Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies. 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 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,411 21,896 39,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 23.10% 23.37%
As % of the General category 31.75% 34.13% 35.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,852 12,798 18,884
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK 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
England -1 15,314 £65,000 -5.55% 6,856
UK excluding London +2 11,777 £52,500 -4.55% 3,743
Work from Home -2 7,324 £65,000 -6.40% 3,163
London 0 6,897 £82,500 +3.13% 3,393
Scotland +2 3,101 £59,000 -2.51% 335
North of England -3 2,473 £54,900 -0.18% 1,014
South East -2 2,350 £52,500 -8.70% 895
Midlands -2 1,720 £50,000 -9.09% 601
North West -1 1,405 £52,500 -4.55% 635
South West -8 1,214 £52,500 -4.55% 482
West Midlands +1 1,169 £52,500 -4.55% 372
Yorkshire -4 807 £56,500 +2.73% 264
East Midlands -5 545 £47,500 -13.64% 229
East of England -4 523 £50,000 -9.09% 303
North East +1 261 £50,000 -9.09% 127
Wales -3 250 £45,000 - 115
Northern Ireland -1 109 £42,500 -15.00% 82
Isle of Man +7 36 £54,000 -25.52% 5
Channel Islands 0 17 £85,000 -5.56% 2

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 713 (3.67%) Apache
2 661 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 633 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 454 (2.34%) SAS
5 432 (2.23%) SharePoint
6 330 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 272 (1.40%) Confluence
8 109 (0.56%) IIS
9 104 (0.54%) FileNet
10 60 (0.31%) CMS
11 46 (0.24%) WordPress
12 44 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 38 (0.20%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
15 28 (0.14%) Skype for Business
16 27 (0.14%) WebSphere
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 18 (0.093%) Camunda
19 17 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
20 13 (0.067%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,879 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,067 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
3 466 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 87 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 84 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 36 (0.19%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 27 (0.14%) SPSS
10 21 (0.11%) Sketch
11 16 (0.082%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.082%) Trello
12 11 (0.057%) Adobe XD
13 9 (0.046%) Oracle Smart View
14 8 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 7 (0.036%) InDesign
16 6 (0.031%) InVision
16 6 (0.031%) OrCAD
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.026%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 313 (1.61%) SAP ERP
2 166 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 136 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 110 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 91 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 82 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 75 (0.39%) SAP CO
7 75 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
8 52 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 42 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
12 37 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
13 35 (0.18%) Aladdin
14 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
15 30 (0.15%) Elite 3E
16 29 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
17 28 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,263 (16.81%) AWS
2 2,766 (14.25%) Azure
3 1,242 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 981 (5.05%) GCP
5 947 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 562 (2.90%) SaaS
7 507 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 413 (2.13%) dbt
9 404 (2.08%) Snowflake
10 339 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 288 (1.48%) Serverless
12 287 (1.48%) Entra ID
13 252 (1.30%) GitHub
14 237 (1.22%) Amazon S3
15 197 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
16 178 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
17 173 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 169 (0.87%) PowerApps
19 139 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
20 137 (0.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 848 (4.37%) Broadband
2 498 (2.57%) Firewall
3 230 (1.18%) DNS
4 219 (1.13%) Internet
5 192 (0.99%) WAN
6 173 (0.89%) LAN
7 169 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 160 (0.82%) VPN
9 136 (0.70%) Network Security
10 130 (0.67%) Wireless
11 126 (0.65%) DHCP
12 111 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (0.47%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 69 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 67 (0.35%) IPsec
17 65 (0.33%) SNMP
18 62 (0.32%) Intranet
19 51 (0.26%) 5G
20 44 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,045 (5.38%) Power BI
2 880 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 773 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 648 (3.34%) Big Data
5 613 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 545 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 417 (2.15%) Apache Ignite
8 384 (1.98%) Dremio
9 378 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
10 377 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
11 352 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
12 347 (1.79%) Tableau
13 328 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 274 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 271 (1.40%) Relational Database
16 252 (1.30%) Hadoop
17 226 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 183 (0.94%) Metadata
19 161 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
20 132 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 653 (3.36%) JIRA
2 612 (3.15%) Git
3 546 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.29%) JUnit
5 183 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 160 (0.82%) Selenium
7 132 (0.68%) GitLab
8 130 (0.67%) Jasmine
9 119 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 109 (0.56%) Maven
11 106 (0.55%) Artifactory
12 105 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 84 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
14 83 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 81 (0.42%) WebDriver
16 73 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
17 63 (0.32%) Protractor
18 62 (0.32%) CircleCI
19 51 (0.26%) JMeter
19 51 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 5,998 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 4,094 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,460 (17.82%) Law
4 2,888 (14.88%) Banking
5 2,796 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
6 2,695 (13.88%) Marketing
7 2,008 (10.34%) Legal
8 1,377 (7.09%) Retail
9 1,034 (5.33%) Investment Banking
10 986 (5.08%) Front Office
11 933 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
12 867 (4.47%) Public Sector
13 645 (3.32%) Manufacturing
14 604 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
15 587 (3.02%) Financial Institution
16 456 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
16 456 (2.35%) Telecoms
17 287 (1.48%) Back Office
18 266 (1.37%) Local Government
19 259 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3,211 (16.54%) Senior
2 2,962 (15.26%) Analyst
3 2,719 (14.01%) Software Engineer
4 2,370 (12.21%) Lead
5 2,178 (11.22%) Developer
