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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 450 210 250
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 20.18% 22.88% 14.33%
As % of the General category 36.20% 37.50% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 119 156
10th Percentile £325 £323 £320
25th Percentile £414 £394 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +0.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £551
90th Percentile £700 £638 £622
England median daily rate £538 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £11.76
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate - - £13.23
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £17.74
England median hourly rate £23.83 £41.79 £30.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% +39.29% -2.45%

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 1,243 560 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 55.74% 61.00% 55.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 333 566
10th Percentile £290 £263 £195
25th Percentile £400 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £471
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -0.42% -10.29%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £556
90th Percentile £675 £644 £631
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.57% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 21 67
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.19 £22.14 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +51.38% -22.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £15.22
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.50 £23.98
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% +18.38% -25.71%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 0 306 £493 -2.18% 52
West Yorkshire -7 110 £550 +22.22% 140
North Yorkshire -3 24 £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 38 (8.44%) Confluence
2 28 (6.22%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.22%) TPMS
4 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.89%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.67%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 53 (11.78%) GCP
2 49 (10.89%) Azure
3 42 (9.33%) AWS
4 34 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (6.44%) GitHub
6 27 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 19 (4.22%) OneDrive
8 18 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.00%) Serverless
9 16 (3.56%) OpenShift
10 12 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (2.00%) AWS KMS
11 9 (2.00%) SaaS
12 7 (1.56%) Rubrik
13 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.11%) PaaS
14 4 (0.89%) IaaS
15 3 (0.67%) Collibra
15 3 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.22%) Firewall
2 12 (2.67%) SSL
3 11 (2.44%) DNS
4 10 (2.22%) SNMP
4 10 (2.22%) SSH
5 7 (1.56%) Internet
6 6 (1.33%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.33%) Network Security
7 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.89%) VPN
8 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.44%) LAN
9 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 2 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 25 (5.56%) Power BI
3 8 (1.78%) Power Query
3 8 (1.78%) PowerPivot
4 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.89%) Metadata
5 3 (0.67%) GIS
5 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.67%) MySQL
5 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.44%) Looker
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 55 (12.22%) JIRA
3 28 (6.22%) GitLab
4 16 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (2.67%) Liquibase
6 8 (1.78%) Jaeger
7 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.33%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.33%) Selenium
8 5 (1.11%) Git
9 3 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.67%) PyCharm
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) Gradle
10 1 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 162 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 120 (26.67%) Banking
3 48 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.67%) Financial Institution
5 28 (6.22%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.44%) Legal
8 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.11%) Billing
9 5 (1.11%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.11%) Law
10 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.89%) Retail
11 3 (0.67%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.44%) Advertising
12 2 (0.44%) Aviation
12 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (15.33%) Analyst
2 58 (12.89%) Project Manager
3 41 (9.11%) Business Analyst
4 38 (8.44%) Architect
4 38 (8.44%) Lead
5 33 (7.33%) Senior
6 21 (4.67%) Developer
7 19 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (2.67%) Consultant
11 12 (2.67%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.67%) Technical Business Analyst
12 11 (2.44%) Programme Manager
12 11 (2.44%) SAP Manager
12 11 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Cryptography Engineer
13 10 (2.22%) Infrastructure Manager
14 9 (2.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.67%) REST
2 22 (4.89%) RESTful
3 20 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (2.67%) Kafka
5 12 (2.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 11 (2.44%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.22%) Middleware
8 8 (1.78%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.56%) LDAP
10 6 (1.33%) OAuth
10 6 (1.33%) OpenID
10 6 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.33%) SAML
11 4 (0.89%) .NET
11 4 (0.89%) JSON
11 4 (0.89%) React
11 4 (0.89%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.67%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.33%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (4.44%) Data Centre
7 19 (4.22%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.33%) SCADA
9 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.89%) PMI
11 3 (0.67%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.67%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.67%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.11%) Linux
2 23 (5.11%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) Unix
4 4 (0.89%) VMS
5 3 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.33%) DevOps
2 94 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (20.00%) Agile
4 88 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (18.44%) CI/CD
6 81 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (12.89%) Migration
8 54 (12.00%) Project Management
9 49 (10.89%) Decision-Making
10 48 (10.67%) Roadmaps
11 42 (9.33%) Computer Science
11 42 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (9.11%) Observability
13 40 (8.89%) Microservices
14 39 (8.67%) Identity Access Management
15 37 (8.22%) Process Improvement
15 37 (8.22%) Project Delivery
16 36 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (7.78%) Cryptography
18 34 (7.56%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 69 (15.33%) Python
2 48 (10.67%) SQL
3 31 (6.89%) Java
4 22 (4.89%) Go
5 18 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.22%) Bash
7 9 (2.00%) VBA
8 8 (1.78%) Rust
9 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.11%) VB
10 4 (0.89%) C#
11 2 (0.44%) Groovy
11 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (13.33%) Degree
2 27 (6.00%) Master's Degree
3 22 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.78%) CISSP
6 16 (3.56%) PMP
7 14 (3.11%) CISM
8 11 (2.44%) PMI Certification
9 10 (2.22%) FFIEC
9 10 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.11%) PhD
11 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.67%) CCSP
13 2 (0.44%) ACCA
13 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) PMO
2 24 (5.33%) GDPR
3 19 (4.22%) NIST
4 14 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.11%) QA
5 13 (2.89%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.22%) GLBA
7 5 (1.11%) SLA
8 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.67%) GRC
9 3 (0.67%) PSD2
10 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) Basel III
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 36 (8.00%) Docker
2 9 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.11%) vSphere
5 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.44%) KVM
6 2 (0.44%) SRDF
6 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.89%) Ansible
3 36 (8.00%) Grafana
4 33 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 31 (6.89%) Terraform
6 8 (1.78%) Kiali
7 6 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.11%) Puppet
8 5 (1.11%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.67%) PowerCLI
9 3 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.44%) Argo
10 2 (0.44%) Control-M
10 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.22%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.22%) Nessus
11 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 67 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.56%) Splunk
3 22 (4.89%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.44%) Google
5 16 (3.56%) SAP
6 14 (3.11%) Oracle
6 14 (3.11%) Sonatype
7 10 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (2.22%) Thales
8 9 (2.00%) VMware
9 8 (1.78%) Dell
10 6 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.11%) IFS
12 4 (0.89%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.67%) Planview
13 3 (0.67%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.67%) Workday
14 2 (0.44%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.44%) Centrify
14 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike