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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 540 254 245
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.03% 22.58% 14.19%
As % of the General category 37.24% 35.72% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 159 136
10th Percentile £372 £348 £378
25th Percentile £430 £385 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £576
90th Percentile £713 £638 £653
England median daily rate £550 £572 £590
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.05% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £20.34 - £12.05
25th Percentile £31.80 - £12.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +89.09% +39.91% -
75th Percentile £37.24 - £19.51
90th Percentile £43.96 - £40.44
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.11 £28.00
% change year-on-year -8.16% +36.11% +0.07%

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 1,450 711 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 53.78% 63.20% 55.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 422 547
10th Percentile £313 £241 £199
25th Percentile £407 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £575
90th Percentile £688 £625 £645
England median daily rate £519 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.23% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 29 85
10th Percentile £16.01 £11.60 -
25th Percentile £20.29 £17.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +51.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £38.44 - £18.27
90th Percentile £68.75 £31.06 £34.33
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.85 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% -11.59% +2.78%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 0 352 £514 +10.30% 62
West Yorkshire -4 153 £525 +3.96% 131
North Yorkshire +2 22 £700 +27.27% 16
East Yorkshire -10 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 33 (6.11%) Confluence
1 33 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.93%) TPMS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.19%) CICS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) Maximo
4 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.19%) SAP FI-AP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP MRS
4 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.19%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 87 (16.11%) Azure
2 82 (15.19%) GCP
3 63 (11.67%) AWS
4 39 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (6.11%) GitHub
6 28 (5.19%) Entra ID
7 23 (4.26%) OpenShift
7 23 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 21 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (3.52%) OneDrive
9 19 (3.52%) SaaS
10 9 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.48%) Rubrik
12 7 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.30%) PaaS
13 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.19%) Network Security
2 20 (3.70%) Firewall
3 11 (2.04%) DNS
4 10 (1.85%) SSL
5 6 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.11%) VPN
6 5 (0.93%) SNMP
6 5 (0.93%) SSH
7 3 (0.56%) DHCP
7 3 (0.56%) SAN
8 2 (0.37%) Internet
8 2 (0.37%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.19%) DMZ
9 1 (0.19%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.19%) LAN
9 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.22%) Power BI
3 9 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.30%) Metadata
5 6 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.56%) Db2
7 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.56%) Power Query
8 2 (0.37%) Big Data
8 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.37%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.37%) Tableau
9 1 (0.19%) GIS
9 1 (0.19%) Looker
9 1 (0.19%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (10.19%) JIRA
2 41 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (2.22%) GitLab
5 9 (1.67%) Git
6 8 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.30%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.30%) Selenium
8 6 (1.11%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.93%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.37%) Flyway
11 2 (0.37%) git-flow
11 2 (0.37%) JUnit
11 2 (0.37%) Mockito
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.19%) Hudson
12 1 (0.19%) Postman
12 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
General
1 191 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.04%) Banking
3 63 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.93%) Legal
5 30 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 22 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.33%) Law
8 18 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.67%) Retail
12 8 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.30%) Billing
14 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.74%) Publishing
16 3 (0.56%) Advertising
16 3 (0.56%) Local Government
16 3 (0.56%) Social Science
17 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (13.52%) Lead
2 64 (11.85%) Analyst
3 55 (10.19%) Architect
4 52 (9.63%) Project Manager
5 40 (7.41%) Developer
6 34 (6.30%) Senior
7 32 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 29 (5.37%) Consultant
9 26 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.59%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 13 (2.41%) Programme Manager
12 12 (2.22%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 12 (2.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.04%) Infrastructure Manager
14 10 (1.85%) Lead Architect
15 9 (1.67%) Data Architect
15 9 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (1.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.89%) REST
2 15 (2.78%) Middleware
3 14 (2.59%) Kafka
3 14 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (2.59%) RESTful
3 14 (2.59%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.22%) OpenID
4 12 (2.22%) React
5 11 (2.04%) Node.js
6 10 (1.85%) SailPoint
7 8 (1.48%) OAuth
8 7 (1.30%) LDAP
8 7 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.11%) JWT
9 6 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (1.11%) SAML
9 6 (1.11%) Spring
10 5 (0.93%) ISPF
10 5 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (4.63%) Data Centre
5 18 (3.33%) Mainframe
6 17 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.22%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.93%) Clustering
14 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.74%) PMI
15 4 (0.74%) SCADA
15 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.30%) Linux
2 21 (3.89%) Windows
3 9 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.67%) zOS
4 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.93%) Android
5 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.93%) Unix
6 3 (0.56%) VMS
7 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) MVS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 107 (19.81%) DevOps
3 106 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (17.04%) Agile
6 72 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 71 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (13.15%) Roadmaps
8 66 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (11.48%) Observability
10 54 (10.00%) Project Management
11 51 (9.44%) DevSecOps
12 50 (9.26%) Migration
13 49 (9.07%) AI
13 49 (9.07%) Risk Management
14 43 (7.96%) ERP
15 40 (7.41%) Change Management
16 39 (7.22%) Identity Access Management
17 38 (7.04%) Project Delivery
18 36 (6.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 72 (13.33%) Python
2 50 (9.26%) Java
3 40 (7.41%) SQL
4 31 (5.74%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.78%) Bash
6 13 (2.41%) Go
7 11 (2.04%) Rust
8 6 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 5 (0.93%) VB
10 4 (0.74%) VBA
11 3 (0.56%) JCL
11 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.37%) C#
12 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.37%) PromQL
13 1 (0.19%) COBOL
13 1 (0.19%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) REXX
Qualifications
1 42 (7.78%) Degree
2 24 (4.44%) PMP
3 21 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.70%) CISM
4 20 (3.70%) CISSP
5 19 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 16 (2.96%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (2.41%) CCSP
7 13 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.93%) FFIEC
12 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.74%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.74%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.56%) CCSK
13 3 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.63%) PMO
2 19 (3.52%) GDPR
3 18 (3.33%) NIST
4 16 (2.96%) QA
5 13 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.30%) SLA
8 5 (0.93%) GLBA
8 5 (0.93%) GRC
9 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
12 1 (0.19%) GxP
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (5.37%) Docker
2 14 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.30%) RACF
6 5 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.93%) vSphere
7 3 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.37%) ACF2
8 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.37%) SRDF
8 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.59%) Ansible
3 31 (5.74%) Terraform
4 22 (4.07%) Grafana
5 18 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.30%) Kiali
8 6 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.93%) OMEGAMON
9 5 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.74%) Argo
10 4 (0.74%) Control-M
10 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.74%) Puppet
11 3 (0.56%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.56%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.37%) Consul
12 2 (0.37%) IBM Guardium
12 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.37%) Splunk
3 26 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.63%) Google
4 25 (4.63%) SAP
5 17 (3.15%) Oracle
6 16 (2.96%) IBM
7 10 (1.85%) Foundry
7 10 (1.85%) VMware
8 9 (1.67%) Dell
9 8 (1.48%) Sonatype
9 8 (1.48%) Workday
10 7 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.11%) Apple
11 6 (1.11%) Databricks
12 5 (0.93%) Black Duck
12 5 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.93%) IFS
12 5 (0.93%) Thales
13 4 (0.74%) Juniper