Finance Jobs in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 15,288 19,551 33,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.80% 23.24% 23.86%
As % of the General category 29.09% 34.27% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,827 11,670 16,863
10th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,236 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
England

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 52,555 57,045 91,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.76% 67.80% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 36,197 31,816 45,649
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,282 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in England.

Salary trend for Finance in England

Finance
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London 0 6,890 £82,500 +3.13% 3,118
North of England -3 2,466 £54,900 -0.18% 962
South East -2 2,344 £52,500 -8.70% 861
Midlands -2 1,717 £50,000 -9.09% 591
North West 0 1,402 £52,500 -4.55% 585
South West -7 1,212 £52,500 -4.55% 467
West Midlands +1 1,169 £52,500 -4.55% 366
Yorkshire -3 805 £56,500 +2.73% 266
East Midlands -5 542 £47,500 -13.64% 225
East of England -4 522 £50,000 -9.09% 287
North East +1 259 £50,000 -9.09% 123
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 556 (3.64%) Apache
2 546 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 438 (2.86%) SAS
4 378 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 288 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 208 (1.36%) Confluence
7 104 (0.68%) IIS
8 68 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.35%) CMS
10 40 (0.26%) WordPress
11 33 (0.22%) nginx
12 31 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 28 (0.18%) Skype for Business
14 18 (0.12%) WebSphere
15 14 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
16 13 (0.085%) JBoss
17 11 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2010
18 10 (0.065%) ArcGIS
19 8 (0.052%) Office Communications Server
19 8 (0.052%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,755 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 990 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
3 416 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 97 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 81 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 79 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.18%) SPSS
9 16 (0.10%) Trello
10 14 (0.092%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
12 8 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.052%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.046%) InDesign
14 6 (0.039%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.026%) Doxygen
17 3 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 313 (2.05%) SAP ERP
2 153 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 107 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 97 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 77 (0.50%) NEC Housing
6 55 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 48 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 48 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 47 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 38 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 35 (0.23%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
11 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
12 32 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
13 31 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
15 29 (0.19%) Elite 3E
15 29 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
16 28 (0.18%) SAP BPC
17 27 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2,392 (15.65%) Azure
2 1,982 (12.96%) AWS
3 1,136 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 806 (5.27%) GCP
5 794 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 499 (3.26%) SaaS
7 444 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 412 (2.69%) dbt
9 396 (2.59%) Snowflake
10 308 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 237 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 226 (1.48%) Serverless
13 188 (1.23%) GitHub
14 139 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 132 (0.86%) PowerApps
16 131 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
17 130 (0.85%) PaaS
18 125 (0.82%) IaaS
19 122 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
20 116 (0.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 829 (5.42%) Broadband
2 442 (2.89%) Firewall
3 212 (1.39%) DNS
4 183 (1.20%) Internet
5 176 (1.15%) WAN
6 168 (1.10%) LAN
7 140 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 130 (0.85%) VPN
9 129 (0.84%) Network Security
10 116 (0.76%) DHCP
11 111 (0.73%) Wireless
12 104 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
13 89 (0.58%) SAN
14 69 (0.45%) SD-WAN
15 55 (0.36%) Intranet
16 50 (0.33%) 5G
17 45 (0.29%) SNMP
18 44 (0.29%) IPsec
19 41 (0.27%) VoIP
20 38 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 969 (6.34%) Power BI
2 784 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 528 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 487 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 417 (2.73%) Apache Ignite
6 384 (2.51%) Dremio
7 378 (2.47%) Apache Arrow
8 377 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
9 322 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
10 307 (2.01%) Tableau
11 220 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 194 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 165 (1.08%) Big Data
14 145 (0.95%) Relational Database
15 129 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 118 (0.77%) NoSQL
17 113 (0.74%) Metadata
18 106 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
19 84 (0.55%) MySQL
20 82 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 488 (3.19%) JIRA
2 378 (2.47%) Git
3 210 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 105 (0.69%) GitLab
5 102 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 85 (0.56%) Selenium
7 84 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 57 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 36 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 35 (0.23%) JUnit
12 33 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 33 (0.22%) Maven
13 31 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 28 (0.18%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
14 28 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
15 26 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (0.16%) Postman
17 22 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5,248 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 2,583 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2,265 (14.82%) Banking
4 1,447 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,309 (8.56%) Retail
6 1,244 (8.14%) Legal
7 1,138 (7.44%) Marketing
8 960 (6.28%) Front Office
9 932 (6.10%) Law
10 736 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
11 731 (4.78%) Public Sector
12 679 (4.44%) Investment Banking
13 549 (3.59%) Manufacturing
14 475 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
15 403 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
16 394 (2.58%) Telecoms
17 307 (2.01%) Financial Institution
18 275 (1.80%) Back Office
19 257 (1.68%) Billing
20 237 (1.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,741 (17.93%) Analyst
