Finance Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Financial
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 212 76 145
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 12.20% 12.60% 14.71%
As % of the General category 26.73% 21.84% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 128 49 61
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,808 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £29,913 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -16.67% +54.29%
75th Percentile £66,730 £60,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,900 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £49,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +22.45% -18.33% +0.80%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 793 348 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 45.65% 57.71% 56.29%
Number of salaries quoted 478 241 232
10th Percentile £27,624 £25,087 £30,021
25th Percentile £35,625 £28,250 £39,922
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,249 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £56,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Finance
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in South Yorkshire

Finance
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +6 135 £45,000 +2.86% 150
Doncaster +9 55 £55,000 - 32
Barnsley -4 10 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Rotherham -4 9 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Finance
Yorkshire

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 25 (11.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.36%) Confluence
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Q-Pulse
1 3 (1.42%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.94%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.94%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.15%) Power Platform
2 29 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (10.85%) Power Automate
3 23 (10.85%) PowerApps
4 22 (10.38%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (9.43%) OneDrive
6 7 (3.30%) SaaS
7 4 (1.89%) Azure
8 2 (0.94%) AWS
8 2 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.94%) GCP
9 1 (0.47%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.47%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Broadband
1 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.68%) Power BI
2 5 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.94%) Tableau
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.47%) Metadata
4 1 (0.47%) OLAP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) Git
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (25.94%) Marketing
2 41 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.68%) Manufacturing
4 25 (11.79%) Banking
5 23 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 5 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.89%) Automotive
10 3 (1.42%) Advertising
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 2 (0.94%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.94%) Law
11 2 (0.94%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.47%) German Language
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (15.57%) Finance Manager
2 26 (12.26%) Analyst
3 25 (11.79%) Senior
4 22 (10.38%) Project Manager
5 21 (9.91%) Lead
5 21 (9.91%) Systems Manager
6 18 (8.49%) Applications Support
6 18 (8.49%) Finance Project Manager
6 18 (8.49%) Finance Systems Manager
7 17 (8.02%) Architect
8 14 (6.60%) Applications Manager
8 14 (6.60%) Senior Manager
9 12 (5.66%) Development Manager
10 11 (5.19%) Application Development Manager
10 11 (5.19%) Applications Development Manager
10 11 (5.19%) IT Manager
10 11 (5.19%) Lead Architect
11 10 (4.72%) Support Analyst
12 9 (4.25%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.77%) Management Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.83%) .NET
2 3 (1.42%) REST
2 3 (1.42%) SOAP
3 2 (0.94%) Web Services
3 2 (0.94%) XML
4 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.47%) Blazor
4 1 (0.47%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.47%) CSS
4 1 (0.47%) CSS3
4 1 (0.47%) DAO
4 1 (0.47%) HTML
4 1 (0.47%) HTML5
4 1 (0.47%) RESTful
4 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.25%) Driving Licence
2 8 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.36%) Operational Technology
5 4 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.47%) PMI
7 1 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (19.81%) Process Improvement
3 39 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (14.62%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (13.68%) AI
6 24 (11.32%) Service Management
7 23 (10.85%) Business Continuity
7 23 (10.85%) Decision-Making
7 23 (10.85%) ITIL
8 19 (8.96%) Customer Service
9 18 (8.49%) B2B
10 17 (8.02%) ERP
10 17 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (7.08%) Analytics
12 14 (6.60%) Data Engineering
13 13 (6.13%) Coaching
14 12 (5.66%) CRM
14 12 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (5.19%) Data Science
15 11 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.62%) SQL
2 4 (1.89%) Python
3 3 (1.42%) ABAP
4 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.47%) Bicep
5 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (2.83%) Degree
2 5 (2.36%) ACCA
2 5 (2.36%) CIMA
3 3 (1.42%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) APMP
5 1 (0.47%) CAPM
5 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PgMP
5 1 (0.47%) PhD
5 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.47%) GAAP
2 1 (0.47%) GDPR
2 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (0.47%) NIST
2 1 (0.47%) PMO
2 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.89%) SAP
3 3 (1.42%) Sage
4 2 (0.94%) Cognos
4 2 (0.94%) IBM
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) BT
5 1 (0.47%) Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) Google
5 1 (0.47%) HP
5 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAI