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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 459 221 229
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 19.76% 23.29% 13.50%
As % of the General category 36.06% 37.27% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 131 139
10th Percentile £328 £338 £320
25th Percentile £419 £404 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £620
England median daily rate £535 £580 £588
% change year-on-year -7.76% -1.28% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile - - £12.78
Median hourly rate - £18.51 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year - +39.91% -
75th Percentile - - £17.01
90th Percentile - - £19.51
England median hourly rate £23.83 £47.79 £27.00
% change year-on-year -50.14% +76.99% -19.13%

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 1,273 593 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 54.80% 62.49% 56.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 354 553
10th Percentile £283 £263 £193
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £455
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +3.74% -13.33%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £560
90th Percentile £675 £641 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 78
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.64 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +22.40% +27.42% -19.80%
75th Percentile £57.25 £22.14 £15.23
90th Percentile £68.75 £38.68 £22.23
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.04 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.29% +5.58% -21.43%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 0 310 £500 - 52
West Yorkshire -11 117 £500 +11.11% 140
North Yorkshire -4 21 £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 39 (8.50%) Confluence
2 27 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.96%) TPMS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 42 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (5.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.87%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.65%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.22%) Actimize
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-AP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP FI-CA
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.42%) Azure
2 47 (10.24%) GCP
3 37 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (7.63%) AWS
5 31 (6.75%) GitHub
6 28 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 22 (4.79%) OpenShift
8 21 (4.58%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.14%) OneDrive
10 14 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (2.61%) SaaS
13 7 (1.53%) PaaS
13 7 (1.53%) Rubrik
14 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.87%) IaaS
16 3 (0.65%) Azure AI
16 3 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.14%) Firewall
2 11 (2.40%) DNS
2 11 (2.40%) SSL
3 9 (1.96%) Network Security
3 9 (1.96%) SNMP
3 9 (1.96%) SSH
4 7 (1.53%) Internet
5 4 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.87%) VPN
6 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.44%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.44%) LAN
7 2 (0.44%) SAN
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.23%) Power BI
2 16 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.74%) Power Query
4 8 (1.74%) PowerPivot
5 7 (1.53%) Metadata
6 5 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.65%) MySQL
8 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) GIS
9 2 (0.44%) Looker
10 1 (0.22%) DB2
10 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (11.55%) JIRA
2 46 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (3.05%) GitLab
5 8 (1.74%) Jaeger
6 7 (1.53%) Selenium
7 6 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.31%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.09%) Git
8 5 (1.09%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.65%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.22%) Hudson
11 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 166 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 119 (25.93%) Banking
3 52 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 25 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.49%) Legal
7 16 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.74%) Retail
9 7 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.53%) Law
10 6 (1.31%) Billing
11 5 (1.09%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Advertising
13 2 (0.44%) Local Government
13 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (14.60%) Analyst
2 55 (11.98%) Project Manager
3 47 (10.24%) Lead
4 41 (8.93%) Business Analyst
5 40 (8.71%) Architect
6 35 (7.63%) Senior
7 26 (5.66%) Developer
8 20 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.70%) Consultant
10 13 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (2.83%) Technical Business Analyst
11 12 (2.61%) SAP Manager
11 12 (2.61%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (2.18%) Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (2.18%) Product Owner
12 10 (2.18%) Programme Manager
13 9 (1.96%) Cryptography Engineer
13 9 (1.96%) Data Manager
13 9 (1.96%) Lead Architect
13 9 (1.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.70%) REST
2 13 (2.83%) Kafka
2 13 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
3 12 (2.61%) Spring Boot
4 11 (2.40%) RESTful
5 10 (2.18%) Middleware
6 9 (1.96%) OpenID
7 8 (1.74%) LDAP
7 8 (1.74%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.09%) React
10 4 (0.87%) OAuth
10 4 (0.87%) Pandas
10 4 (0.87%) SAML
10 4 (0.87%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.65%) .NET
11 3 (0.65%) NumPy
11 3 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 25 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.53%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.31%) SCADA
9 6 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.87%) PMI
11 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.65%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.06%) Linux
2 22 (4.79%) Windows
3 5 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.09%) Unix
4 4 (0.87%) VMS
5 3 (0.65%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) MVS
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (20.26%) DevOps
4 75 (16.34%) CI/CD
5 72 (15.69%) Agile
6 69 (15.03%) Cybersecurity
7 62 (13.51%) Migration
8 56 (12.20%) Project Management
9 53 (11.55%) Roadmaps
10 45 (9.80%) Decision-Making
11 41 (8.93%) Observability
12 39 (8.50%) Process Improvement
13 38 (8.28%) AI
13 38 (8.28%) ERP
13 38 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (8.06%) Business Case
14 37 (8.06%) Project Delivery
15 36 (7.84%) Identity Access Management
16 35 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (7.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (12.85%) Python
2 48 (10.46%) SQL
3 35 (7.63%) Java
4 19 (4.14%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.18%) Bash
6 9 (1.96%) Go
6 9 (1.96%) VBA
7 8 (1.74%) Rust
8 5 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.09%) VB
9 3 (0.65%) C#
9 3 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.22%) CLIST
11 1 (0.22%) Groovy
11 1 (0.22%) JCL
11 1 (0.22%) Korn
11 1 (0.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 46 (10.02%) Degree
2 19 (4.14%) PMP
2 19 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.05%) CISSP
4 12 (2.61%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.61%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.40%) CISM
6 10 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.18%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.96%) FFIEC
8 7 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.09%) CCSP
10 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ACCA
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PhD
12 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.45%) GDPR
2 24 (5.23%) PMO
3 19 (4.14%) NIST
4 18 (3.92%) QA
5 16 (3.49%) Data Quality
6 14 (3.05%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.96%) GLBA
8 5 (1.09%) SLA
9 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.65%) GRC
10 3 (0.65%) PSD2
11 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.22%) Basel III
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 29 (6.32%) Docker
2 10 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.09%) vSphere
5 3 (0.65%) KVM
6 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.44%) SRDF
6 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) ACF2
7 1 (0.22%) RACF
7 1 (0.22%) XenApp
7 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (9.37%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.28%) Ansible
3 21 (4.58%) Grafana
3 21 (4.58%) Terraform
4 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.74%) Kiali
6 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.87%) Puppet
8 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.44%) Argo
10 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.22%) Control-M
11 1 (0.22%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 74 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.84%) Splunk
3 19 (4.14%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.92%) SAP
5 17 (3.70%) Oracle
6 15 (3.27%) Google
7 14 (3.05%) Sonatype
8 10 (2.18%) VMware
9 9 (1.96%) Thales
10 8 (1.74%) BiZZdesign
10 8 (1.74%) Dell
10 8 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.31%) IBM
11 6 (1.31%) IFS
12 5 (1.09%) Apple
12 5 (1.09%) Foundry
13 4 (0.87%) Databricks
14 3 (0.65%) Broadcom
14 3 (0.65%) CyberArk
14 3 (0.65%) Workday