Finance Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 13,409 16,811 36,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.11% 23.65% 24.99%
As % of the General category 29.93% 35.85% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,960 11,007 17,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +2.88% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%

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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44,799 46,891 99,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.17% 65.97% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,228 29,742 48,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 6,152 £85,000 +6.25% 1,001
South East -1 2,100 £54,000 -6.09% 568
North of England -4 2,019 £55,000 -0.08% 513
Midlands 0 1,558 £53,500 -2.73% 356
North West -4 1,198 £55,000 -4.35% 309
South West -6 1,059 £52,500 -4.80% 325
West Midlands 0 989 £55,000 - 205
Yorkshire -5 619 £57,965 +5.39% 146
East Midlands -1 565 £50,000 -9.09% 148
East of England -1 399 £52,500 -4.55% 158
North East +8 202 £49,274 -10.41% 66
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
1 784 (5.85%) Apache
2 770 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
3 433 (3.23%) SAS
4 312 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 209 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 149 (1.11%) Confluence
7 77 (0.57%) IIS
8 64 (0.48%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.29%) CMS
10 32 (0.24%) nginx
10 32 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 24 (0.18%) WordPress
12 16 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 14 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
14 13 (0.097%) JBoss
15 12 (0.089%) ArcGIS
16 9 (0.067%) Appian
16 9 (0.067%) Skype for Business
17 8 (0.060%) Office Communications Server
18 6 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,786 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,027 (7.66%) Microsoft Office
3 370 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 63 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 33 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 16 (0.12%) SPSS
9 7 (0.052%) OrCAD
9 7 (0.052%) Siemens NX
10 6 (0.045%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.045%) Trello
11 5 (0.037%) InDesign
12 4 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.030%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.022%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.022%) Pro Tools
13 3 (0.022%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 314 (2.34%) SAP ERP
2 133 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 112 (0.84%) NEC Housing
4 102 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 60 (0.45%) Ripple
6 56 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 51 (0.38%) SAP FI
8 48 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 48 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
9 44 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 44 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 41 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
11 39 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
12 38 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
13 37 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
14 31 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
15 27 (0.20%) Elite 3E
15 27 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
16 25 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
17 24 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 2,009 (14.98%) AWS
2 1,931 (14.40%) Azure
3 893 (6.66%) Power Platform
4 852 (6.35%) GCP
5 657 (4.90%) dbt
6 590 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 567 (4.23%) Snowflake
8 398 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
9 361 (2.69%) SaaS
10 254 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (1.51%) Entra ID
12 160 (1.19%) Serverless
13 149 (1.11%) GitHub
14 121 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
15 120 (0.89%) Power Automate
16 114 (0.85%) PowerApps
17 110 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 100 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
19 99 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
19 99 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 823 (6.14%) Broadband
2 313 (2.33%) Firewall
3 170 (1.27%) Internet
4 166 (1.24%) DNS
5 136 (1.01%) Network Security
6 133 (0.99%) WAN
7 132 (0.98%) LAN
8 122 (0.91%) VPN
9 100 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 97 (0.72%) DHCP
11 93 (0.69%) Wireless
12 67 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 62 (0.46%) SAN
14 57 (0.43%) 5G
15 42 (0.31%) IPsec
15 42 (0.31%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.31%) SNMP
16 39 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
17 35 (0.26%) Intranet
18 33 (0.25%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 760 (5.67%) Power BI
2 721 (5.38%) Data Lake
3 638 (4.76%) Apache Ignite
4 635 (4.74%) Dremio
5 606 (4.52%) Apache Arrow
6 605 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
7 539 (4.02%) SQL Server
8 303 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
9 298 (2.22%) Tableau
10 275 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
11 164 (1.22%) Big Data
12 133 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 122 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 119 (0.89%) Relational Database
15 117 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 116 (0.87%) Metadata
17 96 (0.72%) Oracle Database
18 83 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 75 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
20 72 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 367 (2.74%) JIRA
2 324 (2.42%) Git
3 130 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 87 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 77 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 71 (0.53%) GitLab
7 65 (0.48%) Selenium
8 42 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 39 (0.29%) Artifactory
10 36 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 33 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
12 26 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 26 (0.19%) Postman
12 26 (0.19%) SonarQube
13 25 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 22 (0.16%) NUnit
14 22 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.16%) JUnit
16 20 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 4,525 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 2,537 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 2,212 (16.50%) Banking
4 1,296 (9.67%) Retail
5 1,257 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1,197 (8.93%) Marketing
7 1,195 (8.91%) Legal
8 1,090 (8.13%) Front Office
9 875 (6.53%) Investment Banking
10 784 (5.85%) Law
11 680 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
12 537 (4.00%) Public Sector
13 500 (3.73%) Manufacturing
14 445 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
15 317 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
16 295 (2.20%) Telecoms
17 290 (2.16%) Financial Institution
18 242 (1.80%) Billing
19 233 (1.74%) Local Government
20 179 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,336 (17.42%) Senior
2 2,315 (17.26%) Analyst
3 1,592 (11.87%) Developer
4 1,249 (9.31%) Lead
5 1,207 (9.00%) Architect
6 830 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 695 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
