Finance Jobs in the North West

Financial
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,100 1,006 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.31% 20.85% 17.64%
As % of the General category 24.09% 33.16% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 507 623 981
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,306 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,249 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +9.54% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £70,813
90th Percentile £85,650 £87,419 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,567 3,034 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 55.26% 62.87% 63.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,088 1,942 3,342
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £52,500 £50,748
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +3.45% +6.84%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £65,719
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £82,500
England median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Finance in the North West

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North West over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North West

Finance
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 October 2024. 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
Manchester +1 673 £57,500 -11.54% 197
Lancashire -3 145 £51,238 -12.79% 38
Merseyside -1 105 £60,000 +13.21% 33
Cheshire -9 92 £50,000 -15.61% 37
Cumbria -6 78 £56,000 +21.08% 11
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 36 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.27%) SAS
3 18 (1.64%) Confluence
4 11 (1.00%) Apache
4 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.73%) IIS
6 8 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.36%) Mule
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 133 (12.09%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (8.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 76 (6.91%) NEC Housing
2 12 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.73%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.36%) Primavera
7 4 (0.36%) Shopify
8 3 (0.27%) BPCS
8 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.27%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.27%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.18%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.091%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.091%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 126 (11.45%) Azure
2 65 (5.91%) AWS
3 42 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
3 42 (3.82%) Power Platform
4 37 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 18 (1.64%) GitHub
7 18 (1.64%) Serverless
8 16 (1.45%) SaaS
9 15 (1.36%) Power Automate
10 11 (1.00%) Azure Functions
11 10 (0.91%) Figma
12 9 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (0.82%) GCP
12 9 (0.82%) Google Analytics
13 8 (0.73%) OCI
14 7 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.64%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.45%) Firewall
2 7 (0.64%) Internet
2 7 (0.64%) LAN
2 7 (0.64%) VPN
2 7 (0.64%) WAN
3 5 (0.45%) Broadband
4 4 (0.36%) NGFW
5 3 (0.27%) IPsec
6 2 (0.18%) HTTP
6 2 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.18%) SNMP
6 2 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.18%) Wireless
7 1 (0.091%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.091%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.091%) Intranet
7 1 (0.091%) NAS
7 1 (0.091%) OSPF
7 1 (0.091%) SAN
7 1 (0.091%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (3.00%) Power BI
3 23 (2.09%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.91%) Data Lake
5 20 (1.82%) Metadata
5 20 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 18 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (1.64%) Tableau
7 16 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
8 12 (1.09%) Data Mining
8 12 (1.09%) DTS
9 11 (1.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.64%) Oracle Database 12c
12 6 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.45%) MySQL
14 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (3.45%) JIRA
2 12 (1.09%) Git
3 7 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.45%) Postman
5 4 (0.36%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.18%) RStudio
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.18%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.091%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.091%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.091%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.091%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.091%) Selenium
7 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.091%) Subversion
7 1 (0.091%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.091%) WebDriver
General
1 394 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 182 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (10.91%) Retail
4 110 (10.00%) Legal
5 91 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 84 (7.64%) Local Government
7 80 (7.27%) Police
8 77 (7.00%) Banking
9 63 (5.73%) Manufacturing
10 53 (4.82%) Marketing
10 53 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (4.36%) Law
12 37 (3.36%) Social Housing
13 33 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (2.36%) Billing
16 23 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (1.64%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.55%) Back Office
