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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 10 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 42 75 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 24.28% 14.71% 18.76%
As % of the General category 32.56% 32.33% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15 44 62
10th Percentile £48,500 £32,575 £35,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £69,125 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,800 £90,000 £86,750
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -2.91%

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 129 232 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 74.57% 45.49% 56.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29 118 169
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £87,500 £71,250
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.00% +6.95%

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 17 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.90%) Apache
2 5 (11.90%) nginx
2 5 (11.90%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (9.52%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (9.52%) OCI
4 3 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Network Security
2 2 (4.76%) IPsec
2 2 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (14.29%) Apache Hive
2 6 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 5 (11.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.90%) Big Data
4 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.52%) MySQL
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.76%) DB2
6 1 (2.38%) HBase
6 1 (2.38%) Impala
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Bitbucket
2 5 (11.90%) Cucumber
2 5 (11.90%) JUnit
2 5 (11.90%) Maven
2 5 (11.90%) Mockito
2 5 (11.90%) Postman
2 5 (11.90%) Selenium
2 5 (11.90%) SonarQube
2 5 (11.90%) TestNG
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (14.29%) Legal
4 5 (11.90%) Advertising
4 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Java Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Project Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Operations Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Risk Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Credit Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Database Developer
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) Spring
1 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 11 (26.19%) Kafka
3 5 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (11.90%) Gherkin
3 5 (11.90%) Guice
3 5 (11.90%) JAX-RS
3 5 (11.90%) Mustache
3 5 (11.90%) OpenAPI
3 5 (11.90%) REST
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
3 5 (11.90%) Swagger
3 5 (11.90%) WireMock
4 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
4 4 (9.52%) J2EE
4 4 (9.52%) Java EE
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Life Science
2 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (28.57%) Project Management
2 11 (26.19%) Multithreading
3 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.43%) OO
4 9 (21.43%) OOP
4 9 (21.43%) Risk Management
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 6 (14.29%) BDD
6 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 6 (14.29%) Low Latency
6 6 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (11.90%) Agile
7 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (11.90%) Information Security
7 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Time Management
7 5 (11.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (9.52%) CISA
2 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (9.52%) CISSP
2 4 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (9.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (2.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.67%) Ansible
2 7 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (11.90%) Kustomize
3 5 (11.90%) Packer
4 3 (7.14%) Control-M
4 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Oracle
2 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
4 4 (9.52%) Hyperion
4 4 (9.52%) JD Edwards
4 4 (9.52%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (9.52%) Sybase
5 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.38%) BMC
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow