Finance Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 2 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 10,158 8,653 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.72% 23.68% 17.46%
As % of the General category 26.29% 33.78% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,663 4,951 9,877
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +15.19% -9.19%

All General Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38,644 25,619 47,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 52.20% 70.11% 59.66%
Number of salaries quoted 21,655 14,251 35,172
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -13.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 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
London 0 4,852 £80,000 -5.88% 1,993
North of England -9 1,732 £57,500 +4.55% 695
South East +2 1,310 £60,000 - 1,010
Midlands -11 1,062 £55,000 - 423
North West -14 1,028 £60,000 +9.09% 371
West Midlands -12 786 £58,598 +6.54% 251
South West -5 651 £50,000 -13.04% 302
Yorkshire -5 533 £55,000 -4.35% 253
East of England -1 504 £47,500 -5.00% 271
East Midlands -8 271 £50,000 - 171
North East -4 171 £44,250 -21.68% 88
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 153 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 135 (1.33%) Confluence
3 90 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 80 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 61 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 52 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 49 (0.48%) Apache
8 39 (0.38%) CMS
9 34 (0.33%) SAS
10 16 (0.16%) Appian
11 13 (0.13%) JBoss
11 13 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.11%) IIS
13 10 (0.098%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.069%) Moodle
16 5 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 5 (0.049%) nginx
16 5 (0.049%) WordPress
Applications
1 703 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 280 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 140 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 45 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 42 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.14%) Maya
9 7 (0.069%) SPSS
10 6 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.059%) Sketch
11 5 (0.049%) PlantUML
12 4 (0.039%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.039%) Simulink
12 4 (0.039%) Trello
13 3 (0.030%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.030%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.030%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.020%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 136 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 118 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 70 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 63 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
5 52 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
6 44 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 38 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
8 37 (0.36%) SAP CO
9 36 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
10 34 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 33 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
11 33 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
12 30 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
12 30 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
13 29 (0.29%) SAP FI
14 28 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
15 22 (0.22%) SAP ERP
16 21 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
17 18 (0.18%) Elite 3E
17 18 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,396 (13.74%) Azure
2 936 (9.21%) AWS
3 758 (7.46%) SaaS
4 657 (6.47%) Power Platform
5 397 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
6 350 (3.45%) GCP
7 224 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 220 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
9 156 (1.54%) Entra ID
10 154 (1.52%) GitHub
11 139 (1.37%) Snowflake
12 136 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 126 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 124 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 114 (1.12%) PaaS
16 104 (1.02%) Serverless
17 103 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
18 99 (0.97%) Azure AI
19 83 (0.82%) PowerApps
20 79 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (1.86%) Firewall
2 127 (1.25%) DNS
3 118 (1.16%) VPN
4 95 (0.94%) DHCP
5 93 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 84 (0.83%) WAN
7 70 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 64 (0.63%) Network Security
9 56 (0.55%) LAN
9 56 (0.55%) VLAN
10 49 (0.48%) Internet
11 45 (0.44%) Wireless
12 44 (0.43%) Multicast
13 39 (0.38%) Broadband
14 38 (0.37%) HTTP
15 37 (0.36%) SAN
16 31 (0.31%) SD-WAN
17 30 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
18 29 (0.29%) BGP
19 26 (0.26%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 539 (5.31%) Power BI
2 346 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 320 (3.15%) Tableau
4 172 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 147 (1.45%) Data Lake
7 98 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 93 (0.92%) Metadata
9 85 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 83 (0.82%) NoSQL
11 82 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (0.77%) Big Data
13 58 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 58 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 51 (0.50%) MySQL
15 45 (0.44%) Oracle Database
16 42 (0.41%) Power Query
17 41 (0.40%) MongoDB
18 36 (0.35%) Spark SQL
19 32 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 260 (2.56%) JIRA
2 211 (2.08%) Git
3 91 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 63 (0.62%) TeamCity
5 62 (0.61%) GitLab
6 51 (0.50%) Selenium
7 50 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 35 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 32 (0.32%) Postman
10 29 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 29 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 25 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
12 18 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 18 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.18%) JUnit
12 18 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
12 18 (0.18%) SoapUI
13 17 (0.17%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.16%) Metasploit
14 16 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 2,695 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 1,591 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 1,237 (12.18%) Banking
4 844 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 698 (6.87%) Retail
6 635 (6.25%) Legal
7 630 (6.20%) Marketing
8 554 (5.45%) Law
9 415 (4.09%) Financial Institution
10 383 (3.77%) Public Sector
11 351 (3.46%) Manufacturing
12 284 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 262 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
14 258 (2.54%) Telecoms
15 216 (2.13%) Front Office
16 215 (2.12%) Back Office
17 213 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
18 123 (1.21%) Billing
19 118 (1.16%) Electronics
20 112 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,430 (14.08%) Senior
