Financial Analyst Jobs

Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 March 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 497 595
Rank change year-on-year +65 +98 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 263 412 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.48% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 139 281 275
10th Percentile £34,800 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £112,500 £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -3.16% -1.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 46,532 85,499 102,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.70% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,438 62,910 63,663
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,817 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 24 March 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
England +40 238 £57,500 -4.17% 54
UK excluding London +127 132 £40,000 -13.04% 26
London -3 123 £75,000 - 36
Work from Home +70 122 £70,000 +14.29% 36
South East +100 52 £35,000 -30.00% 14
North of England +55 39 £40,000 +11.89% 3
North West +16 38 £40,000 +8.84% 2
Scotland +100 18 - - 1
Midlands +35 13 £52,500 +22.09% 5
West Midlands +30 12 £52,500 +22.09% 3
South West +100 4 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Northern Ireland +40 4 - - 1
East of England +43 2 £65,000 -2.62%
Yorkshire +52 1 - - 1
East Midlands +40 1 £40,000 +0.63% 2

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 March 2025, Financial Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 263 (100.00%) Finance
2 109 (41.44%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (41.06%) Social Skills
4 85 (32.32%) Microsoft Excel
5 77 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
7 55 (20.91%) SQL
8 51 (19.39%) Microsoft
8 51 (19.39%) Agile
8 51 (19.39%) Power BI
8 51 (19.39%) Power Platform
9 44 (16.73%) Data Analysis
10 43 (16.35%) Decision-Making
11 40 (15.21%) Banking
12 39 (14.83%) Degree
13 37 (14.07%) ACCA
14 36 (13.69%) Law
15 35 (13.31%) CIMA
16 31 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (11.79%) Process Improvement
17 30 (11.41%) Financial Modelling
18 28 (10.65%) ERP
19 27 (10.27%) Python
20 26 (9.89%) Oracle
20 26 (9.89%) SAP
20 26 (9.89%) Project Management
20 26 (9.89%) Tableau
20 26 (9.89%) Budgeting
21 25 (9.51%) Analytics
21 25 (9.51%) Windows

Financial Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.76%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) TPMS
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 85 (32.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (7.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (4.18%) SAP FI
2 10 (3.80%) Fidessa
2 10 (3.80%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 7 (2.66%) Infor SunSystems
4 6 (2.28%) Aladdin
4 6 (2.28%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.76%) SAP GTM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.38%) Lawson
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.39%) Power Platform
2 19 (7.22%) Azure
3 17 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.80%) AWS
5 7 (2.66%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.90%) GCP
7 4 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.14%) Datadog
9 2 (0.76%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.76%) SaaS
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.38%) Figma
10 1 (0.38%) Google Docs
10 1 (0.38%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.18%) DNS
1 11 (4.18%) Firewall
2 7 (2.66%) DHCP
2 7 (2.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 7 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.90%) Broadband
4 3 (1.14%) Multicast
4 3 (1.14%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.39%) Power BI
2 26 (9.89%) Tableau
3 13 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (3.80%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.66%) Power Query
7 5 (1.90%) Big Data
7 5 (1.90%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.14%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.38%) Essbase
11 1 (0.38%) MS Access
11 1 (0.38%) MySQL
11 1 (0.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Git
2 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 263 (100.00%) Finance
2 109 (41.44%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (41.06%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.21%) Banking
5 36 (13.69%) Law
6 22 (8.37%) Retail
7 21 (7.98%) Legal
8 19 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (6.08%) Front Office
10 15 (5.70%) Billing
10 15 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (3.80%) General Ledger
13 7 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.66%) Publishing
13 7 (2.66%) Telecoms
14 6 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.28%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (2.28%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.94%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.76%) Flash
4 1 (0.38%) EDI
4 1 (0.38%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.13%) Fixed Income
2 18 (6.84%) Equities
3 17 (6.46%) Derivative
4 16 (6.08%) Hedge funds
5 15 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (5.70%) Social Media
6 14 (5.32%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.80%) Eurex
7 10 (3.80%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.42%) Taxonomies
9 6 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.28%) FMCG
9 6 (2.28%) Housing Association
9 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.52%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.52%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.52%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.51%) Windows
2 16 (6.08%) Linux
3 10 (3.80%) Unix
3 10 (3.80%) Windows Vista
4 8 (3.04%) CentOS
5 7 (2.66%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.52%) Solaris
8 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (19.39%) Agile
4 44 (16.73%) Data Analysis
5 43 (16.35%) Decision-Making
6 31 (11.79%) Process Improvement
6 31 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (11.41%) Financial Modelling
8 28 (10.65%) ERP
9 26 (9.89%) Budgeting
9 26 (9.89%) Project Management
10 25 (9.51%) Analytics
11 23 (8.75%) Migration
11 23 (8.75%) Requirements Gathering
12 22 (8.37%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 22 (8.37%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (7.22%) User Acceptance Testing
14 18 (6.84%) Visualisation
15 17 (6.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (6.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.91%) SQL
2 27 (10.27%) Python
3 12 (4.56%) T-SQL
4 10 (3.80%) VBA
5 9 (3.42%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.66%) Bash
7 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.52%) Perl
7 4 (1.52%) Ruby
8 2 (0.76%) R
9 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (14.83%) Degree
2 37 (14.07%) ACCA
3 35 (13.31%) CIMA
4 12 (4.56%) AAT
4 12 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.18%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.28%) CCAB
8 5 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.52%) CFA
9 4 (1.52%) CISSP
9 4 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.14%) Security Cleared
11 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) CBAP
12 1 (0.38%) MOS
12 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.38%) PMP
12 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.28%) MiFID
3 4 (1.52%) GRC
4 3 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) GAAP
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.28%) Grafana
2 3 (1.14%) Ansible
2 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.89%) Oracle
2 26 (9.89%) SAP
3 13 (4.94%) Aderant
4 11 (4.18%) Bloomberg
4 11 (4.18%) Google
5 10 (3.80%) CQG
5 10 (3.80%) ION Trading
5 10 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.80%) Reuters
5 10 (3.80%) Trayport
6 9 (3.42%) Patsystems
7 8 (3.04%) Infor
8 7 (2.66%) Sun
9 6 (2.28%) BISAM
9 6 (2.28%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.90%) Concur
11 4 (1.52%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.52%) LogRhythm
11 4 (1.52%) Tenable