Fractional Jobs Manchester
Fractional Jobs Manchester
The Manchester hub for fractional and part-time executive roles — which sectors are growing, and how Manchester's tech scene is creating opportunities.
Part-time senior leadership work across finance, tech, marketing, and operations in Greater Manchester.
How a brief runswhat we undertake
- 01Brief30-MINUTE SCOPING CALLDay 0
- 02Shortlist of 3–5VETTED · RATE BENCHMARK · IR35After the brief
- 03InterviewsYOU MEET THE SHORTLISTYour diary
- 04Scoped startFIRST-MONTH OUTCOMES AGREEDYou set the date
- 05Fractional, interim and permanentIR35 POSITION SET OUTOn every brief
Shortlist3–5
On the board · last 3 months
Manchester fractional jobs on the board
No Manchester fractional roles on the board in the last three months. Showing UK-wide fractional roles instead.
- FractionalSyndicatedPart time / Fractional Finance Director
PHIX · United Kingdom
est £650/day3 d/wk - FractionalSyndicatedAcquisition CFO / Finance Director (Fractional)
CivSec Group · London
est £1,500/dayLondon - FractionalSyndicatedBusiness Affairs Executive (Fractional / Per-Project)
Twenty-Nine Palms Entertainment · London
est £1,100/dayLondon - FractionalSyndicatedFinancial Controller (fractional)
Fermtech · Oxford
est £550/dayOxford - FractionalSyndicatedFractional IT Director – Technology & AI (FTC)
Flat Iron · London
est £1,000/day2 d/wk - FractionalSyndicatedFractional Chief Medical Officer - Tricorder Systems
Founders Factory · Bristol
Rate not statedBristol - FractionalSyndicatedFractional People Director
People Puzzles Ltd · Cambridge
Rate not statedCambridge - FractionalSyndicatedFractional CFO
KeelCFO · England
Rate not statedEngland - FractionalSyndicatedFractional CFO
fin-house · London
£700–£1,000/dayLondon
01/ the board
What the board holds.
A read of the roles on the board above, counted as they stand: the seat, how each is engaged, whether the posting gives the days and the rate, and where the work happens.
On this board, last 90 days · 9 roles · UK-wide fractional
Engagement
- Fractional9
Seat
- CFO3
- Finance director1
- General counsel1
- Financial controller1
- CTO1
- Other1
- Other seats1
Days a week
- Stated in the posting2
- Not stated7
Day rate
- Verified rate1
- Estimated (est)5
- Rate not stated3
Work arrangement (as the job feed classifies it)
- Remote0
- Hybrid6
- On-site3
Newest posting on the board: 12 Oct 2026.
Postings per week on this board, last 90 days
8 postings on this board in the last 90 days, counted by the week each was published.
02/ overview
Manchester's Fractional Executive Landscape
The shape of fractional work in this market.
Manchester's fractional executive market has grown alongside the city's tech and digital sector.
Its business ecosystem runs from global tech companies to fast-growing startups, creating opportunities for senior executives seeking portfolio careers.
MediaCity, the Northern Quarter, and Spinningfields form the heart of Manchester's business districts, hosting everything from global tech companies to fast-growing startups.
The city benefits from excellent transport links, top universities (Manchester, Salford), and government investment in the Northern Powerhouse initiative.
Manchester's fractional hotspots by sector
Fintech and financial services lead demand, with established players and emerging companies.
Digital and creative industries concentrated around MediaCity create marketing and technology opportunities.
E-commerce and retail tech benefit from Manchester's distribution advantages.
Professional services and manufacturing technology also drive consistent fractional demand.
03/ by function
Manchester Fractional Roles by Function
What hiring teams and candidates need to know, function by function.
04/ hiring a cto
Hiring a fractional CTO in Manchester
Companies looking for a fractional CTO in Manchester include scale-ups whose founding engineer has reached the limit of the role, digital and media businesses building a first product, and established firms modernising old systems.
Technology sits at the centre of the city region's plans — the Greater Manchester Strategy aims to establish Greater Manchester as a global centre for cyber security and artificial intelligence — so demand for senior technical judgement is not confined to startups.
Settle three things before you hire: the days a week, what the CTO owns versus your in-house lead, and whether the role includes building a team.
Ask for evidence of systems a candidate designed that are still running, and treat professional registration such as BCS Chartered IT Professional status as an independent check.
If you are raising, the British Business Bank's Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II is one of the finance routes open to businesses in the North, and investors will want to question whoever owns the technology.
We come back with a shortlist of 3–5 candidates, with their day rates and availability.
Published UK day-rate bands are on the fractional CTO jobs hub.
Looking for work rather than hiring?
See fractional executive jobs in Manchester below.
05/ cto roles
CTO jobs in Manchester full-time, interim or fractional?
CTO jobs in Manchester come in three shapes, and the right one depends on the company rather than the city.
