Finance Analyst
UK

The median Finance Analyst salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 604 703
Rank change year-on-year +195 +99 -157
Permanent jobs requiring a Financial Analyst 601 418 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.45% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 310 249 455
10th Percentile £32,900 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £88,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Financial Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Financial Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Analyst.

Salary trend for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Analyst over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Analyst in the UK

Financial Analyst
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +174 561 £60,000 +4.35% 81
Work from Home +179 356 £62,500 +13.64% 28
London +165 301 £75,000 +15.38% 43
UK excluding London +82 279 £47,500 - 36
South East +42 95 £50,000 +8.11% 11
North of England +66 83 £36,000 -28.00% 12
North West +44 59 £40,000 -20.00% 8
Midlands +19 31 £47,500 +43.93% 4
Scotland -43 26 £51,500 -23.22% 3
South West -12 22 £50,000 +21.21% 3
Yorkshire +67 21 £30,250 -42.38% 1
West Midlands +22 19 £47,500 +13.77% 2
East of England +22 14 £51,750 +6.15% 5
East Midlands -8 12 £50,500 +60.32% 2
Wales +16 8 - - 1
North East -2 3 £30,500 -32.22% 3

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Financial Analyst in the job title.

1 601 (100.00%) Finance
2 250 (41.60%) Social Skills
3 233 (38.77%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (38.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 192 (31.95%) Agile
6 186 (30.95%) Decision-Making
7 182 (30.28%) Microsoft
8 166 (27.62%) ACCA
8 166 (27.62%) CIMA
9 160 (26.62%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 146 (24.29%) SQL
11 142 (23.63%) Budgeting
11 142 (23.63%) Mentoring
12 132 (21.96%) Actionable Insight
13 129 (21.46%) Broadband
14 128 (21.30%) Business Case
15 116 (19.30%) Python
16 114 (18.97%) Influencing Skills
17 102 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
18 95 (15.81%) Legal
19 89 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
19 89 (14.81%) Degree
20 80 (13.31%) Oracle
21 79 (13.14%) Banking
21 79 (13.14%) Asset Management
22 74 (12.31%) Investment Management
23 71 (11.81%) Hedge funds
24 70 (11.65%) Derivative
25 69 (11.48%) Front Office
26 67 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement

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 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.16%) SAS
3 6 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.33%) Apache
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 230 (38.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (4.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (3.49%) Elite 3E
2 14 (2.33%) Aladdin
3 13 (2.16%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (2.16%) iTrent
4 12 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
5 10 (1.66%) Fidessa
5 10 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (1.00%) NetSuite
6 6 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
6 6 (1.00%) Sage 50
7 5 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.67%) Lawson
8 4 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
9 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (10.48%) Power Platform
2 44 (7.32%) AWS
3 9 (1.50%) OCI
4 8 (1.33%) Azure
5 7 (1.16%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.83%) SaaS
8 3 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.33%) dbt
9 2 (0.33%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.33%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.17%) Asana
10 1 (0.17%) FinancialForce
10 1 (0.17%) Google Sheets
10 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.17%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.17%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 129 (21.46%) Broadband
2 10 (1.66%) DHCP
2 10 (1.66%) DNS
2 10 (1.66%) Firewall
2 10 (1.66%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.50%) Intranet
3 3 (0.50%) VPN
3 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.48%) Power BI
2 28 (4.66%) Oracle Reports
2 28 (4.66%) Tableau
3 18 (3.00%) Data Mining
4 13 (2.16%) BusinessObjects
5 11 (1.83%) Power Query
5 11 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.66%) MS Access
7 8 (1.33%) Big Data
7 8 (1.33%) Essbase
8 7 (1.16%) QlikView
9 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.33%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (0.33%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.33%) Dremio
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (0.83%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.17%) JIRA
General
1 601 (100.00%) Finance
2 250 (41.60%) Social Skills
3 233 (38.77%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (18.97%) Influencing Skills
5 95 (15.81%) Legal
6 79 (13.14%) Banking
7 69 (11.48%) Front Office
8 62 (10.32%) Law
9 31 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (4.83%) Back Office
11 20 (3.33%) Retail
12 18 (3.00%) Investment Banking
12 18 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 18 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.66%) General Ledger
14 15 (2.50%) Marketing
15 12 (2.00%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.00%) Billing
16 6 (1.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (1.33%) Pandas
4 6 (1.00%) Middleware
5 2 (0.33%) Flash
6 1 (0.17%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.17%) NumPy
6 1 (0.17%) REST
6 1 (0.17%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.81%) Hedge funds
2 70 (11.65%) Derivative
3 44 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 44 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 43 (7.15%) Fixed Income
5 42 (6.99%) Equities
6 32 (5.32%) Onboarding
7 31 (5.16%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.66%) Social Media
9 11 (1.83%) Life Science
10 10 (1.66%) Eurex
11 7 (1.16%) Pricing Data
12 6 (1.00%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.50%) CMDB
14 3 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.66%) Windows
2 10 (1.66%) CentOS
2 10 (1.66%) Linux
2 10 (1.66%) Solaris
2 10 (1.66%) Ubuntu
2 10 (1.66%) Unix
3 8 (1.33%) Windows Vista
4 4 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (31.95%) Agile
2 186 (30.95%) Decision-Making
3 160 (26.62%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 142 (23.63%) Budgeting
4 142 (23.63%) Mentoring
5 132 (21.96%) Actionable Insight
6 128 (21.30%) Business Case
7 102 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
9 79 (13.14%) Asset Management
10 74 (12.31%) Investment Management
11 67 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (10.15%) ERP
13 51 (8.49%) Analytics
14 49 (8.15%) Financial Analysis
14 49 (8.15%) Machine Learning
15 48 (7.99%) Artificial Intelligence
16 41 (6.82%) ITIL
17 35 (5.82%) Financial Modelling
18 33 (5.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 146 (24.29%) SQL
2 116 (19.30%) Python
3 27 (4.49%) C#
4 18 (3.00%) T-SQL
5 11 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.66%) Bash
6 10 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.66%) Perl
6 10 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.66%) Ruby
7 8 (1.33%) R
8 2 (0.33%) C++
9 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 166 (27.62%) ACCA
1 166 (27.62%) CIMA
2 89 (14.81%) Degree
3 8 (1.33%) AAT
4 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 7 (1.16%) MBA
5 5 (0.83%) CFA
6 3 (0.50%) ISEB
7 2 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.17%) CCAB
8 1 (0.17%) CISA
8 1 (0.17%) CISM
8 1 (0.17%) CISSP
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.17%) QiCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.33%) IFRS
2 13 (2.16%) SLA
3 9 (1.50%) QA
4 8 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.33%) PMO
7 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) XenApp
3 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 182 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 80 (13.31%) Oracle
3 43 (7.15%) SAP
4 26 (4.33%) Bloomberg
5 17 (2.83%) CA
6 16 (2.66%) Alteryx
7 15 (2.50%) Sage
8 14 (2.33%) BISAM
8 14 (2.33%) Concur
9 13 (2.16%) Hyperion
9 13 (2.16%) Infor
10 12 (2.00%) Workday
11 11 (1.83%) PeopleSoft
12 10 (1.66%) CQG
12 10 (1.66%) ION Trading
12 10 (1.66%) Patsystems
12 10 (1.66%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.66%) Reuters
12 10 (1.66%) Trayport
13 9 (1.50%) BT