19 9 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 203 (18.45%) Analyst
2 173 (15.73%) Senior
3 144 (13.09%) Project Manager
4 94 (8.55%) Consultant
5 78 (7.09%) Architect
5 78 (7.09%) Developer
5 78 (7.09%) Development Manager
6 67 (6.09%) Business Manager
7 55 (5.00%) Business Development Manager
7 55 (5.00%) Lead
8 51 (4.64%) Financial Analyst
9 40 (3.64%) Implementation Consultant
9 40 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
9 40 (3.64%) Senior Manager
10 36 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (2.64%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (2.45%) Service Analyst
13 26 (2.36%) Data Engineer
13 26 (2.36%) Senior Developer
14 25 (2.27%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.45%) .NET
2 20 (1.82%) REST
2 20 (1.82%) Web Services
3 18 (1.64%) CSS
3 18 (1.64%) HTML
3 18 (1.64%) React
4 12 (1.09%) PySpark
5 10 (0.91%) XML
6 8 (0.73%) Node.js
6 8 (0.73%) RESTful
7 7 (0.64%) .NET Framework
7 7 (0.64%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (0.55%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.55%) Kafka
8 6 (0.55%) Laravel
8 6 (0.55%) SOAP
9 5 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.45%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
2 56 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 31 (2.82%) Housing Association
4 21 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 20 (1.82%) Credit Risk
6 19 (1.73%) Mobile App
6 19 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.64%) Social Media
8 17 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.09%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
11 10 (0.91%) e-Learning
11 10 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.64%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.91%) Windows
2 50 (4.55%) Unix
3 34 (3.09%) Linux
4 24 (2.18%) Solaris
5 20 (1.82%) Windows Vista
6 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Android
7 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (18.82%) Agile
2 199 (18.09%) Project Management
3 152 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (11.36%) Decision-Making
5 118 (10.73%) Roadmaps
6 116 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 114 (10.36%) Coaching
8 103 (9.36%) Project Delivery
9 97 (8.82%) Business Development
10 85 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 84 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
12 81 (7.36%) DevOps
12 81 (7.36%) Mentoring
13 79 (7.18%) Risk Management
14 76 (6.91%) Analytics
15 71 (6.45%) Budgeting and Forecasting
16 69 (6.27%) Logistics
16 69 (6.27%) Strategic Planning
17 67 (6.09%) Customer Service
18 63 (5.73%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 189 (17.18%) SQL
2 75 (6.82%) Python
3 46 (4.18%) C#
4 35 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.09%) PHP
7 10 (0.91%) Java
7 10 (0.91%) T-SQL
8 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.73%) C++
9 8 (0.73%) R
9 8 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.64%) VB.NET
11 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.36%) Bash
13 3 (0.27%) C
13 3 (0.27%) RPG
13 3 (0.27%) RPG IV
14 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (14.55%) Degree
2 85 (7.73%) DBS Check
3 61 (5.55%) ACCA
4 49 (4.45%) CIMA
5 45 (4.09%) Security Cleared
6 24 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.82%) PMP
9 19 (1.73%) SC Cleared
10 17 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.45%) HNC
12 13 (1.18%) CFA
13 12 (1.09%) HND
14 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 10 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.82%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.73%) AAT
18 7 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
19 5 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 42 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.82%) QA
3 29 (2.64%) GDPR
4 22 (2.00%) ISO 9001
5 20 (1.82%) PMO
6 14 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.00%) SLA
8 9 (0.82%) IFRS
8 9 (0.82%) NIST
9 8 (0.73%) GAAP
10 6 (0.55%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.36%) EMIR
11 4 (0.36%) MiFID
12 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.27%) NCSC
13 2 (0.18%) COBIT
13 2 (0.18%) ITGC
14 1 (0.091%) GRC
14 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 31 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.91%) Docker
3 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) RACF
4 10 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.36%) vSphere
7 1 (0.091%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (2.00%) Terraform
2 15 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.91%) Ansible
5 7 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.55%) SCCM
7 4 (0.36%) Grafana
8 3 (0.27%) Puppet
8 3 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.18%) Packer
9 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.091%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.091%) CloudForms
10 1 (0.091%) vRealize
Vendors
1 243 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.18%) NEC
3 50 (4.55%) Oracle
4 37 (3.36%) SAP
5 19 (1.73%) Citrix
6 17 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.45%) IBM
8 15 (1.36%) Databricks
8 15 (1.36%) Google
8 15 (1.36%) Informatica
9 14 (1.27%) VMware
10 13 (1.18%) CyberArk
11 8 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 8 (0.73%) Cognos
12 7 (0.64%) Arqiva
12 7 (0.64%) Remedy
12 7 (0.64%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.55%) Aderant
13 6 (0.55%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.55%) Palo Alto