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 advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +7
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,189 2,536 4,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.12% 17.36% 20.34%
As % of the General category 23.14% 27.26% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 1,230 2,109
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,300 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,047 £57,500 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -2.29% +12.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,113 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
South East

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,460 9,302 11,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.70% 63.69% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,010 4,489 6,505
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,713 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -6 633 £47,500 -13.64% 289
Surrey -2 478 £52,500 -16.00% 138
Hampshire +7 443 £54,500 -0.91% 157
Berkshire -7 299 £55,000 -8.33% 114
Kent +1 262 £50,000 -9.09% 73
Buckinghamshire -9 174 £48,750 -11.36% 101
East Sussex +7 171 £51,250 -6.82% 46
Oxfordshire +10 160 £44,435 -1.26% 74
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 - 5
West Sussex -8 80 £57,500 -8.00% 27
Sussex -21 5 £105,000 - 1
Home Counties +6 1 £48,000 -26.15%
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 79 (3.61%) SAS
2 29 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.59%) Apache
5 10 (0.46%) Confluence
6 8 (0.37%) nginx
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.27%) CMS
7 6 (0.27%) JBoss
8 4 (0.18%) IIS
8 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.046%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.046%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
Applications
1 351 (16.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.46%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.32%) OrCAD
8 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.18%) Doxygen
9 4 (0.18%) SPSS
10 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.14%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.046%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.046%) Simulink
11 1 (0.046%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 77 (3.52%) SAP ERP
2 28 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.91%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.46%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.46%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.37%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.27%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.18%) Pegasus Opera
11 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
11 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 354 (16.17%) Azure
2 134 (6.12%) Power Platform
3 114 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (5.07%) AWS
5 57 (2.60%) SaaS
6 55 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
8 33 (1.51%) GitHub
9 28 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 24 (1.10%) Serverless
11 20 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (0.91%) Matillion
12 19 (0.87%) IaaS
13 15 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.64%) PaaS
15 13 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.59%) Nutanix
16 12 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (0.55%) OneDrive
17 11 (0.50%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 291 (13.29%) Broadband
2 35 (1.60%) Firewall
3 31 (1.42%) Internet
4 25 (1.14%) Network Security
5 23 (1.05%) VPN
5 23 (1.05%) Wireless
6 22 (1.01%) DNS
7 21 (0.96%) WAN
8 20 (0.91%) 5G
9 17 (0.78%) LAN
10 11 (0.50%) HTTP
10 11 (0.50%) SNMP
11 9 (0.41%) Intranet
12 8 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.32%) Modbus
13 7 (0.32%) SAN
13 7 (0.32%) VoIP
14 6 (0.27%) 4G
14 6 (0.27%) GPRS
14 6 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 114 (5.21%) Power BI
3 61 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 40 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 40 (1.83%) Power Query
7 27 (1.23%) Tableau
8 25 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (0.91%) Metadata
11 16 (0.73%) Relational Database
12 15 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.50%) DB2
13 11 (0.50%) Redis
14 10 (0.46%) GIS
15 9 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.37%) MS Access
16 8 (0.37%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (3.56%) Git
2 51 (2.33%) Visual Studio
3 49 (2.24%) JIRA
4 28 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
5 14 (0.64%) Selenium
6 12 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.32%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.32%) NUnit
10 6 (0.27%) Subversion
11 5 (0.23%) GitLab
11 5 (0.23%) Maven
12 4 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.14%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.091%) Hudson
14 2 (0.091%) MSBuild
14 2 (0.091%) WebDriver
General
1 941 (42.99%) Social Skills
2 531 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 246 (11.24%) Influencing Skills
4 188 (8.59%) Legal
5 184 (8.41%) Retail
6 182 (8.31%) Marketing
7 151 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 140 (6.40%) Public Sector
9 121 (5.53%) Telecoms
10 111 (5.07%) Manufacturing
11 88 (4.02%) Banking
12 73 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (2.83%) Electronics
14 49 (2.24%) Law
15 42 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.10%) Billing
18 24 (1.10%) Local Government
19 23 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 500 (22.84%) Analyst
2 364 (16.63%) Senior
3 242 (11.06%) Developer
4 187 (8.54%) Architect
5 182 (8.31%) Lead
6 169 (7.72%) Senior Analyst
7 123 (5.62%) Project Manager
8 119 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (4.34%) Financial Analyst
10 88 (4.02%) Consultant
11 76 (3.47%) .NET Developer
12 68 (3.11%) Senior Developer
13 65 (2.97%) Commercial Analyst
14 62 (2.83%) IT Manager
15 58 (2.65%) Support Analyst
16 55 (2.51%) Administrator
