Finance Jobs in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,946 20,579 31,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.41% 22.88% 23.74%
As % of the General category 29.38% 33.57% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9,810 12,282 16,771
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,872 61,304 85,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.24% 68.15% 64.17%
Number of salaries quoted 35,678 33,330 44,894
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,275 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +1 6,825 £80,000 - 2,805
North of England -2 2,422 £55,000 - 860
South East -2 2,207 £51,500 -10.43% 774
Midlands 0 1,581 £50,000 -9.09% 561
North West +1 1,355 £55,000 - 510
South West -7 1,236 £54,590 -0.75% 421
West Midlands 0 1,108 £51,300 -6.73% 355
Yorkshire -3 819 £57,500 +4.55% 260
East of England 0 529 £50,000 -9.09% 297
East Midlands -5 466 £47,500 -13.64% 206
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 95
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 449 (3.00%) SAS
2 447 (2.99%) Apache
3 432 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 394 (2.64%) SharePoint
5 303 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 206 (1.38%) Confluence
7 97 (0.65%) IIS
8 80 (0.54%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.36%) CMS
10 38 (0.25%) WordPress
11 35 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 34 (0.23%) nginx
13 28 (0.19%) Skype for Business
14 25 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.13%) Captiva
16 18 (0.12%) FileNet
17 15 (0.10%) JBoss
18 12 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
19 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
19 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,599 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 866 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 401 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 98 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 82 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.18%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 14 (0.094%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
12 10 (0.067%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.047%) InDesign
14 7 (0.047%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
16 4 (0.027%) Sketch
17 3 (0.020%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 316 (2.11%) SAP ERP
2 155 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 114 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 99 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 64 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 55 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 48 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 48 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 43 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 41 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 37 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 36 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
13 32 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
15 28 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
15 28 (0.19%) Elite 3E
15 28 (0.19%) SAP BPC
15 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,361 (15.80%) Azure
2 1,905 (12.75%) AWS
3 1,096 (7.33%) Power Platform
4 826 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
5 819 (5.48%) GCP
6 508 (3.40%) SaaS
7 404 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 306 (2.05%) Snowflake
9 305 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 299 (2.00%) dbt
11 235 (1.57%) Serverless
12 233 (1.56%) GitHub
13 182 (1.22%) Entra ID
14 158 (1.06%) PaaS
15 145 (0.97%) IaaS
16 139 (0.93%) Power Automate
17 137 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
18 133 (0.89%) PowerApps
19 130 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
20 126 (0.84%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 831 (5.56%) Broadband
2 441 (2.95%) Firewall
3 238 (1.59%) DNS
4 184 (1.23%) Internet
5 172 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 170 (1.14%) WAN
7 164 (1.10%) LAN
8 144 (0.96%) DHCP
9 139 (0.93%) VPN
10 120 (0.80%) Network Security
11 110 (0.74%) Wireless
12 108 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 89 (0.60%) SAN
14 71 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 58 (0.39%) HTTP
16 56 (0.37%) 5G
17 55 (0.37%) Intranet
18 44 (0.29%) SNMP
19 42 (0.28%) IPsec
20 40 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 929 (6.22%) Power BI
2 790 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 485 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 418 (2.80%) Data Lake
5 320 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
6 318 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 301 (2.01%) Tableau
8 276 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 271 (1.81%) Apache Arrow
9 271 (1.81%) Dremio
10 228 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 189 (1.26%) MongoDB
12 149 (1.00%) Big Data
13 139 (0.93%) Relational Database
14 134 (0.90%) NoSQL
15 129 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 114 (0.76%) Metadata
17 105 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 86 (0.58%) MySQL
19 84 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 517 (3.46%) JIRA
2 386 (2.58%) Git
3 233 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 102 (0.68%) GitLab
4 102 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 84 (0.56%) Selenium
6 81 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 61 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 46 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 43 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 42 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 40 (0.27%) Maven
12 35 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.23%) JUnit
14 32 (0.21%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
15 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
15 23 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 5,251 (35.13%) Social Skills
2 2,501 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
3 2,235 (14.95%) Banking
4 1,412 (9.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,182 (7.91%) Legal
6 1,158 (7.75%) Retail
7 990 (6.62%) Marketing
8 919 (6.15%) Law
9 885 (5.92%) Front Office
10 759 (5.08%) Public Sector
11 749 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
12 618 (4.13%) Investment Banking
13 541 (3.62%) Manufacturing
14 468 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
15 401 (2.68%) Telecoms
16 389 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
17 314 (2.10%) Financial Institution
18 276 (1.85%) Back Office
19 260 (1.74%) Billing
20 221 (1.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,721 (18.21%) Analyst
2 2,572 (17.21%) Senior
3 1,864 (12.47%) Developer
4 1,413 (9.45%) Lead
5 1,227 (8.21%) Architect
6 892 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 696 (4.66%) Software Engineer
8 662 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 636 (4.26%) Consultant
10 618 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
11 567 (3.79%) Financial Analyst
12 436 (2.92%) Senior Manager
