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 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 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,990 20,388 32,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.33% 23.04% 23.73%
As % of the General category 29.31% 33.79% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,810 12,112 16,865
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £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 £90,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,236 £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 51,144 60,335 88,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.14% 68.19% 64.57%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 32,893 45,490
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 20 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 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
London 0 6,863 £80,000 - 3,559
North of England -2 2,409 £55,000 - 977
South East -2 2,243 £52,500 -8.70% 1,291
Midlands -1 1,601 £50,000 -9.09% 608
North West +1 1,352 £55,000 - 560
South West -8 1,210 £53,772 -2.23% 455
West Midlands 0 1,117 £52,250 -5.00% 387
Yorkshire -3 806 £56,500 +2.73% 291
East of England -3 523 £50,000 -9.09% 315
East Midlands -4 477 £47,500 -13.64% 221
North East 0 251 £50,000 -9.09% 133
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
1 502 (3.35%) Apache
2 489 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 447 (2.98%) SAS
4 391 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 300 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 210 (1.40%) Confluence
7 104 (0.69%) IIS
8 77 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.36%) CMS
10 39 (0.26%) WordPress
11 34 (0.23%) nginx
12 31 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 30 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 28 (0.19%) Skype for Business
15 14 (0.093%) Captiva
16 13 (0.087%) FileNet
16 13 (0.087%) JBoss
16 13 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
17 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
17 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,624 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 869 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
3 407 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 96 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 82 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 28 (0.19%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 14 (0.093%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
12 9 (0.060%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.047%) InDesign
15 6 (0.040%) OrCAD
16 5 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
16 5 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
17 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
18 3 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
18 3 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 314 (2.09%) SAP ERP
2 152 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 115 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 100 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 74 (0.49%) NEC Housing
6 55 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 48 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 48 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 40 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 39 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 35 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 34 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
12 33 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 31 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.19%) Elite 3E
16 28 (0.19%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
17 27 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2,368 (15.80%) Azure
2 1,921 (12.82%) AWS
3 1,108 (7.39%) Power Platform
4 836 (5.58%) GCP
5 815 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
6 505 (3.37%) SaaS
7 404 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 350 (2.33%) dbt
9 349 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 297 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 232 (1.55%) Serverless
12 225 (1.50%) GitHub
13 207 (1.38%) Entra ID
14 148 (0.99%) PaaS
15 140 (0.93%) Power Automate
16 138 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
16 138 (0.92%) IaaS
17 131 (0.87%) PowerApps
18 127 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
19 123 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 828 (5.52%) Broadband
2 438 (2.92%) Firewall
3 214 (1.43%) DNS
4 185 (1.23%) Internet
5 171 (1.14%) WAN
6 165 (1.10%) LAN
7 142 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 139 (0.93%) VPN
9 120 (0.80%) Network Security
10 115 (0.77%) DHCP
11 109 (0.73%) Wireless
12 105 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.60%) SAN
14 70 (0.47%) SD-WAN
15 55 (0.37%) Intranet
16 52 (0.35%) 5G
17 45 (0.30%) SNMP
18 44 (0.29%) IPsec
19 38 (0.25%) Skype
20 36 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 942 (6.28%) Power BI
2 788 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 484 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 473 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 366 (2.44%) Apache Ignite
6 328 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 324 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
8 323 (2.15%) Apache Arrow
8 323 (2.15%) Dremio
9 297 (1.98%) Tableau
10 228 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 191 (1.27%) MongoDB
12 162 (1.08%) Big Data
13 139 (0.93%) Relational Database
14 134 (0.89%) NoSQL
15 133 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 112 (0.75%) Metadata
17 105 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 88 (0.59%) MySQL
19 86 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 508 (3.39%) JIRA
2 385 (2.57%) Git
3 232 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 102 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 100 (0.67%) GitLab
6 87 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 85 (0.57%) Selenium
8 56 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 42 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 40 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 39 (0.26%) Maven
13 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.22%) JUnit
14 33 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 31 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
16 30 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
17 23 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
18 22 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 5,236 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 2,498 (16.66%) Analytical Skills
3 2,293 (15.30%) Banking
4 1,394 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,196 (7.98%) Legal
6 1,190 (7.94%) Retail
7 1,009 (6.73%) Marketing
8 923 (6.16%) Front Office
9 906 (6.04%) Law
10 763 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 738 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
12 649 (4.33%) Investment Banking
13 548 (3.66%) Manufacturing
14 484 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
15 401 (2.68%) Telecoms
16 395 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
17 309 (2.06%) Financial Institution
18 280 (1.87%) Back Office
19 258 (1.72%) Billing
20 231 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,729 (18.21%) Analyst
