Finance Jobs in the South East

Financial
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,344 2,423 4,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.16% 17.62% 20.74%
As % of the General category 23.65% 27.88% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 1,167 2,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +3.85%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,910 8,691 12,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 55.64% 63.20% 60.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,164 4,299 6,497
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,175 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the South East.

Salary trend for Finance in the South East

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Finance in the South East

Finance
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South East 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
Thames Valley -3 725 £47,500 -13.64% 286
Surrey -4 481 £52,500 -16.00% 112
Hampshire +6 474 £55,000 -8.33% 154
Berkshire -3 346 £53,263 -8.95% 125
Kent 0 265 £53,250 -3.18% 85
Buckinghamshire -8 192 £50,000 -9.09% 92
East Sussex +9 191 £52,500 -4.55% 68
Oxfordshire +10 187 £43,468 +12.17% 69
Middlesex +10 88 £77,500 -3.13% 12
West Sussex -7 87 £53,668 -10.55% 33
Sussex -23 5 £105,000 -
Home Counties +4 1 £48,000 -20.00%
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 79 (3.37%) SAS
2 30 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.55%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) Confluence
6 8 (0.34%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) JBoss
8 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) WordPress
10 2 (0.085%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.043%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.043%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 425 (18.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.26%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.17%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.17%) SPSS
8 3 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.043%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.043%) Simulink
9 1 (0.043%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 76 (3.24%) SAP ERP
2 29 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.85%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.47%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.43%) NEC Housing
7 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.34%) Sage 200
7 8 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.26%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.21%) Pegasus Opera
10 5 (0.21%) Sage 50
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 361 (15.40%) Azure
2 142 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 124 (5.29%) AWS
4 113 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (2.47%) SaaS
6 54 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
7 30 (1.28%) GitHub
8 26 (1.11%) Snowflake
9 24 (1.02%) IaaS
10 23 (0.98%) Serverless
11 18 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (0.77%) Matillion
12 17 (0.73%) GCP
13 16 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (0.68%) Nutanix
13 16 (0.68%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (0.60%) PaaS
15 13 (0.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 291 (12.41%) Broadband
2 38 (1.62%) Firewall
3 30 (1.28%) Internet
4 28 (1.19%) DNS
5 27 (1.15%) Network Security
6 24 (1.02%) Wireless
7 22 (0.94%) VPN
7 22 (0.94%) WAN
8 20 (0.85%) 5G
9 16 (0.68%) LAN
10 11 (0.47%) SNMP
11 10 (0.43%) HTTP
12 9 (0.38%) Intranet
13 8 (0.34%) Modbus
13 8 (0.34%) SAN
14 7 (0.30%) 3G
14 7 (0.30%) BGP
14 7 (0.30%) GPRS
14 7 (0.30%) VLAN
14 7 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.20%) Power BI
1 122 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 67 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 39 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (1.62%) Power Query
7 28 (1.19%) Tableau
8 25 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.77%) Metadata
11 16 (0.68%) Relational Database
12 15 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.60%) MySQL
14 13 (0.55%) DB2
15 12 (0.51%) Redis
16 10 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.43%) GIS
17 8 (0.34%) MS Access
18 7 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (3.71%) Git
2 48 (2.05%) Visual Studio
3 47 (2.01%) JIRA
4 24 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
5 20 (0.85%) Selenium
6 13 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 7 (0.30%) NUnit
11 6 (0.26%) GitLab
11 6 (0.26%) PHPUnit
11 6 (0.26%) Subversion
12 5 (0.21%) Maven
13 4 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.17%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.17%) MSBuild
14 3 (0.13%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 985 (42.02%) Social Skills
2 580 (24.74%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (10.15%) Influencing Skills
4 228 (9.73%) Marketing
4 228 (9.73%) Retail
5 185 (7.89%) Legal
6 173 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 134 (5.72%) Public Sector
8 126 (5.38%) Telecoms
9 107 (4.56%) Manufacturing
10 84 (3.58%) Banking
11 77 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (2.60%) Electronics
13 56 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.96%) Law
15 36 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (1.19%) Billing
17 26 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 24 (1.02%) Local Government
19 22 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 505 (21.54%) Analyst
2 397 (16.94%) Senior
3 258 (11.01%) Developer
4 201 (8.58%) Lead
5 191 (8.15%) Architect
6 173 (7.38%) Senior Analyst
7 125 (5.33%) Project Manager
8 124 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 105 (4.48%) Financial Analyst
10 97 (4.14%) Consultant
11 80 (3.41%) .NET Developer
12 76 (3.24%) IT Manager
