Finance Jobs in West Yorkshire

Financial
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 266 499 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.35% 16.18% 25.50%
As % of the General category 26.84% 27.69% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 178 339 530
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £25,313 £44,250 £46,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,692 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £97,521 £78,375 £73,474
90th Percentile £140,677 £95,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £58,200 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +2.73% +4.76%

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 991 1,802 3,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 72.07% 58.41% 74.23%
Number of salaries quoted 532 1,326 1,576
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £32,323
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -8.90% +9.76%
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,982 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.77% +3.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in West Yorkshire

Finance
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +2 163 £69,018 +15.03% 346
Halifax 0 63 £71,991 +2.01%
Pontefract -2 9 - - 1
Huddersfield +16 7 - - 2
Wetherby - 7 - -
Bradford -12 3 £44,700 -20.88% 295
Knottingley -6 2 - -
Castleford - 2 - -
Brighouse - 1 - -
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Todmorden - 1 - -
Mirfield - 1 £45,000 -
Finance
Yorkshire

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 14 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (2.26%) SAS
3 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) CICS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.79%) GCP
2 25 (9.40%) Azure
3 12 (4.51%) SaaS
4 10 (3.76%) GitHub
5 7 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.26%) AWS
6 6 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.75%) Apigee
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.38%) dbt
9 1 (0.38%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.38%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.63%) Intranet
2 5 (1.88%) DKIM
2 5 (1.88%) DMARC
2 5 (1.88%) DNSSEC
2 5 (1.88%) Internet
2 5 (1.88%) SMTP
3 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.50%) VPN
4 2 (0.75%) BGP
4 2 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.75%) DHCP
4 2 (0.75%) Firewall
4 2 (0.75%) IPsec
4 2 (0.75%) OSPF
4 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.75%) VLAN
4 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.02%) Big Data
2 21 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 12 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.76%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.26%) Power BI
8 5 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.50%) Biml
9 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.13%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.13%) MySQL
10 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.38%) DB2
11 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (8.65%) JIRA
2 17 (6.39%) Git
3 12 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.26%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.88%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.13%) Selenium
8 2 (0.75%) JUnit
8 2 (0.75%) Maven
8 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.38%) JDeveloper
General
1 154 (57.89%) Banking
2 92 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.28%) Manufacturing
5 16 (6.02%) Marketing
6 15 (5.64%) Legal
7 10 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.38%) Retail Banking
9 7 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.13%) Law
10 3 (1.13%) Local Government
11 2 (0.75%) Police
11 2 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (14.66%) Senior
2 37 (13.91%) Architect
3 35 (13.16%) Lead
4 32 (12.03%) Analyst
5 28 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 28 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 28 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 27 (10.15%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.38%) Software Manager
10 7 (2.63%) CRM Executive
10 7 (2.63%) Developer
11 6 (2.26%) Compliance Analyst
11 6 (2.26%) Customer Executive
11 6 (2.26%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.26%) Engineering Manager
11 6 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.26%) Quality Engineer
11 6 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.02%) Software Packaging
2 14 (5.26%) .NET
3 10 (3.76%) React
3 10 (3.76%) Spring
3 10 (3.76%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.01%) Node.js
5 7 (2.63%) JWT
5 7 (2.63%) OAuth
5 7 (2.63%) OAuth2
6 6 (2.26%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.26%) Express.js
6 6 (2.26%) Kafka
7 5 (1.88%) HTML
7 5 (1.88%) RESTful
8 3 (1.13%) CSS
8 3 (1.13%) Django
8 3 (1.13%) J2EE
8 3 (1.13%) JSR 170
8 3 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.13%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.80%) Management Information System
2 43 (16.17%) Product Ownership
3 29 (10.90%) FMCG
4 28 (10.53%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 28 (10.53%) Operational Technology
5 17 (6.39%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 12 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.76%) Mainframe
9 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
10 9 (3.38%) Credit Risk
11 7 (2.63%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.26%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.88%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.50%) Cyberattack
14 4 (1.50%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.14%) Windows
2 7 (2.63%) zOS
3 4 (1.50%) Linux
4 3 (1.13%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (38.35%) Agile
2 79 (29.70%) Software Engineering
3 67 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 64 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (22.56%) DevOps
6 54 (20.30%) Mathematics
7 52 (19.55%) Risk Management
8 50 (18.80%) Analytics
9 45 (16.92%) Microservices
10 44 (16.54%) Mentoring
11 43 (16.17%) Line Management
12 42 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 40 (15.04%) Fintech
14 36 (13.53%) CI/CD
15 33 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (12.41%) Data Analytics
16 30 (11.28%) Containerisation
17 29 (10.90%) Budgeting
17 29 (10.90%) Decision-Making
18 28 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.67%) SQL
2 43 (16.17%) Java
3 21 (7.89%) Python
4 16 (6.02%) C#
5 15 (5.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.26%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.50%) Go
8 4 (1.50%) PHP
8 4 (1.50%) R
8 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.13%) C++
9 3 (1.13%) Groovy
10 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.75%) SOQL
10 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 67 (25.19%) Degree
2 28 (10.53%) HNC
3 8 (3.01%) ACCA
3 8 (3.01%) CCAB
3 8 (3.01%) CIMA
3 8 (3.01%) CIPFA
3 8 (3.01%) ICAEW
3 8 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.13%) OCP
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CCNA
7 2 (0.75%) PhD
8 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.26%) EMIR
1 6 (2.26%) GDPR
1 6 (2.26%) MiFID
1 6 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (1.88%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.50%) Basel II
3 4 (1.50%) Basel III
3 4 (1.50%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (1.50%) IFRS
3 4 (1.50%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.13%) SLA
5 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.75%) COBIT
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
5 2 (0.75%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (15.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.88%) Ansible
2 5 (1.88%) Istio
2 5 (1.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.13%) Argo
3 3 (1.13%) Grafana
3 3 (1.13%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 28 (10.53%) Rockwell
1 28 (10.53%) Siemens
2 24 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.14%) IBM
4 10 (3.76%) Oracle
4 10 (3.76%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.01%) Cisco
6 5 (1.88%) Google
6 5 (1.88%) IronPort
6 5 (1.88%) Veritas
7 3 (1.13%) Adobe
7 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.75%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
9 1 (0.38%) Intapp
9 1 (0.38%) Okta
9 1 (0.38%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.38%) Workday