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

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,327 2,441 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 17.54% 20.79%
As % of the General category 23.62% 27.74% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 1,177 2,066
10th Percentile £29,300 £35,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £73,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +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 9,851 8,799 12,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.91% 63.24% 60.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,140 4,322 6,479
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £81,250
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 30 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 30 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 -4 710 £47,500 -13.64% 266
Surrey -4 480 £52,500 -16.00% 107
Hampshire +6 468 £55,000 -8.33% 136
Berkshire -3 341 £53,263 -8.95% 113
Kent 0 269 £51,500 -6.36% 79
East Sussex +8 191 £52,500 -4.55% 53
Buckinghamshire -8 187 £50,000 -9.09% 87
Oxfordshire +12 182 £42,500 +6.25% 67
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 -3.13% 8
West Sussex -7 88 £52,500 -12.50% 27
Sussex -21 5 £105,000 - 2
Home Counties +4 1 £48,000 -20.00%
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 (3.39%) SAS
2 29 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.56%) Apache
5 9 (0.39%) Confluence
6 8 (0.34%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) JBoss
8 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) IIS
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 414 (17.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.26%) OrCAD
7 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
8 4 (0.17%) SPSS
9 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.043%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.043%) Simulink
10 1 (0.043%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 76 (3.27%) SAP ERP
2 28 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.86%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.34%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.21%) Pegasus Opera
10 5 (0.21%) Sage 50
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.38%) Azure
2 141 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 124 (5.33%) AWS
4 113 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (2.45%) SaaS
6 53 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (1.29%) GitHub
8 26 (1.12%) Snowflake
9 23 (0.99%) IaaS
9 23 (0.99%) Serverless
10 18 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (0.77%) Matillion
11 16 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (0.69%) Nutanix
11 16 (0.69%) PowerApps
12 15 (0.64%) GCP
13 14 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (0.60%) PaaS
14 13 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.51%) Broadband
2 38 (1.63%) Firewall
3 30 (1.29%) Internet
4 27 (1.16%) DNS
4 27 (1.16%) Network Security
5 24 (1.03%) Wireless
6 21 (0.90%) VPN
6 21 (0.90%) WAN
7 20 (0.86%) 5G
8 16 (0.69%) LAN
9 11 (0.47%) SNMP
10 10 (0.43%) HTTP
11 9 (0.39%) Intranet
12 8 (0.34%) Modbus
12 8 (0.34%) SAN
13 7 (0.30%) 3G
13 7 (0.30%) BGP
13 7 (0.30%) GPRS
13 7 (0.30%) VoIP
13 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 122 (5.24%) Power BI
3 67 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 39 (1.68%) Power Query
6 39 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (1.20%) Tableau
8 25 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.77%) Metadata
11 15 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.64%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.56%) DB2
13 12 (0.52%) MySQL
13 12 (0.52%) Redis
14 10 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.43%) GIS
15 8 (0.34%) MS Access
16 7 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 85 (3.65%) Git
2 49 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 46 (1.98%) JIRA
4 24 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
5 18 (0.77%) Selenium
6 13 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 7 (0.30%) NUnit
11 6 (0.26%) GitLab
11 6 (0.26%) Subversion
12 5 (0.21%) Maven
13 4 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.17%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.17%) PHPUnit
14 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.13%) MSBuild
14 3 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 982 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 571 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (10.23%) Influencing Skills
4 220 (9.45%) Retail
5 219 (9.41%) Marketing
6 185 (7.95%) Legal
7 170 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 139 (5.97%) Public Sector
9 123 (5.29%) Telecoms
10 107 (4.60%) Manufacturing
11 86 (3.70%) Banking
12 77 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
13 60 (2.58%) Electronics
14 56 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.98%) Law
16 36 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (1.20%) Billing
18 25 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.03%) Local Government
20 22 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 506 (21.74%) Analyst
2 393 (16.89%) Senior
3 252 (10.83%) Developer
4 200 (8.59%) Lead
5 191 (8.21%) Architect
6 173 (7.43%) Senior Analyst
7 125 (5.37%) Project Manager
8 124 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 105 (4.51%) Financial Analyst
10 95 (4.08%) Consultant
11 79 (3.39%) .NET Developer
12 75 (3.22%) IT Manager
13 69 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 65 (2.79%) Commercial Analyst
15 54 (2.32%) Administrator
16 53 (2.28%) Development Manager
17 52 (2.23%) Support Analyst
18 51 (2.19%) C# Developer
