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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,378 11,717 11,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.20% 15.71% 19.34%
As % of the General category 23.91% 28.02% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,559 5,629 5,304
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,971 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £68,750 £72,276
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £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 30 May 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 30 May 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 2,000 £57,500 +6.48% 5,267
North West 0 1,376 £58,500 +11.43% 2,546
South East 0 1,324 £60,000 +14.29% 8,041
Scotland 0 926 £50,445 -15.26% 1,150
Midlands -5 788 £55,000 +10.00% 4,328
South West +7 725 £57,443 +9.41% 2,722
West Midlands -6 511 £55,000 +4.76% 2,272
Yorkshire +1 449 £58,200 +3.01% 2,072
East of England +7 423 £50,000 - 3,296
East Midlands -7 273 £52,500 +10.53% 1,761
North East -1 174 £55,000 +10.00% 661
Wales -3 138 £50,447 +12.10% 626
Northern Ireland +9 56 £55,000 +37.50% 390
Isle of Man 0 13 £71,750 +32.87% 9
Channel Islands 0 10 £80,000 -5.88% 53
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
1 235 (3.68%) Confluence
2 138 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.19%) Oracle Application Server
4 47 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 31 (0.49%) CMS
6 27 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 23 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.33%) Apache
9 17 (0.27%) SAS
10 16 (0.25%) IIS
11 13 (0.20%) IBM Domino
12 12 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 10 (0.16%) nginx
14 10 (0.16%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.13%) Appian
16 5 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 5 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
17 4 (0.063%) GemFire
17 4 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 316 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 261 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 112 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.33%) Trello
6 16 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.078%) Sketch
10 4 (0.063%) Simulink
10 4 (0.063%) SPSS
11 3 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.047%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
12 2 (0.031%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.016%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.016%) Elementor
13 1 (0.016%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.016%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 84 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
2 67 (1.05%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.67%) SAP BPC
4 42 (0.66%) Infor LN
5 32 (0.50%) Sage 200
6 26 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 21 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 19 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 17 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 16 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 16 (0.25%) Sage CRM
10 16 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 15 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 13 (0.20%) Sage 50
13 12 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
14 11 (0.17%) Shopify
15 10 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
16 9 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
16 9 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 929 (14.57%) Azure
2 652 (10.22%) AWS
3 429 (6.73%) GCP
4 312 (4.89%) Power Platform
5 166 (2.60%) SaaS
6 142 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
7 116 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 80 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (1.25%) PaaS
9 73 (1.14%) GitHub
10 45 (0.71%) Snowflake
11 42 (0.66%) Serverless
12 35 (0.55%) Entra ID
13 34 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
14 33 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 33 (0.52%) PowerApps
15 29 (0.45%) Power Automate
16 28 (0.44%) OCI
17 26 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 26 (0.41%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 427 (6.69%) VPN
2 415 (6.51%) DNS
3 63 (0.99%) Firewall
4 54 (0.85%) Network Security
5 41 (0.64%) WAN
6 36 (0.56%) LAN
7 34 (0.53%) Wireless
8 29 (0.45%) Broadband
8 29 (0.45%) Internet
9 23 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 23 (0.36%) VoIP
10 21 (0.33%) IPsec
10 21 (0.33%) SAN
11 20 (0.31%) BGP
11 20 (0.31%) Intranet
11 20 (0.31%) Junos
11 20 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
12 15 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
13 14 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 275 (4.31%) Power BI
3 160 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (2.41%) Tableau
5 138 (2.16%) Big Data
6 99 (1.55%) MySQL
7 95 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
8 92 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 75 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 60 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (0.86%) MongoDB
12 52 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 47 (0.74%) Data Lake
13 47 (0.74%) Relational Database
14 43 (0.67%) BigQuery
15 41 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 29 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 28 (0.44%) Metadata
18 24 (0.38%) Data Hub
19 21 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 415 (6.51%) JIRA
2 280 (4.39%) Selenium
2 280 (4.39%) SonarQube
3 276 (4.33%) Maven
4 274 (4.30%) Cucumber
5 270 (4.23%) GitLab
6 269 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 257 (4.03%) Bitbucket
8 172 (2.70%) Git
9 121 (1.90%) Jenkins
10 63 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
11 30 (0.47%) JUnit
12 28 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 23 (0.36%) webpack
14 19 (0.30%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 16 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 13 (0.20%) ER Studio
17 13 (0.20%) Postman
18 9 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 2,379 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 1,334 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
3 1,126 (17.65%) Banking
4 998 (15.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 750 (11.76%) Marketing
6 545 (8.54%) Retail
7 429 (6.73%) Law
8 418 (6.55%) Public Sector
9 413 (6.48%) Legal
10 404 (6.33%) Manufacturing
11 272 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
12 186 (2.92%) Telecoms
13 152 (2.38%) Financial Institution
14 125 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
15 120 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.83%) Investment Banking
17 106 (1.66%) Military
18 91 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
19 86 (1.35%) Games
20 84 (1.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 965 (15.13%) Senior
2 781 (12.25%) Analyst
3 685 (10.74%) Developer
4 559 (8.76%) Software Engineer
5 558 (8.75%) Project Manager
6 488 (7.65%) Lead
7 409 (6.41%) Software Developer
8 403 (6.32%) Senior Manager
9 330 (5.17%) Development Manager
10 279 (4.37%) Architect
11 243 (3.81%) Business Manager
12 223 (3.50%) Business Development Manager
12 223 (3.50%) Senior Project Manager
13 222 (3.48%) Systems Manager
14 213 (3.34%) Resource Manager
15 157 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
16 142 (2.23%) Consultant
17 130 (2.04%) Data Analyst
18 129 (2.02%) Risk Manager
19 126 (1.98%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (6.30%) React
2 397 (6.22%) Spring
3 385 (6.04%) CSS
4 374 (5.86%) Spring Boot
5 369 (5.79%) HTML
6 346 (5.42%) Kafka
7 252 (3.95%) JPA
7 252 (3.95%) Redux
8 184 (2.88%) RESTful
9 180 (2.82%) Hibernate
10 172 (2.70%) REST
11 168 (2.63%) .NET
12 127 (1.99%) HTML5
13 120 (1.88%) Jest
14 104 (1.63%) CSS3
15 97 (1.52%) Sass
16 71 (1.11%) AngularJS
17 67 (1.05%) jQuery
17 67 (1.05%) Node.js
18 60 (0.94%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 487 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 445 (6.98%) Cyberattack
3 378 (5.93%) Management Information System
4 290 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 231 (3.62%) Driving Licence
6 213 (3.34%) FMCG
7 158 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 144 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 111 (1.74%) Cloud Native
10 97 (1.52%) e-Learning
11 94 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 80 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 75 (1.18%) Blockchain
14 74 (1.16%) Onboarding
15 67 (1.05%) Social Media
16 62 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
16 62 (0.97%) Robotics
16 62 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 59 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
17 59 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 509 (7.98%) Linux
2 428 (6.71%) Android
3 178 (2.79%) Windows
4 45 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 32 (0.50%) Unix
7 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 25 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.34%) Windows Vista
10 16 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.14%) zOS
13 2 (0.031%) AIX
13 2 (0.031%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.016%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.016%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.016%) Robot Operating System
14 1 (0.016%) Solaris
14 1 (0.016%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,980 (31.04%) Agile
2 1,154 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1,153 (18.08%) Project Management
4 998 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 924 (14.49%) Analytics
6 803 (12.59%) Software Engineering
7 754 (11.82%) DevOps
8 706 (11.07%) Risk Management
9 678 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 673 (10.55%) Mentoring
11 661 (10.36%) Decision-Making
12 652 (10.22%) ERP
13 634 (9.94%) Coaching
13 634 (9.94%) Mathematics
14 633 (9.92%) CI/CD
15 597 (9.36%) Line Management
16 562 (8.81%) Customer Service
17 515 (8.07%) Data Management
18 491 (7.70%) OO
18 491 (7.70%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (16.48%) Java
2 830 (13.01%) SQL
3 784 (12.29%) Python
4 477 (7.48%) JavaScript
5 474 (7.43%) C++
6 418 (6.55%) Go
7 188 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 179 (2.81%) C#
9 82 (1.29%) PHP
10 72 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 47 (0.74%) C
12 39 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 39 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 38 (0.60%) Bash
14 35 (0.55%) R
15 20 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.30%) ABAP
17 16 (0.25%) Swift
17 16 (0.25%) X++
18 15 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,068 (16.75%) Degree
2 622 (9.75%) Security Cleared
3 483 (7.57%) DV Cleared
4 247 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 197 (3.09%) DBS Check
6 192 (3.01%) ACCA
7 163 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 149 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 137 (2.15%) CIMA
10 132 (2.07%) SC Cleared
11 116 (1.82%) CISSP
12 86 (1.35%) HNC
13 72 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 64 (1.00%) PMP
15 60 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
16 55 (0.86%) CISA
17 45 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
18 40 (0.63%) Azure Certification
19 37 (0.58%) CCNP
20 34 (0.53%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (6.90%) QA
2 300 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 180 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 122 (1.91%) GDPR
5 108 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 81 (1.27%) IFRS
7 71 (1.11%) GAAP
8 68 (1.07%) PMO
9 67 (1.05%) SLA
10 63 (0.99%) NIST
11 62 (0.97%) ITGC
12 53 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 38 (0.60%) COBIT
14 33 (0.52%) NCSC
15 31 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 30 (0.47%) NEBOSH
17 22 (0.34%) PCI DSS
18 21 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
19 18 (0.28%) EMIR
19 18 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 870 (13.64%) Docker
2 84 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 41 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.52%) Firmware
5 29 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.078%) HDFS
8 5 (0.078%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.078%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.078%) vSphere
9 2 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.016%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.016%) XenApp
10 1 (0.016%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 511 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 436 (6.84%) Ansible
3 140 (2.20%) Terraform
4 44 (0.69%) Grafana
5 29 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 28 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 14 (0.22%) Istio
8 14 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.19%) SCCM
10 9 (0.14%) Puppet
11 6 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.094%) Kibana
12 5 (0.078%) CASB
12 5 (0.078%) Control-M
12 5 (0.078%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.078%) Packer
13 4 (0.063%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.047%) Argo
14 3 (0.047%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 688 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 364 (5.71%) SAP
3 354 (5.55%) Oracle
4 253 (3.97%) Solace
5 188 (2.95%) BT
6 174 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 157 (2.46%) Google
8 76 (1.19%) IBM
9 73 (1.14%) Cisco
10 67 (1.05%) Databricks
11 57 (0.89%) VMware
12 54 (0.85%) Bloomberg
13 53 (0.83%) Infor
13 53 (0.83%) ServiceNow
14 50 (0.78%) Cognos
15 46 (0.72%) Sage
16 44 (0.69%) Siemens
17 43 (0.67%) Workday
18 42 (0.66%) Rockwell
19 32 (0.50%) Concur