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 advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,422 3,403 2,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.87% 19.76% 16.40%
As % of the General category 24.97% 28.08% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 1,545 1,665
10th Percentile £28,100 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
North of England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,701 12,119 10,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.55% 70.38% 58.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,348 5,143 6,040
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +1 1,350 £54,750 -0.45% 505
Yorkshire -3 824 £57,500 +4.55% 255
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 89
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 80 (3.30%) Confluence
2 77 (3.18%) SharePoint
3 61 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 48 (1.98%) SAS
5 37 (1.53%) Apache
6 22 (0.91%) IIS
7 21 (0.87%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.62%) CMS
9 12 (0.50%) Captiva
9 12 (0.50%) FileNet
9 12 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 11 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.17%) WordPress
13 2 (0.083%) nginx
14 1 (0.041%) Jetty
14 1 (0.041%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 228 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.083%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.041%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.041%) EViews
8 1 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.041%) SPSS
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 19 (0.78%) NEC Housing
5 16 (0.66%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.62%) Sage X3
7 14 (0.58%) iTrent
8 13 (0.54%) Infor SunSystems
8 13 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.45%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.37%) SAP BPC
10 9 (0.37%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.33%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.33%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.29%) BPCS
13 6 (0.25%) SAP PP
13 6 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 396 (16.35%) Azure
2 250 (10.32%) Power Platform
3 183 (7.56%) AWS
4 155 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 147 (6.07%) GCP
6 84 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
7 74 (3.06%) SaaS
8 63 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (1.98%) GitHub
10 35 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (1.45%) Serverless
11 34 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 33 (1.36%) IaaS
12 33 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 32 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.07%) PaaS
15 18 (0.74%) Amazon S3
16 15 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (0.62%) Google Analytics
17 14 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (3.67%) Firewall
2 47 (1.94%) Internet
3 41 (1.69%) WAN
4 34 (1.40%) VPN
5 32 (1.32%) DNS
5 32 (1.32%) LAN
6 29 (1.20%) Network Security
6 29 (1.20%) SAN
7 27 (1.11%) DHCP
8 17 (0.70%) Broadband
8 17 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.66%) Wireless
10 15 (0.62%) IPsec
10 15 (0.62%) SNMP
11 13 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.50%) iSCSI
12 12 (0.50%) NAS
12 12 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
13 10 (0.41%) VoIP
14 9 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.30%) Power BI
2 127 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (4.54%) SQL Server
4 50 (2.06%) Tableau
5 40 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 40 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 31 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 27 (1.11%) Metadata
9 25 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 24 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
13 18 (0.74%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (0.62%) Relational Database
15 14 (0.58%) MySQL
16 13 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 150 (6.19%) JIRA
2 82 (3.39%) Git
3 34 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.36%) GitLab
5 18 (0.74%) Selenium
6 16 (0.66%) Appium
7 14 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (0.50%) Spinnaker
9 11 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
9 11 (0.45%) JMeter
10 10 (0.41%) JUnit
11 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.21%) JetBrains Rider
14 5 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.17%) Jasmine
General
1 882 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 340 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 333 (13.75%) Banking
4 267 (11.02%) Legal
5 245 (10.12%) Retail
6 232 (9.58%) Public Sector
7 123 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
8 122 (5.04%) Marketing
9 117 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 89 (3.67%) Manufacturing
11 87 (3.59%) Law
12 64 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 60 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.44%) Billing
14 59 (2.44%) Local Government
15 30 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.91%) Publishing
17 21 (0.87%) Police
18 17 (0.70%) Retail Finance
19 16 (0.66%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 384 (15.85%) Senior
2 353 (14.57%) Lead
3 352 (14.53%) Analyst
4 230 (9.50%) Developer
5 166 (6.85%) Architect
6 127 (5.24%) Project Manager
7 104 (4.29%) Consultant
8 83 (3.43%) Financial Analyst
8 83 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
9 66 (2.73%) Senior Developer
10 63 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (2.35%) IT Manager
13 56 (2.31%) Software Engineer
14 54 (2.23%) Enterprise Architect
14 54 (2.23%) Systems Analyst
15 52 (2.15%) Administrator
15 52 (2.15%) Product Manager