A full-time CTO makes sense once technology is the product and the engineering team needs daily leadership.
An interim CTO covers a gap — a departure or a transformation programme — full-time for a fixed period.
A fractional CTO gives a set number of days a week of senior judgement to a company that doesn't yet need, or can't yet fund, a full-time hire.
For employers the choice turns on the work: architecture, supplier and hiring decisions can be made in a few days a week; running a large engineering organisation cannot.
For candidates the same split shapes the market — full-time roles need a company that can fund one, while fractional and interim work follows funding rounds and change programmes.
The ONS regional labour market statistics give the wider employment picture for the North West, and GM Business Growth Hub, the city region's publicly funded business support organisation, offers growing local companies support with funding and scaling up.
Compare the shapes side by side on interim CTO jobs and fractional CTO jobs UK.
06/ finding work
Fractional executive jobs in Manchester where the work comes from
For candidates, fractional executive jobs in Manchester rarely start life as advertised vacancies.
Many come from companies at a point of change — a funding round, a new product, a founder stepping back from a function — that need senior cover for a few days a week.
The practical questions are where those companies are and how they hear about you.
Three places to watch.
Funded companies: businesses raising from the British Business Bank's Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II and other investors are worth tracking, because a new round often brings a need for senior finance and technology help.
The support system: GM Business Growth Hub is the city region's publicly funded business support organisation and runs scale-up programmes for growth-stage founders.
The strategy: the Greater Manchester Combined Authority sets out the sectors the city region is backing.
For the underlying numbers, the ONS release UK business: activity, size and location breaks the business base down by region, industry and size.
Live Manchester roles are on the board at the top of this page.
If you are the company hiring rather than the executive looking, see hiring a fractional CTO in Manchester above.
07/ tech pipeline
Building a pipeline of fractional opportunities in Manchester's technology sector
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One fractional role is a job; a portfolio needs a pipeline.
For technology leaders, building a pipeline of fractional opportunities in the technology sector means being known before a company needs you — by founders, by the investors and advisers around them, and by the people who run the city's tech and business networks, such as Manchester Digital and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
Make your expertise easy to check.
A record of systems you have built that are still running, references from founders, and professional registration such as BCS Chartered IT Professional status all help a company say yes without a long process.
If you want board-level work as well as hands-on technology leadership, national bodies such as the Institute of Directors connect you with directors outside the tech scene.
Keep the pipeline broad: technology leadership is needed well beyond software companies, in manufacturing, media and professional services.
Browse fractional tech jobs UK for national roles, and set an alert here for Manchester.
08/ hiring a cmo
Fractional CMO Manchester — hiring marketing leadership in the city region
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A business searching for a fractional CMO, Manchester or elsewhere in the North West, usually has one of three gaps: a founder still running marketing alongside everything else, a marketing team executing without senior direction, or a relaunch or new market that needs a plan before it needs more spend.
A fractional CMO owns positioning, the go-to-market plan and the marketing budget for a set number of days a week, and answers to the CEO and the board for the result.
We shortlist fractional CMOs across the UK, Manchester included, for hybrid or remote engagements.
Brief us with the days a week, the stage of the business and what the CMO will own, and we come back with a shortlist of 3–5, each with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out, after the five stages on how we vet.
Test candidates on a plan they wrote and later changed, and on how they measured whether it worked.
If the gap is execution rather than strategy, a fractional marketing director or manager is the better buy: see fractional marketing jobs UK.
For published fractional CMO day-rate bands, and to find fractional CMO candidates, start there; we hold no Manchester-only rate, so we don't quote one.
09/ hiring a cfo
Fractional CFO Manchester — finance leadership for a few days a week
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Companies looking for a fractional CFO, Manchester based or working hybrid, tend to need board-level finance before they can justify a full-time finance chief: a model the board and investors can run the business on, cash-flow forecasting that holds up, and someone to lead or support a raise.
A bookkeeper or finance manager keeps the monthly close; the fractional CFO owns the plan, the numbers the board sees and the conversation with investors and lenders.
If you are raising in the North, the British Business Bank's Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II is one route, and a fractional CFO is often the person who prepares the business for it.
GM Business Growth Hub supports growing local companies with funding and scaling up.
We shortlist fractional CFOs across the UK, Manchester included, for hybrid or remote engagements: a shortlist of 3–5, each with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.
Look for a chartered qualification and experience of the stage you are at.
Published UK bands are on fractional CFO jobs UK.
10/ questions
Frequently asked
Common questions about fractional work in this market.
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Tell us the seat, the days a week and the start date. We come back with candidates, their day rates and availability.
- 0115 minutes, video or phone
- 02We scope the role, the days and the start date
- 03A shortlist of 3–5 after the call
- 04Fractional, interim and permanent briefs
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Fractional recruiting starts with the brief, not the CV pile. Send a brief and we come back with a shortlist of three to five candidates, each through five-stage vetting.
