISPF
10 9 (1.46%) Spring
11 7 (1.14%) .NET Framework
11 7 (1.14%) JWT
12 6 (0.97%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.52%) Data Protection Act
4 33 (5.36%) Mainframe
5 28 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 26 (4.22%) AI Agents
6 26 (4.22%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 16 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.27%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.27%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.62%) Clustering
11 10 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.62%) Podcast
11 10 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
12 9 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.06%) Linux
2 14 (2.27%) zOS
3 13 (2.11%) Windows
4 9 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.81%) Android
6 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.81%) Unix
7 4 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.32%) MVS
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (34.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 129 (20.94%) CI/CD
3 116 (18.83%) Agile
4 105 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (16.23%) Roadmaps
6 97 (15.75%) DevOps
7 90 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (13.80%) AI
9 83 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 72 (11.69%) Risk Management
11 70 (11.36%) DevSecOps
12 69 (11.20%) Observability
13 67 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
14 63 (10.23%) Change Management
15 59 (9.58%) Migration
16 52 (8.44%) Decision-Making
16 52 (8.44%) Project Management
17 49 (7.95%) Analytics
18 48 (7.79%) Project Delivery
19 46 (7.47%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 77 (12.50%) Python
2 47 (7.63%) Java
3 41 (6.66%) SQL
4 25 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.44%) Bash
6 14 (2.27%) Go
7 12 (1.95%) C#
7 12 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.14%) Rust
9 5 (0.81%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.49%) ABAP
10 3 (0.49%) COBOL
10 3 (0.49%) JCL
10 3 (0.49%) Korn
10 3 (0.49%) VBA
11 2 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.32%) Scala
11 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (6.17%) Degree
2 25 (4.06%) CISM
3 22 (3.57%) CISSP
3 22 (3.57%) PMP
4 19 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 19 (3.08%) CCSP
4 19 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (2.76%) Security Cleared
6 16 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.44%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.97%) CCSK
11 6 (0.97%) CRISC
11 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.65%) ACCA
12 4 (0.65%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.65%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.41%) PMO
3 18 (2.92%) QA
4 10 (1.62%) GDPR
4 10 (1.62%) NIST
4 10 (1.62%) SLA
5 7 (1.14%) GRC
6 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.32%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) P3O
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (3.57%) Docker
2 17 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.11%) RACF
3 13 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.97%) vSphere
6 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.65%) ACF2
8 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.22%) Ansible
3 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.95%) Grafana
5 11 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.62%) OMEGAMON
7 8 (1.30%) Control-M
7 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.14%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.14%) Tivoli
9 5 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.65%) Argo
10 4 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.65%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 2 (0.32%) Consul
11 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.32%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.32%) Packer
11 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 98 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.84%) SAP
3 35 (5.68%) Google
3 35 (5.68%) IBM
4 28 (4.55%) Oracle
5 22 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.44%) Databricks
7 14 (2.27%) VMware
8 13 (2.11%) Foundry
9 10 (1.62%) Splunk
9 10 (1.62%) Workday
10 8 (1.30%) Concur
11 7 (1.14%) Okta
12 6 (0.97%) Apple
12 6 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.81%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.81%) Delphix