8 668 (4.98%) Project Manager
9 639 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
10 534 (3.98%) Consultant
11 527 (3.93%) Development Manager
12 526 (3.92%) Financial Analyst
13 419 (3.12%) Python Engineer
14 354 (2.64%) Senior Developer
15 342 (2.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 336 (2.51%) Python Software Engineer
17 332 (2.48%) IT Manager
18 327 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
19 315 (2.35%) Senior Manager
20 314 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 756 (5.64%) gRPC
2 707 (5.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 653 (4.87%) .NET
4 608 (4.53%) Pandas
5 566 (4.22%) NumPy
6 564 (4.21%) React
7 535 (3.99%) SciPy
8 316 (2.36%) AngularJS
9 314 (2.34%) HTML
10 250 (1.86%) Redux
11 239 (1.78%) REST
12 225 (1.68%) CSS
13 207 (1.54%) .NET Core
14 201 (1.50%) Kafka
15 196 (1.46%) ASP.NET
16 195 (1.45%) Web Services
17 188 (1.40%) Node.js
18 160 (1.19%) PySpark
19 159 (1.19%) Vue
20 150 (1.12%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 945 (7.05%) Hedge funds
2 895 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 837 (6.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 764 (5.70%) Equities
5 746 (5.56%) Derivative
6 547 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 513 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
8 452 (3.37%) Product Ownership
9 331 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 203 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 169 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 157 (1.17%) Mobile App
13 139 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 137 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 136 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 136 (1.01%) Driving Licence
16 129 (0.96%) Credit Risk
17 120 (0.89%) NHS
18 114 (0.85%) PMI
19 109 (0.81%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 970 (7.23%) Windows
2 574 (4.28%) Linux
3 295 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 191 (1.42%) Unix
5 182 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 90 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 79 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 77 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 68 (0.51%) Android
10 61 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 58 (0.43%) CentOS
11 58 (0.43%) Solaris
12 56 (0.42%) Apple iOS
13 43 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 34 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
15 30 (0.22%) zOS
16 29 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 28 (0.21%) AIX
18 21 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 17 (0.13%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,148 (30.93%) Agile
2 2,132 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
3 1,453 (10.84%) Software Engineering
4 1,423 (10.61%) Project Management
5 1,357 (10.12%) Mentoring
6 1,347 (10.05%) Decision-Making
7 1,333 (9.94%) Roadmaps
8 1,318 (9.83%) Asset Management
9 1,194 (8.90%) Data Management
10 1,106 (8.25%) Analytics
11 1,045 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
12 1,025 (7.64%) Coaching
13 982 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 981 (7.32%) Business Development
15 902 (6.73%) DevOps
16 873 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 850 (6.34%) ERP
17 850 (6.34%) Risk Management
18 848 (6.32%) Investment Management
19 820 (6.12%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2,097 (15.64%) Python
2 1,975 (14.73%) SQL
3 1,222 (9.11%) JavaScript
4 1,188 (8.86%) Java
5 947 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 777 (5.79%) C#
7 484 (3.61%) PowerShell
8 185 (1.38%) Go
9 170 (1.27%) C++
10 162 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 149 (1.11%) Bash
12 111 (0.83%) R
13 96 (0.72%) PHP
14 83 (0.62%) C
15 77 (0.57%) VBA
16 66 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 64 (0.48%) Perl
18 63 (0.47%) Rust
18 63 (0.47%) Shell Script
19 53 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,074 (15.47%) Degree
2 854 (6.37%) ACCA
3 593 (4.42%) CIMA
4 541 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 317 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 292 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 273 (2.04%) CISSP
8 270 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 201 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 191 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 145 (1.08%) DV Cleared
12 132 (0.98%) CISM
13 127 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 115 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 115 (0.86%) PMP
15 106 (0.79%) MBA
16 105 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
17 104 (0.78%) CISA
18 95 (0.71%) AWS Certification
19 94 (0.70%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 402 (3.00%) QA
3 319 (2.38%) GDPR
4 273 (2.04%) IFRS
5 266 (1.98%) SLA
6 211 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 185 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 167 (1.25%) PMO
9 150 (1.12%) GAAP
10 139 (1.04%) NIST
11 68 (0.51%) IFRS 9
12 57 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 55 (0.41%) GRC
14 50 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 49 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 37 (0.28%) ISO 9001
17 35 (0.26%) COBIT
18 31 (0.23%) ITGC
19 30 (0.22%) Solvency II
20 26 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 531 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 434 (3.24%) Docker
3 266 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (0.60%) XenApp
5 80 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 69 (0.51%) XenDesktop
7 66 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 55 (0.41%) vSphere
9 45 (0.34%) RACF
10 42 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 40 (0.30%) Firmware
12 33 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (0.12%) OpenSSH
14 12 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
15 10 (0.075%) VMware Workstation
16 9 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.067%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
17 7 (0.052%) IAG
18 6 (0.045%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 547 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 420 (3.13%) Terraform
3 220 (1.64%) Ansible
4 143 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 125 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 105 (0.78%) SCCM
7 59 (0.44%) vCenter Server
8 38 (0.28%) Grafana
9 31 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 30 (0.22%) Puppet
10 30 (0.22%) WSUS
11 25 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (0.16%) Istio
12 21 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 18 (0.13%) NetBackup
14 17 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
14 17 (0.13%) PowerCLI
14 17 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
15 16 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,059 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 842 (6.28%) Oracle
3 764 (5.70%) SAP
4 367 (2.74%) VMware
5 333 (2.48%) Google
6 320 (2.39%) Hyperion
7 313 (2.33%) Anaplan
8 245 (1.83%) CA
9 218 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 202 (1.51%) Bloomberg
11 196 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 183 (1.36%) Citrix
13 174 (1.30%) Cisco
14 166 (1.24%) Red Hat
15 159 (1.19%) NEC
16 115 (0.86%) Databricks
17 107 (0.80%) IBM
18 90 (0.67%) Reuters
19 83 (0.62%) Virgin Media
20 79 (0.59%) Sage