Finance Job Trends in the Midlands

Financial
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,080 803 1,758
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 8.59% 15.87% 13.28%
As % of the General category 19.17% 24.05% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 674 439 1,083
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,450 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,752 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,938 £68,638 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% +7.69% -6.05%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 general skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 5,634 3,339 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.83% 66.00% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 1,723 4,829
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,208 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,335 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £64,500 £63,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,725
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Finance job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Finance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
West Midlands -5 686 £55,000 - 298
East Midlands -1 390 £55,000 +10.00% 172
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.93%) Confluence
3 9 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.28%) CMS
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (1.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 17 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
4 15 (1.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 13 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.83%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 8 (0.74%) Elite 3E
7 8 (0.74%) Sage 200
8 7 (0.65%) Sage 50
8 7 (0.65%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.56%) Magento
9 6 (0.56%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.46%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.46%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.37%) Exchequer
12 3 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 141 (13.06%) Azure
2 73 (6.76%) Power Platform
3 63 (5.83%) AWS
4 46 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (2.78%) SaaS
6 22 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (1.85%) Entra ID
9 17 (1.57%) GCP
10 12 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 12 (1.11%) PowerApps
11 11 (1.02%) IaaS
11 11 (1.02%) PaaS
12 9 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.65%) Snowflake
14 6 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.39%) Firewall
2 8 (0.74%) Internet
3 7 (0.65%) Broadband
4 6 (0.56%) DNS
4 6 (0.56%) Network Security
4 6 (0.56%) VPN
5 5 (0.46%) DHCP
5 5 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.37%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (0.37%) MQTT
6 4 (0.37%) Wireless
7 3 (0.28%) LAN
7 3 (0.28%) SSL
7 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.093%) SAN
8 1 (0.093%) SMS
8 1 (0.093%) SNMP
8 1 (0.093%) VoIP
8 1 (0.093%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.65%) Power BI
2 34 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.76%) Data Lake
4 13 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.20%) Tableau
5 11 (1.02%) Data Mining
6 9 (0.83%) MySQL
7 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
7 7 (0.65%) Power Query
7 7 (0.65%) Star Schema
8 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.46%) GIS
9 5 (0.46%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.37%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.19%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (1.39%) JUnit
2 13 (1.20%) Git
2 13 (1.20%) JIRA
2 13 (1.20%) Maven
2 13 (1.20%) Mockito
3 9 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.56%) Gatling
4 6 (0.56%) Selenium
5 4 (0.37%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.19%) GitLab
6 2 (0.19%) Postman
6 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.093%) Appium
7 1 (0.093%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 279 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 163 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (7.87%) Legal
5 63 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 62 (5.74%) Manufacturing
7 61 (5.65%) Law
8 56 (5.19%) Retail
9 55 (5.09%) Banking
10 54 (5.00%) Marketing
11 38 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 23 (2.13%) Military
14 19 (1.76%) General Ledger
14 19 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.67%) Back Office
16 13 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.83%) Games
19 7 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 171 (15.83%) Analyst
2 137 (12.69%) Senior
3 112 (10.37%) Developer
4 110 (10.19%) Lead
5 74 (6.85%) Finance Manager
6 58 (5.37%) Business Analyst
7 56 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
8 54 (5.00%) Facilities Engineer
9 51 (4.72%) Accountant
10 45 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
11 44 (4.07%) Consultant
11 44 (4.07%) Systems Manager
12 40 (3.70%) Systems Accountant
13 38 (3.52%) Senior Manager
14 37 (3.43%) Architect
14 37 (3.43%) Data Scientist
15 36 (3.33%) Finance Systems Manager
16 35 (3.24%) Data Analyst
17 34 (3.15%) Project Manager
18 31 (2.87%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.69%) Hugging Face
2 22 (2.04%) REST
3 20 (1.85%) PyTorch
3 20 (1.85%) TensorFlow
4 19 (1.76%) .NET
5 14 (1.30%) CSS
5 14 (1.30%) React
6 11 (1.02%) EDI
6 11 (1.02%) Playwright
7 10 (0.93%) Pandas
8 9 (0.83%) HTML
8 9 (0.83%) Matplotlib
8 9 (0.83%) NumPy
8 9 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.83%) scikit-learn
8 9 (0.83%) Spring
8 9 (0.83%) Streamlit
9 7 (0.65%) RESTful
10 6 (0.56%) jQuery
10 6 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 38 (3.52%) Driving Licence
3 30 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 10 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.65%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.56%) IoT
15 6 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.56%) Security Posture
15 6 (0.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.85%) Windows
2 19 (1.76%) Linux
3 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Solaris
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (16.85%) Agile
2 161 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (14.63%) Mentoring
5 148 (13.70%) Analytics
6 134 (12.41%) Roadmaps
7 122 (11.30%) AI
7 122 (11.30%) ERP
8 120 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 98 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 97 (8.98%) Project Management
11 95 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 89 (8.24%) Actionable Insight
13 77 (7.13%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (6.67%) CRM
15 60 (5.56%) Machine Learning
16 58 (5.37%) Coaching
17 57 (5.28%) Inventory Management
18 56 (5.19%) Preventative Maintenance
19 53 (4.91%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 146 (13.52%) SQL
2 103 (9.54%) Python
3 33 (3.06%) C#
4 26 (2.41%) Java
5 23 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.39%) PHP
7 14 (1.30%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (0.83%) Bash
10 8 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.46%) C++
12 5 (0.46%) R
13 4 (0.37%) ABAP
13 4 (0.37%) C
14 3 (0.28%) Bicep
15 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.19%) RPG
15 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (8.24%) Degree
2 54 (5.00%) City & Guilds
2 54 (5.00%) NVQ Level 3
2 54 (5.00%) Postgraduate
3 52 (4.81%) CIMA
4 51 (4.72%) ACCA
5 45 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 26 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 18 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 13 (1.20%) CISSP
9 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.02%) PMP
12 9 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.83%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.83%) CISA
13 8 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.00%) COSHH
2 49 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.80%) QA
4 35 (3.24%) GDPR
5 17 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.39%) SLA
7 12 (1.11%) NIST
7 12 (1.11%) PMO
8 7 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.65%) ITGC
9 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.46%) GRC
10 5 (0.46%) PERC
11 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) P3O
13 2 (0.19%) WCAG
14 1 (0.093%) COBIT
14 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.85%) Docker
3 12 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.56%) vSphere
5 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.093%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 18 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.83%) Terraform
3 4 (0.37%) Galera Cluster
3 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.093%) Ansible
6 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.093%) MOM
Vendors
1 135 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.11%) Oracle
3 38 (3.52%) SAP
4 26 (2.41%) Sage
5 24 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 20 (1.85%) Databricks
7 16 (1.48%) HubSpot
7 16 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 16 (1.48%) Workday
8 14 (1.30%) Google
8 14 (1.30%) IBM
9 13 (1.20%) VMware
10 11 (1.02%) Aderant
10 11 (1.02%) Cognos
10 11 (1.02%) Zoho
11 9 (0.83%) Xero
12 7 (0.65%) Cisco
12 7 (0.65%) Planon
13 6 (0.56%) HP
14 5 (0.46%) Juniper