Finance Jobs in Bedfordshire

Financial
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 -32
Permanent jobs citing Finance 35 59 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.19% 12.83% 7.89%
As % of the General category 7.04% 21.69% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 21
10th Percentile £33,199 £30,875 £24,273
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £68,750 £83,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 497 272 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.96% 59.13% 71.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 190 187
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,240 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,100 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -17.39% +26.37%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £72,500 £91,250 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% -16.67% +13.68%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire.

Salary trend for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Bedfordshire

Finance
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Luton -8 9 £70,000 +47.37% 23
Bedford +1 7 £77,500 +112.33% 9
Leighton Buzzard - 7 - -
Shefford - 2 - - 2
Dunstable - 2 - - 2
Henlow - 1 - -
Biggleswade - 1 - -
Finance
East of England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 10 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Infor M3
2 4 (11.43%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (5.71%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 10 (28.57%) GCP
4 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
5 5 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.86%) VoIP
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) Power BI
3 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
3 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) JIRA
2 10 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 10 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 10 (28.57%) GitLab
2 10 (28.57%) Maven
2 10 (28.57%) Selenium
2 10 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 10 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (28.57%) Banking
4 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.86%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Aviation
6 3 (8.57%) Marketing
7 2 (5.71%) Aerospace
7 2 (5.71%) Games
7 2 (5.71%) Law
7 2 (5.71%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) ERP Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) IT Sales Executive
6 2 (5.71%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Resource Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Sales Executive
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Sales Executive
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) CSS
1 10 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 10 (28.57%) HTML
1 10 (28.57%) JPA
1 10 (28.57%) Kafka
1 10 (28.57%) React
1 10 (28.57%) Redux
1 10 (28.57%) Spring
1 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Product Ownership
2 10 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (11.43%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (45.71%) ERP
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 10 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 10 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (28.57%) Microservices
4 10 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 10 (28.57%) SDLC
4 10 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 10 (28.57%) TDD
4 10 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Analytics
6 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) HND
2 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.71%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 6 (17.14%) GxP
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Solace
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.86%) SAP
4 6 (17.14%) Infor
5 4 (11.43%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.86%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.86%) arcserve
7 1 (2.86%) Aruba
7 1 (2.86%) Avaya
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) Genesys
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Linksys
7 1 (2.86%) VMware