Finance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,685 11,239 13,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 19.35% 18.30%
As % of the General category 28.10% 28.37% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,641 5,328 7,270
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £83,755
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 41,581 39,612 44,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.19% 68.19% 60.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 18,240 24,559
10th Percentile £26,043 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK excluding 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
Scotland +2 3,147 £59,526 -4.76% 318
North of England -2 2,440 £55,000 - 970
South East -2 2,308 £52,500 -8.70% 839
Midlands -2 1,674 £50,000 -9.09% 609
North West 0 1,385 £52,500 -4.55% 578
South West -8 1,202 £52,500 -4.55% 458
West Midlands 0 1,147 £52,500 -4.55% 381
Yorkshire -3 798 £56,500 +2.73% 273
East of England -4 524 £50,000 -9.09% 308
East Midlands -4 521 £47,500 -13.64% 227
North East +1 257 £50,000 -9.09% 127
Wales -4 247 £45,000 +2.19% 112
Northern Ireland +2 106 £40,000 -20.00% 71
Isle of Man +7 35 £54,000 -25.52% 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 607 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 285 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 224 (1.92%) Apache
4 201 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 198 (1.69%) Confluence
6 180 (1.54%) SAS
7 133 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
8 105 (0.90%) FileNet
9 55 (0.47%) IIS
10 32 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 29 (0.25%) WordPress
12 27 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 25 (0.21%) CMS
14 21 (0.18%) GemFire
15 20 (0.17%) nginx
16 19 (0.16%) Camunda
17 16 (0.14%) WebSphere
18 12 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
19 11 (0.094%) CICS
20 10 (0.086%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,143 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 701 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 296 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 37 (0.32%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 11 (0.094%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.060%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.051%) InVision
12 6 (0.051%) OrCAD
13 5 (0.043%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.034%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.034%) SPSS
15 3 (0.026%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 103 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 64 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 57 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 52 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 32 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 32 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
7 31 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 28 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 28 (0.24%) SAP FI
10 23 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 23 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 18 (0.15%) iTrent
11 18 (0.15%) Sage X3
12 17 (0.15%) Sage 200
13 16 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
13 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
14 15 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
15 14 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,829 (15.65%) AWS
2 1,453 (12.43%) Azure
3 737 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 558 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
5 387 (3.31%) GCP
6 264 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
7 250 (2.14%) SaaS
8 183 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 174 (1.49%) Entra ID
10 164 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 151 (1.29%) GitHub
12 131 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
13 130 (1.11%) Serverless
14 123 (1.05%) Datadog
15 108 (0.92%) Figma
16 95 (0.81%) Power Automate
17 82 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
17 82 (0.70%) PowerApps
18 76 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 384 (3.29%) Broadband
2 272 (2.33%) Firewall
3 156 (1.34%) Internet
4 115 (0.98%) VPN
5 108 (0.92%) DNS
6 102 (0.87%) WAN
7 93 (0.80%) LAN
8 91 (0.78%) Wireless
9 82 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 82 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 74 (0.63%) Network Security
10 74 (0.63%) TCP/IP
11 67 (0.57%) SAN
12 64 (0.55%) DHCP
13 56 (0.48%) IPsec
14 55 (0.47%) SNMP
15 42 (0.36%) 5G
16 39 (0.33%) Intranet
17 36 (0.31%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 709 (6.07%) NoSQL
2 637 (5.45%) Power BI
3 531 (4.54%) Big Data
4 513 (4.39%) SQL Server
5 359 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 258 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 249 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 236 (2.02%) Hadoop
9 208 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 193 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 189 (1.62%) Tableau
12 162 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 128 (1.10%) Apache Hive
15 127 (1.09%) Metadata
16 123 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
17 101 (0.86%) HBase
18 81 (0.69%) MySQL
19 73 (0.62%) Power Query
20 66 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 443 (3.79%) Git
2 425 (3.64%) JIRA
3 407 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 231 (1.98%) JUnit
5 129 (1.10%) Selenium
6 128 (1.10%) Jasmine
7 106 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 93 (0.80%) Maven
9 88 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 85 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
11 74 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
12 73 (0.62%) GitLab
13 72 (0.62%) Visual Studio
14 69 (0.59%) Artifactory
15 66 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 63 (0.54%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.51%) Protractor
18 47 (0.40%) Mockito
19 43 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
20 42 (0.36%) JMeter
General
1 3,656 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 3,391 (29.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,057 (26.16%) Law
4 2,167 (18.55%) Marketing
5 1,642 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
6 1,543 (13.20%) Legal
7 1,425 (12.20%) Banking
8 982 (8.40%) Retail
9 663 (5.67%) Public Sector
10 603 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
11 597 (5.11%) Investment Banking
12 454 (3.89%) Manufacturing
13 405 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
14 360 (3.08%) Financial Institution
15 340 (2.91%) Telecoms
16 328 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
17 191 (1.63%) Local Government
18 187 (1.60%) Electronics
19 147 (1.26%) Billing
19 147 (1.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,144 (18.35%) Software Engineer
2 1,713 (14.66%) Lead
3 1,709 (14.63%) Senior
4 1,581 (13.53%) Analyst
5 991 (8.48%) Developer
6 817 (6.99%) Java Engineer
7 794 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
8 730 (6.25%) Project Manager
9 687 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
10 613 (5.25%) Architect
11 512 (4.38%) Consultant