16 50 (2.06%) Support Engineer
17 45 (1.86%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (4.95%) .NET
2 67 (2.77%) React
3 63 (2.60%) HTML
4 55 (2.27%) REST
5 53 (2.19%) CSS
6 40 (1.65%) ASP.NET
7 39 (1.61%) RESTful
8 37 (1.53%) JSON
9 36 (1.49%) .NET Framework
9 36 (1.49%) Node.js
10 34 (1.40%) .NET Core
11 32 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
12 28 (1.16%) Web Services
13 26 (1.07%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.99%) Kafka
15 22 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
16 21 (0.87%) OpenID
17 20 (0.83%) YAML
18 16 (0.66%) Entity Framework
18 16 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 105 (4.34%) Management Information System
2 91 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
3 73 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 70 (2.89%) Public Cloud
5 69 (2.85%) PMI
6 55 (2.27%) NHS
7 45 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 41 (1.69%) Credit Risk
8 41 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 35 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.45%) Housing Association
11 29 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 25 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 21 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (0.87%) Mainframe
14 20 (0.83%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.78%) Blockchain
16 18 (0.74%) Driving Licence
16 18 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.80%) Windows
2 108 (4.46%) Linux
3 54 (2.23%) Unix
4 51 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 27 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (0.95%) Android
8 22 (0.91%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
11 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (0.37%) Windows Phone
13 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.33%) Windows Vista
14 6 (0.25%) Solaris
15 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.041%) CentOS
17 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (27.75%) Agile
2 459 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
3 416 (17.18%) Coaching
4 387 (15.98%) Mentoring
5 344 (14.20%) Roadmaps
6 274 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
7 269 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 263 (10.86%) Project Management
9 229 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (7.72%) DevOps
11 177 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 175 (7.23%) Analytics
13 171 (7.06%) ITIL
14 169 (6.98%) Data Management
15 161 (6.65%) Decision-Making
16 157 (6.48%) ERP
17 150 (6.19%) Project Delivery
18 147 (6.07%) Data Analysis
18 147 (6.07%) Data Governance
19 146 (6.03%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 351 (14.49%) SQL
2 155 (6.40%) Python
3 135 (5.57%) C#
4 118 (4.87%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.06%) Java
6 66 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 57 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 30 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 20 (0.83%) R
10 18 (0.74%) PHP
11 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (0.58%) Bash
13 13 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.54%) VBA
14 11 (0.45%) Groovy
14 11 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.41%) VBScript
16 9 (0.37%) C
17 8 (0.33%) VB
18 7 (0.29%) RPG
Qualifications
1 273 (11.27%) Degree
2 78 (3.22%) PMI Certification
2 78 (3.22%) Security Cleared
3 73 (3.01%) ACCA
4 60 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 45 (1.86%) SC Cleared
6 42 (1.73%) CIMA
7 37 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.49%) PMP
9 33 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.95%) CAPM
12 20 (0.83%) APMP
12 20 (0.83%) PgMP
13 19 (0.78%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (0.74%) CISSP
15 17 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.70%) HNC
15 17 (0.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (4.71%) GDPR
2 98 (4.05%) QA
3 94 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 86 (3.55%) SLA
5 59 (2.44%) IFRS
6 44 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.40%) PMO
8 31 (1.28%) IFRS 9
9 29 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 28 (1.16%) GAAP
10 28 (1.16%) NIST
11 15 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.45%) GRC
12 11 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.41%) CRD IV
14 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.25%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 119 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (2.06%) Docker
4 32 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.41%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.29%) IAG
9 6 (0.25%) XenApp
9 6 (0.25%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.041%) KVM
11 1 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 60 (2.48%) Terraform
2 57 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 40 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (1.40%) Ansible
5 26 (1.07%) SCCM
6 17 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.58%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.50%) Opsgenie
9 12 (0.50%) VxRail
10 10 (0.41%) SCOM
11 9 (0.37%) AirWatch
12 7 (0.29%) Grafana
13 6 (0.25%) Nmap
14 5 (0.21%) Istio
14 5 (0.21%) Kibana
15 4 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 487 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 119 (4.91%) SAP
3 108 (4.46%) Google
4 93 (3.84%) Oracle
5 85 (3.51%) VMware
6 47 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.78%) NEC
8 42 (1.73%) Cisco
9 41 (1.69%) Splunk
10 40 (1.65%) Virgin Media
11 38 (1.57%) CA
12 36 (1.49%) Atlassian
13 34 (1.40%) Citrix
14 32 (1.32%) IBM
15 28 (1.16%) Sage
16 27 (1.11%) NetApp
17 26 (1.07%) Commvault
18 23 (0.95%) MuleSoft
19 22 (0.91%) Dell
20 20 (0.83%) Fortinet