Finance Job Trends 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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,334 6,375 11,598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.45% 21.46% 14.77%
As % of the General category 21.23% 30.10% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 2,554 5,750
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

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 general skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 29,838 21,180 42,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.53% 71.31% 54.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,200 9,540 27,585
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,697 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £84,190 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.42% +6.27% -12.50%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Finance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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
North of England -2 2,107 £60,000 +4.35% 668
South East -1 1,364 £61,750 +6.47% 863
North West -1 1,273 £60,000 +2.56% 347
Midlands -4 1,055 £55,000 - 368
South West -4 720 £47,500 -17.31% 294
West Midlands -5 646 £55,000 - 227
Yorkshire -1 638 £55,000 -5.50% 247
East of England +1 547 £47,500 - 179
East Midlands +1 405 £55,000 +7.32% 138
Scotland -7 316 £50,000 +17.65% 114
North East -7 196 £58,446 +6.27% 81
Northern Ireland -1 145 £40,000 -27.27% 67
Wales -20 102 £48,750 -11.36% 75
Isle of Man 0 9 - - 1
Channel Islands -4 2 £78,750 -1.56%
Finance
UK

Finance
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
1 114 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 77 (1.22%) Confluence
3 49 (0.77%) Jupyter
4 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.38%) CMS
6 22 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.27%) Apache
7 17 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 11 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.16%) FactoryTalk
10 8 (0.13%) SAS
11 7 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.063%) Moodle
12 4 (0.063%) WordPress
13 3 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.032%) JBoss
14 2 (0.032%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.032%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.032%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 445 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 210 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 45 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 35 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.21%) CATIA
9 12 (0.19%) Simulink
10 4 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.063%) CorelDRAW
11 3 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.047%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.047%) Trello
12 2 (0.032%) Lectora
12 2 (0.032%) SPSS
13 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.016%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.016%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 64 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 57 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 45 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 34 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 33 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 28 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 28 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
7 21 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 20 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
8 20 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 20 (0.32%) SAP ERP
9 19 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 19 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 16 (0.25%) SAP CO
11 15 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
12 14 (0.22%) Magento
12 14 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
13 13 (0.21%) Shopify
14 12 (0.19%) Elite 3E
15 11 (0.17%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 659 (10.40%) Azure
2 371 (5.86%) Power Platform
3 369 (5.83%) SaaS
4 349 (5.51%) AWS
5 190 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 115 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (1.36%) GCP
9 85 (1.34%) PowerApps
10 82 (1.29%) Power Automate
11 68 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 61 (0.96%) PaaS
13 60 (0.95%) Snowflake
14 54 (0.85%) GitHub
15 51 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
16 44 (0.69%) Serverless
17 36 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 32 (0.51%) OneDrive
19 30 (0.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (1.15%) Firewall
2 59 (0.93%) Broadband
3 48 (0.76%) Internet
4 33 (0.52%) DNS
4 33 (0.52%) Network Security
4 33 (0.52%) VPN
5 25 (0.39%) WAN
6 21 (0.33%) DHCP
7 20 (0.32%) Wireless
8 17 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.24%) BGP
10 14 (0.22%) VoIP
11 12 (0.19%) Ethernet
11 12 (0.19%) HTTP
11 12 (0.19%) Profibus
12 11 (0.17%) MPLS
13 10 (0.16%) LAN
13 10 (0.16%) SMS
13 10 (0.16%) SSL
13 10 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (4.61%) Power BI
2 145 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 136 (2.15%) Tableau
4 81 (1.28%) Data Mining
5 72 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 37 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 32 (0.51%) MySQL
9 32 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.44%) Metadata
11 22 (0.35%) Power Query
12 21 (0.33%) NoSQL
12 21 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 19 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.25%) Star Schema
16 12 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 154 (2.43%) JIRA
2 69 (1.09%) Git
3 66 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
4 50 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
5 32 (0.51%) GitLab
6 30 (0.47%) JUnit
7 29 (0.46%) Jenkins
8 19 (0.30%) Maven
8 19 (0.30%) Selenium
9 18 (0.28%) Postman
10 16 (0.25%) Mockito
11 10 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (0.14%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.11%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
14 7 (0.11%) SoapUI
15 6 (0.095%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.095%) Spock
15 6 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 1,648 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 922 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
3 494 (7.80%) Legal
4 385 (6.08%) Retail
5 333 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 324 (5.12%) Marketing
7 321 (5.07%) Manufacturing
8 298 (4.70%) Law
9 283 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 269 (4.25%) Aerospace
11 241 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 239 (3.77%) Banking
13 189 (2.98%) Telecoms
14 179 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
15 90 (1.42%) Military
16 72 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 71 (1.12%) Automotive
17 71 (1.12%) Back Office
17 71 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
18 68 (1.07%) Billing
Job Titles
1 949 (14.98%) Analyst
2 715 (11.29%) Senior
3 435 (6.87%) Lead
4 412 (6.50%) Developer
5 324 (5.12%) Consultant
6 303 (4.78%) Trainee
7 267 (4.22%) Business Analyst
8 260 (4.10%) Finance Manager
9 257 (4.06%) Architect
10 215 (3.39%) Accountant
11 199 (3.14%) Data Analyst
12 197 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 190 (3.00%) Business Manager
14 171 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
15 170 (2.68%) Senior Manager
16 164 (2.59%) Recruitment Consultant
17 150 (2.37%) Development Manager
18 143 (2.26%) Financial Controller
18 143 (2.26%) Trainee Analyst
19 142 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (2.81%) .NET
2 84 (1.33%) React
3 72 (1.14%) Hugging Face
4 67 (1.06%) REST
5 61 (0.96%) Pandas
6 58 (0.92%) CSS
7 55 (0.87%) .NET Core
8 53 (0.84%) scikit-learn
9 52 (0.82%) NumPy
10 49 (0.77%) Matplotlib
10 49 (0.77%) Streamlit
11 45 (0.71%) HTML
12 43 (0.68%) Spring
13 42 (0.66%) AngularJS
14 41 (0.65%) Node.js
15 36 (0.57%) ASP.NET
16 32 (0.51%) RESTful
17 31 (0.49%) jQuery
17 31 (0.49%) Middleware
17 31 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 222 (3.50%) Onboarding
2 186 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 184 (2.90%) Driving Licence
4 177 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 144 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 124 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 123 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 118 (1.86%) Podcast
8 118 (1.86%) Web Conferencing
9 104 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 85 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
11 75 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 75 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 60 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 58 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (0.66%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
16 31 (0.49%) Low-Code
17 30 (0.47%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 144 (2.27%) Windows
2 87 (1.37%) Linux
3 51 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 24 (0.38%) Unix
5 13 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.17%) Android
6 11 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.095%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.063%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.063%) VMS
9 2 (0.032%) Solaris
9 2 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.032%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.016%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.016%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 828 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
3 802 (12.66%) Agile
4 668 (10.55%) Decision-Making
5 639 (10.09%) Analytics
6 545 (8.60%) AI
7 523 (8.26%) ERP
8 505 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 481 (7.59%) Roadmaps
10 477 (7.53%) Project Management
11 473 (7.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 400 (6.32%) Customer Service
13 378 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
13 378 (5.97%) Mentoring
14 336 (5.30%) DevOps
15 330 (5.21%) Change Management
16 320 (5.05%) Business Development
17 319 (5.04%) Process Improvement
18 313 (4.94%) CRM
19 301 (4.75%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 708 (11.18%) SQL
2 467 (7.37%) Python
3 224 (3.54%) C#
4 168 (2.65%) Java
5 130 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 76 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 72 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 67 (1.06%) C++
9 59 (0.93%) PHP
10 41 (0.65%) Bash
11 31 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 26 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 20 (0.32%) MATLAB
13 20 (0.32%) VBA
14 18 (0.28%) ABAP
14 18 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.27%) Bicep
16 16 (0.25%) R
17 14 (0.22%) Ruby
18 10 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 649 (10.25%) Degree
2 370 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 346 (5.46%) ACCA
4 321 (5.07%) CIMA
5 269 (4.25%) Security Cleared
6 125 (1.97%) SC Cleared
7 99 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 88 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 88 (1.39%) PMP
9 79 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 69 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 66 (1.04%) IRCA
12 58 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 53 (0.84%) CISSP
14 51 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 50 (0.79%) AAT
16 44 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
17 41 (0.65%) HND
18 39 (0.62%) Master's Degree
19 36 (0.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 221 (3.49%) QA
3 192 (3.03%) GDPR
4 107 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 92 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 91 (1.44%) SLA
7 77 (1.22%) PMO
8 76 (1.20%) ISO 9001
9 57 (0.90%) NIST
10 53 (0.84%) IFRS
11 35 (0.55%) GRC
12 24 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 23 (0.36%) GAAP
14 20 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 17 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 15 (0.24%) NEBOSH
18 13 (0.21%) ITGC
19 12 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 11 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.23%) Docker
3 41 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.24%) vSphere
9 9 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.032%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.016%) Firmware
12 1 (0.016%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.016%) XenApp
12 1 (0.016%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 113 (1.78%) Terraform
2 84 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 52 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (0.41%) Ansible
5 22 (0.35%) Grafana
6 15 (0.24%) SCCM
7 14 (0.22%) Puppet
8 13 (0.21%) Functional Safety
8 13 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 10 (0.16%) Wonderware InTouch
11 7 (0.11%) vRealize
11 7 (0.11%) VxRail
12 6 (0.095%) QRadar
13 5 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.079%) Endace
14 4 (0.063%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.063%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.063%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 886 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 254 (4.01%) Oracle
3 236 (3.73%) SAP
4 105 (1.66%) Salesforce
5 93 (1.47%) Databricks
6 90 (1.42%) Sage
7 68 (1.07%) IBM
8 60 (0.95%) Google
9 59 (0.93%) VMware
10 51 (0.81%) HubSpot
11 46 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 42 (0.66%) Xero
13 38 (0.60%) Workday
14 32 (0.51%) Cisco
15 29 (0.46%) Adobe
16 28 (0.44%) NEC
17 24 (0.38%) Aderant
18 23 (0.36%) Splunk
19 22 (0.35%) Red Hat
20 21 (0.33%) Cognos