Financial Modelling Job Trends

Financial Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 436 332 498
Rank change year-on-year -104 +166 +289
Permanent jobs citing Financial Modelling 225 436 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.82% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.91% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 82 74 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +79.10% -54.02%
75th Percentile £84,375 £116,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £39,085
% change year-on-year +41.18% +8.74% -32.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,307 48,088 54,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.63% 90.91% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29,027 23,255 41,501
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Financial Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Financial Modelling

Financial Modelling
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England -101 187 £67,500 +3.85% 90
UK excluding London +80 123 £60,000 +41.18% 74
London -132 92 £67,500 -32.50% 31
Work from Home +97 75 £70,000 - 20
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
Yorkshire - 4 £57,500 - 8
North East - 4 - - 2
Wales - 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6

Financial Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 36 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle Smart View
4 12 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (19.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 15 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.22%) Hyperion Planning
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle Assets
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle Financials
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 11 (4.89%) NetSuite
5 4 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.89%) Lawson
7 1 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.44%) SaaS
2 25 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.78%) Snowflake
4 3 (1.33%) AWS
4 3 (1.33%) PaaS
5 2 (0.89%) Azure
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.44%) GCP
6 1 (0.44%) IaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Slack
6 1 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) Network Security
2 2 (0.89%) ATM
3 1 (0.44%) Broadband
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.11%) Power BI
2 16 (7.11%) Essbase
3 14 (6.22%) Tableau
4 3 (1.33%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.89%) MS Access
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.89%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.22%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 225 (100.00%) Finance
2 119 (52.89%) Social Skills
3 99 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (22.67%) Presentation Skills
5 34 (15.11%) Marketing
6 25 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 14 (6.22%) Billing
8 13 (5.78%) Retail
9 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.11%) Law
10 7 (3.11%) Publishing
11 6 (2.67%) Banking
12 5 (2.22%) Legal
12 5 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.33%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (24.00%) Senior
2 49 (21.78%) Analyst
3 28 (12.44%) Architect
4 25 (11.11%) Finance Manager
4 25 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 25 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.67%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (6.22%) Oracle Analyst
6 14 (6.22%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 13 (5.78%) Financial Analyst
8 11 (4.89%) Commercial Analyst
8 11 (4.89%) Commercial Manager
9 10 (4.44%) Associate Director
10 9 (4.00%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.11%) Accountant
11 7 (3.11%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.11%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 7 (3.11%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.67%) Head of Finance
12 6 (2.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) CSS
1 2 (0.89%) HTML
1 2 (0.89%) Middleware
1 2 (0.89%) REST
2 1 (0.44%) .NET
2 1 (0.44%) Pandas
2 1 (0.44%) React
2 1 (0.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.56%) Data Structures
3 8 (3.56%) Social Media
4 7 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.11%) FMCG
4 7 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.78%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.33%) Derivative
6 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.89%) PMI
8 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.44%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (51.56%) Decision-Making
2 73 (32.44%) ERP
3 58 (25.78%) Business Case
4 57 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (24.89%) Budgeting
6 55 (24.44%) Business Development
7 48 (21.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 45 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 44 (19.56%) Analytics
10 43 (19.11%) AI
10 43 (19.11%) Resource Allocation
11 42 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (17.78%) Financial Analysis
12 40 (17.78%) Project Management
13 39 (17.33%) Trade-off Analysis
14 37 (16.44%) Agile
15 33 (14.67%) Strategic Thinking
16 32 (14.22%) Business Strategy
17 30 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
17 30 (13.33%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.78%) SQL
2 16 (7.11%) Python
3 14 (6.22%) Groovy
4 5 (2.22%) VBA
5 2 (0.89%) Java
5 2 (0.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.44%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.44%) R
6 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (39.56%) Degree
2 72 (32.00%) ACCA
3 62 (27.56%) CIMA
4 56 (24.89%) Master's Degree
5 47 (20.89%) MBA
6 12 (5.33%) CFA
7 9 (4.00%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.33%) ICAEW
9 2 (0.89%) CBAP
9 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.89%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) AAT
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
1 2 (0.89%) IFRS
1 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.44%) GAAP
2 1 (0.44%) GRC
2 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 10 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (22.67%) SAP
2 19 (8.44%) Oracle
3 14 (6.22%) Hyperion
4 11 (4.89%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.22%) Adaptive Insights
7 4 (1.78%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.78%) Workday
8 2 (0.89%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.89%) Ariba
8 2 (0.89%) Cognos
8 2 (0.89%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.89%) VocaLink