19 45 (1.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 42 (1.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (7.05%) .NET
2 91 (3.91%) HTML
2 91 (3.91%) React
3 70 (3.01%) CSS
4 63 (2.71%) ASP.NET
5 59 (2.54%) .NET Core
5 59 (2.54%) .NET Framework
6 58 (2.49%) AngularJS
7 55 (2.36%) HTML5
8 47 (2.02%) Kafka
9 43 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
10 42 (1.80%) Entity Framework
11 40 (1.72%) REST
12 38 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
13 37 (1.59%) GraphQL
14 35 (1.50%) Web Services
15 31 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
15 31 (1.33%) Vue
16 30 (1.29%) gRPC
16 30 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 116 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
2 89 (3.82%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.32%) PMI
4 41 (1.76%) Onboarding
5 38 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.29%) IoT
7 29 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.16%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.07%) Life Science
10 19 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 18 (0.77%) NHS
12 17 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
12 17 (0.73%) Credit Risk
12 17 (0.73%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.69%) Clustering
13 16 (0.69%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.00%) Windows
2 67 (2.88%) Linux
3 56 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.86%) Android
5 19 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.34%) VMS
10 5 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.21%) Unix
10 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.13%) Windows NT
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.086%) AIX
13 2 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.086%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (29.82%) Agile
2 384 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
3 357 (15.34%) Decision-Making
4 327 (14.05%) Mentoring
5 262 (11.26%) Business Case
5 262 (11.26%) Project Management
6 239 (10.27%) Budgeting
7 238 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
8 226 (9.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 215 (9.24%) Data Management
10 213 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 198 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
12 196 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 185 (7.95%) ERP
14 163 (7.00%) Change Management
15 161 (6.92%) Customer Service
16 148 (6.36%) Risk Management
17 137 (5.89%) Project Delivery
18 136 (5.84%) DevOps
18 136 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (11.04%) SQL
2 163 (7.00%) C#
3 136 (5.84%) JavaScript
4 90 (3.87%) Python
5 72 (3.09%) Java
6 47 (2.02%) Go
6 47 (2.02%) T-SQL
7 44 (1.89%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.63%) C++
9 37 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 31 (1.33%) C
11 18 (0.77%) VB
12 15 (0.64%) Bash
12 15 (0.64%) Perl
13 14 (0.60%) PHP
14 13 (0.56%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.52%) Bicep
15 12 (0.52%) VBA
16 10 (0.43%) R
17 9 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 437 (18.78%) Degree
2 259 (11.13%) ACCA
3 235 (10.10%) CIMA
4 77 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 67 (2.88%) Security Cleared
6 55 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 53 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.63%) CISSP
10 36 (1.55%) MBA
11 34 (1.46%) SC Cleared
12 28 (1.20%) PMP
13 19 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.82%) PhD
14 16 (0.69%) CISM
15 15 (0.64%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.64%) CRISC
16 12 (0.52%) CFA
16 12 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.95%) GDPR
2 79 (3.39%) SLA
3 78 (3.35%) QA
4 50 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 38 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.29%) IFRS
7 23 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 23 (0.99%) NIST
7 23 (0.99%) PMO
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
9 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
9 15 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.34%) GMP
12 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.30%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 82 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (2.71%) Docker
4 26 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.90%) vSphere
6 16 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.64%) Firmware
8 14 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.56%) OpenSSH
9 13 (0.56%) XenApp
10 10 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.12%) Terraform
3 18 (0.77%) vCenter Server
4 15 (0.64%) SCCM
5 14 (0.60%) IBM BigFix
6 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.56%) PowerCLI
7 8 (0.34%) Ansible
8 7 (0.30%) MIIS
9 6 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.26%) Nessus
9 6 (0.26%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.21%) Endace
10 5 (0.21%) WSUS
11 4 (0.17%) NetCrunch
11 4 (0.17%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.13%) Sysprep
13 2 (0.086%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 655 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.07%) SAP
3 128 (5.50%) Oracle
4 80 (3.44%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.31%) Hyperion
6 72 (3.09%) VMware
7 64 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.46%) Sage
9 32 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.20%) CA
10 28 (1.20%) Cisco
10 28 (1.20%) Databricks
11 19 (0.82%) IBM
11 19 (0.82%) NEC
12 18 (0.77%) Virgin Media
13 17 (0.73%) BT
13 17 (0.73%) Citrix
14 16 (0.69%) Google
15 15 (0.64%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.52%) Juniper