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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 9,247 14,902 21,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.08% 17.49% 23.05%
As % of the General category 29.78% 29.50% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,170 9,847 12,715
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -6.40% +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 31,047 50,509 63,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 67.42% 59.28% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16,351 35,638 34,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,445 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £83,426
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 1 May 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 1 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
London 0 4,518 £85,000 +6.25% 6,313
North of England +3 1,968 £56,250 +2.27% 1,317
North West +1 1,332 £56,000 +1.82% 798
South East -4 927 £60,000 +20.00% 1,920
Midlands -6 754 £55,000 +10.00% 801
South West +4 648 £57,500 +4.55% 611
West Midlands -7 523 £55,000 +7.21% 480
Yorkshire +2 462 £60,000 +3.51% 371
East of England +4 343 £50,000 +2.04% 428
East Midlands -7 227 £52,500 +10.53% 279
North East +8 173 £56,500 +13.00% 156
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 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 219 (2.37%) Apache
3 216 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 140 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 134 (1.45%) Confluence
6 127 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 61 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 56 (0.61%) CMS
9 39 (0.42%) SAS
10 29 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 23 (0.25%) nginx
12 19 (0.21%) IIS
13 13 (0.14%) IBM Domino
13 13 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 9 (0.097%) Apache Solr
14 9 (0.097%) OpenEdge
15 8 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.065%) WordPress
17 5 (0.054%) Moodle
17 5 (0.054%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 600 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 517 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 445 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
4 89 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.39%) Maya
7 25 (0.27%) Trello
8 20 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 15 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 12 (0.13%) SPSS
12 10 (0.11%) Sketch
13 7 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.076%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.076%) Photoshop
14 6 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 6 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
15 5 (0.054%) InDesign
16 4 (0.043%) Simulink
17 3 (0.032%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 132 (1.43%) NetSuite
1 132 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 75 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 67 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 54 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 52 (0.56%) NEC Housing
6 45 (0.49%) SAP FI
7 32 (0.35%) Infor LN
8 31 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 31 (0.34%) SAP BPC
9 30 (0.32%) thinkFolio
10 25 (0.27%) Shopify
11 24 (0.26%) Ripple
11 24 (0.26%) Ripple XRP
11 24 (0.26%) SAP CO
12 23 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
12 23 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
13 21 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
14 20 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
14 20 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,414 (15.29%) Azure
2 1,250 (13.52%) AWS
3 610 (6.60%) GCP
4 519 (5.61%) Power Platform
5 353 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 298 (3.22%) SaaS
7 293 (3.17%) dbt
8 246 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
9 229 (2.48%) Serverless
10 192 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 181 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 179 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
13 152 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
14 139 (1.50%) GitHub
14 139 (1.50%) PaaS
15 125 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 111 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
17 103 (1.11%) Amazon S3
18 102 (1.10%) Entra ID
18 102 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 492 (5.32%) DNS
2 491 (5.31%) VPN
3 216 (2.34%) Firewall
4 100 (1.08%) Network Security
5 98 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 86 (0.93%) WAN
7 80 (0.87%) LAN
8 69 (0.75%) DHCP
9 52 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (0.52%) SAN
11 46 (0.50%) HTTP
12 39 (0.42%) VLAN
13 38 (0.41%) BGP
14 35 (0.38%) Internet
15 33 (0.36%) Wireless
16 30 (0.32%) IPsec
16 30 (0.32%) MPLS
17 29 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
17 29 (0.31%) VoIP
18 25 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (4.70%) Power BI
2 332 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 319 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 271 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 266 (2.88%) Dremio
6 260 (2.81%) Apache Iceberg
7 242 (2.62%) Tableau
8 236 (2.55%) Apache Arrow
8 236 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
9 177 (1.91%) Apache Ignite
10 171 (1.85%) NoSQL
11 157 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
12 127 (1.37%) MySQL
13 123 (1.33%) Big Data
14 113 (1.22%) Relational Database
15 97 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 95 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
16 95 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 84 (0.91%) MongoDB
18 77 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 341 (3.69%) Git
2 319 (3.45%) JIRA
3 183 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.07%) Artifactory
5 69 (0.75%) GitLab
6 62 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 48 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 46 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 45 (0.49%) Maven
10 42 (0.45%) JUnit
11 36 (0.39%) Selenium
12 35 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 32 (0.35%) Visual Studio
13 32 (0.35%) webpack
14 26 (0.28%) Postman
14 26 (0.28%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.27%) Cypress.io
16 23 (0.25%) Mockito
17 21 (0.23%) Bitbucket
18 17 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,367 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 2,256 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
3 1,790 (19.36%) Banking
4 1,178 (12.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 745 (8.06%) Marketing
6 726 (7.85%) Front Office
7 714 (7.72%) Financial Institution
8 529 (5.72%) Legal
9 471 (5.09%) Law
10 450 (4.87%) Manufacturing
11 446 (4.82%) Retail
12 440 (4.76%) French Language
12 440 (4.76%) German Language
13 353 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
14 310 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
15 301 (3.26%) Public Sector
16 248 (2.68%) Telecoms
17 197 (2.13%) Investment Banking
18 166 (1.80%) Games
19 143 (1.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,660 (17.95%) Analyst