17 44 (2.01%) C# Developer
18 43 (1.96%) Data Analyst
19 40 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
20 39 (1.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (7.58%) .NET
2 100 (4.57%) React
3 88 (4.02%) HTML
4 65 (2.97%) ASP.NET
5 63 (2.88%) CSS
6 60 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 59 (2.70%) HTML5
8 58 (2.65%) .NET Core
9 56 (2.56%) .NET Framework
10 45 (2.06%) Kafka
11 41 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
12 40 (1.83%) Entity Framework
12 40 (1.83%) REST
13 38 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
13 38 (1.74%) Web Services
14 36 (1.64%) GraphQL
15 32 (1.46%) Blazor
16 31 (1.42%) ASP.NET MVC
16 31 (1.42%) Node.js
16 31 (1.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
2 85 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.47%) PMI
4 42 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 36 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.55%) Cloud Native
7 29 (1.32%) IoT
8 27 (1.23%) Driving Licence
9 21 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 19 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 18 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
12 17 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 17 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.64%) Clustering
13 14 (0.64%) Digital Media
14 13 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.55%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.55%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.76%) Windows
2 66 (3.02%) Linux
3 42 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.10%) Android
5 23 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.37%) VMS
9 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.27%) Unix
11 5 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.091%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.091%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.046%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (29.88%) Agile
2 364 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
3 348 (15.90%) Decision-Making
4 326 (14.89%) Mentoring
5 262 (11.97%) Business Case
6 242 (11.06%) Project Management
7 237 (10.83%) Actionable Insight
8 235 (10.74%) Budgeting
9 221 (10.10%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 207 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 201 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
12 192 (8.77%) Roadmaps
13 185 (8.45%) ERP
14 176 (8.04%) Data Management
15 162 (7.40%) Change Management
16 158 (7.22%) Customer Service
17 134 (6.12%) DevOps
18 126 (5.76%) CRM
19 122 (5.57%) Stakeholder Management
20 121 (5.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (11.42%) SQL
2 161 (7.35%) C#
3 140 (6.40%) JavaScript
4 86 (3.93%) Python
5 80 (3.65%) Java
6 47 (2.15%) T-SQL
7 42 (1.92%) Go
8 38 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 37 (1.69%) C++
10 36 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 34 (1.55%) C
12 14 (0.64%) Bash
13 13 (0.59%) VB
14 12 (0.55%) Bicep
14 12 (0.55%) Perl
14 12 (0.55%) VBA
15 10 (0.46%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.37%) PHP
17 8 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 401 (18.32%) Degree
2 252 (11.51%) ACCA
3 236 (10.78%) CIMA
4 73 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 55 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 50 (2.28%) DBS Check
6 50 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 47 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.64%) MBA
9 34 (1.55%) CISSP
10 26 (1.19%) SC Cleared
11 24 (1.10%) PMP
12 19 (0.87%) PhD
13 13 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.55%) CFA
14 12 (0.55%) CISM
15 11 (0.50%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.50%) CRISC
15 11 (0.50%) GIAC
15 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.34%) GDPR
2 78 (3.56%) QA
3 72 (3.29%) SLA
4 47 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 39 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.23%) IFRS
7 23 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.01%) PMO
9 19 (0.87%) NIST
10 16 (0.73%) GRC
11 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.41%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.37%) GMP
16 7 (0.32%) COBIT
17 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.18%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 65 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.65%) Docker
2 58 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 16 (0.73%) vSphere
5 12 (0.55%) Firmware
6 11 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.46%) OpenSSH
7 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.46%) XenApp
8 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.046%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (1.14%) Terraform
2 24 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.69%) vCenter Server
4 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.50%) IBM BigFix
6 10 (0.46%) PowerCLI
7 9 (0.41%) SCCM
8 7 (0.32%) Ansible
8 7 (0.32%) MIIS
9 6 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.27%) Nessus
9 6 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.23%) Endace
11 4 (0.18%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.14%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.14%) NetCrunch
13 2 (0.091%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.046%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.046%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 596 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 217 (9.91%) SAP
3 129 (5.89%) Oracle
4 78 (3.56%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.52%) Hyperion
6 73 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.97%) VMware
8 33 (1.51%) Databricks
8 33 (1.51%) Sage
9 29 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.19%) Cisco
11 20 (0.91%) CA
12 18 (0.82%) Virgin Media
13 17 (0.78%) BT
13 17 (0.78%) NEC
14 16 (0.73%) IBM
15 15 (0.69%) Citrix
15 15 (0.69%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.55%) Google
17 11 (0.50%) EMC