2 2,647 (17.31%) Senior
3 1,905 (12.46%) Developer
4 1,467 (9.60%) Lead
5 1,254 (8.20%) Architect
6 886 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 757 (4.95%) Software Engineer
8 683 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 656 (4.29%) Consultant
10 649 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
11 595 (3.89%) Financial Analyst
12 444 (2.90%) Senior Developer
13 442 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 415 (2.71%) IT Manager
15 349 (2.28%) .NET Developer
16 322 (2.11%) Python Engineer
17 309 (2.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 306 (2.00%) Business Analyst
19 289 (1.89%) Python Developer
20 275 (1.80%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 863 (5.64%) .NET
2 704 (4.60%) React
3 549 (3.59%) gRPC
4 494 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 462 (3.02%) AngularJS
6 429 (2.81%) HTML
7 389 (2.54%) Pandas
8 332 (2.17%) NumPy
9 306 (2.00%) SciPy
10 305 (2.00%) CSS
11 303 (1.98%) ASP.NET
12 297 (1.94%) REST
13 276 (1.81%) Redux
14 273 (1.79%) .NET Core
15 254 (1.66%) Vue
16 251 (1.64%) Node.js
17 248 (1.62%) Web Services
18 225 (1.47%) Kafka
19 198 (1.30%) .NET Framework
20 183 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 796 (5.21%) Hedge funds
2 716 (4.68%) Management Information System
3 711 (4.65%) Fixed Income
4 633 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 631 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 597 (3.91%) Derivative
7 591 (3.87%) Equities
8 430 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 343 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 231 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 195 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 181 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 181 (1.18%) PMI
13 166 (1.09%) Driving Licence
13 166 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 161 (1.05%) Cloud Native
15 146 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 134 (0.88%) Data Structures
17 130 (0.85%) NHS
18 119 (0.78%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1,146 (7.50%) Windows
2 680 (4.45%) Linux
3 323 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 234 (1.53%) Unix
5 198 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 107 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 100 (0.65%) Android
8 95 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 94 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 86 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 80 (0.52%) CentOS
12 60 (0.39%) Solaris
13 59 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 59 (0.39%) Windows 7
14 38 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
16 29 (0.19%) AIX
17 27 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 25 (0.16%) zOS
19 21 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,324 (28.28%) Agile
2 2,417 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
3 1,775 (11.61%) Mentoring
4 1,718 (11.24%) Project Management
5 1,590 (10.40%) Roadmaps
6 1,445 (9.45%) Decision-Making
7 1,382 (9.04%) Software Engineering
8 1,311 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
9 1,259 (8.24%) Asset Management
10 1,200 (7.85%) Analytics
11 1,116 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 1,094 (7.16%) DevOps
13 1,089 (7.12%) Coaching
14 1,068 (6.99%) Data Management
15 1,006 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
16 970 (6.34%) ERP
17 964 (6.31%) Change Management
17 964 (6.31%) Risk Management
18 898 (5.87%) Customer Service
19 859 (5.62%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,269 (14.84%) SQL
2 2,008 (13.13%) Python
3 1,219 (7.97%) JavaScript
4 1,122 (7.34%) Java
5 1,007 (6.59%) C#
6 903 (5.91%) TypeScript
7 490 (3.21%) PowerShell
8 243 (1.59%) Go
9 204 (1.33%) T-SQL
10 189 (1.24%) C++
11 178 (1.16%) Bash
12 152 (0.99%) R
13 125 (0.82%) C
14 107 (0.70%) PHP
15 93 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 91 (0.60%) VBA
17 77 (0.50%) Perl
18 67 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 67 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 64 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,379 (15.56%) Degree
2 793 (5.19%) ACCA
3 609 (3.98%) CIMA
4 550 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 362 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 303 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 296 (1.94%) CISSP
8 270 (1.77%) SC Cleared
9 267 (1.75%) PMI Certification
10 237 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 163 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 148 (0.97%) CISM
13 143 (0.94%) PMP
14 139 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 128 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 127 (0.83%) DV Cleared
17 120 (0.78%) AWS Certification
18 118 (0.77%) MBA
19 96 (0.63%) CRISC
20 95 (0.62%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 477 (3.12%) QA
3 433 (2.83%) GDPR
4 382 (2.50%) SLA
5 226 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 214 (1.40%) IFRS
7 201 (1.31%) NIST
8 187 (1.22%) PMO
9 163 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 91 (0.60%) GAAP
11 88 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 69 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 63 (0.41%) GRC
14 59 (0.39%) IFRS 9
15 53 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 47 (0.31%) COBIT
17 41 (0.27%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.25%) NCSC
19 35 (0.23%) ITGC
20 33 (0.22%) GMP
System Software
1 618 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 496 (3.24%) Docker
3 293 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (0.41%) XenApp
7 59 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 55 (0.36%) vSphere
9 49 (0.32%) Firmware
10 48 (0.31%) XenDesktop
11 45 (0.29%) RACF
12 39 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
14 13 (0.085%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.078%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.059%) Forefront TMG
17 8 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
18 7 (0.046%) HDFS
18 7 (0.046%) IAG
Systems Management
1 610 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 463 (3.03%) Terraform
3 219 (1.43%) Ansible
4 155 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 128 (0.84%) SCCM
6 109 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 55 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 33 (0.22%) Puppet
9 31 (0.20%) Grafana
9 31 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.18%) SCOM
11 26 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 25 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
14 20 (0.13%) Istio
15 17 (0.11%) Nmap
16 16 (0.10%) NetBackup
17 15 (0.098%) Nessus
17 15 (0.098%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3,530 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 911 (5.96%) Oracle
3 848 (5.55%) SAP
4 428 (2.80%) Google
5 408 (2.67%) VMware
6 328 (2.15%) Hyperion
7 323 (2.11%) Anaplan
8 282 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 261 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 240 (1.57%) Cisco
11 186 (1.22%) Citrix
12 180 (1.18%) CA
13 174 (1.14%) Red Hat
14 170 (1.11%) Dell
15 154 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 150 (0.98%) IBM
17 135 (0.88%) Databricks
17 135 (0.88%) NEC
18 100 (0.65%) Palo Alto
19 98 (0.64%) Sage