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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 174 258 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.62% 13.02% 14.95%
As % of the General category 27.49% 22.26% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 73 182 74
10th Percentile £26,720 £29,164 £28,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £42,983
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £69,649
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.55% +1.96%

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 633 1,159 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.36% 58.51% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 297 952 331
10th Percentile £24,542 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,375 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +0.75% -0.74%
75th Percentile £55,500 £62,200 £59,875
90th Percentile £72,200 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 30 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 30 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 +2 89 £56,500 +15.90% 352
Durham 0 75 £59,000 +18.00% 12
Northumberland +11 10 £32,851 -12.40% 2
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 4 (2.30%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.15%) Apache
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.57%) iTrent
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.24%) Azure
2 13 (7.47%) AWS
3 7 (4.02%) GCP
4 5 (2.87%) GitHub
4 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
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%) Serverless
7 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.75%) SAN
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) Internet
3 2 (1.15%) NAS
3 2 (1.15%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.15%) WAN
3 2 (1.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.57%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (4.60%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.45%) MySQL
4 5 (2.87%) Tableau
5 4 (2.30%) Dremio
5 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.15%) EDMS
6 2 (1.15%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (3.45%) SonarQube
2 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.87%) JIRA
3 4 (2.30%) Git
3 4 (2.30%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.72%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.72%) GitLab
4 3 (1.72%) Maven
4 3 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.72%) Selenium
4 3 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 96 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (40.80%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (39.08%) Marketing
4 23 (13.22%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.62%) Advertising
5 15 (8.62%) Retail
6 7 (4.02%) Banking
6 7 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.02%) Legal
7 5 (2.87%) Law
8 4 (2.30%) Games
8 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Back Office
9 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.15%) Billing
10 2 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 64 (36.78%) Product Manager
2 63 (36.21%) Development Manager
3 62 (35.63%) Product Development Manager
4 24 (13.79%) Project Manager
5 14 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Developer
7 10 (5.75%) Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Senior
9 6 (3.45%) Administrator
10 5 (2.87%) DBA
10 5 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (2.30%) Lead
11 4 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) SQL DBA
12 3 (1.72%) Graduate Developer
12 3 (1.72%) IT Graduate
12 3 (1.72%) PMO Manager
12 3 (1.72%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.62%) .NET
2 9 (5.17%) CSS
3 8 (4.60%) React
4 7 (4.02%) HTML
5 4 (2.30%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.30%) Node.js
5 4 (2.30%) Spring
5 4 (2.30%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.30%) WebSockets
6 3 (1.72%) JPA
6 3 (1.72%) jQuery
6 3 (1.72%) Kafka
6 3 (1.72%) LAMP
6 3 (1.72%) Laravel
6 3 (1.72%) Redux
6 3 (1.72%) REST
6 3 (1.72%) RESTful
7 2 (1.15%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 84 (48.28%) FMCG
2 22 (12.64%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.87%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.30%) Equities
5 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.72%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.15%) CMDB
7 2 (1.15%) Derivative
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.57%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Windows
2 4 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Solaris
4 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (57.47%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (54.02%) Project Management
3 64 (36.78%) Product Strategy
4 62 (35.63%) Commercialisation
4 62 (35.63%) Competitor Analysis
5 30 (17.24%) Coaching
6 28 (16.09%) Budgeting
7 22 (12.64%) Budget Management
7 22 (12.64%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 22 (12.64%) Lean Manufacturing
7 22 (12.64%) PDCA
7 22 (12.64%) Quality Management
8 19 (10.92%) Agile
9 18 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (9.77%) Computer Science
10 17 (9.77%) Software Engineering
11 15 (8.62%) DevOps
11 15 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (6.90%) CI/CD
13 11 (6.32%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.24%) SQL
2 22 (12.64%) C#
3 19 (10.92%) Java
4 17 (9.77%) Python
5 12 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.02%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.45%) PHP
9 4 (2.30%) C++
10 2 (1.15%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (52.30%) Degree
2 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.72%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.15%) 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%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (40.23%) QA
2 6 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.87%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.30%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) PMBOK
System Software
1 7 (4.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) vSphere
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.17%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Ansible
3 4 (2.30%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.02%) BT
2 7 (4.02%) Oracle
3 6 (3.45%) VMware
4 5 (2.87%) Databricks
4 5 (2.87%) JD Edwards
4 5 (2.87%) Nimble Storage
5 4 (2.30%) Concur
5 4 (2.30%) SAP
6 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.72%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.72%) Capita
6 3 (1.72%) Reuters
6 3 (1.72%) Solace
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco
7 2 (1.15%) Progress
7 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.15%) Sun
8 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.57%) Veeam