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Finance manager jobs in County Durham

The 2021 census counted 4,347 residents working as functional managers and directors living in County Durham.

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Published figures for County Durham

What the official data says about County Durham

When the 2021 census counted occupations, 4,347 people living in County Durham were in work as functional managers and directors. It was 1.96% of everyone in work in the area. That count put County Durham 1st of 12 areas in the North East, where the middle area recorded 1,978. Northumberland was the next area down.

Full-time pay across all jobs in County Durham, every occupation counted together, had a median of £32,945. That is 9th of 12 in the North East, against a regional middle of £33,920. Work of this kind pays £57,675 across the region, which is £24,730 more than the typical County Durham job, about 75% above it.

Where the finance work itself is based is a separate question: County Durham had 1,310 employee jobs in financial services, insurance and related activities in 2024, out of 188,000 employee jobs in the area altogether. At 0.7% of every job here, that ranks 8th of 12 in the North East, where the middle area sits at 1%.

Residents in work as functional directors (SOC 113): 4,347
Median full-time pay for functional directors across the North East: £57,675
Employee jobs in the area in financial services, insurance and related activities: 1,310
Financial services, insurance and related activities, share of all employee jobs in the area: 0.7%
Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area: £32,945
Residents of the area in work at the census: 222,216
Employee jobs in the area, all industries: 188,000

Reporting period: ONS Census, 2021. ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2024. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings by occupation, 2025 provisional. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025.

Census counts are people who LIVED in County Durham and were in work in that occupation in March 2021. They are not jobs located in the area, and they are not adverts. They are also published for a group of related occupations (minor group 113) rather than for a single job title, because that is the finest detail the census publishes at local authority level. That group covers finance, marketing, human resources, purchasing and IT directors, and functional directors generally.

Job counts are employee jobs that exist in County Durham, counted once a year by a survey of businesses. They are not adverts, and they are not a measure of how many roles are open. They count a different population from the census figures above, so the two are never divided by one another.

The pay figure for this occupation covers North East, not County Durham on its own. ONS does not publish pay by occupation at local authority level at all, so every area in the region shares this number and no narrower published figure exists.

The area pay figure covers every occupation in County Durham together. It is the only pay figure published for the area itself, and it is not a pay figure for this role.

Medians, not averages. Half the jobs counted paid less than the figure shown. What any individual advert pays is on the advert.

The finance manager role

A finance manager owns the monthly cycle and the people who produce it: the close, the management accounts, the budget, the forecast and the explanation of why the numbers moved.

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Finance manager jobs in County Durham: common questions

How many people do this kind of work in County Durham?

4,347 residents of County Durham were in work as functional directors at the 2021 census, which was 1.96% of everyone in work there. That counts people who live in the area, whether or not they work there, and it is not a count of current vacancies.

What does this work pay around County Durham?

Across the North East, £57,675 is the median for functional directors. In County Durham itself the median across all occupations together is £32,945. ONS publishes pay by occupation for regions rather than for single councils, so the first figure covers the whole region. What any particular advert pays is on the advert.

Is there much of this work based in County Durham?

1,310 of the 188,000 employee jobs in County Durham are in the industries this role sits in, on the 2024 business survey. That counts jobs located in the area rather than people living there, and it is a count of jobs that exist, not of jobs being advertised.

Where these figures come from

Local occupation figures: ONS Census 2021, table TS064, occupation by minor group, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Industry job counts: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Pay by occupation: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 provisional, Table 14 (United Kingdom, four-digit SOC 2020) and Table 15 (work region, three-digit SOC 2020). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Local pay figures: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025, workplace analysis, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page

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Figures are republished as the publisher released them for County Durham. Where a figure is blank, the publisher withheld it to protect a small sample. Nothing on this page is estimated, modelled or filled in from a national average.