Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,897 9,799 21,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.49% 30.57% 29.45%
As % of the General category 42.46% 44.64% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,702 7,008 10,239
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,599 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +3.85%

All General Skills
London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,242 21,951 50,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.09% 68.48% 69.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,392 15,442 22,837
10th Percentile £36,025 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -1 962 £75,000 -3.85% 301
West London +1 369 £80,000 +18.52% 83
South London +5 158 £67,500 +22.73% 32
East London +2 70 £57,500 -25.81% 55
North London -8 16 £52,975 -11.71% 8
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 529 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
2 487 (7.06%) Apache
3 273 (3.96%) SAS
4 138 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 128 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 61 (0.88%) Confluence
7 50 (0.72%) IIS
8 38 (0.55%) Apache Spark
9 31 (0.45%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 14 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 12 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 7 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
17 6 (0.087%) Ethereum
17 6 (0.087%) IBM Notes
18 5 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
18 5 (0.072%) WebLogic
Applications
1 620 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 31 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.33%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.087%) InDesign
11 5 (0.072%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.043%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.014%) Revit
15 1 (0.014%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 225 (3.26%) SAP ERP
2 56 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.36%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 21 (0.30%) NEC Housing
9 20 (0.29%) thinkFolio
10 19 (0.28%) SAP BPC
11 16 (0.23%) SAP FI
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 14 (0.20%) SAP CO
13 14 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
14 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
15 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
16 10 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
16 10 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
16 10 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
17 9 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,432 (20.76%) AWS
2 1,240 (17.98%) Azure
3 613 (8.89%) GCP
4 432 (6.26%) Power Platform
5 393 (5.70%) dbt
6 355 (5.15%) Snowflake
7 343 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
8 268 (3.89%) SaaS
9 171 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 147 (2.13%) Serverless
11 142 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 100 (1.45%) GitHub
13 97 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 97 (1.41%) Entra ID
14 85 (1.23%) PaaS
15 74 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 66 (0.96%) IaaS
17 65 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
19 56 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.52%) Broadband
2 221 (3.20%) Firewall
3 119 (1.73%) DNS
4 81 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 79 (1.15%) LAN
5 79 (1.15%) WAN
6 60 (0.87%) DHCP
7 59 (0.86%) Internet
7 59 (0.86%) Network Security
8 44 (0.64%) VPN
9 34 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.46%) Skype
11 31 (0.45%) Wireless
12 29 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
12 29 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
14 21 (0.30%) SAN
15 20 (0.29%) BGP
16 19 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
17 18 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (6.05%) Apache Ignite
2 397 (5.76%) Data Lake
3 384 (5.57%) Dremio
4 378 (5.48%) Apache Arrow
5 377 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
6 363 (5.26%) Power BI
7 331 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 224 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 176 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 151 (2.19%) Tableau
11 126 (1.83%) Big Data
12 82 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 75 (1.09%) NoSQL
13 75 (1.09%) Relational Database
14 67 (0.97%) MongoDB
15 65 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 52 (0.75%) Metadata
17 51 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
18 43 (0.62%) MySQL
19 42 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 209 (3.03%) JIRA
2 164 (2.38%) Git
3 143 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 57 (0.83%) GitLab
6 41 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 37 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 28 (0.41%) Selenium
9 25 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.28%) JUnit
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) Maven
11 18 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.20%) Snyk
14 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 2,071 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 1,445 (20.95%) Banking
3 1,023 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 925 (13.41%) Front Office
5 642 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 442 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 428 (6.21%) Legal
8 421 (6.10%) Law
9 415 (6.02%) Marketing
10 309 (4.48%) Retail
11 305 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
12 216 (3.13%) Financial Institution
13 202 (2.93%) Back Office
14 169 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
15 160 (2.32%) Public Sector
16 130 (1.88%) Manufacturing
17 111 (1.61%) Retail Banking
18 107 (1.55%) Billing
19 104 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
20 96 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,372 (19.89%) Senior
2 1,263 (18.31%) Analyst
3 1,104 (16.01%) Developer
4 746 (10.82%) Architect
5 607 (8.80%) Lead
6 596 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 432 (6.26%) Solutions Architect
8 316 (4.58%) Financial Analyst
9 315 (4.57%) Python Engineer
10 305 (4.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 284 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
12 279 (4.05%) Python Developer
13 259 (3.76%) Python Software Engineer
14 249 (3.61%) Senior Manager
15 244 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 241 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
