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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Finance 429 171 305
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 21.47% 18.59% 16.37%
As % of the General category 37.18% 31.90% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 89 199
10th Percentile £343 £335 £310
25th Percentile £434 £415 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +9.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £555
90th Percentile £700 £650 £602
England median daily rate £534 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -9.49% +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 £23.66 £30.00 £20.97
% change year-on-year -21.13% +43.10% -16.14%

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 1,154 536 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 57.76% 58.26% 56.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 301 645
10th Percentile £280 £238 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 48
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.86 £11.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £25.00 £14.56
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +71.67% -32.27%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.30 £15.66
90th Percentile £57.85 £42.00 £22.20
England median hourly rate £22.85 £30.31 £25.25
% change year-on-year -24.60% +20.02% -6.48%

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 10 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 10 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 0 276 £500 -6.37% 66
West Yorkshire -1 120 £550 +27.91% 101
North Yorkshire +2 20 £700 +27.27% 14
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 (8.62%) Confluence
2 26 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.56%) TPMS
4 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.70%) CICS
5 3 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (11.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.70%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.70%) VisionPLUS
5 2 (0.47%) 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 (13.52%) GCP
2 52 (12.12%) AWS
3 49 (11.42%) Azure
4 32 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (6.53%) Power Platform
6 26 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 25 (5.83%) GitHub
7 25 (5.83%) Serverless
8 16 (3.73%) OneDrive
9 14 (3.26%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.10%) AWS KMS
13 6 (1.40%) Rubrik
14 5 (1.17%) SaaS
15 4 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.93%) IaaS
15 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.20%) Firewall
2 13 (3.03%) SSL
3 11 (2.56%) SNMP
3 11 (2.56%) SSH
4 9 (2.10%) DNS
5 7 (1.63%) Internet
6 6 (1.40%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.40%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.47%) DHCP
9 2 (0.47%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 30 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.53%) Power BI
4 9 (2.10%) Power Query
5 8 (1.86%) PowerPivot
5 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.17%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.93%) Metadata
8 3 (0.70%) GIS
8 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.70%) MySQL
9 2 (0.47%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.23%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.23%) IDMS
10 1 (0.23%) Looker
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (14.45%) Jenkins
2 58 (13.52%) JIRA
3 36 (8.39%) GitLab
4 20 (4.66%) Liquibase
5 15 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.86%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.63%) Git
8 6 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.40%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.40%) Selenium
9 4 (0.93%) Maven
10 3 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.70%) Gradle
10 3 (0.70%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.47%) ChangeMan
11 2 (0.47%) JUnit
11 2 (0.47%) Log4j
11 2 (0.47%) Mockito
11 2 (0.47%) Subversion
12 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 184 (42.89%) Social Skills
2 121 (28.21%) Banking
3 46 (10.72%) Financial Institution
4 44 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (6.53%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.56%) Legal
7 11 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.63%) Retail
10 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.17%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.17%) Law
12 4 (0.93%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
12 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.70%) Electronics
13 3 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (14.22%) Analyst
2 57 (13.29%) Project Manager
3 39 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 39 (9.09%) Senior
4 32 (7.46%) Architect
5 22 (5.13%) Developer
6 19 (4.43%) Lead
7 18 (4.20%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.96%) Consultant
9 16 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (3.73%) GCP Engineer
10 15 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.50%) Support Manager
11 13 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.80%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (2.56%) Cryptography Engineer
13 11 (2.56%) Programme Manager
13 11 (2.56%) Technical Business Analyst
14 10 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.39%) REST
2 30 (6.99%) RESTful
3 25 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (3.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (3.26%) Kafka
5 14 (3.26%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.56%) Middleware
7 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.86%) SailPoint
9 7 (1.63%) JSON
9 7 (1.63%) LDAP
10 6 (1.40%) OAuth
10 6 (1.40%) OpenID
10 6 (1.40%) SAML
10 6 (1.40%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.17%) .NET
11 5 (1.17%) Spring
12 4 (0.93%) React
13 3 (0.70%) Anaconda
13 3 (0.70%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (7.23%) Public Cloud
3 30 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.59%) Product Ownership
5 22 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) SCADA
10 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.17%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.93%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.70%) CMDB
12 3 (0.70%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.35%) Linux
2 31 (7.23%) Windows
3 12 (2.80%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.93%) VMS
5 3 (0.70%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (24.94%) Agile
2 90 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
3 89 (20.75%) DevOps
4 85 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (19.11%) CI/CD
7 54 (12.59%) Migration
8 51 (11.89%) Project Management
9 50 (11.66%) Computer Science
10 48 (11.19%) Decision-Making
11 47 (10.96%) Microservices
12 45 (10.49%) Roadmaps
13 43 (10.02%) Cryptography
13 43 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (9.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (9.32%) Containerisation
16 39 (9.09%) Data Security
16 39 (9.09%) Observability
16 39 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 38 (8.86%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.78%) Python
2 49 (11.42%) SQL
3 36 (8.39%) Java
4 31 (7.23%) Go
5 18 (4.20%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.10%) Rust
6 9 (2.10%) VBA
7 6 (1.40%) Bash
8 4 (0.93%) C#
8 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.70%) COBOL
9 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.70%) VB
10 2 (0.47%) Groovy
10 2 (0.47%) JCL
10 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) Korn
11 1 (0.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 64 (14.92%) Degree
2 34 (7.93%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.96%) CISSP
5 15 (3.50%) Security Cleared
6 14 (3.26%) CISM
7 13 (3.03%) PMP
8 11 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.56%) FFIEC
9 10 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.10%) ACSP
10 9 (2.10%) ACTC
11 8 (1.86%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.17%) PhD
12 5 (1.17%) SC Cleared
13 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.70%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.53%) GDPR
2 22 (5.13%) NIST
3 19 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.43%) PMO
4 14 (3.26%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.56%) GLBA
5 11 (2.56%) QA
6 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.40%) SLA
8 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.70%) GRC
9 3 (0.70%) PSD2
10 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 42 (9.79%) Docker
2 19 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.93%) vSphere
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.47%) KVM
6 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) XenApp
7 1 (0.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.66%) Ansible
3 41 (9.56%) Grafana
4 38 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 37 (8.62%) Terraform
6 10 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.86%) Kiali
8 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.70%) Control-M
11 2 (0.47%) Argo
11 2 (0.47%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.47%) IBM Guardium
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.47%) Nessus
11 2 (0.47%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.29%) Splunk
3 33 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.43%) Google
5 18 (4.20%) SAP
6 13 (3.03%) Sonatype
7 11 (2.56%) Apple
8 10 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (2.33%) Thales
9 9 (2.10%) Oracle
10 6 (1.40%) VMware
11 5 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.17%) IFS
12 4 (0.93%) Dell
12 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.70%) Ariba
13 3 (0.70%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.70%) F5
13 3 (0.70%) Planview
13 3 (0.70%) Workday