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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,473 3,254 3,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.07% 20.25% 16.28%
As % of the General category 24.21% 29.29% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,703 1,523 1,681
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,900 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% - +13.40%
75th Percentile £72,433 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £83,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +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 10,214 11,109 10,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 53.97% 69.12% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,542 4,993 6,126
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £80,000 £79,500
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 1,405 £52,500 -4.55% 619
Yorkshire -4 807 £56,500 +2.73% 262
North East +1 261 £50,000 -9.09% 127
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 (3.23%) Confluence
2 74 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 55 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.62%) SAS
5 33 (1.33%) Apache
6 24 (0.97%) IIS
7 15 (0.61%) CMS
8 14 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.20%) WordPress
12 4 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.081%) Captiva
13 2 (0.081%) FileNet
13 2 (0.081%) nginx
13 2 (0.081%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.040%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 247 (9.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 172 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.081%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.040%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (0.97%) NEC Housing
4 20 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.81%) SAP FI
5 15 (0.61%) Sage X3
5 15 (0.61%) SAP CO
5 15 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
6 14 (0.57%) iTrent
7 13 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
7 13 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
9 9 (0.36%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.32%) BPCS
10 8 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.32%) SAP BPC
10 8 (0.32%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.28%) Sage 200
12 6 (0.24%) SAP PP
12 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 390 (15.77%) Azure
2 251 (10.15%) Power Platform
3 185 (7.48%) AWS
4 151 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (4.49%) GCP
6 96 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
7 66 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (2.67%) SaaS
8 60 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 36 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (1.42%) Serverless
11 34 (1.37%) Power Automate
12 33 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 31 (1.25%) GitHub
14 27 (1.09%) IaaS
15 18 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (0.73%) PaaS
16 16 (0.65%) Amazon S3
17 15 (0.61%) Google Analytics
18 14 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.40%) Firewall
2 48 (1.94%) Internet
3 44 (1.78%) WAN
4 35 (1.42%) LAN
5 31 (1.25%) VPN
6 30 (1.21%) SAN
7 28 (1.13%) DNS
8 27 (1.09%) Network Security
9 24 (0.97%) DHCP
10 19 (0.77%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.61%) Broadband
11 15 (0.61%) IPsec
11 15 (0.61%) SNMP
11 15 (0.61%) Wireless
12 13 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.49%) iSCSI
13 12 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
14 11 (0.44%) NAS
15 10 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (8.29%) Power BI
2 128 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 54 (2.18%) Tableau
5 39 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (1.54%) Data Lake
7 33 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.13%) Metadata
9 25 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 24 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (0.85%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
14 17 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.69%) Relational Database
15 15 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 14 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 140 (5.66%) JIRA
2 77 (3.11%) Git
3 33 (1.33%) GitLab
4 27 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 18 (0.73%) Selenium
6 16 (0.65%) Appium
7 11 (0.44%) JMeter
8 10 (0.40%) JUnit
9 9 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
10 8 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.24%) Spinnaker
13 5 (0.20%) JetBrains Rider
13 5 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.16%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.16%) MSTest
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
General
1 866 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 324 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 283 (11.44%) Banking
4 282 (11.40%) Legal
5 258 (10.43%) Retail
6 233 (9.42%) Public Sector
7 130 (5.26%) Marketing
8 116 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
9 113 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 98 (3.96%) Manufacturing
11 84 (3.40%) Law
12 71 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (2.63%) Local Government
14 58 (2.35%) Billing
15 51 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.05%) Police
18 22 (0.89%) Publishing
19 17 (0.69%) Back Office
20 16 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 397 (16.05%) Senior
2 372 (15.04%) Analyst
3 359 (14.52%) Lead
4 237 (9.58%) Developer
5 167 (6.75%) Architect
6 135 (5.46%) Project Manager
7 118 (4.77%) Consultant
8 99 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 86 (3.48%) Financial Analyst
10 71 (2.87%) Senior Developer
11 69 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (2.63%) Business Manager
13 55 (2.22%) Administrator
13 55 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 55 (2.22%) IT Manager
