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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Finance 162 204 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 17.31% 14.06% 12.38%
As % of the General category 29.56% 28.22% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 151 160
10th Percentile £348 £268 £363
25th Percentile £383 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.88% -0.23%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £641
90th Percentile £725 £675 £689
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 6
10th Percentile £53.24 - £14.00
25th Percentile - £13.31 £14.43
Median hourly rate £60.00 £14.27 £15.72
Median % change year-on-year +320.61% -9.26% +8.41%
75th Percentile £69.38 £17.31 £60.56
90th Percentile £80.63 £41.38 £77.75
North West median hourly rate £55.49 £20.72 £22.53
% change year-on-year +167.89% -8.06% +1.51%

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 548 723 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.55% 49.83% 50.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 457 640
10th Percentile £275 £300 £299
25th Percentile £375 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £700 £668 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -5.85% -1.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 34
10th Percentile - £12.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £16.68
Median hourly rate £17.15 £25.25 £18.36
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +37.53% -8.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.38 £27.91
90th Percentile £76.50 £58.50 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £29.54 £22.98 £23.15
% change year-on-year +28.55% -0.76% -6.46%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -3 5 - - 111
Salford -3 1 £350 - 40
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 6 (3.70%) Confluence
1 6 (3.70%) SAS
2 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.85%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) JBoss
4 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.47%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.23%) Trello
6 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (6.79%) Kondor
3 5 (3.09%) Primavera
3 5 (3.09%) SAP PS
4 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.23%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.23%) Finacle
5 1 (0.62%) Maximo
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.62%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.73%) Azure
2 15 (9.26%) AWS
3 9 (5.56%) GCP
4 8 (4.94%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.47%) Figma
5 4 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.47%) SaaS
6 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.23%) npm
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.62%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.62%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) Network Security
2 2 (1.23%) Calico
2 2 (1.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) ATM
3 1 (0.62%) DHCP
3 1 (0.62%) DMZ
3 1 (0.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.88%) Relational Database
2 15 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.85%) Power BI
5 3 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.23%) Big Data
6 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.23%) Metadata
6 2 (1.23%) MySQL
6 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.23%) Tableau
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.62%) HBase
7 1 (0.62%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 14 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.79%) Gradle
2 11 (6.79%) JUnit
3 10 (6.17%) JIRA
3 10 (6.17%) Liquibase
3 10 (6.17%) Mockito
4 8 (4.94%) GitLab
5 4 (2.47%) Git
6 3 (1.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.62%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.62%) ERwin
7 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.62%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.62%) Selenium
7 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.14%) Banking
3 25 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.26%) Manufacturing
6 13 (8.02%) Marketing
7 11 (6.79%) Legal
7 11 (6.79%) Telecoms
8 10 (6.17%) Electronics
9 9 (5.56%) Retail
10 7 (4.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.09%) Local Government
13 4 (2.47%) Back Office
13 4 (2.47%) Law
13 4 (2.47%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (16.67%) Analyst
2 14 (8.64%) Architect
2 14 (8.64%) Lead
3 12 (7.41%) Developer
4 11 (6.79%) Business Analyst
4 11 (6.79%) Consultant
5 9 (5.56%) Senior
6 8 (4.94%) Project Manager
6 8 (4.94%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (4.94%) Software Engineer
7 7 (4.32%) SAP Financial Consultant
7 7 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 7 (4.32%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.70%) Test Manager
9 5 (3.09%) Data Consultant
9 5 (3.09%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (3.09%) Project Planner
9 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) Spring
1 14 (8.64%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.79%) Kafka
2 11 (6.79%) React
3 10 (6.17%) OpenAPI
3 10 (6.17%) Swagger
4 9 (5.56%) REST
5 8 (4.94%) SOAP
6 4 (2.47%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.47%) JSON
7 3 (1.85%) Node.js
7 3 (1.85%) XML
8 2 (1.23%) .NET
8 2 (1.23%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.23%) CSS
8 2 (1.23%) HTML
8 2 (1.23%) Middleware
9 1 (0.62%) Blazor
9 1 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.32%) Derivative
4 6 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.85%) Social Media
8 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.23%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.23%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.64%) Linux
2 12 (7.41%) Unix
3 5 (3.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.23%) Android
5 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.23%) HPUX
5 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.40%) Agile
2 29 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 26 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.43%) Project Management
6 23 (14.20%) DevOps
7 22 (13.58%) CI/CD
8 19 (11.73%) Migration
9 15 (9.26%) Analytics
9 15 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (9.26%) Decision-Making
9 15 (9.26%) Software Engineering
10 14 (8.64%) Microservices
11 13 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (7.41%) Containerisation
12 12 (7.41%) Data Management
12 12 (7.41%) Waterfall
13 11 (6.79%) Project Delivery
13 11 (6.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.05%) SQL
2 16 (9.88%) Java
2 16 (9.88%) Python
3 11 (6.79%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.23%) C#
6 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.94%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) CIMA
5 5 (3.09%) ACCA
5 5 (3.09%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.23%) PMP
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) CIPD
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) QA
2 9 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.32%) Basel III
4 7 (4.32%) MiFID
5 6 (3.70%) GDPR
6 3 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.23%) PMO
8 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.62%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (9.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Ansible
2 3 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.85%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.23%) Istio
4 1 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.62%) Sysdig
4 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 39 (24.07%) SAP
3 15 (9.26%) Oracle
4 9 (5.56%) Sybase
5 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.09%) IBM
7 3 (1.85%) Google
7 3 (1.85%) HP
7 3 (1.85%) Thycotic
8 2 (1.23%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.23%) Dell
8 2 (1.23%) F5
8 2 (1.23%) FIS
8 2 (1.23%) Murex
8 2 (1.23%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.23%) Sun
8 2 (1.23%) VMware
9 1 (0.62%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.62%) Splunk