Finance Job Trends 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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,366 1,430 2,340
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 8.69% 16.60% 13.78%
As % of the General category 19.52% 24.70% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 940 485 1,291
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 general skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 6,999 5,790 9,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 44.50% 67.22% 54.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 2,509 5,882
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £25,760
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the South East

Finance
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South East over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
Thames Valley -4 529 £65,000 +8.33% 249
Hampshire -5 284 £54,904 -0.17% 132
Berkshire +1 272 £55,000 -12.00% 120
Surrey -2 243 £60,567 +27.51% 96
Buckinghamshire +11 134 £62,500 +8.70% 77
Kent -9 130 £62,250 +3.75% 65
Oxfordshire -9 123 £70,000 +7.69% 54
West Sussex +2 55 £70,000 +27.27% 56
East Sussex +7 54 £80,000 +33.33% 51
Isle of Wight - 45 £87,200 -
Middlesex -1 12 £61,250 -31.94% 23
Sussex -13 2 - - 38
Home Counties - 2 £80,000 -
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (1.46%) Confluence
2 16 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.81%) Apache
4 7 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.37%) CMS
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Gentran
9 2 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.073%) IIS
10 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 142 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (1.32%) Simulink
5 12 (0.88%) CATIA
5 12 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.15%) Lectora
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (2.71%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.22%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.22%) Shopify
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 207 (15.15%) Azure
2 104 (7.61%) Power Platform
3 64 (4.69%) SaaS
4 61 (4.47%) AWS
5 48 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.27%) Snowflake
8 27 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.83%) PaaS
10 23 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (1.68%) GCP
11 22 (1.61%) Azure AI
11 22 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
12 19 (1.39%) IaaS
13 18 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.17%) GitHub
15 15 (1.10%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.10%) Serverless
16 11 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (0.66%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.10%) Broadband
2 14 (1.02%) Firewall
3 13 (0.95%) VPN
4 12 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (0.81%) DNS
5 11 (0.81%) WAN
5 11 (0.81%) Wireless
6 10 (0.73%) HTTP
7 6 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (0.44%) LAN
7 6 (0.44%) Network Security
7 6 (0.44%) SMS
8 5 (0.37%) BGP
8 5 (0.37%) Internet
8 5 (0.37%) MPLS
8 5 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.37%) SNMP
9 4 (0.29%) RFID
9 4 (0.29%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.78%) Power BI
2 54 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 31 (2.27%) Tableau
4 27 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (0.81%) MySQL
8 11 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.59%) Metadata
11 7 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.37%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 69 (5.05%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (2.12%) JIRA
3 13 (0.95%) Git
4 5 (0.37%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Selenium
6 3 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.15%) Apache Continuum
7 2 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.15%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.073%) Gatling
8 1 (0.073%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.073%) JMeter
8 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.073%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
General
1 376 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 266 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
3 178 (13.03%) Aerospace
4 84 (6.15%) Marketing
5 79 (5.78%) Retail
6 74 (5.42%) Legal
7 59 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.95%) Electronics
9 51 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 49 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 44 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 42 (3.07%) Banking
14 39 (2.86%) Public Sector
15 29 (2.12%) Japanese Language
16 24 (1.76%) Law
17 23 (1.68%) Italian Language
17 23 (1.68%) Military
18 22 (1.61%) Automotive
19 20 (1.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 211 (15.45%) Analyst
2 167 (12.23%) Senior
3 119 (8.71%) Systems Engineer
4 92 (6.73%) Lead
5 73 (5.34%) Developer
6 66 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
7 52 (3.81%) Architect
7 52 (3.81%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 49 (3.59%) Business Manager
