Finance Jobs 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 897 1,736 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.99% 13.51% 20.05%
As % of the General category 20.75% 24.74% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 500 896 889
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £34,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.73% +2.12%
75th Percentile £68,581 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +2.88%

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 common skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,322 7,016 5,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.61% 54.60% 69.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,083 4,179 3,008
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Finance in the Midlands

Finance
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

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 19 July 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
West Midlands -1 614 £54,000 +0.93% 543
East Midlands -9 280 £52,500 +5.00% 341
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 52 (5.80%) Confluence
2 25 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.22%) Appian
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
6 2 (0.22%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.11%) JBoss
7 1 (0.11%) Mendix
7 1 (0.11%) SAS
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 92 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 22 (2.45%) NetSuite
2 21 (2.34%) Dynamics AX
3 18 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
5 10 (1.11%) Oracle Cash Management
5 10 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (1.00%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.78%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.56%) Exchequer
10 5 (0.56%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.45%) Infor LN
11 4 (0.45%) Magento
11 4 (0.45%) Shopify
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 177 (19.73%) Azure
2 105 (11.71%) AWS
3 86 (9.59%) Power Platform
4 64 (7.13%) GCP
5 35 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (3.57%) SaaS
7 22 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (1.78%) Power Automate
8 16 (1.78%) PowerApps
9 14 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.34%) PaaS
10 12 (1.34%) Snowflake
11 11 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.11%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.11%) IaaS
13 9 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.67%) Google Ads
15 6 (0.67%) OCI
16 5 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.56%) Firewall
2 11 (1.23%) WAN
3 10 (1.11%) LAN
4 9 (1.00%) Intranet
5 7 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.67%) Wireless
7 5 (0.56%) BGP
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.56%) IPsec
7 5 (0.56%) Junos
7 5 (0.56%) MPLS
7 5 (0.56%) VPN
8 4 (0.45%) HTTP
8 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 3 (0.33%) Broadband
9 3 (0.33%) DNS
10 2 (0.22%) Network Security
10 2 (0.22%) VLAN
11 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 77 (8.58%) Power BI
3 30 (3.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (2.45%) Tableau
6 17 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.11%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.89%) Big Data
11 8 (0.89%) GIS
11 8 (0.89%) Relational Database
12 7 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.78%) MySQL
12 7 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.67%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 79 (8.81%) JIRA
2 67 (7.47%) GitLab
3 66 (7.36%) Maven
4 65 (7.25%) Selenium
5 64 (7.13%) Cucumber
5 64 (7.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 63 (7.02%) Bitbucket
6 63 (7.02%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 12 (1.34%) Git
9 6 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.45%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.33%) ERwin
12 2 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
13 1 (0.11%) JMeter
13 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
13 1 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 347 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 154 (17.17%) Retail
3 145 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (13.60%) Marketing
5 120 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 94 (10.48%) Banking
7 77 (8.58%) Legal
8 67 (7.47%) Public Sector
9 63 (7.02%) Law
10 55 (6.13%) Telecoms
11 53 (5.91%) Manufacturing
12 52 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (3.79%) Digital Health
14 33 (3.68%) Financial Institution
15 31 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (2.34%) Games
17 18 (2.01%) Investment Banking
18 16 (1.78%) Corporate Banking
18 16 (1.78%) Local Government
19 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (13.94%) Analyst
2 92 (10.26%) Senior
3 66 (7.36%) Software Engineer
4 61 (6.80%) Developer
5 56 (6.24%) Lead
6 45 (5.02%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.35%) Risk Manager
8 38 (4.24%) Consultant
9 34 (3.79%) Architect
10 32 (3.57%) Business Analyst
11 26 (2.90%) Customer Executive
12 24 (2.68%) Support Analyst
13 22 (2.45%) Administrator
13 22 (2.45%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.12%) Technology Risk Manager
15 18 (2.01%) Graduate
16 17 (1.90%) Financial Analyst
16 17 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (1.78%) IT Manager
17 16 (1.78%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (9.48%) React
2 84 (9.36%) CSS
3 82 (9.14%) HTML
4 72 (8.03%) Spring
5 66 (7.36%) Spring Boot
6 64 (7.13%) Redux
7 63 (7.02%) JPA
7 63 (7.02%) Kafka
8 53 (5.91%) Hibernate
9 33 (3.68%) REST
10 20 (2.23%) .NET
11 19 (2.12%) RESTful
12 18 (2.01%) HTML5
13 17 (1.90%) CSS3
13 17 (1.90%) Sass
14 16 (1.78%) Jest
15 10 (1.11%) SOAP
16 8 (0.89%) jQuery
17 7 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
17 7 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 65 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (6.69%) Management Information System
4 42 (4.68%) Blockchain
5 36 (4.01%) Robotics
6 35 (3.90%) FMCG
7 30 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.67%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.34%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.34%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.00%) NHS
15 8 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.78%) Cyberattack
16 7 (0.78%) Derivative
16 7 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.57%) Windows
2 11 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.67%) Linux
4 3 (0.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) Android
5 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (29.99%) Agile
2 208 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 131 (14.60%) Analytics
6 126 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 123 (13.71%) Project Management
8 110 (12.26%) Mentoring
9 98 (10.93%) ERP
10 97 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 94 (10.48%) Risk Management
12 92 (10.26%) DevOps
12 92 (10.26%) SDLC
13 89 (9.92%) Business Development
14 88 (9.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 84 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
15 84 (9.36%) CI/CD
15 84 (9.36%) Project Delivery
16 81 (9.03%) Front End Development
17 79 (8.81%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 172 (19.18%) SQL
2 91 (10.14%) Java
3 88 (9.81%) JavaScript
4 51 (5.69%) Python
5 30 (3.34%) C#
6 20 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.23%) C++
9 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.89%) Bash
10 8 (0.89%) PHP
10 8 (0.89%) R
11 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.56%) C
14 4 (0.45%) X++
15 2 (0.22%) Go
15 2 (0.22%) Groovy
15 2 (0.22%) VBA
16 1 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (9.70%) Degree
2 50 (5.57%) ACCA
3 25 (2.79%) CIMA
4 23 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 20 (2.23%) CISA
6 19 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.90%) ISACA
8 12 (1.34%) AAT
8 12 (1.34%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.89%) PMP
11 7 (0.78%) CISSP
11 7 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.67%) CCAB
12 6 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.56%) CISM
13 5 (0.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.70%) QA
2 37 (4.12%) ITGC
3 33 (3.68%) GDPR
4 27 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 25 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 21 (2.34%) PMO
7 14 (1.56%) COBIT
8 13 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 13 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (1.34%) SLA
10 8 (0.89%) IFRS
11 5 (0.56%) GAAP
11 5 (0.56%) PMBOK
12 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.33%) GRC
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) NIST
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) COSHH
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 76 (8.47%) Docker
2 17 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 75 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.67%) Terraform
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.11%) Istio
5 1 (0.11%) Marathon
5 1 (0.11%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.47%) Salesforce
3 63 (7.02%) Solace
4 62 (6.91%) SAP
5 51 (5.69%) Oracle
6 19 (2.12%) Google
7 13 (1.45%) Databricks
8 9 (1.00%) Guidewire
8 9 (1.00%) VMware
9 8 (0.89%) Alteryx
9 8 (0.89%) Cisco
10 7 (0.78%) Avaloq
11 6 (0.67%) Civica
11 6 (0.67%) NEC
12 5 (0.56%) Capita
12 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.56%) Juniper
12 5 (0.56%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.45%) Cognos
13 4 (0.45%) Infor