{"id":104,"date":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/the-2026-salary-guide-finance-and-accounting\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:41:38","slug":"the-2026-salary-guide-finance-and-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/the-2026-salary-guide-finance-and-accounting\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 salary guide: finance and accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Qualified talent is still scarce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demand for qualified accountants has outpaced supply for three years running. Strong financial controllers now expect a response within days, not weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bands we are seeing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Financial controllers in Manchester are landing between \u00a360,000 and \u00a372,000. Management accountants sit between \u00a342,000 and \u00a350,000, with study support now expected rather than offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to do with this<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Move fast on the shortlist, publish the band, and be clear about the route to finance director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What controllers, management accountants and finance directors are being offered across Manchester, Leeds and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-employers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}