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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 14,925 20,633 31,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.40% 22.86% 23.70%
As % of the General category 29.39% 33.52% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9,802 12,295 16,734
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,822 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £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 50,776 61,554 85,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.20% 68.19% 64.11%
Number of salaries quoted 35,647 33,387 44,765
10th Percentile £27,445 £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 £103,911 £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 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 9 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 +1 6,811 £80,000 - 2,723
North of England -2 2,422 £55,000 - 843
South East -2 2,201 £51,500 -10.43% 747
Midlands 0 1,579 £50,000 -9.09% 557
North West +1 1,350 £54,750 -0.45% 504
South West -8 1,235 £54,151 -1.54% 412
West Midlands 0 1,107 £51,300 -6.73% 354
Yorkshire -3 824 £57,500 +4.55% 254
East of England 0 530 £50,000 -9.09% 294
East Midlands -5 465 £47,500 -13.64% 202
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 90
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
1 448 (3.00%) SAS
2 446 (2.99%) Apache
3 432 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 395 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 305 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 207 (1.39%) Confluence
7 97 (0.65%) IIS
8 80 (0.54%) Apache Spark
9 53 (0.36%) CMS
10 38 (0.25%) WordPress
11 35 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 33 (0.22%) nginx
13 28 (0.19%) Skype for Business
14 25 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 20 (0.13%) Captiva
16 18 (0.12%) FileNet
17 15 (0.10%) JBoss
18 12 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
19 10 (0.067%) ArcGIS
19 10 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1,591 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 861 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
3 400 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 97 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 81 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 30 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.18%) SPSS
9 16 (0.11%) Trello
10 14 (0.094%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
12 10 (0.067%) Adobe XD
13 8 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.047%) InDesign
14 7 (0.047%) OrCAD
15 5 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
16 4 (0.027%) Doxygen
16 4 (0.027%) Sketch
17 3 (0.020%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 316 (2.12%) SAP ERP
2 155 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 115 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 99 (0.66%) NetSuite
5 64 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 55 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 48 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 48 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 42 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 40 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
10 37 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
11 36 (0.24%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
12 33 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
13 32 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
14 30 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
16 28 (0.19%) Elite 3E
16 28 (0.19%) SAP BPC
16 28 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,354 (15.77%) Azure
2 1,902 (12.74%) AWS
3 1,091 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 826 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
5 818 (5.48%) GCP
6 507 (3.40%) SaaS
7 403 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 306 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 306 (2.05%) Snowflake
9 298 (2.00%) dbt
10 235 (1.57%) Serverless
11 233 (1.56%) GitHub
12 180 (1.21%) Entra ID
13 158 (1.06%) PaaS
14 144 (0.96%) IaaS
15 138 (0.92%) Power Automate
16 135 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 132 (0.88%) PowerApps
18 130 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
19 127 (0.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 831 (5.57%) Broadband
2 439 (2.94%) Firewall
3 235 (1.57%) DNS
4 185 (1.24%) Internet
5 174 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 170 (1.14%) WAN
7 164 (1.10%) LAN
8 143 (0.96%) DHCP
9 139 (0.93%) VPN
10 120 (0.80%) Network Security
11 112 (0.75%) Wireless
12 108 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
13 88 (0.59%) SAN
14 71 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 58 (0.39%) HTTP
16 56 (0.38%) 5G
17 55 (0.37%) Intranet
18 44 (0.29%) SNMP
19 42 (0.28%) IPsec
20 40 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 924 (6.19%) Power BI
2 784 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 481 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 416 (2.79%) Data Lake
5 320 (2.14%) Apache Ignite
6 317 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
7 300 (2.01%) Tableau
8 277 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 271 (1.82%) Apache Arrow
9 271 (1.82%) Dremio
10 225 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 187 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 150 (1.01%) Big Data
13 139 (0.93%) Relational Database
14 133 (0.89%) NoSQL
15 126 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 114 (0.76%) Metadata
17 105 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
18 89 (0.60%) MySQL
19 85 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 517 (3.46%) JIRA
2 387 (2.59%) Git
3 231 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.69%) GitLab
5 102 (0.68%) Visual Studio
6 85 (0.57%) Selenium
7 81 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 61 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 46 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 44 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 42 (0.28%) Artifactory
12 40 (0.27%) Maven
13 35 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 34 (0.23%) CircleCI
14 34 (0.23%) JUnit
15 32 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 32 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.15%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.15%) WebDriver
17 22 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5,251 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 2,496 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
3 2,229 (14.93%) Banking
4 1,407 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,179 (7.90%) Legal
6 1,152 (7.72%) Retail
7 987 (6.61%) Marketing
8 918 (6.15%) Law
9 883 (5.92%) Front Office
10 763 (5.11%) Public Sector
11 752 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
12 620 (4.15%) Investment Banking
13 543 (3.64%) Manufacturing
14 465 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
15 406 (2.72%) Telecoms
16 388 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
17 316 (2.12%) Financial Institution
18 273 (1.83%) Back Office
19 260 (1.74%) Billing
20 221 (1.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,723 (18.24%) Analyst
2 2,565 (17.19%) Senior
3 1,864 (12.49%) Developer
4 1,412 (9.46%) Lead
5 1,224 (8.20%) Architect
6 892 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 697 (4.67%) Software Engineer
