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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,853 21,114 31,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.43% 22.92% 23.58%
As % of the General category 29.41% 33.58% 36.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9,792 12,584 16,948
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +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 £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 50,511 62,882 84,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.27% 68.25% 63.82%
Number of salaries quoted 35,585 34,091 45,336
10th Percentile £27,418 £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 £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 5 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 5 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 +1 6,741 £80,000 - 3,681
North of England -2 2,419 £55,000 - 908
South East -2 2,200 £50,000 -13.04% 919
Midlands -1 1,572 £50,000 -9.09% 618
North West +1 1,338 £55,000 - 554
South West -7 1,239 £54,795 -0.37% 458
West Midlands +1 1,103 £51,300 -6.73% 381
Yorkshire -3 836 £57,965 +0.81% 266
East of England 0 532 £49,000 -10.91% 354
East Midlands -5 461 £47,500 -13.64% 236
North East -1 245 £50,000 -9.09% 92
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
1 450 (3.03%) SAS
2 399 (2.69%) Apache
3 398 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 379 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 304 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 209 (1.41%) Confluence
7 91 (0.61%) IIS
8 83 (0.56%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.36%) CMS
10 38 (0.26%) WordPress
11 34 (0.23%) nginx
11 34 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 29 (0.20%) Skype for Business
13 21 (0.14%) 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 1,562 (10.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 850 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
3 392 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 98 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 81 (0.55%) 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 10 (0.067%) Adobe XD
13 9 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.054%) InDesign
15 7 (0.047%) OrCAD
16 6 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
16 6 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
17 4 (0.027%) Adobe Premiere
17 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
17 4 (0.027%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 320 (2.15%) SAP ERP
2 157 (1.06%) 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 52 (0.35%) NEC Housing
8 42 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 41 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
10 39 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 37 (0.25%) Aladdin
11 37 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
12 34 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
13 32 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
13 32 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
14 31 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.20%) Elite 3E
15 29 (0.20%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,337 (15.73%) Azure
2 1,848 (12.44%) AWS
3 1,094 (7.37%) Power Platform
4 827 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
5 797 (5.37%) GCP
6 510 (3.43%) SaaS
7 404 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
8 310 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 275 (1.85%) Snowflake
10 258 (1.74%) dbt
11 244 (1.64%) GitHub
12 241 (1.62%) Serverless
13 173 (1.16%) Entra ID
14 164 (1.10%) PaaS
15 150 (1.01%) IaaS
16 137 (0.92%) Power Automate
17 135 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
17 135 (0.91%) PowerApps
18 133 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
19 127 (0.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 833 (5.61%) Broadband
2 439 (2.96%) Firewall
3 233 (1.57%) DNS
4 186 (1.25%) Internet
5 172 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 167 (1.12%) WAN
7 161 (1.08%) LAN
8 143 (0.96%) VPN
9 141 (0.95%) DHCP
10 117 (0.79%) Network Security
11 113 (0.76%) Wireless
12 108 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
13 88 (0.59%) SAN
14 71 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 60 (0.40%) 5G
16 58 (0.39%) HTTP
17 55 (0.37%) Intranet
18 44 (0.30%) SNMP
19 42 (0.28%) IPsec
19 42 (0.28%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 926 (6.23%) Power BI
2 784 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 470 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 379 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 305 (2.05%) Tableau
6 300 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
7 279 (1.88%) Apache Ignite
8 239 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 237 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
10 235 (1.58%) Dremio
11 227 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 187 (1.26%) MongoDB
13 145 (0.98%) Big Data
14 140 (0.94%) NoSQL
15 139 (0.94%) Relational Database
16 126 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 108 (0.73%) Metadata
18 105 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
19 91 (0.61%) MySQL
20 86 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 520 (3.50%) JIRA
2 379 (2.55%) Git
3 240 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 104 (0.70%) GitLab
5 99 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 84 (0.57%) Selenium
7 72 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 60 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 46 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 44 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 43 (0.29%) TeamCity
12 42 (0.28%) Maven
13 36 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
15 33 (0.22%) Bitbucket
16 32 (0.22%) JUnit
16 32 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
18 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
19 22 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 5,226 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 2,489 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2,216 (14.92%) Banking
4 1,390 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,154 (7.77%) Legal
6 1,150 (7.74%) Retail
7 975 (6.56%) Marketing
8 917 (6.17%) Law
9 843 (5.68%) Front Office
10 755 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
11 753 (5.07%) Public Sector
12 601 (4.05%) Investment Banking
13 547 (3.68%) Manufacturing
14 460 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
15 412 (2.77%) Telecoms
16 390 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
17 318 (2.14%) Financial Institution
18 271 (1.82%) Back Office
19 265 (1.78%) Billing
20 212 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,692 (18.12%) Analyst
2 2,539 (17.09%) Senior
3 1,859 (12.52%) Developer
4 1,412 (9.51%) Lead
5 1,234 (8.31%) Architect
6 901 (6.07%) Project Manager
7 665 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 661 (4.45%) Software Engineer
9 639 (4.30%) Consultant
