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 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 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,296 22,414 39,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.80% 23.02% 23.39%
As % of the General category 32.01% 33.89% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,835 12,959 18,956
10th Percentile £32,500 £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 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
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 £72,426 £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 28 May 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 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
England -1 15,162 £65,000 -5.55% 6,390
UK excluding London +2 11,685 £52,500 -4.55% 3,598
Work from Home -2 7,331 £65,000 -6.40% 2,957
London 0 6,879 £82,500 +3.13% 2,988
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
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
1 703 (3.64%) Apache
2 653 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 645 (3.34%) Apache Spark
4 459 (2.38%) SAS
5 434 (2.25%) SharePoint
6 337 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 268 (1.39%) Confluence
8 108 (0.56%) IIS
9 106 (0.55%) FileNet
10 58 (0.30%) CMS
11 45 (0.23%) WordPress
12 43 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 37 (0.19%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
15 29 (0.15%) WebSphere
16 28 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 19 (0.098%) Camunda
19 17 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
20 13 (0.067%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,828 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,018 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
3 465 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 85 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 37 (0.19%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 27 (0.14%) SPSS
10 21 (0.11%) Sketch
11 16 (0.083%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.083%) Trello
12 11 (0.057%) Adobe XD
12 11 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
13 8 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.036%) InDesign
15 6 (0.031%) InVision
15 6 (0.031%) OrCAD
16 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
16 5 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 314 (1.63%) SAP ERP
2 168 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 137 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 110 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 90 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 71 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 63 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 63 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 49 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 42 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 42 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
12 35 (0.18%) Aladdin
12 35 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
13 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
14 31 (0.16%) Elite 3E
15 29 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
16 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,262 (16.91%) AWS
2 2,765 (14.33%) Azure
3 1,217 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 1,002 (5.19%) GCP
5 954 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
6 555 (2.88%) SaaS
7 476 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 400 (2.07%) dbt
9 394 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 341 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
11 290 (1.50%) Serverless
12 283 (1.47%) Entra ID
13 261 (1.35%) GitHub
14 238 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 202 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
16 178 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
17 171 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 164 (0.85%) PowerApps
19 144 (0.75%) PaaS
20 140 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 847 (4.39%) Broadband
2 501 (2.60%) Firewall
3 232 (1.20%) DNS
4 215 (1.11%) Internet
5 191 (0.99%) WAN
6 173 (0.90%) LAN
7 169 (0.88%) TCP/IP
8 162 (0.84%) VPN
9 133 (0.69%) Network Security
10 132 (0.68%) Wireless
11 126 (0.65%) DHCP
12 110 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.47%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 70 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 67 (0.35%) IPsec
17 65 (0.34%) SNMP
18 62 (0.32%) Intranet
19 52 (0.27%) 5G
20 41 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,020 (5.29%) Power BI
2 879 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 788 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 660 (3.42%) Big Data
5 599 (3.10%) Data Lake
6 544 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 408 (2.11%) Apache Ignite
8 371 (1.92%) Dremio
9 368 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
10 365 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
11 351 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
12 339 (1.76%) Tableau
13 332 (1.72%) MongoDB
14 275 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 270 (1.40%) Relational Database
16 259 (1.34%) Hadoop
17 229 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 180 (0.93%) Metadata
19 161 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
20 135 (0.70%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 653 (3.38%) JIRA
2 608 (3.15%) Git
3 556 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.30%) JUnit
5 184 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 157 (0.81%) Selenium
7 131 (0.68%) Jasmine
8 129 (0.67%) GitLab
9 120 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 111 (0.58%) Maven
11 106 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 104 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 85 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
14 81 (0.42%) Cucumber
14 81 (0.42%) WebDriver
15 74 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
16 63 (0.33%) CircleCI
16 63 (0.33%) Protractor
17 51 (0.26%) JMeter
18 50 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 5,993 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 4,121 (21.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,490 (18.09%) Law
4 2,923 (15.15%) Banking
5 2,751 (14.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2,675 (13.86%) Marketing
7 2,005 (10.39%) Legal
8 1,331 (6.90%) Retail
9 1,034 (5.36%) Investment Banking
10 982 (5.09%) Front Office
11 937 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
12 890 (4.61%) Public Sector
13 638 (3.31%) Manufacturing
14 610 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
15 582 (3.02%) Financial Institution
16 455 (2.36%) Telecoms
17 454 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
18 291 (1.51%) Back Office
19 264 (1.37%) Local Government
20 261 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3,192 (16.54%) Senior
2 2,948 (15.28%) Analyst
3 2,733 (14.16%) Software Engineer
4 2,378 (12.32%) Lead
5 2,160 (11.19%) Developer
6 1,425 (7.38%) Architect
7 957 (4.96%) Project Manager
8 942 (4.88%) Java Engineer
