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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Finance 195 214 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 16.50% 12.62% 13.68%
As % of the General category 29.46% 24.74% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 144 260
10th Percentile £351 £388 £374
25th Percentile £447 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £670 £631
90th Percentile £738 £725 £685
North West median daily rate £507 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.38% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £24.25 £14.00 £11.74
25th Percentile £30.63 £14.86 £13.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £16.50 £14.48
Median % change year-on-year +157.58% +13.95% +30.60%
75th Percentile £56.75 £17.34 £14.72
90th Percentile £64.55 £19.75 £17.13
North West median hourly rate £37.00 £16.50 £23.39
% change year-on-year +124.24% -29.46% +57.61%

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 662 865 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 56.01% 51.00% 47.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 596 910
10th Percentile £294 £229 £252
25th Percentile £400 £385 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.70% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 37
10th Percentile £15.94 £14.00 £11.95
25th Percentile £19.21 £15.75 £14.78
Median hourly rate £29.50 £17.71 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.57% -9.18% +20.52%
75th Percentile £50.13 £20.94 £65.76
90th Percentile £64.25 £53.75 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £22.53 £20.13
% change year-on-year +55.35% +11.92% +9.95%

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 2024. 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 1 - - 9
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 5 (2.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.51%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.87%) Azure
2 16 (8.21%) AWS
2 16 (8.21%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (4.62%) GCP
3 9 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (1.54%) GitHub
5 3 (1.54%) OCI
6 2 (1.03%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.03%) SaaS
6 2 (1.03%) Serverless
6 2 (1.03%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.51%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.51%) IaaS
7 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Firewall
2 5 (2.56%) WAN
3 4 (2.05%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (2.05%) LAN
3 4 (2.05%) Network Security
4 3 (1.54%) DHCP
4 3 (1.54%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.51%) DMZ
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) MPLS
5 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) Power BI
2 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.05%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.54%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.54%) DB2
5 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.03%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) JIRA
2 3 (1.54%) GitLab
2 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.54%) JUnit
2 3 (1.54%) Mockito
3 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.03%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.51%) Appium
4 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.51%) Bundler
4 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.51%) RStudio
General
1 52 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.28%) Banking
2 22 (11.28%) Financial Institution
3 21 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.10%) General Ledger
6 6 (3.08%) Billing
6 6 (3.08%) Local Government
6 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Retail
8 4 (2.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.05%) Military
9 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.54%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Publishing
9 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (16.92%) Network Engineer
2 27 (13.85%) Analyst
3 19 (9.74%) Architect
3 19 (9.74%) Developer
4 17 (8.72%) Project Manager
5 16 (8.21%) Consultant
6 14 (7.18%) Business Analyst
6 14 (7.18%) Lead
7 12 (6.15%) Senior
8 8 (4.10%) Administrator
8 8 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 6 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (3.08%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.56%) Business Change Manager
10 5 (2.56%) Change Manager
10 5 (2.56%) Finance Project Manager
10 5 (2.56%) Oracle Consultant
10 5 (2.56%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) .NET
1 6 (3.08%) Spring
2 5 (2.56%) Kafka
2 5 (2.56%) React
3 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.54%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.54%) Java EE
4 3 (1.54%) Java SE
4 3 (1.54%) React Native
5 2 (1.03%) JSON
5 2 (1.03%) Middleware
5 2 (1.03%) Node.js
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.03%) PySpark
5 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.51%) AWS SAM
6 1 (0.51%) Jest
6 1 (0.51%) REST
6 1 (0.51%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.54%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.03%) CMDB
7 2 (1.03%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Derivative
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.67%) Linux
2 11 (5.64%) Windows
3 6 (3.08%) zOS
4 3 (1.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (15.90%) Migration
2 27 (13.85%) Agile
3 19 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (8.72%) Change Management
5 16 (8.21%) Decision-Making
6 15 (7.69%) DevOps
7 14 (7.18%) Project Management
8 13 (6.67%) Risk Management
9 12 (6.15%) Business Analysis
9 12 (6.15%) Change Control
9 12 (6.15%) Design Patterns
9 12 (6.15%) ETL
9 12 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (5.64%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (5.64%) Data Migration
10 11 (5.64%) ERP
11 10 (5.13%) Cost Reduction
11 10 (5.13%) Data Management
11 10 (5.13%) Investment Management
11 10 (5.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.77%) SQL
2 13 (6.67%) Java
3 7 (3.59%) Python
4 5 (2.56%) C#
4 5 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.54%) VB.NET
5 3 (1.54%) VBA
6 2 (1.03%) Bash
6 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.51%) R
7 1 (0.51%) Ruby
7 1 (0.51%) Scala
7 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.18%) Degree
2 7 (3.59%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.05%) CISM
4 4 (2.05%) CISSP
5 3 (1.54%) CCAB
5 3 (1.54%) CIMA
5 3 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.03%) APMP
6 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) ACCA
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CFA
7 1 (0.51%) CIPFA
7 1 (0.51%) CISA
7 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) PMO
2 3 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) GRC
3 2 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Lustre
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (3.08%) Terraform
2 5 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) Podman
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Istio
4 1 (0.51%) Karpenter
4 1 (0.51%) Nessus
Vendors
1 26 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.77%) F5
3 13 (6.67%) Oracle
4 11 (5.64%) Cisco
5 9 (4.62%) CheckPoint
5 9 (4.62%) SAP
6 8 (4.10%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.08%) Databricks
8 5 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.05%) Google
10 3 (1.54%) Informatica
11 2 (1.03%) IBM
11 2 (1.03%) IDERA
11 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.03%) Splunk
11 2 (1.03%) VMware
11 2 (1.03%) Workday
11 2 (1.03%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.51%) Intapp
12 1 (0.51%) OneTrust