Finance Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 119 181 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 12.85% 11.93% 10.88%
As % of the General category 22.71% 24.76% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 123 148
10th Percentile £311 £350 £363
25th Percentile £357 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £545 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £735 £691
North West median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 2
10th Percentile - £12.98 £20.60
25th Percentile - £13.31 £30.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £14.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +320.61% -69.65% +224.14%
75th Percentile £72.50 £19.10 £63.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £56.70 £73.40
North West median hourly rate £52.50 £16.05 £30.76
% change year-on-year +227.20% -47.83% +112.10%

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 524 731 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.59% 48.19% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 477 647
10th Percentile £250 £313 £304
25th Percentile £375 £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £588
90th Percentile £676 £675 £659
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 62 39
10th Percentile - £12.27 £14.52
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £19.63
Median hourly rate £19.77 £21.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -13.10% +38.89%
75th Percentile £40.31 £31.50 £37.30
90th Percentile £72.75 £59.75 £45.05
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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
Bolton -8 4 - - 39
Cheadle +1 1 - - 2
Salford -3 1 £350 - 10
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 6 (5.04%) SAS
2 4 (3.36%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.52%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Kondor
2 6 (5.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (3.36%) Primavera
3 4 (3.36%) SAP PS
4 3 (2.52%) Finacle
5 2 (1.68%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.84%) Maximo
6 1 (0.84%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.84%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.84%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.13%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) AWS
3 5 (4.20%) GCP
4 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.52%) Figma
5 3 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.68%) SaaS
6 2 (1.68%) Serverless
7 1 (0.84%) Akamai
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.84%) Asana
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
5 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.68%) Big Data
6 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.68%) Metadata
6 2 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.84%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) HBase
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.40%) Gradle
2 10 (8.40%) JUnit
2 10 (8.40%) Liquibase
2 10 (8.40%) Mockito
3 7 (5.88%) GitLab
4 6 (5.04%) JIRA
5 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.84%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.84%) ERwin
5 1 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.84%) Grunt
5 1 (0.84%) gulp
5 1 (0.84%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.84%) Mocha
5 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.85%) Banking
3 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.76%) Marketing
5 12 (10.08%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.40%) Electronics
6 10 (8.40%) Legal
6 10 (8.40%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.20%) Retail
8 4 (3.36%) Law
8 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Automotive
10 2 (1.68%) Military
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.84%) Games
11 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (14.29%) Analyst
2 11 (9.24%) Architect
2 11 (9.24%) Lead
3 10 (8.40%) Developer
3 10 (8.40%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.72%) Senior
5 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.04%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.20%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.20%) Java Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) React Developer
7 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) Consultant
8 4 (3.36%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.92%) Spring
1 13 (10.92%) Spring Boot
2 11 (9.24%) Kafka
3 10 (8.40%) OpenAPI
3 10 (8.40%) React
3 10 (8.40%) Swagger
4 5 (4.20%) REST
4 5 (4.20%) SOAP
5 4 (3.36%) Node.js
6 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.52%) CSS
6 3 (2.52%) HTML
6 3 (2.52%) JSON
6 3 (2.52%) XML
7 2 (1.68%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.84%) .NET
8 1 (0.84%) Java EE
8 1 (0.84%) jQuery
8 1 (0.84%) Middleware
8 1 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.20%) Data Centre
1 5 (4.20%) Derivative
1 5 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.52%) Social Media
4 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.68%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.68%) Replication
4 2 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.84%) CCTV
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.84%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.40%) Unix
2 9 (7.56%) Linux
3 5 (4.20%) Windows
4 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.68%) HPUX
5 2 (1.68%) Solaris
5 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Agile
2 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (15.13%) CI/CD
4 17 (14.29%) DevOps
4 17 (14.29%) Migration
5 15 (12.61%) Project Management
6 14 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 13 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (10.92%) Risk Management
8 12 (10.08%) Data Management
8 12 (10.08%) TDD
9 11 (9.24%) Containerisation
9 11 (9.24%) Microservices
10 10 (8.40%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (8.40%) Programme Management
11 8 (6.72%) Analytics
11 8 (6.72%) Planning and Forecasting
11 8 (6.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.65%) SQL
2 15 (12.61%) Java
3 11 (9.24%) TypeScript
4 9 (7.56%) Python
5 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.84%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) Go
7 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.72%) Degree
3 3 (2.52%) CIMA
3 3 (2.52%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.52%) PMP
4 2 (1.68%) AAT
4 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.68%) CCA
5 1 (0.84%) ACCA
5 1 (0.84%) APMP
5 1 (0.84%) CIPD
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.84%) ISEB
5 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) GDPR
2 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.20%) Basel III
3 5 (4.20%) MiFID
4 4 (3.36%) QA
5 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.68%) PMO
6 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (10.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.68%) Terraform
2 1 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (0.84%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.84%) Packer
2 1 (0.84%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 24 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.33%) SAP
3 10 (8.40%) Oracle
4 7 (5.88%) Sybase
5 3 (2.52%) FIS
5 3 (2.52%) Murex
5 3 (2.52%) Thycotic
6 2 (1.68%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.68%) Dell
6 2 (1.68%) Fujitsu
6 2 (1.68%) IBM
6 2 (1.68%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.68%) Sun
7 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.84%) Citrix
7 1 (0.84%) Google
7 1 (0.84%) Imperva
7 1 (0.84%) VMware