2 2,586 (17.25%) Senior
3 1,867 (12.45%) Developer
4 1,432 (9.55%) Lead
5 1,215 (8.11%) Architect
6 882 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 720 (4.80%) Software Engineer
8 658 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 641 (4.28%) Consultant
10 637 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
11 572 (3.82%) Financial Analyst
12 434 (2.90%) Senior Manager
13 429 (2.86%) Senior Developer
14 408 (2.72%) IT Manager
15 338 (2.25%) .NET Developer
16 319 (2.13%) Business Analyst
17 306 (2.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 288 (1.92%) Python Developer
18 288 (1.92%) Python Engineer
19 280 (1.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 856 (5.71%) .NET
2 703 (4.69%) React
3 502 (3.35%) gRPC
4 457 (3.05%) AngularJS
5 443 (2.96%) Protocol Buffers
6 433 (2.89%) HTML
7 337 (2.25%) Pandas
8 306 (2.04%) ASP.NET
9 301 (2.01%) CSS
10 289 (1.93%) REST
11 280 (1.87%) NumPy
12 273 (1.82%) Redux
13 271 (1.81%) .NET Core
14 253 (1.69%) SciPy
15 245 (1.63%) Node.js
15 245 (1.63%) Web Services
16 243 (1.62%) Vue
17 223 (1.49%) Kafka
18 192 (1.28%) .NET Framework
19 189 (1.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 759 (5.06%) Hedge funds
2 690 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 667 (4.45%) Fixed Income
4 656 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 585 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 559 (3.73%) Derivative
7 550 (3.67%) Equities
8 429 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 339 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 226 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 211 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 197 (1.31%) PMI
13 187 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 166 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 166 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 160 (1.07%) Cloud Native
16 145 (0.97%) Algorithms
17 137 (0.91%) Data Structures
18 125 (0.83%) Credit Risk
19 123 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,137 (7.59%) Windows
2 679 (4.53%) Linux
3 312 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 246 (1.64%) Unix
5 199 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 106 (0.71%) Android
7 103 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 98 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
10 79 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 77 (0.51%) CentOS
12 61 (0.41%) Windows 7
13 58 (0.39%) Solaris
14 54 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 37 (0.25%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
17 29 (0.19%) AIX
18 25 (0.17%) zOS
19 24 (0.16%) Mac OS
20 20 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,208 (28.07%) Agile
2 2,421 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
3 1,773 (11.83%) Mentoring
4 1,707 (11.39%) Project Management
5 1,597 (10.65%) Roadmaps
6 1,434 (9.57%) Decision-Making
7 1,325 (8.84%) Software Engineering
8 1,305 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
9 1,235 (8.24%) Asset Management
10 1,187 (7.92%) Analytics
11 1,109 (7.40%) DevOps
12 1,092 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,071 (7.14%) Coaching
14 1,012 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 971 (6.48%) Change Management
16 969 (6.46%) Data Management
17 951 (6.34%) ERP
18 933 (6.22%) Risk Management
19 902 (6.02%) Customer Service
20 847 (5.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,245 (14.98%) SQL
2 1,974 (13.17%) Python
3 1,172 (7.82%) JavaScript
4 1,103 (7.36%) Java
5 998 (6.66%) C#
6 865 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 443 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 247 (1.65%) Go
9 204 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 189 (1.26%) C++
11 176 (1.17%) Bash
12 164 (1.09%) R
13 130 (0.87%) C
14 100 (0.67%) PHP
15 95 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 89 (0.59%) VBA
17 70 (0.47%) Perl
18 68 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 67 (0.45%) Scala
20 65 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,372 (15.82%) Degree
2 786 (5.24%) ACCA
3 607 (4.05%) CIMA
4 507 (3.38%) Security Cleared
5 356 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 300 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 285 (1.90%) CISSP
8 283 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 250 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 248 (1.65%) SC Cleared
11 166 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 146 (0.97%) CISM
13 143 (0.95%) PMP
14 128 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 128 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 117 (0.78%) MBA
16 114 (0.76%) AWS Certification
17 105 (0.70%) DV Cleared
18 95 (0.63%) CRISC
19 92 (0.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (3.13%) GDPR
2 466 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 464 (3.10%) QA
4 386 (2.58%) SLA
5 225 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.45%) IFRS
7 196 (1.31%) NIST
8 187 (1.25%) PMO
9 163 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.60%) GAAP
11 86 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 66 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 65 (0.43%) IFRS 9
14 64 (0.43%) GRC
15 50 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 45 (0.30%) COBIT
17 42 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.25%) NCSC
19 35 (0.23%) ITGC
20 32 (0.21%) GMP
System Software
1 596 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 499 (3.33%) Docker
3 290 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 81 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 58 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 53 (0.35%) XenApp
8 52 (0.35%) vSphere
9 47 (0.31%) Firmware
10 41 (0.27%) XenDesktop
11 37 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 25 (0.17%) RACF
13 15 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.080%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.073%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.060%) Forefront TMG
18 8 (0.053%) HDFS
19 7 (0.047%) IAG
19 7 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 613 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 452 (3.02%) Terraform
3 205 (1.37%) Ansible
4 152 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 130 (0.87%) SCCM
6 108 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 54 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 33 (0.22%) Grafana
10 30 (0.20%) SCOM
11 29 (0.19%) Puppet
12 26 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
14 23 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.14%) Istio
16 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
17 17 (0.11%) Nmap
18 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
19 15 (0.10%) Nessus
20 13 (0.087%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,344 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 929 (6.20%) Oracle
3 879 (5.86%) SAP
4 453 (3.02%) Google
5 402 (2.68%) VMware
6 326 (2.17%) Hyperion
7 324 (2.16%) Anaplan
8 291 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 265 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 241 (1.61%) Cisco
11 180 (1.20%) Citrix
12 176 (1.17%) Dell
13 175 (1.17%) CA
14 163 (1.09%) IBM
14 163 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 154 (1.03%) Bloomberg
16 136 (0.91%) Databricks
17 131 (0.87%) NEC
18 101 (0.67%) Palo Alto
19 98 (0.65%) Sage