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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 363 199 182
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 18.18% 19.66% 15.42%
As % of the General category 34.54% 32.10% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 144 126
10th Percentile £312 £314 £356
25th Percentile £400 £378 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £585 £578 £611
90th Percentile £694 £718 £729
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £512
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.07% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 3
10th Percentile - £23.81 £24.25
25th Percentile £43.96 £36.60 £30.63
Median hourly rate £44.73 £50.99 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +19.96% +157.58%
75th Percentile £70.94 £73.75 £56.75
90th Percentile £82.30 £79.75 £64.55
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £39.64 £36.00
% change year-on-year +10.91% +10.10% +118.18%

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 1,051 620 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 52.63% 61.26% 53.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 395 372
10th Percentile £275 £300 £324
25th Percentile £400 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 55 26
10th Percentile £17.53 £13.00 £16.39
25th Percentile £28.23 £13.68 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £21.10 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.57% -28.47% +66.67%
75th Percentile £74.75 £35.88 £46.88
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £35.11 £22.63 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.13% -35.34% +55.35%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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
Salford +4 1 - - 23
Bury -12 1 - - 2
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
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 20 (5.51%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) SAS
2 5 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.55%) IIS
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) CICS
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.28%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 29 (7.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.10%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.83%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.55%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.55%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI-AP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 57 (15.70%) AWS
2 51 (14.05%) Azure
3 21 (5.79%) GCP
3 21 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.03%) SaaS
6 8 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.93%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.38%) dbt
8 5 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.10%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.10%) Serverless
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.83%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.86%) Firewall
2 7 (1.93%) Network Security
3 4 (1.10%) SSL
3 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.83%) DNS
4 3 (0.83%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) BGP
5 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) LAN
5 2 (0.55%) WAN
5 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.51%) Power BI
2 18 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.93%) DataStage
7 6 (1.65%) Db2
7 6 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.38%) Tableau
9 4 (1.10%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.10%) Looker
9 4 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (0.55%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.55%) Metadata
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (6.61%) JIRA
2 9 (2.48%) Git
3 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.10%) Selenium
5 3 (0.83%) JUnit
5 3 (0.83%) Postman
5 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 2 (0.55%) Hudson
6 2 (0.55%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.55%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.28%) Gradle
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
General
1 132 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.56%) Banking
3 52 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.71%) Retail
5 25 (6.89%) Legal
6 21 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.31%) Marketing
9 11 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.93%) Billing
11 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Military
12 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.38%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.10%) Automotive
14 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (12.95%) Analyst
2 38 (10.47%) Architect
3 30 (8.26%) Consultant
4 29 (7.99%) Accountant
5 26 (7.16%) Project Manager
6 24 (6.61%) Senior
7 21 (5.79%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.23%) Systems Accountant
9 17 (4.68%) Developer
10 16 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.13%) Finance Manager
11 15 (4.13%) Lead
12 12 (3.31%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.03%) IT Manager
14 10 (2.75%) IT Project Manager
14 10 (2.75%) Management Accountant
14 10 (2.75%) Technical Consultant
15 9 (2.48%) Data Engineer
16 8 (2.20%) Data Analyst
16 8 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.13%) Terraform
2 13 (3.58%) Spring
2 13 (3.58%) Spring Boot
3 10 (2.75%) REST
4 9 (2.48%) SAML
5 8 (2.20%) React
6 7 (1.93%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.65%) Middleware
7 6 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.65%) PySpark
8 4 (1.10%) ISPF
8 4 (1.10%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.10%) Kafka
8 4 (1.10%) OAuth
8 4 (1.10%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.10%) Web Services
9 3 (0.83%) Great Expectations
9 3 (0.83%) Node.js
9 3 (0.83%) Pandas
9 3 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
1 21 (5.79%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.23%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.86%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.58%) Credit Risk
5 12 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.31%) CMDB
5 12 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.31%) Web Conferencing
6 11 (3.03%) Podcast
7 10 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.75%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.75%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.20%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.93%) Clustering
10 6 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.03%) Linux
1 11 (3.03%) Windows
2 9 (2.48%) Unix
3 8 (2.20%) Solaris
4 7 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.10%) zOS
6 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.55%) AIX
7 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) HPUX
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 82 (22.59%) Agile
3 66 (18.18%) Migration
4 43 (11.85%) Change Management
5 42 (11.57%) ERP
6 41 (11.29%) Data Modelling
7 39 (10.74%) Project Management
7 39 (10.74%) Roadmaps
8 38 (10.47%) Analytics
9 37 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (9.37%) CI/CD
10 34 (9.37%) DevOps
11 32 (8.82%) AI
11 32 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (7.99%) Decision-Making
14 28 (7.71%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (7.71%) Validation
15 27 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (7.44%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.77%) SQL
2 28 (7.71%) Python
3 27 (7.44%) Java
4 15 (4.13%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.20%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.65%) Bash
6 6 (1.65%) Bicep
6 6 (1.65%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.38%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.55%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) C#
11 1 (0.28%) COBOL
11 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (5.51%) Degree
3 17 (4.68%) ACCA
3 17 (4.68%) CIMA
4 12 (3.31%) CISSP
5 11 (3.03%) CIPFA
6 10 (2.75%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.38%) PMP
10 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.83%) CCNP
11 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.83%) GCIH
11 3 (0.83%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.55%) CCIE
12 2 (0.55%) CCSP
12 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.55%) GCFA
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.68%) GDPR
3 15 (4.13%) PMO
4 13 (3.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.03%) QA
6 6 (1.65%) GRC
7 5 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.10%) NIST
9 3 (0.83%) GAAP
9 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) FATCA
10 2 (0.55%) IFRS
10 2 (0.55%) SLA
11 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.28%) COBIT
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.28%) ITGC
11 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.31%) Docker
3 4 (1.10%) RACF
4 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) GPFS
5 1 (0.28%) NFS
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.93%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.10%) Grafana
4 4 (1.10%) Istio
4 4 (1.10%) OMEGAMON
5 3 (0.83%) Ansible
5 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.55%) CASB
6 2 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.55%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
7 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 48 (13.22%) SAP
3 24 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.06%) Oracle
5 15 (4.13%) IBM
6 13 (3.58%) Databricks
7 12 (3.31%) Sage
8 9 (2.48%) BeyondTrust
9 8 (2.20%) Google
9 8 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.65%) Adobe
11 6 (1.65%) Splunk
11 6 (1.65%) Teradata
12 4 (1.10%) Ariba
12 4 (1.10%) Cisco
13 3 (0.83%) AlgoSec
13 3 (0.83%) HP
13 3 (0.83%) VMware
13 3 (0.83%) Workday