Finance Jobs 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 434 529 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.94% 8.63% 12.31%
As % of the General category 19.44% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 186 372 180
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,981 £65,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,175
England median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +9.62% -6.40% +2.88%

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 common skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,233 3,410 3,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 66.60% 55.62% 70.86%
Number of salaries quoted 969 2,463 1,322
10th Percentile £26,450 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,199 £31,250 £35,764
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% +13.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the East of England.

Salary trend for Finance in the East of England

Finance
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
Hertfordshire +15 150 £55,000 +5.77% 137
Essex +9 96 £35,000 -28.21% 75
Cambridgeshire +8 65 £60,000 +26.32% 132
Suffolk -15 59 £36,250 -27.50% 23
Bedfordshire -23 34 £70,000 +12.00% 45
Norfolk +20 30 £55,000 +27.14% 33
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 17 (3.92%) Confluence
2 16 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.38%) IIS
4 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 51 (11.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.69%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Dynamics AX
1 6 (1.38%) Dynamics GP
1 6 (1.38%) Infor M3
2 5 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.92%) Infor LN
3 4 (0.92%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
4 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.44%) Azure
2 26 (5.99%) AWS
3 24 (5.53%) SaaS
4 22 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.23%) GCP
6 11 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.84%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.38%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.92%) Canva
9 4 (0.92%) ChatGPT
9 4 (0.92%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.69%) PaaS
10 3 (0.69%) Serverless
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.46%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.84%) LAN
1 8 (1.84%) WAN
2 7 (1.61%) VoIP
3 6 (1.38%) Firewall
3 6 (1.38%) Intranet
4 5 (1.15%) Unified Communications
5 4 (0.92%) VPN
6 3 (0.69%) BGP
6 3 (0.69%) HTTP
6 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.46%) DHCP
7 2 (0.46%) DNS
8 1 (0.23%) MQTT
8 1 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.38%) Power BI
3 15 (3.46%) MySQL
4 7 (1.61%) Tableau
5 6 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.38%) GIS
6 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.69%) MS Access
7 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Power Query
8 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.23%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 26 (5.99%) JIRA
2 15 (3.46%) Bitbucket
2 15 (3.46%) Cucumber
2 15 (3.46%) GitLab
2 15 (3.46%) Maven
2 15 (3.46%) Selenium
2 15 (3.46%) SonarQube
2 15 (3.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (2.30%) Git
4 4 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.23%) ERwin
6 1 (0.23%) GDB
6 1 (0.23%) Moq
6 1 (0.23%) MSTest
6 1 (0.23%) NUnit
6 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.23%) xUnit.net
General
1 220 (50.69%) Social Skills
2 95 (21.89%) Marketing
3 84 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 76 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (15.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 62 (14.29%) Banking
7 48 (11.06%) Manufacturing
8 38 (8.76%) Financial Institution
9 37 (8.53%) French Language
9 37 (8.53%) German Language
10 34 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (6.45%) Legal
12 17 (3.92%) Electronics
13 14 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (3.00%) Retail
15 10 (2.30%) Billing
15 10 (2.30%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.84%) Local Government
17 7 (1.61%) Advertising
18 6 (1.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 73 (16.82%) Business Manager
2 66 (15.21%) Business Development Manager
2 66 (15.21%) Development Manager
3 63 (14.52%) Analyst
4 52 (11.98%) Project Manager
5 43 (9.91%) Senior
6 37 (8.53%) Credit Analyst
6 37 (8.53%) Research Analyst
7 36 (8.29%) Applications Support
8 27 (6.22%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.30%) Lead
10 20 (4.61%) Developer
10 20 (4.61%) Senior Project Manager
10 20 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 16 (3.69%) Architect
11 16 (3.69%) Consultant
12 14 (3.23%) Support Specialist
13 13 (3.00%) Operations Manager
14 12 (2.76%) Graduate
14 12 (2.76%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.37%) CSS
2 20 (4.61%) HTML
2 20 (4.61%) Spring
3 18 (4.15%) React
4 16 (3.69%) .NET
4 16 (3.69%) Spring Boot
5 15 (3.46%) JPA
5 15 (3.46%) jQuery
5 15 (3.46%) Kafka
5 15 (3.46%) Redux
6 13 (3.00%) ASP.NET
6 13 (3.00%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.15%) CSS3
7 5 (1.15%) HTML5
7 5 (1.15%) Node.js
7 5 (1.15%) Sass
7 5 (1.15%) Vue
8 3 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.69%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.53%) Credit Risk
1 37 (8.53%) Fixed Income
2 25 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.61%) Smartphone
7 6 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.15%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.92%) Social Media
10 3 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.69%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.46%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.46%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.46%) SCADA
12 1 (0.23%) Life Science
12 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.69%) Windows
2 9 (2.07%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.69%) Linux
5 2 (0.46%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (23.73%) Collaborative Working
2 83 (19.12%) Business Development
3 77 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 75 (17.28%) Decision-Making
4 75 (17.28%) ERP
5 73 (16.82%) Collaborative Culture
6 67 (15.44%) Facilities Management
6 67 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (15.21%) Agile
7 66 (15.21%) Business Strategy
7 66 (15.21%) Marketing Strategy
8 62 (14.29%) Project Management
9 59 (13.59%) Risk Management
10 50 (11.52%) Asset Management
10 50 (11.52%) Customer Service
11 40 (9.22%) Financial Modelling
11 40 (9.22%) Risk Assessment
12 37 (8.53%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 37 (8.53%) Portfolio Management
13 35 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.13%) SQL
2 34 (7.83%) Java
3 26 (5.99%) JavaScript
4 16 (3.69%) C#
4 16 (3.69%) PHP
5 13 (3.00%) C++
6 9 (2.07%) Python
7 5 (1.15%) Rust
8 3 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.46%) C
9 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 108 (24.88%) Degree
2 44 (10.14%) Master's Degree
3 37 (8.53%) CFA
4 17 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.84%) CISSP
6 8 (1.84%) PMP
7 7 (1.61%) HND
8 5 (1.15%) ACCA
8 5 (1.15%) CIMA
9 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.69%) CISM
10 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.69%) Security Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.46%) MBA
12 1 (0.23%) CISA
12 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.53%) QA
2 6 (1.38%) GxP
2 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.15%) PMO
4 4 (0.92%) GAAP
4 4 (0.92%) GDPR
4 4 (0.92%) IFRS
5 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.69%) NIST
5 3 (0.69%) SLA
6 2 (0.46%) COBIT
6 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.46%) NCSC
6 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.23%) JTAG
System Software
1 16 (3.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.46%) Firmware
4 2 (0.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.15%) SCCM
3 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 66 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.53%) Bloomberg
3 22 (5.07%) Oracle
4 19 (4.38%) SAP
5 18 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.46%) Solace
7 10 (2.30%) Infor
8 9 (2.07%) Cisco
8 9 (2.07%) Google
8 9 (2.07%) NEC
9 8 (1.84%) VMware
9 8 (1.84%) YouTube
10 6 (1.38%) Sage
11 5 (1.15%) Citrix
11 5 (1.15%) Genesys
11 5 (1.15%) IFS
11 5 (1.15%) Xero
12 4 (0.92%) Cognos
12 4 (0.92%) Instagram
13 3 (0.69%) Epicor