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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Finance 328 147 184
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.78% 15.98% 12.47%
As % of the General category 33.37% 27.12% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 106 133
10th Percentile £325 £340 £264
25th Percentile £373 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £673
North West median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 13
10th Percentile £43.96 £53.24 £12.93
25th Percentile £44.74 - £13.31
Median hourly rate £56.00 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +320.61% -9.26%
75th Percentile £74.31 £69.38 £16.41
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.63 £52.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £50.99 £20.72
% change year-on-year -13.78% +146.13% -8.06%

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 983 542 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.28% 58.91% 47.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 355 442
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £639 £669 £650
North West median daily rate £465 £465 £490
% change year-on-year - -5.10% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 33 62
10th Percentile £18.00 - £12.27
25th Percentile £24.80 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £14.40 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +185.10% -39.50% +19.00%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £88.50 £77.00 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £21.81
% change year-on-year +22.99% +34.24% -5.81%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 - 3 £513 - 6
Salford +8 2 - - 23
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
Bury - 1 - - 5
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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 8 (2.44%) CICS
3 3 (0.91%) Apache
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.61%) IIS
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.30%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 25 (7.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.91%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.61%) Finacle
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG-F
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.30%) Primavera
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 46 (14.02%) AWS
2 36 (10.98%) Azure
3 16 (4.88%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.05%) GCP
5 9 (2.74%) Serverless
6 7 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.83%) SaaS
8 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.61%) dbt
11 2 (0.61%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.61%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.61%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.18%) Firewall
2 10 (3.05%) DNS
3 7 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.52%) SSL
5 2 (0.61%) DHCP
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) VSAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (4.57%) Power BI
2 12 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.35%) DataStage
4 10 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.83%) Metadata
7 5 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.22%) Tableau
9 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.91%) Db2
9 3 (0.91%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.61%) Looker
10 2 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (4.88%) JIRA
2 8 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 7 (2.13%) Selenium
4 5 (1.52%) Git
5 4 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.91%) JUnit
6 3 (0.91%) Postman
6 3 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.61%) Hudson
7 2 (0.61%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.30%) GitLab
8 1 (0.30%) Gradle
General
1 99 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.63%) Banking
3 41 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.96%) Legal
8 11 (3.35%) Retail
9 9 (2.74%) Marketing
10 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.52%) Military
10 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Billing
12 3 (0.91%) Automotive
12 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.91%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Law
13 2 (0.61%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (13.41%) Analyst
2 31 (9.45%) Architect
3 29 (8.84%) Accountant
4 23 (7.01%) Consultant
4 23 (7.01%) Senior
5 22 (6.71%) Developer
6 20 (6.10%) Lead
6 20 (6.10%) Project Manager
7 19 (5.79%) Systems Accountant
8 13 (3.96%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.66%) Designer
9 12 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.05%) Infrastructure Designer
10 10 (3.05%) Management Accountant
10 10 (3.05%) Systems Analyst
11 9 (2.74%) DBA
12 8 (2.44%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.13%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.13%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.66%) Middleware
1 12 (3.66%) Spring
1 12 (3.66%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.35%) REST
3 10 (3.05%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.13%) Kafka
5 6 (1.83%) LDAP
5 6 (1.83%) React
6 5 (1.52%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.52%) PySpark
6 5 (1.52%) XML
7 4 (1.22%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.22%) JSON
7 4 (1.22%) Node.js
7 4 (1.22%) Playwright
7 4 (1.22%) Web Services
8 3 (0.91%) Great Expectations
8 3 (0.91%) OAuth
8 3 (0.91%) Pandas
8 3 (0.91%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.96%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.96%) Mainframe
5 12 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.44%) BYOD
8 8 (2.44%) VSAM
9 6 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (1.22%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.79%) Linux
2 18 (5.49%) Unix
3 15 (4.57%) Solaris
4 11 (3.35%) Windows
5 9 (2.74%) AIX
6 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.61%) zOS
8 1 (0.30%) HPUX
8 1 (0.30%) MVS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (19.21%) Agile
2 60 (18.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (14.63%) Migration
4 40 (12.20%) Roadmaps
5 38 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 32 (9.76%) ERP
7 32 (9.76%) Validation
8 31 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (9.15%) DevOps
9 30 (9.15%) Project Management
10 28 (8.54%) Data Modelling
11 26 (7.93%) CI/CD
12 25 (7.62%) Decision-Making
13 23 (7.01%) Change Management
13 23 (7.01%) Process Improvement
14 20 (6.10%) ITIL
15 19 (5.79%) AI
15 19 (5.79%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (5.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.63%) SQL
2 31 (9.45%) Java
3 18 (5.49%) Python
4 10 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.44%) COBOL
6 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.91%) Bash
7 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.61%) VBA
9 1 (0.30%) C#
9 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (6.40%) Degree
2 16 (4.88%) ACCA
2 16 (4.88%) CIMA
3 13 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.35%) CIPFA
4 11 (3.35%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.05%) CISSP
6 6 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.83%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.52%) PMP
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.22%) MCSA
8 4 (1.22%) MCSE
8 4 (1.22%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CCNA
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.57%) GDPR
3 14 (4.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.66%) PMO
5 7 (2.13%) QA
6 3 (0.91%) GAAP
7 2 (0.61%) GRC
7 2 (0.61%) IFRS
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.66%) Docker
2 11 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) GPFS
4 2 (0.61%) NFS
4 2 (0.61%) RACF
4 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.61%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.13%) Terraform
3 4 (1.22%) CASB
3 4 (1.22%) Nessus
3 4 (1.22%) SCCM
4 3 (0.91%) Grafana
4 3 (0.91%) Istio
4 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.61%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (0.61%) vRealize
5 2 (0.61%) VxRail
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 45 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.50%) SAP
3 19 (5.79%) Oracle
4 18 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.57%) IBM
6 11 (3.35%) VMware
7 10 (3.05%) Sage
8 7 (2.13%) Databricks
9 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.52%) Remedy
10 5 (1.52%) Splunk
10 5 (1.52%) Tenable
11 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.22%) Google
11 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.91%) Adobe
12 3 (0.91%) Cisco
12 3 (0.91%) HP
12 3 (0.91%) Infoblox
12 3 (0.91%) Teradata