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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 15,162 20,017 33,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.06% 23.12% 23.89%
As % of the General category 29.27% 34.03% 36.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,819 11,829 16,933
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +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 51,797 58,820 90,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 58.29% 67.94% 64.93%
Number of salaries quoted 35,967 32,218 45,666
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 28 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 28 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 6,879 £82,500 +3.13% 2,991
North of England -2 2,440 £55,000 - 971
South East -2 2,308 £52,500 -8.70% 836
Midlands -2 1,674 £50,000 -9.09% 611
North West 0 1,385 £52,500 -4.55% 578
South West -8 1,202 £52,500 -4.55% 461
West Midlands 0 1,147 £52,500 -4.55% 382
Yorkshire -3 798 £56,500 +2.73% 274
East of England -4 524 £50,000 -9.09% 307
East Midlands -4 521 £47,500 -13.64% 228
North East +1 257 £50,000 -9.09% 127
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
1 543 (3.58%) Apache
2 537 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 441 (2.91%) SAS
4 379 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 294 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 207 (1.37%) Confluence
7 103 (0.68%) IIS
8 67 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 52 (0.34%) CMS
10 39 (0.26%) WordPress
11 32 (0.21%) nginx
12 30 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 28 (0.18%) Skype for Business
14 19 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 14 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
16 13 (0.086%) JBoss
17 11 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
18 10 (0.066%) ArcGIS
19 8 (0.053%) Office Communications Server
19 8 (0.053%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,704 (11.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 941 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
3 413 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 97 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 80 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.18%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 14 (0.092%) Photoshop
11 11 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
12 8 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.053%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.046%) InDesign
14 6 (0.040%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.026%) Doxygen
17 3 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 313 (2.06%) SAP ERP
2 154 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 104 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 97 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 77 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 47 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 44 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 40 (0.26%) SAP CO
8 40 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
9 38 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 35 (0.23%) Aladdin
11 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
11 33 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
12 32 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
13 31 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
14 30 (0.20%) Elite 3E
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
14 30 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
15 28 (0.18%) SAP BPC
16 27 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2,381 (15.70%) Azure
2 1,957 (12.91%) AWS
3 1,113 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 818 (5.40%) GCP
5 800 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
6 492 (3.24%) SaaS
7 419 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
8 399 (2.63%) dbt
9 386 (2.55%) Snowflake
10 307 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 233 (1.54%) Entra ID
12 227 (1.50%) Serverless
13 195 (1.29%) GitHub
14 137 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 136 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
15 136 (0.90%) PaaS
16 128 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 127 (0.84%) IaaS
18 121 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
19 117 (0.77%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 828 (5.46%) Broadband
2 446 (2.94%) Firewall
3 214 (1.41%) DNS
4 180 (1.19%) Internet
5 175 (1.15%) WAN
6 168 (1.11%) LAN
7 140 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 132 (0.87%) VPN
9 127 (0.84%) Network Security
10 116 (0.77%) DHCP
11 113 (0.75%) Wireless
12 103 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
13 88 (0.58%) SAN
14 70 (0.46%) SD-WAN
15 55 (0.36%) Intranet
16 51 (0.34%) 5G
17 45 (0.30%) SNMP
18 44 (0.29%) IPsec
19 38 (0.25%) Skype
19 38 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 946 (6.24%) Power BI
2 779 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 512 (3.38%) Data Lake
4 483 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 408 (2.69%) Apache Ignite
6 371 (2.45%) Dremio
7 368 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
8 365 (2.41%) Apache Arrow
9 321 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
10 298 (1.97%) Tableau
11 222 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 194 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 161 (1.06%) Big Data
14 141 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 129 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 121 (0.80%) NoSQL
17 110 (0.73%) Metadata
18 105 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
19 83 (0.55%) Power Query
20 82 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 488 (3.22%) JIRA
2 372 (2.45%) Git
3 214 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 102 (0.67%) GitLab
6 85 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 81 (0.53%) Selenium
8 55 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 35 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 34 (0.22%) JUnit
12 33 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 33 (0.22%) Maven
13 32 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 29 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 29 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
15 28 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
16 25 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (0.15%) Postman
18 22 (0.15%) JMeter
General
1 5,239 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 2,535 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
3 2,281 (15.04%) Banking
4 1,428 (9.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,261 (8.32%) Retail
6 1,236 (8.15%) Legal
7 1,089 (7.18%) Marketing
8 957 (6.31%) Front Office
9 921 (6.07%) Law
10 754 (4.97%) Public Sector
11 736 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
12 673 (4.44%) Investment Banking
13 542 (3.57%) Manufacturing
14 476 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
15 402 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
16 391 (2.58%) Telecoms
17 302 (1.99%) Financial Institution
18 279 (1.84%) Back Office
19 258 (1.70%) Billing
20 236 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,730 (18.01%) Analyst
2 2,624 (17.31%) Senior
3 1,890 (12.47%) Developer
4 1,467 (9.68%) Lead
