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 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 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,308 2,460 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.26% 17.45% 20.84%
As % of the General category 23.64% 27.55% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 1,181 2,079
10th Percentile £29,225 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £45,625
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 £73,125
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 9,765 8,928 12,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.09% 63.35% 60.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,114 4,347 6,505
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,850
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.28% +9.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,750
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 28 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 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
Thames Valley -4 704 £47,500 -13.64% 271
Surrey -4 481 £52,500 -16.00% 115
Hampshire +6 463 £55,000 -7.95% 151
Berkshire -4 337 £54,000 -7.69% 120
Kent 0 266 £51,500 -6.36% 87
Buckinghamshire -10 187 £50,000 -9.09% 88
East Sussex +8 185 £52,500 -4.55% 67
Oxfordshire +13 180 £43,468 +12.17% 63
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 -3.13% 8
West Sussex -6 88 £52,500 -14.29% 31
Sussex -21 5 £105,000 - 6
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 (3.42%) SAS
2 28 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.56%) Apache
5 9 (0.39%) Confluence
6 8 (0.35%) nginx
6 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.22%) 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 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 404 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.26%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
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 (3.29%) SAP ERP
2 28 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.48%) 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 9 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
8 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.35%) Sage 200
9 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
9 7 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.26%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.17%) Pegasus Opera
12 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
12 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 358 (15.51%) Azure
2 139 (6.02%) Power Platform
3 122 (5.29%) AWS
4 113 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (2.47%) SaaS
6 55 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.34%) GitHub
9 26 (1.13%) Snowflake
10 23 (1.00%) IaaS
10 23 (1.00%) Serverless
11 18 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (0.78%) Matillion
12 16 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (0.69%) Nutanix
12 16 (0.69%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.65%) GCP
14 14 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (0.61%) PaaS
15 13 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.61%) Broadband
2 37 (1.60%) Firewall
3 30 (1.30%) Internet
4 26 (1.13%) DNS
4 26 (1.13%) Network Security
5 24 (1.04%) Wireless
6 21 (0.91%) VPN
6 21 (0.91%) WAN
7 20 (0.87%) 5G
8 16 (0.69%) LAN
9 11 (0.48%) SNMP
10 10 (0.43%) HTTP
11 9 (0.39%) Intranet
12 8 (0.35%) Modbus
12 8 (0.35%) SAN
13 7 (0.30%) 3G
13 7 (0.30%) GPRS
13 7 (0.30%) VoIP
13 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 120 (5.20%) Power BI
3 68 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 40 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (1.69%) Power Query
8 27 (1.17%) Tableau
9 25 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 24 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.78%) Metadata
12 15 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.61%) Relational Database
14 13 (0.56%) DB2
14 13 (0.56%) MySQL
15 12 (0.52%) Redis
16 10 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.43%) GIS
17 8 (0.35%) MS Access
18 7 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (3.60%) Git
2 50 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 45 (1.95%) JIRA
4 25 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 17 (0.74%) Selenium
6 13 (0.56%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 7 (0.30%) NUnit
11 6 (0.26%) GitLab
11 6 (0.26%) Subversion
12 5 (0.22%) 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
1 978 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 562 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (10.31%) Influencing Skills
4 214 (9.27%) Retail
5 211 (9.14%) Marketing
6 185 (8.02%) Legal
7 169 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 138 (5.98%) Public Sector
9 121 (5.24%) Telecoms
10 105 (4.55%) Manufacturing
11 86 (3.73%) Banking
12 75 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
13 59 (2.56%) Electronics
14 55 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.99%) Law
16 39 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
17 28 (1.21%) Billing
18 25 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.04%) Local Government
20 23 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 506 (21.92%) Analyst
2 389 (16.85%) Senior
3 251 (10.88%) Developer
4 199 (8.62%) Lead
5 191 (8.28%) Architect
6 172 (7.45%) Senior Analyst
7 124 (5.37%) Project Manager
8 123 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 105 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
10 94 (4.07%) Consultant
11 80 (3.47%) .NET Developer
12 71 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 69 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 65 (2.82%) Commercial Analyst
