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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 9,736 14,707 21,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 21.37% 17.50% 23.17%
As % of the General category 31.71% 29.50% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,154 9,788 13,052
10th Percentile £37,575 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £63,458 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.62% +2.88%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,634
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.59% +4.05%

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 30,704 49,857 65,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.40% 59.33% 68.85%
Number of salaries quoted 16,199 35,357 35,081
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,338 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +0.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

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 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
London 0 4,835 £85,000 +6.25% 9,350
North of England +3 1,976 £57,500 +4.55% 1,497
North West +1 1,341 £57,500 +4.55% 895
South East -1 1,002 £60,000 +20.00% 1,771
Midlands -6 754 £54,000 +8.00% 948
South West +6 654 £58,750 +6.82% 728
West Midlands -8 538 £55,000 +7.21% 564
Yorkshire +1 458 £59,869 +3.29% 454
East of England +8 401 £50,000 +2.04% 505
East Midlands -3 214 £50,000 +5.26% 349
North East +8 176 £56,500 +13.00% 153
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
1 292 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 222 (2.28%) Apache
3 213 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 138 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 135 (1.39%) Confluence
6 133 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 61 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
8 53 (0.54%) CMS
9 40 (0.41%) SAS
10 29 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 24 (0.25%) nginx
12 17 (0.17%) IIS
13 13 (0.13%) IBM Domino
13 13 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 10 (0.10%) Apache Solr
15 9 (0.092%) OpenEdge
16 8 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
17 6 (0.062%) WordPress
18 5 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 5 (0.051%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 606 (6.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 507 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 442 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.37%) Maya
7 26 (0.27%) Trello
8 20 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 14 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 12 (0.12%) SPSS
11 9 (0.092%) Adobe Premiere
11 9 (0.092%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.092%) Sketch
12 7 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 7 (0.072%) InDesign
13 6 (0.062%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
14 4 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
15 3 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 136 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 124 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 72 (0.74%) NEC Housing
4 71 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 59 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
6 50 (0.51%) Aladdin
7 43 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 32 (0.33%) Infor LN
8 32 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 32 (0.33%) SAP BPC
9 27 (0.28%) Shopify
10 26 (0.27%) Raiser’s Edge
10 26 (0.27%) thinkFolio
11 24 (0.25%) Ripple
11 24 (0.25%) Ripple XRP
12 21 (0.22%) SAP CO
12 21 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
13 20 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
13 20 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
13 20 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (14.51%) Azure
2 1,263 (12.97%) AWS
3 611 (6.28%) GCP
4 510 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 353 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
6 290 (2.98%) dbt
7 273 (2.80%) SaaS
8 232 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 232 (2.38%) Serverless
9 186 (1.91%) Snowflake
10 181 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 180 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
12 155 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
13 143 (1.47%) GitHub
14 136 (1.40%) PaaS
15 127 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 108 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 108 (1.11%) OpenShift
17 104 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
18 101 (1.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 494 (5.07%) DNS
2 487 (5.00%) VPN
3 406 (4.17%) Broadband
4 208 (2.14%) Firewall
5 115 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 98 (1.01%) Network Security
7 94 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 83 (0.85%) WAN
