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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,350 2,421 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.15% 17.59% 20.74%
As % of the General category 23.65% 27.85% 34.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 1,174 2,065
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £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 £72,500
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 9,938 8,693 12,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.61% 63.16% 60.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,178 4,317 6,487
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 £75,075 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -3 726 £47,500 -13.64% 301
Surrey -3 483 £52,500 -16.00% 114
Hampshire +5 475 £55,000 -8.33% 163
Berkshire -3 347 £52,500 -10.26% 136
Kent -1 266 £54,000 -1.82% 95
East Sussex +9 192 £52,500 -4.55% 70
Buckinghamshire -8 192 £50,000 -9.09% 95
Oxfordshire +11 187 £43,468 +8.67% 70
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 -3.13% 12
West Sussex -7 87 £53,668 -10.55% 35
Sussex -23 5 £105,000 - 1
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 (3.36%) SAS
2 30 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.55%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) Confluence
6 8 (0.34%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) JBoss
8 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 426 (18.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.26%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.17%) SPSS
8 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.043%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.043%) Simulink
9 1 (0.043%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 76 (3.23%) SAP ERP
2 29 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.43%) NEC Housing
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
1 360 (15.32%) Azure
2 142 (6.04%) Power Platform
3 124 (5.28%) AWS
4 113 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (2.47%) SaaS
6 57 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (1.28%) GitHub
9 26 (1.11%) Snowflake
10 24 (1.02%) IaaS
11 23 (0.98%) Serverless
12 18 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (0.77%) Matillion
13 17 (0.72%) GCP
14 16 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (0.68%) Nutanix
14 16 (0.68%) PowerApps
15 14 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (0.60%) PaaS
16 13 (0.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.38%) Broadband
2 38 (1.62%) Firewall
3 30 (1.28%) Internet
4 28 (1.19%) DNS
5 27 (1.15%) Network Security
6 24 (1.02%) Wireless
7 22 (0.94%) VPN
7 22 (0.94%) WAN
8 20 (0.85%) 5G
9 16 (0.68%) LAN
10 11 (0.47%) SNMP
11 10 (0.43%) HTTP
12 9 (0.38%) Intranet
13 8 (0.34%) Modbus
13 8 (0.34%) SAN
14 7 (0.30%) 3G
14 7 (0.30%) BGP
14 7 (0.30%) GPRS
14 7 (0.30%) VoIP
14 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.19%) Power BI
1 122 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 67 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 39 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (1.62%) Power Query
7 28 (1.19%) Tableau
8 25 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.77%) Metadata
11 16 (0.68%) Relational Database
12 15 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.60%) MySQL
14 13 (0.55%) DB2
15 12 (0.51%) Redis
16 10 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.43%) GIS
17 8 (0.34%) MS Access
18 7 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (3.70%) Git
2 48 (2.04%) Visual Studio
3 47 (2.00%) JIRA
4 24 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
5 20 (0.85%) Selenium
6 13 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.38%) 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%) PHPUnit
11 6 (0.26%) Subversion
12 5 (0.21%) Maven
13 4 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.17%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.17%) MSBuild
14 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 985 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 580 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (10.13%) Influencing Skills
4 229 (9.74%) Marketing
5 228 (9.70%) Retail
6 185 (7.87%) Legal
7 173 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 134 (5.70%) Public Sector
9 126 (5.36%) Telecoms
10 107 (4.55%) Manufacturing
11 84 (3.57%) Banking
12 77 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (2.60%) Electronics
14 56 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (2.00%) Law
16 36 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (1.19%) Billing
18 27 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.02%) Local Government
20 22 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 506 (21.53%) Analyst
2 398 (16.94%) Senior
3 260 (11.06%) Developer
4 202 (8.60%) Lead
5 192 (8.17%) Architect
6 173 (7.36%) Senior Analyst
7 125 (5.32%) Project Manager
7 125 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (4.47%) Financial Analyst
9 98 (4.17%) Consultant
10 80 (3.40%) .NET Developer
11 76 (3.23%) IT Manager
12 74 (3.15%) Senior Developer
13 65 (2.77%) Commercial Analyst
14 63 (2.68%) Development Manager
15 54 (2.30%) Administrator
