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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,100 1,913 5,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.91% 16.51% 23.33%
As % of the General category 25.86% 27.15% 36.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 1,072 2,199
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,043 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,560 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.68% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £73,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.80% +2.88% +3.85%

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 8,122 7,045 14,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 53.81% 60.80% 64.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,765 4,014 6,830
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,881 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 0 715 £50,000 -9.09% 141
Hampshire +12 457 £55,000 -4.35% 88
Surrey -4 419 £52,500 -19.23% 54
Berkshire 0 346 £55,626 -7.29% 52
Oxfordshire +3 202 £42,500 -2.86% 32
Kent -3 185 £67,500 +22.73% 57
Buckinghamshire -2 167 £50,000 -9.09% 57
East Sussex +7 155 £55,000 +15.79% 20
Middlesex +13 87 - -
West Sussex -8 67 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Sussex - 5 £110,000 - 1
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 83 (3.95%) SAS
2 23 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.62%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.38%) IIS
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.24%) CMS
8 5 (0.24%) Confluence
8 5 (0.24%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.048%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.048%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.048%) TPMS
11 1 (0.048%) WildFly
11 1 (0.048%) WordPress
Applications
1 466 (22.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 224 (10.67%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.33%) OrCAD
6 7 (0.33%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.24%) SPSS
9 1 (0.048%) Doxygen
9 1 (0.048%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.048%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 75 (3.57%) SAP ERP
2 28 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 16 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
6 10 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
7 9 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.29%) Pegasus Opera
9 6 (0.29%) Primavera
9 6 (0.29%) Sage 50
9 6 (0.29%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Sage 200
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 279 (13.29%) Azure
2 117 (5.57%) AWS
3 111 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 80 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (3.00%) SaaS
6 49 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (1.24%) GCP
9 23 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (1.10%) IaaS
10 20 (0.95%) GitHub
11 15 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (0.71%) Snowflake
12 14 (0.67%) Serverless
13 13 (0.62%) Nutanix
13 13 (0.62%) PaaS
14 12 (0.57%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.52%) Intacct
16 10 (0.48%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 291 (13.86%) Broadband
2 36 (1.71%) Firewall
3 33 (1.57%) Network Security
4 29 (1.38%) Internet
5 24 (1.14%) DNS
6 20 (0.95%) 5G
7 19 (0.90%) WAN
8 16 (0.76%) VPN
9 15 (0.71%) LAN
9 15 (0.71%) Wireless
10 10 (0.48%) BGP
10 10 (0.48%) HTTP
10 10 (0.48%) SNMP
11 9 (0.43%) Intranet
11 9 (0.43%) Modbus
12 8 (0.38%) VLAN
13 7 (0.33%) 3G
13 7 (0.33%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.33%) OSPF
13 7 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.43%) Power BI
2 64 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 44 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.48%) Power Query
6 29 (1.38%) Tableau
7 21 (1.00%) MySQL
8 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 18 (0.86%) Metadata
10 16 (0.76%) Oracle Database
10 16 (0.76%) Relational Database
11 15 (0.71%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.57%) DB2
13 12 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (0.52%) Redis
15 9 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.38%) MS Access
16 8 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 91 (4.33%) Git
2 42 (2.00%) Visual Studio
3 37 (1.76%) JIRA
4 26 (1.24%) Selenium
5 17 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 13 (0.62%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.48%) MSBuild
7 10 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
7 10 (0.48%) PHPUnit
8 9 (0.43%) AdminStudio
8 9 (0.43%) InstallShield
8 9 (0.43%) MSI
9 8 (0.38%) Jasmine
9 8 (0.38%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.33%) Maven
10 7 (0.33%) NUnit
10 7 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.33%) Subversion
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 873 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 595 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 296 (14.10%) Marketing
4 232 (11.05%) Influencing Skills
5 230 (10.95%) Retail
6 143 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 137 (6.52%) Legal
8 90 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 82 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 79 (3.76%) Public Sector
11 68 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
13 47 (2.24%) Electronics
14 40 (1.90%) Banking
15 38 (1.81%) Law
16 33 (1.57%) Local Government
17 28 (1.33%) Billing
18 24 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 23 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
20 22 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 421 (20.05%) Analyst
2 392 (18.67%) Senior
3 229 (10.90%) Developer
4 163 (7.76%) Senior Analyst
5 156 (7.43%) Architect
6 148 (7.05%) Lead
7 128 (6.10%) Development Manager
8 118 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (4.52%) Project Manager
