Finance Job Trends in Manchester

Financial
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 387 613 488
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 14.00% 22.35% 21.51%
As % of the General category 22.28% 32.78% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 235 238 364
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £41,607
25th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,886 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £96,539
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,964 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% -10.06% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,737 1,870 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 62.84% 68.17% 57.12%
Number of salaries quoted 892 765 971
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.62% +4.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,466
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.97% -1.90%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Finance job vacancy trend in Manchester

Finance
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in Manchester

Finance
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford +3 10 £75,000 +11.71% 13
Bolton -4 7 £62,500 +56.25% 19
Stockport +6 6 £30,000 -53.85% 12
Wigan +5 5 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Oldham -8 1 £55,000 +5.77% 3
Cheadle - 1 £200,000 -
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 5 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.26%) JBoss
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.52%) Sketch
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.55%) SAP Business One
2 5 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.26%) Global One
5 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.08%) SaaS
2 34 (8.79%) Azure
3 32 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.20%) AWS
5 9 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.55%) IaaS
6 6 (1.55%) PaaS
7 4 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.03%) Figma
7 4 (1.03%) GCP
7 4 (1.03%) OCI
8 3 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.78%) GitHub
8 3 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.78%) Serverless
9 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.62%) Telepresence
1 14 (3.62%) Unified Communications
1 14 (3.62%) VoIP
1 14 (3.62%) WebEx
2 4 (1.03%) HTTP
2 4 (1.03%) Network Security
3 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.78%) WAN
4 2 (0.52%) Broadband
4 2 (0.52%) LAN
4 2 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.26%) DHCP
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VLAN
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.01%) Power BI
2 18 (4.65%) Tableau
3 12 (3.10%) Data Mining
4 11 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.81%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.29%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.78%) MySQL
9 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.26%) DB2
11 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.07%) GitLab
2 6 (1.55%) Git
2 6 (1.55%) JIRA
3 4 (1.03%) JUnit
4 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.26%) Ant
6 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.26%) Gatling
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.26%) Maven
6 1 (0.26%) Postman
6 1 (0.26%) Selenium
6 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (10.85%) Telecoms
4 39 (10.08%) Marketing
5 35 (9.04%) Banking
5 35 (9.04%) Law
6 22 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.65%) Legal
7 18 (4.65%) Military
8 16 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.13%) Retail
9 15 (3.88%) Back Office
10 9 (2.33%) Billing
11 8 (2.07%) Electronics
11 8 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (14.21%) Analyst
2 47 (12.14%) Senior
3 40 (10.34%) Consultant
4 30 (7.75%) Project Manager
5 29 (7.49%) Architect
6 22 (5.68%) Trainee
6 22 (5.68%) Trainee Analyst
7 19 (4.91%) Business Analyst
8 18 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.13%) Data Analyst
9 16 (4.13%) Financial Analyst
9 16 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.62%) Developer
10 14 (3.62%) Head of Finance
10 14 (3.62%) Lead
10 14 (3.62%) Voice Engineer
10 14 (3.62%) Voice Support Engineer
11 11 (2.84%) Trainee Business Analyst
11 11 (2.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 10 (2.58%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.84%) REST
1 11 (2.84%) Spring
2 10 (2.58%) Kafka
2 10 (2.58%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.07%) RESTful
4 6 (1.55%) CSS
4 6 (1.55%) React
5 5 (1.29%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.29%) Middleware
6 4 (1.03%) gRPC
6 4 (1.03%) HTML
6 4 (1.03%) Snowpark
6 4 (1.03%) Spring Batch
7 3 (0.78%) .NET
7 3 (0.78%) FHIR
7 3 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.78%) Next.js
7 3 (0.78%) Node.js
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.43%) Driving Licence
2 17 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.58%) Social Media
6 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.29%) Blog
7 5 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.03%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.78%) IoT
9 3 (0.78%) SCADA
10 2 (0.52%) Animation
10 2 (0.52%) FMCG
10 2 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Windows
2 2 (0.52%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (15.50%) AI
3 59 (15.25%) Agile
4 50 (12.92%) Project Management
5 48 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (9.82%) Decision-Making
8 32 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (7.75%) Analytics
10 29 (7.49%) Business Analysis
11 28 (7.24%) ERP
11 28 (7.24%) Mentoring
12 25 (6.46%) Business Development
13 23 (5.94%) Data Analysis
13 23 (5.94%) Risk Management
13 23 (5.94%) Software Engineering
14 22 (5.68%) Fintech
15 21 (5.43%) Change Management
15 21 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (5.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.21%) SQL
2 30 (7.75%) Python
3 20 (5.17%) Java
4 11 (2.84%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.58%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.58%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.55%) ANSI SQL
7 5 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.78%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.78%) C#
8 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.52%) Bash
9 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.52%) PHP
9 2 (0.52%) R
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Groovy
10 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (17.31%) Degree
2 34 (8.79%) ACCA
2 34 (8.79%) CIMA
3 13 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.55%) AAT
6 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.03%) CISSP
9 3 (0.78%) MBA
10 2 (0.52%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CCIE
10 2 (0.52%) CCNA
10 2 (0.52%) CCNP
10 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.88%) QA
2 11 (2.84%) GDPR
3 6 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (1.55%) GLBA
4 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.03%) NIST
6 3 (0.78%) HL7
6 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.78%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.52%) FINRA
7 2 (0.52%) P3O
8 1 (0.26%) PERC
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SOX 404
System Software
1 5 (1.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.62%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.55%) Terraform
3 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.26%) Ansible
4 1 (0.26%) Podman
4 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.26%) Puppet
4 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.75%) Oracle
3 27 (6.98%) SAP
4 15 (3.88%) Cisco
5 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.07%) Databricks
7 7 (1.81%) Sage
8 6 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.29%) iManage
10 3 (0.78%) Concur
10 3 (0.78%) LexisNexis
10 3 (0.78%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.52%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.52%) Ariba
11 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.52%) Dell
11 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.52%) UiPath
11 2 (0.52%) Xero