Finance Jobs in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,030 2,530 3,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.34% 12.73% 20.33%
As % of the General category 24.64% 23.78% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,705 1,523
10th Percentile £25,313 £28,100 £32,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £84,964 £82,548
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% +2.22%

All General Skills
North of England

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 common skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,238 10,639 10,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.35% 53.55% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,761 7,631 4,992
10th Percentile £25,084 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £33,534 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £51,536
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.83% +3.07%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Salary trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +2 1,385 £55,000 +4.76% 972
Yorkshire +2 470 £59,652 +8.46% 494
North East -1 174 £55,000 +10.00% 165
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 79 (3.89%) Confluence
2 55 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
4 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.64%) SAS
6 6 (0.30%) Apache
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) GemFire
8 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.099%) CMS
9 2 (0.099%) nginx
9 2 (0.099%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.049%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.049%) CICS
10 1 (0.049%) Moodle
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.049%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.049%) WebLogic
Applications
1 117 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.79%) Trello
6 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.099%) SPSS
10 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 56 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.79%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.49%) Infor LN
4 10 (0.49%) SAP BPC
5 6 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.25%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.25%) Sage CRM
6 5 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
7 4 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.15%) Maximo
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.15%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.099%) Line 50
9 2 (0.099%) Magento
9 2 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 314 (15.47%) Azure
2 236 (11.63%) AWS
3 157 (7.73%) GCP
4 96 (4.73%) Power Platform
5 43 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (1.82%) GitHub
7 33 (1.63%) SaaS
8 28 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (0.74%) Serverless
11 12 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
11 12 (0.59%) Cloud Composer
12 11 (0.54%) Entra ID
13 9 (0.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (0.39%) Figma
14 8 (0.39%) Snowflake
15 7 (0.34%) Miro
15 7 (0.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 396 (19.51%) DNS
1 396 (19.51%) VPN
2 15 (0.74%) SAN
3 14 (0.69%) Network Security
4 12 (0.59%) Firewall
5 11 (0.54%) Intranet
6 10 (0.49%) Internet
7 9 (0.44%) Broadband
7 9 (0.44%) WAN
7 9 (0.44%) Wireless
8 7 (0.34%) DHCP
8 7 (0.34%) NAS
9 6 (0.30%) LAN
10 5 (0.25%) DKIM
10 5 (0.25%) DNSSEC
10 5 (0.25%) HTTP
10 5 (0.25%) SMTP
10 5 (0.25%) VLAN
10 5 (0.25%) VSAN
10 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.19%) Power BI
3 44 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 42 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (2.02%) Tableau
6 37 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.48%) Big Data
8 28 (1.38%) MySQL
9 26 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 15 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.64%) Cloud Spanner
15 11 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.49%) Relational Database
16 10 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 8 (0.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 195 (9.61%) JIRA
2 132 (6.50%) SonarQube
3 125 (6.16%) Selenium
4 122 (6.01%) Cucumber
5 120 (5.91%) GitLab
5 120 (5.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 117 (5.76%) Maven
7 116 (5.71%) Bitbucket
8 64 (3.15%) Git
9 41 (2.02%) Jenkins
10 18 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (0.64%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.44%) JUnit
13 6 (0.30%) JMeter
13 6 (0.30%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.25%) Postman
14 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.20%) Appium
15 4 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 714 (35.17%) Analytical Skills
2 681 (33.55%) Social Skills
3 531 (26.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 420 (20.69%) Banking
5 189 (9.31%) Marketing
6 170 (8.37%) Manufacturing
7 152 (7.49%) Retail
8 103 (5.07%) Legal
9 78 (3.84%) Investment Banking
10 72 (3.55%) Corporate Banking
11 63 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (2.32%) Law
13 45 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 32 (1.58%) Public Sector
15 31 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.33%) Military
16 27 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.18%) Advertising
18 20 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
19 19 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 453 (22.32%) Developer
2 389 (19.16%) Software Developer
3 275 (13.55%) Analyst
4 205 (10.10%) Software Engineer
5 184 (9.06%) Senior