2 1,406 (13.84%) Analyst
3 763 (7.51%) Developer
4 714 (7.03%) Lead
5 517 (5.09%) Consultant
6 504 (4.96%) Architect
7 445 (4.38%) Business Analyst
8 424 (4.17%) Trainee
9 381 (3.75%) Software Engineer
10 314 (3.09%) Senior Manager
11 310 (3.05%) Accountant
12 303 (2.98%) Data Analyst
13 300 (2.95%) Finance Manager
14 264 (2.60%) Project Manager
15 263 (2.59%) Trainee Analyst
16 256 (2.52%) Financial Analyst
17 250 (2.46%) Systems Engineer
18 233 (2.29%) Business Manager
19 203 (2.00%) Development Manager
20 201 (1.98%) Facilities Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (2.93%) .NET
2 229 (2.25%) React
3 194 (1.91%) REST
4 167 (1.64%) Kafka
5 125 (1.23%) RESTful
6 120 (1.18%) Node.js
7 104 (1.02%) Spring
8 97 (0.95%) Pandas
9 94 (0.93%) CSS
10 86 (0.85%) HTML
11 83 (0.82%) Middleware
11 83 (0.82%) PySpark
12 73 (0.72%) Spring Boot
13 72 (0.71%) NumPy
14 70 (0.69%) scikit-learn
15 68 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
16 66 (0.65%) Hugging Face
17 60 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
17 60 (0.59%) SOAP
18 59 (0.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 380 (3.74%) Product Ownership
2 354 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 320 (3.15%) Onboarding
4 308 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 267 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 177 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 175 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 138 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 133 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 130 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 128 (1.26%) Fixed Income
12 127 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
13 123 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
13 123 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 122 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 121 (1.19%) Hedge funds
16 107 (1.05%) Data Structures
17 103 (1.01%) Derivative
18 102 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
19 96 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 396 (3.90%) Windows
2 301 (2.96%) Linux
3 102 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 67 (0.66%) Unix
5 47 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 47 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 46 (0.45%) Android
7 33 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 27 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.17%) VMS
10 11 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.079%) CentOS
13 6 (0.059%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.049%) AIX
14 5 (0.049%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.049%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.039%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.030%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,677 (16.51%) Agile
2 1,423 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
3 1,258 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,169 (11.51%) Analytics
5 1,081 (10.64%) AI
6 1,007 (9.91%) Decision-Making
7 984 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 964 (9.49%) Roadmaps
9 887 (8.73%) Mentoring
10 860 (8.47%) Project Management
11 767 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
12 696 (6.85%) DevOps
13 695 (6.84%) ERP
14 692 (6.81%) Software Engineering
15 651 (6.41%) CI/CD
15 651 (6.41%) Risk Management
16 642 (6.32%) Fintech
17 607 (5.98%) Process Improvement
18 587 (5.78%) Business Development
19 560 (5.51%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (12.54%) SQL
2 1,182 (11.64%) Python
3 520 (5.12%) Java
4 360 (3.54%) C#
5 239 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 227 (2.23%) C++
7 204 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 200 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 121 (1.19%) Bash
10 110 (1.08%) Go
11 70 (0.69%) PHP
12 64 (0.63%) C
13 62 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 48 (0.47%) VBA
15 44 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 37 (0.36%) Rust
17 35 (0.34%) R
18 32 (0.32%) Bicep
19 26 (0.26%) T-SQL
20 21 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,271 (12.51%) Degree
2 624 (6.14%) ACCA
3 532 (5.24%) CIMA
4 334 (3.29%) Security Cleared
5 316 (3.11%) CISSP
6 231 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 213 (2.10%) Postgraduate
8 200 (1.97%) City & Guilds
9 197 (1.94%) NVQ Level 3
10 184 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 171 (1.68%) CISM
12 165 (1.62%) CISA
13 159 (1.57%) SC Cleared
14 131 (1.29%) PMI Certification
15 125 (1.23%) CRISC
16 117 (1.15%) AWS Certification
17 116 (1.14%) DV Cleared
18 105 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
18 105 (1.03%) PMP
19 97 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 329 (3.24%) QA
3 308 (3.03%) GDPR
4 273 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 261 (2.57%) NIST
6 197 (1.94%) COSHH
7 184 (1.81%) IFRS
8 129 (1.27%) GAAP
9 119 (1.17%) GRC
9 119 (1.17%) PMO
10 116 (1.14%) Accessibility
11 112 (1.10%) SLA
12 108 (1.06%) PCI DSS
13 79 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 56 (0.55%) SOC 2
15 54 (0.53%) COBIT
16 50 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
17 48 (0.47%) ISO 9001
18 41 (0.40%) ITGC
19 37 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 260 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 181 (1.78%) Docker
3 103 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 82 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.19%) Firmware
8 15 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.069%) vSphere
10 5 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.039%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.039%) XenApp
12 3 (0.030%) HDFS
12 3 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.030%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.020%) IAG
13 2 (0.020%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.010%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 314 (3.09%) Terraform
2 303 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 92 (0.91%) Ansible
4 89 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 88 (0.87%) Grafana
6 45 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 39 (0.38%) SCCM
8 23 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.20%) Argo
9 20 (0.20%) Nagios
10 18 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
11 17 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (0.13%) Istio
13 12 (0.12%) RSA Archer
14 10 (0.098%) Control-M
14 10 (0.098%) vRealize
15 9 (0.089%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 9 (0.089%) Kibana
15 9 (0.089%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,429 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 448 (4.41%) SAP
3 415 (4.09%) Oracle
4 222 (2.19%) Databricks
5 198 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 162 (1.59%) Google
7 154 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 135 (1.33%) Cisco
9 130 (1.28%) VMware
10 98 (0.96%) Workday
11 84 (0.83%) Sage
12 72 (0.71%) Red Hat
13 66 (0.65%) IBM
14 55 (0.54%) Alteryx
15 50 (0.49%) Xero
16 48 (0.47%) Bloomberg
17 44 (0.43%) HubSpot
17 44 (0.43%) Palo Alto
18 41 (0.40%) Atlassian
19 37 (0.36%) NEC