5 1,245 (8.21%) Architect
6 883 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 738 (4.87%) Software Engineer
8 682 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 650 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
10 639 (4.21%) Consultant
11 585 (3.86%) Financial Analyst
12 441 (2.91%) Senior Manager
13 432 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 410 (2.70%) IT Manager
15 346 (2.28%) .NET Developer
16 312 (2.06%) Python Engineer
17 311 (2.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 308 (2.03%) Business Analyst
19 293 (1.93%) Python Developer
20 277 (1.83%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 861 (5.68%) .NET
2 703 (4.64%) React
3 540 (3.56%) gRPC
4 485 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 461 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 431 (2.84%) HTML
7 380 (2.51%) Pandas
8 323 (2.13%) NumPy
9 305 (2.01%) ASP.NET
9 305 (2.01%) CSS
10 297 (1.96%) SciPy
11 293 (1.93%) REST
12 276 (1.82%) Redux
13 274 (1.81%) .NET Core
14 253 (1.67%) Vue
15 251 (1.66%) Node.js
16 248 (1.64%) Web Services
17 223 (1.47%) Kafka
18 196 (1.29%) .NET Framework
19 184 (1.21%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 788 (5.20%) Hedge funds
2 711 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 701 (4.62%) Fixed Income
4 638 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 619 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 587 (3.87%) Derivative
7 580 (3.83%) Equities
8 433 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 338 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 227 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 202 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 186 (1.23%) PMI
13 180 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 166 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 164 (1.08%) Cloud Native
16 163 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 148 (0.98%) Algorithms
18 133 (0.88%) Data Structures
19 129 (0.85%) NHS
20 120 (0.79%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,146 (7.56%) Windows
2 679 (4.48%) Linux
3 322 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 235 (1.55%) Unix
5 199 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 108 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 100 (0.66%) Android
8 96 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 96 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 86 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 80 (0.53%) CentOS
11 60 (0.40%) Solaris
11 60 (0.40%) Windows 7
12 57 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 38 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
15 28 (0.18%) AIX
16 25 (0.16%) Mac OS
16 25 (0.16%) zOS
17 20 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,283 (28.25%) Agile
2 2,409 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
3 1,778 (11.73%) Mentoring
4 1,713 (11.30%) Project Management
5 1,601 (10.56%) Roadmaps
6 1,443 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 1,355 (8.94%) Software Engineering
8 1,295 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
9 1,257 (8.29%) Asset Management
10 1,193 (7.87%) Analytics
11 1,103 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 1,092 (7.20%) DevOps
13 1,084 (7.15%) Coaching
14 1,023 (6.75%) Data Management
15 1,008 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 963 (6.35%) ERP
17 961 (6.34%) Change Management
18 956 (6.31%) Risk Management
19 898 (5.92%) Customer Service
20 855 (5.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,259 (14.90%) SQL
2 1,993 (13.14%) Python
3 1,208 (7.97%) JavaScript
4 1,108 (7.31%) Java
5 1,001 (6.60%) C#
6 896 (5.91%) TypeScript
7 484 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 238 (1.57%) Go
9 205 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 186 (1.23%) C++
11 175 (1.15%) Bash
12 151 (1.00%) R
13 124 (0.82%) C
14 101 (0.67%) PHP
15 94 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 89 (0.59%) VBA
17 75 (0.49%) Perl
18 67 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 67 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 64 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,369 (15.62%) Degree
2 788 (5.20%) ACCA
3 606 (4.00%) CIMA
4 540 (3.56%) Security Cleared
5 360 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 301 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 295 (1.95%) CISSP
8 272 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 265 (1.75%) SC Cleared
10 254 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 164 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 149 (0.98%) CISM
13 143 (0.94%) PMP
14 131 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 130 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 124 (0.82%) DV Cleared
17 118 (0.78%) AWS Certification
18 117 (0.77%) MBA
19 94 (0.62%) CRISC
20 92 (0.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 471 (3.11%) QA
3 456 (3.01%) GDPR
4 387 (2.55%) SLA
5 225 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 213 (1.40%) IFRS
7 200 (1.32%) NIST
8 187 (1.23%) PMO
9 164 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.59%) GAAP
11 87 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 67 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 63 (0.42%) GRC
14 59 (0.39%) IFRS 9
15 51 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 46 (0.30%) COBIT
17 41 (0.27%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.25%) NCSC
19 35 (0.23%) ITGC
20 32 (0.21%) GMP
System Software
1 616 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 492 (3.24%) Docker
3 292 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 96 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (0.40%) XenApp
7 59 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 54 (0.36%) vSphere
9 50 (0.33%) Firmware
10 46 (0.30%) XenDesktop
11 45 (0.30%) RACF
12 39 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
14 13 (0.086%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.079%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.059%) Forefront TMG
17 7 (0.046%) HDFS
17 7 (0.046%) IAG
17 7 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 608 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 459 (3.03%) Terraform
3 213 (1.40%) Ansible
4 154 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 131 (0.86%) SCCM
6 109 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 56 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 32 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.20%) Grafana
10 30 (0.20%) SCOM
11 29 (0.19%) Puppet
12 27 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
14 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
15 20 (0.13%) Istio
16 17 (0.11%) Nmap
17 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
18 15 (0.099%) Nessus
18 15 (0.099%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3,469 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 911 (6.01%) Oracle
3 843 (5.56%) SAP
4 440 (2.90%) Google
5 405 (2.67%) VMware
6 327 (2.16%) Hyperion
7 324 (2.14%) Anaplan
8 282 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 262 (1.73%) Salesforce
10 240 (1.58%) Cisco
11 185 (1.22%) Citrix
12 178 (1.17%) CA
13 173 (1.14%) Dell
14 170 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 153 (1.01%) Bloomberg
15 153 (1.01%) IBM
16 135 (0.89%) NEC
17 133 (0.88%) Databricks
18 105 (0.69%) Palo Alto
19 98 (0.65%) Sage