Finance Jobs in the North of England

Financial
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,409 3,371 2,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.63% 19.96% 16.32%
As % of the General category 24.59% 28.46% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,695 1,549 1,686
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,200 £33,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
North of England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,795 11,846 10,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.40% 70.14% 58.81%
Number of salaries quoted 7,391 5,089 6,156
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the North of England.

Salary trend for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the North of England

Finance
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
North West +1 1,352 £55,000 - 559
Yorkshire -3 806 £56,500 +2.73% 291
North East 0 251 £50,000 -9.09% 133
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 81 (3.36%) Confluence
2 76 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 48 (1.99%) SAS
5 38 (1.58%) Apache
6 24 (1.00%) IIS
7 20 (0.83%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.62%) CMS
9 11 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.37%) Captiva
10 9 (0.37%) FileNet
10 9 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 8 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.17%) WordPress
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.083%) nginx
15 1 (0.042%) Jetty
15 1 (0.042%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.042%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 232 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.083%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.042%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.042%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.042%) EViews
8 1 (0.042%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.042%) SPSS
8 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (0.91%) NEC Housing
4 21 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 16 (0.66%) SAP FI
6 15 (0.62%) Sage X3
7 14 (0.58%) iTrent
8 13 (0.54%) Infor SunSystems
8 13 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.46%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.37%) SAP BPC
10 9 (0.37%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 8 (0.33%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.29%) BPCS
12 7 (0.29%) Sage 200
13 6 (0.25%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 395 (16.40%) Azure
2 248 (10.29%) Power Platform
3 185 (7.68%) AWS
4 154 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (5.77%) GCP
6 84 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
7 72 (2.99%) SaaS
8 62 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 45 (1.87%) GitHub
11 37 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (1.45%) Serverless
13 33 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 32 (1.33%) PowerApps
15 31 (1.29%) IaaS
16 24 (1.00%) PaaS
17 18 (0.75%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.62%) Google Analytics
19 14 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
20 13 (0.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.61%) Firewall
2 48 (1.99%) Internet
3 41 (1.70%) WAN
4 32 (1.33%) LAN
4 32 (1.33%) VPN
5 29 (1.20%) DNS
5 29 (1.20%) Network Security
6 28 (1.16%) SAN
7 25 (1.04%) DHCP
8 18 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.62%) Broadband
9 15 (0.62%) IPsec
9 15 (0.62%) SNMP
10 14 (0.58%) Wireless
11 13 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.50%) iSCSI
12 12 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
13 11 (0.46%) NAS
14 9 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
14 9 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.34%) Power BI
2 129 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 51 (2.12%) Tableau
5 41 (1.70%) Data Lake
6 39 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (1.37%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.12%) Metadata
10 25 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (0.87%) Oracle Database
13 18 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
14 17 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (0.62%) Relational Database
16 13 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 147 (6.10%) JIRA
2 78 (3.24%) Git
3 35 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.33%) GitLab
5 18 (0.75%) Selenium
6 16 (0.66%) Appium
7 12 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
7 12 (0.50%) Spinnaker
8 11 (0.46%) JMeter
8 11 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (0.42%) JUnit
10 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.25%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.21%) JetBrains Rider
14 5 (0.21%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 869 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 334 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
3 329 (13.66%) Banking
4 272 (11.29%) Legal
5 250 (10.38%) Retail
6 233 (9.67%) Public Sector
7 126 (5.23%) Marketing
8 123 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
9 108 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 90 (3.74%) Manufacturing
11 78 (3.24%) Law
12 67 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (2.57%) Local Government
14 56 (2.32%) Billing
15 51 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.00%) Police
18 22 (0.91%) Publishing
19 17 (0.71%) Retail Finance
20 15 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 398 (16.52%) Senior
2 354 (14.69%) Lead
3 352 (14.61%) Analyst
4 229 (9.51%) Developer
5 162 (6.72%) Architect
6 125 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 108 (4.48%) Consultant
8 94 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
9 84 (3.49%) Financial Analyst
10 67 (2.78%) Senior Developer
11 62 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 55 (2.28%) IT Manager
