Our 2025 Salary Guide for Accountancy & Finance provides comprehensive insights into the latest salary trends and benchmarks within the industry. This guide is essential for employers and job seekers alike, offering detailed information on compensation packages, benefits, and market demand for various roles. Stay competitive and informed with our up-to-date data, ensuring you attract and retain top talent in the ever-evolving financial landscape.

Accountancy & Finance Hiring Trends to Look For in 2025

Analytical Accounting

There will be a continuing trend in 2025 for analytical accounting positions. These will present themselves in the form of finance business partnering jobs as well as pure financial planning and analysis positions. As technology advances, this will provide organisations of all sizes with the tools to identify and manage their financial position more effectively. Artificial intelligence will do part of this job, however, an experienced accountant with an analytical skill set is required to pilot this technology. There is clear opportunity for accountants to engage with new technologies to further develop their skill set and to future-proof their CVs for 2025 and beyond.

Automation Shift

2025 will undoubtedly bring more automation to the accountancy and finance landscape and this will impact the job market. We have seen in recent years the reduction of processing jobs in the accountancy sector as technology continues to evolve. As we move through 2025, we will continue to see job functions in the processing area change to become more analysis-based. This will result in altered skill sets being required as finance professionals in this area will be required to interpret trends, identify issues, and then report on these findings.

Hybrid Shift

It is anticipated that during 2025, an increasing amount of accountancy and finance candidates will seek a hybrid working arrangement and there will be less candidates willing to work 5 days a week in the office. Many candidates leaving jobs that are fully office-based will seek hybrid arrangements in 2025. This however is not the case when analysed in reverse. It would be rare to see a finance professional with a hybrid working arrangement swap this for a fully office-based role. Recruiting finance professionals to work full-time in the office will become harder in 2025.

In addition to this trend, we are seeing the volume of professionals seeking fully remote work decline as people seek more human interaction in physical workspaces with their accounting colleagues.