Finance Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Financial
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 34 27
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +20
Permanent jobs citing Finance 12 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 10.91% 2.08% 3.13%
As % of the General category 19.05% 3.51% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £31,150 £31,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £44,875 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +20.37% +103.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £60,500
90th Percentile - - £63,200
Staffordshire median annual salary £45,000 £53,699 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.20% +13.05% -

All General Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 63 114 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 57.27% 59.38% 77.34%
Number of salaries quoted 33 81 87
10th Percentile £26,968 £24,750 £23,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Finance job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Finance
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
1 3 (25.00%) Selenium
1 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 2 (16.67%) Retail
6 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1 (8.33%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Graduate
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Entry Assistant
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Executive
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Business Transformation
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) JPA
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) Redux
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) CSS3
2 2 (16.67%) HTML5
2 2 (16.67%) Jest
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Sass
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Time Management
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (25.00%) SDLC
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Solace
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce