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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 361 190 165
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 18.30% 18.92% 13.49%
As % of the General category 34.25% 31.51% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 135 123
10th Percentile £329 £339 £315
25th Percentile £384 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £576 £581 £613
90th Percentile £680 £725 £715
North West median daily rate £495 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +7.61% -12.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 4
10th Percentile - £23.81 £26.38
25th Percentile £43.96 £36.60 £35.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.09% +230.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.13 £73.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.75 £79.03
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £50.99 £38.75
% change year-on-year -13.78% +31.57% +129.83%

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 1,054 603 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.42% 60.06% 50.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 386 386
10th Percentile £275 £276 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £694
North West median daily rate £490 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +4.26% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 46 35
10th Percentile £18.17 - £16.31
25th Percentile £27.42 £13.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.53 £20.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.64% -39.39% +86.34%
75th Percentile £73.81 £50.68 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.38 £66.33
North West median hourly rate £35.69 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.12% -4.17% +10.29%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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
Stockport - 2 £513 - 12
Salford +4 1 - - 16
Bury -12 1 - - 5
Altrincham - 1 - - 5
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 17 (4.71%) Confluence
2 7 (1.94%) CICS
3 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.83%) Apache
4 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.83%) SAS
5 2 (0.55%) IIS
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.28%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 28 (7.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.11%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.83%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.55%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.57%) AWS
2 46 (12.74%) Azure
3 18 (4.99%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.16%) GCP
5 9 (2.49%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (1.94%) SaaS
6 7 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.66%) Serverless
8 5 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.39%) dbt
9 4 (1.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.83%) Intacct
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.83%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.71%) Firewall
2 10 (2.77%) DNS
3 8 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.94%) SSL
5 2 (0.55%) BGP
5 2 (0.55%) DHCP
5 2 (0.55%) LAN
5 2 (0.55%) Network Security
5 2 (0.55%) VPN
5 2 (0.55%) VSAN
5 2 (0.55%) WAN
5 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (4.71%) Power BI
3 13 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.05%) DataStage
4 11 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.49%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.66%) Metadata
8 6 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.39%) Tableau
10 4 (1.11%) Db2
10 4 (1.11%) Looker
10 4 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (5.82%) JIRA
2 10 (2.77%) Git
3 7 (1.94%) Cucumber
3 7 (1.94%) Selenium
4 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) JUnit
4 3 (0.83%) Postman
4 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.55%) Hudson
5 2 (0.55%) JDeveloper
5 2 (0.55%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.28%) Gradle
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
General
1 117 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.07%) Banking
3 51 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.09%) Legal
5 20 (5.54%) Retail
6 19 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.32%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.32%) Marketing
10 7 (1.94%) Billing
11 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Military
13 4 (1.11%) Automotive
14 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.55%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.55%) Local Government
14 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (14.40%) Analyst
2 34 (9.42%) Architect
3 29 (8.03%) Accountant
3 29 (8.03%) Senior
4 24 (6.65%) Lead
4 24 (6.65%) Project Manager
5 21 (5.82%) Consultant
6 20 (5.54%) Business Analyst
7 19 (5.26%) Systems Accountant
8 18 (4.99%) Developer
9 14 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.05%) Designer
10 11 (3.05%) Senior Manager
11 10 (2.77%) Management Accountant
11 10 (2.77%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (2.49%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.49%) DBA
12 9 (2.49%) Infrastructure Designer
12 9 (2.49%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.22%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.32%) Middleware
2 10 (2.77%) Spring
2 10 (2.77%) Spring Boot
3 9 (2.49%) REST
4 8 (2.22%) React
5 7 (1.94%) Kafka
5 7 (1.94%) PySpark
6 5 (1.39%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.39%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.39%) JSON
6 5 (1.39%) LDAP
6 5 (1.39%) Node.js
6 5 (1.39%) XML
7 4 (1.11%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.11%) ISPF
7 4 (1.11%) OAuth
7 4 (1.11%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.11%) Playwright
7 4 (1.11%) SAML
7 4 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.88%) Mainframe
3 14 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.60%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.49%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.49%) Web Conferencing
7 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.22%) Podcast
8 7 (1.94%) BYOD
8 7 (1.94%) Credit Risk
8 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.94%) VSAM
9 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.26%) Linux
2 18 (4.99%) Unix
3 14 (3.88%) Solaris
4 12 (3.32%) Windows
5 8 (2.22%) AIX
6 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.11%) zOS
8 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) HPUX
9 1 (0.28%) MVS
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (21.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 76 (21.05%) Agile
3 63 (17.45%) Migration
4 41 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (9.97%) CI/CD
6 36 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (9.97%) DevOps
6 36 (9.97%) Project Management
6 36 (9.97%) Roadmaps
7 34 (9.42%) ERP
8 33 (9.14%) Data Modelling
9 32 (8.86%) Validation
10 31 (8.59%) Decision-Making
11 30 (8.31%) AI
11 30 (8.31%) Analytics
11 30 (8.31%) Change Management
12 28 (7.76%) Process Improvement
13 27 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (7.20%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.24%) SQL
2 26 (7.20%) Java
2 26 (7.20%) Python
3 10 (2.77%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.94%) COBOL
5 6 (1.66%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.39%) Bicep
7 4 (1.11%) Bash
7 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.55%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.55%) C#
9 2 (0.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (6.37%) Degree
2 18 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (4.43%) ACCA
3 16 (4.43%) CIMA
4 11 (3.05%) CIPFA
4 11 (3.05%) Security Cleared
5 10 (2.77%) CISSP
6 6 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.66%) PMP
7 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.11%) MCSA
8 4 (1.11%) MCSE
9 2 (0.55%) CCNA
9 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.42%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.99%) GDPR
3 14 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 13 (3.60%) PMO
5 10 (2.77%) QA
6 3 (0.83%) GAAP
7 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 2 (0.55%) IFRS
7 2 (0.55%) SLA
7 2 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.60%) Docker
3 6 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.11%) RACF
5 2 (0.55%) GPFS
5 2 (0.55%) NFS
5 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.88%) Terraform
3 7 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.11%) CASB
4 4 (1.11%) Grafana
4 4 (1.11%) Nessus
4 4 (1.11%) OMEGAMON
4 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.83%) Istio
5 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.55%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.55%) SCCM
6 2 (0.55%) vRealize
6 2 (0.55%) VxRail
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 52 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.63%) SAP
3 20 (5.54%) Oracle
4 19 (5.26%) IBM
5 17 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 15 (4.16%) Databricks
7 12 (3.32%) Sage
8 10 (2.77%) VMware
9 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.66%) Splunk
9 6 (1.66%) Tenable
10 5 (1.39%) Adobe
10 5 (1.39%) Google
10 5 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.39%) Remedy
11 4 (1.11%) Ariba
11 4 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.11%) Cisco
11 4 (1.11%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.11%) Teradata