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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 904 1,670 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.88% 18.57% 13.78%
As % of the General category 34.84% 28.01% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 560 950 815
10th Percentile £36,138 £33,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,350 £43,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,715 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All General Skills
North West

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,595 5,963 4,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 62.82% 66.29% 55.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 3,257 3,083
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,746 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,056 £84,056 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +2 568 £65,000 +9.20% 335
Merseyside +15 150 £55,440 -7.60% 75
Cheshire +12 117 £59,556 +19.11% 99
Lancashire -7 35 £55,440 +16.72% 44
Cumbria -3 30 £50,000 +5.26% 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 13 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.33%) Confluence
3 11 (1.22%) SAS
4 7 (0.77%) CMS
4 7 (0.77%) Jetty
4 7 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.44%) Captiva
6 4 (0.44%) FileNet
6 4 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.22%) MS Exchange
8 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.11%) InDesign
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (4.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (3.32%) NetSuite
3 17 (1.88%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.66%) Visualfiles
7 5 (0.55%) Demantra
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle ASCP
7 5 (0.55%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.44%) Cloudability
8 4 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.33%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.33%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.33%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 236 (26.11%) Azure
2 120 (13.27%) Power Platform
3 110 (12.17%) GCP
4 94 (10.40%) SaaS
5 82 (9.07%) PaaS
6 81 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
7 79 (8.74%) IaaS
8 74 (8.19%) AWS
9 52 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (4.98%) GitHub
11 42 (4.65%) Serverless
12 37 (4.09%) Azure Functions
13 24 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (0.88%) Boomi
16 8 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 7 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
18 6 (0.66%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.32%) Firewall
2 16 (1.77%) Internet
3 7 (0.77%) LAN
3 7 (0.77%) WAN
4 5 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (0.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (0.44%) Network Security
6 3 (0.33%) DMZ
6 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.33%) VPN
6 3 (0.33%) Wireless
7 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) DNS
7 2 (0.22%) HTTP
7 2 (0.22%) NAS
7 2 (0.22%) SAN
7 2 (0.22%) SMS
7 2 (0.22%) VoIP
8 1 (0.11%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (4.31%) Power BI
3 34 (3.76%) Data Lake
4 29 (3.21%) NoSQL
5 27 (2.99%) MySQL
5 27 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.99%) Tableau
8 16 (1.77%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.44%) Big Data
9 13 (1.44%) Metadata
10 12 (1.33%) BigQuery
10 12 (1.33%) Data Hub
10 12 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.77%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.66%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 47 (5.20%) Jenkins
2 46 (5.09%) Git
3 21 (2.32%) Spinnaker
4 19 (2.10%) JIRA
5 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 8 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.33%) Jasmine
8 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 305 (33.74%) Banking
2 300 (33.19%) Social Skills
3 97 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (7.30%) Retail
6 47 (5.20%) Legal
7 40 (4.42%) Marketing
8 39 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.76%) Law
10 33 (3.65%) Public Sector
11 28 (3.10%) Games
12 27 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (2.10%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.99%) Retail Banking
16 14 (1.55%) Back Office
17 7 (0.77%) Advertising
18 5 (0.55%) Electronics
18 5 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 227 (25.11%) Architect
2 109 (12.06%) Senior
3 87 (9.62%) Analyst
4 77 (8.52%) Solutions Architect
5 71 (7.85%) Lead
6 69 (7.63%) Software Engineer
7 68 (7.52%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 61 (6.75%) Developer
8 61 (6.75%) Enterprise Architect
9 59 (6.53%) Consultant
10 49 (5.42%) Project Manager
11 36 (3.98%) CRM Architect
11 36 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM Architect
12 35 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (3.32%) Security Architect
14 26 (2.88%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
15 25 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
17 22 (2.43%) Functional Consultant
18 21 (2.32%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.75%) HTML
2 49 (5.42%) .NET
3 45 (4.98%) Node.js
4 39 (4.31%) CSS
5 37 (4.09%) React
6 34 (3.76%) Kafka
7 33 (3.65%) RESTful
8 21 (2.32%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.32%) OpenID
8 21 (2.32%) REST
8 21 (2.32%) Spring
9 15 (1.66%) HTML5
10 14 (1.55%) CSS3
11 13 (1.44%) Express.js
11 13 (1.44%) JSON
12 12 (1.33%) jQuery
12 12 (1.33%) MEAN Stack
12 12 (1.33%) MERN Stack
13 10 (1.11%) SOAP
14 9 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.64%) Public Cloud
2 59 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (3.65%) Cyberattack
5 28 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 27 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
6 27 (2.99%) Mainframe
7 26 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.32%) Blockchain
9 16 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.77%) Online Banking
10 15 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.55%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.33%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.77%) Credit Risk
15 7 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
16 6 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.65%) Linux
2 31 (3.43%) Unix
3 23 (2.54%) Windows
4 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.66%) Solaris
6 5 (0.55%) HPUX
6 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (49.34%) Agile
2 188 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
3 172 (19.03%) Roadmaps
4 149 (16.48%) DevOps
5 134 (14.82%) Actionable Insight
6 119 (13.16%) Software Engineering
7 109 (12.06%) Mentoring
8 99 (10.95%) Analytics
9 93 (10.29%) Microservices
10 87 (9.62%) Machine Learning
11 78 (8.63%) Coaching
12 76 (8.41%) CI/CD
13 75 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
13 75 (8.30%) Migration
14 74 (8.19%) Project Delivery
15 72 (7.96%) CRM
16 69 (7.63%) Customer Service
17 68 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
18 66 (7.30%) Strategic Roadmap
19 63 (6.97%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 134 (14.82%) SQL
2 105 (11.62%) Python
3 99 (10.95%) Java
4 63 (6.97%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.98%) C#
6 29 (3.21%) Go
7 26 (2.88%) T-SQL
8 24 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.54%) Rust
10 19 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.33%) Bash
13 8 (0.88%) Scala
14 6 (0.66%) Bicep
14 6 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.55%) Groovy
16 4 (0.44%) R
17 3 (0.33%) PHP
18 2 (0.22%) C
18 2 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 65 (7.19%) Degree
3 33 (3.65%) DV Cleared
4 30 (3.32%) AWS Certification
5 23 (2.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
5 23 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.44%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.88%) ACCA
10 8 (0.88%) OCP
10 8 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.66%) CISM
11 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.55%) CISSP
12 5 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.65%) GDPR
2 21 (2.32%) QA
3 14 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.44%) IFRS
5 11 (1.22%) GAAP
6 9 (1.00%) PMO
6 9 (1.00%) SLA
7 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.33%) NIST
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.11%) Basel III
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.11%) GLBA
11 1 (0.11%) GMP
11 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (4.98%) Docker
2 30 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.65%) Terraform
3 18 (1.99%) Ansible
4 7 (0.77%) Istio
5 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.33%) SCCM
7 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.11%) CloudForms
8 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 149 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.98%) Oracle
3 37 (4.09%) Google
4 32 (3.54%) SAP
5 22 (2.43%) IBM
5 22 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.88%) Hyperion
7 14 (1.55%) Confluent
7 14 (1.55%) Splunk
8 13 (1.44%) Cisco
9 10 (1.11%) CA
10 9 (1.00%) Sun
11 8 (0.88%) Databricks
11 8 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.88%) VMware
12 7 (0.77%) Citrix
13 6 (0.66%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.66%) F5
14 5 (0.55%) HP