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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 198 173 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 19.62% 14.40% 12.41%
As % of the General category 31.88% 28.04% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 128 152
10th Percentile £326 £309 £376
25th Percentile £400 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £650
90th Percentile £723 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -14.29% -1.41% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £23.81 £26.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £36.60 £35.94 £14.86
Median hourly rate £60.00 £54.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% +230.30% +13.79%
75th Percentile £73.13 £73.06 £17.34
90th Percentile £79.75 £79.03 £19.75
North West median hourly rate £50.99 £35.00 £16.86
% change year-on-year +45.67% +107.59% -5.39%

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 621 617 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 61.55% 51.37% 51.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 376 628
10th Percentile £276 £325 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £599 £600 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £681
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 30 37
10th Percentile - £16.70 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.00 £23.96 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +92.09% +0.25%
75th Percentile £55.12 £57.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £63.23 £64.25
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £27.20
% change year-on-year -12.60% +20.94% +36.00%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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
Bury - 3 - - 2
Bolton -9 2 - - 19
Salford 0 1 £350 - 31
Cheadle - 1 £625 - 10
Rochdale - 1 £400 - 7
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 9 (4.55%) Confluence
2 4 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.01%) JBoss
4 2 (1.01%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) iPlanet
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.01%) Sketch
5 2 (1.01%) Trello
6 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (10.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.55%) Kondor
3 4 (2.02%) ContrOCC
3 4 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.02%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.52%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.52%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.01%) Elite 3E
5 2 (1.01%) Primavera
5 2 (1.01%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle ASCP
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.60%) Azure
2 17 (8.59%) AWS
3 13 (6.57%) GCP
4 6 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (2.53%) Figma
6 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.02%) GitHub
6 4 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.02%) SaaS
7 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.01%) npm
7 2 (1.01%) Serverless
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.51%) Google Docs
8 1 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.51%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) Network Security
2 4 (2.02%) Firewall
3 2 (1.01%) Calico
3 2 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.51%) ATM
4 1 (0.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.51%) SAN
4 1 (0.51%) SSH
4 1 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.58%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.02%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.02%) MySQL
4 4 (2.02%) Power BI
5 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.52%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.51%) Big Data
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Power Query
7 1 (0.51%) Redis
7 1 (0.51%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.08%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.58%) JIRA
3 12 (6.06%) Gradle
4 11 (5.56%) JUnit
5 10 (5.05%) Liquibase
5 10 (5.05%) Mockito
6 8 (4.04%) GitLab
7 5 (2.53%) Git
8 3 (1.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.51%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.51%) Storybook
9 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 72 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.15%) Banking
4 19 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 14 (7.07%) Telecoms
7 11 (5.56%) Electronics
7 11 (5.56%) Marketing
8 9 (4.55%) Legal
8 9 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.55%) Retail
9 8 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.53%) Back Office
11 5 (2.53%) Law
11 5 (2.53%) Local Government
12 4 (2.02%) Automotive
12 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.02%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (12.63%) Analyst
2 21 (10.61%) Consultant
3 16 (8.08%) Developer
4 15 (7.58%) Architect
5 12 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 12 (6.06%) Lead
5 12 (6.06%) Project Manager
5 12 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 10 (5.05%) SAP Financial Consultant
7 9 (4.55%) Senior
8 8 (4.04%) Administrator
8 8 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 8 (4.04%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.04%) Support Specialist
9 7 (3.54%) Automation Specialist
10 6 (3.03%) Data Consultant
10 6 (3.03%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.03%) React Developer
10 6 (3.03%) Test Manager
11 5 (2.53%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) React
1 13 (6.57%) Spring
1 13 (6.57%) Spring Boot
2 11 (5.56%) Kafka
3 10 (5.05%) OpenAPI
3 10 (5.05%) REST
3 10 (5.05%) Swagger
4 8 (4.04%) SOAP
5 4 (2.02%) CSS
5 4 (2.02%) HTML
5 4 (2.02%) JSON
5 4 (2.02%) Node.js
6 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.52%) OAuth
6 3 (1.52%) XML
7 2 (1.01%) Laravel
7 2 (1.01%) LDAP
7 2 (1.01%) Pandas
7 2 (1.01%) pytest
7 2 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.54%) Derivative
3 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.01%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Replication
7 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.58%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Unix
3 6 (3.03%) Windows
4 3 (1.52%) Android
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.01%) HPUX
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Solaris
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.74%) Agile
2 35 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (16.16%) Risk Management
4 31 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (14.65%) Project Management
6 28 (14.14%) DevOps
7 24 (12.12%) Migration
8 22 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (8.59%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.08%) Analytics
12 16 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (8.08%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.07%) Waterfall
14 13 (6.57%) Change Management
14 13 (6.57%) Microservices
14 13 (6.57%) Project Delivery
14 13 (6.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (6.06%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.14%) SQL
2 22 (11.11%) Python
3 16 (8.08%) Java
4 13 (6.57%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.01%) PHP
8 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.51%) C
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) C++
8 1 (0.51%) Groovy
8 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (9.09%) Degree
2 14 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.04%) CIMA
5 7 (3.54%) ACCA
6 5 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.53%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.02%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.02%) PMP
8 3 (1.52%) CISSP
8 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.01%) CISA
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.01%) GSEC
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CIPD
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.57%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.06%) QA
3 8 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.04%) GDPR
4 7 (3.54%) Basel III
4 7 (3.54%) MiFID
5 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.52%) PMO
5 3 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.01%) IFRS
6 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.51%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (8.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (4.04%) Ansible
2 4 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.52%) Terraform
4 2 (1.01%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.01%) Istio
4 2 (1.01%) QRadar
5 1 (0.51%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.51%) CASB
5 1 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.51%) Sysdig
5 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 46 (23.23%) SAP
3 19 (9.60%) Oracle
4 11 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.55%) Sybase
6 7 (3.54%) IBM
7 6 (3.03%) Google
8 5 (2.53%) Splunk
9 4 (2.02%) Liquidlogic
10 3 (1.52%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.52%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.52%) HP
10 3 (1.52%) Thycotic
11 2 (1.01%) ArcSight
11 2 (1.01%) Ariba
11 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.01%) Cisco
11 2 (1.01%) Hopewiser
11 2 (1.01%) Sun
11 2 (1.01%) VMware