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Finance analyst jobs in Cardiff

The 2021 census counted 2,653 residents working as finance professionals living in Cardiff.

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Published figures for Cardiff

What the official data says about Cardiff

At the census in March 2021, 2,653 people living in Cardiff were in work as finance professionals. It was 1.65% of everyone in work in the area. That count put Cardiff 1st of 22 areas in Wales, where the middle area recorded 493. Swansea was the next area down.

Full-time pay across all jobs in Cardiff, every occupation counted together, had a median of £38,225. That is 3rd of 22 in Wales, against a regional middle of £35,578. Work of this kind pays £36,595 across the region, which is £1,630 below the typical Cardiff job, about 4% under it, and that is worth knowing before reading an advert here.

Analysts cluster where the financial firms are: Cardiff had 17,500 employee jobs in financial services, insurance and related activities in 2024, out of 227,000 employee jobs in the area altogether. At 7.71% of every job here, that ranks 1st of 22 in Wales, where the middle area sits at 1%.

Residents in work as finance professionals (SOC 242): 2,653
Median full-time pay for finance professionals across Wales: £36,595
Finance professionals, share of everyone in work in the area: 1.65%
Employee jobs in the area in financial services, insurance and related activities: 17,500
Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area: £38,225
Residents of the area in work at the census: 160,442
Employee jobs in the area, all industries: 227,000

Reporting period: ONS Census, 2021. ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2024. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings by occupation, 2025 provisional. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025.

Census counts are people who LIVED in Cardiff and were in work in that occupation in March 2021. They are not jobs located in the area, and they are not adverts. They are also published for a group of related occupations (minor group 242) rather than for a single job title, because that is the finest detail the census publishes at local authority level. That group covers chartered and certified accountants, finance and investment analysts, advisers and taxation experts.

Job counts are employee jobs that exist in Cardiff, counted once a year by a survey of businesses. They are not adverts, and they are not a measure of how many roles are open. They count a different population from the census figures above, so the two are never divided by one another.

The pay figure for this occupation covers Wales, not Cardiff on its own. ONS does not publish pay by occupation at local authority level at all, so every area in the region shares this number and no narrower published figure exists.

The area pay figure covers every occupation in Cardiff together. It is the only pay figure published for the area itself, and it is not a pay figure for this role.

Medians, not averages. Half the jobs counted paid less than the figure shown. What any individual advert pays is on the advert.

The finance analyst role

Analysis is the part of finance that faces forwards. Forecasts, models, business cases, investment appraisal and the question of what a decision would do to the numbers before anybody commits to it.

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Finance analyst jobs in Cardiff: common questions

How many people do this kind of work in Cardiff?

2,653 residents of Cardiff were in work as finance professionals at the 2021 census, which was 1.65% of everyone in work there. That counts people who live in the area, whether or not they work there, and it is not a count of current vacancies.

What does this work pay around Cardiff?

Across Wales, £36,595 is the median for finance professionals. In Cardiff itself the median across all occupations together is £38,225. ONS publishes pay by occupation for regions rather than for single councils, so the first figure covers the whole region. What any particular advert pays is on the advert.

Is there much of this work based in Cardiff?

17,500 of the 227,000 employee jobs in Cardiff are in the industries this role sits in, on the 2024 business survey. That counts jobs located in the area rather than people living there, and it is a count of jobs that exist, not of jobs being advertised.

Where these figures come from

Local occupation figures: ONS Census 2021, table TS064, occupation by minor group, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Industry job counts: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Pay by occupation: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 provisional, Table 14 (United Kingdom, four-digit SOC 2020) and Table 15 (work region, three-digit SOC 2020). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Local pay figures: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025, workplace analysis, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Read the licence.

Figures are republished as the publisher released them for Cardiff. Where a figure is blank, the publisher withheld it to protect a small sample. Nothing on this page is estimated, modelled or filled in from a national average.