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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 477 224 231
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.99% 22.18% 13.87%
As % of the General category 36.41% 35.22% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 138 138
10th Percentile £355 £346 £325
25th Percentile £413 £389 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £569
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
England median daily rate £537 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -6.61% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile - - £12.78
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +39.91% -
75th Percentile - - £17.01
90th Percentile - - £19.51
England median hourly rate £23.83 £43.08 £27.00
% change year-on-year -44.69% +59.54% -3.50%

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 1,310 636 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.90% 62.97% 56.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 380 548
10th Percentile £283 £263 £193
25th Percentile £400 £360 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -1.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £569
90th Percentile £669 £646 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 79
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.07
25th Percentile £16.09 £16.44 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.33 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.23% +38.97% -18.75%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.79 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.39 £22.15
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -1.38% -17.14%

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 22 April 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
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 22 April 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 0 321 £500 - 61
West Yorkshire -10 125 £500 +2.56% 115
North Yorkshire -4 21 £700 +27.27% 22
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 (7.34%) Confluence
2 27 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.68%) TPMS
5 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.84%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.63%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.21%) Actimize
7 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI-AP
7 1 (0.21%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.21%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.00%) Azure
2 55 (11.53%) GCP
3 40 (8.39%) AWS
4 39 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.66%) GitHub
7 23 (4.82%) Entra ID
7 23 (4.82%) OpenShift
8 19 (3.98%) OneDrive
9 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 13 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.52%) SaaS
12 7 (1.47%) PaaS
12 7 (1.47%) Rubrik
13 6 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.84%) IaaS
15 3 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.19%) Firewall
2 11 (2.31%) DNS
2 11 (2.31%) Network Security
3 10 (2.10%) SSL
4 8 (1.68%) SNMP
4 8 (1.68%) SSH
5 5 (1.05%) Internet
5 5 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.84%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) SAN
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.21%) PSTN
9 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.03%) Power BI
2 13 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.68%) Power Query
3 8 (1.68%) PowerPivot
4 7 (1.47%) Metadata
5 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.42%) Big Data
7 2 (0.42%) DB2
7 2 (0.42%) GIS
7 2 (0.42%) Looker
8 1 (0.21%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (10.48%) JIRA
2 42 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.73%) GitLab
4 12 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.68%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.47%) Selenium
7 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.26%) Git
7 6 (1.26%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.05%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.21%) Hudson
11 1 (0.21%) Postman
11 1 (0.21%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
General
1 172 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 121 (25.37%) Banking
3 56 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.87%) Financial Institution
5 27 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.35%) Legal
9 10 (2.10%) Retail
10 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.68%) Law
12 6 (1.26%) Billing
13 5 (1.05%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.63%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.42%) Marketing
16 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (13.84%) Analyst
2 61 (12.79%) Project Manager
3 48 (10.06%) Lead
4 43 (9.01%) Architect
5 40 (8.39%) Business Analyst
6 38 (7.97%) Senior
7 28 (5.87%) Developer
8 23 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.77%) Consultant
10 12 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (2.52%) SAP Manager
11 11 (2.31%) Programme Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Product Owner
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Business Analyst
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Manager
12 10 (2.10%) Technical Project Manager
13 9 (1.89%) Data Manager
13 9 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.35%) REST
2 14 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (2.73%) Kafka
4 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.52%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.31%) RESTful
6 10 (2.10%) Middleware
6 10 (2.10%) OpenID
7 8 (1.68%) LDAP
7 8 (1.68%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.05%) React
10 4 (0.84%) OAuth
10 4 (0.84%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.84%) SAML
11 3 (0.63%) .NET
11 3 (0.63%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.63%) JWT
11 3 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
2 27 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.89%) Mainframe
6 9 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.26%) SCADA
10 5 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.84%) PMI
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.34%) Linux
2 22 (4.61%) Windows
3 5 (1.05%) Android
3 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Unix
4 4 (0.84%) VMS
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) zOS
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (20.13%) DevOps
4 82 (17.19%) CI/CD
5 74 (15.51%) Agile
6 70 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
7 61 (12.79%) Migration
7 61 (12.79%) Roadmaps
8 59 (12.37%) Project Management
9 45 (9.43%) Observability
10 42 (8.81%) Decision-Making
11 40 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 39 (8.18%) AI
13 38 (7.97%) Business Case
13 38 (7.97%) ERP
13 38 (7.97%) Project Delivery
14 36 (7.55%) Process Improvement
15 34 (7.13%) Data Modelling
15 34 (7.13%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.00%) Python
2 48 (10.06%) SQL
3 38 (7.97%) Java
4 20 (4.19%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.31%) Bash
6 9 (1.89%) Go
6 9 (1.89%) VBA
7 8 (1.68%) Rust
8 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.05%) VB
10 3 (0.63%) C#
10 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.42%) JCL
11 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.21%) CLIST
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) Korn
12 1 (0.21%) REXX
Qualifications
1 43 (9.01%) Degree
2 19 (3.98%) PMP
2 19 (3.98%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.73%) CISSP
4 12 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.10%) CISM
5 10 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.10%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.68%) FFIEC
8 6 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.26%) CCSP
8 6 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) ACCA
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.03%) GDPR
1 24 (5.03%) PMO
2 20 (4.19%) NIST
3 18 (3.77%) QA
4 16 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 15 (3.14%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.68%) GLBA
7 5 (1.05%) SLA
8 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.63%) GRC
9 3 (0.63%) PSD2
10 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.21%) Basel III
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 30 (6.29%) Docker
2 11 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.05%) vSphere
5 3 (0.63%) KVM
6 2 (0.42%) ACF2
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) RACF
6 2 (0.42%) SRDF
6 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) XenApp
7 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.76%) Ansible
3 23 (4.82%) Terraform
4 21 (4.40%) Grafana
5 17 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.68%) Kiali
6 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.84%) Puppet
8 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.63%) Control-M
9 3 (0.63%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.42%) Argo
10 2 (0.42%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.42%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.21%) Nessus
11 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 78 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.13%) Splunk
3 20 (4.19%) SAP
4 18 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.56%) Oracle
6 14 (2.94%) Google
7 11 (2.31%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.31%) VMware
8 8 (1.68%) Dell
8 8 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.68%) Thales
9 7 (1.47%) IBM
10 6 (1.26%) Apple
10 6 (1.26%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.26%) IFS
11 5 (1.05%) Foundry
12 4 (0.84%) Broadcom
12 4 (0.84%) Databricks
13 3 (0.63%) Okta
13 3 (0.63%) Workday