Finance Jobs in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 3 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,656 27,628 22,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.74% 25.20% 20.17%
As % of the General category 38.06% 36.78% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,323 16,878 15,675
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.80% +6.84% -

All General Skills
England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 30,629 75,125 67,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 65.02% 68.52% 59.45%
Number of salaries quoted 21,905 43,824 42,484
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
London +1 6,029 £80,000 - 3,697
North of England +3 1,884 £62,500 +8.70% 909
South East -4 1,278 £57,500 -4.17% 930
Midlands +2 981 £54,000 -1.82% 475
South West 0 921 £59,556 +8.28% 397
Yorkshire +3 909 £65,000 +13.04% 261
North West +3 904 £62,500 +8.70% 560
West Midlands +3 710 £54,000 -1.82% 317
East of England +2 354 £46,250 -15.91% 284
East Midlands +2 266 £54,000 -1.82% 153
North East 0 67 £57,500 -8.73% 100
South Coast - 1 £50,000 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 229 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 228 (1.96%) Confluence
3 179 (1.54%) Apache
4 138 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 92 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 92 (0.79%) SAS
6 57 (0.49%) IIS
7 44 (0.38%) MS Exchange
8 36 (0.31%) CMS
9 31 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 24 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 24 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.15%) Captiva
12 17 (0.15%) Jetty
13 16 (0.14%) FileNet
14 13 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 12 (0.10%) nginx
16 9 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 8 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
17 8 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 667 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 621 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 340 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.14%) Sketch
8 12 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.069%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.043%) Adobe After Effects
11 5 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.043%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.043%) InDesign
11 5 (0.043%) OrCAD
11 5 (0.043%) Simulink
12 4 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.034%) Autodesk Inventor
12 4 (0.034%) InVision
Business Applications
1 259 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 145 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 88 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 71 (0.61%) Hyperion Planning
5 66 (0.57%) SAP CO
5 66 (0.57%) SAP FI
6 65 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
7 63 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
8 60 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
9 54 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
10 50 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
11 46 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
12 32 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
13 31 (0.27%) SAP ERP
13 31 (0.27%) SAP MM
14 30 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
15 25 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
15 25 (0.21%) SAP SD
16 23 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
17 22 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,445 (20.98%) Azure
2 1,551 (13.31%) AWS
3 991 (8.50%) GCP
4 967 (8.30%) Power Platform
5 643 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
6 585 (5.02%) SaaS
7 479 (4.11%) PaaS
8 476 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
9 433 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
10 397 (3.41%) IaaS
11 324 (2.78%) GitHub
12 294 (2.52%) Serverless
13 180 (1.54%) PowerApps
14 163 (1.40%) Entra ID
15 161 (1.38%) Azure Functions
16 132 (1.13%) OpenShift
17 115 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
18 114 (0.98%) Power Automate
19 101 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
20 94 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 289 (2.48%) Firewall
2 210 (1.80%) DNS
3 170 (1.46%) VPN
4 148 (1.27%) DHCP
5 144 (1.24%) Internet
6 129 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 100 (0.86%) WAN
8 82 (0.70%) Wireless
9 81 (0.69%) HTTP
10 80 (0.69%) LAN
11 70 (0.60%) Network Security
12 64 (0.55%) SAN
13 59 (0.51%) 5G
14 44 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
15 37 (0.32%) SD-WAN
16 36 (0.31%) Intranet
16 36 (0.31%) Unified Communications
17 32 (0.27%) Broadband
18 27 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 27 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 636 (5.46%) Power BI
2 609 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 430 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
4 236 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 233 (2.00%) Tableau
6 231 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 226 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 178 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 174 (1.49%) Big Data
10 157 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 153 (1.31%) MySQL
12 151 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 139 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 120 (1.03%) Metadata
15 109 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
16 97 (0.83%) Apache Ignite
17 94 (0.81%) BigQuery
18 93 (0.80%) Hadoop
19 91 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
20 88 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 387 (3.32%) JIRA
2 375 (3.22%) Git
3 355 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 94 (0.81%) Selenium
5 89 (0.76%) GitLab
6 88 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 87 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 87 (0.75%) Maven
8 76 (0.65%) Artifactory
9 72 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 66 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 58 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
12 54 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 52 (0.45%) Spinnaker
14 50 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
15 48 (0.41%) SonarQube
16 47 (0.40%) CircleCI
17 33 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
18 30 (0.26%) JUnit
19 29 (0.25%) ERwin
General
1 3,256 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 2,521 (21.63%) Banking
3 1,268 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 810 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 769 (6.60%) Retail
6 669 (5.74%) Front Office
7 582 (4.99%) Legal
8 504 (4.32%) Marketing
9 443 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 427 (3.66%) Investment Banking
10 427 (3.66%) Telecoms
11 418 (3.59%) Public Sector
12 385 (3.30%) Financial Institution
12 385 (3.30%) Law
13 311 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 307 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
15 305 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
16 236 (2.02%) Back Office
17 206 (1.77%) Games
18 202 (1.73%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,956 (16.78%) Analyst
2 1,601 (13.74%) Senior
3 1,539 (13.20%) Developer
4 1,449 (12.43%) Architect
5 975 (8.36%) Lead
6 629 (5.40%) Software Engineer
7 594 (5.10%) Consultant
8 537 (4.61%) Project Manager
9 469 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
