Finance Jobs in the North West

Financial
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,467 1,362 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.00% 18.70% 18.09%
As % of the General category 24.95% 28.11% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 994 687 985
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +0.08% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,563 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.80% +2.22% +3.85%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,879 4,845 5,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 52.08% 66.51% 60.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,113 2,370 3,073
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,475 £28,128
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,960
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +3.02% +7.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,994 £66,140
90th Percentile £75,772 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester -2 811 £55,000 -8.33% 369
Merseyside +3 225 £47,250 +6.00% 67
Cheshire -3 196 £55,000 +10.00% 85
Lancashire +7 195 £45,000 -18.18% 63
Cumbria 0 35 £40,500 -26.36% 19
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 40 (2.73%) Confluence
2 37 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.57%) Apache
4 21 (1.43%) IIS
5 14 (0.95%) SAS
6 12 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.14%) WordPress
12 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.068%) Jetty
Applications
1 199 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.14%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (1.36%) NEC Housing
4 17 (1.16%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.89%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.89%) iTrent
5 13 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
5 13 (0.89%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.55%) SAP BPC
6 8 (0.55%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.55%) SAP IBP
7 7 (0.48%) BPCS
7 7 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.41%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.41%) SAP PP
8 6 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
10 4 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 212 (14.45%) Azure
2 142 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 88 (6.00%) AWS
4 72 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
5 64 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.14%) GCP
7 39 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 20 (1.36%) Serverless
11 19 (1.30%) GitHub
11 19 (1.30%) SaaS
12 13 (0.89%) Google Analytics
13 12 (0.82%) Amazon S3
13 12 (0.82%) IaaS
14 11 (0.75%) dbt
15 10 (0.68%) Azure Functions
15 10 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.68%) Google Play
16 9 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.27%) Firewall
2 25 (1.70%) WAN
3 22 (1.50%) Internet
3 22 (1.50%) SAN
4 17 (1.16%) LAN
5 16 (1.09%) VPN
6 14 (0.95%) DNS
7 13 (0.89%) Network Security
7 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.82%) DHCP
8 12 (0.82%) iSCSI
8 12 (0.82%) Wireless
9 11 (0.75%) Broadband
10 10 (0.68%) IPsec
10 10 (0.68%) NAS
10 10 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (0.68%) SNMP
10 10 (0.68%) VoIP
11 6 (0.41%) Software-Defined Radio
11 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.23%) Power BI
2 84 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.32%) Tableau
5 28 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (1.64%) Metadata
7 22 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
11 17 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 14 (0.95%) Data Mining
14 13 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.82%) BigQuery
16 11 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.75%) Looker
16 11 (0.75%) NoSQL
17 9 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (4.50%) JIRA
2 50 (3.41%) Git
3 19 (1.30%) GitLab
4 11 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.68%) Appium
6 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.34%) JetBrains Rider
7 5 (0.34%) JMeter
7 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.27%) MSTest
8 4 (0.27%) NUnit
8 4 (0.27%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.20%) git-flow
9 3 (0.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.14%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.14%) Selenium
10 2 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 505 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 211 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 190 (12.95%) Retail
4 150 (10.22%) Legal
5 118 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 114 (7.77%) Banking
7 98 (6.68%) Marketing
8 78 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (3.34%) Manufacturing
11 46 (3.14%) Local Government
12 42 (2.86%) Billing
13 40 (2.73%) Law
14 26 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.36%) Police
17 16 (1.09%) Back Office
18 14 (0.95%) Automotive
19 10 (0.68%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 228 (15.54%) Analyst
2 212 (14.45%) Senior
3 156 (10.63%) Developer
4 154 (10.50%) Lead
5 84 (5.73%) Architect
6 75 (5.11%) Consultant
