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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 421 267 348
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 23.32% 19.56% 18.68%
As % of the General category 38.20% 37.13% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 141 222
10th Percentile £304 £363 £310
25th Percentile £400 £456 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £619 £580
90th Percentile £675 £706 £638
England median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.48% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £70.00 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year -78.57% +571.79% +17.47%
75th Percentile £20.00 - -
90th Percentile £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +15.38%

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 1,102 719 1,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 61.05% 52.67% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 381 700
10th Percentile £257 £220 £231
25th Percentile £380 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 27 23
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.93 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.38 £16.59
Median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% +37.50% +10.96%
75th Percentile £30.29 £40.75 £24.65
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £31.62
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -23.02% +4.91% +18.53%

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 13 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 13 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 0 274 £475 -11.63% 63
West Yorkshire -4 118 £500 - 156
North Yorkshire +10 11 £488 -17.02% 30
East Yorkshire -7 7 - - 15
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 (8.31%) Confluence
2 12 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.66%) CICS
3 7 (1.66%) CMS
4 4 (0.95%) TPMS
5 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 55 (13.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (3.56%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.71%) 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 6 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (1.43%) VisionPLUS
2 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.48%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.06%) GCP
2 54 (12.83%) AWS
3 40 (9.50%) Azure
4 33 (7.84%) Serverless
5 27 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 13 (3.09%) GitHub
8 9 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.43%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.43%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.19%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.95%) Figma
11 4 (0.95%) OCI
12 3 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.71%) Collibra
12 3 (0.71%) npm
13 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.23%) Firewall
2 10 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.19%) Internet
4 5 (1.19%) SSH
4 5 (1.19%) SSL
5 4 (0.95%) SNMP
6 3 (0.71%) VPN
6 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.48%) DNS
7 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) SAN
8 1 (0.24%) IPsec
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.03%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.18%) Power BI
4 13 (3.09%) Power Query
4 13 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.19%) PowerPivot
5 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.95%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.95%) Metadata
7 3 (0.71%) MySQL
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.48%) GIS
8 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.24%) Easytrieve
9 1 (0.24%) Looker
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (14.25%) Jenkins
2 52 (12.35%) JIRA
3 33 (7.84%) GitLab
4 27 (6.41%) Liquibase
5 15 (3.56%) Git
6 12 (2.85%) Postman
7 7 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.95%) Maven
9 3 (0.71%) Gradle
9 3 (0.71%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.48%) Babel
10 2 (0.48%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.48%) JUnit
10 2 (0.48%) Log4j
10 2 (0.48%) Mockito
10 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.48%) Subversion
10 2 (0.48%) webpack
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 187 (44.42%) Social Skills
2 117 (27.79%) Banking
3 70 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.88%) Financial Institution
5 24 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.51%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.56%) Legal
8 15 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.66%) Retail
10 6 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.19%) Billing
11 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.19%) Marketing
12 3 (0.71%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
12 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (21.62%) Analyst
2 43 (10.21%) Senior
3 39 (9.26%) Project Manager
4 37 (8.79%) Business Analyst
5 31 (7.36%) Architect
5 31 (7.36%) Developer
6 24 (5.70%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.75%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.28%) Financial Analyst
9 17 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.56%) Incident Manager
11 14 (3.33%) Consultant
11 14 (3.33%) Service Analyst
12 13 (3.09%) IT Manager
12 13 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.09%) Support Manager
13 11 (2.61%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.79%) REST
2 36 (8.55%) RESTful
3 31 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.38%) .NET
5 9 (2.14%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.43%) CSS
6 6 (1.43%) HTML
6 6 (1.43%) JSON
6 6 (1.43%) OAuth
6 6 (1.43%) SAML
7 5 (1.19%) Hugging Face
7 5 (1.19%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.19%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.19%) Regular Expression
7 5 (1.19%) SpaCy
8 4 (0.95%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.95%) Middleware
8 4 (0.95%) Pandas
8 4 (0.95%) React
8 4 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.50%) Public Cloud
2 31 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.94%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.70%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.33%) Mainframe
7 12 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.85%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.95%) CMDB
12 4 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.95%) VSAM
13 3 (0.71%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.64%) Linux
2 24 (5.70%) Windows
3 10 (2.38%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.95%) Android
6 3 (0.71%) AIX
6 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.71%) Solaris
6 3 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.71%) Unix
6 3 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.24%) SUSE
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.02%) Agile
2 92 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (20.43%) DevOps
4 84 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (16.39%) CI/CD
7 51 (12.11%) Change Management
8 46 (10.93%) Decision-Making
9 43 (10.21%) Containerisation
9 43 (10.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (9.50%) Cryptography
11 40 (9.50%) Microservices
11 40 (9.50%) Software Engineering
12 39 (9.26%) Computer Science
12 39 (9.26%) Roadmaps
13 37 (8.79%) Project Management
14 36 (8.55%) Data Security
15 35 (8.31%) Migration
15 35 (8.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (18.29%) Python
2 37 (8.79%) Go
3 28 (6.65%) SQL
4 15 (3.56%) Java
5 10 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.90%) VBA
7 7 (1.66%) COBOL
8 6 (1.43%) C#
8 6 (1.43%) JCL
8 6 (1.43%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.43%) VB
9 4 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.48%) Bash
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.48%) Swift
11 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (12.59%) Degree
2 35 (8.31%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.09%) CISSP
6 10 (2.38%) CISM
6 10 (2.38%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.14%) ACSP
7 9 (2.14%) ACTC
7 9 (2.14%) PMP
8 8 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.95%) CISMP
10 4 (0.95%) FFIEC
10 4 (0.95%) GSEC
10 4 (0.95%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.13%) GDPR
2 21 (4.99%) PMO
3 15 (3.56%) NIST
4 13 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.90%) QA
7 5 (1.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.95%) GLBA
9 3 (0.71%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) COBIT
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (8.31%) Docker
2 14 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.24%) RACF
7 1 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 56 (13.30%) Ansible
2 49 (11.64%) Kubernetes
3 47 (11.16%) Terraform
4 34 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 33 (7.84%) Grafana
6 11 (2.61%) Puppet
7 10 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (1.19%) SCCM
10 3 (0.71%) Control-M
10 3 (0.71%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.48%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.48%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.48%) Nessus
11 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.79%) Splunk
3 36 (8.55%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.99%) Google
5 16 (3.80%) SAP
6 12 (2.85%) VMware
7 11 (2.61%) Apple
8 9 (2.14%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.66%) Oracle
10 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (1.19%) Sonatype
12 4 (0.95%) F5
13 3 (0.71%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.71%) Cisco
13 3 (0.71%) Dell
13 3 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.71%) HP
13 3 (0.71%) Thales