Finance Jobs in the North East

Financial
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 175 248 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.12% 13.36% 14.87%
As % of the General category 31.53% 22.59% 24.20%
Number of salaries quoted 75 174 77
10th Percentile £25,200 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,501 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £69,649
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,982 £86,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +2.88%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 555 1,098 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 73.32% 59.16% 61.45%
Number of salaries quoted 281 904 337
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £47,234 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +6.74% -1.67%
75th Percentile £59,250 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North East

Finance
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North East.

Salary trend for Finance in the North East

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North East

Finance
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Tyne and Wear +6 95 £55,750 +14.36% 165
Durham 0 75 £59,000 +21.03% 10
Northumberland +7 5 £35,176 -6.20%
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.14%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) SAS
3 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.57%) iTrent
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.29%) Azure
2 14 (8.00%) AWS
3 7 (4.00%) GCP
4 4 (2.29%) GitHub
4 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.14%) SaaS
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.14%) SAN
2 4 (2.29%) Firewall
3 2 (1.14%) Internet
3 2 (1.14%) NAS
3 2 (1.14%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.14%) WAN
3 2 (1.14%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.14%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.57%) MySQL
4 6 (3.43%) Tableau
5 5 (2.86%) Dremio
6 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.14%) EDMS
7 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) Parquet
8 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Git
1 5 (2.86%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.29%) JIRA
3 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.71%) GitLab
3 3 (1.71%) Maven
3 3 (1.71%) Selenium
3 3 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 94 (53.71%) Social Skills
2 70 (40.00%) Marketing
3 69 (39.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.14%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.57%) Advertising
6 9 (5.14%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Retail
7 8 (4.57%) Legal
8 6 (3.43%) Law
9 5 (2.86%) Games
9 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.29%) Back Office
11 3 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Front Office
12 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (37.14%) Product Manager
2 63 (36.00%) Development Manager
3 62 (35.43%) Product Development Manager
4 24 (13.71%) Project Manager
5 16 (9.14%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.86%) Analyst
6 12 (6.86%) Developer
7 8 (4.57%) Senior
8 6 (3.43%) Administrator
9 5 (2.86%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) DBA
10 4 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (2.29%) Graduate
10 4 (2.29%) PHP Software Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) SQL DBA
11 3 (1.71%) Data Engineer
11 3 (1.71%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
11 3 (1.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.71%) .NET
2 10 (5.71%) CSS
3 8 (4.57%) HTML
4 7 (4.00%) React
5 4 (2.29%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.29%) Kafka
5 4 (2.29%) LAMP
5 4 (2.29%) Laravel
5 4 (2.29%) Node.js
5 4 (2.29%) WebSockets
6 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.71%) JPA
6 3 (1.71%) jQuery
6 3 (1.71%) Redux
6 3 (1.71%) RESTful
6 3 (1.71%) Spring
6 3 (1.71%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.14%) HTML5
7 2 (1.14%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 84 (48.00%) FMCG
2 22 (12.57%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.57%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.86%) Equities
5 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.29%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Windows
2 4 (2.29%) Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Debian
4 1 (0.57%) Solaris
4 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (54.29%) Project Management
3 65 (37.14%) Product Strategy
4 62 (35.43%) Commercialisation
4 62 (35.43%) Competitor Analysis
5 27 (15.43%) Coaching
6 26 (14.86%) Budgeting
7 22 (12.57%) Budget Management
7 22 (12.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 22 (12.57%) Lean Manufacturing
7 22 (12.57%) PDCA
7 22 (12.57%) Quality Management
8 21 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 20 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 16 (9.14%) Agile
11 13 (7.43%) DevOps
12 12 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (5.71%) CI/CD
13 10 (5.71%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.43%) SQL
2 23 (13.14%) C#
3 20 (11.43%) Java
4 19 (10.86%) Python
5 11 (6.29%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.57%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.00%) PHP
9 5 (2.86%) C++
10 2 (1.14%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (54.29%) Degree
2 13 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) CCNA
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) MCSA
5 1 (0.57%) MCSE
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.57%) PhD
5 1 (0.57%) PMP
5 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (40.00%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.29%) GDPR
4 4 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.71%) PMO
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.57%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) vSphere
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.00%) Terraform
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.43%) Databricks
3 5 (2.86%) Nimble Storage
3 5 (2.86%) Oracle
3 5 (2.86%) VMware
4 4 (2.29%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.29%) Reuters
5 3 (1.71%) Capita
5 3 (1.71%) Cisco
5 3 (1.71%) JD Edwards
5 3 (1.71%) SAP
5 3 (1.71%) Solace
6 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.14%) BT
6 2 (1.14%) Concur
6 2 (1.14%) Progress
6 2 (1.14%) Sun
7 1 (0.57%) Juniper
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.57%) Telerik