Financial Analyst Jobs in England

Finance Analyst
UK > England

The median Finance Analyst salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 572 671
Rank change year-on-year +187 +99 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 540 410 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.47% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 291 235 411
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £87,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 79,522 86,974 124,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.61% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,823 54,838 76,240
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,386
25th Percentile £38,087 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +187 297 £75,000 +15.38% 38
South East +10 93 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North of England +68 74 £36,000 -28.00% 9
North West +42 50 £40,000 -20.00% 4
Midlands +31 29 £47,500 +43.93% 1
Yorkshire +84 21 £30,250 -42.38% 2
South West +4 20 £50,000 +17.65% 1
West Midlands +46 19 £47,500 +13.77%
East of England +44 14 £51,750 +6.15% 3
East Midlands -12 10 £39,750 +26.19% 1
North East -5 3 £30,500 -32.22% 3
Financial Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 across the England region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 540 (100.00%) Finance
2 229 (42.41%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (42.04%) Social Skills
4 195 (36.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 181 (33.52%) Decision-Making
6 169 (31.30%) Agile
7 166 (30.74%) Microsoft
8 146 (27.04%) ACCA
8 146 (27.04%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 145 (26.85%) SQL
10 142 (26.30%) Mentoring
11 141 (26.11%) Budgeting
12 140 (25.93%) CIMA
13 127 (23.52%) Business Case
14 121 (22.41%) Actionable Insight
15 113 (20.93%) Python
15 113 (20.93%) Broadband
15 113 (20.93%) Influencing Skills
16 98 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
17 91 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
18 81 (15.00%) Legal
19 76 (14.07%) Degree
20 74 (13.70%) Banking
20 74 (13.70%) Oracle
21 73 (13.52%) Asset Management
22 69 (12.78%) Investment Management
23 66 (12.22%) Power Platform
23 66 (12.22%) Power BI
24 65 (12.04%) Hedge funds
24 65 (12.04%) Derivative

Financial Analyst Skill Set
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 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.30%) SAS
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 195 (36.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (3.89%) Elite 3E
2 13 (2.41%) Infor SunSystems
2 13 (2.41%) iTrent
3 12 (2.22%) Aladdin
4 11 (2.04%) Fidessa
5 10 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (1.11%) Sage 50
7 5 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.74%) Lawson
8 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle AGIS
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle iProcurement
9 3 (0.56%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 66 (12.22%) Power Platform
2 39 (7.22%) AWS
3 10 (1.85%) OCI
4 7 (1.30%) Azure
4 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
5 6 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (0.74%) SaaS
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.37%) dbt
8 2 (0.37%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.37%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.37%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.19%) Asana
9 1 (0.19%) FinancialForce
9 1 (0.19%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.19%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.19%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.19%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 113 (20.93%) Broadband
2 11 (2.04%) DHCP
2 11 (2.04%) DNS
2 11 (2.04%) Firewall
2 11 (2.04%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.56%) Intranet
4 2 (0.37%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.22%) Power BI
2 28 (5.19%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (5.19%) Tableau
3 19 (3.52%) Data Mining
4 13 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
5 12 (2.22%) Power Query
5 12 (2.22%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.04%) MS Access
6 11 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.48%) Big Data
7 8 (1.48%) Essbase
8 7 (1.30%) QlikView
9 4 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.37%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (0.37%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.37%) Dremio
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (0.93%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.19%) JIRA
General
1 540 (100.00%) Finance
2 229 (42.41%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (42.04%) Social Skills
4 113 (20.93%) Influencing Skills
5 81 (15.00%) Legal
6 74 (13.70%) Banking
7 64 (11.85%) Front Office
8 61 (11.30%) Law
9 29 (5.37%) Back Office
10 18 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.96%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (2.41%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.22%) Retail
16 8 (1.48%) Marketing
17 7 (1.30%) General Ledger
18 6 (1.11%) Billing
18 6 (1.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (1.48%) Pandas
4 6 (1.11%) Middleware
5 2 (0.37%) Flash
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) NumPy
6 1 (0.19%) REST
6 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.04%) Derivative
1 65 (12.04%) Hedge funds
2 39 (7.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 38 (7.04%) Fixed Income
3 38 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 37 (6.85%) Equities
5 32 (5.93%) Onboarding
6 28 (5.19%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.22%) Life Science
8 11 (2.04%) Eurex
9 7 (1.30%) Pricing Data
10 6 (1.11%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.37%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.07%) Windows
2 11 (2.04%) CentOS
2 11 (2.04%) Linux
2 11 (2.04%) Solaris
2 11 (2.04%) Ubuntu
2 11 (2.04%) Unix
3 8 (1.48%) Windows Vista
4 3 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (33.52%) Decision-Making
2 169 (31.30%) Agile
3 146 (27.04%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 142 (26.30%) Mentoring
5 141 (26.11%) Budgeting
6 127 (23.52%) Business Case
7 121 (22.41%) Actionable Insight
8 98 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
10 73 (13.52%) Asset Management
11 69 (12.78%) Investment Management
12 57 (10.56%) ERP
13 54 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (8.89%) Analytics
15 44 (8.15%) Machine Learning
16 43 (7.96%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (7.59%) Financial Analysis
17 41 (7.59%) ITIL
18 34 (6.30%) Data Analysis
19 33 (6.11%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 145 (26.85%) SQL
2 113 (20.93%) Python
3 27 (5.00%) C#
4 19 (3.52%) T-SQL
5 11 (2.04%) Bash
5 11 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 11 (2.04%) Perl
5 11 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.04%) Ruby
6 9 (1.67%) R
7 2 (0.37%) VBA
8 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 146 (27.04%) ACCA
2 140 (25.93%) CIMA
3 76 (14.07%) Degree
4 7 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.30%) MBA
5 5 (0.93%) CFA
6 2 (0.37%) ISEB
7 1 (0.19%) AAT
7 1 (0.19%) CCAB
7 1 (0.19%) CISA
7 1 (0.19%) CISM
7 1 (0.19%) CISSP
7 1 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.19%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.41%) SLA
2 8 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.48%) QA
3 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (0.93%) IFRS
4 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) COBIT
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) ITGC
6 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) XenApp
3 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 166 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 74 (13.70%) Oracle
3 27 (5.00%) SAP
4 25 (4.63%) Bloomberg
5 17 (3.15%) Alteryx
6 15 (2.78%) Sage
7 14 (2.59%) Concur
8 13 (2.41%) Infor
9 12 (2.22%) BISAM
9 12 (2.22%) Workday
10 11 (2.04%) CQG
10 11 (2.04%) ION Trading
10 11 (2.04%) Patsystems
10 11 (2.04%) Red Hat
10 11 (2.04%) Reuters
10 11 (2.04%) Trayport
11 9 (1.67%) Aderant
11 9 (1.67%) BT
12 8 (1.48%) Cognos
13 7 (1.30%) IBM