Finance Job Trends in West Sussex

Financial
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 58 47 125
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 14.54% 15.26% 28.41%
As % of the General category 28.02% 22.27% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 52 21 72
10th Percentile - £24,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £37,800 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -15.93% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £75,000 £78,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All General Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 207 211 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 51.88% 68.51% 65.91%
Number of salaries quoted 138 91 170
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,922 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,625 £73,438
90th Percentile £74,125 £75,000 £77,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Finance job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Finance
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in West Sussex

Finance
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Crawley +13 31 £60,000 +77.61% 68
Gatwick +3 12 £60,000 +55.64% 1
Worthing +1 4 £70,000 +30.23% 2
Burgess Hill -4 4 £58,750 -16.07%
Finance
South East

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 5 (8.62%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.72%) SAP BRIM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.72%) SAP PSCD
1 1 (1.72%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.62%) Azure
3 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
4 2 (3.45%) IaaS
4 2 (3.45%) PaaS
4 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) Intranet
2 2 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
1 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) Appium
2 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) JMeter
2 1 (1.72%) Postman
2 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 22 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (22.41%) Legal
5 8 (13.79%) Manufacturing
6 7 (12.07%) Law
7 6 (10.34%) Retail
8 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Advertising
9 1 (1.72%) Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Billing
9 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) French Language
9 1 (1.72%) International Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Military
9 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Analyst
2 16 (27.59%) Project Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Data Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Report Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.34%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) Legal Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Software Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Platform Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Sustainability Manager
8 2 (3.45%) Trainee Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
1 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.72%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.72%) Kafka
2 1 (1.72%) Memcached
2 1 (1.72%) Playwright
2 1 (1.72%) React
2 1 (1.72%) RESTful
2 1 (1.72%) Spring
2 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.72%) Vert.x
2 1 (1.72%) Vue
2 1 (1.72%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (32.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.86%) Analytics
4 11 (18.97%) Project Management
5 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.79%) Data Extraction
8 7 (12.07%) DevOps
8 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
8 7 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.34%) User Stories
10 5 (8.62%) Agile
10 5 (8.62%) Case Management
10 5 (8.62%) Coaching
10 5 (8.62%) Programme Management
11 4 (6.90%) Contract Negotiation
11 4 (6.90%) Data Analysis
11 4 (6.90%) Practice Management
11 4 (6.90%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) SQL
2 5 (8.62%) Python
3 4 (6.90%) Java
3 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.45%) Bicep
4 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) APMP
3 2 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.72%) ACCA
4 1 (1.72%) CIMA
4 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 2 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.45%) SLA
5 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) NEC
2 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Progress
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk