Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 609 698
Rank change year-on-year +200 +89 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 627 376 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 325 223 465
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,150 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £87,250 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +14.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the UK 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
England +194 585 £60,000 - 61
Work from Home +206 373 £65,000 +18.18% 29
London +185 310 £75,000 +15.38% 33
UK excluding London +124 296 £47,500 - 27
South East +52 105 £50,000 +8.11% 12
North of England +82 83 £36,000 -28.00% 4
North West +53 61 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Midlands +12 33 £47,500 +43.93% 3
Scotland -36 26 £51,500 -23.22% 3
South West -8 24 £50,000 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +66 20 £27,500 -47.62% 1
West Midlands +21 20 £47,500 +13.77% 2
East of England +8 16 £45,000 -10.00% 4
East Midlands -9 13 £50,500 +60.32% 1
Wales +11 9 - -
North East -6 2 £30,500 -18.67% 1

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Financial Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 627 (100.00%) Finance
2 249 (39.71%) Social Skills
3 236 (37.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 230 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (31.58%) Agile
6 189 (30.14%) Microsoft
7 184 (29.35%) Decision-Making
8 169 (26.95%) CIMA
9 168 (26.79%) ACCA
10 163 (26.00%) SQL
11 160 (25.52%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 144 (22.97%) Budgeting
13 140 (22.33%) Mentoring
14 132 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
15 129 (20.57%) Broadband
16 128 (20.41%) Business Case
17 122 (19.46%) Python
18 114 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
19 98 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
20 96 (15.31%) Business Intelligence
21 95 (15.15%) Legal
22 91 (14.51%) Degree
23 85 (13.56%) Asset Management
24 83 (13.24%) Banking
25 80 (12.76%) Investment Management
26 77 (12.28%) Hedge funds
27 76 (12.12%) Derivative
27 76 (12.12%) Oracle
28 75 (11.96%) Front Office
29 70 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.12%) SAS
3 6 (0.96%) Apache
3 6 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 236 (37.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (3.83%) Elite 3E
2 14 (2.23%) Aladdin
3 13 (2.07%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (2.07%) iTrent
4 12 (1.91%) Fidessa
5 10 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (1.44%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.96%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.96%) Oracle Applications
7 6 (0.96%) Sage 50
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.64%) Lawson
10 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.32%) SAP R/3
12 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
12 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 70 (11.16%) Power Platform
2 53 (8.45%) AWS
3 10 (1.59%) Azure
4 7 (1.12%) OCI
4 7 (1.12%) Snowflake
5 6 (0.96%) dbt
5 6 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.80%) SaaS
7 3 (0.48%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.32%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.16%) Asana
9 1 (0.16%) FinancialForce
9 1 (0.16%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.16%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.16%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.16%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 129 (20.57%) Broadband
2 12 (1.91%) DHCP
2 12 (1.91%) DNS
2 12 (1.91%) Firewall
2 12 (1.91%) FIX Connectivity
2 12 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.48%) Intranet
3 3 (0.48%) LAN
3 3 (0.48%) SSL
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) WAN
3 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.16%) Power BI
2 31 (4.94%) Tableau
3 25 (3.99%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (3.03%) Data Mining
5 17 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
6 13 (2.07%) Power Query
6 13 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.91%) Big Data
8 10 (1.59%) MS Access
9 8 (1.28%) Essbase
10 7 (1.12%) QlikView
11 6 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
11 6 (0.96%) Dremio
11 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.32%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 627 (100.00%) Finance
2 249 (39.71%) Social Skills
3 230 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 95 (15.15%) Legal
6 83 (13.24%) Banking
7 75 (11.96%) Front Office
8 64 (10.21%) Law
9 31 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (4.31%) Back Office
11 22 (3.51%) Investment Banking
12 21 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (3.19%) Retail
14 18 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (2.39%) Marketing
16 13 (2.07%) General Ledger
17 12 (1.91%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (1.44%) Fire and Rescue
19 6 (0.96%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (1.12%) Pandas
4 6 (0.96%) Middleware
5 2 (0.32%) Flash
6 1 (0.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.28%) Hedge funds
2 76 (12.12%) Derivative
3 52 (8.29%) Product Ownership
4 51 (8.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 50 (7.97%) Equities
5 50 (7.97%) Fixed Income
6 31 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 31 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.55%) Social Media
8 12 (1.91%) Eurex
9 11 (1.75%) Life Science
10 7 (1.12%) Pricing Data
11 6 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.48%) CMDB
14 3 (0.48%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.47%) Windows
2 15 (2.39%) Linux
2 15 (2.39%) Unix
3 12 (1.91%) CentOS
3 12 (1.91%) Solaris
3 12 (1.91%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.44%) Windows Vista
5 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (31.58%) Agile
2 184 (29.35%) Decision-Making
3 160 (25.52%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 144 (22.97%) Budgeting
5 140 (22.33%) Mentoring
6 132 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
7 128 (20.41%) Business Case
8 98 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (15.31%) Business Intelligence
10 85 (13.56%) Asset Management
11 80 (12.76%) Investment Management
12 70 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (9.57%) ERP
14 59 (9.41%) Analytics
15 53 (8.45%) Machine Learning
16 52 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
17 51 (8.13%) Financial Analysis
18 43 (6.86%) ITIL
19 39 (6.22%) Financial Modelling
20 36 (5.74%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 163 (26.00%) SQL
2 122 (19.46%) Python
3 25 (3.99%) C#
4 20 (3.19%) T-SQL
5 13 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (1.91%) Bash
6 12 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.91%) Perl
6 12 (1.91%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.91%) Ruby
7 7 (1.12%) R
8 2 (0.32%) C++
8 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 169 (26.95%) CIMA
2 168 (26.79%) ACCA
3 91 (14.51%) Degree
4 9 (1.44%) AAT
4 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
4 9 (1.44%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.28%) MBA
6 5 (0.80%) CFA
7 3 (0.48%) GCFA
7 3 (0.48%) GCIA
7 3 (0.48%) GCIH
7 3 (0.48%) ISEB
8 2 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.16%) CCAB
9 1 (0.16%) CISA
9 1 (0.16%) CISM
9 1 (0.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.39%) IFRS
2 13 (2.07%) SLA
3 9 (1.44%) QA
4 8 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.64%) COBIT
7 3 (0.48%) NIST
8 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.32%) PMO
8 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) ITGC
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.16%) XenApp
3 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 189 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 76 (12.12%) Oracle
3 43 (6.86%) SAP
4 28 (4.47%) Bloomberg
5 18 (2.87%) CA
6 16 (2.55%) Alteryx
7 14 (2.23%) BISAM
7 14 (2.23%) Concur
7 14 (2.23%) PeopleSoft
8 13 (2.07%) Hyperion
8 13 (2.07%) Infor
8 13 (2.07%) Sage
9 12 (1.91%) Aderant
9 12 (1.91%) CQG
9 12 (1.91%) ION Trading
9 12 (1.91%) Patsystems
9 12 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.91%) Reuters
9 12 (1.91%) Trayport
9 12 (1.91%) Workday