8 660 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 634 (4.25%) Consultant
10 615 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
11 564 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
12 436 (2.92%) Senior Manager
13 433 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 416 (2.79%) IT Manager
15 336 (2.25%) .NET Developer
16 326 (2.18%) Business Analyst
17 289 (1.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 282 (1.89%) Support Analyst
19 279 (1.87%) Python Developer
20 275 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 860 (5.76%) .NET
2 699 (4.68%) React
3 462 (3.10%) AngularJS
4 460 (3.08%) HTML
5 444 (2.97%) gRPC
6 385 (2.58%) Protocol Buffers
7 306 (2.05%) ASP.NET
8 301 (2.02%) Pandas
9 294 (1.97%) CSS
10 286 (1.92%) REST
11 275 (1.84%) .NET Core
12 263 (1.76%) Redux
13 245 (1.64%) NumPy
14 244 (1.63%) Node.js
15 239 (1.60%) Web Services
16 238 (1.59%) Vue
17 225 (1.51%) Kafka
18 217 (1.45%) SciPy
19 199 (1.33%) Spring
20 193 (1.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 703 (4.71%) Hedge funds
2 664 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
3 660 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 622 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 541 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 524 (3.51%) Derivative
7 503 (3.37%) Equities
8 418 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 345 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 229 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 204 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 198 (1.33%) PMI
13 191 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 189 (1.27%) Cloud Native
15 168 (1.13%) Mobile App
16 162 (1.09%) Driving Licence
17 148 (0.99%) Algorithms
18 133 (0.89%) Data Structures
19 132 (0.88%) Credit Risk
20 118 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,124 (7.53%) Windows
2 677 (4.54%) Linux
3 306 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 243 (1.63%) Unix
5 194 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 109 (0.73%) Android
7 105 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 96 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 86 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 73 (0.49%) CentOS
10 73 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 61 (0.41%) Windows 7
12 51 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 51 (0.34%) Solaris
13 36 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
15 30 (0.20%) AIX
16 25 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 25 (0.17%) zOS
17 18 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,200 (28.14%) Agile
2 2,418 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
3 1,773 (11.88%) Mentoring
4 1,714 (11.48%) Project Management
5 1,600 (10.72%) Roadmaps
6 1,410 (9.45%) Decision-Making
7 1,315 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
8 1,302 (8.72%) Software Engineering
9 1,198 (8.03%) Analytics
10 1,183 (7.93%) Asset Management
11 1,112 (7.45%) DevOps
12 1,073 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 1,047 (7.02%) Coaching
14 1,013 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 970 (6.50%) Change Management
16 955 (6.40%) ERP
17 945 (6.33%) Data Management
18 923 (6.18%) Risk Management
19 904 (6.06%) Customer Service
20 841 (5.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,208 (14.79%) SQL
2 1,910 (12.80%) Python
3 1,131 (7.58%) JavaScript
4 1,075 (7.20%) Java
5 999 (6.69%) C#
6 826 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 408 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 233 (1.56%) Go
9 198 (1.33%) T-SQL
10 186 (1.25%) C++
11 180 (1.21%) Bash
12 171 (1.15%) R
13 132 (0.88%) C
14 98 (0.66%) PHP
15 96 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 87 (0.58%) VBA
17 69 (0.46%) Scala
18 67 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 65 (0.44%) Perl
20 56 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,352 (15.76%) Degree
2 780 (5.23%) ACCA
3 603 (4.04%) CIMA
4 537 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 357 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 305 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 281 (1.88%) CISSP
7 281 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 252 (1.69%) SC Cleared
9 246 (1.65%) DBS Check
10 163 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 147 (0.98%) CISM
12 142 (0.95%) PMP
13 137 (0.92%) DV Cleared
14 135 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 128 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 127 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
17 118 (0.79%) MBA
18 98 (0.66%) CISA
19 94 (0.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (3.20%) GDPR
2 472 (3.16%) QA
3 451 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 390 (2.61%) SLA
5 225 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.46%) IFRS
7 195 (1.31%) PMO
8 194 (1.30%) NIST
9 159 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 90 (0.60%) GAAP
11 84 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 67 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.44%) IFRS 9
14 65 (0.44%) GRC
15 49 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 46 (0.31%) COBIT
17 41 (0.27%) 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
1 575 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 496 (3.32%) Docker
3 291 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 97 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 81 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 56 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 50 (0.34%) Firmware
8 49 (0.33%) vSphere
9 45 (0.30%) XenApp
10 34 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 34 (0.23%) XenDesktop
11 15 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 14 (0.094%) VMware Workstation
13 12 (0.080%) Terminal Services
14 10 (0.067%) OpenSSH
15 9 (0.060%) Forefront TMG
16 8 (0.054%) HDFS
17 7 (0.047%) IAG
18 6 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
19 5 (0.034%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 604 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 471 (3.16%) Terraform
3 199 (1.33%) Ansible
4 149 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 132 (0.88%) SCCM
6 96 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 51 (0.34%) vCenter Server
8 36 (0.24%) Grafana
9 34 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 32 (0.21%) Puppet
11 31 (0.21%) SCOM
12 24 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 23 (0.15%) Istio
14 22 (0.15%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.13%) Backup Exec
16 17 (0.11%) Nmap
17 16 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
18 15 (0.10%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.10%) Nessus
18 15 (0.10%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3,283 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 930 (6.23%) Oracle
3 893 (5.98%) SAP
4 444 (2.97%) Google
5 398 (2.67%) VMware
6 328 (2.20%) Hyperion
7 324 (2.17%) Anaplan
8 298 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 248 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 244 (1.63%) Cisco
11 177 (1.19%) Citrix
11 177 (1.19%) Dell
12 170 (1.14%) CA
13 166 (1.11%) IBM
14 156 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 152 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 136 (0.91%) Databricks
17 120 (0.80%) NEC
18 103 (0.69%) Palo Alto
18 103 (0.69%) Sage