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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Finance 353 198 192
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.79% 19.53% 16.11%
As % of the General category 33.52% 31.73% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 142 131
10th Percentile £311 £316 £350
25th Percentile £400 £383 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £613
90th Percentile £694 £723 £740
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £507
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.24% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 3
10th Percentile - £23.81 £24.25
25th Percentile - £36.60 £30.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £50.99 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +19.96% +157.58%
75th Percentile £71.88 £73.75 £56.75
90th Percentile £83.20 £79.75 £64.55
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -18.69% +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 1,053 624 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.07% 61.54% 55.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 399 389
10th Percentile £275 £305 £294
25th Percentile £400 £390 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £713 £675 £690
North West median daily rate £500 £458 £493
% change year-on-year +9.29% -7.20% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 55 25
10th Percentile £18.21 £13.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.06 £22.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.42% -24.57% +69.40%
75th Percentile £73.81 £35.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £73.75 £64.00
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £24.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.90% -30.00% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 - - 28
Bury -12 1 - - 3
Altrincham - 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 20 (5.67%) Confluence
2 5 (1.42%) SAS
2 5 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.57%) 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%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.28%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 29 (8.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.13%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.85%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.57%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.57%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
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 54 (15.30%) AWS
2 51 (14.45%) Azure
3 25 (7.08%) GCP
4 19 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.12%) SaaS
6 10 (2.83%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.98%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.42%) dbt
9 5 (1.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.13%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.13%) Serverless
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.25%) Firewall
2 8 (2.27%) Network Security
3 4 (1.13%) SSL
4 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.85%) VPN
5 2 (0.57%) BGP
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.28%) LAN
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%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.10%) Power BI
2 17 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.98%) DataStage
7 6 (1.70%) Db2
7 6 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.42%) Tableau
9 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.13%) Looker
9 4 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.85%) Metadata
11 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (6.52%) JIRA
2 10 (2.83%) Git
3 6 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.13%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.13%) Selenium
5 3 (0.85%) JUnit
5 3 (0.85%) Postman
5 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.57%) GitLab
6 2 (0.57%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.28%) Gradle
7 1 (0.28%) Hudson
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
General
1 132 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.26%) Banking
3 51 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.93%) Retail
5 24 (6.80%) Legal
6 21 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.40%) Marketing
9 11 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.98%) Billing
11 7 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.70%) Military
13 4 (1.13%) Automotive
13 4 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.13%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (13.03%) Analyst
2 37 (10.48%) Architect
3 28 (7.93%) Consultant
4 26 (7.37%) Senior
5 25 (7.08%) Accountant
6 24 (6.80%) Project Manager
7 21 (5.95%) Business Analyst
8 16 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.25%) Finance Manager
9 15 (4.25%) Systems Accountant
10 14 (3.97%) Developer
10 14 (3.97%) Lead
11 12 (3.40%) Security Engineer
12 10 (2.83%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.83%) IT Manager
12 10 (2.83%) Management Accountant
12 10 (2.83%) Technical Consultant
13 9 (2.55%) IT Project Manager
14 8 (2.27%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.25%) Terraform
2 13 (3.68%) REST
3 10 (2.83%) SAML
3 10 (2.83%) Spring
3 10 (2.83%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.27%) React
5 7 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.70%) Middleware
6 6 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (1.70%) PySpark
7 5 (1.42%) Kafka
8 4 (1.13%) ISPF
8 4 (1.13%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.13%) Node.js
8 4 (1.13%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.85%) .NET
9 3 (0.85%) Great Expectations
9 3 (0.85%) Pandas
9 3 (0.85%) Web Services
9 3 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.97%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.68%) Credit Risk
7 12 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (3.40%) Web Conferencing
8 11 (3.12%) CMDB
8 11 (3.12%) Podcast
9 10 (2.83%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.27%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.27%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.98%) Clustering
12 7 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.98%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.70%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.12%) Linux
2 10 (2.83%) Windows
3 9 (2.55%) Unix
4 8 (2.27%) Solaris
5 7 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.13%) zOS
7 2 (0.57%) AIX
7 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) HPUX
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.28%) SUSE
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 79 (22.38%) Agile
3 66 (18.70%) Migration
4 43 (12.18%) Change Management
5 41 (11.61%) Data Modelling
6 40 (11.33%) ERP
7 38 (10.76%) Analytics
8 37 (10.48%) AI
8 37 (10.48%) CI/CD
8 37 (10.48%) Roadmaps
9 34 (9.63%) DevOps
9 34 (9.63%) Project Management
10 32 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (8.22%) Data Migration
11 29 (8.22%) Validation
12 28 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (7.93%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (7.93%) Decision-Making
13 27 (7.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (7.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.45%) SQL
2 33 (9.35%) Python
3 26 (7.37%) Java
4 14 (3.97%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.70%) Bash
6 6 (1.70%) Bicep
6 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.42%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.28%) C#
11 1 (0.28%) COBOL
11 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (5.67%) Degree
3 16 (4.53%) ACCA
3 16 (4.53%) CIMA
4 12 (3.40%) CISSP
5 10 (2.83%) CIPFA
5 10 (2.83%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.13%) PMP
8 3 (0.85%) CCNP
8 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.85%) GCIH
8 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) CCIE
9 2 (0.57%) CCIE Security
9 2 (0.57%) CCSP
9 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.57%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.18%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.25%) GDPR
3 14 (3.97%) PMO
4 12 (3.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (3.12%) QA
6 6 (1.70%) GRC
7 5 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.13%) NIST
9 3 (0.85%) GAAP
9 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.57%) FATCA
10 2 (0.57%) IFRS
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%) SLA
11 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.12%) Docker
3 4 (1.13%) RACF
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) GPFS
5 1 (0.28%) NFS
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.98%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.13%) Grafana
4 4 (1.13%) Istio
4 4 (1.13%) OMEGAMON
5 3 (0.85%) Ansible
5 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.57%) CASB
6 2 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.28%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.28%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
7 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.31%) SAP
3 23 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.67%) Oracle
5 15 (4.25%) IBM
6 13 (3.68%) Databricks
7 9 (2.55%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (2.55%) Google
7 9 (2.55%) Sage
8 8 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.98%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.70%) Adobe
10 6 (1.70%) Splunk
10 6 (1.70%) Teradata
11 4 (1.13%) Ariba
11 4 (1.13%) Cisco
12 3 (0.85%) AlgoSec
12 3 (0.85%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.85%) VMware
13 2 (0.57%) F5