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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 9,720 15,210 19,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.71% 16.93% 23.17%
As % of the General category 28.18% 29.17% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 9,810 11,738
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.55% +1.96%
75th Percentile £98,474 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 34,488 52,134 57,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.93% 58.04% 67.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16,095 36,062 32,007
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 31 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 31 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 4,321 £85,000 +3.03% 6,834
North of England +1 2,007 £57,500 +6.26% 1,306
North West 0 1,385 £58,500 +11.43% 801
South East 0 1,331 £60,000 +14.29% 959
Midlands -4 797 £55,000 +10.00% 720
South West +7 729 £57,443 +9.41% 589
West Midlands -6 518 £55,000 +4.76% 436
Yorkshire +1 446 £57,850 +2.39% 373
East of England +7 424 £50,000 - 310
East Midlands -9 275 £52,500 +10.53% 273
North East -1 175 £55,000 +10.00% 142
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
1 300 (3.09%) Confluence
2 259 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 203 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 176 (1.81%) Apache
5 123 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 110 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 61 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
8 55 (0.57%) CMS
9 29 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 25 (0.26%) SAS
11 22 (0.23%) nginx
12 20 (0.21%) IIS
13 13 (0.13%) IBM Domino
14 11 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 8 (0.082%) Appian
15 8 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.082%) WordPress
16 7 (0.072%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.062%) JBoss
18 5 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 503 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 492 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 428 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 50 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.36%) Maya
7 25 (0.26%) Trello
8 17 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 14 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 13 (0.13%) Sketch
12 10 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
13 6 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
13 6 (0.062%) SPSS
14 5 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 5 (0.051%) InDesign
14 5 (0.051%) Photoshop
15 4 (0.041%) Simulink
15 4 (0.041%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 128 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 117 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 81 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 75 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
5 62 (0.64%) Aladdin
6 50 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 40 (0.41%) thinkFolio
8 34 (0.35%) SAP BPC
9 32 (0.33%) Infor LN
10 30 (0.31%) SAP CO
11 28 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
12 27 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
13 22 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
13 22 (0.23%) Sage 200
14 21 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
15 20 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
16 17 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
16 17 (0.17%) SAP ERP
16 17 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
17 16 (0.16%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,563 (16.08%) Azure
2 1,401 (14.41%) AWS
3 675 (6.94%) GCP
4 533 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 325 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
6 303 (3.12%) SaaS
7 258 (2.65%) dbt
8 254 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
9 198 (2.04%) Serverless
10 195 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 175 (1.80%) Snowflake
12 152 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
13 141 (1.45%) GitHub
14 122 (1.26%) PaaS
15 106 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
16 96 (0.99%) Entra ID
17 93 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
18 85 (0.87%) Miro
19 84 (0.86%) Amazon S3
20 80 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 501 (5.15%) VPN
2 477 (4.91%) DNS
3 198 (2.04%) Firewall
4 100 (1.03%) WAN
5 97 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 96 (0.99%) Network Security
7 86 (0.88%) LAN
8 82 (0.84%) Broadband
9 54 (0.56%) DHCP
10 49 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 47 (0.48%) Wireless
12 45 (0.46%) BGP
12 45 (0.46%) HTTP
13 44 (0.45%) SAN
14 35 (0.36%) VLAN
15 33 (0.34%) Internet
15 33 (0.34%) MPLS