10 90 (4.29%) Financial Analyst
11 84 (4.00%) IT Manager
12 80 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 78 (3.71%) Consultant
14 58 (2.76%) .NET Developer
14 58 (2.76%) Commercial Analyst
15 53 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 53 (2.52%) Software Developer
16 51 (2.43%) Support Engineer
17 43 (2.05%) C# Developer
18 39 (1.86%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (6.33%) .NET
2 71 (3.38%) HTML
3 60 (2.86%) CSS
4 55 (2.62%) React
5 53 (2.52%) .NET Core
6 50 (2.38%) .NET Framework
7 49 (2.33%) REST
8 48 (2.29%) Kafka
9 45 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
10 41 (1.95%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.90%) ASP.NET
12 37 (1.76%) GraphQL
12 37 (1.76%) Web Services
13 32 (1.52%) HTML5
14 30 (1.43%) gRPC
15 27 (1.29%) Entity Framework
16 25 (1.19%) JSON
17 21 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
17 21 (1.00%) Blazor
18 18 (0.86%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
2 65 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 43 (2.05%) Onboarding
3 43 (2.05%) PMI
4 38 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.57%) NHS
6 29 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 28 (1.33%) IoT
8 23 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 21 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (0.90%) Clustering
10 19 (0.90%) PKI
11 18 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 17 (0.81%) Cybercrime
12 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.71%) Life Science
14 14 (0.67%) Digital Media
15 13 (0.62%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.57%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 167 (7.95%) Windows
2 64 (3.05%) Windows Server
3 46 (2.19%) Linux
4 33 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (0.67%) Android
7 13 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.48%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.43%) Windows NT
10 6 (0.29%) VMS
11 5 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.24%) Unix
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.095%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.095%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (33.38%) Agile
2 338 (16.10%) Decision-Making
3 323 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 310 (14.76%) Mentoring
5 285 (13.57%) Data Management
6 254 (12.10%) Budgeting
7 239 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
8 232 (11.05%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 229 (10.90%) Business Case
10 216 (10.29%) Project Management
11 184 (8.76%) Business Development
11 184 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 179 (8.52%) Customer Requirements
13 171 (8.14%) ERP
14 169 (8.05%) Roadmaps
15 156 (7.43%) Commercial Awareness
16 155 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
17 142 (6.76%) Financial Modelling
18 141 (6.71%) CAD
18 141 (6.71%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 214 (10.19%) SQL
2 141 (6.71%) C#
3 93 (4.43%) Python
4 88 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 61 (2.90%) Java
6 57 (2.71%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.14%) Go
8 29 (1.38%) C
8 29 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 28 (1.33%) VB
10 27 (1.29%) C++
10 27 (1.29%) PHP
11 20 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 18 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.76%) ActionScript
14 15 (0.71%) Bash
14 15 (0.71%) R
15 14 (0.67%) Perl
16 13 (0.62%) Bicep
17 11 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 388 (18.48%) Degree
2 260 (12.38%) ACCA
3 219 (10.43%) CIMA
4 98 (4.67%) Security Cleared
5 65 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 58 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 56 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (2.38%) SC Cleared
9 46 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 41 (1.95%) DBS Check
11 36 (1.71%) MBA
12 32 (1.52%) CISSP
13 25 (1.19%) PMP
14 18 (0.86%) CISM
15 17 (0.81%) CRISC
16 12 (0.57%) PhD
17 11 (0.52%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.48%) GIAC
19 9 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.38%) SLA
2 58 (2.76%) QA
3 54 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.57%) GDPR
4 28 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.19%) IFRS
6 21 (1.00%) PMO
7 18 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.81%) NIST
9 16 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.71%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.67%) GRC
12 9 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.24%) COBIT
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 93 (4.43%) Active Directory
2 77 (3.67%) Docker
3 65 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.10%) vSphere
6 21 (1.00%) Firmware
7 16 (0.76%) OpenSSH
7 16 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.76%) XenApp
8 9 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.095%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.48%) Terraform
3 26 (1.24%) SCCM
4 21 (1.00%) vCenter Server
5 18 (0.86%) WSUS
6 17 (0.81%) IBM BigFix
7 16 (0.76%) PowerCLI
8 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.43%) Sysprep
11 7 (0.33%) Ansible
11 7 (0.33%) MIIS
12 6 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.29%) Nessus
13 5 (0.24%) Grafana
14 4 (0.19%) NetCrunch
15 3 (0.14%) Endace
15 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
15 3 (0.14%) NetBackup
16 2 (0.095%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 642 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 184 (8.76%) SAP
3 138 (6.57%) Oracle
4 80 (3.81%) Anaplan
5 76 (3.62%) Hyperion
6 73 (3.48%) VMware
7 53 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.76%) CA
10 31 (1.48%) Sage
11 28 (1.33%) Cisco
12 20 (0.95%) NEC
13 19 (0.90%) IBM
14 18 (0.86%) Citrix
14 18 (0.86%) Virgin Media
15 17 (0.81%) Google
16 15 (0.71%) Juniper
17 13 (0.62%) HP
18 12 (0.57%) Epicor
19 10 (0.48%) EMC