Finance Jobs in Belfast

Financial
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 12 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 36 79 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 19.78% 14.36% 19.23%
As % of the General category 26.09% 31.85% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 14 45 55
10th Percentile - £32,600 £36,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,200 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £96,000 £88,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -4.76%

All General Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 138 248 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 75.82% 45.09% 54.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28 126 155
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £75,069 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £77,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Belfast

Finance
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Belfast.

Salary trend for Finance in Belfast

Finance
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Belfast over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Belfast

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 6 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (13.89%) Apache
2 5 (13.89%) nginx
2 5 (13.89%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (5.56%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (8.33%) Azure
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) IPsec
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (13.89%) Big Data
4 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 4 (11.11%) MySQL
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.78%) HBase
6 1 (2.78%) Impala
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
2 5 (13.89%) Cucumber
2 5 (13.89%) JUnit
2 5 (13.89%) Maven
2 5 (13.89%) Mockito
2 5 (13.89%) Postman
2 5 (13.89%) Selenium
2 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
2 5 (13.89%) TestNG
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Advertising
3 6 (16.67%) Legal
4 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Billing
6 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Operations Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Database Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Spring
1 12 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 11 (30.56%) Kafka
3 5 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (13.89%) Gherkin
3 5 (13.89%) Guice
3 5 (13.89%) JAX-RS
3 5 (13.89%) Mustache
3 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
3 5 (13.89%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) RESTful
3 5 (13.89%) Swagger
3 5 (13.89%) WireMock
4 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 4 (11.11%) J2EE
4 4 (11.11%) Java EE
5 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.33%) JSON
6 2 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Life Science
2 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.33%) Credit Risk
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.56%) Derivative
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.78%) Multithreading
2 10 (27.78%) Project Management
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (25.00%) OO
3 9 (25.00%) OOP
4 8 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.67%) BDD
5 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) Auto-Scaling
6 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (13.89%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (13.89%) Low Latency
6 5 (13.89%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (11.11%) CISA
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (11.11%) CISSP
1 4 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) Kustomize
3 5 (13.89%) Packer
4 3 (8.33%) Control-M
4 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.56%) Grafana
5 2 (5.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.11%) Sybase
5 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.56%) Hyperion
5 2 (5.56%) JD Edwards
5 2 (5.56%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.78%) BMC
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow