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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,973 20,320 32,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 23.03% 23.73%
As % of the General category 29.29% 33.76% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,804 12,079 16,722
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,378 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +2.78% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,000
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 51,126 60,191 87,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.12% 68.23% 64.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35,747 32,782 45,122
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £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 18 May 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 18 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
London 0 6,850 £80,000 - 3,340
North of England -2 2,411 £55,000 - 895
South East -2 2,237 £51,500 -10.43% 1,198
Midlands -1 1,598 £50,000 -9.09% 603
North West +1 1,356 £55,000 - 517
South West -8 1,211 £54,043 -1.74% 435
West Midlands 0 1,116 £52,000 -5.45% 384
Yorkshire -3 805 £56,500 +2.73% 270
East of England -2 524 £50,000 -9.09% 294
East Midlands -2 475 £47,500 -13.64% 219
North East 0 250 £50,000 -9.09% 116
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
1 490 (3.27%) Apache
2 471 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 447 (2.99%) SAS
4 390 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 300 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 210 (1.40%) Confluence
7 104 (0.69%) IIS
8 78 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.36%) CMS
10 38 (0.25%) WordPress
11 34 (0.23%) nginx
12 31 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 30 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 28 (0.19%) Skype for Business
15 14 (0.094%) Captiva
15 14 (0.094%) JBoss
16 13 (0.087%) FileNet
16 13 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
17 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
17 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,624 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 871 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 409 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 96 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 82 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 28 (0.19%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 14 (0.094%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
12 9 (0.060%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.047%) InDesign
14 7 (0.047%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
17 3 (0.020%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 314 (2.10%) SAP ERP
2 153 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 115 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 99 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 74 (0.49%) NEC Housing
6 55 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 48 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 48 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 41 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 39 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 36 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 34 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
12 33 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 31 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.19%) Elite 3E
16 28 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
16 28 (0.19%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,371 (15.84%) Azure
2 1,907 (12.74%) AWS
3 1,107 (7.39%) Power Platform
4 826 (5.52%) GCP
5 818 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
6 505 (3.37%) SaaS
7 405 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 336 (2.24%) dbt
9 335 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 300 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 233 (1.56%) Serverless
12 226 (1.51%) GitHub
13 190 (1.27%) Entra ID
14 149 (1.00%) PaaS
15 139 (0.93%) IaaS
15 139 (0.93%) Power Automate
16 138 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
17 130 (0.87%) PowerApps
18 127 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
19 123 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 828 (5.53%) Broadband
2 437 (2.92%) Firewall
3 212 (1.42%) DNS
4 185 (1.24%) Internet
5 170 (1.14%) WAN
6 164 (1.10%) LAN
7 141 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 138 (0.92%) VPN
9 120 (0.80%) Network Security
10 114 (0.76%) DHCP
11 109 (0.73%) Wireless
12 107 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.60%) SAN
14 70 (0.47%) SD-WAN
15 55 (0.37%) Intranet
16 52 (0.35%) 5G
17 44 (0.29%) SNMP
18 43 (0.29%) IPsec
19 38 (0.25%) Skype
20 36 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 940 (6.28%) Power BI
2 789 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 485 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 459 (3.07%) Data Lake
5 354 (2.36%) Apache Ignite
6 326 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 310 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
8 309 (2.06%) Apache Arrow
8 309 (2.06%) Dremio
9 298 (1.99%) Tableau
10 228 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 192 (1.28%) MongoDB
12 156 (1.04%) Big Data
13 140 (0.94%) Relational Database
14 135 (0.90%) NoSQL
15 131 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 112 (0.75%) Metadata
17 105 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 89 (0.59%) MySQL
19 86 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 506 (3.38%) JIRA
2 387 (2.58%) Git
3 233 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 102 (0.68%) GitLab
6 86 (0.57%) Selenium
7 84 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 57 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 42 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
11 40 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 39 (0.26%) Maven
13 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.22%) JUnit
14 33 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 31 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
16 30 (0.20%) Bitbucket
17 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
17 23 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
18 22 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 5,236 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 2,500 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2,266 (15.13%) Banking
4 1,395 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,186 (7.92%) Retail
6 1,184 (7.91%) Legal
7 1,009 (6.74%) Marketing
8 914 (6.10%) Front Office
9 906 (6.05%) Law
10 763 (5.10%) Public Sector
11 744 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
12 641 (4.28%) Investment Banking
13 546 (3.65%) Manufacturing
14 483 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
15 402 (2.68%) Telecoms
16 393 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
17 309 (2.06%) Financial Institution
18 278 (1.86%) Back Office
19 259 (1.73%) Billing
20 231 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,715 (18.13%) Analyst
2 2,570 (17.16%) Senior
3 1,868 (12.48%) Developer
4 1,427 (9.53%) Lead
5 1,216 (8.12%) Architect
6 884 (5.90%) Project Manager
7 714 (4.77%) Software Engineer
