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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 198 192 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 19.53% 16.11% 12.50%
As % of the General category 31.73% 29.18% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 131 139
10th Percentile £316 £350 £385
25th Percentile £383 £444 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £666
90th Percentile £723 £740 £728
North West median daily rate £450 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -11.24% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £23.81 £24.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £36.60 £30.63 £14.86
Median hourly rate £50.99 £42.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.96% +157.58% +13.95%
75th Percentile £73.75 £56.75 £17.34
90th Percentile £79.75 £64.55 £19.75
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £36.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -18.69% +118.18% -29.46%

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 common skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 624 658 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 61.54% 55.20% 50.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 389 581
10th Percentile £305 £294 £225
25th Percentile £390 £401 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £690 £688
North West median daily rate £458 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -7.20% -1.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 36
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £30.00 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% +69.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £35.88 £57.50 £20.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £64.00 £53.75
North West median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £22.53
% change year-on-year -30.00% +55.35% +11.92%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Finance 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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
Bury - 3 - - 2
Cheadle - 2 £550 - 2
Salford +3 1 £350 - 19
Bolton - 1 - - 33
Rochdale - 1 £400 - 5
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.04%) Confluence
2 6 (3.03%) CMS
3 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.53%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.02%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.52%) JBoss
5 3 (1.52%) SAS
6 2 (1.01%) Apache
6 2 (1.01%) IIS
6 2 (1.01%) iPlanet
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.54%) Sketch
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.01%) Trello
6 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.51%) InVision
6 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.02%) ContrOCC
2 4 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.02%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.02%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.02%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (2.02%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.52%) Kondor
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.52%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.51%) Primavera
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.60%) AWS
2 15 (7.58%) Azure
3 13 (6.57%) GCP
4 10 (5.05%) Figma
5 8 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (2.02%) GitHub
6 4 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.01%) npm
8 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.01%) SaaS
8 2 (1.01%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.51%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.51%) OCI
9 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Network Security
2 4 (2.02%) Firewall
3 2 (1.01%) Calico
3 2 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.01%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) ATM
4 1 (0.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.51%) SAN
4 1 (0.51%) SSH
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.02%) MySQL
5 4 (2.02%) Power BI
6 3 (1.52%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (1.52%) Cognos Report Studio
6 3 (1.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.01%) Cognos Transformer
7 2 (1.01%) Metadata
7 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) OLAP
7 2 (1.01%) OLAP Cube
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.51%) Power Query
8 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.57%) JIRA
3 10 (5.05%) Gradle
4 9 (4.55%) JUnit
5 8 (4.04%) Liquibase
5 8 (4.04%) Mockito
6 7 (3.54%) GitLab
7 6 (3.03%) Git
8 3 (1.52%) Maven
9 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.01%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.51%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Storybook
10 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 74 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.62%) Banking
4 22 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.60%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.57%) Telecoms
7 12 (6.06%) Marketing
8 10 (5.05%) Electronics
8 10 (5.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.04%) Retail
10 7 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.54%) Local Government
11 6 (3.03%) Legal
11 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.53%) Back Office
13 4 (2.02%) Automotive
13 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.02%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (12.63%) Analyst
2 24 (12.12%) Consultant
3 17 (8.59%) Developer
4 16 (8.08%) Architect
5 13 (6.57%) Business Analyst
5 13 (6.57%) Lead
5 13 (6.57%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (6.06%) Senior
7 11 (5.56%) SAP Financial Consultant
8 10 (5.05%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.55%) Designer
9 9 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 8 (4.04%) SAP Analyst
10 8 (4.04%) Support Specialist
11 7 (3.54%) Automation Specialist
11 7 (3.54%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.54%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Administrator
12 6 (3.03%) SAP Data Consultant
12 6 (3.03%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.06%) React
1 12 (6.06%) Spring
1 12 (6.06%) Spring Boot
2 9 (4.55%) Kafka
3 8 (4.04%) OpenAPI
3 8 (4.04%) Swagger
4 6 (3.03%) REST
5 5 (2.53%) SOAP
6 4 (2.02%) OAuth
7 3 (1.52%) LDAP
8 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.01%) HTML
8 2 (1.01%) JSON
8 2 (1.01%) Laravel
8 2 (1.01%) Node.js
8 2 (1.01%) OpenID
8 2 (1.01%) Pandas
8 2 (1.01%) SAML
8 2 (1.01%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.54%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.52%) Derivative
6 2 (1.01%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.01%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.01%) NHS
6 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.06%) Linux
2 8 (4.04%) Unix
3 7 (3.54%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Android
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.01%) HPUX
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Solaris
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.25%) Agile
2 39 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (14.65%) Risk Management
5 27 (13.64%) Project Management
6 26 (13.13%) DevOps
6 26 (13.13%) Migration
7 24 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.09%) Decision-Making
10 17 (8.59%) Analytics
11 16 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.08%) Software Engineering
12 14 (7.07%) Change Management
12 14 (7.07%) Project Delivery
12 14 (7.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 14 (7.07%) Waterfall
13 13 (6.57%) Microservices
13 13 (6.57%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.13%) SQL
2 22 (11.11%) Python
3 17 (8.59%) Java
4 11 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.02%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.01%) C
7 2 (1.01%) C++
7 2 (1.01%) Groovy
7 2 (1.01%) PHP
8 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) LookML
8 1 (0.51%) VBA
8 1 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (10.10%) Degree
2 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 6 (3.03%) ACCA
5 6 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.03%) CIMA
6 5 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.53%) PMP
7 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.52%) CISSP
9 2 (1.01%) CISA
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.01%) GSEC
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CIPD
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) MBA
10 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.58%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.57%) QA
3 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.04%) GDPR
5 3 (1.52%) Basel III
5 3 (1.52%) MiFID
5 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.01%) IEC 61508
6 2 (1.01%) IFRS
6 2 (1.01%) ISO 26262
6 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.51%) PMBOK
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Docker
2 5 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (4.04%) Ansible
2 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.52%) Terraform
4 2 (1.01%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.01%) CA Wily
4 2 (1.01%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.01%) Istio
4 2 (1.01%) QRadar
5 1 (0.51%) CASB
5 1 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 47 (23.74%) SAP
3 15 (7.58%) Oracle
4 11 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.55%) IBM
6 7 (3.54%) Google
7 6 (3.03%) Hopewiser
8 5 (2.53%) Splunk
9 4 (2.02%) Liquidlogic
10 3 (1.52%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.52%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.52%) Citrix
10 3 (1.52%) Cognos
10 3 (1.52%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.52%) HP
10 3 (1.52%) Sybase
10 3 (1.52%) Thycotic
11 2 (1.01%) Cisco
11 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.01%) VMware