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 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 2 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 56 106 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 21.79% 14.21% 18.88%
As % of the General category 27.86% 28.73% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 54 60
10th Percentile £37,676 £31,975 £35,606
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,650 £60,313
90th Percentile £69,500 £90,000 £87,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 201 369 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 78.21% 49.46% 58.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47 181 185
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,250 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £69,125 £62,200 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,833 £87,500 £75,750
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 30 May 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 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
County Antrim +7 37 £55,000 +37.50% 379
County Londonderry - 8 - - 1
County Down +1 7 £32,851 -22.70% 2
Newry +2 5 £32,851 -22.70%
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 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.93%) Apache
2 5 (8.93%) nginx
2 5 (8.93%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Primavera
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.57%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) AWS
2 5 (8.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (8.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.36%) Azure
4 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) IPsec
2 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) Apache Hive
2 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.93%) Big Data
4 4 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 4 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.57%) DB2
6 1 (1.79%) HBase
6 1 (1.79%) Impala
6 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.93%) Cucumber
2 5 (8.93%) JUnit
2 5 (8.93%) Maven
2 5 (8.93%) Mockito
2 5 (8.93%) Postman
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
2 5 (8.93%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.93%) TestNG
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
2 10 (17.86%) Retail
3 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.71%) Advertising
5 6 (10.71%) Legal
6 5 (8.93%) Banking
7 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.79%) Billing
8 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Analyst
2 10 (17.86%) Project Manager
3 8 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) Apache Spark Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Financial Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Manager
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Operations Manager
6 4 (7.14%) Risk Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Credit Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Database Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL Developer
8 2 (3.57%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) Spring
1 12 (21.43%) Spring Boot
2 11 (19.64%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.93%) Gherkin
3 5 (8.93%) Guice
3 5 (8.93%) JAX-RS
3 5 (8.93%) Mustache
3 5 (8.93%) OpenAPI
3 5 (8.93%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) RESTful
3 5 (8.93%) Swagger
3 5 (8.93%) WireMock
4 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 4 (7.14%) J2EE
4 4 (7.14%) Java EE
5 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.36%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) FMCG
1 5 (8.93%) Life Science
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Derivative
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) Project Management
4 10 (17.86%) Multithreading
5 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.07%) OO
5 9 (16.07%) OOP
6 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Coaching
7 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.71%) BDD
8 6 (10.71%) Code Quality
9 5 (8.93%) Auto-Scaling
9 5 (8.93%) Dependency Injection
9 5 (8.93%) DevOps
9 5 (8.93%) Innovative Thinking
9 5 (8.93%) Low Latency
9 5 (8.93%) MVC
9 5 (8.93%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) Java
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 6 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) Python
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 4 (7.14%) CISA
1 4 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (7.14%) CISSP
1 4 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.79%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.57%) QA
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Ansible
2 6 (10.71%) Terraform
3 5 (8.93%) Kustomize
3 5 (8.93%) Packer
4 3 (5.36%) Control-M
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Grafana
5 2 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Oracle
3 5 (8.93%) BT
3 5 (8.93%) Google
3 5 (8.93%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.93%) SAP
4 4 (7.14%) Sybase
5 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.57%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.57%) JD Edwards
5 2 (3.57%) NEC
5 2 (3.57%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.79%) BMC
6 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow