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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,880 10,031 21,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.70% 30.60% 29.43%
As % of the General category 42.55% 44.52% 42.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,707 7,078 10,167
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 16,168 22,532 49,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.44% 68.74% 68.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 15,557 22,660
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
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 29 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 29 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 0 966 £75,000 -3.23% 336
West London +1 368 £80,000 +18.52% 77
South London +8 164 £66,250 +20.45% 40
East London +2 80 £57,500 -17.86% 74
North London -9 16 £52,975 -14.21% 11
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
1 519 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
2 473 (6.88%) Apache
3 273 (3.97%) SAS
4 138 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 129 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 61 (0.89%) Confluence
7 50 (0.73%) 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%) BizTalk Server
17 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 629 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 305 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (2.34%) 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
16 9 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,406 (20.44%) AWS
2 1,233 (17.92%) Azure
3 605 (8.79%) GCP
4 421 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 379 (5.51%) dbt
6 345 (5.01%) Snowflake
7 344 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 267 (3.88%) SaaS
9 165 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 149 (2.17%) Serverless
11 144 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
12 101 (1.47%) GitHub
13 96 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
13 96 (1.40%) Entra ID
14 86 (1.25%) PaaS
15 74 (1.08%) Amazon S3
16 68 (0.99%) IaaS
17 64 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
19 55 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.54%) Broadband
2 219 (3.18%) Firewall
3 121 (1.76%) DNS
4 82 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 79 (1.15%) LAN
5 79 (1.15%) WAN
6 60 (0.87%) DHCP
7 58 (0.84%) Network Security
8 55 (0.80%) Internet
9 46 (0.67%) VPN
10 35 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 33 (0.48%) Wireless
12 32 (0.47%) Skype
13 29 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
14 28 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
15 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
16 21 (0.31%) SAN
17 20 (0.29%) BGP
18 18 (0.26%) Intranet
19 17 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (5.92%) Apache Ignite
2 382 (5.55%) Data Lake
3 370 (5.38%) Dremio
4 367 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
5 364 (5.29%) Apache Arrow
6 351 (5.10%) Power BI
7 329 (4.78%) SQL Server
8 222 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
9 175 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 147 (2.14%) Tableau
11 122 (1.77%) Big Data
12 81 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 76 (1.10%) NoSQL
14 75 (1.09%) Relational Database
15 67 (0.97%) MongoDB
16 64 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 50 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
17 50 (0.73%) Metadata
18 41 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
18 41 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 209 (3.04%) JIRA
2 162 (2.35%) Git
3 140 (2.03%) 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%) JUnit
11 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 17 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.25%) Maven
13 15 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.20%) Snyk
15 11 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 2,062 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 1,434 (20.84%) Banking
3 1,018 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 920 (13.37%) Front Office
5 638 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 434 (6.31%) Investment Banking
7 422 (6.13%) Legal
8 411 (5.97%) Law
8 411 (5.97%) Marketing
9 309 (4.49%) Retail
10 306 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
11 205 (2.98%) Back Office
12 204 (2.97%) Financial Institution
13 171 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 169 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
15 128 (1.86%) Manufacturing
16 108 (1.57%) Billing
17 107 (1.56%) Retail Banking
18 105 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
19 97 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,349 (19.61%) Senior
2 1,269 (18.44%) Analyst
3 1,104 (16.05%) Developer
4 737 (10.71%) Architect
5 605 (8.79%) Lead
6 577 (8.39%) Software Engineer
7 430 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 310 (4.51%) Financial Analyst
9 307 (4.46%) Python Engineer
10 306 (4.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 283 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
12 280 (4.07%) Python Developer
13 251 (3.65%) Python Software Engineer
14 247 (3.59%) Senior Manager
15 242 (3.52%) Senior Developer
16 233 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
17 206 (2.99%) Java Developer
18 199 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
19 196 (2.85%) Consultant
20 192 (2.79%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (7.24%) gRPC
2 480 (6.98%) Protocol Buffers
3 459 (6.67%) React
4 410 (5.96%) .NET
5 350 (5.09%) Pandas
6 315 (4.58%) NumPy
7 296 (4.30%) SciPy
8 291 (4.23%) AngularJS
9 266 (3.87%) Redux
10 162 (2.35%) Vue
11 157 (2.28%) HTML
12 140 (2.03%) REST
13 138 (2.01%) .NET Core
14 135 (1.96%) ASP.NET
15 134 (1.95%) Node.js
16 129 (1.88%) Material-UI
17 127 (1.85%) Web Services
18 126 (1.83%) Spring
19 123 (1.79%) Kafka
20 119 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 773 (11.24%) Hedge funds
2 693 (10.07%) Fixed Income
3 579 (8.42%) Equities
4 566 (8.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 562 (8.17%) Derivative
6 272 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 224 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 208 (3.02%) Onboarding
9 203 (2.95%) Product Ownership
10 125 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
11 99 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 87 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 85 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 80 (1.16%) Reinsurance
15 78 (1.13%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.10%) Clustering
17 69 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (0.96%) Social Media
19 63 (0.92%) Cloud Native
19 63 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 538 (7.82%) Windows
2 370 (5.38%) Linux
3 156 (2.27%) 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 2,116 (30.76%) Agile
2 1,062 (15.44%) Asset Management
3 970 (14.10%) Software Engineering
4 894 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 793 (11.53%) Investment Management
6 720 (10.47%) Roadmaps
7 711 (10.33%) Mentoring
8 630 (9.16%) Analytics
9 612 (8.90%) DevOps
10 576 (8.37%) Decision-Making
11 515 (7.49%) Fintech
12 510 (7.41%) Project Management
13 490 (7.12%) Change Management
14 474 (6.89%) Data Management
15 473 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
16 421 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 404 (5.87%) Performance Management
18 399 (5.80%) Computer Science
18 399 (5.80%) ERP
19 398 (5.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,549 (22.51%) Python
2 1,187 (17.25%) SQL
3 819 (11.90%) Java
4 787 (11.44%) JavaScript
5 692 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 525 (7.63%) C#
7 250 (3.63%) PowerShell
8 165 (2.40%) Go
9 113 (1.64%) C++
10 98 (1.42%) R
11 96 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 93 (1.35%) Bash
13 70 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 54 (0.78%) Perl
15 50 (0.73%) VBA
16 46 (0.67%) Ruby
17 44 (0.64%) C
18 42 (0.61%) Scala
19 30 (0.44%) PHP
20 27 (0.39%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,045 (15.19%) Degree
2 374 (5.44%) ACCA
3 260 (3.78%) CIMA
4 227 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 171 (2.49%) CISSP
7 116 (1.69%) Security Cleared
8 88 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 77 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 74 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 73 (1.06%) CISM
12 66 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 65 (0.94%) PMI Certification
14 59 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 54 (0.78%) CISA
16 52 (0.76%) MBA
17 46 (0.67%) SC Cleared
18 41 (0.60%) PMP
19 39 (0.57%) CRISC
20 37 (0.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 207 (3.01%) 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%) GAAP
7 58 (0.84%) PMO
8 49 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 32 (0.47%) COBIT
9 32 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.36%) GRC
10 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 22 (0.32%) IFRS 9
12 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.31%) GMP
13 20 (0.29%) ITGC
14 18 (0.26%) IFRS 17
14 18 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 291 (4.23%) Docker
2 245 (3.56%) 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
1 447 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 326 (4.74%) Terraform
3 141 (2.05%) Ansible
4 78 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 72 (1.05%) SCCM
7 24 (0.35%) Puppet
8 19 (0.28%) SCOM
8 19 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.26%) Istio
10 17 (0.25%) Grafana
11 13 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
12 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.16%) Nagios
13 11 (0.16%) Nmap
14 9 (0.13%) Nessus
15 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,365 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 517 (7.51%) Oracle
3 405 (5.89%) SAP
4 243 (3.53%) Google
5 237 (3.44%) Anaplan
6 236 (3.43%) Hyperion
7 160 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 160 (2.33%) VMware
8 149 (2.17%) Bloomberg
9 130 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 121 (1.76%) Cisco
11 117 (1.70%) Dell
12 108 (1.57%) 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