Finance Job Trends in Solihull

Financial
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Solihull. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 13 9 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Solihull 10.16% 6.29% 21.88%
As % of the General category 15.66% 9.78% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile - £57,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +52.38% +23.53%
75th Percentile £53,750 £82,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £69,500 - £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £59,764 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.94% +9.52% -4.55%

All General Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 83 92 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Solihull 64.84% 64.34% 72.66%
Number of salaries quoted 44 34 80
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,450 £25,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,813 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £59,063
90th Percentile £96,875 £87,750 £66,250
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Finance job vacancy trend in Solihull

Finance
Salary Trend in Solihull

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in Solihull

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Solihull over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Solihull

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Asana
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) LAN
1 4 (30.77%) MPLS
1 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Billing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Facilities Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Sales Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Auditor
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Auditor
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Applications Support
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Ajax
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) jQuery
1 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) WCF
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Storage Management
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (15.38%) Inventory Management
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Presales
3 2 (15.38%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.69%) API Management
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) MVC
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) City & Guilds
2 2 (15.38%) NVQ Level 3
2 2 (15.38%) Postgraduate
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) COSHH
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
2 4 (30.77%) Meraki
2 4 (30.77%) SonicWALL
2 4 (30.77%) Veeam
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Varonis