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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,879 10,050 21,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.81% 30.56% 29.49%
As % of the General category 42.65% 44.48% 42.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,711 7,096 10,252
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £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 16,128 22,592 49,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.56% 68.70% 68.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,361 15,598 22,797
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,374 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 0 970 £75,000 -3.23% 336
West London +1 369 £80,000 +14.29% 76
South London +11 165 £65,000 +18.18% 36
East London +2 81 £57,500 -25.81% 71
North London -6 16 £52,975 -14.21% 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
1 520 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
2 474 (6.89%) Apache
3 275 (4.00%) SAS
4 137 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 129 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 61 (0.89%) Confluence
7 49 (0.71%) IIS
8 38 (0.55%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.44%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 16 (0.23%) nginx
12 13 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 13 (0.19%) WordPress
13 12 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.12%) JBoss
15 7 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.087%) Ethereum
16 6 (0.087%) IBM Notes
17 5 (0.073%) Appian
17 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 628 (9.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 304 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 162 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 32 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.33%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.087%) InDesign
11 5 (0.073%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.015%) Revit
15 1 (0.015%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 225 (3.27%) SAP ERP
2 57 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 47 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 26 (0.38%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 21 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 21 (0.31%) thinkFolio
9 19 (0.28%) SAP BPC
10 16 (0.23%) SAP FI
11 15 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 14 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 14 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
13 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
14 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
15 10 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
15 10 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
15 10 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
15 10 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,407 (20.45%) AWS
2 1,231 (17.90%) Azure
3 609 (8.85%) GCP
4 416 (6.05%) Power Platform
5 380 (5.52%) dbt
6 345 (5.02%) Snowflake
7 343 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
8 268 (3.90%) SaaS
9 165 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 149 (2.17%) Serverless
11 144 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
12 103 (1.50%) GitHub
13 96 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
13 96 (1.40%) Entra ID
14 88 (1.28%) PaaS
15 74 (1.08%) Amazon S3
16 69 (1.00%) IaaS
17 65 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
19 56 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.54%) Broadband
2 219 (3.18%) Firewall
3 122 (1.77%) DNS
4 82 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 79 (1.15%) LAN
5 79 (1.15%) WAN
6 60 (0.87%) DHCP
7 57 (0.83%) Network Security
8 55 (0.80%) Internet
9 46 (0.67%) VPN
10 34 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 32 (0.47%) Skype
11 32 (0.47%) Wireless
12 29 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
13 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
15 21 (0.31%) SAN
16 20 (0.29%) BGP
17 18 (0.26%) Intranet
18 17 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (5.93%) Apache Ignite
2 382 (5.55%) Data Lake
3 371 (5.39%) Dremio
4 368 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
5 365 (5.31%) Apache Arrow
6 346 (5.03%) Power BI
7 330 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 223 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
9 173 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 146 (2.12%) Tableau
11 122 (1.77%) Big Data
12 81 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 77 (1.12%) NoSQL
14 75 (1.09%) Relational Database
15 67 (0.97%) MongoDB
15 67 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 50 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
16 50 (0.73%) Metadata
17 42 (0.61%) MySQL
18 41 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 209 (3.04%) JIRA
2 160 (2.33%) Git
3 142 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 55 (0.80%) GitLab
6 40 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 35 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 27 (0.39%) Selenium
9 25 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) JUnit
11 18 (0.26%) Maven
11 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 15 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.20%) Snyk
14 11 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
14 11 (0.16%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 2,068 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 1,439 (20.92%) Banking
3 1,018 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 921 (13.39%) Front Office
5 632 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 437 (6.35%) Investment Banking
7 421 (6.12%) Legal
8 412 (5.99%) Marketing
9 411 (5.97%) Law
10 311 (4.52%) Retail
11 306 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
12 206 (2.99%) Back Office
13 205 (2.98%) Financial Institution
14 172 (2.50%) Public Sector
15 169 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
16 131 (1.90%) Manufacturing
17 109 (1.58%) Billing
18 106 (1.54%) Retail Banking
19 105 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
20 98 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,351 (19.64%) Senior
2 1,269 (18.45%) Analyst
3 1,102 (16.02%) Developer
4 737 (10.71%) Architect
5 606 (8.81%) Lead