9 48 (3.51%) Development Manager
10 46 (3.37%) Financial Analyst
11 45 (3.29%) Data Analyst
12 43 (3.15%) Support Analyst
13 42 (3.07%) Business Development Manager
14 41 (3.00%) Project Manager
15 39 (2.86%) Finance Manager
16 38 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.64%) Senior Manager
17 36 (2.64%) Systems Analyst
18 35 (2.56%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.34%) .NET
2 26 (1.90%) .NET Core
3 25 (1.83%) ASP.NET
4 20 (1.46%) .NET Framework
5 19 (1.39%) React
6 17 (1.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (1.24%) Node.js
7 15 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 13 (0.95%) CSS
8 13 (0.95%) REST
8 13 (0.95%) Vue
9 12 (0.88%) Middleware
10 11 (0.81%) AngularJS
10 11 (0.81%) Blazor
10 11 (0.81%) HTML
11 10 (0.73%) YAML
12 9 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (0.59%) SOAP
14 7 (0.51%) jQuery
14 7 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (3.07%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.05%) Driving Licence
7 19 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 19 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.32%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.95%) FMCG
12 12 (0.88%) Credit Risk
12 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.73%) FPGA
13 10 (0.73%) PKI
13 10 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.59%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.81%) Windows
2 33 (2.42%) Linux
3 16 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 239 (17.50%) Decision-Making
3 209 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (14.49%) Agile
5 133 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 125 (9.15%) DevOps
7 117 (8.57%) AI
8 108 (7.91%) ERP
9 103 (7.54%) Roadmaps
10 102 (7.47%) Change Management
11 101 (7.39%) Systems Engineering
12 94 (6.88%) Process Improvement
13 91 (6.66%) Business Intelligence
13 91 (6.66%) Cybersecurity
14 90 (6.59%) Project Management
14 90 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 84 (6.15%) Project Delivery
16 79 (5.78%) Software Engineering
17 77 (5.64%) Analytics
18 76 (5.56%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 205 (15.01%) SQL
2 86 (6.30%) C#
3 85 (6.22%) Python
4 43 (3.15%) C++
5 32 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 30 (2.20%) Java
7 23 (1.68%) MATLAB
8 21 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.17%) Bicep
10 14 (1.02%) PHP
11 10 (0.73%) VBA
12 9 (0.66%) Bash
13 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.37%) Ruby
15 4 (0.29%) C
15 4 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.22%) Go
16 3 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 204 (14.93%) Degree
2 178 (13.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 99 (7.25%) ACCA
4 92 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 82 (6.00%) CIMA
6 41 (3.00%) Chartered Engineer
7 36 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.64%) SC Cleared
8 23 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.61%) ICAEW
10 16 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.10%) CISSP
12 14 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.95%) AAT
13 13 (0.95%) HND
14 11 (0.81%) HNC
14 11 (0.81%) PMP
15 9 (0.66%) CISM
16 8 (0.59%) CIPD
16 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 37 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (2.71%) SLA
3 33 (2.42%) GDPR
4 26 (1.90%) IFRS
5 23 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 23 (1.68%) PMO
6 22 (1.61%) NIST
7 16 (1.17%) QA
8 10 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.59%) NCSC
11 7 (0.51%) GAAP
12 6 (0.44%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.44%) ECSS
13 5 (0.37%) ITGC
14 4 (0.29%) GRC
14 4 (0.29%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.34%) Docker
3 31 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Squid
7 2 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (3.29%) Terraform
2 33 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.81%) SCCM
5 7 (0.51%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Endace
6 5 (0.37%) vRealize
7 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.22%) Grafana
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) Scalr
9 2 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.15%) QRadar
9 2 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.073%) Podman
10 1 (0.073%) Puppet
10 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.073%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.073%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.03%) Oracle
3 54 (3.95%) SAP
4 38 (2.78%) IBM
5 30 (2.20%) Databricks
5 30 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.12%) Sage
7 20 (1.46%) Google
8 17 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
9 16 (1.17%) Siemens
10 15 (1.10%) Cisco
10 15 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.02%) VMware
12 10 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.73%) Xilinx
13 9 (0.66%) Adobe
13 9 (0.66%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.66%) Hyperion
13 9 (0.66%) Qualys
14 8 (0.59%) Infor