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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,933 20,517 31,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.42% 22.97% 23.70%
As % of the General category 29.37% 33.68% 36.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,794 12,193 16,833
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,250 £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 £88,950 £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 50,841 60,919 86,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.31% 68.22% 64.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35,628 33,101 45,219
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 £105,000 £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 14 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 14 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 6,835 £80,000 - 2,890
North of England -2 2,420 £55,000 - 863
South East -2 2,206 £52,000 -9.57% 768
Midlands -1 1,577 £50,000 -9.09% 587
North West +1 1,351 £55,000 - 520
South West -8 1,224 £54,370 -1.15% 422
West Midlands 0 1,104 £51,300 -6.73% 371
Yorkshire -3 821 £57,500 +4.55% 247
East of England -1 525 £50,000 -9.09% 306
East Midlands -4 466 £47,500 -13.64% 215
North East 0 248 £48,750 -11.36% 102
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
1 474 (3.17%) Apache
2 462 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 447 (2.99%) SAS
4 391 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 300 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 206 (1.38%) Confluence
7 102 (0.68%) IIS
8 79 (0.53%) 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
13 28 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.13%) Captiva
15 18 (0.12%) FileNet
16 14 (0.094%) JBoss
17 13 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
18 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
18 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,598 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 860 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 400 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 96 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 81 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 28 (0.19%) 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
17 3 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 315 (2.11%) SAP ERP
2 153 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 116 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 99 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 67 (0.45%) NEC Housing
6 56 (0.38%) SAP FI
7 49 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 49 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 42 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 39 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 36 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 35 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
12 34 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
13 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
14 31 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
15 30 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
16 28 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
16 28 (0.19%) Elite 3E
16 28 (0.19%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,363 (15.82%) Azure
2 1,916 (12.83%) AWS
3 1,092 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 831 (5.56%) GCP
5 822 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
6 505 (3.38%) SaaS
7 399 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
8 326 (2.18%) Snowflake
9 323 (2.16%) dbt
10 304 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
11 233 (1.56%) Serverless
12 231 (1.55%) GitHub
13 183 (1.23%) Entra ID
14 154 (1.03%) PaaS
15 142 (0.95%) IaaS
16 138 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
17 137 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 129 (0.86%) PowerApps
19 128 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
20 124 (0.83%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 831 (5.56%) Broadband
2 439 (2.94%) Firewall
3 226 (1.51%) DNS
4 184 (1.23%) Internet
5 171 (1.15%) WAN
6 164 (1.10%) LAN
7 160 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 139 (0.93%) VPN
9 130 (0.87%) DHCP
10 120 (0.80%) Network Security
11 110 (0.74%) Wireless
12 108 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.60%) SAN
14 71 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 56 (0.38%) 5G
16 55 (0.37%) Intranet
17 44 (0.29%) HTTP
17 44 (0.29%) SNMP
18 42 (0.28%) IPsec
19 40 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 926 (6.20%) Power BI
2 786 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 492 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 446 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 344 (2.30%) Apache Ignite
6 322 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 300 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
8 296 (1.98%) Tableau
9 295 (1.98%) Apache Arrow
9 295 (1.98%) Dremio
10 230 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 189 (1.27%) MongoDB
12 154 (1.03%) Big Data
13 141 (0.94%) Relational Database
14 135 (0.90%) NoSQL
15 129 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 114 (0.76%) Metadata
17 105 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 87 (0.58%) MySQL
19 84 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 511 (3.42%) JIRA
2 388 (2.60%) Git
3 231 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 99 (0.66%) GitLab
6 85 (0.57%) Selenium
7 84 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 59 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 47 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 43 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 40 (0.27%) Maven
12 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
12 34 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 33 (0.22%) JUnit
14 32 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
15 31 (0.21%) Bitbucket
16 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 5,233 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 2,490 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2,253 (15.09%) Banking
4 1,395 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,178 (7.89%) Legal
6 1,163 (7.79%) Retail
7 998 (6.68%) Marketing
8 909 (6.09%) Law
9 904 (6.05%) Front Office
10 760 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 748 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
12 631 (4.23%) Investment Banking
13 547 (3.66%) Manufacturing
14 482 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
15 401 (2.69%) Telecoms
16 389 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
17 311 (2.08%) Financial Institution
18 274 (1.83%) Back Office
19 259 (1.73%) Billing
20 224 (1.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,715 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2,570 (17.21%) Senior
