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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 15,204 19,977 33,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.99% 23.12% 23.85%
As % of the General category 29.21% 34.02% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,812 11,791 16,796
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 52,053 58,720 90,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 58.18% 67.97% 64.94%
Number of salaries quoted 36,043 32,120 45,408
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 29 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 29 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 6,880 £82,500 +3.13% 3,003
North of England -2 2,442 £54,000 -1.82% 978
South East -2 2,326 £52,500 -8.70% 827
Midlands -2 1,690 £50,000 -9.09% 613
North West 0 1,385 £52,500 -4.55% 581
South West -8 1,207 £52,500 -4.55% 445
West Midlands 0 1,153 £52,500 -4.55% 382
Yorkshire -3 799 £56,500 +2.73% 276
East Midlands -4 531 £47,500 -13.64% 230
East of England -4 524 £50,000 -9.09% 309
North East +2 258 £50,000 -9.09% 129
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
1 542 (3.56%) Apache
2 536 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 437 (2.87%) SAS
4 379 (2.49%) SharePoint
5 293 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 206 (1.35%) Confluence
7 103 (0.68%) IIS
8 66 (0.43%) 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 18 (0.12%) WebSphere
15 14 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
16 13 (0.086%) JBoss
17 11 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2010
18 10 (0.066%) ArcGIS
19 8 (0.053%) OpenStack
19 8 (0.053%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,724 (11.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 959 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 413 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 96 (0.63%) 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 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
12 8 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.053%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.046%) InDesign
14 6 (0.039%) 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 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 104 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 97 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 77 (0.51%) NEC Housing
6 47 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 45 (0.30%) 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 34 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
12 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
13 32 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
14 31 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
15 30 (0.20%) Elite 3E
15 30 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
16 29 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
17 28 (0.18%) SAP BPC
18 27 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2,377 (15.63%) Azure
2 1,956 (12.87%) AWS
3 1,119 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 802 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
5 799 (5.26%) GCP
6 494 (3.25%) SaaS
7 428 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
8 398 (2.62%) dbt
9 386 (2.54%) Snowflake
10 306 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 235 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 228 (1.50%) Serverless
13 188 (1.24%) GitHub
14 138 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 132 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
16 130 (0.86%) PaaS
16 130 (0.86%) PowerApps
17 125 (0.82%) IaaS
18 122 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
19 117 (0.77%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 829 (5.45%) Broadband
2 442 (2.91%) Firewall
3 213 (1.40%) DNS
4 180 (1.18%) Internet
5 175 (1.15%) WAN
6 168 (1.10%) LAN
7 141 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 132 (0.87%) VPN
9 129 (0.85%) Network Security
10 117 (0.77%) DHCP
11 114 (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 50 (0.33%) 5G
17 45 (0.30%) IPsec
17 45 (0.30%) SNMP
18 39 (0.26%) VoIP
19 38 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 950 (6.25%) Power BI
2 779 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 511 (3.36%) Data Lake
4 484 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 407 (2.68%) Apache Ignite
6 370 (2.43%) Dremio
7 367 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 364 (2.39%) Apache Arrow
9 320 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
10 299 (1.97%) Tableau
11 219 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 194 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 161 (1.06%) Big Data
14 142 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 128 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 117 (0.77%) NoSQL
17 109 (0.72%) Metadata
18 105 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
19 83 (0.55%) Power Query
20 81 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 484 (3.18%) JIRA
2 376 (2.47%) Git
3 207 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.68%) GitLab
4 103 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 85 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 82 (0.54%) Selenium
7 56 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 35 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 34 (0.22%) JUnit
11 33 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 32 (0.21%) Maven
12 32 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 29 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
14 28 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
16 25 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 23 (0.15%) Postman
18 22 (0.14%) JMeter
General
1 5,233 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 2,553 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2,256 (14.84%) Banking
4 1,434 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,272 (8.37%) Retail
6 1,239 (8.15%) Legal
7 1,109 (7.29%) Marketing
8 956 (6.29%) Front Office
9 929 (6.11%) Law
10 752 (4.95%) Public Sector
11 736 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
12 670 (4.41%) Investment Banking
13 541 (3.56%) Manufacturing
14 473 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
15 403 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
16 391 (2.57%) Telecoms
17 301 (1.98%) Financial Institution
18 279 (1.84%) Back Office
19 258 (1.70%) Billing
20 237 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,735 (17.99%) Analyst
2 2,620 (17.23%) Senior
3 1,899 (12.49%) Developer
4 1,469 (9.66%) Lead
5 1,249 (8.21%) Architect
6 885 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 739 (4.86%) Software Engineer
