Finance Jobs in Cheshire

Financial
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 9 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 140 179 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.90% 11.50% 16.56%
As % of the General category 20.77% 21.39% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 28 87 88
10th Percentile £33,100 £26,150 £25,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,471 £34,931
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £81,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,575 £91,267 £79,125
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.00%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 674 837 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.19% 53.79% 69.54%
Number of salaries quoted 229 560 313
10th Percentile - £23,125 £25,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £28,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -9.57% -1.05%
75th Percentile £52,500 £59,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Cheshire

Finance
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Warrington +5 31 £80,000 +45.45% 24
Crewe +10 15 £41,000 -36.92% 8
Chester +3 15 £57,500 +43.75% 23
Northwich +7 10 £25,577 -14.74%
Knutsford +5 5 £61,250 -36.86% 14
Wilmslow +3 4 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Runcorn 0 4 - - 1
Widnes -1 4 - - 1
Macclesfield -2 3 - - 6
Ellesmere Port - 3 - -
Sandbach - 3 £37,500 -
Congleton - 2 - - 1
Middlewich - 2 - - 1
Nantwich - 2 - -
Lymm -9 1 - -
Frodsham - 1 - -
Winsford - 1 - - 2
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 21 (15.00%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) SAS
3 3 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.43%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.14%) AutoCAD
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.29%) Azure
2 59 (42.14%) AWS
3 21 (15.00%) GCP
4 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.29%) DNS
1 27 (19.29%) VPN
2 2 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (40.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.00%) Power BI
3 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.14%) Tableau
5 1 (0.71%) GIS
Development Applications
1 55 (39.29%) Bitbucket
1 55 (39.29%) Cucumber
1 55 (39.29%) GitLab
1 55 (39.29%) JIRA
1 55 (39.29%) Maven
1 55 (39.29%) Selenium
1 55 (39.29%) SonarQube
1 55 (39.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (40.00%) Banking
3 39 (27.86%) Retail
4 35 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 34 (24.29%) Corporate Banking
6 33 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (22.86%) Social Skills
8 15 (10.71%) Legal
9 14 (10.00%) Marketing
10 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.43%) Local Government
11 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.71%) Advertising
12 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (41.43%) Software Engineer
2 27 (19.29%) Developer
2 27 (19.29%) Software Developer
3 12 (8.57%) Analyst
3 12 (8.57%) Customer Executive
4 11 (7.86%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.00%) Architect
6 6 (4.29%) Senior
7 5 (3.57%) Senior Manager
7 5 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 4 (2.86%) Data Manager
8 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse Manager
8 4 (2.86%) Procurement Analyst
9 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.14%) IT Manager
9 3 (2.14%) Principal Architect
10 2 (1.43%) Business Analyst
10 2 (1.43%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (1.43%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (39.29%) CSS
1 55 (39.29%) HTML
1 55 (39.29%) JPA
1 55 (39.29%) Kafka
1 55 (39.29%) React
1 55 (39.29%) Redux
1 55 (39.29%) Spring
1 55 (39.29%) Spring Boot
2 36 (25.71%) REST
3 34 (24.29%) CSS3
3 34 (24.29%) HTML5
3 34 (24.29%) Jest
3 34 (24.29%) RESTful
3 34 (24.29%) Sass
4 21 (15.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.43%) .NET
5 2 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (41.43%) Enterprise Software
2 55 (39.29%) Product Ownership
3 27 (19.29%) Cyberattack
4 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.43%) Blog
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
8 1 (0.71%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.43%) Linux
2 27 (19.29%) Android
3 4 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (61.43%) Agile
2 58 (41.43%) Containerisation
2 58 (41.43%) Software Engineering
3 56 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 55 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 55 (39.29%) DevOps
4 55 (39.29%) Front End Development
4 55 (39.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (39.29%) Microservices
4 55 (39.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 55 (39.29%) SDLC
5 38 (27.14%) Mentoring
6 37 (26.43%) Migration
7 36 (25.71%) Strategic Thinking
8 34 (24.29%) Responsive Web Design
8 34 (24.29%) User Experience
9 33 (23.57%) Mathematics
10 27 (19.29%) Line Management
10 27 (19.29%) OO
10 27 (19.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 83 (59.29%) Java
2 58 (41.43%) SQL
3 57 (40.71%) JavaScript
4 34 (24.29%) TypeScript
5 31 (22.14%) Python
6 27 (19.29%) C++
6 27 (19.29%) Go
7 2 (1.43%) C#
7 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) DV Cleared
1 27 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.43%) Degree
3 7 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) ACCA
5 2 (1.43%) CIMA
5 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.71%) CCAB
6 1 (0.71%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.71%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (39.29%) QA
2 34 (24.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.57%) SLA
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 82 (58.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 27 (19.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (39.29%) Solace
2 12 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.57%) SAP
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle
6 3 (2.14%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.14%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Apple
7 1 (0.71%) Google
7 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow