Finance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,612 11,845 10,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.69% 14.79% 19.48%
As % of the General category 24.63% 27.04% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 5,731 5,216
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £32,947
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,250 £72,391
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.80% -7.41% +3.85%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,843 43,805 37,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.74% 54.69% 67.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,134 27,566 17,972
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
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 Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2025. 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
North of England +1 2,020 £55,000 +2.80% 1,686
North West +2 1,375 £55,000 +4.76% 1,009
South East 0 1,375 £60,000 +14.29% 3,722
Scotland 0 1,055 £42,500 -24.11% 661
Midlands -4 827 £55,000 +10.00% 944
South West +7 705 £57,443 +9.41% 689
West Midlands -4 545 £55,000 +2.80% 507
Yorkshire +2 470 £59,652 +8.46% 518
East of England +8 450 £47,500 -5.00% 503
East Midlands -10 278 £52,500 +9.38% 411
North East -1 174 £55,000 +10.00% 169
Wales -5 134 £55,000 +22.22% 231
Northern Ireland +9 53 £55,000 +33.33% 169
Isle of Man 0 13 £71,750 +32.87% 8
Channel Islands 0 10 £80,000 +10.34% 115
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 236 (3.57%) Confluence
2 144 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.15%) Oracle Application Server
4 48 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 36 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.51%) CMS
7 27 (0.41%) Apache
8 25 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 20 (0.30%) SAS
10 17 (0.26%) IIS
11 16 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 13 (0.20%) IBM Domino
13 11 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.12%) Appian
14 8 (0.12%) Camunda
14 8 (0.12%) nginx
15 7 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
16 5 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 4 (0.060%) GemFire
Applications
1 342 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 288 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (0.33%) Trello
6 17 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.076%) Sketch
10 4 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.060%) Revit
10 4 (0.060%) Simulink
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.045%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.030%) Elementor
12 2 (0.030%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.030%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.030%) SPSS
13 1 (0.015%) Maya
Business Applications
1 85 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 73 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
3 60 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 43 (0.65%) SAP BPC
5 42 (0.64%) Infor LN
6 31 (0.47%) Sage 200
7 27 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 24 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
9 18 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
10 16 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 16 (0.24%) Sage CRM
10 16 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 16 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 15 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
11 15 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
12 13 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
13 12 (0.18%) Sage 50
14 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
15 9 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
15 9 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 965 (14.59%) Azure
2 718 (10.86%) AWS
3 438 (6.62%) GCP
4 330 (4.99%) Power Platform
5 173 (2.62%) SaaS
6 149 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 124 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 84 (1.27%) PaaS
9 80 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (1.10%) GitHub
11 48 (0.73%) Serverless
11 48 (0.73%) Snowflake
12 36 (0.54%) Entra ID
13 35 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 34 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (0.51%) PowerApps
15 33 (0.50%) Power Automate
16 32 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
17 29 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
18 28 (0.42%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 429 (6.49%) VPN
2 412 (6.23%) DNS
3 67 (1.01%) Firewall
4 53 (0.80%) Network Security
5 45 (0.68%) WAN
6 40 (0.60%) LAN
7 35 (0.53%) Wireless
8 32 (0.48%) Broadband
9 30 (0.45%) Internet
10 23 (0.35%) Junos
11 22 (0.33%) SAN
11 22 (0.33%) VoIP
12 21 (0.32%) Intranet
12 21 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
13 20 (0.30%) BGP
13 20 (0.30%) TCP/IP
14 18 (0.27%) IPsec
14 18 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 294 (4.45%) Power BI
3 166 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 146 (2.21%) Big Data
5 144 (2.18%) Tableau
6 110 (1.66%) NoSQL
7 105 (1.59%) MySQL
8 95 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
9 75 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 71 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
11 63 (0.95%) MongoDB
12 59 (0.89%) Relational Database
13 54 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 47 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 44 (0.67%) BigQuery
15 44 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 28 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.42%) Metadata
17 24 (0.36%) Data Hub
17 24 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 420 (6.35%) JIRA
2 287 (4.34%) Maven
3 283 (4.28%) Selenium
4 279 (4.22%) SonarQube
5 274 (4.14%) Cucumber
6 270 (4.08%) GitLab
7 269 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 257 (3.89%) Bitbucket
9 181 (2.74%) Git
10 134 (2.03%) Jenkins
11 62 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
12 40 (0.60%) JUnit
13 30 (0.45%) webpack
14 27 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 25 (0.38%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 16 (0.24%) ER Studio
17 16 (0.24%) TeamCity
18 14 (0.21%) Postman
19 10 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 2,433 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 1,386 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
3 1,175 (17.77%) Banking
4 1,134 (17.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 852 (12.89%) Marketing
6 587 (8.88%) Retail
7 568 (8.59%) Law
8 456 (6.90%) Legal
9 424 (6.41%) Public Sector
10 395 (5.97%) Manufacturing
11 289 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
12 196 (2.96%) Telecoms
13 155 (2.34%) Financial Institution
14 153 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
15 131 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
16 127 (1.92%) Investment Banking
