Financial Modelling Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Financial Modelling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Financial Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 469 489
Rank change year-on-year +80 +20 +205
Permanent jobs citing Financial Modelling 123 96 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.30% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31 25 77
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% +8.74% -32.03%
75th Percentile £82,500 £46,750 -
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,054 £61,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £39,085
% change year-on-year -3.57% +79.10% -54.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Financial Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,750 31,666 33,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.01% 89.31% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 19,471 14,162 25,426
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Financial Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Financial Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Financial Modelling
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Financial Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Financial Modelling

Financial Modelling
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK excluding London

Financial Modelling
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Modelling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
South East +75 49 £75,000 +3.09% 25
North of England +2 28 £55,000 +34.97% 16
North West +8 20 £55,000 +34.97% 6
Scotland 0 18 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 8 - - 1
Midlands +29 7 £61,250 - 15
South West +16 7 £85,000 +18.07% 8
West Midlands +30 6 £61,250 - 8
East of England -5 4 £80,000 +25.49% 6
North East - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £57,500 - 8
Wales - 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
Financial Modelling
UK

Financial Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.63%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 39 (31.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (11.38%) Hyperion Planning
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (2.44%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.81%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (34.96%) SaaS
2 10 (8.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.81%) Azure
3 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.38%) Essbase
2 10 (8.13%) Power BI
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.38%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.63%) JIRA
General
1 123 (100.00%) Finance
2 85 (69.11%) Social Skills
3 50 (40.65%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (22.76%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (18.70%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Retail
7 4 (3.25%) Legal
7 4 (3.25%) Marketing
8 3 (2.44%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) French Language
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) Analyst
2 25 (20.33%) Senior
3 22 (17.89%) Architect
3 22 (17.89%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (11.38%) Oracle Analyst
5 14 (11.38%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 10 (8.13%) Financial Analyst
7 8 (6.50%) Commercial Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Accountant
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Commercial Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Commercial Finance Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Finance Manager
10 4 (3.25%) Head of Finance
10 4 (3.25%) Management Accountant
10 4 (3.25%) Senior Commercial Manager
11 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
11 2 (1.63%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
11 2 (1.63%) Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.63%) CSS
1 2 (1.63%) HTML
2 1 (0.81%) Pandas
2 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Self-Motivation
1 22 (17.89%) Virtual Team
2 8 (6.50%) Social Media
3 6 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.63%) PMI
4 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (74.80%) Decision-Making
2 63 (51.22%) ERP
3 52 (42.28%) Business Case
4 45 (36.59%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 43 (34.96%) Resource Allocation
6 40 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (31.71%) Trade-off Analysis
8 33 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (26.02%) AI
9 32 (26.02%) Analytics
10 26 (21.14%) Business Development
10 26 (21.14%) Customer Experience
10 26 (21.14%) Strategic Thinking
11 22 (17.89%) B2B
11 22 (17.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 22 (17.89%) Customer Insight
11 22 (17.89%) Due Diligence
11 22 (17.89%) Project Management
11 22 (17.89%) Technical Architecture
12 21 (17.07%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.07%) SQL
2 14 (11.38%) Groovy
3 4 (3.25%) VBA
4 3 (2.44%) Python
5 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.81%) Java
6 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (42.28%) Degree
2 41 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 41 (33.33%) MBA
3 28 (22.76%) ACCA
3 28 (22.76%) CIMA
4 9 (7.32%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.44%) ICAEW
6 2 (1.63%) CBAP
6 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) AAT
7 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.81%) GAAP
2 1 (0.81%) GRC
Vendors
1 43 (34.96%) SAP
2 16 (13.01%) Oracle
3 14 (11.38%) Hyperion
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.25%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (1.63%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.63%) Workday
7 1 (0.81%) Ariba