9 77 (0.79%) LAN
10 73 (0.75%) DHCP
11 55 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
12 48 (0.49%) SAN
13 45 (0.46%) HTTP
14 40 (0.41%) VLAN
15 36 (0.37%) BGP
15 36 (0.37%) Internet
16 35 (0.36%) Wireless
17 30 (0.31%) IPsec
17 30 (0.31%) MPLS
18 29 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (4.41%) Power BI
2 328 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 317 (3.26%) Data Lake
4 269 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
5 264 (2.71%) Dremio
6 258 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
7 247 (2.54%) Tableau
8 230 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
9 229 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 181 (1.86%) NoSQL
11 180 (1.85%) Apache Ignite
12 159 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
13 127 (1.30%) MySQL
14 125 (1.28%) Big Data
15 122 (1.25%) Relational Database
16 96 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
16 96 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 95 (0.98%) MongoDB
18 94 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 77 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 344 (3.53%) Git
2 316 (3.25%) JIRA
3 190 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 104 (1.07%) Artifactory
5 67 (0.69%) GitLab
6 62 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
7 50 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 48 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 45 (0.46%) Maven
10 44 (0.45%) JUnit
11 40 (0.41%) Selenium
12 35 (0.36%) webpack
13 34 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 34 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 27 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 27 (0.28%) TeamCity
15 26 (0.27%) Postman
16 25 (0.26%) Mockito
17 19 (0.20%) Bitbucket
18 17 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 3,464 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 2,339 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
3 1,816 (18.65%) Banking
4 1,302 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 818 (8.40%) Retail
6 736 (7.56%) Front Office
7 735 (7.55%) Marketing
8 715 (7.34%) Financial Institution
9 520 (5.34%) Legal
10 480 (4.93%) Law
11 453 (4.65%) French Language
11 453 (4.65%) German Language
12 444 (4.56%) Manufacturing
13 348 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
14 328 (3.37%) Telecoms
15 311 (3.19%) Public Sector
16 308 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
17 196 (2.01%) Investment Banking
18 166 (1.71%) Games
19 142 (1.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,681 (17.27%) Analyst
2 1,553 (15.95%) Senior
3 1,244 (12.78%) Developer
4 711 (7.30%) Lead
5 632 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 584 (6.00%) Architect
7 582 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 458 (4.70%) Software Developer
9 447 (4.59%) Credit Analyst
10 435 (4.47%) Research Analyst
11 421 (4.32%) Senior Manager
12 347 (3.56%) Consultant
13 317 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
14 286 (2.94%) Business Analyst
15 267 (2.74%) Python Engineer
16 234 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
17 224 (2.30%) Data Engineer
18 220 (2.26%) Product Manager
19 219 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
19 219 (2.25%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (4.15%) React
2 354 (3.64%) .NET
3 309 (3.17%) HTML
4 251 (2.58%) Node.js
5 249 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 235 (2.41%) Kafka
7 216 (2.22%) CSS
8 197 (2.02%) Pandas
9 193 (1.98%) NumPy
10 187 (1.92%) PySpark
11 182 (1.87%) Spring
12 181 (1.86%) Spring Boot
13 158 (1.62%) SciPy
14 150 (1.54%) REST
15 143 (1.47%) RESTful
16 118 (1.21%) Redux
17 116 (1.19%) gRPC
18 104 (1.07%) Vue
19 102 (1.05%) Protocol Buffers
20 92 (0.94%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 904 (9.29%) Fixed Income
2 646 (6.64%) Management Information System
3 571 (5.86%) Driving Licence
4 569 (5.84%) Cyberattack
5 518 (5.32%) Social Media
6 514 (5.28%) Credit Risk
7 422 (4.33%) Hedge funds
8 390 (4.01%) Derivative
9 369 (3.79%) Equities
10 368 (3.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 364 (3.74%) Product Ownership
12 224 (2.30%) Algorithms
13 223 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
14 195 (2.00%) FMCG
15 187 (1.92%) Cloud Native
16 176 (1.81%) Onboarding
17 129 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
18 112 (1.15%) Blockchain
19 103 (1.06%) Data Centre
19 103 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 761 (7.82%) Linux
2 525 (5.39%) Windows
3 465 (4.78%) Android
4 172 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 140 (1.44%) Unix
6 103 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 93 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.54%) Windows Vista
9 45 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 25 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 25 (0.26%) zOS
