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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 15,593 19,193 34,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.55% 23.22% 23.97%
As % of the General category 28.91% 34.41% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,859 11,537 17,000
10th Percentile £33,250 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £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 53,941 55,783 93,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.27% 67.49% 65.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,471 31,551 46,101
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,315 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,500 £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 9 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 9 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 6,940 £82,500 +3.13% 2,805
North of England -3 2,518 £53,500 -2.73% 976
South East -2 2,426 £52,500 -8.70% 790
Midlands -2 1,824 £50,000 -9.09% 626
North West -1 1,459 £52,500 -4.62% 608
South West -8 1,222 £52,500 -4.55% 486
West Midlands +1 1,209 £53,000 -3.64% 391
Yorkshire -4 789 £55,000 - 268
East Midlands -2 609 £47,500 -13.64% 234
East of England -3 528 £50,000 -9.09% 325
North East +1 270 £50,000 -9.09% 110
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
1 599 (3.84%) Apache
2 589 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 436 (2.80%) SAS
4 381 (2.44%) SharePoint
5 285 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 208 (1.33%) Confluence
7 104 (0.67%) IIS
8 63 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 54 (0.35%) CMS
10 40 (0.26%) WordPress
11 32 (0.21%) nginx
12 31 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 28 (0.18%) Skype for Business
14 16 (0.10%) WebSphere
15 15 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
16 13 (0.083%) JBoss
17 11 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2010
18 10 (0.064%) ArcGIS
19 8 (0.051%) Office Communications Server
19 8 (0.051%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1,893 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,122 (7.20%) Microsoft Office
3 444 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 80 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 60 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 31 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.17%) SPSS
9 16 (0.10%) Trello
10 14 (0.090%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
12 8 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.045%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.045%) InDesign
14 6 (0.038%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.026%) Doxygen
17 3 (0.019%) Adobe Premiere
17 3 (0.019%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 313 (2.01%) SAP ERP
2 157 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 111 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 96 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 85 (0.55%) NEC Housing
6 57 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 50 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 50 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 50 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 38 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 35 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 33 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 33 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 32 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
12 31 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
13 30 (0.19%) Elite 3E
13 30 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
14 29 (0.19%) SAP BPC
14 29 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
15 26 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2,402 (15.40%) Azure
2 2,040 (13.08%) AWS
3 1,159 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 808 (5.18%) GCP
5 791 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
6 501 (3.21%) SaaS
7 460 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
8 459 (2.94%) dbt
9 432 (2.77%) Snowflake
10 304 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
11 237 (1.52%) Entra ID
12 224 (1.44%) Serverless
13 177 (1.14%) GitHub
14 142 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 134 (0.86%) PowerApps
16 131 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
17 120 (0.77%) IaaS
18 119 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
19 114 (0.73%) Amazon S3
19 114 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 829 (5.32%) Broadband
2 446 (2.86%) Firewall
3 213 (1.37%) DNS
4 185 (1.19%) Internet
5 174 (1.12%) WAN
6 164 (1.05%) LAN
7 135 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 132 (0.85%) Network Security
9 128 (0.82%) VPN
10 114 (0.73%) DHCP
10 114 (0.73%) Wireless
11 104 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 89 (0.57%) SAN
13 69 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 56 (0.36%) Intranet
15 50 (0.32%) 5G
16 47 (0.30%) VoIP
17 45 (0.29%) SNMP
18 44 (0.28%) IPsec
19 37 (0.24%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 989 (6.34%) Power BI
2 798 (5.12%) SQL Server
3 569 (3.65%) Data Lake
4 487 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 459 (2.94%) Apache Ignite
6 431 (2.76%) Dremio
7 422 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
8 420 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
9 316 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 308 (1.98%) Tableau
11 219 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 193 (1.24%) MongoDB
13 163 (1.05%) Big Data
14 150 (0.96%) Relational Database
15 131 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 114 (0.73%) Metadata
17 105 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
18 102 (0.65%) NoSQL
19 85 (0.55%) Oracle Database
20 82 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 487 (3.12%) JIRA
2 378 (2.42%) Git
3 197 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 104 (0.67%) GitLab
5 102 (0.65%) Visual Studio
6 86 (0.55%) Selenium
7 84 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 52 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 44 (0.28%) TeamCity
10 37 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 31 (0.20%) JUnit
12 30 (0.19%) CircleCI
12 30 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 30 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 29 (0.19%) Maven
14 28 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
15 27 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
16 25 (0.16%) Postman
17 22 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5,307 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 2,682 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
3 2,257 (14.47%) Banking
4 1,462 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,449 (9.29%) Retail
6 1,291 (8.28%) Legal
7 1,246 (7.99%) Marketing
8 994 (6.37%) Front Office
9 949 (6.09%) Law
10 739 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
11 720 (4.62%) Public Sector
12 713 (4.57%) Investment Banking
13 557 (3.57%) Manufacturing
14 470 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
15 409 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
16 399 (2.56%) Telecoms
17 320 (2.05%) Financial Institution
18 271 (1.74%) Back Office
19 256 (1.64%) Billing
20 246 (1.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,748 (17.62%) Analyst
2 2,683 (17.21%) Senior