8 656 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
9 642 (4.29%) Consultant
10 620 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
11 570 (3.81%) Financial Analyst
12 435 (2.91%) Senior Manager
13 431 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 407 (2.72%) IT Manager
15 340 (2.27%) .NET Developer
16 318 (2.12%) Business Analyst
17 298 (1.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 284 (1.90%) Python Developer
19 283 (1.89%) Python Engineer
20 280 (1.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 861 (5.75%) .NET
2 701 (4.68%) React
3 484 (3.23%) gRPC
4 461 (3.08%) AngularJS
5 435 (2.91%) HTML
6 425 (2.84%) Protocol Buffers
7 328 (2.19%) Pandas
8 306 (2.04%) ASP.NET
9 301 (2.01%) CSS
10 290 (1.94%) REST
11 272 (1.82%) NumPy
12 271 (1.81%) .NET Core
13 269 (1.80%) Redux
14 246 (1.64%) Node.js
14 246 (1.64%) Web Services
15 245 (1.64%) SciPy
16 243 (1.62%) Vue
17 224 (1.50%) Kafka
18 194 (1.30%) .NET Framework
18 194 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 744 (4.97%) Hedge funds
2 673 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 657 (4.39%) Fixed Income
4 655 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 575 (3.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 552 (3.69%) Derivative
7 538 (3.59%) Equities
8 430 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 339 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 228 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 212 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 197 (1.32%) PMI
13 190 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 166 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 165 (1.10%) Driving Licence
16 160 (1.07%) Cloud Native
17 145 (0.97%) Algorithms
18 137 (0.91%) Data Structures
19 128 (0.85%) Credit Risk
20 123 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,135 (7.58%) Windows
2 679 (4.53%) Linux
3 311 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 248 (1.66%) Unix
5 196 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 106 (0.71%) Android
7 103 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 97 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 89 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 77 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 76 (0.51%) CentOS
12 60 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 58 (0.39%) Solaris
14 55 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 36 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
17 29 (0.19%) AIX
18 25 (0.17%) zOS
19 24 (0.16%) Mac OS
20 19 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,189 (27.98%) Agile
2 2,421 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
3 1,774 (11.85%) Mentoring
4 1,704 (11.38%) Project Management
5 1,582 (10.57%) Roadmaps
6 1,432 (9.56%) Decision-Making
7 1,317 (8.80%) Software Engineering
8 1,307 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
9 1,223 (8.17%) Asset Management
10 1,194 (7.97%) Analytics
11 1,109 (7.41%) DevOps
12 1,085 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,055 (7.05%) Coaching
14 1,014 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 970 (6.48%) Change Management
16 968 (6.46%) Data Management
17 950 (6.34%) ERP
18 932 (6.22%) Risk Management
19 900 (6.01%) Customer Service
20 846 (5.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,235 (14.93%) SQL
2 1,958 (13.08%) Python
3 1,162 (7.76%) JavaScript
4 1,092 (7.29%) Java
5 1,004 (6.71%) C#
6 855 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 429 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 240 (1.60%) Go
9 204 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 189 (1.26%) C++
11 176 (1.18%) Bash
12 167 (1.12%) R
13 130 (0.87%) C
14 100 (0.67%) PHP
15 96 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 89 (0.59%) VBA
17 69 (0.46%) Perl
18 68 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 68 (0.45%) Scala
19 64 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,372 (15.84%) Degree
2 785 (5.24%) ACCA
3 606 (4.05%) CIMA
4 505 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 356 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 301 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 285 (1.90%) CISSP
8 282 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 249 (1.66%) DBS Check
10 246 (1.64%) SC Cleared
11 166 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 146 (0.98%) CISM
13 142 (0.95%) PMP
14 128 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 128 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 117 (0.78%) MBA
16 114 (0.76%) AWS Certification
17 103 (0.69%) DV Cleared
18 95 (0.63%) CRISC
19 92 (0.61%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (3.14%) GDPR
2 469 (3.13%) QA
3 466 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 388 (2.59%) SLA
5 225 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.46%) IFRS
7 196 (1.31%) NIST
8 188 (1.26%) PMO
9 164 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.60%) GAAP
11 86 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 66 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 65 (0.43%) IFRS 9
14 63 (0.42%) GRC
15 50 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 45 (0.30%) COBIT
17 42 (0.28%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.25%) NCSC
19 35 (0.23%) ITGC
20 29 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 578 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 498 (3.33%) Docker
3 289 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 80 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 52 (0.35%) vSphere
7 52 (0.35%) XenApp
8 47 (0.31%) Firmware
9 40 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 37 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 15 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 14 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
13 12 (0.080%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.073%) OpenSSH
15 9 (0.060%) Forefront TMG
15 9 (0.060%) RACF
16 8 (0.053%) HDFS
17 7 (0.047%) IAG
17 7 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 608 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 448 (2.99%) Terraform
3 204 (1.36%) Ansible
4 151 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 129 (0.86%) SCCM
6 102 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 54 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 33 (0.22%) Grafana
10 30 (0.20%) Puppet
10 30 (0.20%) SCOM
11 26 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.15%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.14%) Istio
14 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
15 17 (0.11%) Nmap
16 16 (0.11%) NetBackup
17 15 (0.10%) Nessus
18 13 (0.087%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3,327 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 930 (6.21%) Oracle
3 878 (5.86%) SAP
4 450 (3.01%) Google
5 401 (2.68%) VMware
6 326 (2.18%) Hyperion
7 323 (2.16%) Anaplan
8 291 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 265 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 241 (1.61%) Cisco
11 181 (1.21%) Citrix
12 176 (1.18%) Dell
13 175 (1.17%) CA
14 163 (1.09%) IBM
15 162 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 153 (1.02%) Bloomberg
17 137 (0.91%) Databricks
18 131 (0.87%) NEC
19 101 (0.67%) Palo Alto
20 98 (0.65%) Sage