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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Finance 346 178 203
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.67% 18.22% 14.37%
As % of the General category 32.83% 30.90% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 129 152
10th Percentile £325 £350 £271
25th Percentile £376 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -7.58%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £684 £725 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.66 £13.31
25th Percentile £43.96 £53.24 £13.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +320.61% -13.55%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.25 £31.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.00 £69.75
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £50.99 £21.43
% change year-on-year -13.78% +137.91% +28.48%

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 1,054 576 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 53.83% 58.96% 50.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 376 449
10th Percentile £275 £266 £313
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £455 £493
% change year-on-year +4.45% -7.76% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 41 59
10th Percentile £18.13 - £13.10
25th Percentile £28.23 £13.00 £14.13
Median hourly rate £40.53 £20.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +102.64% -20.79% +42.66%
75th Percentile £74.75 £60.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £35.91 £29.27 £22.88
% change year-on-year +22.69% +27.96% -1.19%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +3 2 - - 14
Stockport - 2 £513 - 3
Bury -4 1 - - 1
Altrincham - 1 - - 6
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 14 (4.05%) Confluence
2 8 (2.31%) CICS
3 3 (0.87%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) SAS
3 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.58%) IIS
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
Applications
1 21 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.29%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (6.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.16%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.87%) Adobe Campaign
3 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.58%) Finacle
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.58%) SAP MDG-F
5 1 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) Primavera
5 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.29%) AWS
2 38 (10.98%) Azure
3 18 (5.20%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.18%) GCP
5 9 (2.60%) SaaS
6 7 (2.02%) Serverless
7 6 (1.73%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.73%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.45%) dbt
8 5 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.58%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.20%) Firewall
2 10 (2.89%) DNS
3 8 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.02%) SSL
5 3 (0.87%) Network Security
6 2 (0.58%) BGP
6 2 (0.58%) DHCP
6 2 (0.58%) LAN
6 2 (0.58%) VSAN
6 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.29%) MPLS
7 1 (0.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (4.91%) Power BI
3 13 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.47%) DataStage
5 11 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.73%) Metadata
8 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.45%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.45%) Tableau
10 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.16%) Db2
10 4 (1.16%) Looker
10 4 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.20%) JIRA
2 10 (2.89%) Git
3 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
3 7 (2.02%) Selenium
4 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.87%) JUnit
5 3 (0.87%) Postman
5 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.58%) Hudson
6 2 (0.58%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
General
1 109 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.61%) Banking
3 49 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.49%) Legal
5 18 (5.20%) Retail
6 17 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.91%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.18%) Marketing
9 8 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.45%) Military
10 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.16%) Automotive
11 4 (1.16%) Billing
12 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.87%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Local Government
13 2 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (13.87%) Analyst
2 37 (10.69%) Architect
3 29 (8.38%) Accountant
4 28 (8.09%) Senior
5 22 (6.36%) Consultant
5 22 (6.36%) Lead
5 22 (6.36%) Project Manager
6 20 (5.78%) Developer
7 19 (5.49%) Systems Accountant
8 16 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.47%) Designer
11 10 (2.89%) Infrastructure Designer
11 10 (2.89%) Management Accountant
11 10 (2.89%) Senior Manager
11 10 (2.89%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (2.60%) DBA
13 7 (2.02%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.02%) Programme Manager
13 7 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.05%) Middleware
2 10 (2.89%) Spring
2 10 (2.89%) Spring Boot
3 9 (2.60%) REST
4 7 (2.02%) Kafka
4 7 (2.02%) PySpark
5 6 (1.73%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.73%) LDAP
6 5 (1.45%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.45%) JSON
6 5 (1.45%) Node.js
6 5 (1.45%) React
6 5 (1.45%) XML
7 4 (1.16%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.16%) ISPF
7 4 (1.16%) OAuth
7 4 (1.16%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.16%) Playwright
7 4 (1.16%) Web Services
8 3 (0.87%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.34%) Mainframe
4 14 (4.05%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 13 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.31%) BYOD
8 8 (2.31%) VSAM
9 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.73%) Clustering
10 6 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.45%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.45%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.49%) Linux
1 19 (5.49%) Unix
2 15 (4.34%) Solaris
3 11 (3.18%) Windows
4 9 (2.60%) AIX
5 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.16%) zOS
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.29%) HPUX
7 1 (0.29%) MVS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 71 (20.52%) Agile
3 54 (15.61%) Migration
4 40 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (11.27%) Roadmaps
5 39 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 37 (10.69%) Data Modelling
7 35 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (10.12%) Project Management
8 33 (9.54%) CI/CD
8 33 (9.54%) Validation
9 32 (9.25%) DevOps
9 32 (9.25%) ERP
10 31 (8.96%) Decision-Making
11 28 (8.09%) Analytics
11 28 (8.09%) Change Management
12 27 (7.80%) AI
12 27 (7.80%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (7.80%) Process Improvement
13 23 (6.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.90%) SQL
2 28 (8.09%) Java
3 23 (6.65%) Python
4 10 (2.89%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.31%) COBOL
6 6 (1.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.87%) Bash
8 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.58%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.58%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) Scala
9 2 (0.58%) VBA
10 1 (0.29%) Bicep
10 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (6.07%) Degree
2 16 (4.62%) ACCA
2 16 (4.62%) CIMA
3 14 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (3.18%) CIPFA
4 11 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.60%) CISSP
6 6 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (1.73%) PMP
7 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.16%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.16%) MCSA
8 4 (1.16%) MCSE
9 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.58%) CCNA
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.20%) GDPR
3 14 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.47%) PMO
5 8 (2.31%) QA
6 3 (0.87%) GAAP
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) IFRS
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.29%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.47%) Docker
2 11 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.16%) RACF
5 2 (0.58%) GPFS
5 2 (0.58%) NFS
5 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.58%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.89%) Terraform
3 4 (1.16%) CASB
3 4 (1.16%) Nessus
3 4 (1.16%) OMEGAMON
3 4 (1.16%) SCCM
4 3 (0.87%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Istio
4 3 (0.87%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.58%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.58%) vRealize
5 2 (0.58%) VxRail
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 47 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.98%) SAP
3 21 (6.07%) Oracle
4 18 (5.20%) IBM
4 18 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.05%) Databricks
6 11 (3.18%) Sage
6 11 (3.18%) VMware
7 6 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.45%) Google
8 5 (1.45%) Remedy
8 5 (1.45%) Splunk
8 5 (1.45%) Tenable
9 4 (1.16%) Cisco
9 4 (1.16%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.16%) Teradata
10 3 (0.87%) HP
10 3 (0.87%) Infoblox