Finance Jobs in the South West

Financial
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,208 1,455 1,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.05% 21.71% 20.71%
As % of the General category 24.19% 34.23% 34.11%
Number of salaries quoted 609 826 1,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,043 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £73,474 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,994 4,251 4,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 53.96% 63.43% 60.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 2,341 3,045
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £29,924
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £37,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Finance in the South West

Finance
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the South West

Finance
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Bristol -9 401 £65,000 +9.20% 166
Dorset +25 378 £57,500 +9.52% 33
Gloucestershire -14 168 £55,000 - 39
Somerset 0 96 £42,500 -22.73% 62
Wiltshire -32 58 £49,751 -0.50% 44
Devon -18 48 £44,881 -0.26% 54
Cornwall -2 30 £38,750 -6.63% 8
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 44 (3.64%) Confluence
2 39 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.82%) SAS
5 13 (1.08%) IIS
6 10 (0.83%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.75%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.58%) Apache
9 4 (0.33%) Moodle
9 4 (0.33%) Site Server
10 3 (0.25%) Captiva
10 3 (0.25%) FileNet
10 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 98 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 90 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (7.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.08%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.58%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.17%) Trello
10 1 (0.083%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.58%) HFM
2 7 (0.58%) Hyperion Planning
3 4 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.17%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.083%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.083%) iTrent
5 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.083%) Primavera
5 1 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.083%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 127 (10.51%) Azure
2 96 (7.95%) AWS
3 80 (6.62%) Power Platform
4 58 (4.80%) GCP
5 36 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.57%) SaaS
7 21 (1.74%) Power Automate
8 17 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (1.32%) npm
10 14 (1.16%) GitHub
11 13 (1.08%) Entra ID
12 11 (0.91%) OCI
13 8 (0.66%) PaaS
14 6 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.41%) Azure Stack
15 5 (0.41%) Collibra
15 5 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (0.41%) IaaS
16 4 (0.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.57%) Internet
2 15 (1.24%) Wireless
3 13 (1.08%) SAN
4 11 (0.91%) VoIP
5 10 (0.83%) Broadband
6 9 (0.75%) Network Security
7 7 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (0.58%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.50%) Firewall
8 6 (0.50%) IPsec
9 5 (0.41%) DNS
10 4 (0.33%) LAN
10 4 (0.33%) PBX
10 4 (0.33%) SMS
10 4 (0.33%) SNMP
10 4 (0.33%) VPN
10 4 (0.33%) WLAN
11 3 (0.25%) Intranet
11 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 59 (4.88%) Power BI
3 50 (4.14%) MongoDB
3 50 (4.14%) Tableau
4 46 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 20 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (1.32%) Big Data
8 16 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
9 14 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.16%) QlikView
10 13 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.91%) Essbase
11 11 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.58%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (3.73%) JIRA
2 38 (3.15%) Git
3 28 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.82%) Selenium
5 17 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 13 (1.08%) Storybook
8 12 (0.99%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.99%) Maven
8 12 (0.99%) Subversion
8 12 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.41%) GitLab
11 5 (0.41%) IntelliJ
11 5 (0.41%) JUnit
12 4 (0.33%) ERwin
12 4 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 360 (29.80%) Banking
3 341 (28.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 294 (24.34%) Law
5 246 (20.36%) Analytical Skills
6 225 (18.63%) Investment Banking
7 117 (9.69%) Marketing
8 111 (9.19%) Legal
9 93 (7.70%) Retail
10 75 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (4.97%) Public Sector
12 57 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (4.39%) Manufacturing
14 46 (3.81%) Telecoms
15 43 (3.56%) Financial Institution
16 42 (3.48%) Games
17 40 (3.31%) Electronics
18 37 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
19 36 (2.98%) Aerospace
20 29 (2.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 214 (17.72%) Analyst
2 177 (14.65%) Senior
3 139 (11.51%) Project Manager
4 115 (9.52%) Lead
5 106 (8.77%) Developer
6 79 (6.54%) Architect
6 79 (6.54%) Consultant
7 60 (4.97%) Administrator
8 53 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 50 (4.14%) Senior Manager
10 41 (3.39%) Support Engineer
11 38 (3.15%) Service Analyst
11 38 (3.15%) Software Developer
12 36 (2.98%) Senior Project Manager
13 34 (2.81%) DBA
13 34 (2.81%) Product Manager
14 28 (2.32%) DV Cleared DBA