13 433 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 414 (2.77%) IT Manager
15 335 (2.24%) .NET Developer
16 323 (2.16%) Business Analyst
17 289 (1.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 282 (1.89%) Support Analyst
19 280 (1.87%) Python Developer
20 272 (1.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 860 (5.75%) .NET
2 700 (4.68%) React
3 462 (3.09%) AngularJS
3 462 (3.09%) HTML
4 444 (2.97%) gRPC
5 385 (2.58%) Protocol Buffers
6 306 (2.05%) ASP.NET
7 301 (2.01%) Pandas
8 297 (1.99%) CSS
9 286 (1.91%) REST
10 275 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 264 (1.77%) Redux
12 245 (1.64%) Node.js
12 245 (1.64%) NumPy
13 240 (1.61%) Web Services
14 239 (1.60%) Vue
15 225 (1.51%) Kafka
16 217 (1.45%) SciPy
17 199 (1.33%) Spring
18 193 (1.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 704 (4.71%) Hedge funds
2 665 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
3 660 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 623 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 544 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 524 (3.51%) Derivative
7 505 (3.38%) Equities
8 421 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 345 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 227 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 205 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 197 (1.32%) PMI
13 192 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 189 (1.26%) Cloud Native
15 168 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 162 (1.08%) Driving Licence
17 147 (0.98%) Algorithms
18 133 (0.89%) Data Structures
19 131 (0.88%) Credit Risk
20 120 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,121 (7.50%) Windows
2 679 (4.54%) Linux
3 304 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 246 (1.65%) Unix
5 194 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 108 (0.72%) Android
7 105 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 94 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 85 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 74 (0.50%) CentOS
11 72 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 60 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 52 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 51 (0.34%) Solaris
15 36 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
17 30 (0.20%) AIX
18 25 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 25 (0.17%) zOS
19 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,204 (28.13%) Agile
2 2,424 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1,775 (11.88%) Mentoring
4 1,715 (11.47%) Project Management
5 1,600 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 1,415 (9.47%) Decision-Making
7 1,317 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
8 1,301 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 1,201 (8.04%) Analytics
10 1,185 (7.93%) Asset Management
11 1,112 (7.44%) DevOps
12 1,072 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,046 (7.00%) Coaching
14 1,015 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 970 (6.49%) Change Management
16 956 (6.40%) ERP
17 948 (6.34%) Data Management
18 928 (6.21%) Risk Management
19 902 (6.04%) Customer Service
20 840 (5.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,222 (14.87%) SQL
2 1,922 (12.86%) Python
3 1,135 (7.59%) JavaScript
4 1,076 (7.20%) Java
5 998 (6.68%) C#
6 827 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 411 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 235 (1.57%) Go
9 200 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 185 (1.24%) C++
11 181 (1.21%) Bash
12 172 (1.15%) R
13 130 (0.87%) C
14 96 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 96 (0.64%) PHP
15 87 (0.58%) VBA
16 69 (0.46%) Scala
17 67 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 67 (0.45%) Perl
18 56 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,359 (15.78%) Degree
2 780 (5.22%) ACCA
3 604 (4.04%) CIMA
4 539 (3.61%) Security Cleared
5 357 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 303 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 285 (1.91%) CISSP
8 278 (1.86%) PMI Certification
9 253 (1.69%) SC Cleared
10 246 (1.65%) DBS Check
11 163 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 149 (1.00%) CISM
13 140 (0.94%) PMP
14 137 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 135 (0.90%) AWS Certification
16 129 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
17 128 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
18 118 (0.79%) MBA
19 97 (0.65%) CISA
20 96 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (3.20%) GDPR
2 472 (3.16%) QA
3 450 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 386 (2.58%) SLA
5 229 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.46%) IFRS
7 196 (1.31%) NIST
8 195 (1.30%) PMO
9 160 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.60%) GAAP
11 85 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 67 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.44%) IFRS 9
14 65 (0.43%) GRC
15 50 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 47 (0.31%) COBIT
17 41 (0.27%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.25%) NCSC
19 35 (0.23%) ITGC
20 30 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 574 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 496 (3.32%) Docker
3 291 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 96 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 81 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 49 (0.33%) Firmware
7 49 (0.33%) vSphere
8 46 (0.31%) XenApp
9 35 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (0.23%) XenDesktop
10 15 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
12 12 (0.080%) Terminal Services
13 10 (0.067%) OpenSSH
14 9 (0.060%) Forefront TMG
15 8 (0.054%) HDFS
16 7 (0.047%) IAG
16 7 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
17 5 (0.033%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 606 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 472 (3.16%) Terraform
3 201 (1.34%) Ansible
4 147 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 129 (0.86%) SCCM
6 97 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 52 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 36 (0.24%) Grafana
9 34 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.21%) Puppet
11 31 (0.21%) SCOM
12 24 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 23 (0.15%) Istio
13 23 (0.15%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
15 18 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.11%) Nmap
17 15 (0.10%) Nessus
17 15 (0.10%) NetBackup
18 14 (0.094%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,293 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 933 (6.24%) Oracle
3 889 (5.95%) SAP
4 446 (2.98%) Google
5 398 (2.66%) VMware
6 327 (2.19%) Hyperion
7 324 (2.17%) Anaplan
8 296 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 252 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 244 (1.63%) Cisco
11 180 (1.20%) Dell
12 177 (1.18%) Citrix
13 172 (1.15%) CA
14 166 (1.11%) IBM
15 157 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 152 (1.02%) Bloomberg
17 137 (0.92%) Databricks
18 120 (0.80%) NEC
19 103 (0.69%) Palo Alto
20 102 (0.68%) Sage