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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 416 251 344
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 23.18% 19.29% 18.63%
As % of the General category 38.13% 36.32% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 143 224
10th Percentile £324 £350 £310
25th Percentile £405 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £580 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £537 £575 £591
% change year-on-year -6.61% -2.69% +0.57%
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 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.03% +10.00% +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 1,091 691 1,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 60.78% 53.11% 57.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 377 684
10th Percentile £230 £250 £250
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 20
10th Percentile £14.40 £14.72 £13.53
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +14.47% +1.33%
75th Percentile £31.86 £39.44 £23.17
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £33.20
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.18% -7.73% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 0 260 £475 -11.63% 43
West Yorkshire +1 131 £500 - 98
North Yorkshire +6 11 £488 -9.30% 23
East Yorkshire -7 5 - - 18
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 31 (7.45%) Confluence
2 14 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.44%) CICS
3 6 (1.44%) CMS
3 6 (1.44%) TPMS
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.88%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) InVision
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.20%) VisionPLUS
3 3 (0.72%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.22%) GCP
2 53 (12.74%) AWS
3 39 (9.38%) Azure
4 37 (8.89%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.93%) Serverless
6 14 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.88%) GitHub
9 11 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.44%) AWS KMS
11 6 (1.44%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.20%) Azure AKS
13 4 (0.96%) Figma
14 3 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.72%) Collibra
14 3 (0.72%) npm
14 3 (0.72%) PaaS
15 2 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.13%) Firewall
2 8 (1.92%) SSL
3 7 (1.68%) SSH
4 6 (1.44%) Internet
4 6 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 6 (1.44%) SNMP
5 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.96%) DNS
7 3 (0.72%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.48%) VPN
8 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.13%) NoSQL
2 37 (8.89%) Power BI
3 28 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.61%) Power Query
5 13 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.68%) PowerPivot
7 5 (1.20%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.96%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.96%) Metadata
9 3 (0.72%) GIS
9 3 (0.72%) MySQL
10 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.24%) Data Mart
11 1 (0.24%) DB2
11 1 (0.24%) IDMS
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (12.74%) Jenkins
1 53 (12.74%) JIRA
2 33 (7.93%) GitLab
3 28 (6.73%) Liquibase
4 9 (2.16%) Git
5 8 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.44%) Postman
7 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 3 (0.72%) Gradle
8 3 (0.72%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.48%) Babel
9 2 (0.48%) ChangeMan
9 2 (0.48%) JUnit
9 2 (0.48%) Log4j
9 2 (0.48%) Mockito
9 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) webpack
10 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
General
1 183 (43.99%) Social Skills
2 121 (29.09%) Banking
3 69 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.26%) Financial Institution
5 19 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.13%) Legal
9 12 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.92%) Retail
11 7 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.20%) Marketing
13 4 (0.96%) Billing
14 3 (0.72%) Electronics
14 3 (0.72%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (21.63%) Analyst
2 44 (10.58%) Senior
3 41 (9.86%) Project Manager
4 36 (8.65%) Business Analyst
5 34 (8.17%) Developer
6 28 (6.73%) Architect
7 24 (5.77%) Data Analyst
8 20 (4.81%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.09%) Financial Analyst
10 17 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.61%) GCP Engineer
11 15 (3.61%) Incident Manager
12 14 (3.37%) IT Manager
12 14 (3.37%) Service Analyst
13 13 (3.13%) Consultant
13 13 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (3.13%) Support Manager
14 12 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.13%) REST
2 36 (8.65%) RESTful
3 31 (7.45%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.40%) .NET
5 9 (2.16%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.44%) CSS
6 6 (1.44%) HTML
6 6 (1.44%) JSON
6 6 (1.44%) OAuth
6 6 (1.44%) SAML
7 5 (1.20%) Hugging Face
7 5 (1.20%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.20%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.20%) Regular Expression
7 5 (1.20%) SpaCy
8 4 (0.96%) Pandas
8 4 (0.96%) React
8 4 (0.96%) Spring
8 4 (0.96%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.72%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.62%) Public Cloud
2 32 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (3.13%) Mainframe
8 12 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.96%) CMDB
14 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.72%) Credit Risk
15 3 (0.72%) Online Banking
15 3 (0.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.82%) Linux
2 23 (5.53%) Windows
3 10 (2.40%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.96%) Android
4 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (31.49%) Agile
2 89 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 81 (19.47%) DevOps
3 81 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
5 70 (16.83%) CI/CD
6 53 (12.74%) Change Management
6 53 (12.74%) Decision-Making
7 44 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 43 (10.34%) Cryptography
9 41 (9.86%) Migration
10 40 (9.62%) Computer Science
10 40 (9.62%) Microservices
10 40 (9.62%) Software Engineering
11 39 (9.38%) Data Security
12 38 (9.13%) Project Management
12 38 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (8.89%) Roadmaps
14 35 (8.41%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (17.07%) Python
2 38 (9.13%) Go
3 33 (7.93%) SQL
4 15 (3.61%) Java
5 10 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.40%) VBA
6 8 (1.92%) C#
7 6 (1.44%) COBOL
7 6 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.20%) JCL
9 4 (0.96%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.48%) Bash
10 2 (0.48%) Swift
10 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.48%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) Groovy
11 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (13.46%) Degree
2 36 (8.65%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.37%) CISSP
6 11 (2.64%) CISM
7 10 (2.40%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.16%) ACSP
8 9 (2.16%) ACTC
9 8 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.92%) PMP
10 7 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.44%) FFIEC
12 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.20%) PhD
13 4 (0.96%) ACCA
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.96%) CISMP
13 4 (0.96%) GSEC
13 4 (0.96%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.69%) GDPR
2 19 (4.57%) PMO
3 17 (4.09%) NIST
4 15 (3.61%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.16%) QA
8 6 (1.44%) GLBA
9 5 (1.20%) SLA
10 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.72%) PSD2
12 2 (0.48%) COBIT
12 2 (0.48%) GRC
13 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.24%) Basel III
13 1 (0.24%) IFRS
13 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (8.41%) Docker
2 14 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
6 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.24%) RACF
6 1 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.24%) XenApp
6 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (11.54%) Ansible
1 48 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 48 (11.54%) Terraform
2 34 (8.17%) Prometheus
3 33 (7.93%) Grafana
4 10 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.20%) Puppet
7 3 (0.72%) Control-M
8 2 (0.48%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.48%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.48%) Nessus
8 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.48%) SCCM
8 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.38%) Splunk
3 37 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.81%) Google
5 19 (4.57%) SAP
6 11 (2.64%) Apple
7 8 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.68%) VMware
9 6 (1.44%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (1.44%) Oracle
9 6 (1.44%) Sonatype
10 5 (1.20%) F5
10 5 (1.20%) Thales
11 3 (0.72%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.48%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (0.48%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.48%) Thycotic
12 2 (0.48%) Xero