2 1,523 (16.47%) Senior
3 1,232 (13.32%) Developer
4 709 (7.67%) Lead
5 631 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 572 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 488 (5.28%) Architect
8 457 (4.94%) Software Developer
9 432 (4.67%) Credit Analyst
10 421 (4.55%) Research Analyst
11 413 (4.47%) Senior Manager
12 345 (3.73%) Consultant
13 320 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
14 286 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 260 (2.81%) Python Engineer
16 239 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
17 225 (2.43%) Data Engineer
18 218 (2.36%) Development Manager
19 214 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
19 214 (2.31%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (4.38%) React
2 348 (3.76%) .NET
3 255 (2.76%) AngularJS
4 246 (2.66%) Node.js
5 228 (2.47%) Kafka
6 214 (2.31%) CSS
7 211 (2.28%) HTML
8 196 (2.12%) Pandas
9 192 (2.08%) NumPy
10 182 (1.97%) PySpark
11 180 (1.95%) Spring
12 177 (1.91%) Spring Boot
13 160 (1.73%) SciPy
14 152 (1.64%) REST
15 142 (1.54%) RESTful
16 113 (1.22%) gRPC
17 110 (1.19%) Vue
18 106 (1.15%) Redux
19 99 (1.07%) Protocol Buffers
20 90 (0.97%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 887 (9.59%) Fixed Income
2 552 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 501 (5.42%) Credit Risk
4 469 (5.07%) Cyberattack
5 424 (4.59%) Hedge funds
6 387 (4.19%) Derivative
7 371 (4.01%) Equities
8 369 (3.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 364 (3.94%) Product Ownership
10 229 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 220 (2.38%) Algorithms
12 198 (2.14%) FMCG
13 190 (2.05%) Cloud Native
14 181 (1.96%) Driving Licence
14 181 (1.96%) Onboarding
15 122 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 122 (1.32%) Social Media
16 108 (1.17%) Blockchain
17 106 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 103 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 756 (8.18%) Linux
2 524 (5.67%) Windows
3 465 (5.03%) Android
4 170 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 125 (1.35%) Unix
6 100 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 91 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.57%) Windows Vista
9 46 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 31 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 26 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 24 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 24 (0.26%) zOS
13 22 (0.24%) CentOS
14 17 (0.18%) Solaris
15 15 (0.16%) AIX
16 10 (0.11%) Rocky
17 7 (0.076%) VMS
17 7 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,714 (29.35%) Agile
2 1,724 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 1,405 (15.19%) Project Management
4 1,341 (14.50%) Decision-Making
5 1,330 (14.38%) Risk Management
6 1,222 (13.22%) Analytics
7 1,063 (11.50%) Software Engineering
8 1,056 (11.42%) Asset Management
9 993 (10.74%) DevOps
10 872 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 841 (9.09%) Business Strategy
12 823 (8.90%) Mentoring
13 800 (8.65%) Roadmaps
14 797 (8.62%) CI/CD
15 779 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 741 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
17 706 (7.63%) Mathematics
18 645 (6.98%) Line Management
19 619 (6.69%) ERP
20 611 (6.61%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 1,786 (19.31%) Python
2 1,227 (13.27%) Java
3 1,222 (13.22%) SQL
4 614 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 613 (6.63%) C++
6 543 (5.87%) Go
7 401 (4.34%) C#
8 376 (4.07%) TypeScript
9 286 (3.09%) PowerShell
10 122 (1.32%) Bash
11 97 (1.05%) PHP
12 92 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 88 (0.95%) C
14 76 (0.82%) R
15 67 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 55 (0.59%) Scala
17 37 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 31 (0.34%) Rust
18 31 (0.34%) VB.NET
19 29 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,135 (23.09%) Degree
2 645 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 637 (6.89%) Master's Degree
4 488 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 426 (4.61%) CFA
6 292 (3.16%) DBS Check
7 264 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 250 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 219 (2.37%) CISSP
10 166 (1.80%) ACCA
11 154 (1.67%) CIMA
12 143 (1.55%) PMI Certification
13 120 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
14 119 (1.29%) PMP
15 114 (1.23%) SC Cleared
16 105 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
17 104 (1.12%) Azure Certification
18 77 (0.83%) CCNA
19 76 (0.82%) CISA
20 75 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (3.66%) QA
2 263 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 209 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 190 (2.05%) GDPR
5 168 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 131 (1.42%) NIST
7 128 (1.38%) PMO
8 121 (1.31%) SLA
9 86 (0.93%) MiFID
10 70 (0.76%) ITGC
11 69 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 64 (0.69%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.59%) IFRS
14 45 (0.49%) COBIT
15 41 (0.44%) GMP
16 37 (0.40%) GRC
17 35 (0.38%) GAAP
18 33 (0.36%) NEBOSH
19 32 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
20 28 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 892 (9.65%) Docker
2 249 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 127 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 47 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.21%) Firmware
9 12 (0.13%) vSphere
10 5 (0.054%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.054%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.032%) HDFS
11 3 (0.032%) Samba
11 3 (0.032%) Terminal Server
11 3 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.032%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.022%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.022%) Postfix
12 2 (0.022%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.022%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 579 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 566 (6.12%) Ansible
3 405 (4.38%) Terraform
4 109 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 95 (1.03%) SCCM
6 55 (0.59%) Grafana
7 41 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.32%) Puppet
10 28 (0.30%) Istio
10 28 (0.30%) Nagios
11 25 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.24%) CASB
13 16 (0.17%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.16%) WSUS
15 14 (0.15%) SCOM
16 13 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
17 11 (0.12%) vCenter Server
18 8 (0.087%) Red Hat Satellite
18 8 (0.087%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1,297 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 482 (5.21%) Bloomberg
3 470 (5.08%) SAP
4 420 (4.54%) Oracle
5 325 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 251 (2.71%) Google
7 178 (1.92%) VMware
8 166 (1.80%) Cisco
9 134 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 132 (1.43%) Databricks
11 122 (1.32%) IBM
12 94 (1.02%) Citrix
13 77 (0.83%) NEC
14 60 (0.65%) Adobe
15 57 (0.62%) Workday
16 51 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 50 (0.54%) Infor
18 49 (0.53%) BISAM
19 47 (0.51%) SolarWinds
20 44 (0.48%) Dell