17 213 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
18 205 (2.97%) Java Developer
19 194 (2.81%) Consultant
20 189 (2.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 508 (7.37%) gRPC
2 490 (7.10%) Protocol Buffers
3 465 (6.74%) React
4 409 (5.93%) .NET
5 359 (5.21%) Pandas
6 325 (4.71%) NumPy
7 306 (4.44%) SciPy
8 291 (4.22%) AngularJS
9 266 (3.86%) Redux
10 161 (2.33%) Vue
11 156 (2.26%) HTML
12 140 (2.03%) REST
13 137 (1.99%) .NET Core
14 135 (1.96%) Node.js
15 133 (1.93%) ASP.NET
16 130 (1.88%) Material-UI
16 130 (1.88%) Spring
17 127 (1.84%) Web Services
18 125 (1.81%) Kafka
19 120 (1.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 782 (11.34%) Hedge funds
2 704 (10.21%) Fixed Income
3 590 (8.55%) Equities
4 579 (8.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 572 (8.29%) Derivative
6 275 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 215 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
8 212 (3.07%) Onboarding
9 207 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 126 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 98 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 86 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 85 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 81 (1.17%) Reinsurance
15 77 (1.12%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.10%) Clustering
17 71 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (0.96%) Cloud Native
18 66 (0.96%) Social Media
19 65 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 543 (7.87%) Windows
2 375 (5.44%) Linux
3 159 (2.31%) Unix
4 150 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 111 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 53 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 43 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 40 (0.58%) Solaris
9 39 (0.57%) CentOS
10 36 (0.52%) Android
11 35 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 24 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 21 (0.30%) zOS
14 19 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 12 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 12 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
17 11 (0.16%) AIX
17 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,135 (30.96%) Agile
2 1,069 (15.50%) Asset Management
3 991 (14.37%) Software Engineering
4 902 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 801 (11.61%) Investment Management
6 715 (10.37%) Mentoring
7 712 (10.32%) Roadmaps
8 634 (9.19%) Analytics
9 617 (8.95%) DevOps
10 570 (8.26%) Decision-Making
11 522 (7.57%) Fintech
12 510 (7.39%) Project Management
13 492 (7.13%) Change Management
14 478 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
15 474 (6.87%) Data Management
16 415 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 410 (5.94%) Computer Science
18 404 (5.86%) Performance Management
19 403 (5.84%) Full Stack Development
20 399 (5.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,571 (22.78%) Python
2 1,192 (17.28%) SQL
3 838 (12.15%) Java
4 800 (11.60%) JavaScript
5 702 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 523 (7.58%) C#
7 255 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 167 (2.42%) Go
9 111 (1.61%) C++
10 98 (1.42%) R
11 97 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 96 (1.39%) Bash
13 69 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 56 (0.81%) Perl
15 50 (0.72%) VBA
16 48 (0.70%) Ruby
17 44 (0.64%) Scala
18 43 (0.62%) C
19 32 (0.46%) Rust
20 31 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,048 (15.20%) Degree
2 375 (5.44%) ACCA
3 261 (3.78%) CIMA
4 229 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 186 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 176 (2.55%) CISSP
7 115 (1.67%) Security Cleared
8 91 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 74 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 74 (1.07%) CISM
10 69 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 63 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 61 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 60 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 59 (0.86%) CISA
15 53 (0.77%) MBA
16 46 (0.67%) SC Cleared
17 41 (0.59%) CRISC
18 40 (0.58%) PMP
19 39 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 206 (2.99%) QA
3 165 (2.39%) SLA
4 113 (1.64%) IFRS
5 98 (1.42%) GDPR
6 96 (1.39%) NIST
7 90 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 58 (0.84%) GAAP
9 57 (0.83%) PMO
10 49 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 33 (0.48%) COBIT
12 32 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.36%) GRC
13 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 23 (0.33%) GMP
15 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (0.32%) IFRS 9
16 20 (0.29%) ITGC
17 18 (0.26%) IFRS 17
17 18 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 299 (4.34%) Docker
2 245 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.57%) XenApp
5 38 (0.55%) XenDesktop
6 30 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.38%) vSphere
8 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 13 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.10%) HDFS
13 6 (0.087%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.087%) RACF
13 6 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.058%) NFS
14 4 (0.058%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.029%) KVM
15 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 455 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 330 (4.78%) Terraform
3 147 (2.13%) Ansible
4 79 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.03%) SCCM
7 26 (0.38%) Puppet
8 19 (0.28%) SCOM
8 19 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.26%) Istio
10 17 (0.25%) Grafana
11 15 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.16%) Nagios
14 11 (0.16%) Nmap
15 9 (0.13%) Nessus
16 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
16 8 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,367 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 516 (7.48%) Oracle
3 403 (5.84%) SAP
4 243 (3.52%) Google
5 237 (3.44%) Anaplan
6 236 (3.42%) Hyperion
7 163 (2.36%) VMware
8 160 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 148 (2.15%) Bloomberg
10 131 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 124 (1.80%) Cisco
12 115 (1.67%) Dell
13 109 (1.58%) Citrix
14 103 (1.49%) CA
15 97 (1.41%) Red Hat
16 72 (1.04%) Databricks
16 72 (1.04%) IBM
17 50 (0.72%) Qualys
18 45 (0.65%) Apple
19 41 (0.59%) Adobe