6 578 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 430 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 310 (4.51%) Financial Analyst
9 307 (4.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 305 (4.43%) Python Engineer
11 285 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
12 282 (4.10%) Python Developer
13 249 (3.62%) Python Software Engineer
14 248 (3.61%) Senior Manager
15 240 (3.49%) Senior Developer
16 234 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
17 204 (2.97%) Java Developer
18 200 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
19 198 (2.88%) Consultant
20 192 (2.79%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (7.25%) gRPC
2 481 (6.99%) Protocol Buffers
3 458 (6.66%) React
4 410 (5.96%) .NET
5 351 (5.10%) Pandas
6 316 (4.59%) NumPy
7 297 (4.32%) SciPy
8 289 (4.20%) AngularJS
9 265 (3.85%) Redux
10 162 (2.35%) Vue
11 159 (2.31%) HTML
12 139 (2.02%) REST
13 138 (2.01%) .NET Core
14 135 (1.96%) Node.js
15 134 (1.95%) ASP.NET
16 129 (1.88%) Material-UI
17 127 (1.85%) Spring
18 126 (1.83%) Web Services
19 124 (1.80%) Kafka
20 119 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 774 (11.25%) Hedge funds
2 694 (10.09%) Fixed Income
3 579 (8.42%) Equities
4 566 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 562 (8.17%) Derivative
6 273 (3.97%) Management Information System
7 224 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 207 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 204 (2.97%) Product Ownership
10 125 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 99 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 87 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 87 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 80 (1.16%) Reinsurance
14 78 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 77 (1.12%) Clustering
16 69 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
17 66 (0.96%) Social Media
18 64 (0.93%) Cloud Native
19 63 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 539 (7.84%) Windows
2 371 (5.39%) Linux
3 157 (2.28%) Unix
4 148 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 111 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 51 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (0.65%) 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 (0.31%) zOS
14 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
15 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 12 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
17 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.15%) AIX
18 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
19 8 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,118 (30.79%) Agile
2 1,066 (15.50%) Asset Management
3 970 (14.10%) Software Engineering
4 896 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
5 794 (11.54%) Investment Management
6 721 (10.48%) Roadmaps
7 713 (10.36%) Mentoring
8 633 (9.20%) Analytics
9 614 (8.93%) DevOps
10 577 (8.39%) Decision-Making
11 515 (7.49%) Fintech
12 511 (7.43%) Project Management
13 491 (7.14%) Change Management
14 474 (6.89%) Data Management
15 470 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
16 424 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 404 (5.87%) Performance Management
18 401 (5.83%) Computer Science
19 399 (5.80%) ERP
20 398 (5.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,553 (22.58%) Python
2 1,188 (17.27%) SQL
3 819 (11.91%) Java
4 788 (11.46%) JavaScript
5 693 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 526 (7.65%) C#
7 250 (3.63%) PowerShell
8 165 (2.40%) Go
9 112 (1.63%) C++
10 98 (1.42%) R
10 98 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 93 (1.35%) Bash
12 70 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 54 (0.78%) Perl
14 49 (0.71%) VBA
15 47 (0.68%) Ruby
16 44 (0.64%) C
17 43 (0.63%) Scala
18 30 (0.44%) PHP
19 27 (0.39%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,050 (15.26%) Degree
2 374 (5.44%) ACCA
3 260 (3.78%) CIMA
4 229 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 171 (2.49%) CISSP
7 113 (1.64%) Security Cleared
8 89 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 76 (1.10%) DBS Check
10 75 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.06%) CISM
12 66 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 66 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 59 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 54 (0.78%) CISA
15 52 (0.76%) MBA
16 44 (0.64%) SC Cleared
17 41 (0.60%) PMP
18 39 (0.57%) CRISC
19 37 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 205 (2.98%) QA
3 167 (2.43%) SLA
4 113 (1.64%) GDPR
4 113 (1.64%) IFRS
5 94 (1.37%) NIST
6 90 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 58 (0.84%) PMO
8 57 (0.83%) GAAP
9 49 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 32 (0.47%) COBIT
10 32 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.36%) GRC
11 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
12 22 (0.32%) IFRS 9
13 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.31%) GMP
14 20 (0.29%) ITGC
15 18 (0.26%) IFRS 17
15 18 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 293 (4.26%) Docker
2 246 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 105 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.54%) XenApp
5 36 (0.52%) XenDesktop
6 30 (0.44%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 449 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 326 (4.74%) Terraform
3 141 (2.05%) Ansible
4 77 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 77 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 72 (1.05%) SCCM
6 24 (0.35%) Puppet
7 19 (0.28%) SCOM
7 19 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.26%) Istio
9 17 (0.25%) Grafana
10 13 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.16%) Nagios
12 11 (0.16%) Nmap
13 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
13 9 (0.13%) Nessus
14 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,368 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 519 (7.54%) Oracle
3 406 (5.90%) SAP
4 248 (3.61%) Google
5 237 (3.45%) Anaplan
6 236 (3.43%) Hyperion
7 160 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 160 (2.33%) VMware
8 147 (2.14%) Bloomberg
9 129 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 121 (1.76%) Cisco
11 118 (1.72%) Dell
12 107 (1.56%) Citrix
13 103 (1.50%) CA
14 94 (1.37%) Red Hat
15 73 (1.06%) Databricks
16 72 (1.05%) IBM
17 49 (0.71%) Qualys
18 45 (0.65%) Apple
19 41 (0.60%) Adobe