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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,818 21,553 30,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.47% 23.12% 23.40%
As % of the General category 29.48% 33.63% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9,809 12,879 16,933
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,191 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,749 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +2.88% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% +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 50,259 64,087 82,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.26% 68.74% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,481 34,591 45,074
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +1 6,722 £80,000 - 2,780
North of England -2 2,442 £55,000 -4.35% 749
South East -2 2,175 £50,000 -13.04% 693
Midlands -1 1,576 £50,000 -9.09% 520
North West 0 1,339 £55,000 - 475
South West -8 1,215 £55,000 - 412
West Midlands +1 1,108 £51,300 -6.73% 342
Yorkshire -2 861 £57,965 +0.81% 203
East of England 0 535 £49,000 -10.91% 295
East Midlands -4 460 £47,500 -13.64% 177
North East -1 242 £50,000 -9.09% 75
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
1 451 (3.04%) SAS
2 404 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 371 (2.50%) Apache
4 345 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 304 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 210 (1.42%) Confluence
7 91 (0.61%) IIS
8 86 (0.58%) Apache Spark
9 52 (0.35%) CMS
10 38 (0.26%) WordPress
11 34 (0.23%) nginx
11 34 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 29 (0.20%) Skype for Business
13 22 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 20 (0.13%) Captiva
15 18 (0.12%) FileNet
16 16 (0.11%) JBoss
17 12 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
18 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
18 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,568 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 863 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 402 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 102 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 80 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 26 (0.18%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 15 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.081%) Oracle Smart View
12 11 (0.074%) Adobe XD
13 9 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.054%) InDesign
15 6 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
15 6 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
15 6 (0.040%) OrCAD
16 4 (0.027%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
16 4 (0.027%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 322 (2.17%) SAP ERP
2 159 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 126 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 99 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 62 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 55 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 55 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
7 47 (0.32%) NEC Housing
8 43 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 39 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
10 38 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 36 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 35 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
13 32 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
14 31 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
15 30 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
15 30 (0.20%) SAP BPC
16 29 (0.20%) Elite 3E
17 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,335 (15.76%) Azure
2 1,809 (12.21%) AWS
3 1,104 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 835 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
5 795 (5.37%) GCP
6 509 (3.44%) SaaS
7 394 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
8 317 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 256 (1.73%) GitHub
10 247 (1.67%) Snowflake
11 241 (1.63%) Serverless
12 234 (1.58%) dbt
13 170 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 168 (1.13%) PaaS
15 155 (1.05%) IaaS
16 142 (0.96%) PowerApps
17 138 (0.93%) Power Automate
18 137 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
19 136 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
20 130 (0.88%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 834 (5.63%) Broadband
2 442 (2.98%) Firewall
3 237 (1.60%) DNS
4 183 (1.23%) Internet
5 172 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 165 (1.11%) WAN
7 159 (1.07%) LAN
8 147 (0.99%) VPN
9 146 (0.99%) DHCP
10 117 (0.79%) Network Security
11 112 (0.76%) Wireless
12 110 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
13 91 (0.61%) SAN
14 71 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 61 (0.41%) 5G
16 59 (0.40%) HTTP
17 55 (0.37%) Intranet
18 44 (0.30%) SNMP
19 43 (0.29%) IPsec
19 43 (0.29%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 937 (6.32%) Power BI
2 794 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 473 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 354 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 307 (2.07%) Tableau
6 295 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 249 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
8 229 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 215 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
10 212 (1.43%) Apache Arrow
11 210 (1.42%) Dremio
12 194 (1.31%) MongoDB
13 145 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 142 (0.96%) Big Data
15 140 (0.94%) Relational Database
16 124 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 105 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
18 104 (0.70%) Metadata
19 103 (0.70%) MySQL
20 85 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 522 (3.52%) JIRA
2 387 (2.61%) Git
3 248 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.70%) GitLab
5 99 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 83 (0.56%) Selenium
7 66 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 61 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 46 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 46 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 45 (0.30%) Maven
11 43 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 37 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 35 (0.24%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 33 (0.22%) JUnit
14 33 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
15 24 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
15 24 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 5,198 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 2,483 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2,202 (14.86%) Banking
4 1,334 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,148 (7.75%) Retail
6 1,145 (7.73%) Legal
7 952 (6.42%) Marketing
8 872 (5.88%) Law
9 815 (5.50%) Front Office
10 759 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
11 750 (5.06%) Public Sector
12 574 (3.87%) Investment Banking
13 548 (3.70%) Manufacturing
14 456 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
15 414 (2.79%) Telecoms
16 387 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
17 329 (2.22%) Financial Institution
18 269 (1.82%) Back Office
19 267 (1.80%) Billing
20 209 (1.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,701 (18.23%) Analyst
2 2,530 (17.07%) Senior