10 384 (3.29%) Business Analyst
11 362 (3.11%) Senior Developer
12 320 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 319 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
14 287 (2.46%) IT Manager
15 280 (2.40%) Java Developer
16 267 (2.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 266 (2.28%) Business Manager
17 266 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
18 251 (2.15%) Dynamics 365 Architect
19 248 (2.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 792 (6.79%) .NET
2 571 (4.90%) React
3 451 (3.87%) HTML
4 389 (3.34%) AngularJS
5 292 (2.51%) Kafka
6 289 (2.48%) CSS
7 265 (2.27%) ASP.NET
8 253 (2.17%) Node.js
9 242 (2.08%) RESTful
10 223 (1.91%) Spring
11 214 (1.84%) REST
12 197 (1.69%) Redux
13 188 (1.61%) Web Services
14 166 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 144 (1.24%) JSON
16 139 (1.19%) Spring Boot
17 133 (1.14%) .NET Framework
18 124 (1.06%) Middleware
19 123 (1.06%) OpenID
20 122 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 564 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
2 478 (4.10%) Product Ownership
3 388 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 363 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 330 (2.83%) Fixed Income
6 316 (2.71%) Derivative
7 278 (2.39%) Hedge funds
8 271 (2.32%) Cloud Native
9 260 (2.23%) Equities
10 251 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 221 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 218 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
13 204 (1.75%) Algorithms
14 201 (1.72%) NHS
15 200 (1.72%) Onboarding
16 150 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
17 141 (1.21%) Cyberattack
18 126 (1.08%) Blockchain
19 124 (1.06%) Data Structures
20 118 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 789 (6.77%) Windows
2 571 (4.90%) Linux
3 288 (2.47%) Unix
4 250 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 167 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 132 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 105 (0.90%) Android
8 73 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 67 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 65 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 61 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 43 (0.37%) CentOS
13 41 (0.35%) Solaris
14 38 (0.33%) AIX
15 36 (0.31%) Mac OS
16 35 (0.30%) Windows 7
17 27 (0.23%) Ubuntu
18 21 (0.18%) HPUX
19 20 (0.17%) Windows 8
20 14 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,782 (32.45%) Agile
2 1,720 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
3 1,584 (13.59%) DevOps
4 1,330 (11.41%) Roadmaps
5 1,232 (10.57%) Analytics
6 1,159 (9.94%) Software Engineering
7 1,063 (9.12%) Project Management
8 1,043 (8.95%) Asset Management
9 1,008 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 993 (8.52%) Mentoring
11 945 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
12 820 (7.04%) Project Delivery
13 808 (6.93%) CI/CD
14 701 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
15 698 (5.99%) Microservices
16 694 (5.95%) ITIL
17 682 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 671 (5.76%) Migration
19 661 (5.67%) Decision-Making
20 636 (5.46%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,965 (16.86%) SQL
2 1,506 (12.92%) Python
3 1,063 (9.12%) Java
4 909 (7.80%) JavaScript
5 880 (7.55%) C#
6 481 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 475 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 284 (2.44%) Bash
9 211 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 208 (1.78%) C++
11 180 (1.54%) Go
12 163 (1.40%) R
13 96 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 88 (0.75%) C
15 80 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 79 (0.68%) Ruby
17 71 (0.61%) Rust
18 67 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 61 (0.52%) Scala
20 54 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,705 (14.63%) Degree
2 582 (4.99%) Security Cleared
3 330 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 256 (2.20%) DBS Check
5 229 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 172 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 150 (1.29%) ACCA
7 150 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 137 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 136 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 136 (1.17%) CISSP
10 112 (0.96%) PMI Certification
11 105 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 101 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (0.82%) CISM
14 83 (0.71%) PMP
15 68 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 58 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
17 55 (0.47%) CIMA
18 54 (0.46%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (3.53%) QA
2 226 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 223 (1.91%) PMO
4 218 (1.87%) SLA
5 197 (1.69%) GDPR
6 177 (1.52%) NIST
7 171 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 89 (0.76%) IFRS
9 81 (0.69%) GRC
10 72 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 71 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 63 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 49 (0.42%) COBIT
14 47 (0.40%) GAAP
14 47 (0.40%) MiFID
15 39 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 27 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
17 21 (0.18%) IFRS 9
17 21 (0.18%) NCSC
18 20 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 604 (5.18%) Docker
2 491 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 244 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 193 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.30%) vSphere
7 34 (0.29%) Firmware
8 30 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 10 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 10 (0.086%) XenApp
12 9 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
13 8 (0.069%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.060%) BitLocker
14 7 (0.060%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.043%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 5 (0.043%) DFS Replication
16 4 (0.034%) KVM
16 4 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 761 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 574 (4.92%) Terraform
3 280 (2.40%) Ansible
4 175 (1.50%) SCCM
5 115 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 63 (0.54%) SCOM
7 59 (0.51%) Puppet
8 55 (0.47%) Istio
9 49 (0.42%) Grafana
10 47 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (0.33%) Argo
11 39 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 38 (0.33%) Rancher
13 35 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
14 32 (0.27%) Progress Chef
15 26 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.20%) FortiGate
17 21 (0.18%) Kibana
18 20 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
19 19 (0.16%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1,955 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 610 (5.23%) Oracle
3 543 (4.66%) SAP
4 423 (3.63%) Google
5 265 (2.27%) VMware
6 256 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 210 (1.80%) Cisco
8 208 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 186 (1.60%) Citrix
10 158 (1.36%) Bloomberg
11 124 (1.06%) Splunk
12 111 (0.95%) IBM
13 102 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 90 (0.77%) Hyperion
15 86 (0.74%) Databricks
16 82 (0.70%) Dell
17 79 (0.68%) HP
18 73 (0.63%) Atlassian
19 69 (0.59%) CheckPoint
20 65 (0.56%) Sage