Finance Jobs in Merseyside

Financial
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 92 220 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.72% 16.21% 17.40%
As % of the General category 24.73% 32.35% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 137 65
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +4.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £59,500
North West median annual salary £58,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.43% -4.55% -0.30%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 372 680 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 83.78% 50.11% 69.01%
Number of salaries quoted 134 489 250
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £44,875
Median % change year-on-year - -10.86% -0.37%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,375
90th Percentile £74,375 £68,750 £66,375
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +2.98%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Merseyside

Finance
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Finance in Merseyside

Finance
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Merseyside

Finance
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 28 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
Liverpool +2 63 £54,000 +8.00% 293
Prescot +5 3 - -
St Helens +1 3 - - 9
Southport - 3 - - 2
Finance
North West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.09%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) AWS
2 11 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.43%) Mimecast
5 4 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.26%) GCP
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.09%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.09%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.09%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.09%) Miro
8 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.09%) SaaS
8 1 (1.09%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.91%) VPN
2 20 (21.74%) DNS
3 2 (2.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 2 (2.17%) NGFW
4 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.09%) LAN
4 1 (1.09%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.70%) Power BI
3 3 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.26%) Tableau
4 1 (1.09%) MySQL
4 1 (1.09%) Power Query
4 1 (1.09%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.09%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) GitLab
1 10 (10.87%) JIRA
2 9 (9.78%) Bitbucket
2 9 (9.78%) Cucumber
2 9 (9.78%) Maven
2 9 (9.78%) Selenium
2 9 (9.78%) SonarQube
2 9 (9.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.09%) ESLint
3 1 (1.09%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Storybook
3 1 (1.09%) Subversion
3 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 30 (32.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (29.35%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
4 17 (18.48%) Banking
5 10 (10.87%) Legal
5 10 (10.87%) Marketing
6 7 (7.61%) Financial Institution
6 7 (7.61%) Retail
7 6 (6.52%) Corporate Banking
7 6 (6.52%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Billing
8 2 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Developer
2 21 (22.83%) Analyst
3 20 (21.74%) Software Developer
4 11 (11.96%) Senior
5 10 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Customer Executive
7 6 (6.52%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.43%) IT Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Service Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Product Owner
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Product Owner
10 3 (3.26%) Financial Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) IT Support
10 3 (3.26%) Scrum Master
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Data Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) React
2 9 (9.78%) CSS
2 9 (9.78%) HTML
2 9 (9.78%) JPA
2 9 (9.78%) Kafka
2 9 (9.78%) Redux
2 9 (9.78%) Spring
2 9 (9.78%) Spring Boot
3 8 (8.70%) REST
4 7 (7.61%) Jest
5 6 (6.52%) CSS3
5 6 (6.52%) HTML5
5 6 (6.52%) RESTful
5 6 (6.52%) Sass
6 3 (3.26%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.17%) JSON
7 2 (2.17%) Next.js
8 1 (1.09%) MassTransit
8 1 (1.09%) Material-UI
8 1 (1.09%) MediatR
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Cyberattack
2 15 (16.30%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.17%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.09%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.09%) Derivative
7 1 (1.09%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.74%) Android
1 20 (21.74%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.35%) Agile
2 22 (23.91%) Line Management
3 21 (22.83%) Design Patterns
4 20 (21.74%) Android Development
4 20 (21.74%) Mathematics
4 20 (21.74%) OO
4 20 (21.74%) OOP
5 17 (18.48%) DevOps
6 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
6 15 (16.30%) Mentoring
7 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.04%) Migration
8 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.96%) Incident Management
10 10 (10.87%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.87%) Customer Service
10 10 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) Java
2 21 (22.83%) Python
3 20 (21.74%) C++
3 20 (21.74%) Go
4 16 (17.39%) SQL
5 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.09%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.74%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.26%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.17%) MOS
6 1 (1.09%) ACCA
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) PMO
3 2 (2.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS
4 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (32.61%) Docker
2 5 (5.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (21.74%) Ansible
2 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.43%) SCCM
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) Salesforce
3 9 (9.78%) Solace
4 5 (5.43%) SAP
4 5 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.43%) Sophos
5 3 (3.26%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.26%) Google
6 1 (1.09%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle