Finance Jobs in the South West

Financial
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 5 5 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Finance 921 1,667 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.47% 20.61% 16.24%
As % of the General category 34.97% 31.18% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 610 1,034 863
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,874 £38,500 £41,030
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £71,248 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,539 £86,250 £81,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,634 5,347 4,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 55.69% 66.10% 57.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 2,869 2,587
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,838 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £76,520
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
Bristol 0 516 £67,500 +13.40% 181
Gloucestershire -6 196 £55,440 +19.23% 29
Wiltshire -16 64 £48,500 -3.00% 42
Devon -2 58 £31,250 -40.48% 28
Somerset +7 53 £45,000 -25.00% 43
Dorset -25 18 £50,000 -16.67% 38
Cornwall -5 2 £33,875 -9.67% 13
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 25 (2.71%) Confluence
2 24 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.85%) Apache
4 16 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.87%) SAS
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.33%) Captiva
8 3 (0.33%) FileNet
8 3 (0.33%) Jetty
8 3 (0.33%) MS Exchange
8 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.09%) Cloudability
3 9 (0.98%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (0.43%) Primavera
4 4 (0.43%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.22%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.22%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.11%) HFM
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (22.15%) Azure
2 148 (16.07%) GCP
3 135 (14.66%) AWS
4 128 (13.90%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.41%) PaaS
5 59 (6.41%) SaaS
6 58 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
8 47 (5.10%) IaaS
9 43 (4.67%) GitHub
10 38 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (2.61%) Serverless
13 23 (2.50%) Azure Functions
13 23 (2.50%) OpenShift
14 21 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.17%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.06%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.06%) Vertex AI
17 14 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.56%) DNS
2 41 (4.45%) TCP/IP
3 39 (4.23%) HTTP
4 37 (4.02%) DHCP
5 29 (3.15%) WAN
6 21 (2.28%) 5G
6 21 (2.28%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.74%) Firewall
8 11 (1.19%) Internet
9 8 (0.87%) Wireless
10 6 (0.65%) LAN
11 5 (0.54%) Network Security
11 5 (0.54%) VPN
12 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (0.43%) SMTP
13 3 (0.33%) AMQP
14 2 (0.22%) RIP
14 2 (0.22%) SMS
14 2 (0.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.79%) Power BI
2 75 (8.14%) Big Data
3 67 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 50 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 42 (4.56%) Data Lake
7 32 (3.47%) BigQuery
8 31 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (3.15%) MongoDB
10 29 (3.15%) MySQL
11 28 (3.04%) Relational Database
11 28 (3.04%) Tableau
12 26 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (2.50%) Hadoop
14 16 (1.74%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.63%) Bigtable
15 15 (1.63%) Looker
16 13 (1.41%) Data Mart
17 12 (1.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 71 (7.71%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.30%) Git
3 37 (4.02%) JIRA
4 36 (3.91%) Oracle Forms
5 19 (2.06%) Maven
6 18 (1.95%) Selenium
7 15 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (1.41%) Spinnaker
9 10 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.87%) ERwin
11 8 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
11 8 (0.87%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.65%) JUnit
13 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.54%) GitLab
15 4 (0.43%) Postman
16 3 (0.33%) git-flow
16 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 345 (37.46%) Banking
2 268 (29.10%) Social Skills
3 139 (15.09%) Retail
4 91 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (8.36%) Marketing
7 59 (6.41%) Public Sector
8 52 (5.65%) Telecoms
9 48 (5.21%) Manufacturing
10 46 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (4.56%) Electronics
11 42 (4.56%) Legal
12 38 (4.13%) Aerospace
13 34 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.63%) Law
15 15 (1.63%) Retail Banking
16 13 (1.41%) Games
17 11 (1.19%) Local Government
18 10 (1.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 193 (20.96%) Architect
2 112 (12.16%) Senior
3 96 (10.42%) Lead
4 85 (9.23%) Analyst
5 69 (7.49%) Project Manager
6 57 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
7 55 (5.97%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.75%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.54%) Enterprise Architect
10 46 (4.99%) Developer
11 41 (4.45%) Cloud Architect