12 393 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
13 383 (3.28%) Big Data Engineer
14 382 (3.27%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 346 (2.96%) Full Stack Engineer
16 342 (2.93%) Data Engineer
17 335 (2.87%) Python Engineer
18 329 (2.82%) Python Software Engineer
19 326 (2.79%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 317 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 784 (6.71%) React
2 772 (6.61%) Spring
3 602 (5.15%) AngularJS
4 572 (4.90%) HTML
5 531 (4.54%) .NET
6 465 (3.98%) Kafka
7 461 (3.95%) CSS
8 422 (3.61%) Spring Boot
9 302 (2.58%) Node.js
10 287 (2.46%) JSON
10 287 (2.46%) RESTful
11 281 (2.40%) REST
12 269 (2.30%) Web Services
13 249 (2.13%) J2EE
14 213 (1.82%) ASP.NET
15 205 (1.75%) Hibernate
16 195 (1.67%) jQuery
17 192 (1.64%) PySpark
18 186 (1.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 174 (1.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,020 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 847 (7.25%) Algorithms
3 613 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 437 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 413 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 389 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 331 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 170 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 157 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 153 (1.31%) Driving Licence
11 152 (1.30%) Credit Risk
11 152 (1.30%) PMI
12 144 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 142 (1.22%) Reference Data
14 137 (1.17%) Market Risk
15 117 (1.00%) NHS
16 97 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
17 88 (0.75%) Virtual Team
18 82 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 78 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 705 (6.03%) Windows
2 474 (4.06%) Linux
3 236 (2.02%) Unix
4 208 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 102 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 101 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 96 (0.82%) Android
8 84 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 51 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 49 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
12 47 (0.40%) CentOS
13 27 (0.23%) Windows 7
14 22 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 18 (0.15%) AIX
15 18 (0.15%) Windows 8
16 16 (0.14%) Solaris
17 15 (0.13%) Ubuntu
17 15 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,644 (39.74%) Agile
2 2,753 (23.56%) Software Engineering
3 2,306 (19.73%) SDLC
4 2,275 (19.47%) CI/CD
5 2,031 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
6 1,881 (16.10%) Operational Stability
7 1,704 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,694 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,687 (14.44%) Machine Learning
10 1,421 (12.16%) Decision-Making
11 1,384 (11.84%) Mentoring
12 1,330 (11.38%) Community of Practice
13 1,327 (11.36%) Project Management
14 1,284 (10.99%) Risk Management
15 1,162 (9.94%) Roadmaps
16 1,086 (9.29%) Visualisation
17 1,077 (9.22%) Coaching
18 927 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
19 857 (7.33%) Analytics
20 784 (6.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,264 (19.38%) SQL
2 1,990 (17.03%) Java
3 1,437 (12.30%) Python
4 796 (6.81%) JavaScript
5 568 (4.86%) C#
6 429 (3.67%) TypeScript
7 331 (2.83%) Scala
8 263 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 182 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 151 (1.29%) Go
11 150 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 96 (0.82%) R
13 93 (0.80%) Bash
14 84 (0.72%) C
15 83 (0.71%) PHP
16 76 (0.65%) C++
17 70 (0.60%) Shell Script
18 65 (0.56%) Prolog
18 65 (0.56%) SPARQL
19 54 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,652 (14.14%) Degree
2 471 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 435 (3.72%) ACCA
4 354 (3.03%) CIMA
5 258 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 217 (1.86%) PMI Certification
7 208 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 195 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 191 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 135 (1.16%) CISSP
11 108 (0.92%) PMP
12 101 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 93 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 88 (0.75%) CISM
14 88 (0.75%) DV Cleared
15 72 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
16 69 (0.59%) PhD
17 67 (0.57%) MBA
18 57 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
19 55 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (3.25%) GDPR
2 334 (2.86%) QA
3 281 (2.40%) SLA
4 270 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 204 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 157 (1.34%) PMO
7 145 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 120 (1.03%) NIST
9 116 (0.99%) IFRS
10 65 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 46 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 43 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 43 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 39 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.33%) GRC
15 33 (0.28%) GAAP
16 29 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.22%) ITGC
18 24 (0.21%) NCSC
19 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 484 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 335 (2.87%) Docker
3 227 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (0.86%) HDFS
5 83 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (0.39%) Firmware
8 44 (0.38%) RACF
9 32 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 31 (0.27%) vSphere
11 23 (0.20%) XenApp
12 19 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
13 15 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
14 13 (0.11%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.086%) XenDesktop
18 8 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
19 7 (0.060%) IAG
20 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 552 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 427 (3.65%) Terraform
3 191 (1.63%) Grafana
4 134 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 119 (1.02%) Ansible
6 91 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 62 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 59 (0.50%) SCCM
9 30 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
11 26 (0.22%) Kibana
12 24 (0.21%) HAProxy
13 22 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
15 16 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
16 14 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
16 14 (0.12%) NetBackup
17 13 (0.11%) PowerCLI
18 12 (0.10%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2,308 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 807 (6.91%) Oracle
3 489 (4.18%) SAP
4 317 (2.71%) Databricks
5 303 (2.59%) Google
6 287 (2.46%) VMware
7 232 (1.99%) Splunk
8 187 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 145 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 132 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 125 (1.07%) Cisco
12 117 (1.00%) NEC
13 108 (0.92%) Informatica
14 99 (0.85%) Hyperion
15 98 (0.84%) Alteryx
16 97 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 95 (0.81%) CA
18 94 (0.80%) IBM
19 91 (0.78%) Anaplan
20 88 (0.75%) Sage