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 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 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,243 2,499 4,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.28% 17.43% 20.52%
As % of the General category 23.43% 27.43% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 1,201 2,102
10th Percentile £29,800 £35,427 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £73,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £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
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 9,572 9,109 11,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.69% 63.53% 59.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,039 4,422 6,536
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the 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 20 May 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 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
Thames Valley -3 655 £47,500 -13.64% 292
Surrey -3 482 £52,500 -16.00% 111
Hampshire +7 455 £55,000 -2.22% 154
Berkshire -5 321 £54,750 -10.25% 131
Kent +1 269 £50,000 -9.09% 71
East Sussex +8 177 £52,500 -4.55% 65
Buckinghamshire -10 172 £50,000 -9.09% 97
Oxfordshire +11 162 £43,468 +15.91% 64
Middlesex +11 88 £77,500 -1.59% 9
West Sussex -8 84 £53,668 -10.55% 34
Sussex -21 5 £105,000 - 1
Home Counties +6 1 £48,000 -26.15%
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 (3.52%) SAS
2 29 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.58%) Apache
5 11 (0.49%) Confluence
6 8 (0.36%) nginx
6 8 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.27%) CMS
8 4 (0.18%) IIS
8 4 (0.18%) JBoss
8 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.045%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.045%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 370 (16.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.27%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.18%) SPSS
9 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.045%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.045%) Simulink
10 1 (0.045%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 76 (3.39%) SAP ERP
2 28 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.89%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.45%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.36%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.27%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
11 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 364 (16.23%) Azure
2 138 (6.15%) Power Platform
3 119 (5.31%) AWS
4 116 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (2.54%) SaaS
6 55 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (1.47%) GitHub
9 27 (1.20%) Snowflake
10 23 (1.03%) IaaS
10 23 (1.03%) Serverless
11 19 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (0.85%) Matillion
12 16 (0.71%) Nutanix
12 16 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.67%) GCP
14 14 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (0.62%) PaaS
15 13 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.97%) Broadband
2 36 (1.60%) Firewall
3 29 (1.29%) Internet
4 27 (1.20%) DNS
5 25 (1.11%) Network Security
6 23 (1.03%) VPN
6 23 (1.03%) Wireless
7 21 (0.94%) WAN
8 20 (0.89%) 5G
9 16 (0.71%) LAN
10 11 (0.49%) SNMP
11 10 (0.45%) HTTP
12 9 (0.40%) Intranet
13 8 (0.36%) SAN
14 7 (0.31%) Modbus
14 7 (0.31%) VoIP
14 7 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.27%) 4G
15 6 (0.27%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 119 (5.31%) Power BI
3 66 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.87%) Data Lake
5 42 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (1.83%) Power Query
7 27 (1.20%) Tableau
8 25 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (0.85%) Metadata
11 15 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.58%) MySQL
13 12 (0.53%) DB2
13 12 (0.53%) Redis
14 10 (0.45%) GIS
15 9 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.36%) MS Access
16 8 (0.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 83 (3.70%) Git
2 51 (2.27%) Visual Studio
3 49 (2.18%) JIRA
4 27 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
5 17 (0.76%) Selenium
6 13 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.31%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.31%) NUnit
10 6 (0.27%) GitLab
10 6 (0.27%) Subversion
11 5 (0.22%) Maven
12 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.18%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.089%) Hudson
13 2 (0.089%) MSBuild
13 2 (0.089%) RStudio
General
1 966 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 543 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
3 240 (10.70%) Influencing Skills
4 189 (8.43%) Legal
5 188 (8.38%) Marketing
5 188 (8.38%) Retail
6 161 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 141 (6.29%) Public Sector
8 126 (5.62%) Telecoms
9 108 (4.81%) Manufacturing
10 86 (3.83%) Banking
11 73 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (2.76%) Electronics
13 51 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (2.14%) Law
15 39 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.20%) Billing
17 25 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.07%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 503 (22.43%) Analyst
2 379 (16.90%) Senior
3 243 (10.83%) Developer
4 191 (8.52%) Lead
5 185 (8.25%) Architect
6 171 (7.62%) Senior Analyst
7 124 (5.53%) Project Manager
8 117 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
9 97 (4.32%) Financial Analyst
10 95 (4.24%) Consultant
11 78 (3.48%) .NET Developer
12 67 (2.99%) Senior Developer
13 66 (2.94%) IT Manager
14 65 (2.90%) Commercial Analyst