3 1,868 (12.51%) Developer
4 1,420 (9.51%) Lead
5 1,217 (8.15%) Architect
6 887 (5.94%) Project Manager
7 709 (4.75%) Software Engineer
8 657 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 643 (4.31%) Consultant
10 613 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
11 567 (3.80%) Financial Analyst
12 439 (2.94%) Senior Manager
13 435 (2.91%) Senior Developer
14 409 (2.74%) IT Manager
15 337 (2.26%) .NET Developer
16 318 (2.13%) Business Analyst
17 299 (2.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 285 (1.91%) Python Developer
19 280 (1.88%) Support Analyst
20 278 (1.86%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 861 (5.77%) .NET
2 701 (4.69%) React
3 474 (3.17%) gRPC
4 464 (3.11%) AngularJS
5 448 (3.00%) HTML
6 415 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
7 319 (2.14%) Pandas
8 306 (2.05%) ASP.NET
9 297 (1.99%) CSS
10 288 (1.93%) REST
11 275 (1.84%) .NET Core
12 269 (1.80%) Redux
13 262 (1.75%) NumPy
14 247 (1.65%) Node.js
15 243 (1.63%) Web Services
16 242 (1.62%) Vue
17 235 (1.57%) SciPy
18 224 (1.50%) Kafka
19 198 (1.33%) Spring
20 192 (1.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 730 (4.89%) Hedge funds
2 660 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 659 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
4 645 (4.32%) Fixed Income
5 561 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 537 (3.60%) Derivative
7 525 (3.52%) Equities
8 425 (2.85%) Product Ownership
9 341 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 229 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 207 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 197 (1.32%) PMI
13 188 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
14 174 (1.17%) Cloud Native
15 167 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 163 (1.09%) Driving Licence
17 148 (0.99%) Algorithms
18 140 (0.94%) Data Structures
19 131 (0.88%) Credit Risk
20 120 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,123 (7.52%) Windows
2 679 (4.55%) Linux
3 304 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 248 (1.66%) Unix
5 195 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 106 (0.71%) Android
7 103 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 94 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 86 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 74 (0.50%) CentOS
10 74 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 60 (0.40%) Windows 7
12 54 (0.36%) Solaris
13 51 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 36 (0.24%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
16 30 (0.20%) AIX
17 25 (0.17%) zOS
18 24 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 19 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,196 (28.10%) Agile
2 2,415 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
3 1,779 (11.91%) Mentoring
4 1,710 (11.45%) Project Management
5 1,600 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 1,418 (9.50%) Decision-Making
7 1,316 (8.81%) Software Engineering
8 1,312 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
9 1,205 (8.07%) Asset Management
10 1,194 (8.00%) Analytics
11 1,113 (7.45%) DevOps
12 1,073 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,049 (7.02%) Coaching
14 1,013 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 967 (6.48%) Change Management
16 954 (6.39%) Data Management
16 954 (6.39%) ERP
17 928 (6.21%) Risk Management
18 902 (6.04%) Customer Service
19 839 (5.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,221 (14.87%) SQL
2 1,942 (13.00%) Python
3 1,152 (7.71%) JavaScript
4 1,090 (7.30%) Java
5 997 (6.68%) C#
6 847 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 414 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 240 (1.61%) Go
9 201 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 183 (1.23%) C++
11 178 (1.19%) Bash
12 167 (1.12%) R
13 130 (0.87%) C
14 97 (0.65%) PHP
15 94 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 87 (0.58%) VBA
17 68 (0.46%) Scala
18 67 (0.45%) Perl
19 66 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 59 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,367 (15.85%) Degree
2 780 (5.22%) ACCA
3 604 (4.04%) CIMA
4 520 (3.48%) Security Cleared
5 356 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 303 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 286 (1.92%) CISSP
8 280 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 252 (1.69%) SC Cleared
10 248 (1.66%) DBS Check
11 168 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 149 (1.00%) CISM
13 141 (0.94%) PMP
14 129 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 128 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 128 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 118 (0.79%) MBA
17 117 (0.78%) DV Cleared
18 97 (0.65%) CISA
19 96 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (3.19%) GDPR
2 475 (3.18%) QA
3 463 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 386 (2.58%) SLA
5 228 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.46%) IFRS
7 196 (1.31%) NIST
8 186 (1.25%) PMO
9 154 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.60%) GAAP
11 85 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 66 (0.44%) IFRS 9
12 66 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 64 (0.43%) GRC
14 48 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 47 (0.31%) COBIT
16 41 (0.27%) ISO 9001
17 38 (0.25%) NCSC
18 35 (0.23%) ITGC
19 30 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 572 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 494 (3.31%) Docker
3 289 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (0.65%) 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
1 611 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 458 (3.07%) Terraform
3 202 (1.35%) Ansible
4 150 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 127 (0.85%) SCCM
6 102 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 52 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.23%) Grafana
8 34 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.21%) SCOM
10 30 (0.20%) Puppet
11 24 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (0.15%) Istio
12 23 (0.15%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
14 18 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.11%) Nmap
16 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
17 15 (0.10%) Nessus
18 14 (0.094%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,289 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 932 (6.24%) Oracle
3 889 (5.95%) SAP
4 449 (3.01%) Google
5 396 (2.65%) VMware
6 327 (2.19%) Hyperion
7 323 (2.16%) Anaplan
8 295 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 257 (1.72%) Salesforce
10 242 (1.62%) Cisco
11 179 (1.20%) Dell
12 176 (1.18%) Citrix
13 172 (1.15%) CA
14 166 (1.11%) IBM
15 156 (1.04%) Red Hat
16 152 (1.02%) Bloomberg
17 136 (0.91%) Databricks
18 123 (0.82%) NEC
19 101 (0.68%) Palo Alto
20 99 (0.66%) Sage