Finance Contracts in Manchester

Financial
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 181 205 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 11.81% 10.81% 12.14%
As % of the General category 24.43% 22.16% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 146 242
10th Percentile £280 £363 £357
25th Percentile £388 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £12.98 £20.60 £13.59
25th Percentile £13.31 £30.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.27 £47.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.65% +224.14% +3.35%
75th Percentile £19.10 £63.50 £14.75
90th Percentile £56.70 £73.40 £14.85
North West median hourly rate £16.05 £30.76 £14.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% +112.10% -18.99%

All General Skills
Manchester

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 741 925 1,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.34% 48.76% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 644 891
10th Percentile £302 £304 £240
25th Percentile £381 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £656 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 39 30
10th Percentile £12.27 £14.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.31 £19.63 £14.73
Median hourly rate £21.73 £25.00 £17.91
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +39.63% -22.94%
75th Percentile £31.50 £37.30 £20.10
90th Percentile £59.75 £45.05 £25.20
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bolton +4 4 £500 - 8
Salford -3 2 - - 14
Stockport -5 2 £583 +55.33% 5
Oldham - 1 - - 2
Cheadle - 1 £400 - 5
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.10%) nginx
1 2 (1.10%) Traefik
2 1 (0.55%) Apache
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (14.92%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.87%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.10%) Primavera
2 2 (1.10%) ResourceLink
2 2 (1.10%) SAP PS
2 2 (1.10%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.55%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.55%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.29%) Azure
2 10 (5.52%) AWS
3 8 (4.42%) IaaS
4 7 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (3.87%) PaaS
4 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.76%) GCP
5 5 (2.76%) Serverless
5 5 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.21%) npm
6 4 (2.21%) SaaS
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.55%) GitHub
8 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.39%) DMZ
1 17 (9.39%) SD-WAN
2 15 (8.29%) Wireless
3 13 (7.18%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (7.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (4.97%) ATM
5 5 (2.76%) HTTP
5 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.66%) Firewall
6 3 (1.66%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.10%) DNS
7 2 (1.10%) Network Security
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.55%) H.323
8 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.55%) MPLS
8 1 (0.55%) VPN
8 1 (0.55%) WAN
8 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.87%) Power BI
2 5 (2.76%) Metadata
3 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.21%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.10%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.55%) Azkaban
6 1 (0.55%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) DB2
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) MySQL
6 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.21%) ERwin
3 3 (1.66%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) GitLab
4 2 (1.10%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.55%) RStudio
5 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.05%) Telecoms
4 19 (10.50%) Banking
5 17 (9.39%) Manufacturing
5 17 (9.39%) Retail
6 12 (6.63%) Marketing
7 11 (6.08%) Electronics
8 10 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.87%) Billing
9 7 (3.87%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (3.31%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.21%) Legal
12 4 (2.21%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.66%) Back Office
14 2 (1.10%) French Language
14 2 (1.10%) Military
15 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (12.71%) Network Engineer
2 17 (9.39%) Architect
3 13 (7.18%) Analyst
3 13 (7.18%) Developer
4 12 (6.63%) Lead
4 12 (6.63%) Project Manager
5 9 (4.97%) IT Technician
5 9 (4.97%) Senior
6 8 (4.42%) Administrator
6 8 (4.42%) Cutover Manager
7 7 (3.87%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.31%) Consultant
8 6 (3.31%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
8 6 (3.31%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.31%) Trainer
9 5 (2.76%) Programme Manager
9 5 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.76%) Wireless Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 4 (2.21%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.31%) AngularJS
2 5 (2.76%) RESTful
3 4 (2.21%) Kafka
3 4 (2.21%) Middleware
4 3 (1.66%) Node.js
5 2 (1.10%) .NET
5 2 (1.10%) cloud-init
5 2 (1.10%) Spring
6 1 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.55%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.55%) Express.js
6 1 (0.55%) Jest
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.55%) PySpark
6 1 (0.55%) React
6 1 (0.55%) SAP TM
6 1 (0.55%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (0.55%) SvelteKit
6 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.97%) Driving Licence
2 9 (4.97%) EPoS
2 9 (4.97%) Smartphone
3 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.21%) Wiki
8 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.10%) Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.10%) Derivative
9 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.18%) Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Windows
3 5 (2.76%) Unix
4 3 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.66%) zOS
5 2 (1.10%) CentOS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (12.71%) Agile
2 20 (11.05%) Project Management
3 19 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (9.39%) Decision-Making
5 15 (8.29%) ITSM
6 14 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (6.63%) Migration
7 12 (6.63%) Programme Management
7 12 (6.63%) Software Engineering
8 11 (6.08%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (5.52%) Data Modelling
9 10 (5.52%) DevOps
10 9 (4.97%) Break/Fix
10 9 (4.97%) Cost Reduction
10 9 (4.97%) Data Migration
10 9 (4.97%) Preventative Maintenance
11 8 (4.42%) Data Protection
11 8 (4.42%) ETL
11 8 (4.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (3.87%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.73%) Python
2 7 (3.87%) TypeScript
3 6 (3.31%) SQL
4 3 (1.66%) Bash
4 3 (1.66%) C#
4 3 (1.66%) Java
4 3 (1.66%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.66%) MATLAB
5 2 (1.10%) Go
5 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.10%) Ruby
5 2 (1.10%) X++
6 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (7.18%) Degree
2 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.76%) PMI Certification
3 5 (2.76%) PMP
4 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.55%) CISA
6 1 (0.55%) CISM
6 1 (0.55%) CISSP
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) ISEB
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.87%) PMO
2 6 (3.31%) GDPR
3 5 (2.76%) SLA
4 3 (1.66%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.66%) Firmware
1 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.52%) Terraform
2 3 (1.66%) Ansible
2 3 (1.66%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.10%) Consul
3 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (1.10%) Graphite
3 2 (1.10%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.10%) Istio
3 2 (1.10%) linkerd
3 2 (1.10%) Packer
3 2 (1.10%) Podman
3 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.10%) Puppet
3 2 (1.10%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.55%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.50%) F5
1 19 (10.50%) SAP
2 18 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.84%) Palo Alto
4 15 (8.29%) Cisco
5 5 (2.76%) Oracle
6 4 (2.21%) Databricks
6 4 (2.21%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.21%) Sparx
6 4 (2.21%) VMware
7 3 (1.66%) Dell
7 3 (1.66%) Facebook
7 3 (1.66%) Isilon
7 3 (1.66%) Splunk
8 2 (1.10%) BMC
8 2 (1.10%) Google
8 2 (1.10%) IDERA
8 2 (1.10%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) Workday