7 66 (4.50%) Development Manager
7 66 (4.50%) Financial Analyst
8 65 (4.43%) Project Manager
9 63 (4.29%) Business Manager
10 54 (3.68%) Senior Developer
11 49 (3.34%) Business Development Manager
12 43 (2.93%) Administrator
13 40 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 35 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.39%) Systems Analyst
15 33 (2.25%) Applications Support
15 33 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 32 (2.18%) IT Support
17 30 (2.04%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (4.77%) .NET
2 45 (3.07%) REST
3 42 (2.86%) React
4 30 (2.04%) HTML
5 29 (1.98%) CSS
6 25 (1.70%) JSON
6 25 (1.70%) Web Services
7 23 (1.57%) ASP.NET
8 20 (1.36%) RESTful
9 19 (1.30%) .NET Framework
9 19 (1.30%) Kafka
10 18 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (1.16%) Node.js
12 16 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 15 (1.02%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.82%) PySpark
15 11 (0.75%) SOAP
16 10 (0.68%) Android SDK
16 10 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
2 73 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 41 (2.79%) Public Cloud
4 39 (2.66%) PMI
5 33 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 22 (1.50%) NHS
9 19 (1.30%) Driving Licence
9 19 (1.30%) Housing Association
10 17 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 14 (0.95%) Reinsurance
13 12 (0.82%) Credit Risk
13 12 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.41%) Windows
2 59 (4.02%) Linux
3 25 (1.70%) Unix
4 19 (1.30%) Android
5 14 (0.95%) Windows Vista
6 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 9 (0.61%) Windows Phone
9 8 (0.55%) Solaris
10 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (23.38%) Agile
2 233 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
3 187 (12.75%) Coaching
4 184 (12.54%) Roadmaps
5 183 (12.47%) Mentoring
6 170 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
7 159 (10.84%) Project Management
8 133 (9.07%) Decision-Making
9 123 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (8.32%) Customer Service
11 106 (7.23%) DevOps
12 105 (7.16%) Business Development
13 102 (6.95%) ERP
14 96 (6.54%) Data Management
15 93 (6.34%) Analytics
16 92 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 84 (5.73%) Project Delivery
18 81 (5.52%) CRM
19 80 (5.45%) ITIL
20 79 (5.39%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 187 (12.75%) SQL
2 101 (6.88%) Python
3 84 (5.73%) C#
4 73 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 43 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 38 (2.59%) Java
7 31 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.77%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.68%) C
11 10 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.61%) PHP
13 8 (0.55%) Rust
14 7 (0.48%) Bash
14 7 (0.48%) RPG
14 7 (0.48%) RPG IV
15 6 (0.41%) C++
15 6 (0.41%) R
15 6 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (10.84%) Degree
2 64 (4.36%) ACCA
3 54 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 48 (3.27%) CIMA
5 44 (3.00%) PMI Certification
6 36 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.04%) SC Cleared
8 17 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.02%) PMP
11 11 (0.75%) AAT
12 10 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (0.55%) CAPM
14 8 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.48%) CISA
15 7 (0.48%) CISSP
15 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.64%) QA
2 66 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 36 (2.45%) GDPR
4 30 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.98%) SLA
6 24 (1.64%) PMO
7 22 (1.50%) IFRS
8 16 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.95%) GAAP
9 14 (0.95%) NIST
10 8 (0.55%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.20%) COSO
14 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.20%) GRC
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
14 3 (0.20%) ITGC
System Software
1 58 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.32%) Docker
3 32 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.68%) RACF
5 9 (0.61%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.77%) Terraform
3 16 (1.09%) Ansible
4 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.95%) SCCM
5 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (0.82%) Opsgenie
6 12 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.82%) VxRail
7 10 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.61%) AirWatch
9 7 (0.48%) Grafana
10 5 (0.34%) Kibana
11 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.14%) Rundeck
14 1 (0.068%) Puppet
Vendors
1 327 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.32%) SAP
3 59 (4.02%) Oracle
4 50 (3.41%) Google
5 44 (3.00%) NEC
6 34 (2.32%) Virgin Media
6 34 (2.32%) VMware
7 25 (1.70%) CA
8 22 (1.50%) NetApp
9 21 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 19 (1.30%) Cisco
11 18 (1.23%) Informatica
11 18 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 16 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 16 (1.09%) Splunk
13 14 (0.95%) Commvault
14 13 (0.89%) Infor
15 12 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.82%) SolarWinds