15 55 (2.38%) Administrator
16 53 (2.30%) Support Analyst
17 51 (2.21%) C# Developer
18 47 (2.04%) Development Manager
19 44 (1.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 42 (1.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.24%) .NET
2 96 (4.16%) React
3 92 (3.99%) HTML
4 70 (3.03%) CSS
5 64 (2.77%) ASP.NET
6 60 (2.60%) .NET Core
7 59 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 59 (2.56%) AngularJS
8 57 (2.47%) HTML5
9 45 (1.95%) Kafka
10 43 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
11 42 (1.82%) Entity Framework
12 40 (1.73%) REST
13 38 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (1.60%) GraphQL
15 35 (1.52%) Web Services
16 31 (1.34%) ASP.NET MVC
16 31 (1.34%) Node.js
16 31 (1.34%) Vue
17 30 (1.30%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 114 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
2 88 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.34%) PMI
4 41 (1.78%) Onboarding
5 39 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.30%) IoT
7 29 (1.26%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 24 (1.04%) Life Science
10 19 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.82%) Mobile App
11 18 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (0.78%) NHS
12 17 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
12 17 (0.74%) Clustering
12 17 (0.74%) Credit Risk
12 17 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (0.69%) Data Centre
14 14 (0.61%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.06%) Windows
2 68 (2.95%) Linux
3 55 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.87%) Android
5 19 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.35%) VMS
9 6 (0.26%) Unix
10 5 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.22%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.13%) Windows NT
12 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.087%) AIX
13 2 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.087%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (29.81%) Agile
2 381 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
3 357 (15.47%) Decision-Making
4 328 (14.21%) Mentoring
5 262 (11.35%) Business Case
6 259 (11.22%) Project Management
7 238 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
8 237 (10.27%) Budgeting
9 226 (9.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 211 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 208 (9.01%) Data Management
12 196 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
13 195 (8.45%) Roadmaps
14 184 (7.97%) ERP
15 164 (7.11%) Change Management
16 161 (6.98%) Customer Service
17 141 (6.11%) Risk Management
18 135 (5.85%) DevOps
18 135 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 133 (5.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 255 (11.05%) SQL
2 165 (7.15%) C#
3 137 (5.94%) JavaScript
4 90 (3.90%) Python
5 73 (3.16%) Java
6 47 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 46 (1.99%) Go
8 44 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.65%) C++
9 38 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 31 (1.34%) C
11 18 (0.78%) VB
12 15 (0.65%) Bash
12 15 (0.65%) Perl
13 14 (0.61%) 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
1 432 (18.72%) Degree
2 260 (11.27%) ACCA
3 236 (10.23%) CIMA
4 76 (3.29%) PMI Certification
5 64 (2.77%) Security Cleared
6 55 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 52 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (2.21%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.65%) CISSP
10 36 (1.56%) MBA
11 33 (1.43%) SC Cleared
12 27 (1.17%) PMP
13 19 (0.82%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.82%) PhD
14 15 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.65%) CISM
15 14 (0.61%) CRISC
16 12 (0.52%) CFA
16 12 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.48%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.03%) GDPR
2 79 (3.42%) SLA
3 77 (3.34%) QA
4 50 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 38 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.30%) IFRS
7 23 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.00%) NIST
8 22 (0.95%) PMO
9 16 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.69%) GRC
10 15 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
12 11 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.35%) GMP
14 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.30%) COBIT
16 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 64 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (2.73%) Docker
4 24 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.87%) vSphere
6 16 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.65%) Firmware
8 14 (0.61%) 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 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.13%) Terraform
3 18 (0.78%) vCenter Server
4 15 (0.65%) SCCM
5 14 (0.61%) IBM BigFix
6 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.56%) PowerCLI
7 8 (0.35%) 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 (0.22%) Endace
10 5 (0.22%) WSUS
11 4 (0.17%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.13%) NetCrunch
12 3 (0.13%) Sysprep
13 2 (0.087%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 646 (27.99%) Microsoft
2 210 (9.10%) SAP
3 127 (5.50%) Oracle
4 80 (3.47%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.34%) Hyperion
6 71 (3.08%) VMware
7 67 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.43%) Sage
9 31 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.21%) CA
10 28 (1.21%) Databricks
11 27 (1.17%) Cisco
12 19 (0.82%) IBM
12 19 (0.82%) NEC
13 18 (0.78%) Virgin Media
14 17 (0.74%) BT
14 17 (0.74%) Citrix
15 16 (0.69%) Google
16 15 (0.65%) Palo Alto
17 11 (0.48%) EMC