Financial Analyst Jobs in England

Finance Analyst
UK > England

The median Finance Analyst salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 389 568
Rank change year-on-year -68 +179 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 245 567 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.66% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.70% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 141 301 221
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst in England.

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in England

Financial Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 -57 103 £75,000 - 127
South East +61 59 £35,000 -30.00% 32
North of England +27 56 £52,500 +45.83% 19
North West -7 55 £52,500 +31.25% 16
West Midlands +51 14 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Midlands +49 14 £45,000 -5.26% 10
South West +99 4 £57,500 +15.00% 7
East of England +30 2 £65,000 +25.60% 8
Yorkshire +45 1 - - 1
Financial Analyst
UK

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Financial Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 245 (100.00%) Finance
2 124 (50.61%) Social Skills
3 103 (42.04%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (33.06%) Business Intelligence
6 79 (32.24%) Microsoft Excel
7 75 (30.61%) Decision-Making
8 68 (27.76%) Microsoft
9 67 (27.35%) Power BI
9 67 (27.35%) Power Platform
10 63 (25.71%) Process Improvement
11 55 (22.45%) ERP
12 53 (21.63%) ACCA
12 53 (21.63%) Agile
13 51 (20.82%) CIMA
14 43 (17.55%) SAP
14 43 (17.55%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 43 (17.55%) Budgeting
15 39 (15.92%) Project Management
15 39 (15.92%) Degree
16 38 (15.51%) SQL
16 38 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 36 (14.69%) Law
18 32 (13.06%) Financial Modelling
18 32 (13.06%) Financial Analysis
19 31 (12.65%) Data Analysis
20 30 (12.24%) Roadmaps
20 30 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
21 29 (11.84%) Visualisation
22 25 (10.20%) Management Information System

Financial Analyst Skill Set
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 18 (7.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 79 (32.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (6.94%) SAP FI
1 17 (6.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (6.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 13 (5.31%) NetSuite
4 6 (2.45%) Aladdin
4 6 (2.45%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (2.45%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (1.22%) Fidessa
5 3 (1.22%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 3 (1.22%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.35%) Power Platform
2 18 (7.35%) Azure
3 17 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.67%) AWS
5 6 (2.45%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.22%) SaaS
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.82%) Datadog
9 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) DNS
1 6 (2.45%) Firewall
2 3 (1.22%) DHCP
2 3 (1.22%) FIX Connectivity
2 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.82%) Intranet
3 2 (0.82%) Telnet
4 1 (0.41%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (27.35%) Power BI
2 14 (5.71%) Tableau
3 13 (5.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.86%) Power Query
6 5 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.41%) KDB
9 1 (0.41%) MySQL
9 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.41%) QlikView
9 1 (0.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Git
1 3 (1.22%) JIRA
1 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 245 (100.00%) Finance
2 124 (50.61%) Social Skills
3 103 (42.04%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.69%) Law
5 21 (8.57%) Banking
6 20 (8.16%) Legal
7 18 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (6.53%) Billing
8 16 (6.53%) Front Office
9 7 (2.86%) Publishing
10 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.45%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.45%) Retail
11 5 (2.04%) Marketing
12 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.45%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.41%) IDoc
3 1 (0.41%) LDAP
3 1 (0.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.20%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.76%) Fixed Income
3 18 (7.35%) Derivative
4 16 (6.53%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.90%) Equities
5 12 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.90%) Taxonomies
6 10 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.08%) Social Media
7 6 (2.45%) Housing Association
8 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.22%) Eurex
9 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.82%) FMCG
10 2 (0.82%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.12%) Windows
2 10 (4.08%) Linux
3 7 (2.86%) Unix
4 6 (2.45%) Windows Vista
5 4 (1.63%) CentOS
5 4 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.82%) Rocky
8 1 (0.41%) Solaris
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (33.06%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (30.61%) Decision-Making
4 63 (25.71%) Process Improvement
5 55 (22.45%) ERP
6 53 (21.63%) Agile
7 43 (17.55%) Budgeting
7 43 (17.55%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 39 (15.92%) Project Management
9 38 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.06%) Financial Analysis
10 32 (13.06%) Financial Modelling
11 31 (12.65%) Data Analysis
12 30 (12.24%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.84%) Visualisation
14 22 (8.98%) Business Analysis
15 21 (8.57%) Analytics
15 21 (8.57%) Service Management
16 20 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
16 20 (8.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.51%) SQL
2 22 (8.98%) Python
3 11 (4.49%) T-SQL
4 9 (3.67%) VBA
5 5 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.63%) Bash
7 3 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.82%) R
9 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.41%) Java
9 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.41%) Perl
9 1 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (21.63%) ACCA
2 51 (20.82%) CIMA
3 39 (15.92%) Degree
4 30 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.49%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.27%) AAT
7 6 (2.45%) CCAB
8 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.22%) CISSP
9 3 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.82%) CFA
10 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.82%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CBAP
11 1 (0.41%) MBA
11 1 (0.41%) MOS
11 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.45%) MiFID
3 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.82%) IFRS
3 2 (0.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.41%) GAAP
4 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.63%) Grafana
2 2 (0.82%) Ansible
2 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.55%) SAP
3 18 (7.35%) Oracle
4 13 (5.31%) Aderant
5 12 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.86%) Anaplan
7 6 (2.45%) BISAM
7 6 (2.45%) Concur
7 6 (2.45%) Infor
7 6 (2.45%) Sun
7 6 (2.45%) Workday
8 5 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.63%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.22%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.22%) CQG
10 3 (1.22%) IBM
10 3 (1.22%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.22%) Reuters
10 3 (1.22%) VMware