13 73 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 65 (2.77%) Commercial Analyst
15 63 (2.69%) Development Manager
16 54 (2.30%) Administrator
17 51 (2.18%) C# Developer
17 51 (2.18%) Support Analyst
18 46 (1.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 44 (1.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (7.00%) .NET
2 91 (3.88%) React
3 90 (3.84%) HTML
4 69 (2.94%) CSS
5 62 (2.65%) ASP.NET
6 60 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 59 (2.52%) .NET Core
8 58 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 55 (2.35%) HTML5
10 47 (2.01%) Kafka
11 43 (1.83%) ASP.NET Web API
12 42 (1.79%) Entity Framework
13 40 (1.71%) REST
14 38 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (1.58%) GraphQL
16 34 (1.45%) Web Services
17 31 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
17 31 (1.32%) Vue
18 30 (1.28%) gRPC
18 30 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
2 90 (3.84%) Management Information System
3 54 (2.30%) PMI
4 41 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 39 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.28%) IoT
7 29 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.07%) Life Science
10 19 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 18 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
11 18 (0.77%) NHS
12 17 (0.73%) Clustering
12 17 (0.73%) Credit Risk
12 17 (0.73%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.68%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
15 14 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 163 (6.95%) Windows
2 67 (2.86%) Linux
3 57 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.81%) Android
5 18 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.34%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.21%) Unix
9 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows NT
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.085%) AIX
12 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.085%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (30.16%) Agile
2 385 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
3 359 (15.32%) Decision-Making
4 327 (13.95%) Mentoring
5 263 (11.22%) Business Case
6 262 (11.18%) Project Management
7 239 (10.20%) Budgeting
8 238 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
9 229 (9.77%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 226 (9.64%) Data Management
11 216 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 198 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
13 197 (8.40%) Roadmaps
14 184 (7.85%) ERP
15 167 (7.12%) Change Management
16 161 (6.87%) Customer Service
17 149 (6.36%) Risk Management
18 140 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 139 (5.93%) Project Delivery
20 138 (5.89%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 255 (10.88%) SQL
2 165 (7.04%) C#
3 137 (5.84%) JavaScript
4 90 (3.84%) Python
5 71 (3.03%) Java
6 50 (2.13%) Go
7 46 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 45 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.62%) C++
9 38 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 31 (1.32%) C
11 18 (0.77%) VB
12 17 (0.73%) PHP
13 15 (0.64%) Bash
13 15 (0.64%) Perl
14 13 (0.55%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.51%) Bicep
15 12 (0.51%) VBA
16 10 (0.43%) R
17 9 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 439 (18.73%) Degree
2 261 (11.13%) ACCA
3 235 (10.03%) CIMA
4 77 (3.28%) PMI Certification
5 69 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 55 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 53 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.96%) DBS Check
9 38 (1.62%) CISSP
10 36 (1.54%) MBA
10 36 (1.54%) SC Cleared
11 28 (1.19%) PMP
12 21 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.81%) PhD
14 16 (0.68%) CISM
15 15 (0.64%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.64%) CRISC
16 12 (0.51%) CFA
16 12 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.71%) GDPR
2 79 (3.37%) QA
2 79 (3.37%) SLA
3 50 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.32%) IFRS
6 23 (0.98%) NIST
7 22 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.94%) PMO
8 16 (0.68%) GRC
8 16 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
10 11 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 11 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.34%) GMP
12 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.30%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 65 (2.77%) Docker
3 64 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.90%) vSphere
6 16 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.64%) Firmware
8 14 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.55%) OpenSSH
9 13 (0.55%) XenApp
10 10 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.085%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.15%) Terraform
3 18 (0.77%) vCenter Server
4 15 (0.64%) SCCM
5 14 (0.60%) IBM BigFix
6 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.55%) PowerCLI
7 8 (0.34%) Ansible
8 7 (0.30%) MIIS
9 6 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.26%) Nessus
9 6 (0.26%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.21%) Endace
10 5 (0.21%) WSUS
11 4 (0.17%) NetCrunch
11 4 (0.17%) PaperCut
12 3 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.13%) Sysprep
13 2 (0.085%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 666 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.00%) SAP
3 127 (5.42%) Oracle
4 80 (3.41%) Anaplan
5 77 (3.28%) Hyperion
6 72 (3.07%) VMware
7 62 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.45%) Sage
9 32 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.28%) CA
11 28 (1.19%) Cisco
11 28 (1.19%) Databricks
12 19 (0.81%) IBM
12 19 (0.81%) NEC
13 18 (0.77%) Virgin Media
14 17 (0.73%) BT
14 17 (0.73%) Citrix
15 16 (0.68%) Google
16 15 (0.64%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.51%) Juniper