15 56 (2.50%) Support Analyst
16 54 (2.41%) Administrator
17 48 (2.14%) C# Developer
18 43 (1.92%) Data Analyst
19 41 (1.83%) Development Manager
20 40 (1.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.45%) .NET
2 97 (4.32%) React
3 92 (4.10%) HTML
4 68 (3.03%) CSS
5 65 (2.90%) ASP.NET
6 59 (2.63%) AngularJS
7 58 (2.59%) .NET Core
7 58 (2.59%) HTML5
8 57 (2.54%) .NET Framework
9 45 (2.01%) Kafka
10 42 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
11 41 (1.83%) Entity Framework
12 40 (1.78%) REST
13 38 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (1.65%) Web Services
15 36 (1.60%) GraphQL
16 31 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
16 31 (1.38%) Blazor
16 31 (1.38%) Vue
17 30 (1.34%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 117 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
2 88 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.41%) PMI
4 41 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 38 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 29 (1.29%) IoT
8 28 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 21 (0.94%) Mobile App
10 19 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.85%) Life Science
11 18 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (0.76%) Biopharmaceutical
12 17 (0.76%) Credit Risk
12 17 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 17 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (0.67%) Clustering
15 14 (0.62%) Digital Media
15 14 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.13%) Windows
2 67 (2.99%) Linux
3 50 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.03%) Android
5 22 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.36%) VMS
9 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.31%) Unix
9 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.089%) AIX
13 2 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.089%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.089%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (29.47%) Agile
2 382 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
3 356 (15.87%) Decision-Making
4 328 (14.62%) Mentoring
5 262 (11.68%) Business Case
6 254 (11.32%) Project Management
7 238 (10.61%) Actionable Insight
8 236 (10.52%) Budgeting
9 225 (10.03%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 215 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
12 196 (8.74%) Roadmaps
13 184 (8.20%) Data Management
14 183 (8.16%) ERP
15 164 (7.31%) Change Management
16 159 (7.09%) Customer Service
17 136 (6.06%) DevOps
18 133 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
19 132 (5.88%) Risk Management
20 127 (5.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 255 (11.37%) SQL
2 164 (7.31%) C#
3 137 (6.11%) JavaScript
4 92 (4.10%) Python
5 77 (3.43%) Java
6 47 (2.10%) T-SQL
7 46 (2.05%) Go
8 40 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.69%) C++
9 38 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.52%) C
11 15 (0.67%) Bash
11 15 (0.67%) Perl
11 15 (0.67%) VB
12 14 (0.62%) PHP
13 12 (0.53%) Bicep
13 12 (0.53%) VBA
14 11 (0.49%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.45%) R
16 9 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 419 (18.68%) Degree
2 257 (11.46%) ACCA
3 236 (10.52%) CIMA
4 75 (3.34%) PMI Certification
5 55 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 50 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.23%) DBS Check
6 50 (2.23%) Security Cleared
7 36 (1.60%) CISSP
7 36 (1.60%) MBA
8 26 (1.16%) PMP
8 26 (1.16%) SC Cleared
9 19 (0.85%) PhD
10 15 (0.67%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.62%) CISM
12 13 (0.58%) CRISC
13 12 (0.53%) CFA
13 12 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.49%) GIAC
14 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.19%) GDPR
2 77 (3.43%) SLA
3 74 (3.30%) QA
4 50 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 39 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.29%) IFRS
7 23 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.94%) NIST
8 21 (0.94%) PMO
9 16 (0.71%) GRC
10 15 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
14 9 (0.40%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.36%) GMP
16 7 (0.31%) COBIT
17 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 76 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.81%) Docker
2 63 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.80%) vSphere
5 16 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.53%) Firmware
6 12 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.49%) OpenSSH
7 11 (0.49%) XenApp
8 10 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.16%) Terraform
3 16 (0.71%) vCenter Server
4 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.53%) IBM BigFix
5 12 (0.53%) SCCM
6 11 (0.49%) PowerCLI
7 8 (0.36%) Ansible
8 7 (0.31%) MIIS
9 6 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.27%) Nessus
9 6 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.22%) Endace
11 4 (0.18%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.13%) NetCrunch
13 2 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.089%) WSUS
Vendors
1 613 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 214 (9.54%) SAP
3 127 (5.66%) Oracle
4 80 (3.57%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.43%) Hyperion
6 71 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 70 (3.12%) VMware
8 33 (1.47%) Sage
9 30 (1.34%) Databricks
9 30 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.16%) Cisco
11 25 (1.11%) CA
12 18 (0.80%) NEC
12 18 (0.80%) Virgin Media
13 17 (0.76%) BT
13 17 (0.76%) IBM
14 16 (0.71%) Citrix
14 16 (0.71%) Google
15 15 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.49%) HP