This paper describes an analysis of tunable characteristic for magnetically tunable E-plane type finline filter on a ferrite substrate. The proposed design is based on using of quarter wavelength transmission line for compensating the negative length transmission line of end K-inverters of E-plane type waveguide filters and the tunable characteristics of designed filters are analyzed. The analysis results of filter and inverter structure loaded with finline on a ferrite substrate are obtained using the edge based finite element method including higher order mode effects. The X-band experimental results for bilateral and unilateral finline magnetically tunable E-plane type waveguide filters agree well with the simulated data.