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 22 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 263 590 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.55% 20.05% 25.88%
As % of the General category 32.75% 32.15% 34.42%
Number of salaries quoted 202 420 572
10th Percentile £25,313 £37,375 £38,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,018 £65,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +12.44% +5.11%
75th Percentile £93,778 £81,250 £76,368
90th Percentile £107,451 £95,154 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £59,869 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -1.74% +5.50%

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 803 1,835 4,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 71.89% 62.37% 75.19%
Number of salaries quoted 510 1,329 1,722
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,528 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -6.31% +15.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,474
90th Percentile £97,528 £87,500 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £49,995 £54,882
% change year-on-year -4.62% -8.90% +15.54%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 0 168 £69,018 +15.03% 82
Halifax 0 85 £71,991 +2.01% 3
Bradford -3 3 £44,700 -20.88% 16
Huddersfield +7 1 £62,500 +47.06%
Mirfield - 1 £45,000 -
Ossett - 1 - -
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 (5.32%) Confluence
2 11 (4.18%) SAS
3 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.14%) CICS
4 3 (1.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.39%) GCP
2 29 (11.03%) Azure
3 17 (6.46%) SaaS
4 16 (6.08%) GitHub
5 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.66%) AWS
7 6 (2.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.14%) Apigee
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.76%) Collibra
10 2 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.38%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.38%) dbt
11 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.38%) OCI
11 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.80%) DKIM
1 10 (3.80%) DMARC
1 10 (3.80%) DNSSEC
1 10 (3.80%) Internet
1 10 (3.80%) SMTP
2 8 (3.04%) Intranet
3 6 (2.28%) Firewall
3 6 (2.28%) LAN
3 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.28%) VPN
4 4 (1.52%) HTTP
4 4 (1.52%) Network Security
4 4 (1.52%) WAN
5 2 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.76%) DHCP
5 2 (0.76%) DNS
5 2 (0.76%) PSTN
5 2 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.51%) NoSQL
2 23 (8.75%) Big Data
3 13 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.80%) Power BI
4 10 (3.80%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.52%) Biml
8 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.14%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.14%) DB2
9 3 (1.14%) MySQL
9 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.14%) Tableau
10 2 (0.76%) Ataccama
10 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (9.13%) Git
2 22 (8.37%) JIRA
3 20 (7.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.28%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.28%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (2.28%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.90%) Spinnaker
6 5 (1.90%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.52%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (1.52%) JUnit
7 4 (1.52%) Maven
7 4 (1.52%) Selenium
8 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.76%) Postman
8 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.38%) Gradle
9 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 195 (74.14%) Banking
2 87 (33.08%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.75%) Legal
5 14 (5.32%) Marketing
6 12 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.42%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.28%) Local Government
8 6 (2.28%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Police
11 2 (0.76%) Publishing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (17.11%) Lead
2 42 (15.97%) Senior
3 35 (13.31%) Architect
4 33 (12.55%) Software Engineer
5 28 (10.65%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (9.89%) Analyst
7 17 (6.46%) Data Analyst
8 15 (5.70%) Graduate
8 15 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.80%) Developer
10 10 (3.80%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.80%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.80%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.42%) Software Manager
12 8 (3.04%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.04%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.66%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.66%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.66%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.13%) Software Packaging
2 16 (6.08%) .NET
3 13 (4.94%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.18%) Spring
5 10 (3.80%) React
6 8 (3.04%) .NET Framework
6 8 (3.04%) Node.js
7 7 (2.66%) HTML
7 7 (2.66%) JWT
7 7 (2.66%) OAuth
7 7 (2.66%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.66%) XML
8 6 (2.28%) Express.js
8 6 (2.28%) Kafka
8 6 (2.28%) RESTful
8 6 (2.28%) SOAP
9 4 (1.52%) CSS
9 4 (1.52%) XSLT
10 3 (1.14%) J2EE
10 3 (1.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.77%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.27%) Management Information System
3 19 (7.22%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.84%) Credit Risk
5 17 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.32%) Learning Management System
6 14 (5.32%) Private Cloud
7 12 (4.56%) Algorithms
7 12 (4.56%) Mainframe
8 10 (3.80%) Hackathon
9 9 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (3.04%) Market Risk
10 8 (3.04%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.28%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.90%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.52%) Clustering
13 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.60%) Windows
2 9 (3.42%) zOS
3 7 (2.66%) Linux
3 7 (2.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (44.87%) Agile
2 94 (35.74%) Software Engineering
3 76 (28.90%) DevOps
4 62 (23.57%) Analytics
5 54 (20.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 52 (19.77%) Mathematics
7 50 (19.01%) Microservices
7 50 (19.01%) Risk Management
8 48 (18.25%) Fintech
9 46 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (15.97%) Line Management
10 42 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.59%) CI/CD
11 41 (15.59%) Mentoring
12 38 (14.45%) Containerisation
13 36 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (13.31%) Test Automation
15 34 (12.93%) Visualisation
16 33 (12.55%) Decision-Making
17 31 (11.79%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (24.33%) SQL
2 51 (19.39%) Java
3 37 (14.07%) Python
4 22 (8.37%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.98%) C#
6 10 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.66%) R
8 6 (2.28%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.28%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.52%) Bash
9 4 (1.52%) C
9 4 (1.52%) Jython
9 4 (1.52%) Perl
9 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.14%) Groovy
10 3 (1.14%) JCL
10 3 (1.14%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.76%) COBOL
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (30.04%) Degree
2 17 (6.46%) Master's Degree
3 14 (5.32%) PhD
4 6 (2.28%) PMP
4 6 (2.28%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.52%) ACCA
6 4 (1.52%) CCAB
6 4 (1.52%) CIMA
6 4 (1.52%) CIPFA
6 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.52%) ICAEW
6 4 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.14%) OCP
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.76%) CCNA
8 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (3.04%) Basel III
2 8 (3.04%) GDPR
2 8 (3.04%) IFRS
2 8 (3.04%) IFRS 9
2 8 (3.04%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.66%) Basel II
3 7 (2.66%) Dodd-Frank
4 6 (2.28%) QA
5 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 41 (15.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.66%) Terraform
3 6 (2.28%) Istio
4 3 (1.14%) Ansible
4 3 (1.14%) Argo
4 3 (1.14%) Grafana
4 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.76%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (0.38%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 33 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.46%) IBM
3 13 (4.94%) Cisco
4 12 (4.56%) Google
5 10 (3.80%) IronPort
5 10 (3.80%) Veritas
6 9 (3.42%) Oracle
7 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.52%) VMware
9 3 (1.14%) Adobe
9 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.76%) BMC
10 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.76%) SAP
10 2 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.38%) CODA
11 1 (0.38%) Concur
11 1 (0.38%) Meraki