14 51 (2.06%) Product Manager
15 50 (2.02%) Software Engineer
16 49 (1.98%) Senior Manager
17 48 (1.94%) Systems Analyst
18 47 (1.90%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (5.10%) .NET
2 65 (2.63%) React
3 63 (2.55%) HTML
4 59 (2.39%) REST
5 53 (2.14%) CSS
6 41 (1.66%) ASP.NET
7 38 (1.54%) .NET Framework
8 35 (1.42%) JSON
8 35 (1.42%) RESTful
9 33 (1.33%) Node.js
9 33 (1.33%) Web Services
10 32 (1.29%) ASP.NET Web API
11 31 (1.25%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.01%) AngularJS
13 23 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (0.89%) Kafka
15 19 (0.77%) YAML
16 17 (0.69%) Entity Framework
17 16 (0.65%) ASP.NET MVC
17 16 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (5.18%) Management Information System
2 96 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
3 68 (2.75%) Public Cloud
4 67 (2.71%) PMI
5 66 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.22%) NHS
7 44 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 38 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 37 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 35 (1.42%) Housing Association
11 33 (1.33%) Credit Risk
12 23 (0.93%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.77%) Driving Licence
13 19 (0.77%) Onboarding
14 18 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (0.73%) Social Media
15 17 (0.69%) Private Cloud
16 15 (0.61%) FMCG
17 14 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.64%) Windows
2 98 (3.96%) Linux
3 48 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 39 (1.58%) Unix
5 28 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (1.01%) Android
8 23 (0.93%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
11 12 (0.49%) Windows Vista
12 10 (0.40%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.36%) Windows Phone
14 8 (0.32%) Solaris
15 4 (0.16%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.16%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (25.48%) Agile
2 449 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
3 433 (17.51%) Coaching
4 386 (15.61%) Mentoring
5 349 (14.11%) Roadmaps
6 278 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
7 274 (11.08%) Project Management
8 260 (10.51%) Customer Service
9 233 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 182 (7.36%) DevOps
11 180 (7.28%) Decision-Making
12 178 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 175 (7.08%) ITIL
14 165 (6.67%) Data Management
15 162 (6.55%) Analytics
16 158 (6.39%) ERP
17 155 (6.27%) Project Delivery
18 151 (6.11%) Data Governance
18 151 (6.11%) Line Management
19 143 (5.78%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 367 (14.84%) SQL
2 148 (5.98%) Python
3 145 (5.86%) C#
4 122 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 82 (3.32%) PowerShell
6 61 (2.47%) Java
7 60 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.25%) T-SQL
9 20 (0.81%) PHP
10 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 15 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 13 (0.53%) R
11 13 (0.53%) VBA
12 11 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.40%) C
13 10 (0.40%) VBScript
14 9 (0.36%) Bash
15 8 (0.32%) Bicep
15 8 (0.32%) Rust
15 8 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 275 (11.12%) Degree
2 78 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 77 (3.11%) ACCA
3 77 (3.11%) PMI Certification
4 69 (2.79%) DBS Check
5 47 (1.90%) CIMA
6 46 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 39 (1.58%) PMP
8 35 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.93%) CAPM
10 23 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.81%) APMP
12 20 (0.81%) PgMP
13 19 (0.77%) CISSP
14 18 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.69%) HNC
15 17 (0.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.16%) GDPR
2 98 (3.96%) QA
3 94 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 82 (3.32%) SLA
5 53 (2.14%) IFRS
6 41 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 34 (1.37%) PMO
8 31 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 29 (1.17%) NIST
10 28 (1.13%) GAAP
11 25 (1.01%) IFRS 9
12 16 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.44%) GRC
13 11 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.32%) PSD2
16 6 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.24%) NCSC
16 6 (0.24%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 141 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 56 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (1.94%) Docker
4 31 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.97%) RACF
6 17 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.40%) Terminal Services
9 7 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.16%) XenApp
10 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.040%) Firmware
11 1 (0.040%) KVM
11 1 (0.040%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (2.30%) Terraform
2 49 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.25%) Ansible
5 23 (0.93%) SCCM
6 17 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.57%) ZABBIX
9 13 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 12 (0.49%) Opsgenie
10 12 (0.49%) VxRail
11 9 (0.36%) AirWatch
12 7 (0.28%) Grafana
13 6 (0.24%) Nmap
13 6 (0.24%) SCOM
14 5 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.081%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.081%) Rundeck
15 2 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 530 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 118 (4.77%) SAP
3 100 (4.04%) Google
4 81 (3.28%) Oracle
4 81 (3.28%) VMware
5 48 (1.94%) NEC
6 39 (1.58%) CA
7 38 (1.54%) Virgin Media
8 37 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 35 (1.42%) Cisco
9 35 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 34 (1.37%) Splunk
11 31 (1.25%) Citrix
12 27 (1.09%) NetApp
12 27 (1.09%) Sage
13 24 (0.97%) CyberArk
14 23 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.85%) Commvault
15 21 (0.85%) Dell
16 20 (0.81%) IBM