Finance Jobs in Kent

Financial
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 85 266 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 10.59% 17.33% 21.32%
As % of the General category 17.42% 32.64% 30.87%
Number of salaries quoted 33 157 80
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,965 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £37,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,100 £87,500 £86,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 488 815 745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 60.77% 53.09% 69.05%
Number of salaries quoted 224 555 284
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.28%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Kent

Finance
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Kent.

Salary trend for Finance in Kent

Finance
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Kent

Finance
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 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
Rochester -21 12 £35,000 -7.89% 3
Chatham -2 8 £83,750 +28.85% 11
Canterbury +6 5 - - 3
Maidstone 0 3 £44,500 -1.11% 13
Greenhithe - 3 - -
Swanley - 2 - - 1
Swanscombe - 2 - -
Westerham +2 1 - -
Tunbridge Wells -8 1 - - 10
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.35%) Infor LN
1 2 (2.35%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.47%) Azure
2 8 (9.41%) AWS
3 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.53%) SaaS
5 2 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.35%) Datadog
5 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.18%) Asana
6 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.18%) GCP
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.18%) Miro
6 1 (1.18%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) ADSL2
1 1 (1.18%) Broadband
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) MySQL
1 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.53%) Power BI
3 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.35%) Tableau
4 1 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) ER Studio
1 3 (3.53%) Git
1 3 (3.53%) PHPUnit
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) Maven
3 1 (1.18%) Selenium
3 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (57.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.00%) Marketing
2 34 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Banking
4 2 (2.35%) General Ledger
4 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.35%) Police
4 2 (2.35%) Retail
4 2 (2.35%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.18%) Local Government
5 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.00%) Business Development Manager
1 34 (40.00%) Business Manager
1 34 (40.00%) Development Manager
2 15 (17.65%) Analyst
3 9 (10.59%) Senior
4 7 (8.24%) Financial Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 5 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) Architect
5 5 (5.88%) Project Analyst
5 5 (5.88%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.71%) Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Lead
6 4 (4.71%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (3.53%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Applications Support
7 3 (3.53%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) CSS
1 6 (7.06%) React
2 5 (5.88%) HTML
2 5 (5.88%) RESTful
3 4 (4.71%) jQuery
4 3 (3.53%) Jest
4 3 (3.53%) Kafka
4 3 (3.53%) LAMP
4 3 (3.53%) Laravel
4 3 (3.53%) REST
5 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.18%) .NET
6 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.18%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.18%) JPA
6 1 (1.18%) Redux
6 1 (1.18%) Spring
6 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.53%) Cyberattack
2 3 (3.53%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.35%) Pricing Data
3 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.18%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.71%) Collaborative Working
2 36 (42.35%) Collaborative Culture
3 34 (40.00%) Business Development
3 34 (40.00%) Facilities Management
3 34 (40.00%) Marketing Strategy
4 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (10.59%) Decision-Making
4 9 (10.59%) Risk Management
5 6 (7.06%) Agile
5 6 (7.06%) Analytics
5 6 (7.06%) DevOps
5 6 (7.06%) ITIL
5 6 (7.06%) Mentoring
5 6 (7.06%) Project Management
5 6 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (5.88%) Data Architecture
6 5 (5.88%) Data Management
6 5 (5.88%) Internal Audit
6 5 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) SQL
2 5 (5.88%) Java
3 4 (4.71%) C#
3 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.71%) PHP
3 4 (4.71%) X++
4 2 (2.35%) Python
5 1 (1.18%) C++
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (5.88%) Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.53%) CISSP
5 2 (2.35%) ACCA
5 2 (2.35%) CIMA
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.35%) GAAP
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) GRC
2 2 (2.35%) IFRS
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.35%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (2.35%) Grafana
1 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) Databricks
3 4 (4.71%) SAP
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.35%) Cognos
5 2 (2.35%) Infor
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Solace