Financial Analyst Jobs in the City of London

Finance Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Finance Analyst salary in the City of London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 159 200
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 15 18 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 21
10th Percentile £34,000 £46,250 £55,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £88,000 - £95,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +33.33% -9.43% +29.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,923 3,208 4,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.85% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 2,545 3,737
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,480
% change year-on-year - -1.33% +1.35%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst in the City of London.

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in the City of London

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in the City of London

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (46.67%) Power BI
4 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
5 6 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
6 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (33.33%) Degree
7 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (20.00%) Banking
7 3 (20.00%) Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Python
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) Unix
7 3 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
7 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (13.33%) Rocky
8 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
8 2 (13.33%) Analytics
8 2 (13.33%) Bash
8 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) Grafana
8 2 (13.33%) Data Structures

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Rocky
2 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Management
4 2 (13.33%) Data Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) ETL
5 1 (6.67%) Fintech
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Aderant