3 1,850 (12.48%) Developer
4 1,389 (9.37%) Lead
5 1,230 (8.30%) Architect
6 901 (6.08%) Project Manager
7 671 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
8 654 (4.41%) Software Engineer
9 646 (4.36%) Consultant
10 599 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
11 544 (3.67%) Financial Analyst
12 441 (2.98%) Senior Developer
13 439 (2.96%) Senior Manager
14 417 (2.81%) IT Manager
15 342 (2.31%) .NET Developer
16 332 (2.24%) Business Analyst
17 284 (1.92%) Support Analyst
18 278 (1.88%) Support Engineer
19 270 (1.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 262 (1.77%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 858 (5.79%) .NET
2 688 (4.64%) React
3 477 (3.22%) AngularJS
4 473 (3.19%) HTML
5 357 (2.41%) gRPC
6 304 (2.05%) Protocol Buffers
7 303 (2.04%) ASP.NET
8 295 (1.99%) CSS
9 280 (1.89%) REST
10 274 (1.85%) .NET Core
11 249 (1.68%) Pandas
12 248 (1.67%) Node.js
13 241 (1.63%) Redux
14 240 (1.62%) Vue
15 233 (1.57%) Kafka
16 228 (1.54%) Web Services
17 209 (1.41%) Spring
18 196 (1.32%) RESTful
19 193 (1.30%) NumPy
20 186 (1.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 684 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
2 652 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 618 (4.17%) Hedge funds
4 551 (3.72%) Fixed Income
5 487 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 480 (3.24%) Derivative
7 437 (2.95%) Equities
8 419 (2.83%) Product Ownership
9 335 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 226 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 203 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 200 (1.35%) PMI
13 192 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 185 (1.25%) Cloud Native
15 166 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 155 (1.05%) Driving Licence
17 148 (1.00%) Algorithms
18 132 (0.89%) Data Structures
19 131 (0.88%) Credit Risk
20 113 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,132 (7.64%) Windows
2 685 (4.62%) Linux
3 301 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 243 (1.64%) Unix
5 187 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 115 (0.78%) Android
7 111 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 96 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 84 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 73 (0.49%) CentOS
11 72 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 63 (0.43%) Windows 7
13 53 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 45 (0.30%) Solaris
15 37 (0.25%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
17 30 (0.20%) AIX
17 30 (0.20%) zOS
18 23 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,191 (28.28%) Agile
2 2,406 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
3 1,793 (12.10%) Mentoring
4 1,724 (11.63%) Project Management
5 1,578 (10.65%) Roadmaps
6 1,416 (9.56%) Decision-Making
7 1,323 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
8 1,253 (8.46%) Software Engineering
9 1,226 (8.27%) Analytics
10 1,139 (7.69%) DevOps
11 1,122 (7.57%) Asset Management
12 1,069 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,042 (7.03%) Coaching
14 1,033 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 966 (6.52%) ERP
16 965 (6.51%) Change Management
17 923 (6.23%) Data Management
18 903 (6.09%) Customer Service
19 899 (6.07%) Risk Management
20 848 (5.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,189 (14.77%) SQL
2 1,815 (12.25%) Python
3 1,081 (7.30%) JavaScript
4 1,031 (6.96%) Java
5 998 (6.74%) C#
6 764 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 400 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 220 (1.48%) Go
9 193 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 191 (1.29%) Bash
11 183 (1.23%) C++
12 171 (1.15%) R
13 134 (0.90%) C
14 91 (0.61%) PHP
15 90 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 83 (0.56%) VBA
17 71 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 70 (0.47%) Perl
18 70 (0.47%) Scala
19 60 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,310 (15.59%) Degree
2 775 (5.23%) ACCA
3 589 (3.97%) CIMA
4 520 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 352 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 302 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 280 (1.89%) CISSP
8 278 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 248 (1.67%) SC Cleared
10 239 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 158 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 149 (1.01%) CISM
13 138 (0.93%) PMP
14 136 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 129 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
16 124 (0.84%) AWS Certification
17 123 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 119 (0.80%) MBA
19 103 (0.70%) CISA
20 94 (0.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (3.19%) QA
2 464 (3.13%) GDPR
3 413 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 385 (2.60%) SLA
5 230 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 223 (1.50%) IFRS
7 198 (1.34%) PMO
8 192 (1.30%) NIST
9 138 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 94 (0.63%) GAAP
11 87 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 69 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 67 (0.45%) GRC
14 66 (0.45%) IFRS 9
15 51 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 48 (0.32%) COBIT
17 44 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
18 41 (0.28%) ISO 9001
19 38 (0.26%) NCSC
20 35 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 579 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 506 (3.41%) Docker
3 302 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 85 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 54 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 51 (0.34%) Firmware
8 48 (0.32%) vSphere
9 40 (0.27%) XenApp
10 33 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 29 (0.20%) XenDesktop
12 15 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.081%) Terminal Services
15 10 (0.067%) OpenSSH
16 9 (0.061%) Forefront TMG
17 8 (0.054%) HDFS
17 8 (0.054%) IAG
18 6 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
19 4 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 596 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 462 (3.12%) Terraform
3 202 (1.36%) Ansible
4 143 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 131 (0.88%) SCCM
6 80 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 50 (0.34%) vCenter Server
8 36 (0.24%) Puppet
9 33 (0.22%) Grafana
9 33 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.22%) SCOM
11 22 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (0.15%) Istio
11 22 (0.15%) ZABBIX
12 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
13 18 (0.12%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.11%) Nmap
14 17 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
15 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
16 15 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3,259 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 917 (6.19%) Oracle
3 902 (6.09%) SAP
4 436 (2.94%) Google
5 406 (2.74%) VMware
6 328 (2.21%) Hyperion
7 323 (2.18%) Anaplan
8 303 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 248 (1.67%) Cisco
10 242 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 186 (1.26%) Dell
12 178 (1.20%) Citrix
13 174 (1.17%) CA
14 173 (1.17%) IBM
15 158 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 151 (1.02%) Bloomberg
17 137 (0.92%) Databricks
18 105 (0.71%) Palo Alto
18 105 (0.71%) Sage
19 103 (0.70%) NEC