6 118 (5.81%) Lead
7 115 (5.67%) Project Manager
8 107 (5.27%) Development Manager
9 89 (4.38%) Product Manager
10 82 (4.04%) Product Development Manager
11 76 (3.74%) Architect
12 65 (3.20%) Data Analyst
13 63 (3.10%) Automation Engineer
14 60 (2.96%) Systems Engineer
15 57 (2.81%) Financial Analyst
16 43 (2.12%) Senior Manager
17 39 (1.92%) Customer Executive
18 38 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
19 37 (1.82%) Infrastructure Manager
19 37 (1.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (8.28%) React
2 165 (8.13%) Spring
3 157 (7.73%) Spring Boot
4 147 (7.24%) Kafka
5 146 (7.19%) CSS
6 139 (6.85%) HTML
7 113 (5.57%) Redux
8 112 (5.52%) JPA
9 105 (5.17%) RESTful
10 93 (4.58%) REST
11 79 (3.89%) CSS3
12 77 (3.79%) HTML5
13 76 (3.74%) Jest
14 72 (3.55%) Sass
15 56 (2.76%) .NET
16 47 (2.32%) Node.js
17 45 (2.22%) Hibernate
18 36 (1.77%) Software Packaging
19 20 (0.99%) AngularJS
20 17 (0.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 391 (19.26%) Cyberattack
2 208 (10.25%) Product Ownership
3 192 (9.46%) Management Information System
4 165 (8.13%) FMCG
5 126 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (3.20%) Operational Technology
7 60 (2.96%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 59 (2.91%) Social Media
9 56 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.72%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.99%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.94%) Mainframe
17 16 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 15 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
18 15 (0.74%) Derivative
18 15 (0.74%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 429 (21.13%) Linux
2 393 (19.36%) Android
3 74 (3.65%) Windows
4 22 (1.08%) Windows Vista
5 11 (0.54%) Unix
6 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.34%) zOS
8 1 (0.049%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (43.25%) Agile
2 480 (23.65%) Line Management
3 466 (22.96%) Mathematics
3 466 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
4 424 (20.89%) OOP
5 420 (20.69%) OO
6 401 (19.75%) Design Patterns
7 388 (19.11%) Android Development
8 319 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 301 (14.83%) DevOps
10 300 (14.78%) Software Engineering
11 289 (14.24%) Project Management
12 231 (11.38%) CI/CD
13 218 (10.74%) Mentoring
14 207 (10.20%) Decision-Making
15 206 (10.15%) Test Automation
16 198 (9.75%) Microservices
17 193 (9.51%) Analytics
18 175 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
19 166 (8.18%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 647 (31.87%) Java
2 496 (24.43%) Python
3 405 (19.95%) C++
4 401 (19.75%) Go
5 260 (12.81%) SQL
6 174 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 133 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 60 (2.96%) C#
9 26 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 25 (1.23%) PHP
11 16 (0.79%) ABAP
12 13 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.59%) Bash
14 10 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.44%) Bicep
15 9 (0.44%) R
16 8 (0.39%) Ruby
17 5 (0.25%) VB
18 4 (0.20%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 441 (21.72%) Degree
2 420 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 395 (19.46%) DV Cleared
4 99 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 97 (4.78%) HNC
6 88 (4.33%) DBS Check
7 76 (3.74%) ACCA
8 75 (3.69%) CIMA
9 47 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.38%) CCAB
12 20 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.99%) PMP
12 20 (0.99%) SC Cleared
13 17 (0.84%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.79%) ICAEW
14 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.59%) CIPFA
16 11 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (11.43%) QA
2 95 (4.68%) Accessibility
3 78 (3.84%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.48%) NEBOSH
5 29 (1.43%) GDPR
6 25 (1.23%) SLA
7 22 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.89%) EMIR
8 18 (0.89%) MiFID
9 17 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.74%) IFRS
12 12 (0.59%) PMO
13 9 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.44%) COBIT
13 9 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.39%) NIST
15 6 (0.30%) GAAP
15 6 (0.30%) ITGC
16 4 (0.20%) Basel II
System Software
1 594 (29.26%) Docker
2 22 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.049%) XenApp
7 1 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 409 (20.15%) Ansible
2 220 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 67 (3.30%) Terraform
4 15 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 13 (0.64%) Grafana
6 10 (0.49%) Istio
7 7 (0.34%) Puppet
7 7 (0.34%) SCCM
8 4 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.20%) Kibana
9 3 (0.15%) Argo
9 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.099%) Control-M
10 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.049%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.049%) logstash
11 1 (0.049%) SCOM
11 1 (0.049%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 181 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 133 (6.55%) SAP
3 119 (5.86%) Solace
4 90 (4.43%) Oracle
5 60 (2.96%) Rockwell
5 60 (2.96%) Siemens
6 59 (2.91%) Google
7 51 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 30 (1.48%) IBM
9 26 (1.28%) VMware
10 25 (1.23%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.08%) Cisco
11 22 (1.08%) ServiceNow
12 20 (0.99%) BT
13 14 (0.69%) Cognos
14 12 (0.59%) Dell
15 11 (0.54%) Concur
16 10 (0.49%) Infor
16 10 (0.49%) Sage
17 8 (0.39%) Facebook
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