9 906 (4.70%) Java Software Engineer
10 791 (4.10%) Consultant
10 791 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 725 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
12 706 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
13 640 (3.32%) Python Engineer
14 627 (3.25%) Financial Analyst
15 578 (3.00%) Python Software Engineer
16 551 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
17 527 (2.73%) Senior Manager
18 486 (2.52%) Data Engineer
19 485 (2.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,249 (6.47%) React
2 972 (5.04%) .NET
3 901 (4.67%) Spring
4 900 (4.66%) AngularJS
5 745 (3.86%) HTML
6 602 (3.12%) Kafka
7 581 (3.01%) CSS
8 546 (2.83%) Spring Boot
9 543 (2.81%) gRPC
10 485 (2.51%) Protocol Buffers
11 445 (2.31%) Node.js
11 445 (2.31%) Pandas
12 427 (2.21%) REST
13 409 (2.12%) Web Services
14 381 (1.97%) NumPy
15 376 (1.95%) JSON
16 371 (1.92%) RESTful
17 347 (1.80%) ASP.NET
18 303 (1.57%) Vue
19 300 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1,090 (5.65%) Cloud Native
2 934 (4.84%) Algorithms
3 922 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 796 (4.13%) Hedge funds
5 712 (3.69%) Fixed Income
6 709 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 660 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 615 (3.19%) Product Ownership
9 596 (3.09%) Derivative
10 584 (3.03%) Equities
11 550 (2.85%) Onboarding
12 503 (2.61%) Public Cloud
13 270 (1.40%) Data Centre
14 254 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 193 (1.00%) PMI
16 192 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
17 184 (0.95%) Credit Risk
18 181 (0.94%) Driving Licence
19 176 (0.91%) Mobile App
20 161 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,282 (6.64%) Windows
2 868 (4.50%) Linux
3 403 (2.09%) Unix
4 360 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 212 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 132 (0.68%) Android
7 113 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 101 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 96 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 94 (0.49%) CentOS
11 88 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 63 (0.33%) Solaris
14 62 (0.32%) Windows 7
15 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 47 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 28 (0.15%) AIX
19 25 (0.13%) zOS
20 20 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,890 (35.71%) Agile
2 3,745 (19.41%) Software Engineering
3 3,052 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
4 2,694 (13.96%) CI/CD
5 2,491 (12.91%) SDLC
6 2,159 (11.19%) Mentoring
7 2,074 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,063 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 2,053 (10.64%) Decision-Making
10 2,022 (10.48%) Machine Learning
11 1,949 (10.10%) Project Management
12 1,944 (10.07%) Roadmaps
13 1,902 (9.86%) Operational Stability
14 1,711 (8.87%) Risk Management
15 1,510 (7.83%) Analytics
16 1,490 (7.72%) Asset Management
17 1,469 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
18 1,432 (7.42%) Coaching
19 1,357 (7.03%) DevOps
20 1,355 (7.02%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,515 (18.22%) SQL
2 3,015 (15.63%) Python
3 2,836 (14.70%) Java
4 1,609 (8.34%) JavaScript
5 1,139 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 1,138 (5.90%) C#
7 525 (2.72%) PowerShell
8 376 (1.95%) Scala
9 325 (1.68%) Go
10 252 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 209 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 202 (1.05%) R
13 196 (1.02%) C++
14 186 (0.96%) Bash
15 132 (0.68%) C
16 128 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 113 (0.59%) PHP
18 106 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 93 (0.48%) VBA
20 79 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,823 (14.63%) Degree
2 831 (4.31%) ACCA
3 666 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 636 (3.30%) CIMA
5 433 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 403 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 352 (1.82%) SC Cleared
8 311 (1.61%) CISSP
9 288 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 282 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 188 (0.97%) Azure Certification
12 164 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 162 (0.84%) CISM
14 157 (0.81%) PMP
15 143 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
16 137 (0.71%) DV Cleared
17 135 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 119 (0.62%) MBA
19 106 (0.55%) PhD
20 105 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (3.00%) QA
2 544 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 501 (2.60%) GDPR
4 464 (2.40%) SLA
5 269 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 242 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 231 (1.20%) IFRS
8 223 (1.16%) PMO
9 219 (1.13%) NIST
10 92 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 90 (0.47%) GAAP
12 73 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.34%) GRC
14 65 (0.34%) IFRS 9
15 53 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 52 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 46 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 746 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 645 (3.34%) Docker
3 338 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (0.55%) HDFS
5 103 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 96 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 63 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 60 (0.31%) XenApp
9 59 (0.31%) Firmware
10 57 (0.30%) vSphere
11 50 (0.26%) RACF
12 46 (0.24%) XenDesktop
13 42 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
14 15 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
15 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
16 13 (0.067%) OpenSSH
17 12 (0.062%) Terminal Services
18 11 (0.057%) IAG
18 11 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
19 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1,016 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 761 (3.94%) Terraform
3 277 (1.44%) Ansible
4 211 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 208 (1.08%) Grafana
6 170 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 131 (0.68%) SCCM
8 76 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 43 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.17%) Kibana
11 30 (0.16%) Puppet
11 30 (0.16%) SCOM
12 29 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
13 28 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.14%) 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 3,802 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 1,396 (7.23%) Oracle
3 975 (5.05%) SAP
4 558 (2.89%) Google
5 461 (2.39%) VMware
6 396 (2.05%) Databricks
7 336 (1.74%) Hyperion
8 328 (1.70%) Anaplan
9 324 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 289 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 276 (1.43%) Splunk
12 247 (1.28%) Cisco
13 198 (1.03%) CA
14 192 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 191 (0.99%) Red Hat
16 188 (0.97%) Dell
17 185 (0.96%) Citrix
18 175 (0.91%) IBM
19 153 (0.79%) Bloomberg
20 149 (0.77%) NEC