Finance Jobs in the South East

Financial
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,324 2,326 2,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.74% 13.26% 17.51%
As % of the General category 20.07% 23.68% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 400 1,292 1,180
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,300 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,970 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.55% +1.96%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,596 9,822 8,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.46% 56.00% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 6,125 4,315
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the South East

Finance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +6 589 £60,000 +26.32% 2,977
Berkshire +5 310 £62,500 +17.34% 2,095
Surrey +1 230 £50,300 -4.19% 610
Hampshire -2 207 £60,000 +9.09% 852
Oxfordshire +11 175 £60,000 +41.18% 315
Middlesex +1 145 £90,000 +16.13% 2
Buckinghamshire -14 106 £57,500 +15.00% 578
Kent -8 86 £60,000 +16.50% 555
East Sussex -23 26 £70,000 +33.33% 281
West Sussex -3 24 £57,500 +9.52% 280
Isle of Wight - 10 £60,000 -
Sussex +20 5 £59,500 -43.33% 12
Home Counties +2 1 £60,000 +25.00%
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.59%) CMS
3 20 (1.51%) Confluence
4 15 (1.13%) Oracle Application Server
5 13 (0.98%) IBM Domino
6 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.23%) Apache
8 3 (0.23%) Kentico
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.076%) GemFire
Applications
1 61 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.38%) Trello
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.23%) Simulink
5 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.076%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 23 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
2 17 (1.28%) SAP FI
3 16 (1.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 15 (1.13%) NetSuite
4 15 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 12 (0.91%) Sage 200
6 11 (0.83%) Sage CRM
7 8 (0.60%) Infor LN
7 8 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.60%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.53%) Q-Pulse
8 7 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
9 6 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.38%) PeopleSoft Financials
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 176 (13.29%) Azure
2 71 (5.36%) Power Platform
3 47 (3.55%) SaaS
4 45 (3.40%) AWS
4 45 (3.40%) PaaS
5 44 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (1.81%) GCP
9 17 (1.28%) iPaaS
10 11 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (0.76%) Asana
11 10 (0.76%) Azure Functions
11 10 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 10 (0.76%) Miro
11 10 (0.76%) Serverless
12 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.53%) IBM Watson
14 6 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.51%) Software-Defined Radio
2 18 (1.36%) Wireless
3 14 (1.06%) VoIP
4 10 (0.76%) Broadband
4 10 (0.76%) Firewall
5 8 (0.60%) IPsec
5 8 (0.60%) Junos
5 8 (0.60%) LAN
5 8 (0.60%) WAN
6 6 (0.45%) BGP
7 5 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (0.38%) MPLS
8 4 (0.30%) VLAN
8 4 (0.30%) VPN
9 3 (0.23%) SAN
9 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.15%) DNS
10 2 (0.15%) Intranet
10 2 (0.15%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (4.68%) Power BI
2 42 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
5 16 (1.21%) Tableau
6 15 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.91%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.68%) MySQL
9 7 (0.53%) QlikView
10 5 (0.38%) Big Data
11 4 (0.30%) Couchbase
11 4 (0.30%) DTS
11 4 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.23%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.23%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.23%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.15%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (3.02%) JIRA
2 17 (1.28%) Git
3 14 (1.06%) Selenium
4 13 (0.98%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.60%) GitLab
7 8 (0.60%) Maven
7 8 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.23%) MLflow
8 3 (0.23%) NUnit
8 3 (0.23%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.15%) Babel
9 2 (0.15%) git-flow
9 2 (0.15%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.15%) rollup.js
General
1 728 (54.98%) Social Skills
2 239 (18.05%) Marketing
3 185 (13.97%) Law
4 167 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 154 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 127 (9.59%) Legal
7 65 (4.91%) Manufacturing
8 62 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (4.23%) Telecoms
10 51 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (3.78%) Retail
12 41 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (3.02%) Banking
14 29 (2.19%) Advertising
15 24 (1.81%) Military
16 23 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.51%) Electronics
17 20 (1.51%) Games
18 18 (1.36%) General Ledger
19 12 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 194 (14.65%) Systems Manager
2 191 (14.43%) Resource Manager
3 173 (13.07%) Senior
