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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 410 278 343
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 22.85% 20.12% 18.41%
As % of the General category 38.07% 37.98% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 144 218
10th Percentile £304 £364 £309
25th Percentile £400 £463 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £602 £588
90th Percentile £675 £704 £642
England median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +2.39%
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 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% +6.96%

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 1,077 732 1,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 60.03% 52.97% 58.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 385 702
10th Percentile £258 £220 £225
25th Percentile £379 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.93 £13.85
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +12.50% +6.95%
75th Percentile £29.91 £40.00 £23.58
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £31.42
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.48
% change year-on-year -21.80% +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 6 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 6 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 0 266 £475 -11.63% 68
West Yorkshire -6 117 £500 - 166
North Yorkshire +8 10 £488 -11.36% 28
East Yorkshire -7 7 - - 16
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 34 (8.29%) Confluence
2 13 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.71%) CICS
3 7 (1.71%) CMS
4 3 (0.73%) IIS
4 3 (0.73%) TPMS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 53 (12.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (3.66%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.73%) 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 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (1.46%) VisionPLUS
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.41%) GCP
2 52 (12.68%) AWS
3 38 (9.27%) Azure
4 33 (8.05%) Serverless
5 25 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.41%) Entra ID
7 13 (3.17%) GitHub
8 8 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.46%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.46%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.22%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.98%) Figma
11 4 (0.98%) OCI
12 3 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.73%) Collibra
12 3 (0.73%) npm
13 2 (0.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.37%) Firewall
2 10 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.98%) SSH
5 4 (0.98%) SSL
6 3 (0.73%) SNMP
6 3 (0.73%) VPN
6 3 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.49%) DNS
7 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.49%) Network Security
7 2 (0.49%) SAN
8 1 (0.24%) IPsec
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 28 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (5.85%) Power BI
4 13 (3.17%) Power Query
4 13 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.22%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.98%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.98%) Metadata
6 4 (0.98%) PowerPivot
6 4 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.73%) MySQL
8 2 (0.49%) GIS
8 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.24%) DB2
9 1 (0.24%) IDMS
9 1 (0.24%) QlikView
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 51 (12.44%) JIRA
3 33 (8.05%) GitLab
4 27 (6.59%) Liquibase
5 16 (3.90%) Git
6 12 (2.93%) Postman
7 7 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.98%) Maven
9 3 (0.73%) Gradle
9 3 (0.73%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.49%) Babel
10 2 (0.49%) ChangeMan
10 2 (0.49%) JUnit
10 2 (0.49%) Log4j
10 2 (0.49%) Mockito
10 2 (0.49%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.49%) Subversion
10 2 (0.49%) webpack
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
General
1 182 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 110 (26.83%) Banking
3 64 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.95%) Financial Institution
5 24 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.93%) Legal
10 7 (1.71%) Retail
11 6 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.22%) Billing
12 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.22%) Marketing
13 3 (0.73%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.73%) Electronics
13 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (22.20%) Analyst
2 43 (10.49%) Senior
3 37 (9.02%) Business Analyst
3 37 (9.02%) Project Manager
4 31 (7.56%) Developer
5 30 (7.32%) Architect
6 24 (5.85%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.39%) Financial Analyst
9 16 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.66%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.66%) Incident Manager
11 14 (3.41%) Service Analyst
12 13 (3.17%) IT Manager
12 13 (3.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.17%) Support Manager
13 12 (2.93%) Consultant
14 11 (2.68%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.02%) REST
2 36 (8.78%) RESTful
3 31 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (2.44%) .NET
5 9 (2.20%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.46%) CSS
6 6 (1.46%) HTML
6 6 (1.46%) JSON
6 6 (1.46%) OAuth
6 6 (1.46%) SAML
7 5 (1.22%) Hugging Face
7 5 (1.22%) OpenCV
7 5 (1.22%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.22%) Regular Expression
7 5 (1.22%) SpaCy
8 4 (0.98%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.98%) Middleware
8 4 (0.98%) Pandas
8 4 (0.98%) React
8 4 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.76%) Public Cloud
2 31 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.10%) Data Centre
5 21 (5.12%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.41%) Mainframe
8 11 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.98%) CMDB
13 4 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.98%) VSAM
14 3 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.46%) Linux
2 23 (5.61%) Windows
3 10 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.98%) Android
6 3 (0.73%) AIX
6 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.73%) Solaris
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.73%) Unix
6 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
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%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (32.93%) Agile
2 88 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (20.98%) DevOps
4 80 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (18.29%) Cybersecurity
6 69 (16.83%) CI/CD
7 51 (12.44%) Change Management
8 44 (10.73%) Decision-Making
9 43 (10.49%) Containerisation
9 43 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (9.76%) Microservices
11 39 (9.51%) Software Engineering
11 39 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 38 (9.27%) Cryptography
13 37 (9.02%) Computer Science
14 36 (8.78%) Roadmaps
15 35 (8.54%) Data Security
15 35 (8.54%) Project Management
15 35 (8.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 33 (8.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 77 (18.78%) Python
2 37 (9.02%) Go
3 29 (7.07%) SQL
4 15 (3.66%) Java
5 10 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.71%) COBOL
6 7 (1.71%) VBA
7 6 (1.46%) C#
7 6 (1.46%) JCL
7 6 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.46%) VB
8 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.49%) Bash
10 2 (0.49%) Bicep
10 2 (0.49%) Swift
10 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 50 (12.20%) Degree
2 33 (8.05%) Master's Degree
3 31 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.66%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.93%) CISSP
6 10 (2.44%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.20%) ACSP
7 9 (2.20%) ACTC
7 9 (2.20%) CISM
8 8 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.95%) PMP
9 5 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.98%) CISMP
10 4 (0.98%) GSEC
10 4 (0.98%) RIBA
11 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.59%) GDPR
2 21 (5.12%) PMO
3 14 (3.41%) NIST
4 12 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.95%) QA
6 7 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.22%) SLA
8 4 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.73%) GLBA
9 3 (0.73%) PSD2
10 2 (0.49%) COBIT
10 2 (0.49%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.24%) IFRS
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (8.54%) Docker
2 14 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.24%) RACF
7 1 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 56 (13.66%) Ansible
2 49 (11.95%) Kubernetes
3 47 (11.46%) Terraform
4 34 (8.29%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.05%) Grafana
6 11 (2.68%) Puppet
7 10 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (1.22%) SCCM
10 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.49%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.49%) Control-M
11 2 (0.49%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.49%) Nessus
11 2 (0.49%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 92 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.78%) ServiceNow
2 36 (8.78%) Splunk
3 21 (5.12%) Google
4 18 (4.39%) SAP
5 12 (2.93%) VMware
6 11 (2.68%) Apple
7 9 (2.20%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.46%) Oracle
8 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.22%) Sonatype
10 4 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (0.98%) F5
11 3 (0.73%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.73%) Cisco
11 3 (0.73%) Dell
11 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.73%) HP
12 2 (0.49%) Broadcom