16 51 (2.17%) C# Developer
16 51 (2.17%) Support Analyst
17 47 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 45 (1.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (6.94%) .NET
2 91 (3.87%) React
3 90 (3.83%) HTML
4 69 (2.94%) CSS
5 62 (2.64%) ASP.NET
6 60 (2.55%) .NET Framework
7 59 (2.51%) .NET Core
8 58 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 55 (2.34%) HTML5
10 47 (2.00%) Kafka
11 43 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
12 42 (1.79%) Entity Framework
13 40 (1.70%) REST
14 38 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (1.57%) GraphQL
16 34 (1.45%) Web Services
17 31 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
17 31 (1.32%) Vue
18 30 (1.28%) gRPC
18 30 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
2 90 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.30%) PMI
4 41 (1.74%) Onboarding
5 39 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.28%) IoT
7 29 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.06%) Life Science
10 19 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 18 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
11 18 (0.77%) NHS
12 17 (0.72%) Clustering
12 17 (0.72%) Credit Risk
12 17 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.68%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.60%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 163 (6.94%) Windows
2 67 (2.85%) Linux
3 57 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.81%) Android
5 18 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.34%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.21%) Unix
9 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows NT
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.085%) AIX
12 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (30.09%) Agile
2 386 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
3 359 (15.28%) Decision-Making
4 327 (13.91%) Mentoring
5 263 (11.19%) Business Case
5 263 (11.19%) Project Management
6 240 (10.21%) Budgeting
7 239 (10.17%) Actionable Insight
8 230 (9.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 226 (9.62%) Data Management
10 218 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
12 197 (8.38%) Roadmaps
13 184 (7.83%) ERP
14 167 (7.11%) Change Management
15 161 (6.85%) Customer Service
16 150 (6.38%) Risk Management
17 139 (5.91%) Project Delivery
17 139 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 137 (5.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 255 (10.85%) SQL
2 164 (6.98%) C#
3 137 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 90 (3.83%) Python
5 71 (3.02%) Java
6 51 (2.17%) Go
7 46 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 45 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.62%) C++
9 38 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 31 (1.32%) C
11 18 (0.77%) PHP
11 18 (0.77%) VB
12 15 (0.64%) Bash
12 15 (0.64%) Perl
13 13 (0.55%) ActionScript
14 12 (0.51%) VBA
15 11 (0.47%) Bicep
16 10 (0.43%) R
17 9 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 441 (18.77%) Degree
2 261 (11.11%) ACCA
3 235 (10.00%) CIMA
4 77 (3.28%) PMI Certification
5 69 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 56 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 53 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.96%) DBS Check
9 39 (1.66%) CISSP
10 37 (1.57%) MBA
11 36 (1.53%) SC Cleared
12 28 (1.19%) PMP
13 21 (0.89%) DV Cleared
14 19 (0.81%) PhD
15 17 (0.72%) CISM
16 16 (0.68%) CRISC
17 15 (0.64%) Azure Certification
18 12 (0.51%) CFA
18 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
19 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.70%) GDPR
2 79 (3.36%) QA
2 79 (3.36%) SLA
3 50 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.32%) IFRS
6 24 (1.02%) NIST
7 22 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.94%) PMO
8 16 (0.68%) GRC
8 16 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
10 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.38%) 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 83 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.77%) Docker
3 64 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.89%) vSphere
6 16 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.64%) Firmware
8 14 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.55%) OpenSSH
9 13 (0.55%) XenApp
10 10 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.085%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.15%) Terraform
3 18 (0.77%) vCenter Server
4 15 (0.64%) SCCM
5 14 (0.60%) IBM BigFix
6 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.55%) 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 (0.085%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 667 (28.38%) Microsoft
2 211 (8.98%) SAP
3 127 (5.40%) Oracle
4 80 (3.40%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.28%) Hyperion
6 72 (3.06%) VMware
7 62 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.45%) Sage
9 32 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.28%) CA
11 28 (1.19%) Cisco
11 28 (1.19%) Databricks
12 19 (0.81%) IBM
12 19 (0.81%) NEC
13 18 (0.77%) Virgin Media
14 17 (0.72%) BT
14 17 (0.72%) Citrix
15 16 (0.68%) Google
16 15 (0.64%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.51%) Juniper