Harper May Supply Report · Q3 2026
Who You Can Actually Hire
Who registered with Harper May in the last six months, and how much of that pool each line of your spec removes
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What is inside
- How deep the pool is
- How many CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of Finance and Financial Controllers registered with us in six months, by level.
- What each requirement costs you
- The share of those CFOs with exit experience, M&A, a private equity fundraise or investor relations, and what is left when requirements stack.
- The qualification line
- How many hold ACA at each level, and why making it essential removes most of the pool.
- The systems line
- No finance system is held by a majority of the senior pool, which makes a mandatory system one of the sharpest filters in a spec.
- Where they are coming from
- The employer size most senior finance people are leaving, and what that makes the move for them.
- What this data is not
- It is one firm's applicant flow, not the UK market, and it carries no salary data. Both are stated plainly.
Why trust the numbers
Every figure comes from the 814 senior finance professionals who registered with Harper May over six months. Nothing is estimated and nothing is bought in.
It is our own applicant flow rather than the whole UK market, which the report says on the cover, in the opening page and in the method. It will over-represent people who are actively looking. Any group of fewer than thirty people is left out entirely, because a percentage of a handful is noise dressed up as a finding.
No salary figures: pay questions belong to the salary report, which is separately collected. Data to 14 October 2026.