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 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 654 821 936
Rank change year-on-year +167 +115 +230
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Financial Analyst 36 81 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.082% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.086% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 12
10th Percentile £51,250 £34,306 £41,300
25th Percentile £56,250 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £61,875 £74,063
90th Percentile £85,750 £109,750 £78,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -25.00%

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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 9 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 9 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 +131 36 £65,000 +30.00% 23
UK excluding London +174 22 £52,500 +5.00% 11
South East +103 16 - - 2
London +83 14 £85,000 - 14
Work from Home +130 12 £75,000 +87.50% 12
North of England +50 6 £52,500 +72.13% 4
North West +16 6 £52,500 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 36 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (66.67%) Law
3 21 (58.33%) ERP
3 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
4 19 (52.78%) SAP
5 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 16 (44.44%) Cost Control
6 16 (44.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 16 (44.44%) Strategic Thinking
6 16 (44.44%) Service Management
6 16 (44.44%) SAP FI
6 16 (44.44%) Project Management
6 16 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (44.44%) Customer Experience
7 13 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (30.56%) Azure
8 11 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (27.78%) Power Platform
9 10 (27.78%) Power BI
10 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (25.00%) Workflow
10 9 (25.00%) SQL
11 8 (22.22%) T-SQL
11 8 (22.22%) Billing
11 8 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
11 8 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (22.22%) Aderant
12 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (19.44%) 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 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (44.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (44.44%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Power BI
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (66.67%) Law
3 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.22%) Billing
6 7 (19.44%) Legal
7 6 (16.67%) Banking
8 3 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
1 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
1 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) ERP
2 16 (44.44%) Cost Control
2 16 (44.44%) Customer Experience
2 16 (44.44%) Project Management
2 16 (44.44%) Service Management
2 16 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (44.44%) Strategic Thinking
3 13 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (25.00%) Workflow
5 8 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (11.11%) Analytics
8 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (8.33%) DDoS Mitigation
8 3 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (8.33%) SIEM
8 3 (8.33%) Use Case
8 3 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 3 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) CISSP
1 3 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) ACCA
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (52.78%) SAP
3 8 (22.22%) Aderant
4 3 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 3 (8.33%) Concur
4 3 (8.33%) IBM
4 3 (8.33%) LogRhythm
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Qualys
4 3 (8.33%) Tenable
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Alteryx