Finance Job Trends in the East of England

Financial
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 610 490 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.21% 14.19% 7.73%
As % of the General category 20.42% 21.55% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 415 232 347
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,614 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,987 2,274 3,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.08% 65.86% 52.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,832 1,103 2,395
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £32,438 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -7.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the East of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Hertfordshire -6 152 £55,000 -15.38% 87
Essex -1 146 £39,500 -1.25% 111
Norfolk -1 120 £38,550 -29.91% 44
Cambridgeshire -3 115 £57,500 +5.62% 81
Bedfordshire +7 45 £45,000 +5.88% 36
Suffolk +1 31 £65,000 +79.31% 29
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.64%) FactoryTalk
3 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.31%) Apache
4 8 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.82%) CMS
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 39 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.48%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.31%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.82%) Primavera
4 5 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.49%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.16%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (14.10%) Azure
2 39 (6.39%) AWS
3 37 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (5.25%) Dynamics 365
4 32 (5.25%) SaaS
5 28 (4.59%) Power Platform
6 17 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.80%) Power Automate
8 9 (1.48%) GitHub
8 9 (1.48%) PaaS
9 8 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.31%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.15%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (0.82%) GCP
13 4 (0.66%) Azure Event Grid
13 4 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.62%) Firewall
2 10 (1.64%) Ethernet
2 10 (1.64%) Profibus
3 8 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.98%) Wireless
5 5 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.82%) SSL
6 4 (0.66%) LAN
6 4 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (0.66%) VoIP
6 4 (0.66%) VPN
7 3 (0.49%) DHCP
7 3 (0.49%) DNS
8 2 (0.33%) Network Security
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.16%) Internet
9 1 (0.16%) Intranet
9 1 (0.16%) LTE
9 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.79%) Power BI
2 13 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.80%) Tableau
5 7 (1.15%) Apache Hive
5 7 (1.15%) Impala
5 7 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.15%) Parquet
5 7 (1.15%) Spark SQL
6 6 (0.98%) MySQL
6 6 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.49%) Metadata
9 2 (0.33%) Big Data
9 2 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (2.62%) JIRA
2 9 (1.48%) Git
3 7 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.49%) ERwin
5 3 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.16%) Toad
7 1 (0.16%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 179 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.10%) Legal
3 70 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
4 66 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.23%) Retail
6 37 (6.07%) Law
7 35 (5.74%) Manufacturing
8 33 (5.41%) Marketing
9 29 (4.75%) Banking
10 25 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (3.11%) Public Sector
12 15 (2.46%) Billing
13 14 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.31%) Local Government
17 7 (1.15%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.82%) Games
19 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (21.64%) Analyst
2 56 (9.18%) Consultant
3 39 (6.39%) Developer
3 39 (6.39%) Recruitment Consultant
3 39 (6.39%) Systems Analyst
4 38 (6.23%) Senior
5 37 (6.07%) Business Analyst
6 31 (5.08%) Support Analyst
7 30 (4.92%) Accountant
8 26 (4.26%) Administrator
8 26 (4.26%) Finance Manager
8 26 (4.26%) IT Support
9 25 (4.10%) Business Systems Analyst
9 25 (4.10%) Graduate
9 25 (4.10%) Trainee
10 23 (3.77%) Systems Support Analyst
11 22 (3.61%) Financial Analyst
11 22 (3.61%) Lead
12 21 (3.44%) Resourcer
12 21 (3.44%) Trainee Resourcer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.79%) .NET
1 17 (2.79%) CSS
2 16 (2.62%) jQuery
3 13 (2.13%) .NET Core
4 12 (1.97%) .NET Framework
4 12 (1.97%) ASP.NET
5 11 (1.80%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (1.80%) Node.js
5 11 (1.80%) PySpark
6 8 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (0.98%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.98%) HTML
7 6 (0.98%) React
7 6 (0.98%) Vue
8 5 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (0.82%) Blazor
8 5 (0.82%) HTML5
8 5 (0.82%) REST
8 5 (0.82%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (0.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.46%) Self-Motivation
2 46 (7.54%) Onboarding
3 27 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.64%) Replication
6 10 (1.64%) SCADA
7 9 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.15%) Social Media
9 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.82%) Life Science
10 5 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.66%) Cloud Native
11 4 (0.66%) EPoS
11 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.49%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.49%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.49%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.33%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.10%) Windows
2 11 (1.80%) Android
2 11 (1.80%) Linux
3 6 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (12.13%) Agile
2 70 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (8.36%) ERP
5 49 (8.03%) Process Improvement
6 46 (7.54%) Analytics
7 45 (7.38%) Decision-Making
8 43 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (6.72%) Customer Service
11 39 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (6.23%) AI
13 32 (5.25%) Roadmaps
14 29 (4.75%) Budgeting and Forecasting
15 28 (4.59%) Business Development
15 28 (4.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (4.43%) Computer Science
17 26 (4.26%) Risk Management
17 26 (4.26%) Scrum
18 25 (4.10%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (12.13%) SQL
2 34 (5.57%) C#
3 24 (3.93%) Python
4 17 (2.79%) PHP
5 14 (2.30%) Java
6 12 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.80%) C++
8 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.82%) Ruby
10 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.16%) Bash
12 1 (0.16%) Delphi
12 1 (0.16%) Go
12 1 (0.16%) VB
12 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.16%) VB6
Qualifications
1 69 (11.31%) Degree
2 31 (5.08%) ACCA
2 31 (5.08%) CIMA
3 24 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 16 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.30%) AAT
6 14 (2.30%) HNC
6 14 (2.30%) HND
7 10 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.82%) CRISC
10 4 (0.66%) APMG
10 4 (0.66%) CCNA
10 4 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.66%) PMP
11 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CCNP
11 3 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.28%) QA
3 19 (3.11%) GDPR
4 18 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.30%) IFRS
7 11 (1.80%) NIST
8 10 (1.64%) HAZOP
9 9 (1.48%) SLA
10 5 (0.82%) GAAP
10 5 (0.82%) GRC
10 5 (0.82%) ISO 31000
10 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 4 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.15%) Docker
4 5 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (1.64%) Wonderware InTouch
2 7 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.66%) Ansible
4 3 (0.49%) Terraform
5 1 (0.16%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 114 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.23%) Oracle
3 27 (4.43%) SAP
4 10 (1.64%) Allen-Bradley
4 10 (1.64%) Computacenter
4 10 (1.64%) Rockwell
4 10 (1.64%) Wonderware
5 7 (1.15%) Cisco
5 7 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.15%) SolarWinds
6 6 (0.98%) IFS
6 6 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.66%) Apple
8 4 (0.66%) Databricks
8 4 (0.66%) IBM
8 4 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.66%) Splunk
8 4 (0.66%) Workday
8 4 (0.66%) Xero