Senior Financial Analyst Jobs

Senior Finance Analyst
UK

The median Senior Finance Analyst salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 667 823 941
Rank change year-on-year +156 +118 +254
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Financial Analyst 35 84 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.081% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.085% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 18 25 9
10th Percentile £50,650 £34,537 £45,150
25th Percentile £51,563 £40,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -31.03% +16.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £101,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.09% -19.17%

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 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Senior Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Financial Analyst in the UK

Senior Financial Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Financial Analyst in the UK

Senior Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Financial Analyst in the UK

Senior Financial Analyst
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Financial Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +139 35 £65,000 +30.00% 16
UK excluding London +173 23 £52,500 +5.00% 1
South East +87 16 - - 1
Work from Home +104 12 £75,000 +87.50% 6
London +73 12 £85,000 +21.43% 16
North of England +38 7 £52,500 +72.13%
North West +5 7 £52,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (68.57%) Law
3 23 (65.71%) ERP
4 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
5 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
5 19 (54.29%) SAP
6 16 (45.71%) SAP FI
6 16 (45.71%) Project Management
6 16 (45.71%) Service Management
6 16 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (45.71%) Cost Control
6 16 (45.71%) Customer Experience
6 16 (45.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 16 (45.71%) Strategic Thinking
7 13 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
8 10 (28.57%) Power BI
8 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (28.57%) Workflow
9 9 (25.71%) SQL
10 8 (22.86%) T-SQL
10 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (22.86%) Billing
10 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
10 8 (22.86%) Azure
10 8 (22.86%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (22.86%) Aderant
11 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (20.00%) Legal

Senior 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 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (45.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (45.71%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.86%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Power BI
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
1 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (68.57%) Law
3 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.86%) Billing
6 7 (20.00%) Legal
7 3 (8.57%) Banking
7 3 (8.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) ERP
2 16 (45.71%) Cost Control
2 16 (45.71%) Customer Experience
2 16 (45.71%) Project Management
2 16 (45.71%) Service Management
2 16 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (45.71%) Strategic Thinking
3 13 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (28.57%) Workflow
5 8 (22.86%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
6 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (11.43%) Analytics
8 3 (8.57%) Change Management
8 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis
8 3 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
9 2 (5.71%) Data Management
9 2 (5.71%) Document Management
9 2 (5.71%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) ACCA
1 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (5.71%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
1 19 (54.29%) SAP
2 8 (22.86%) Aderant
3 3 (8.57%) Concur
3 3 (8.57%) IBM
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Alteryx