Finance Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Financial
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 296 119 183
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.63% 12.99% 11.89%
As % of the General category 31.76% 22.93% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 79 125
10th Percentile £350 £311 £290
25th Percentile £398 £357 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £584
90th Percentile £638 £638 £733
North West median daily rate £463 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -0.27% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 14
10th Percentile £19.75 - £12.98
25th Percentile £40.00 - £13.31
Median hourly rate £58.50 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +320.61% -69.65%
75th Percentile £74.31 £72.50 £19.10
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.25 £56.70
North West median hourly rate £32.75 £52.50 £16.05
% change year-on-year -37.62% +227.20% -47.83%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 932 519 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 55.51% 56.66% 48.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 338 488
10th Percentile £293 £250 £302
25th Percentile £374 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £572 £588
90th Percentile £632 £682 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 38 62
10th Percentile £18.13 - £12.27
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £23.02 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year +78.38% +5.94% -13.10%
75th Percentile £76.38 £53.44 £31.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.25 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +25.22% +62.25% -31.85%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Finance job vacancy trend in Manchester

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

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 30 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
Stockport - 4 £513 - 4
Salford +7 1 - - 14
Altrincham - 1 - - 5
Bury - 1 - - 1
Rochdale - 1 - - 2
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 12 (4.05%) Confluence
2 8 (2.70%) CICS
2 8 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.68%) Trello
6 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.34%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 15 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.68%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.68%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.68%) Finacle
2 2 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.68%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Primavera
3 1 (0.34%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 57 (19.26%) AWS
2 26 (8.78%) Azure
3 17 (5.74%) Serverless
4 14 (4.73%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.38%) GCP
6 8 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.03%) SaaS
9 5 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.35%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.68%) Datadog
12 2 (0.68%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.08%) Firewall
2 10 (3.38%) DNS
3 6 (2.03%) Network Security
3 6 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.01%) HTTP
4 3 (1.01%) SSL
5 2 (0.68%) DHCP
5 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.68%) LAN
5 2 (0.68%) MPLS
5 2 (0.68%) VSAN
5 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.34%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.39%) Power BI
2 10 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.38%) DataStage
2 10 (3.38%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.03%) Tableau
5 5 (1.69%) Metadata
6 4 (1.35%) DB2
7 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.01%) MySQL
7 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.74%) JIRA
2 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.35%) Selenium
4 3 (1.01%) Hudson
4 3 (1.01%) Jasmine
5 2 (0.68%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) Gradle
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 80 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.22%) Banking
3 35 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.38%) Legal
7 7 (2.36%) Retail
8 6 (2.03%) Marketing
8 6 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.68%) Automotive
12 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 33 (11.15%) Analyst
2 30 (10.14%) Developer
3 27 (9.12%) Senior
4 24 (8.11%) Architect
5 20 (6.76%) Accountant
5 20 (6.76%) Lead
6 16 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 15 (5.07%) Consultant
7 15 (5.07%) Systems Accountant
8 12 (4.05%) Designer
9 11 (3.72%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.38%) Infrastructure Designer
11 9 (3.04%) Systems Analyst
12 8 (2.70%) DBA
12 8 (2.70%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.70%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.36%) Backend Developer
13 7 (2.36%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 7 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 6 (2.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.76%) Spring
1 20 (6.76%) Spring Boot
2 12 (4.05%) AngularJS
3 11 (3.72%) REST
4 10 (3.38%) Middleware
4 10 (3.38%) Node.js
5 9 (3.04%) Kafka
6 8 (2.70%) OAuth
6 8 (2.70%) OAuth2
6 8 (2.70%) RESTful
7 7 (2.36%) Playwright
8 6 (2.03%) LDAP
8 6 (2.03%) NestJS
9 5 (1.69%) CSS
9 5 (1.69%) CSS3
9 5 (1.69%) HTML
9 5 (1.69%) HTML5
9 5 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (1.69%) Sass
9 5 (1.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.05%) Mainframe
6 10 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.70%) BYOD
7 8 (2.70%) CMDB
7 8 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.70%) VSAM
8 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.03%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.01%) IVR
12 3 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.77%) Unix
2 22 (7.43%) Linux
3 11 (3.72%) Solaris
4 9 (3.04%) AIX
5 6 (2.03%) Windows
6 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.34%) HPUX
7 1 (0.34%) MVS
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.27%) Agile
2 49 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (12.50%) Migration
5 37 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 34 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (8.78%) Validation
8 25 (8.45%) Decision-Making
9 23 (7.77%) Risk Management
10 22 (7.43%) Data Modelling
10 22 (7.43%) DevOps
10 22 (7.43%) Microservices
10 22 (7.43%) TDD
11 21 (7.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (6.76%) Design Patterns
12 20 (6.76%) ERP
12 20 (6.76%) Project Management
12 20 (6.76%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.08%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.51%) SQL
2 37 (12.50%) Java
3 21 (7.09%) Python
4 12 (4.05%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.38%) COBOL
6 8 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.01%) PHP
9 2 (0.68%) Bash
9 2 (0.68%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.68%) CLIST
9 2 (0.68%) JCL
9 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.68%) REXX
9 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.08%) Degree
2 13 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.04%) ACCA
4 9 (3.04%) CIMA
5 7 (2.36%) CIPFA
5 7 (2.36%) CISSP
6 6 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.35%) MCSA
8 4 (1.35%) MCSE
8 4 (1.35%) PMP
9 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CCNA
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISM
10 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.72%) GDPR
2 11 (3.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.70%) PMO
3 8 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (0.68%) GRC
4 2 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.34%) GAAP
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (5.07%) Docker
2 11 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.68%) ACF2
5 2 (0.68%) GPFS
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
5 2 (0.68%) RACF
5 2 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.36%) Terraform
3 4 (1.35%) CASB
3 4 (1.35%) Nessus
3 4 (1.35%) SCCM
4 3 (1.01%) Grafana
5 2 (0.68%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.68%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Tivoli
5 2 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.68%) vRealize
5 2 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.14%) SAP
3 19 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.41%) Oracle
5 13 (4.39%) IBM
6 11 (3.72%) VMware
7 9 (3.04%) Sage
8 7 (2.36%) Splunk
9 5 (1.69%) Remedy
9 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.35%) Confluent
10 4 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.35%) Databricks
10 4 (1.35%) Tenable
11 3 (1.01%) Adobe
11 3 (1.01%) Genesys
11 3 (1.01%) IFS
11 3 (1.01%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.01%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.01%) UiPath