Finance Job Trends in the East Midlands

Financial
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 234 310 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 9.30% 14.03% 11.23%
As % of the General category 16.75% 23.48% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 132 136 147
10th Percentile £34,325 £24,649 £30,700
25th Percentile £38,063 £37,500 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,063 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £68,750 £74,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,397 1,320 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 55.52% 59.73% 53.11%
Number of salaries quoted 826 578 788
10th Percentile £26,125 £26,925 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56,888 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,875
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -4.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Finance job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Finance
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in the East Midlands

Finance
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Leicestershire +1 79 £55,000 +5.26% 63
Nottinghamshire -5 60 £42,500 - 75
Northamptonshire -3 38 £59,000 +7.27% 58
Derbyshire -19 29 £42,500 -20.56% 54
Lincolnshire -11 20 £55,000 +15.79% 44
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.14%) Confluence
1 5 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) CICS
2 1 (0.43%) CMS
2 1 (0.43%) JBoss
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.43%) SAS
2 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.85%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.43%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.43%) HFM
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.54%) Azure
2 18 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.42%) AWS
4 5 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.14%) GCP
4 5 (2.14%) Serverless
5 4 (1.71%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.71%) SaaS
6 3 (1.28%) GitHub
6 3 (1.28%) OCI
6 3 (1.28%) PaaS
7 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Firewall
1 3 (1.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.43%) LAN
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.26%) Power BI
2 13 (5.56%) Tableau
3 6 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.14%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.14%) Metadata
4 5 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.85%) Power Query
8 1 (0.43%) Adabas
8 1 (0.43%) DB2
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.43%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.99%) JIRA
2 6 (2.56%) Git
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.43%) Babel
4 1 (0.43%) Gradle
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) JUnit
4 1 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 69 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.68%) Retail
4 27 (11.54%) Banking
5 21 (8.97%) Marketing
6 11 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.27%) Law
8 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.71%) Billing
11 4 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Legal
12 3 (1.28%) Advertising
12 3 (1.28%) Back Office
12 3 (1.28%) Military
12 3 (1.28%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (23.08%) Analyst
2 40 (17.09%) Senior
3 23 (9.83%) Lead
4 21 (8.97%) Financial Analyst
5 15 (6.41%) Developer
5 15 (6.41%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.56%) Report Analyst
7 12 (5.13%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.13%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.70%) Architect
9 10 (4.27%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 10 (4.27%) Senior Reporting Analyst
10 9 (3.85%) Digital Analyst
10 9 (3.85%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.42%) Customer Analyst
11 8 (3.42%) Development Manager
11 8 (3.42%) Digital Analytics Analyst
11 8 (3.42%) Finance Manager
11 8 (3.42%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.27%) Flash
2 9 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.14%) JSON
4 4 (1.71%) .NET
4 4 (1.71%) Middleware
5 3 (1.28%) PySpark
5 3 (1.28%) REST
6 2 (0.85%) Spring
6 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.85%) XML
7 1 (0.43%) CSS
7 1 (0.43%) CSS3
7 1 (0.43%) EDI
7 1 (0.43%) HTML
7 1 (0.43%) HTML5
7 1 (0.43%) React
7 1 (0.43%) RESTful
7 1 (0.43%) SOAP
7 1 (0.43%) Spring MVC
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.83%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (8.12%) FMCG
4 8 (3.42%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.28%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.85%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.43%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.42%) Windows
2 6 (2.56%) Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Unix
3 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (20.51%) ERP
3 45 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (18.80%) Decision-Making
5 41 (17.52%) Analytics
6 38 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (15.81%) Project Management
8 35 (14.96%) Change Management
8 35 (14.96%) CRM
9 34 (14.53%) Agile
10 31 (13.25%) Risk Management
11 30 (12.82%) Process Improvement
12 28 (11.97%) Roadmaps
13 27 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.83%) Data Management
15 21 (8.97%) Supply Chain Management
16 20 (8.55%) Due Diligence
16 20 (8.55%) Information Security
16 20 (8.55%) Programme Management
17 18 (7.69%) Business Continuity Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.97%) SQL
2 18 (7.69%) Python
3 7 (2.99%) C#
4 4 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.28%) Java
5 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.85%) R
7 1 (0.43%) COBOL
7 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.43%) Groovy
7 1 (0.43%) JCL
7 1 (0.43%) Natural
7 1 (0.43%) PHP
7 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (17.09%) Degree
2 20 (8.55%) CISSP
3 18 (7.69%) CISA
3 18 (7.69%) CRISC
4 12 (5.13%) ACCA
4 12 (5.13%) CIMA
5 11 (4.70%) AAT
6 8 (3.42%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.56%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.28%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.28%) HND
9 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.85%) CISM
10 2 (0.85%) CISMP
11 1 (0.43%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.43%) MBA
11 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) PCI DSS
2 18 (7.69%) NIST
3 12 (5.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.56%) QA
5 5 (2.14%) GDPR
6 3 (1.28%) SLA
7 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.71%) Terraform
2 1 (0.43%) MOM
Vendors
1 39 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 26 (11.11%) SAP
4 17 (7.26%) Oracle
5 6 (2.56%) JD Edwards
6 4 (1.71%) Databricks
6 4 (1.71%) Google
7 3 (1.28%) Cisco
7 3 (1.28%) HP
8 2 (0.85%) Adobe
8 2 (0.85%) Civica
8 2 (0.85%) IBM
8 2 (0.85%) Northgate
8 2 (0.85%) Sage
8 2 (0.85%) Workday
8 2 (0.85%) Zoho
9 1 (0.43%) Aareon
9 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.43%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.43%) Orchard