3 1,947 (12.49%) Developer
4 1,493 (9.57%) Lead
5 1,286 (8.25%) Architect
6 893 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 794 (5.09%) Software Engineer
8 704 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 661 (4.24%) Consultant
10 653 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
11 608 (3.90%) Financial Analyst
12 456 (2.92%) Senior Developer
13 452 (2.90%) Senior Manager
14 416 (2.67%) IT Manager
15 393 (2.52%) Development Manager
16 353 (2.26%) .NET Developer
17 341 (2.19%) Python Engineer
18 320 (2.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 303 (1.94%) Business Analyst
20 294 (1.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 881 (5.65%) .NET
2 716 (4.59%) React
3 588 (3.77%) gRPC
4 535 (3.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 470 (3.01%) AngularJS
6 434 (2.78%) Pandas
7 431 (2.76%) HTML
8 378 (2.42%) NumPy
9 349 (2.24%) SciPy
10 306 (1.96%) ASP.NET
10 306 (1.96%) CSS
11 298 (1.91%) REST
12 278 (1.78%) .NET Core
13 277 (1.78%) Redux
14 258 (1.65%) Vue
15 253 (1.62%) Node.js
16 251 (1.61%) Web Services
17 227 (1.46%) Kafka
18 204 (1.31%) .NET Framework
19 186 (1.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 836 (5.36%) Hedge funds
2 750 (4.81%) Fixed Income
3 724 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 679 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 636 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 632 (4.05%) Derivative
7 630 (4.04%) Equities
8 430 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 353 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 242 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 188 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 179 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 177 (1.14%) PMI
14 168 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 166 (1.06%) Driving Licence
16 155 (0.99%) Cloud Native
17 146 (0.94%) Algorithms
18 138 (0.89%) Data Structures
19 134 (0.86%) NHS
20 120 (0.77%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,153 (7.39%) Windows
2 678 (4.35%) Linux
3 329 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 225 (1.44%) Unix
5 199 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 110 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 97 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 95 (0.61%) Android
9 89 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 88 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 80 (0.51%) CentOS
12 61 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 61 (0.39%) Solaris
12 61 (0.39%) Windows 7
13 38 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
15 30 (0.19%) AIX
16 29 (0.19%) Mac OS
17 25 (0.16%) zOS
18 21 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,430 (28.41%) Agile
2 2,448 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
3 1,783 (11.43%) Mentoring
4 1,733 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1,573 (10.09%) Roadmaps
6 1,487 (9.54%) Decision-Making
7 1,434 (9.20%) Software Engineering
8 1,336 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
9 1,292 (8.29%) Asset Management
10 1,207 (7.74%) Analytics
11 1,170 (7.50%) Data Management
12 1,131 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,097 (7.04%) Coaching
14 1,093 (7.01%) DevOps
15 1,013 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 985 (6.32%) ERP
17 976 (6.26%) Change Management
18 966 (6.20%) Risk Management
19 900 (5.77%) Customer Service
20 871 (5.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,298 (14.74%) SQL
2 2,059 (13.20%) Python
3 1,267 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 1,163 (7.46%) Java
5 1,020 (6.54%) C#
6 942 (6.04%) TypeScript
7 496 (3.18%) PowerShell
8 242 (1.55%) Go
9 206 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 186 (1.19%) C++
11 180 (1.15%) Bash
12 147 (0.94%) R
13 122 (0.78%) C
14 110 (0.71%) PHP
15 95 (0.61%) VBA
16 89 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 83 (0.53%) Perl
18 66 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 66 (0.42%) Shell Script
19 65 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,412 (15.47%) Degree
2 799 (5.12%) ACCA
3 612 (3.92%) CIMA
4 572 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 365 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 319 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 306 (1.96%) CISSP
8 279 (1.79%) SC Cleared
9 261 (1.67%) PMI Certification
10 226 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 159 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 157 (1.01%) CISM
13 146 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 141 (0.90%) PMP
15 133 (0.85%) DV Cleared
16 128 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
17 124 (0.80%) MBA
18 121 (0.78%) AWS Certification
19 103 (0.66%) CISA
20 100 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 517 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 483 (3.10%) QA
3 412 (2.64%) GDPR
4 392 (2.51%) SLA
5 233 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 213 (1.37%) IFRS
7 204 (1.31%) NIST
8 191 (1.22%) PMO
9 169 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 93 (0.60%) GAAP
11 90 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 66 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 64 (0.41%) GRC
14 56 (0.36%) IFRS 9
15 54 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 48 (0.31%) COBIT
17 41 (0.26%) ISO 9001
18 38 (0.24%) NCSC
19 35 (0.22%) ITGC
20 34 (0.22%) GMP
System Software
1 624 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 497 (3.19%) Docker
3 303 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 83 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 66 (0.42%) XenApp
7 57 (0.37%) vSphere
8 55 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 51 (0.33%) XenDesktop
10 50 (0.32%) Firmware
11 45 (0.29%) RACF
12 40 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.090%) OpenSSH
14 13 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
15 11 (0.071%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.058%) Forefront TMG
16 9 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
17 7 (0.045%) IAG
18 6 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 607 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 455 (2.92%) Terraform
3 218 (1.40%) Ansible
4 153 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 125 (0.80%) SCCM
6 110 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 56 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.22%) Puppet
9 30 (0.19%) Grafana
10 27 (0.17%) SCOM
11 26 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 26 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 25 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
13 24 (0.15%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
14 20 (0.13%) Istio
15 17 (0.11%) WSUS
16 16 (0.10%) NetBackup
16 16 (0.10%) Red Hat Satellite
17 15 (0.096%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3,690 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 912 (5.85%) Oracle
3 855 (5.48%) SAP
4 418 (2.68%) VMware
5 407 (2.61%) Google
6 329 (2.11%) Hyperion
7 323 (2.07%) Anaplan
8 283 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 258 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 243 (1.56%) Cisco
11 184 (1.18%) CA
11 184 (1.18%) Citrix
12 181 (1.16%) Red Hat
13 170 (1.09%) Dell
14 167 (1.07%) Bloomberg
15 145 (0.93%) IBM
16 143 (0.92%) NEC
17 136 (0.87%) Databricks
18 102 (0.65%) Palo Alto
19 101 (0.65%) Sage