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 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 433 177 309
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.54% 18.75% 16.62%
As % of the General category 37.23% 31.83% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 93 197
10th Percentile £337 £328 £310
25th Percentile £438 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £515 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +6.74% -8.10%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £555
90th Percentile £691 £650 £605
England median daily rate £526 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -10.81% +2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £10.72
25th Percentile - - £11.18
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £13.23
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.58 £29.23 £20.25
% change year-on-year -19.35% +44.35% -19.00%

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 1,163 556 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.86% 58.90% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 314 644
10th Percentile £284 £241 £202
25th Percentile £401 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -6.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 46
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.68 £11.24
25th Percentile £15.06 £15.88 £12.55
Median hourly rate £21.30 £20.57 £14.56
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +41.24% -32.27%
75th Percentile £56.69 £32.80 £16.49
90th Percentile £65.53 £41.80 £22.36
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.41 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.98% +18.26% -2.98%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -1 271 £492 -7.52% 61
West Yorkshire 0 129 £550 +28.65% 127
North Yorkshire +2 20 £700 +27.27% 20
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 (8.55%) Confluence
2 25 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.54%) TPMS
4 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.69%) CICS
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.69%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.69%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI-CA
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 58 (13.39%) GCP
2 52 (12.01%) AWS
3 50 (11.55%) Azure
4 31 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 25 (5.77%) Serverless
7 24 (5.54%) GitHub
8 15 (3.46%) OneDrive
9 14 (3.23%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.08%) AWS KMS
11 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.39%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.15%) SaaS
14 4 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.92%) IaaS
14 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.16%) Firewall
2 13 (3.00%) SSL
3 11 (2.54%) SNMP
3 11 (2.54%) SSH
4 9 (2.08%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) Internet
6 6 (1.39%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.46%) DHCP
9 2 (0.46%) VPN
10 1 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.23%) IPsec
10 1 (0.23%) LAN
10 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.85%) NoSQL
2 29 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (6.70%) Power BI
3 9 (2.08%) Power Query
4 8 (1.85%) PowerPivot
4 8 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.15%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.92%) Metadata
7 3 (0.69%) GIS
7 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.69%) MySQL
8 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.23%) IDMS
9 1 (0.23%) Looker
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 58 (13.39%) JIRA
3 35 (8.08%) GitLab
4 19 (4.39%) Liquibase
5 15 (3.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.85%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.62%) Git
8 6 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.39%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.39%) Selenium
9 4 (0.92%) Maven
10 3 (0.69%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.69%) Gradle
10 3 (0.69%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.46%) ChangeMan
11 2 (0.46%) JUnit
11 2 (0.46%) Log4j
11 2 (0.46%) Mockito
11 2 (0.46%) Subversion
12 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 185 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 123 (28.41%) Banking
3 46 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (10.62%) Financial Institution
4 30 (6.93%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.00%) Legal
7 11 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.85%) Retail
9 7 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.39%) Law
10 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Marketing
12 4 (0.92%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.69%) Electronics
13 3 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (14.09%) Analyst
2 58 (13.39%) Project Manager
3 39 (9.01%) Business Analyst
4 38 (8.78%) Senior
5 34 (7.85%) Architect
6 23 (5.31%) Developer
7 18 (4.16%) Consultant
8 17 (3.93%) Lead
8 17 (3.93%) Software Engineer
9 15 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (3.46%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.46%) Support Manager
10 13 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (2.77%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.54%) Cryptography Engineer
12 11 (2.54%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (2.54%) Technical Business Analyst
13 10 (2.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.08%) REST
2 30 (6.93%) RESTful
3 24 (5.54%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (3.23%) Kafka
5 14 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.54%) Middleware
7 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.85%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.62%) JSON
9 7 (1.62%) LDAP
10 6 (1.39%) .NET
10 6 (1.39%) OAuth
10 6 (1.39%) OpenID
10 6 (1.39%) SAML
10 6 (1.39%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.15%) Spring
12 4 (0.92%) React
13 3 (0.69%) Pandas
13 3 (0.69%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (6.93%) Public Cloud
3 29 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.54%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.85%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.16%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.93%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.39%) SCADA
10 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.15%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.92%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.69%) CMDB
12 3 (0.69%) Online Banking
12 3 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 51 (11.78%) Linux
2 32 (7.39%) Windows
3 12 (2.77%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.92%) VMS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (25.40%) Agile
2 89 (20.55%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (20.32%) DevOps
4 86 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (18.94%) CI/CD
7 56 (12.93%) Migration
8 51 (11.78%) Project Management
9 50 (11.55%) Decision-Making
10 48 (11.09%) Computer Science
11 47 (10.85%) Microservices
12 46 (10.62%) Roadmaps
13 43 (9.93%) Cryptography
14 42 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (9.70%) Root Cause Analysis
15 39 (9.01%) Change Management
15 39 (9.01%) Containerisation
16 38 (8.78%) Data Security
16 38 (8.78%) Observability
16 38 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.17%) Python
2 48 (11.09%) SQL
3 36 (8.31%) Java
4 30 (6.93%) Go
5 17 (3.93%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.08%) Rust
6 9 (2.08%) VBA
7 6 (1.39%) Bash
8 5 (1.15%) C#
9 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.69%) COBOL
10 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.46%) JCL
11 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.23%) C++
12 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) Korn
12 1 (0.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 63 (14.55%) Degree
2 34 (7.85%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.70%) CISSP
5 14 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 13 (3.00%) CISM
6 13 (3.00%) PMP
7 11 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.54%) FFIEC
8 9 (2.08%) ACSP
8 9 (2.08%) ACTC
8 9 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.15%) PhD
10 5 (1.15%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.47%) GDPR
2 21 (4.85%) NIST
3 19 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.70%) PMO
5 14 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.77%) QA
7 11 (2.54%) GLBA
8 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.39%) SLA
10 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.69%) GRC
11 3 (0.69%) PSD2
12 2 (0.46%) COBIT
13 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.23%) Basel III
System Software
1 41 (9.47%) Docker
2 19 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.92%) vSphere
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) KVM
6 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) XenApp
7 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.55%) Ansible
3 40 (9.24%) Grafana
4 37 (8.55%) Prometheus
4 37 (8.55%) Terraform
5 10 (2.31%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.85%) Kiali
7 6 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.92%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.69%) Control-M
10 2 (0.46%) Argo
10 2 (0.46%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.46%) IBM Guardium
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.46%) Nessus
10 2 (0.46%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 56 (12.93%) Splunk
3 33 (7.62%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.62%) SAP
5 18 (4.16%) Google
6 13 (3.00%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.54%) Apple
8 10 (2.31%) Oracle
8 10 (2.31%) Thales
9 8 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (1.39%) VMware
11 5 (1.15%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.15%) IFS
12 4 (0.92%) Dell
12 4 (0.92%) F5
13 3 (0.69%) Ariba
13 3 (0.69%) Planview
13 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.69%) Workday
14 2 (0.46%) AppDynamics