Finance Jobs in Chester

Financial
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Chester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 16 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 42.11% 13.39% 24.88%
As % of the General category 64.00% 25.00% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 28 26
10th Percentile £53,250 £22,050 £25,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £29,334 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £36,765
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +8.80% -17.56%
75th Percentile £59,375 £68,604 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,750 £88,496 £61,466
Cheshire median annual salary £65,250 £55,000 £50,369
% change year-on-year +18.64% +9.19% +0.74%

All General Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25 128 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 65.79% 53.56% 73.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 111 62
10th Percentile £28,900 £23,125 £25,025
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £25,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £58,125 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,250 £67,500 £73,375
Cheshire median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% -5.26%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Chester

Finance
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for Finance in Chester

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 5 (31.25%) SAS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
1 3 (18.75%) Maven
1 3 (18.75%) Selenium
1 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
1 3 (18.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Legal
3 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Customer Executive
2 5 (31.25%) Data Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) JPA
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) React
1 3 (18.75%) Redux
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) CSS3
2 2 (12.50%) HTML5
2 2 (12.50%) Jest
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Business Development
1 6 (37.50%) Contract Negotiation
1 6 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (25.00%) Data Security
3 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ACCA
2 1 (6.25%) CCAB
2 1 (6.25%) CIMA
2 1 (6.25%) CIPFA
2 1 (6.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Salesforce
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Solace