17 116 (1.75%) Military
18 114 (1.72%) Local Government
19 92 (1.39%) Electronics
20 90 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 894 (13.52%) Senior
2 810 (12.25%) Analyst
3 707 (10.69%) Developer
4 678 (10.25%) Software Engineer
5 544 (8.23%) Lead
6 422 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 416 (6.29%) Software Developer
8 352 (5.32%) Development Manager
9 326 (4.93%) Senior Manager
10 282 (4.26%) Architect
11 267 (4.04%) Business Manager
12 245 (3.71%) Business Development Manager
13 225 (3.40%) Systems Manager
14 213 (3.22%) Resource Manager
15 168 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
16 155 (2.34%) Java Engineer
17 149 (2.25%) Consultant
18 138 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
19 136 (2.06%) Data Analyst
20 131 (1.98%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (6.93%) React
2 454 (6.87%) Spring
3 408 (6.17%) CSS
4 404 (6.11%) Spring Boot
5 385 (5.82%) HTML
5 385 (5.82%) Kafka
6 258 (3.90%) JPA
7 252 (3.81%) Redux
8 199 (3.01%) RESTful
9 188 (2.84%) Hibernate
9 188 (2.84%) REST
10 175 (2.65%) .NET
11 130 (1.97%) HTML5
12 126 (1.91%) Jest
13 109 (1.65%) CSS3
14 98 (1.48%) Sass
15 92 (1.39%) AngularJS
16 77 (1.16%) jQuery
17 74 (1.12%) Node.js
18 60 (0.91%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 488 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 445 (6.73%) Cyberattack
3 397 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 290 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 217 (3.28%) FMCG
6 177 (2.68%) Algorithms
7 174 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 149 (2.25%) Driving Licence
9 144 (2.18%) Cloud Native
10 104 (1.57%) e-Learning
11 90 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 83 (1.26%) Credit Risk
13 81 (1.23%) Operational Technology
14 77 (1.16%) Onboarding
15 74 (1.12%) Social Media
16 73 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 72 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 70 (1.06%) Blockchain
19 65 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
20 60 (0.91%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 510 (7.71%) Linux
2 427 (6.46%) Android
3 183 (2.77%) Windows
4 44 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 36 (0.54%) Unix
7 27 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 26 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.33%) Windows Vista
10 15 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.14%) zOS
13 4 (0.060%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.015%) AIX
14 1 (0.015%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.015%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.015%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,133 (32.26%) Agile
2 1,262 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1,125 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,034 (15.64%) Project Management
5 926 (14.00%) Analytics
6 911 (13.78%) Software Engineering
7 760 (11.49%) DevOps
8 727 (11.00%) Decision-Making
9 711 (10.75%) CI/CD
10 707 (10.69%) Mentoring
11 687 (10.39%) ERP
12 672 (10.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 663 (10.03%) Coaching
14 639 (9.66%) Mathematics
15 616 (9.32%) Customer Service
16 611 (9.24%) Line Management
16 611 (9.24%) Risk Management
17 559 (8.45%) SDLC
18 545 (8.24%) Data Management
19 536 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,136 (17.18%) Java
2 871 (13.17%) SQL
3 820 (12.40%) Python
4 506 (7.65%) JavaScript
5 482 (7.29%) C++
6 423 (6.40%) Go
7 207 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 190 (2.87%) C#
9 84 (1.27%) PHP
10 76 (1.15%) PowerShell
11 47 (0.71%) C
12 44 (0.67%) PL/SQL
13 40 (0.60%) T-SQL
14 39 (0.59%) Bash
15 38 (0.57%) R
16 19 (0.29%) ABAP
17 17 (0.26%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.26%) Swift
18 16 (0.24%) X++
19 14 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,112 (16.82%) Degree
2 634 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 489 (7.40%) DV Cleared
4 219 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 217 (3.28%) DBS Check
6 209 (3.16%) ACCA
7 165 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 159 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 150 (2.27%) CIMA
10 141 (2.13%) SC Cleared
11 119 (1.80%) CISSP
12 113 (1.71%) HNC
13 76 (1.15%) PMI Certification
14 66 (1.00%) PMP
15 64 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 53 (0.80%) CISA
17 46 (0.70%) Azure Certification
18 45 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
19 41 (0.62%) CCNP
20 34 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (6.75%) QA
2 316 (4.78%) Accessibility
3 188 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 134 (2.03%) GDPR
5 112 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 83 (1.26%) IFRS
7 74 (1.12%) PMO
8 72 (1.09%) GAAP
9 69 (1.04%) SLA
10 66 (1.00%) NIST
11 60 (0.91%) ITGC
12 54 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 37 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.56%) COBIT
14 35 (0.53%) NCSC
15 31 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 30 (0.45%) NEBOSH
17 23 (0.35%) PCI DSS
18 19 (0.29%) EMIR
19 18 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 877 (13.26%) Docker
2 87 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 42 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.51%) Firmware
5 30 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.12%) HDFS
9 5 (0.076%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.076%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.060%) vSphere
11 2 (0.030%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.015%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.015%) XenApp
12 1 (0.015%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 539 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 434 (6.56%) Ansible
3 153 (2.31%) Terraform
4 53 (0.80%) Grafana
5 33 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.24%) Progress Chef
8 15 (0.23%) Istio
9 13 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.17%) SCCM
11 8 (0.12%) Puppet
12 6 (0.091%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.091%) Kibana
13 5 (0.076%) CASB
13 5 (0.076%) Control-M
13 5 (0.076%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.076%) Netcool
13 5 (0.076%) Packer
14 4 (0.060%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.060%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 731 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 381 (5.76%) Oracle
3 374 (5.66%) SAP
4 254 (3.84%) Solace
5 226 (3.42%) BT
6 172 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 159 (2.40%) Google
8 78 (1.18%) Cisco
9 73 (1.10%) Databricks
9 73 (1.10%) IBM
10 63 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 63 (0.95%) Siemens
11 60 (0.91%) Rockwell
12 58 (0.88%) VMware
13 55 (0.83%) Bloomberg
14 53 (0.80%) Infor
15 50 (0.76%) Cognos
16 47 (0.71%) Sage
17 44 (0.67%) Workday
18 34 (0.51%) Concur