Finance Job Trends in Yorkshire

Financial
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 630 457 769
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.42% 16.75% 12.01%
As % of the General category 21.08% 22.98% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 452 246 526
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,913 £41,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,200 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +5.82% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £85,000
England median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% +7.69% -6.40%

All General Skills
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 general skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,989 1,989 3,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 44.69% 72.88% 54.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 969 2,563
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -7.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Finance
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in Yorkshire

Finance
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -4 361 £62,500 -3.85% 131
South Yorkshire -6 133 £42,500 +21.43% 71
East Yorkshire -9 53 £45,000 -28.00% 9
North Yorkshire -3 40 £64,000 +16.80% 16
Humberside - 20 £50,000 - 10
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 25 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.75%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.63%) Moodle
4 3 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
Applications
1 59 (9.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.11%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.95%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 4 (0.63%) iTrent
6 4 (0.63%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.63%) SAP MDG-BP
6 4 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.32%) Magento
7 2 (0.32%) Odoo
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 70 (11.11%) SaaS
2 46 (7.30%) Azure
2 46 (7.30%) Power Platform
3 29 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
4 28 (4.44%) AWS
5 25 (3.97%) PowerApps
6 24 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (3.81%) Power Automate
7 17 (2.70%) OneDrive
8 11 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (0.95%) Serverless
11 5 (0.79%) GCP
11 5 (0.79%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.63%) Boomi
12 4 (0.63%) Figma
12 4 (0.63%) Google Sheets
12 4 (0.63%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.44%) Internet
2 24 (3.81%) Broadband
3 4 (0.63%) VoIP
3 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.32%) Firewall
4 2 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) BGP
5 1 (0.16%) Junos
5 1 (0.16%) MPLS
5 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) OSPF
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.03%) Power BI
2 22 (3.49%) Tableau
3 14 (2.22%) Data Mining
4 7 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.11%) Metadata
4 7 (1.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.48%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.32%) OLAP
8 2 (0.32%) Power Query
8 2 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.32%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.16%) DataStage
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.16%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 17 (2.70%) JIRA
2 12 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.63%) GitLab
3 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.48%) Git
5 2 (0.32%) ERwin
5 2 (0.32%) JUnit
5 2 (0.32%) Postman
5 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.32%) Selenium
5 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.16%) Maven
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (9.84%) Manufacturing
4 48 (7.62%) Retail
5 35 (5.56%) Marketing
6 29 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 24 (3.81%) Legal
8 20 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.02%) Advertising
9 19 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.86%) Law
11 17 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.38%) Back Office
14 13 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.27%) Banking
15 8 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.95%) Billing
17 5 (0.79%) General Ledger
18 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 96 (15.24%) Analyst
2 55 (8.73%) Lead
3 50 (7.94%) Senior
4 46 (7.30%) Trainee
5 42 (6.67%) Finance Manager
6 38 (6.03%) Architect
7 34 (5.40%) Accountant
8 33 (5.24%) Business Analyst
8 33 (5.24%) Trainee Analyst
9 29 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 25 (3.97%) Data Analyst
10 25 (3.97%) Senior Manager
11 23 (3.65%) Developer
11 23 (3.65%) Management Accountant
12 22 (3.49%) Administrator
13 19 (3.02%) Applications Support
13 19 (3.02%) Support Analyst
13 19 (3.02%) Systems Manager
14 17 (2.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 16 (2.54%) Financial Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.75%) Hugging Face
1 11 (1.75%) Matplotlib
1 11 (1.75%) NumPy
1 11 (1.75%) Pandas
1 11 (1.75%) scikit-learn
1 11 (1.75%) Streamlit
2 6 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
3 5 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (0.79%) Middleware
3 5 (0.79%) XBRL
3 5 (0.79%) XML
4 4 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.63%) LangChain
4 4 (0.63%) LangGraph
4 4 (0.63%) PySpark
4 4 (0.63%) SAP ALE
4 4 (0.63%) Web Dynpro
4 4 (0.63%) Web Services
5 3 (0.48%) JSON
5 3 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.35%) Marketing Technology
2 27 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.11%) PMI
8 7 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (0.95%) Housing Association
9 6 (0.95%) NHS
10 5 (0.79%) Podcast
11 4 (0.63%) Blog
11 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.63%) FMCG
11 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.48%) Windows
2 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
1 100 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (14.13%) Analytics
3 78 (12.38%) Agile
4 76 (12.06%) AI
5 67 (10.63%) Decision-Making
6 60 (9.52%) ERP
7 57 (9.05%) Mentoring
8 53 (8.41%) Project Management
8 53 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 49 (7.78%) Business Analysis
9 49 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 48 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
10 48 (7.62%) CRM
11 45 (7.14%) Process Improvement
12 43 (6.83%) Roadmaps
13 42 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
13 42 (6.67%) Customer Service
14 41 (6.51%) Data Modelling
15 40 (6.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.59%) SQL
2 41 (6.51%) Python
3 12 (1.90%) C#
4 7 (1.11%) ABAP
4 7 (1.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.95%) PHP
6 5 (0.79%) Java
7 4 (0.63%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.32%) Bash
9 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.16%) Bicep
10 1 (0.16%) C++
10 1 (0.16%) Groovy
10 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (8.41%) Degree
2 31 (4.92%) ACCA
3 29 (4.60%) CIMA
4 14 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 11 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 10 (1.59%) PMP
7 9 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.43%) Security Cleared
8 6 (0.95%) IRCA
9 5 (0.79%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.63%) IIBA
10 4 (0.63%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.48%) APMP
11 3 (0.48%) CAPM
11 3 (0.48%) CBAP
11 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.48%) PgMP
12 2 (0.32%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.81%) GDPR
3 18 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.54%) QA
5 10 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.27%) GRC
6 8 (1.27%) PMO
7 6 (0.95%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.63%) P3O
8 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) XenApp
3 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.48%) SCCM
1 3 (0.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 101 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.83%) SAP
3 19 (3.02%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.86%) Oracle
5 10 (1.59%) Databricks
6 8 (1.27%) HubSpot
7 6 (0.95%) IBM
7 6 (0.95%) TOWER Software
8 5 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.63%) Adobe
9 4 (0.63%) Ariba
9 4 (0.63%) Cognos
9 4 (0.63%) Google
9 4 (0.63%) Hotjar
9 4 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.48%) VMware
10 3 (0.48%) Workday
10 3 (0.48%) Xero
11 2 (0.32%) Apple
11 2 (0.32%) Sage