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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 306 135 179
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.46% 15.00% 12.41%
As % of the General category 32.38% 25.67% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 95 129
10th Percentile £328 £327 £263
25th Percentile £380 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £575
90th Percentile £641 £633 £720
North West median daily rate £465 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.16% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile £45.50 £53.24 £12.93
25th Percentile £50.00 - £13.31
Median hourly rate £62.75 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +320.61% -9.26%
75th Percentile £78.25 £69.38 £16.41
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.63 £52.00
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £50.99 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% +154.93% -11.23%

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 945 526 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.91% 58.44% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 346 447
10th Percentile £296 £240 £300
25th Percentile £378 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £459 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -6.38% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £653
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 33 62
10th Percentile £18.00 - £12.27
25th Percentile £24.60 £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 £90.00 £77.00 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £28.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +23.48% +36.90% -16.00%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 - 4
Salford +9 2 - - 17
Altrincham - 1 - - 14
Bury - 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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) CICS
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.98%) Apache
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.33%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 20 (6.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.98%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.65%) Finacle
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.65%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.65%) SAP MDG-F
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Primavera
4 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.38%) AWS
2 32 (10.46%) Azure
3 16 (5.23%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.59%) Serverless
5 8 (2.61%) GCP
6 7 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.96%) SaaS
8 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.65%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.65%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.56%) Firewall
2 10 (3.27%) DNS
3 7 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.31%) SSL
5 3 (0.98%) Network Security
6 2 (0.65%) DHCP
6 2 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.65%) LAN
6 2 (0.65%) MPLS
6 2 (0.65%) VSAN
6 2 (0.65%) WAN
6 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.90%) Power BI
2 12 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.27%) DataStage
5 9 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.29%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.96%) Metadata
9 5 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.63%) Tableau
10 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.23%) JIRA
2 7 (2.29%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.96%) Selenium
4 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.98%) Git
5 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.65%) Hudson
6 2 (0.65%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.65%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.65%) JUnit
6 2 (0.65%) Postman
6 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) GitLab
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 87 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.07%) Banking
3 36 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (2.94%) Legal
7 8 (2.61%) Retail
8 6 (1.96%) Marketing
9 5 (1.63%) Military
9 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (0.98%) Automotive
11 3 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.98%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Law
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (12.75%) Analyst
2 28 (9.15%) Accountant
3 26 (8.50%) Architect
4 23 (7.52%) Developer
5 22 (7.19%) Senior
6 21 (6.86%) Consultant
7 19 (6.21%) Lead
8 18 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 18 (5.88%) Systems Accountant
9 13 (4.25%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.92%) Designer
11 10 (3.27%) Infrastructure Designer
11 10 (3.27%) Management Accountant
12 9 (2.94%) DBA
12 9 (2.94%) Systems Analyst
13 8 (2.61%) Product Manager
13 8 (2.61%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.29%) Java Engineer
14 7 (2.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.25%) Spring
1 13 (4.25%) Spring Boot
2 12 (3.92%) AngularJS
3 11 (3.59%) Middleware
3 11 (3.59%) REST
4 6 (1.96%) LDAP
4 6 (1.96%) Node.js
4 6 (1.96%) Playwright
4 6 (1.96%) React
5 5 (1.63%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.63%) Kafka
5 5 (1.63%) PySpark
5 5 (1.63%) XML
6 4 (1.31%) Gherkin
6 4 (1.31%) JSON
6 4 (1.31%) RESTful
6 4 (1.31%) Web Services
7 3 (0.98%) OAuth
7 3 (0.98%) Pandas
7 3 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.58%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.92%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.61%) BYOD
7 8 (2.61%) CMDB
7 8 (2.61%) VSAM
8 7 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.88%) Linux
2 17 (5.56%) Unix
3 15 (4.90%) Solaris
4 9 (2.94%) AIX
4 9 (2.94%) Windows
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.33%) HPUX
7 1 (0.33%) MVS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
7 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.61%) Agile
2 51 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (14.05%) Migration
4 42 (13.73%) Roadmaps
5 35 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (9.15%) DevOps
9 27 (8.82%) ERP
9 27 (8.82%) Validation
10 25 (8.17%) Project Management
11 23 (7.52%) CI/CD
11 23 (7.52%) Data Modelling
12 22 (7.19%) Change Management
12 22 (7.19%) Decision-Making
13 19 (6.21%) Process Improvement
14 17 (5.56%) ITIL
14 17 (5.56%) Microservices
14 17 (5.56%) Risk Management
14 17 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.05%) SQL
2 31 (10.13%) Java
3 14 (4.58%) Python
4 9 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.61%) COBOL
6 7 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.31%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.98%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.65%) Bash
9 2 (0.65%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.65%) VBA
10 1 (0.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (6.21%) Degree
2 15 (4.90%) ACCA
2 15 (4.90%) CIMA
3 12 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.27%) CIPFA
5 9 (2.94%) CISSP
6 6 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.96%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.31%) MCSA
8 4 (1.31%) MCSE
8 4 (1.31%) PMP
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CCNA
10 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.65%) CISM
10 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.58%) GDPR
2 14 (4.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (3.92%) PMO
4 7 (2.29%) QA
5 3 (0.98%) GAAP
6 2 (0.65%) GRC
6 2 (0.65%) IFRS
6 2 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.65%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (3.59%) Active Directory
1 11 (3.59%) Docker
2 6 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.65%) GPFS
3 2 (0.65%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.65%) NFS
3 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.65%) vSphere
4 1 (0.33%) RACF
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.96%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) CASB
3 4 (1.31%) Nessus
3 4 (1.31%) SCCM
4 2 (0.65%) AirWatch
4 2 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.65%) Grafana
4 2 (0.65%) Istio
4 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.65%) vRealize
4 2 (0.65%) VxRail
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 45 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.44%) SAP
3 21 (6.86%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.88%) Oracle
5 13 (4.25%) IBM
6 11 (3.59%) VMware
7 10 (3.27%) Sage
8 6 (1.96%) Databricks
8 6 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.96%) Splunk
9 5 (1.63%) Remedy
10 4 (1.31%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.31%) Tenable
11 3 (0.98%) Adobe
11 3 (0.98%) Cisco
11 3 (0.98%) Google
11 3 (0.98%) HP
11 3 (0.98%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.65%) Teradata