Finance Job Trends 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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 175 173 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 9.85% 31.40% 13.14%
As % of the General category 20.54% 45.65% 22.15%
Number of salaries quoted 113 72 174
10th Percentile £28,400 £25,050 £30,375
25th Percentile £33,250 £36,188 £40,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +15.08% -9.28%

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 general skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 852 379 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 47.95% 68.78% 59.32%
Number of salaries quoted 482 215 901
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,087 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.87%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Finance job vacancy trend in the North East

Finance
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North East over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

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 17 April 2026. 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 -2 151 £40,000 -29.20% 54
Durham -21 21 £75,000 +37.61% 14
Northumberland +3 2 - - 3
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.86%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Shopify
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.57%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.43%) Azure
2 14 (8.00%) AWS
3 10 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.86%) Serverless
6 4 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.71%) GCP
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.14%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.14%) Vertex AI
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.57%) IaaS
9 1 (0.57%) PaaS
9 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Network Security
1 2 (1.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.14%) Tableau
2 13 (7.43%) Data Mining
3 9 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (4.00%) Power BI
6 5 (2.86%) Big Data
7 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Git
1 5 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (2.29%) JIRA
3 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.14%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.14%) Retail
5 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Marketing
9 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.14%) Billing
9 2 (1.14%) Electronics
9 2 (1.14%) French Language
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (23.43%) Analyst
2 36 (20.57%) Trainee
3 28 (16.00%) Trainee Analyst
4 21 (12.00%) Developer
5 17 (9.71%) Business Analyst
5 17 (9.71%) Senior
6 15 (8.57%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 13 (7.43%) Architect
7 13 (7.43%) Data Analyst
7 13 (7.43%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 12 (6.86%) Head of QA
9 10 (5.71%) Accountant
10 9 (5.14%) Lead
11 7 (4.00%) Graduate
11 7 (4.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Project Manager
12 6 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (2.86%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.29%) .NET
2 16 (9.14%) .NET Core
3 6 (3.43%) Node.js
4 5 (2.86%) Hugging Face
4 5 (2.86%) Matplotlib
4 5 (2.86%) NumPy
4 5 (2.86%) Pandas
4 5 (2.86%) scikit-learn
4 5 (2.86%) Streamlit
5 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.29%) CSS
5 4 (2.29%) HTML
6 3 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.71%) React
7 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.14%) RESTful
7 2 (1.14%) Spring
7 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.14%) Vue
8 1 (0.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (9.14%) Hedge funds
3 6 (3.43%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.86%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.86%) Social Network
5 4 (2.29%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.71%) Animation
6 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.71%) Photography
7 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.14%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.14%) Life Science
7 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 4 (2.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (21.14%) Analytics
3 36 (20.57%) Project Management
4 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (17.14%) Business Analysis
5 30 (17.14%) Change Management
6 28 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 23 (13.14%) AI
7 23 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (10.86%) Fintech
9 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (10.29%) Data Analysis
10 18 (10.29%) Decision-Making
11 17 (9.71%) PRINCE2
12 16 (9.14%) Customer Experience
12 16 (9.14%) Roadmaps
13 15 (8.57%) Agile
13 15 (8.57%) Data Analytics
14 14 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.57%) Python
1 29 (16.57%) SQL
2 19 (10.86%) C#
3 7 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.86%) Java
5 4 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.14%) VB
8 1 (0.57%) C++
8 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.86%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) IRCA
3 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.43%) ACCA
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.29%) PMP
7 3 (1.71%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.14%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) CCSP
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) QA
2 12 (6.86%) GDPR
2 12 (6.86%) ISO 9001
3 8 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.86%) GAAP
4 5 (2.86%) IFRS
5 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.57%) P3O
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
1 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.71%) Control-M
1 3 (1.71%) Grafana
1 3 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.57%) Ansible
3 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.57%) SCCM
3 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) Oracle
3 4 (2.29%) Calypso
4 3 (1.71%) Adobe
4 3 (1.71%) Databricks
4 3 (1.71%) Xero
5 2 (1.14%) Workday
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.57%) BMC
6 1 (0.57%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) SAP
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Snow
6 1 (0.57%) VMware