12 38 (4.13%) IT Manager
13 37 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.91%) DBA
14 36 (3.91%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 35 (3.80%) Administrator
16 32 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
17 27 (2.93%) IT Project Manager
18 26 (2.82%) Data Analyst
19 24 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (9.12%) HTML
2 50 (5.43%) OpenID
3 47 (5.10%) Kafka
4 35 (3.80%) React
5 31 (3.37%) RESTful
6 29 (3.15%) SAML
7 28 (3.04%) Spring Boot
8 26 (2.82%) .NET
9 25 (2.71%) AngularJS
9 25 (2.71%) JSON
9 25 (2.71%) Spring
10 22 (2.39%) Web Services
11 21 (2.28%) REST
12 20 (2.17%) Node.js
13 18 (1.95%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.95%) scikit-learn
14 15 (1.63%) Hibernate
15 14 (1.52%) Pandas
16 10 (1.09%) .NET Core
16 10 (1.09%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.82%) Cyberattack
1 72 (7.82%) Public Cloud
2 69 (7.49%) Algorithms
3 63 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 61 (6.62%) Cloud Native
5 34 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (3.15%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.28%) Blockchain
7 21 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.17%) Mainframe
8 20 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 19 (2.06%) NHS
10 16 (1.74%) GNSS
11 14 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.41%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.36%) Linux
2 74 (8.03%) Windows
3 50 (5.43%) Unix
4 24 (2.61%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (2.39%) CentOS
5 22 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.63%) Android
7 15 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.41%) AIX
9 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.87%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.22%) HPUX
10 2 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.11%) Debian
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (54.07%) Agile
2 181 (19.65%) DevOps
3 177 (19.22%) Roadmaps
4 166 (18.02%) Analytics
5 155 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (15.96%) Software Engineering
7 136 (14.77%) Mentoring
8 125 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
9 123 (13.36%) Machine Learning
10 117 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
11 106 (11.51%) Project Management
12 99 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
13 93 (10.10%) Microservices
14 90 (9.77%) CI/CD
15 89 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
16 88 (9.55%) Decision-Making
17 86 (9.34%) Visualisation
18 85 (9.23%) Coaching
19 83 (9.01%) Cloud Security
20 82 (8.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 186 (20.20%) SQL
2 157 (17.05%) Python
3 130 (14.12%) Java
4 85 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 52 (5.65%) Bash
5 52 (5.65%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.23%) C#
7 32 (3.47%) R
8 24 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.28%) Go
10 18 (1.95%) Scala
11 17 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.52%) C++
12 14 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.41%) Groovy
14 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.98%) C
17 7 (0.76%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 177 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 136 (14.77%) Degree
3 94 (10.21%) DV Cleared
4 54 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 40 (4.34%) AWS Certification
6 33 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (0.98%) HND
10 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.87%) PMP
11 7 (0.76%) ISEB
11 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.76%) MCSE
12 5 (0.54%) OCP
12 5 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.43%) PhD
13 4 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.15%) QA
2 26 (2.82%) PMO
3 16 (1.74%) SLA
4 15 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.09%) GDPR
7 8 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.87%) GRC
8 6 (0.65%) NIST
9 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.22%) Basel III
11 2 (0.22%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) GAAP
12 1 (0.11%) JTAG
12 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (11.07%) Docker
2 29 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) QEMU
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 88 (9.55%) Terraform
3 16 (1.74%) Ansible
4 12 (1.30%) Istio
5 9 (0.98%) Puppet
6 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.43%) Podman
7 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
8 2 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 150 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.88%) Google
3 75 (8.14%) Oracle
4 52 (5.65%) SAP
5 28 (3.04%) Red Hat
6 26 (2.82%) Teradata
7 21 (2.28%) VMware
8 17 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.74%) Cisco
10 14 (1.52%) IBM
11 9 (0.98%) Hyperion
12 8 (0.87%) Apple
13 6 (0.65%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.54%) Citrix
14 5 (0.54%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.54%) NetApp
15 4 (0.43%) BMC
15 4 (0.43%) F5
15 4 (0.43%) Informatica
15 4 (0.43%) Rackspace