13 55 (2.28%) Software Engineer
14 53 (2.20%) Administrator
15 51 (2.12%) Product Manager
16 50 (2.08%) Support Engineer
17 49 (2.03%) Enterprise Architect
18 48 (1.99%) Systems Analyst
19 46 (1.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (4.94%) .NET
2 65 (2.70%) React
3 64 (2.66%) HTML
4 54 (2.24%) CSS
4 54 (2.24%) REST
5 41 (1.70%) ASP.NET
6 38 (1.58%) RESTful
7 37 (1.54%) .NET Framework
8 36 (1.49%) JSON
9 35 (1.45%) Node.js
10 32 (1.33%) .NET Core
10 32 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web API
11 31 (1.29%) Web Services
12 25 (1.04%) AngularJS
12 25 (1.04%) Kafka
13 23 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (0.79%) OpenID
15 18 (0.75%) YAML
16 17 (0.71%) Entity Framework
17 16 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 92 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
3 72 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 72 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 69 (2.86%) PMI
5 55 (2.28%) NHS
6 45 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 42 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.70%) Cloud Native
9 38 (1.58%) Credit Risk
10 35 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.45%) Housing Association
11 26 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 23 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 21 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (0.83%) Driving Licence
15 19 (0.79%) Mainframe
16 18 (0.75%) Onboarding
16 18 (0.75%) Social Media
17 17 (0.71%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 188 (7.80%) Windows
2 106 (4.40%) Linux
3 51 (2.12%) Unix
4 49 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (1.00%) Android
8 23 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
11 10 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (0.37%) Windows Phone
13 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.33%) Solaris
13 8 (0.33%) Windows Vista
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.042%) CentOS
16 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (27.36%) Agile
2 450 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
3 427 (17.73%) Coaching
4 387 (16.06%) Mentoring
5 354 (14.69%) Roadmaps
6 268 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
7 263 (10.92%) Customer Service
8 262 (10.88%) Project Management
9 224 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (7.80%) DevOps
11 175 (7.26%) ITIL
12 174 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 170 (7.06%) Data Management
14 168 (6.97%) Decision-Making
15 164 (6.81%) Analytics
16 153 (6.35%) ERP
17 149 (6.19%) Line Management
18 148 (6.14%) Data Governance
19 147 (6.10%) Project Delivery
20 145 (6.02%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 361 (14.99%) SQL
2 157 (6.52%) Python
3 138 (5.73%) C#
4 120 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 71 (2.95%) Java
6 68 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 65 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.29%) T-SQL
9 19 (0.79%) R
10 18 (0.75%) PHP
11 15 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.54%) VBA
13 11 (0.46%) Bash
13 11 (0.46%) Groovy
13 11 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.42%) VBScript
15 9 (0.37%) C
16 8 (0.33%) VB
17 7 (0.29%) RPG
Qualifications
1 272 (11.29%) Degree
2 78 (3.24%) PMI Certification
3 74 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 73 (3.03%) ACCA
5 63 (2.62%) DBS Check
6 45 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 43 (1.78%) CIMA
8 36 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.49%) PMP
9 34 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.95%) CAPM
12 21 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.83%) APMP
13 20 (0.83%) PgMP
14 19 (0.79%) CISSP
15 18 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.71%) HNC
16 17 (0.71%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (4.52%) GDPR
2 95 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 91 (3.78%) QA
4 84 (3.49%) SLA
5 58 (2.41%) IFRS
6 39 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.37%) PMO
8 30 (1.25%) IFRS 9
8 30 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 29 (1.20%) NIST
10 28 (1.16%) GAAP
11 16 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.50%) GRC
13 11 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.37%) CRD IV
14 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 7 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 59 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (2.08%) Docker
4 31 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.54%) RACF
6 13 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.42%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.29%) IAG
9 6 (0.25%) XenApp
9 6 (0.25%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.083%) Firmware
11 1 (0.042%) KVM
11 1 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (2.45%) Terraform
2 55 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.37%) Ansible
5 26 (1.08%) SCCM
6 17 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 14 (0.58%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (0.50%) Opsgenie
9 12 (0.50%) VxRail
10 9 (0.37%) AirWatch
11 8 (0.33%) SCOM
12 7 (0.29%) Grafana
13 6 (0.25%) Nmap
14 5 (0.21%) Kibana
15 3 (0.12%) Istio
16 2 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
16 2 (0.083%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 498 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 118 (4.90%) SAP
3 108 (4.48%) Google
4 89 (3.69%) Oracle
5 83 (3.45%) VMware
6 46 (1.91%) NEC
7 40 (1.66%) Cisco
7 40 (1.66%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.66%) Splunk
8 39 (1.62%) CA
9 38 (1.58%) Virgin Media
10 37 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 33 (1.37%) Citrix
12 30 (1.25%) IBM
13 27 (1.12%) NetApp
13 27 (1.12%) Sage
14 24 (1.00%) Commvault
15 23 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.87%) Dell
17 20 (0.83%) Fortinet