10 595 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
11 551 (3.71%) Financial Analyst
12 442 (2.98%) Senior Developer
13 439 (2.96%) Senior Manager
14 416 (2.80%) IT Manager
15 338 (2.28%) .NET Developer
16 329 (2.22%) Business Analyst
17 281 (1.89%) Support Analyst
18 275 (1.85%) Support Engineer
19 271 (1.82%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 264 (1.78%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 857 (5.77%) .NET
2 685 (4.61%) React
3 460 (3.10%) AngularJS
4 458 (3.08%) HTML
5 395 (2.66%) gRPC
6 338 (2.28%) Protocol Buffers
7 303 (2.04%) ASP.NET
8 291 (1.96%) CSS
9 281 (1.89%) REST
10 273 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 268 (1.80%) Pandas
12 247 (1.66%) Redux
13 241 (1.62%) Node.js
14 236 (1.59%) Vue
15 232 (1.56%) Web Services
16 227 (1.53%) Kafka
17 213 (1.43%) NumPy
18 204 (1.37%) Spring
19 189 (1.27%) SciPy
20 187 (1.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 673 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
2 659 (4.44%) Hedge funds
3 658 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 581 (3.91%) Fixed Income
5 516 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 499 (3.36%) Derivative
7 468 (3.15%) Equities
8 423 (2.85%) Product Ownership
9 337 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 226 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 202 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 198 (1.33%) PMI
13 193 (1.30%) Cloud Native
14 190 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 166 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 158 (1.06%) Driving Licence
17 148 (1.00%) Algorithms
18 134 (0.90%) Data Structures
19 131 (0.88%) Credit Risk
20 114 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,122 (7.55%) Windows
2 679 (4.57%) Linux
3 302 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 240 (1.62%) Unix
5 190 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 110 (0.74%) Android
7 105 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 97 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 87 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 75 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 73 (0.49%) CentOS
12 61 (0.41%) Windows 7
13 52 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 43 (0.29%) Solaris
15 36 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
17 30 (0.20%) AIX
17 30 (0.20%) zOS
18 23 (0.15%) Mac OS
19 18 (0.12%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,186 (28.18%) Agile
2 2,419 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1,786 (12.02%) Mentoring
4 1,721 (11.59%) Project Management
5 1,595 (10.74%) Roadmaps
6 1,416 (9.53%) Decision-Making
7 1,319 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
8 1,266 (8.52%) Software Engineering
9 1,205 (8.11%) Analytics
10 1,133 (7.63%) Asset Management
11 1,129 (7.60%) DevOps
12 1,081 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,053 (7.09%) Coaching
14 1,029 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 964 (6.49%) Change Management
16 961 (6.47%) ERP
17 925 (6.23%) Data Management
18 921 (6.20%) Risk Management
19 904 (6.09%) Customer Service
20 845 (5.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,193 (14.76%) SQL
2 1,858 (12.51%) Python
3 1,095 (7.37%) JavaScript
4 1,053 (7.09%) Java
5 996 (6.71%) C#
6 787 (5.30%) TypeScript
7 404 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 227 (1.53%) Go
9 193 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 185 (1.25%) Bash
11 182 (1.23%) C++
12 173 (1.16%) R
13 133 (0.90%) C
14 94 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 94 (0.63%) PHP
15 84 (0.57%) VBA
16 70 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 69 (0.46%) Scala
18 68 (0.46%) Perl
19 55 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,337 (15.73%) Degree
2 773 (5.20%) ACCA
3 593 (3.99%) CIMA
4 527 (3.55%) Security Cleared
5 357 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 305 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 284 (1.91%) CISSP
8 281 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 251 (1.69%) SC Cleared
10 244 (1.64%) DBS Check
11 155 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 149 (1.00%) CISM
13 142 (0.96%) PMP
14 137 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 128 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 126 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 124 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
18 119 (0.80%) MBA
19 99 (0.67%) CISA
20 94 (0.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (3.18%) QA
2 463 (3.12%) GDPR
3 427 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 384 (2.59%) SLA
5 226 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 219 (1.47%) IFRS
7 198 (1.33%) PMO
8 192 (1.29%) NIST
9 145 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 91 (0.61%) GAAP
11 85 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 67 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.44%) GRC
13 66 (0.44%) IFRS 9
14 51 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 47 (0.32%) COBIT
16 41 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 38 (0.26%) NCSC
18 36 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
19 35 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 574 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 498 (3.35%) Docker
3 297 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 86 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 55 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 50 (0.34%) Firmware
8 49 (0.33%) vSphere
9 43 (0.29%) XenApp
10 34 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 32 (0.22%) 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
18 7 (0.047%) IAG
19 6 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
20 4 (0.027%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 602 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 467 (3.14%) Terraform
3 199 (1.34%) Ansible
4 147 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 133 (0.90%) SCCM
6 88 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
8 35 (0.24%) Grafana
9 34 (0.23%) Puppet
10 33 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 31 (0.21%) SCOM
12 23 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.15%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.14%) Istio
15 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
16 17 (0.11%) FortiGate
16 17 (0.11%) Nmap
17 15 (0.10%) Nessus
17 15 (0.10%) NetBackup
17 15 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3,248 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 925 (6.23%) Oracle
3 904 (6.09%) SAP
4 446 (3.00%) Google
5 402 (2.71%) VMware
6 328 (2.21%) Hyperion
7 321 (2.16%) Anaplan
8 296 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 247 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 245 (1.65%) Cisco
11 177 (1.19%) Citrix
12 176 (1.18%) Dell
13 170 (1.14%) CA
14 167 (1.12%) IBM
15 157 (1.06%) Red Hat
16 149 (1.00%) Bloomberg
17 136 (0.92%) Databricks
18 108 (0.73%) NEC
19 103 (0.69%) Palo Alto
19 103 (0.69%) Sage