16 27 (0.28%) VoIP
17 26 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
18 24 (0.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 440 (4.53%) Power BI
3 260 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 252 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 248 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
6 235 (2.42%) Apache Iceberg
7 233 (2.40%) Dremio
8 222 (2.28%) Tableau
9 217 (2.23%) Apache Arrow
10 192 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
11 164 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 131 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
12 131 (1.35%) MySQL
13 129 (1.33%) Big Data
14 116 (1.19%) Relational Database
15 100 (1.03%) MongoDB
16 98 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
17 94 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 85 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 75 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 585 (6.02%) JIRA
2 342 (3.52%) Git
3 280 (2.88%) GitLab
4 243 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 242 (2.49%) Maven
5 242 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 236 (2.43%) Selenium
7 228 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 223 (2.29%) Bitbucket
9 166 (1.71%) Jenkins
10 71 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 52 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 47 (0.48%) JUnit
13 31 (0.32%) webpack
14 30 (0.31%) Visual Studio
15 28 (0.29%) Cypress.io
16 25 (0.26%) Mockito
17 24 (0.25%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.20%) Postman
19 18 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3,810 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 2,130 (21.91%) Analytical Skills
3 1,820 (18.72%) Banking
4 1,477 (15.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,120 (11.52%) Marketing
6 697 (7.17%) Law
7 625 (6.43%) Front Office
8 601 (6.18%) Legal
9 563 (5.79%) Financial Institution
10 543 (5.59%) Retail
11 515 (5.30%) Public Sector
12 482 (4.96%) Manufacturing
13 339 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
14 300 (3.09%) German Language
15 299 (3.08%) French Language
16 293 (3.01%) Investment Banking
17 274 (2.82%) Telecoms
18 272 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
19 211 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
20 170 (1.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,530 (15.74%) Analyst
2 1,448 (14.90%) Senior
3 1,250 (12.86%) Developer
4 888 (9.14%) Software Engineer
5 795 (8.18%) Lead
6 565 (5.81%) Project Manager
7 484 (4.98%) Development Manager
8 468 (4.81%) Architect
9 458 (4.71%) Software Developer
10 431 (4.43%) Business Manager
11 384 (3.95%) Senior Manager
12 350 (3.60%) Business Development Manager
13 310 (3.19%) Consultant
14 287 (2.95%) Credit Analyst
15 279 (2.87%) Research Analyst
16 277 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
17 268 (2.76%) Business Analyst
18 253 (2.60%) Python Engineer
19 233 (2.40%) Systems Manager
20 231 (2.38%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (6.36%) React
2 463 (4.76%) Kafka
3 406 (4.18%) CSS
4 397 (4.08%) HTML
5 394 (4.05%) Spring
6 363 (3.73%) Spring Boot
7 330 (3.40%) .NET
8 276 (2.84%) Redux
9 275 (2.83%) REST
10 260 (2.67%) RESTful
11 255 (2.62%) AngularJS
12 220 (2.26%) Node.js
13 205 (2.11%) JPA
14 173 (1.78%) Pandas
15 167 (1.72%) NumPy
16 147 (1.51%) Hibernate
17 145 (1.49%) HTML5
18 141 (1.45%) SciPy
19 137 (1.41%) PySpark
20 135 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 683 (7.03%) Fixed Income
2 593 (6.10%) Product Ownership
3 542 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 468 (4.81%) Cyberattack
5 366 (3.77%) Hedge funds
6 359 (3.69%) Derivative
7 343 (3.53%) Credit Risk
8 330 (3.40%) Equities
8 330 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
9 323 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 309 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
11 266 (2.74%) Cloud Native
12 214 (2.20%) FMCG
13 207 (2.13%) Algorithms
14 187 (1.92%) Onboarding
15 174 (1.79%) Driving Licence
16 117 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
17 108 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
17 108 (1.11%) Public Cloud
18 107 (1.10%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 765 (7.87%) Linux
2 451 (4.64%) Android
3 419 (4.31%) Windows
4 141 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 101 (1.04%) Unix
6 73 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 60 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 44 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 26 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 25 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 22 (0.23%) Windows Vista
13 21 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 20 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