6 1,444 (7.44%) Architect
7 960 (4.95%) Project Manager
8 937 (4.83%) Java Engineer
9 900 (4.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 811 (4.18%) Consultant
11 783 (4.03%) Lead Software Engineer
12 736 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
13 704 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
14 643 (3.31%) Python Engineer
15 637 (3.28%) Financial Analyst
16 581 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
17 551 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 526 (2.71%) Senior Manager
19 499 (2.57%) Senior Developer
20 477 (2.46%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,247 (6.42%) React
2 970 (5.00%) .NET
3 892 (4.60%) AngularJS
4 890 (4.59%) Spring
5 739 (3.81%) HTML
6 599 (3.09%) Kafka
7 577 (2.97%) CSS
8 552 (2.84%) gRPC
9 535 (2.76%) Spring Boot
10 494 (2.54%) Protocol Buffers
11 453 (2.33%) Pandas
12 445 (2.29%) Node.js
13 427 (2.20%) REST
14 407 (2.10%) Web Services
15 389 (2.00%) NumPy
16 378 (1.95%) JSON
17 367 (1.89%) RESTful
18 343 (1.77%) ASP.NET
19 306 (1.58%) SciPy
20 303 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,068 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 929 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 919 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 804 (4.14%) Hedge funds
5 723 (3.72%) Fixed Income
6 702 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
7 674 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 609 (3.14%) Product Ownership
9 606 (3.12%) Derivative
10 595 (3.07%) Equities
11 553 (2.85%) Onboarding
12 483 (2.49%) Public Cloud
13 275 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 255 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 194 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 186 (0.96%) PMI
17 182 (0.94%) Credit Risk
18 181 (0.93%) Driving Licence
19 179 (0.92%) Mobile App
20 161 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,280 (6.59%) Windows
2 864 (4.45%) Linux
3 399 (2.06%) Unix
4 362 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 211 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 132 (0.68%) Android
7 112 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 100 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 94 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 94 (0.48%) CentOS
10 88 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 69 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 63 (0.32%) Solaris
13 61 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 47 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 34 (0.18%) Mac OS
17 29 (0.15%) AIX
18 25 (0.13%) zOS
19 21 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,878 (35.43%) Agile
2 3,736 (19.25%) Software Engineering
3 3,069 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
4 2,655 (13.68%) CI/CD
5 2,452 (12.63%) SDLC
6 2,153 (11.09%) Mentoring
7 2,078 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 2,048 (10.55%) Artificial Intelligence
9 2,036 (10.49%) Decision-Making
10 1,992 (10.26%) Machine Learning
11 1,958 (10.09%) Project Management
12 1,930 (9.94%) Roadmaps
13 1,867 (9.62%) Operational Stability
14 1,710 (8.81%) Risk Management
15 1,509 (7.77%) Analytics
16 1,486 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
17 1,485 (7.65%) Asset Management
18 1,433 (7.38%) Coaching
19 1,351 (6.96%) DevOps
20 1,336 (6.88%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,494 (18.00%) SQL
2 3,004 (15.48%) Python
3 2,819 (14.52%) Java
4 1,616 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1,143 (5.89%) TypeScript
6 1,139 (5.87%) C#
7 531 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 367 (1.89%) Scala
9 331 (1.71%) Go
10 248 (1.28%) T-SQL
11 204 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 203 (1.05%) R
13 199 (1.03%) C++
14 189 (0.97%) Bash
15 133 (0.69%) C
16 127 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 120 (0.62%) PHP
18 105 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 95 (0.49%) VBA
20 81 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,835 (14.61%) Degree
2 835 (4.30%) ACCA
3 680 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 638 (3.29%) CIMA
5 435 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 408 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 360 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 315 (1.62%) CISSP
9 281 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 266 (1.37%) DBS Check
11 187 (0.96%) Azure Certification
12 165 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 163 (0.84%) CISM
14 157 (0.81%) PMP
15 152 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 140 (0.72%) DV Cleared
17 134 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
18 121 (0.62%) MBA
19 110 (0.57%) CISA
19 110 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (3.00%) QA
2 546 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 477 (2.46%) GDPR
4 457 (2.35%) SLA
5 266 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 245 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 232 (1.20%) IFRS
8 222 (1.14%) NIST
8 222 (1.14%) PMO
9 93 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
10 91 (0.47%) GAAP
11 75 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 66 (0.34%) GRC
13 65 (0.33%) IFRS 9
14 54 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 50 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 47 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 41 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 748 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 647 (3.33%) Docker
3 340 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 105 (0.54%) HDFS
5 102 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 96 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 63 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 62 (0.32%) XenApp
9 58 (0.30%) Firmware
9 58 (0.30%) vSphere
10 50 (0.26%) RACF
11 48 (0.25%) XenDesktop
12 42 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 15 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.072%) VMware Workstation
15 13 (0.067%) OpenSSH
16 12 (0.062%) Terminal Services
17 11 (0.057%) IAG
17 11 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
18 9 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,013 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 758 (3.91%) Terraform
3 281 (1.45%) Ansible
4 211 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 207 (1.07%) Grafana
6 171 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 128 (0.66%) SCCM
8 75 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 40 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Puppet
11 33 (0.17%) Kibana
12 29 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
13 28 (0.14%) HAProxy
13 28 (0.14%) SCOM
14 26 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
16 24 (0.12%) Istio
16 24 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3,865 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 1,389 (7.16%) Oracle
3 980 (5.05%) SAP
4 539 (2.78%) Google
5 465 (2.40%) VMware
6 391 (2.01%) Databricks
7 337 (1.74%) Hyperion
8 327 (1.68%) Anaplan
9 324 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 288 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 273 (1.41%) Splunk
12 248 (1.28%) Cisco
13 200 (1.03%) CA
14 196 (1.01%) Red Hat
15 191 (0.98%) Dynatrace
16 186 (0.96%) Citrix
17 185 (0.95%) Dell
18 169 (0.87%) IBM
19 154 (0.79%) Bloomberg
20 150 (0.77%) NEC