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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 307 124 174
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.56% 14.06% 12.31%
As % of the General category 32.28% 24.08% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 84 122
10th Percentile £332 £323 £263
25th Percentile £380 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £472 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +1.95% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £564
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
North West median daily rate £465 £465 £490
% change year-on-year - -5.01% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 13
10th Percentile £29.00 £53.24 £12.93
25th Percentile £50.00 - £13.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +320.61% -9.26%
75th Percentile £76.00 £69.38 £16.41
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.63 £52.00
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £50.99 £18.02
% change year-on-year -30.37% +182.90% -28.64%

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 951 515 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 54.41% 58.39% 47.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 338 443
10th Percentile £282 £221 £301
25th Percentile £375 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £633 £672 £661
North West median daily rate £459 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -3.37% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 33 61
10th Percentile £17.65 - £12.24
25th Percentile £22.84 £13.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £41.06 £14.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +185.10% -38.72% +15.46%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £92.00 £77.00 £60.00
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £29.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +21.37% +62.50% -30.77%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 - 5
Salford +6 2 - - 21
Altrincham - 1 - - 8
Bury - 1 - - 7
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 (3.91%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) CICS
3 7 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.98%) Apache
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.33%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (6.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.65%) Finacle
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.65%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.65%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.61%) AWS
2 26 (8.47%) Azure
3 16 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.56%) Serverless
5 7 (2.28%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.28%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (1.95%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.95%) GCP
6 6 (1.95%) SaaS
7 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.30%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.65%) GitHub
10 2 (0.65%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.65%) PaaS
10 2 (0.65%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.89%) Firewall
2 10 (3.26%) DNS
3 7 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.98%) Network Security
4 3 (0.98%) SSL
5 2 (0.65%) DHCP
5 2 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.65%) LAN
5 2 (0.65%) MPLS
5 2 (0.65%) VSAN
5 2 (0.65%) WAN
5 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.89%) Power BI
2 10 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.26%) DataStage
2 10 (3.26%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.95%) Metadata
5 5 (1.63%) Tableau
6 4 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.65%) DB2
8 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.65%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (5.21%) JIRA
2 7 (2.28%) Cucumber
3 6 (1.95%) Selenium
4 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.98%) Git
5 3 (0.98%) Hudson
5 3 (0.98%) Jasmine
5 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
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%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 83 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.03%) Banking
3 33 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Legal
8 7 (2.28%) Retail
9 5 (1.63%) Marketing
9 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Military
11 3 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.65%) Automotive
12 2 (0.65%) Billing
12 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.65%) Law
12 2 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (12.05%) Analyst
2 28 (9.12%) Developer
3 27 (8.79%) Accountant
4 24 (7.82%) Architect
4 24 (7.82%) Senior
5 18 (5.86%) Consultant
6 17 (5.54%) Lead
6 17 (5.54%) Systems Accountant
7 16 (5.21%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.23%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.91%) Designer
10 10 (3.26%) Infrastructure Designer
10 10 (3.26%) Management Accountant
11 9 (2.93%) Systems Analyst
12 8 (2.61%) Product Manager
12 8 (2.61%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.28%) Java Engineer
13 7 (2.28%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 7 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.84%) Spring
1 21 (6.84%) Spring Boot
2 14 (4.56%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.26%) Middleware
3 10 (3.26%) REST
4 8 (2.61%) OAuth
4 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.28%) Node.js
5 7 (2.28%) Playwright
5 7 (2.28%) RESTful
6 6 (1.95%) Kafka
6 6 (1.95%) LDAP
7 5 (1.63%) CSS
7 5 (1.63%) CSS3
7 5 (1.63%) HTML
7 5 (1.63%) HTML5
7 5 (1.63%) PySpark
7 5 (1.63%) React
7 5 (1.63%) Sass
7 5 (1.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.21%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.91%) Mainframe
6 11 (3.58%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.61%) BYOD
7 8 (2.61%) CMDB
7 8 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.61%) VSAM
8 7 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) IVR
12 3 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.54%) Unix
2 16 (5.21%) Linux
3 14 (4.56%) Solaris
4 9 (2.93%) AIX
5 6 (1.95%) Windows
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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (19.54%) Agile
2 49 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (13.36%) Migration
4 39 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (12.70%) Roadmaps
5 38 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (8.47%) DevOps
7 26 (8.47%) ERP
7 26 (8.47%) Validation
8 23 (7.49%) Data Modelling
8 23 (7.49%) Microservices
9 22 (7.17%) Decision-Making
9 22 (7.17%) Project Management
9 22 (7.17%) TDD
9 22 (7.17%) Test Automation
10 21 (6.84%) Design Patterns
11 20 (6.51%) Change Management
12 19 (6.19%) Mentoring
12 19 (6.19%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.70%) SQL
2 37 (12.05%) Java
3 13 (4.23%) Python
4 10 (3.26%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.61%) COBOL
5 8 (2.61%) Kotlin
6 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.65%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.65%) VBA
9 1 (0.33%) C#
9 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (5.54%) Degree
2 14 (4.56%) ACCA
2 14 (4.56%) CIMA
2 14 (4.56%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.93%) CIPFA
5 7 (2.28%) CISSP
6 6 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.95%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.30%) MCSA
8 4 (1.30%) MCSE
8 4 (1.30%) PMP
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
11 1 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 12 (3.91%) GDPR
3 12 (3.91%) PMO
4 7 (2.28%) 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 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.26%) Docker
3 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.98%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.65%) GPFS
5 2 (0.65%) NFS
5 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.30%) CASB
2 4 (1.30%) Nessus
2 4 (1.30%) SCCM
2 4 (1.30%) Terraform
3 2 (0.65%) AirWatch
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
3 2 (0.65%) Istio
3 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.65%) vRealize
3 2 (0.65%) VxRail
4 1 (0.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 46 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.40%) SAP
3 20 (6.51%) ServiceNow
4 18 (5.86%) Oracle
5 12 (3.91%) IBM
6 11 (3.58%) VMware
7 9 (2.93%) Sage
8 6 (1.95%) Databricks
8 6 (1.95%) Splunk
9 5 (1.63%) Remedy
9 5 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.30%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.30%) Tenable
11 3 (0.98%) Adobe
11 3 (0.98%) Cisco
11 3 (0.98%) Genesys
11 3 (0.98%) HP
11 3 (0.98%) IFS
11 3 (0.98%) Infoblox
11 3 (0.98%) UiPath