15 19 (0.20%) CentOS
16 17 (0.17%) zOS
17 10 (0.10%) Rocky
18 8 (0.082%) AIX
19 6 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
20 5 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,970 (30.56%) Agile
2 1,859 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
3 1,347 (13.86%) Analytics
4 1,320 (13.58%) Software Engineering
5 1,288 (13.25%) Project Management
6 1,268 (13.05%) Risk Management
7 1,225 (12.60%) Decision-Making
8 1,174 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,160 (11.93%) DevOps
10 1,032 (10.62%) CI/CD
11 951 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 892 (9.18%) Mentoring
13 842 (8.66%) ERP
14 815 (8.38%) Asset Management
15 789 (8.12%) Roadmaps
16 755 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
17 750 (7.72%) Data Management
18 733 (7.54%) Business Development
19 717 (7.38%) Mathematics
20 655 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,745 (17.95%) Python
2 1,426 (14.67%) Java
3 1,338 (13.77%) SQL
4 747 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 605 (6.22%) C++
6 549 (5.65%) Go
7 499 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 373 (3.84%) C#
9 250 (2.57%) PowerShell
10 116 (1.19%) Bash
11 97 (1.00%) C
12 87 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 85 (0.87%) PHP
14 71 (0.73%) R
15 54 (0.56%) Scala
16 49 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 44 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 30 (0.31%) Rust
19 29 (0.30%) Shell Script
20 26 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,901 (19.56%) Degree
2 706 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 513 (5.28%) DV Cleared
4 501 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 293 (3.01%) CFA
6 255 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 228 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 206 (2.12%) CISSP
9 204 (2.10%) DBS Check
10 182 (1.87%) ACCA
11 174 (1.79%) SC Cleared
12 158 (1.63%) CIMA
13 148 (1.52%) PMI Certification
14 140 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
15 116 (1.19%) PMP
16 112 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 106 (1.09%) Azure Certification
18 85 (0.87%) CISA
19 84 (0.86%) CCNA
20 81 (0.83%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 559 (5.75%) QA
2 264 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 230 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 198 (2.04%) GDPR
5 169 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 134 (1.38%) NIST
7 123 (1.27%) PMO
8 122 (1.26%) SLA
9 77 (0.79%) ITGC
10 64 (0.66%) MiFID
11 57 (0.59%) IFRS
12 53 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 47 (0.48%) GRC
14 43 (0.44%) COBIT
15 38 (0.39%) PCI DSS
16 36 (0.37%) GMP
17 34 (0.35%) GAAP
18 33 (0.34%) NCSC
19 30 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
19 30 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 1,048 (10.78%) Docker
2 228 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 117 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.38%) Firmware
6 34 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
9 18 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.13%) vSphere
11 5 (0.051%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.051%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.031%) HDFS
12 3 (0.031%) NFS
12 3 (0.031%) Samba
12 3 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.021%) Postfix
13 2 (0.021%) ProxySG
13 2 (0.021%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.021%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 754 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 568 (5.84%) Ansible
3 388 (3.99%) Terraform
4 106 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 84 (0.86%) Grafana
5 84 (0.86%) SCCM
6 63 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 36 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 34 (0.35%) Nagios
9 28 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (0.27%) Puppet
11 24 (0.25%) Istio
12 17 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
13 15 (0.15%) NetBackup
13 15 (0.15%) SCOM
14 11 (0.11%) CASB
15 10 (0.10%) Argo
16 9 (0.093%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.093%) RSA Archer
17 8 (0.082%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,314 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 495 (5.09%) SAP
3 432 (4.44%) Oracle
4 386 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 340 (3.50%) Bloomberg
6 236 (2.43%) Google
7 208 (2.14%) Solace
8 163 (1.68%) Cisco
9 159 (1.64%) VMware
10 142 (1.46%) Databricks
11 130 (1.34%) ServiceNow
12 101 (1.04%) IBM
13 72 (0.74%) Workday
14 69 (0.71%) Citrix
15 67 (0.69%) Red Hat
16 63 (0.65%) Adobe
17 58 (0.60%) BISAM
18 51 (0.52%) Dell
19 50 (0.51%) SolarWinds
20 48 (0.49%) Charles River