Finance Jobs in Northern Ireland

Financial
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 53 113 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 20.87% 14.32% 20.36%
As % of the General category 27.60% 28.61% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20 56 54
10th Percentile £32,666 £32,125 £35,269
25th Percentile £40,088 £33,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,188 £60,550 £62,188
90th Percentile £69,500 £90,000 £88,375
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 192 395 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.59% 50.06% 55.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52 194 175
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,375 £33,500 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,500 £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £89,833 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Northern Ireland

Finance
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
County Antrim +7 38 £55,000 +37.50% 147
County Londonderry - 8 - - 1
Newry +2 6 £32,851 -22.70%
County Down +2 6 £32,851 -22.70% 2
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 6 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.43%) Apache
2 5 (9.43%) nginx
2 5 (9.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Primavera
2 1 (1.89%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) AWS
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure
4 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.32%) Apache Hive
2 6 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.43%) Big Data
4 4 (7.55%) Hadoop
4 4 (7.55%) MySQL
4 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.77%) DB2
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) HBase
6 1 (1.89%) Impala
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
2 5 (9.43%) Cucumber
2 5 (9.43%) JUnit
2 5 (9.43%) Maven
2 5 (9.43%) Mockito
2 5 (9.43%) Postman
2 5 (9.43%) Selenium
2 5 (9.43%) SonarQube
2 5 (9.43%) TestNG
3 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Retail
3 10 (18.87%) Manufacturing
4 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (13.21%) Banking
5 7 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (11.32%) Advertising
6 6 (11.32%) Financial Institution
6 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (9.43%) Legal
8 4 (7.55%) Billing
9 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (16.98%) Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Java Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Financial Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Operations Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Risk Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Accounts Receivable Specialist
6 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Database Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Database Developer
7 2 (3.77%) SQL Developer
8 1 (1.89%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) Spring
1 12 (22.64%) Spring Boot
2 11 (20.75%) Kafka
3 5 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.43%) Gherkin
3 5 (9.43%) Guice
3 5 (9.43%) JAX-RS
3 5 (9.43%) Mustache
3 5 (9.43%) OpenAPI
3 5 (9.43%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) RESTful
3 5 (9.43%) Swagger
3 5 (9.43%) WireMock
4 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
4 4 (7.55%) J2EE
4 4 (7.55%) Java EE
5 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.66%) JSON
6 2 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) FMCG
1 5 (9.43%) Life Science
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) Derivative
5 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (18.87%) Multithreading
4 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) OO
4 9 (16.98%) OOP
5 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
6 7 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (13.21%) Project Management
7 6 (11.32%) BDD
7 6 (11.32%) Coaching
7 6 (11.32%) Code Quality
7 6 (11.32%) Customer Experience
7 6 (11.32%) Customer Service
7 6 (11.32%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.32%) Fintech
7 6 (11.32%) Risk Management
8 5 (9.43%) Information Security
8 5 (9.43%) MVC
8 5 (9.43%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) Java
2 10 (18.87%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) PL/SQL
4 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Python
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (7.55%) CISA
1 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (7.55%) CISSP
1 4 (7.55%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (7.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) RIBA
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Ansible
2 5 (9.43%) Kustomize
2 5 (9.43%) Packer
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Control-M
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) BT
3 5 (9.43%) Google
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.43%) SAP
4 4 (7.55%) Sybase
5 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.89%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.89%) BMC
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow