Finance Jobs in the South East

Financial
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,426 2,353 4,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.18% 17.56% 21.23%
As % of the General category 23.85% 27.98% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 1,158 2,096
10th Percentile £30,805 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,913 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,378 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.31% +2.78% +3.85%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,172 8,409 12,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.25% 62.74% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,244 4,251 6,543
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £53,640
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.13% +7.28%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the South East.

Salary trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the South East

Finance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley -3 781 £47,500 -13.64% 262
Hampshire +7 490 £55,000 -3.93% 141
Surrey -4 489 £52,500 -17.65% 111
Berkshire -3 362 £52,500 -10.26% 112
Kent -1 264 £60,000 +9.09% 72
Oxfordshire +8 214 £44,435 +6.43% 67
Buckinghamshire -7 205 £47,500 -13.64% 83
East Sussex +9 196 £52,500 -4.55% 55
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 -7.46% 8
West Sussex -7 87 £53,668 -10.55% 29
Sussex -23 5 £105,000 - 3
Home Counties +3 1 £48,000 -8.57%
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 79 (3.26%) SAS
2 33 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.54%) Apache
5 8 (0.33%) Confluence
5 8 (0.33%) nginx
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.21%) CMS
7 4 (0.16%) IIS
7 4 (0.16%) JBoss
7 4 (0.16%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) WordPress
9 2 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.041%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.041%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 465 (19.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.25%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.16%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.16%) SPSS
9 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.12%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.041%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.041%) Simulink
10 1 (0.041%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 76 (3.13%) SAP ERP
2 30 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 20 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 11 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 11 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 10 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.33%) Sage 200
6 8 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 6 (0.25%) Pegasus Opera
8 6 (0.25%) Sage 50
8 6 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
10 4 (0.16%) SAP WM
10 4 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 376 (15.50%) Azure
2 147 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 130 (5.36%) AWS
4 115 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (2.51%) SaaS
6 58 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.20%) GitHub
9 28 (1.15%) IaaS
10 26 (1.07%) Snowflake
11 23 (0.95%) Serverless
12 20 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (0.82%) GCP
13 19 (0.78%) Nutanix
14 18 (0.74%) Matillion
15 16 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (0.66%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (0.58%) PaaS
18 13 (0.54%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.00%) Broadband
2 38 (1.57%) Firewall
3 33 (1.36%) DNS
4 30 (1.24%) Internet
5 27 (1.11%) Network Security
6 25 (1.03%) Wireless
7 23 (0.95%) WAN
8 22 (0.91%) VPN
9 20 (0.82%) 5G
10 16 (0.66%) LAN
11 11 (0.45%) SNMP
12 10 (0.41%) HTTP
12 10 (0.41%) Intranet
13 9 (0.37%) Modbus
14 8 (0.33%) 3G
14 8 (0.33%) GPRS
14 8 (0.33%) SAN
14 8 (0.33%) VLAN
15 7 (0.29%) BGP
15 7 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (5.23%) Power BI
2 122 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 69 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.73%) Data Lake
6 38 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 37 (1.53%) Power Query
8 29 (1.20%) Tableau
9 25 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 24 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.74%) Metadata
12 17 (0.70%) Relational Database
13 15 (0.62%) MySQL
13 15 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (0.58%) DB2
15 12 (0.49%) Redis
16 10 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.41%) GIS
17 8 (0.33%) MS Access
18 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 88 (3.63%) Git
2 48 (1.98%) JIRA
2 48 (1.98%) Visual Studio
3 23 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
4 21 (0.87%) Selenium
5 13 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.29%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.29%) NUnit
9 7 (0.29%) PHPUnit
10 6 (0.25%) GitLab
10 6 (0.25%) Subversion
11 5 (0.21%) Maven
11 5 (0.21%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.16%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.12%) AdminStudio
13 3 (0.12%) InstallShield
General
1 999 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 620 (25.56%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (11.21%) Marketing
4 265 (10.92%) Retail
5 240 (9.89%) Influencing Skills
6 187 (7.71%) Legal
7 179 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 131 (5.40%) Telecoms
9 130 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 109 (4.49%) Manufacturing
11 81 (3.34%) Banking
12 79 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
13 64 (2.64%) Electronics
14 58 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
15 52 (2.14%) Law
16 36 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (1.24%) Billing
19 25 (1.03%) Local Government
20 24 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 505 (20.82%) Analyst
2 404 (16.65%) Senior
3 267 (11.01%) Developer
4 206 (8.49%) Lead
5 192 (7.91%) Architect
6 173 (7.13%) Senior Analyst
7 126 (5.19%) Project Manager
8 125 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
9 105 (4.33%) Financial Analyst
10 100 (4.12%) Development Manager
11 98 (4.04%) Consultant
12 84 (3.46%) .NET Developer
13 79 (3.26%) IT Manager
14 77 (3.17%) Senior Developer
15 65 (2.68%) Commercial Analyst
16 55 (2.27%) Administrator
17 54 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 53 (2.18%) C# Developer
19 49 (2.02%) Support Analyst
20 48 (1.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (6.88%) .NET
2 90 (3.71%) HTML
3 89 (3.67%) React
4 70 (2.89%) CSS
5 63 (2.60%) .NET Framework
6 62 (2.56%) .NET Core
6 62 (2.56%) ASP.NET
7 60 (2.47%) AngularJS
8 54 (2.23%) HTML5
9 49 (2.02%) Kafka
10 45 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
11 44 (1.81%) Entity Framework
12 40 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (1.65%) REST
13 37 (1.53%) GraphQL
14 33 (1.36%) Web Services
15 31 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
15 31 (1.28%) Vue
16 30 (1.24%) gRPC
16 30 (1.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 114 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
2 90 (3.71%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.23%) PMI
4 41 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 38 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.40%) IoT
7 29 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 29 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 25 (1.03%) Life Science
9 20 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 20 (0.82%) NHS
10 19 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
10 19 (0.78%) Clustering
11 18 (0.74%) Credit Risk
11 18 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (0.70%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.66%) Data Centre
13 16 (0.66%) PKI
14 15 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 170 (7.01%) Windows
2 67 (2.76%) Linux
3 62 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.78%) Android
5 19 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.33%) VMS
9 6 (0.25%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.21%) Unix
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) Windows NT
11 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.082%) AIX
13 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.082%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (30.83%) Agile
2 391 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
3 366 (15.09%) Decision-Making
4 327 (13.48%) Mentoring
5 266 (10.96%) Project Management
6 264 (10.88%) Business Case
7 263 (10.84%) Data Management
8 246 (10.14%) Budgeting
9 243 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
10 236 (9.73%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 220 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 209 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
13 198 (8.16%) Roadmaps
14 185 (7.63%) ERP
15 171 (7.05%) Change Management
16 164 (6.76%) Business Development
17 163 (6.72%) Customer Service
18 152 (6.27%) Risk Management
19 145 (5.98%) DevOps
20 142 (5.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 255 (10.51%) SQL
2 168 (6.92%) C#
3 135 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 95 (3.92%) Python
5 70 (2.89%) Java
6 52 (2.14%) Go
7 48 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 46 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 37 (1.53%) C++
9 37 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 31 (1.28%) C
11 20 (0.82%) VB
12 19 (0.78%) PHP
13 18 (0.74%) Bash
13 18 (0.74%) Perl
14 14 (0.58%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.49%) VBA
16 11 (0.45%) Bicep
16 11 (0.45%) R
17 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 452 (18.63%) Degree
2 264 (10.88%) ACCA
3 235 (9.69%) CIMA
4 79 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 76 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 63 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 53 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (1.73%) SC Cleared
9 41 (1.69%) DBS Check
9 41 (1.69%) MBA
10 39 (1.61%) CISSP
11 27 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.11%) PMP
12 20 (0.82%) PhD
13 17 (0.70%) CISM
14 16 (0.66%) CRISC
15 15 (0.62%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.49%) CFA
16 12 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.42%) GDPR
2 82 (3.38%) SLA
3 80 (3.30%) QA
4 53 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 38 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.32%) IFRS
7 24 (0.99%) NIST
8 21 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.87%) PMO
9 17 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.66%) GRC
11 15 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
12 14 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 11 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.33%) GMP
16 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.29%) COBIT
18 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 93 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 70 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.72%) Docker
4 29 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.95%) vSphere
6 16 (0.66%) Firmware
6 16 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.58%) OpenSSH
8 14 (0.58%) XenApp
9 10 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.082%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.15%) Terraform
3 19 (0.78%) vCenter Server
4 18 (0.74%) SCCM
5 15 (0.62%) IBM BigFix
6 14 (0.58%) PowerCLI
7 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.33%) Ansible
9 7 (0.29%) MIIS
9 7 (0.29%) WSUS
10 6 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.25%) Nessus
10 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.21%) Endace
11 5 (0.21%) NetCrunch
12 4 (0.16%) PaperCut
12 4 (0.16%) Sysprep
13 3 (0.12%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
13 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 714 (29.43%) Microsoft
2 212 (8.74%) SAP
3 128 (5.28%) Oracle
4 80 (3.30%) Anaplan
5 79 (3.26%) VMware
6 77 (3.17%) Hyperion
7 62 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.44%) Sage
9 34 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 33 (1.36%) CA
11 29 (1.20%) Cisco
12 28 (1.15%) Databricks
13 20 (0.82%) IBM
14 19 (0.78%) NEC
15 18 (0.74%) Citrix
15 18 (0.74%) Virgin Media
16 17 (0.70%) BT
17 16 (0.66%) Google
18 15 (0.62%) Palo Alto
19 12 (0.49%) HP