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 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Finance 302 120 178
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.90% 12.99% 11.99%
As % of the General category 32.06% 22.86% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 80 120
10th Percentile £352 £312 £340
25th Percentile £400 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -1.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £577
90th Percentile £638 £638 £738
North West median daily rate £465 £465 £500
% change year-on-year - -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £21.85 - £12.98
25th Percentile £47.50 - £13.31
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +320.61% -69.65%
75th Percentile £74.88 £72.50 £19.10
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.25 £56.70
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £52.50 £16.05
% change year-on-year -32.38% +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 942 525 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 55.84% 56.82% 48.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 339 467
10th Percentile £297 £250 £310
25th Percentile £375 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £554 £588
90th Percentile £634 £682 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 62
10th Percentile £18.00 - £12.27
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £21.53 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +90.69% -8.29% -6.10%
75th Percentile £76.75 £46.88 £34.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.00 £59.75
North West median hourly rate £35.55 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +23.65% +62.25% -35.21%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 - 7
Salford +7 1 - - 18
Altrincham - 1 - - 8
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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 8 (2.65%) CICS
2 8 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.32%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.66%) Trello
5 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.33%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 16 (5.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.66%) Finacle
2 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.66%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.66%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.66%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Primavera
3 1 (0.33%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.21%) AWS
2 26 (8.61%) Azure
3 17 (5.63%) Serverless
4 15 (4.97%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.31%) GCP
6 8 (2.65%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.99%) SaaS
9 5 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.32%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.66%) Datadog
12 2 (0.66%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.96%) Firewall
2 10 (3.31%) DNS
3 6 (1.99%) Network Security
3 6 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.99%) HTTP
4 3 (0.99%) SSL
5 2 (0.66%) DHCP
5 2 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.66%) LAN
5 2 (0.66%) MPLS
5 2 (0.66%) VSAN
5 2 (0.66%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.64%) Power BI
2 10 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.31%) DataStage
2 10 (3.31%) DynamoDB
2 10 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.65%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.99%) Tableau
5 5 (1.66%) Metadata
6 4 (1.32%) DB2
7 3 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.99%) MySQL
7 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.63%) JIRA
2 5 (1.66%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.32%) Selenium
4 3 (0.99%) Hudson
4 3 (0.99%) Jasmine
5 2 (0.66%) Git
5 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Gradle
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 83 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.56%) Banking
3 34 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.31%) Legal
6 10 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.32%) Retail
8 6 (1.99%) Marketing
9 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.66%) Automotive
12 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.66%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (10.60%) Analyst
2 30 (9.93%) Developer
3 27 (8.94%) Senior
4 24 (7.95%) Architect
5 21 (6.95%) Accountant
6 20 (6.62%) Lead
7 18 (5.96%) Project Manager
8 16 (5.30%) Consultant
9 15 (4.97%) Systems Accountant
10 12 (3.97%) Designer
11 10 (3.31%) Business Analyst
11 10 (3.31%) Infrastructure Designer
12 9 (2.98%) Systems Analyst
13 8 (2.65%) DBA
13 8 (2.65%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 7 (2.32%) Backend Developer
14 7 (2.32%) Java Engineer
14 7 (2.32%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 7 (2.32%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.95%) Spring
1 21 (6.95%) Spring Boot
2 12 (3.97%) AngularJS
3 11 (3.64%) REST
4 10 (3.31%) Middleware
4 10 (3.31%) Node.js
5 9 (2.98%) Kafka
6 8 (2.65%) OAuth
6 8 (2.65%) OAuth2
6 8 (2.65%) RESTful
7 7 (2.32%) Playwright
8 6 (1.99%) LDAP
8 6 (1.99%) NestJS
9 5 (1.66%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.66%) CSS
9 5 (1.66%) CSS3
9 5 (1.66%) HTML
9 5 (1.66%) HTML5
9 5 (1.66%) Sass
9 5 (1.66%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.30%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.97%) Mainframe
6 11 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.65%) BYOD
8 8 (2.65%) CMDB
8 8 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.65%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.65%) VSAM
9 7 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.32%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.99%) IVR
12 3 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.62%) Unix
2 22 (7.28%) Linux
3 12 (3.97%) Solaris
4 9 (2.98%) AIX
5 6 (1.99%) Windows
6 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.33%) HPUX
7 1 (0.33%) MVS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (20.53%) Agile
2 49 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (12.91%) Migration
5 38 (12.58%) Roadmaps
6 33 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (8.94%) Validation
8 25 (8.28%) Decision-Making
9 23 (7.62%) DevOps
9 23 (7.62%) Risk Management
10 22 (7.28%) Data Modelling
10 22 (7.28%) Microservices
10 22 (7.28%) TDD
11 21 (6.95%) ERP
11 21 (6.95%) Project Management
12 20 (6.62%) Design Patterns
12 20 (6.62%) Mentoring
12 20 (6.62%) Test Automation
12 20 (6.62%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.91%) SQL
2 38 (12.58%) Java
3 22 (7.28%) Python
4 12 (3.97%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.31%) COBOL
6 8 (2.65%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.99%) PHP
9 2 (0.66%) Bash
9 2 (0.66%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.66%) CLIST
9 2 (0.66%) JCL
9 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.66%) REXX
9 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.66%) VBA
10 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) R
10 1 (0.33%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (5.96%) Degree
2 13 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.98%) ACCA
4 9 (2.98%) CIMA
5 7 (2.32%) CIPFA
5 7 (2.32%) CISSP
6 6 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.32%) MCSA
8 4 (1.32%) MCSE
8 4 (1.32%) PMP
9 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CCNA
10 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CISM
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.97%) GDPR
2 12 (3.97%) PMO
2 12 (3.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.65%) QA
4 2 (0.66%) GRC
4 2 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.33%) GAAP
5 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (4.97%) Docker
2 11 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.66%) ACF2
5 2 (0.66%) GPFS
5 2 (0.66%) NFS
5 2 (0.66%) RACF
5 2 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.65%) Terraform
3 4 (1.32%) CASB
3 4 (1.32%) Nessus
3 4 (1.32%) SCCM
4 3 (0.99%) Grafana
5 2 (0.66%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.66%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.66%) Tivoli
5 2 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.66%) vRealize
5 2 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.26%) SAP
3 19 (6.29%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.30%) Oracle
5 13 (4.30%) IBM
6 11 (3.64%) VMware
7 9 (2.98%) Sage
8 7 (2.32%) Splunk
9 5 (1.66%) Remedy
9 5 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.32%) Confluent
10 4 (1.32%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.32%) Databricks
10 4 (1.32%) Tenable
11 3 (0.99%) Adobe
11 3 (0.99%) Genesys
11 3 (0.99%) IFS
11 3 (0.99%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.99%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.99%) UiPath