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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Finance 358 197 166
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 18.40% 19.66% 13.87%
As % of the General category 34.49% 31.98% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 142 124
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -11.38% -3.67%
75th Percentile £577 £584 £613
90th Percentile £700 £723 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £458 £525
% change year-on-year +9.29% -12.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 4
10th Percentile £28.79 £23.81 £26.38
25th Percentile £43.96 £36.60 £35.94
Median hourly rate £45.50 £60.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% +10.09% +230.30%
75th Percentile £68.50 £73.13 £73.06
90th Percentile £83.20 £79.75 £79.03
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £50.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +45.67% +107.59%

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 1,038 616 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.34% 61.48% 50.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 395 374
10th Percentile £275 £276 £327
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £694 £689 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 47 30
10th Percentile £18.00 - £16.70
25th Percentile £23.35 £13.00 £23.96
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.18% +91.98%
75th Percentile £69.88 £45.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £74.25 £63.23
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% +9.09%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 - 2 £513 - 14
Salford +4 1 - - 26
Bury -12 1 - - 2
Altrincham - 1 - - 3
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 18 (5.03%) Confluence
2 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.84%) Apache
3 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.84%) CICS
3 3 (0.84%) SAS
4 2 (0.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 22 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.28%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 29 (8.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.12%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.84%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.53%) AWS
2 48 (13.41%) Azure
3 20 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.47%) GCP
5 9 (2.51%) SaaS
6 8 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.23%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (1.96%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.68%) Serverless
9 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.40%) dbt
9 5 (1.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.84%) Intacct
11 3 (0.84%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.19%) Firewall
2 9 (2.51%) DNS
3 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.96%) SSL
5 4 (1.12%) Network Security
6 2 (0.56%) BGP
6 2 (0.56%) DHCP
6 2 (0.56%) LAN
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) VSAN
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.31%) Power BI
2 18 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (3.63%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.07%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.96%) DataStage
7 7 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.40%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.40%) Tableau
10 4 (1.12%) Db2
10 4 (1.12%) Looker
10 4 (1.12%) Metadata
10 4 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 22 (6.15%) JIRA
2 10 (2.79%) Git
3 6 (1.68%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.68%) Selenium
4 5 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.84%) Hudson
5 3 (0.84%) JUnit
5 3 (0.84%) Postman
5 3 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.56%) GitLab
6 2 (0.56%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.56%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.28%) Gradle
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
General
1 118 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.76%) Banking
3 49 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.42%) Legal
4 23 (6.42%) Retail
5 20 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.35%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.35%) Marketing
8 9 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.96%) Billing
11 5 (1.40%) Military
11 5 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.12%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (14.25%) Analyst
2 34 (9.50%) Architect
3 29 (8.10%) Accountant
4 25 (6.98%) Consultant
4 25 (6.98%) Senior
5 23 (6.42%) Project Manager
6 22 (6.15%) Lead
7 20 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.31%) Systems Accountant
9 16 (4.47%) Developer
10 14 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.79%) Management Accountant
11 10 (2.79%) Security Engineer
11 10 (2.79%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (2.51%) DBA
12 9 (2.51%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.51%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.23%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.23%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.23%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.79%) Spring
1 10 (2.79%) Spring Boot
2 9 (2.51%) REST
3 8 (2.23%) Middleware
3 8 (2.23%) React
4 7 (1.96%) Kafka
4 7 (1.96%) PySpark
5 5 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.40%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.40%) JSON
5 5 (1.40%) LDAP
5 5 (1.40%) Node.js
5 5 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.40%) SAML
5 5 (1.40%) XML
6 4 (1.12%) ISPF
6 4 (1.12%) OAuth
6 4 (1.12%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.12%) Web Services
7 3 (0.84%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.19%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.91%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.79%) Mainframe
6 10 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.79%) Web Conferencing
7 9 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.51%) Podcast
8 8 (2.23%) Credit Risk
8 8 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.68%) Clustering
10 6 (1.68%) CMDB
10 6 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.47%) Linux
2 14 (3.91%) Unix
2 14 (3.91%) Windows
3 10 (2.79%) Solaris
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.12%) AIX
5 4 (1.12%) zOS
6 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) HPUX
8 1 (0.28%) MVS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (23.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 80 (22.35%) Agile
3 60 (16.76%) Migration
4 39 (10.89%) CI/CD
4 39 (10.89%) Data Modelling
5 37 (10.34%) DevOps
5 37 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (10.06%) ERP
6 36 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (9.78%) Project Management
8 34 (9.50%) Analytics
9 31 (8.66%) AI
9 31 (8.66%) Change Management
9 31 (8.66%) Roadmaps
9 31 (8.66%) Validation
10 28 (7.82%) Decision-Making
11 27 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (7.26%) Data Migration
13 25 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.36%) SQL
2 29 (8.10%) Python
3 26 (7.26%) Java
4 13 (3.63%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.68%) Bicep
5 6 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.40%) Bash
7 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.84%) COBOL
8 3 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.56%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.56%) C#
9 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.56%) Scala
9 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.59%) Degree
2 18 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (4.47%) ACCA
3 16 (4.47%) CIMA
4 12 (3.35%) CISSP
5 11 (3.07%) CIPFA
6 9 (2.51%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.12%) MCSA
10 4 (1.12%) MCSE
10 4 (1.12%) PMP
11 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CCNA
12 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.56%) GCFA
12 2 (0.56%) GCIH
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.87%) GDPR
3 16 (4.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.35%) PMO
5 10 (2.79%) QA
6 5 (1.40%) GRC
7 3 (0.84%) GAAP
7 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.56%) IFRS
8 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (3.91%) Active Directory
1 14 (3.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) RACF
2 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.56%) GPFS
3 2 (0.56%) NFS
3 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.19%) Terraform
3 8 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.68%) CASB
6 4 (1.12%) Grafana
6 4 (1.12%) Nessus
6 4 (1.12%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (0.84%) Ansible
7 3 (0.84%) Istio
7 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.56%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.56%) SCCM
8 2 (0.56%) vRealize
8 2 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.57%) SAP
3 22 (6.15%) Oracle
4 21 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.19%) IBM
6 14 (3.91%) Databricks
7 12 (3.35%) Sage
8 8 (2.23%) Splunk
9 6 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.68%) Tenable
9 6 (1.68%) VMware
10 5 (1.40%) Adobe
10 5 (1.40%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.40%) Google
10 5 (1.40%) Remedy
10 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.12%) Ariba
11 4 (1.12%) Cisco
11 4 (1.12%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.12%) Teradata