15 26 (2.15%) Data Engineer
16 25 (2.07%) C# Developer
16 25 (2.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (5.30%) .NET
2 52 (4.30%) React
3 44 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 36 (2.98%) HTML
5 35 (2.90%) REST
6 33 (2.73%) Node.js
7 28 (2.32%) CSS
7 28 (2.32%) Spring
8 21 (1.74%) ASP.NET
9 20 (1.66%) Kafka
10 19 (1.57%) .NET Framework
11 18 (1.49%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.32%) RESTful
12 16 (1.32%) Vue
12 16 (1.32%) Web Services
13 15 (1.24%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.24%) Pandas
14 13 (1.08%) Gherkin
14 13 (1.08%) Sass
15 11 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
2 54 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 51 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 32 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 25 (2.07%) Credit Risk
7 24 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 24 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 22 (1.82%) Derivative
10 21 (1.74%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.66%) Driving Licence
12 18 (1.49%) OTC Derivatives
13 17 (1.41%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.16%) Hedge funds
14 14 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
15 13 (1.08%) iPhone
16 12 (0.99%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 106 (8.77%) Windows
2 66 (5.46%) Linux
3 35 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 33 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 32 (2.65%) CentOS
6 31 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.57%) Android
9 18 (1.49%) Windows 10
10 16 (1.32%) AIX
11 9 (0.75%) Unix
12 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
13 5 (0.41%) Windows Mobile
14 4 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.083%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.083%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.083%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (25.58%) Agile
2 299 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (16.56%) Project Management
4 126 (10.43%) Roadmaps
5 120 (9.93%) Mentoring
6 117 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 116 (9.60%) Analytics
8 114 (9.44%) Decision-Making
9 113 (9.35%) Software Engineering
10 104 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
11 100 (8.28%) Coaching
12 99 (8.20%) Time Management
13 94 (7.78%) Project Delivery
14 91 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
15 89 (7.37%) Risk Management
16 88 (7.28%) Machine Learning
16 88 (7.28%) User Experience
17 85 (7.04%) Customer Service
18 75 (6.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 73 (6.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 192 (15.89%) SQL
2 115 (9.52%) Java
3 102 (8.44%) Python
4 90 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 70 (5.79%) C#
6 59 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 49 (4.06%) Bash
8 48 (3.97%) PowerShell
9 21 (1.74%) C
10 19 (1.57%) PHP
11 18 (1.49%) Scala
12 16 (1.32%) R
13 15 (1.24%) Go
14 14 (1.16%) C++
15 11 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.66%) VB.NET
18 7 (0.58%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 269 (22.27%) Degree
2 162 (13.41%) Security Cleared
3 91 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 59 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.48%) CISSP
6 26 (2.15%) CISM
7 22 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (1.74%) CRISC
9 20 (1.66%) CISA
10 14 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 11 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 10 (0.83%) CISMP
13 10 (0.83%) IISP
13 10 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (0.83%) MCP
13 10 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.31%) GDPR
2 33 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.24%) NIST
5 25 (2.07%) QA
6 22 (1.82%) SLA
7 20 (1.66%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.91%) PMO
9 10 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 10 (0.83%) JSP 440
9 10 (0.83%) NEBOSH
9 10 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 10 (0.83%) RMADS
10 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.41%) SEPA
11 5 (0.41%) TARGET2
12 4 (0.33%) IFRS
12 4 (0.33%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (4.22%) Docker
2 40 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.58%) Firmware
5 4 (0.33%) vSphere
6 3 (0.25%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Flume
7 2 (0.17%) XenApp
7 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.41%) Terraform
3 14 (1.16%) SCCM
4 12 (0.99%) Backup Exec
4 12 (0.99%) NetBackup
5 11 (0.91%) Ansible
6 6 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.50%) Puppet
7 5 (0.41%) Argo
7 5 (0.41%) Graphite
7 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.25%) SCOM
9 3 (0.25%) WSUS
10 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.083%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.083%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 276 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.20%) Oracle
3 36 (2.98%) Alteryx
3 36 (2.98%) Red Hat
4 34 (2.81%) Google
5 32 (2.65%) SAP
6 29 (2.40%) IBM
7 25 (2.07%) VMware
8 17 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.32%) NetApp
9 16 (1.32%) Pega
10 15 (1.24%) Xamarin
11 13 (1.08%) Dell
12 12 (0.99%) Hitachi
12 12 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.99%) Snow
12 12 (0.99%) Teradata
12 12 (0.99%) Veritas
13 10 (0.83%) Autodesk
14 9 (0.75%) HP