4 160 (12.08%) Analyst
5 138 (10.42%) Business Manager
6 133 (10.05%) Business Development Manager
6 133 (10.05%) Development Manager
7 103 (7.78%) Lead
8 99 (7.48%) Project Manager
9 72 (5.44%) Senior Manager
10 70 (5.29%) Architect
11 62 (4.68%) Financial Analyst
12 55 (4.15%) Developer
13 49 (3.70%) Support Analyst
14 44 (3.32%) Software Engineer
15 36 (2.72%) IT Manager
16 28 (2.11%) Product Manager
16 28 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
17 27 (2.04%) Business Analyst
18 24 (1.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.32%) .NET
2 32 (2.42%) HTML
3 25 (1.89%) CSS
4 24 (1.81%) .NET Framework
5 22 (1.66%) React
6 18 (1.36%) Kafka
7 16 (1.21%) REST
7 16 (1.21%) YAML
8 14 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 14 (1.06%) TensorFlow
9 13 (0.98%) Blazor
10 12 (0.91%) HTML5
11 11 (0.83%) Hugging Face
11 11 (0.83%) LangChain
11 11 (0.83%) Spring
11 11 (0.83%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.68%) RESTful
12 9 (0.68%) XML
13 8 (0.60%) Hibernate
13 8 (0.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 54 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (3.40%) e-Learning
3 44 (3.32%) FMCG
4 43 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 41 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.02%) Driving Licence
7 33 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 19 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.44%) PMI
11 17 (1.28%) MicroBlaze
11 17 (1.28%) RISC-V
12 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.98%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.96%) Windows
2 19 (1.44%) Linux
3 17 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
4 16 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.45%) Unix
7 2 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.076%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (23.04%) ERP
2 303 (22.89%) Analytics
3 280 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 258 (19.49%) Agile
5 249 (18.81%) Data Management
6 215 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (15.94%) Project Management
8 172 (12.99%) Mentoring
9 163 (12.31%) Coaching
10 162 (12.24%) Business Development
11 155 (11.71%) Collaborative Working
12 140 (10.57%) Facilities Management
13 137 (10.35%) Collaborative Culture
13 137 (10.35%) Marketing Strategy
14 120 (9.06%) DevOps
15 115 (8.69%) Decision-Making
16 108 (8.16%) Creative Thinking
17 106 (8.01%) Risk Management
18 97 (7.33%) Customer Service
18 97 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (8.23%) SQL
2 55 (4.15%) Python
3 42 (3.17%) Java
4 39 (2.95%) C#
5 31 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.81%) C++
7 21 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.36%) C
9 13 (0.98%) R
10 11 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.83%) Scala
11 8 (0.60%) X++
12 7 (0.53%) PHP
12 7 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.38%) Bicep
14 4 (0.30%) Clojure
14 4 (0.30%) Elixir
14 4 (0.30%) Rust
15 3 (0.23%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 197 (14.88%) Degree
2 68 (5.14%) Master's Degree
3 67 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 44 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.02%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.57%) ACCA
9 30 (2.27%) DBS Check
10 29 (2.19%) CIMA
11 28 (2.11%) PMP
12 23 (1.74%) CISSP
13 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.68%) CCNP
14 9 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.60%) CCNA
15 8 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.53%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.53%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.38%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.42%) GDPR
4 24 (1.81%) QA
5 23 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.36%) NIST
7 15 (1.13%) NCSC
8 14 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.83%) SLA
10 10 (0.76%) PMO
11 8 (0.60%) GAAP
11 8 (0.60%) IFRS
12 7 (0.53%) GRC
13 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.23%) COBIT
14 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.23%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (2.19%) Docker
2 21 (1.59%) Firmware
3 18 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.15%) HDFS
8 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.98%) Grafana
2 13 (0.98%) Prometheus
3 9 (0.68%) Terraform
4 8 (0.60%) Ansible
5 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.38%) CASB
7 3 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.076%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.076%) Nessus
8 1 (0.076%) Netcool
8 1 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 213 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.72%) SAP
3 56 (4.23%) Oracle
4 39 (2.95%) Workday
5 29 (2.19%) IBM
5 29 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 22 (1.66%) Concur
7 21 (1.59%) Databricks
7 21 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.13%) Sparx
9 13 (0.98%) Infor
9 13 (0.98%) Sage
10 11 (0.83%) Cognos
10 11 (0.83%) Dell
10 11 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.76%) Anaplan
11 10 (0.76%) Google
12 9 (0.68%) BT
12 9 (0.68%) Cisco
12 9 (0.68%) Juniper