12 24 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 22 (0.23%) CentOS
14 18 (0.18%) Solaris
15 16 (0.16%) AIX
16 10 (0.10%) Rocky
17 7 (0.072%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,731 (28.05%) Agile
2 1,834 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
3 1,430 (14.69%) Risk Management
4 1,409 (14.47%) Project Management
5 1,350 (13.87%) Decision-Making
6 1,225 (12.58%) Analytics
7 1,088 (11.18%) Software Engineering
8 1,081 (11.10%) Asset Management
9 992 (10.19%) DevOps
10 923 (9.48%) Mentoring
11 849 (8.72%) Business Strategy
12 839 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 803 (8.25%) CI/CD
14 802 (8.24%) Roadmaps
15 779 (8.00%) Customer Service
16 764 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 728 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
18 704 (7.23%) Mathematics
19 674 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
20 650 (6.68%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1,814 (18.63%) Python
2 1,245 (12.79%) Java
3 1,235 (12.68%) SQL
4 627 (6.44%) JavaScript
5 616 (6.33%) C++
6 549 (5.64%) Go
7 404 (4.15%) C#
8 376 (3.86%) TypeScript
9 288 (2.96%) PowerShell
10 122 (1.25%) Bash
11 94 (0.97%) PHP
11 94 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 88 (0.90%) C
13 72 (0.74%) R
14 65 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 64 (0.66%) Scala
16 40 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 37 (0.38%) Rust
18 32 (0.33%) VB.NET
19 29 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,153 (22.11%) Degree
2 745 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 650 (6.68%) Master's Degree
4 587 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 443 (4.55%) CFA
6 306 (3.14%) DBS Check
7 261 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 253 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 209 (2.15%) CISSP
10 162 (1.66%) ACCA
11 152 (1.56%) CIMA
12 138 (1.42%) PMI Certification
13 116 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 115 (1.18%) SC Cleared
15 112 (1.15%) PMP
16 105 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
17 104 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 79 (0.81%) AWS Certification
19 75 (0.77%) CISM
20 73 (0.75%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (3.44%) QA
2 261 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 245 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 183 (1.88%) GDPR
5 161 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 130 (1.34%) PMO
7 127 (1.30%) NIST
8 120 (1.23%) SLA
9 87 (0.89%) MiFID
10 71 (0.73%) ITGC
11 66 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 65 (0.67%) PCI DSS
13 51 (0.52%) IFRS
14 43 (0.44%) COBIT
15 41 (0.42%) GMP
16 39 (0.40%) GRC
17 33 (0.34%) GAAP
17 33 (0.34%) NEBOSH
18 27 (0.28%) NCSC
19 25 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 897 (9.21%) Docker
2 253 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 126 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 48 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.20%) Firmware
9 18 (0.18%) vSphere
10 5 (0.051%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.051%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.031%) HDFS
11 3 (0.031%) Samba
11 3 (0.031%) Terminal Server
11 3 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.031%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.021%) Postfix
12 2 (0.021%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.021%) XenApp
12 2 (0.021%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 587 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 566 (5.81%) Ansible
3 413 (4.24%) Terraform
4 103 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 97 (1.00%) SCCM
6 51 (0.52%) Grafana
7 43 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 34 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.31%) Puppet
10 28 (0.29%) Istio
11 26 (0.27%) Nagios
12 24 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.24%) CASB
14 15 (0.15%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.15%) WSUS
15 11 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
15 11 (0.11%) SCOM
15 11 (0.11%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.082%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.082%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,263 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 499 (5.13%) Bloomberg
3 467 (4.80%) SAP
4 417 (4.28%) Oracle
5 322 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 251 (2.58%) Google
7 174 (1.79%) VMware
8 164 (1.68%) Cisco
9 132 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 130 (1.34%) Databricks
11 125 (1.28%) IBM
12 98 (1.01%) NEC
13 96 (0.99%) Citrix
14 63 (0.65%) Adobe
15 55 (0.56%) Workday
16 53 (0.54%) Infor
16 53 (0.54%) Red Hat
17 46 (0.47%) Dell
18 45 (0.46%) BISAM
18 45 (0.46%) SolarWinds