8 685 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 649 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
10 643 (4.23%) Consultant
11 587 (3.86%) Financial Analyst
12 440 (2.89%) Senior Manager
13 437 (2.87%) Senior Developer
14 412 (2.71%) IT Manager
15 347 (2.28%) .NET Developer
16 314 (2.07%) Python Engineer
17 310 (2.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 307 (2.02%) Business Analyst
19 291 (1.91%) Python Developer
20 275 (1.81%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 863 (5.68%) .NET
2 704 (4.63%) React
3 539 (3.55%) gRPC
4 484 (3.18%) Protocol Buffers
5 464 (3.05%) AngularJS
6 431 (2.83%) HTML
7 380 (2.50%) Pandas
8 322 (2.12%) NumPy
9 306 (2.01%) CSS
10 305 (2.01%) ASP.NET
11 296 (1.95%) SciPy
12 295 (1.94%) REST
13 276 (1.82%) Redux
14 275 (1.81%) .NET Core
15 256 (1.68%) Vue
16 250 (1.64%) Node.js
17 249 (1.64%) Web Services
18 223 (1.47%) Kafka
19 196 (1.29%) .NET Framework
20 181 (1.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 787 (5.18%) Hedge funds
2 712 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 700 (4.60%) Fixed Income
4 639 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 619 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 587 (3.86%) Derivative
7 580 (3.81%) Equities
8 426 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 339 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 230 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 195 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 183 (1.20%) PMI
13 181 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 166 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 165 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 159 (1.05%) Cloud Native
17 148 (0.97%) Algorithms
18 133 (0.87%) Data Structures
19 129 (0.85%) NHS
20 119 (0.78%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,141 (7.50%) Windows
2 675 (4.44%) Linux
3 322 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 231 (1.52%) Unix
5 199 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 108 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 101 (0.66%) Android
8 97 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 96 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 86 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 80 (0.53%) CentOS
12 60 (0.39%) Solaris
12 60 (0.39%) Windows 7
13 57 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 38 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
16 28 (0.18%) AIX
17 25 (0.16%) Mac OS
17 25 (0.16%) zOS
18 21 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,283 (28.17%) Agile
2 2,415 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
3 1,774 (11.67%) Mentoring
4 1,716 (11.29%) Project Management
5 1,598 (10.51%) Roadmaps
6 1,439 (9.46%) Decision-Making
7 1,358 (8.93%) Software Engineering
8 1,300 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
9 1,255 (8.25%) Asset Management
10 1,190 (7.83%) Analytics
11 1,102 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 1,084 (7.13%) DevOps
13 1,083 (7.12%) Coaching
14 1,037 (6.82%) Data Management
15 1,004 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 969 (6.37%) ERP
17 961 (6.32%) Risk Management
18 959 (6.31%) Change Management
19 896 (5.89%) Customer Service
20 857 (5.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,257 (14.84%) SQL
2 1,984 (13.05%) Python
3 1,208 (7.95%) JavaScript
4 1,108 (7.29%) Java
5 1,002 (6.59%) C#
6 895 (5.89%) TypeScript
7 482 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 239 (1.57%) Go
9 204 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 189 (1.24%) C++
11 175 (1.15%) Bash
12 151 (0.99%) R
13 126 (0.83%) C
14 102 (0.67%) PHP
15 94 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 91 (0.60%) VBA
17 75 (0.49%) Perl
18 67 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 67 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 63 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,370 (15.59%) Degree
2 788 (5.18%) ACCA
3 606 (3.99%) CIMA
4 546 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 360 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 302 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 296 (1.95%) CISSP
8 269 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 268 (1.76%) SC Cleared
10 256 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 162 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 150 (0.99%) CISM
13 143 (0.94%) PMP
14 135 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 129 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
16 126 (0.83%) DV Cleared
17 118 (0.78%) AWS Certification
18 117 (0.77%) MBA
19 95 (0.62%) CRISC
20 92 (0.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (3.21%) Data Quality
2 475 (3.12%) QA
3 455 (2.99%) GDPR
4 384 (2.53%) SLA
5 226 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 213 (1.40%) IFRS
7 201 (1.32%) NIST
8 186 (1.22%) PMO
9 164 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 91 (0.60%) GAAP
11 87 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 68 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 63 (0.41%) GRC
14 59 (0.39%) IFRS 9
15 52 (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
1 618 (4.06%) Active Directory
2 488 (3.21%) Docker
3 292 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 96 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 82 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (0.39%) XenApp
7 59 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 55 (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
1 603 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 455 (2.99%) Terraform
3 212 (1.39%) Ansible
4 155 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 131 (0.86%) SCCM
6 109 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 56 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 31 (0.20%) Grafana
8 31 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.20%) Puppet
9 30 (0.20%) SCOM
10 26 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 20 (0.13%) Istio
14 17 (0.11%) Nmap
15 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
16 15 (0.099%) Nessus
16 15 (0.099%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3,491 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 913 (6.00%) Oracle
3 841 (5.53%) SAP
4 426 (2.80%) Google
5 406 (2.67%) VMware
6 328 (2.16%) Hyperion
7 324 (2.13%) Anaplan
8 282 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 264 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 237 (1.56%) Cisco
11 186 (1.22%) Citrix
12 178 (1.17%) CA
13 172 (1.13%) Dell
14 170 (1.12%) Red Hat
15 155 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 149 (0.98%) IBM
17 135 (0.89%) Databricks
17 135 (0.89%) NEC
18 102 (0.67%) Palo Alto
19 99 (0.65%) Sage