The Datum Report

Occupation 3533 · Associate professional occupations

Financial and accounting technicians

Half of full-time financial and accounting technicians in the UK earn more than £60,575 a year, and half earn less.

Financial and accounting technicians work alongside accountants and other financial professionals in managing the financial affairs of organisations.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic requirements. Professional qualifications are available from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Association of Accounting Technicians. Vocational qualifications in Accounting are available at levels 2, 3 and 4. Exemptions to professional examinations may be granted to those with certain academic qualifications.

What the work involves

• maintains profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flow forecasts and other accounting records
• produces, collates and reports financial information for managers
• liaises with clients to ensure that payments are made on time and credit limits are not exceeded
• ensures invoices and payments are correct and sent out on time
• monitors accounting systems to determine accounts are being maintained effectively and provides information on accounting practices to auditors

Also called

Accounting technician · Business associate (banking) · Financial controller · Fund administrator · Insolvency administrator · Managing clerk (accountancy)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for financial and accounting technicians, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 4 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Brokers · Financial accounts managers · Insurance underwriters