Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,138 1,231 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 46.05% 27.55% 22.49%
As % of the General category 64.94% 36.71% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 389 580 732
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,753 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,231 £95,229 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,832 3,353 3,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.90% 75.03% 62.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 1,582 1,976
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +3 2,752 £50,000 -17.01% 110
Edinburgh -3 284 £67,500 +3.85% 123
West Lothian +11 23 £34,500 -34.29% 3
Dundee -1 14 £50,000 -4.76% 2
Fife +2 12 £40,818 -18.36% 11
Renfrewshire - 11 £65,000 - 3
Aberdeen -16 10 £101,100 +83.82% 22
Stirling 0 9 £44,695 +10.18% 2
Lanarkshire -8 5 £40,000 -1.23% 32
East Lothian - 3 - -
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 3
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 1
Perth and Kinross +1 2 £101,350 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 6
Perthshire -2 1 £50,500 - 2
North Lanarkshire -6 1 £32,500 -4.41% 1
Inverclyde - 1 - - 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 576 (18.36%) Apache Spark
2 144 (4.59%) Apache
3 115 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.25%) FileNet
5 40 (1.27%) Confluence
6 32 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
7 28 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.67%) GemFire
9 19 (0.61%) Camunda
10 16 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.35%) CICS
12 10 (0.32%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.29%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.22%) SAS
15 4 (0.13%) Captiva
16 2 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
16 2 (0.064%) IIS
17 1 (0.032%) CMS
17 1 (0.032%) Office Communications Server
17 1 (0.032%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 47 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.99%) UserZoom
3 22 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.48%) Sketch
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.096%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.096%) InVision
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.35%) Endur
1 11 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 10 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.22%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.032%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (38.69%) AWS
2 236 (7.52%) Azure
3 144 (4.59%) GCP
4 116 (3.70%) Datadog
5 108 (3.44%) Amazon S3
6 95 (3.03%) Figma
7 74 (2.36%) SurveyMonkey
8 68 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 63 (2.01%) GitHub
10 58 (1.85%) Serverless
11 57 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
14 50 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
14 50 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
16 40 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.61%) Kerberos
2 22 (0.70%) Firewall
3 18 (0.57%) Broadband
3 18 (0.57%) Internet
4 17 (0.54%) DSL
5 14 (0.45%) VPN
6 13 (0.41%) IPsec
7 12 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.32%) SNMP
9 7 (0.22%) HTTP
9 7 (0.22%) MQTT
10 6 (0.19%) DHCP
10 6 (0.19%) DNS
10 6 (0.19%) WAN
10 6 (0.19%) Wireless
11 4 (0.13%) LAN
12 3 (0.096%) Software-Defined Radio
13 2 (0.064%) Network Security
13 2 (0.064%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.064%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 665 (21.19%) NoSQL
2 490 (15.62%) Big Data
3 228 (7.27%) Hadoop
4 155 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 128 (4.08%) Apache Hive
7 124 (3.95%) Relational Database
8 114 (3.63%) MongoDB
9 100 (3.19%) HBase
10 71 (2.26%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.14%) Metadata
12 51 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 45 (1.43%) SQL Server
14 39 (1.24%) DB2
14 39 (1.24%) Qlik Sense
15 38 (1.21%) CockroachDB
16 37 (1.18%) Power BI
17 32 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
17 32 (1.02%) Tableau
18 28 (0.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 313 (9.97%) Jenkins
2 216 (6.88%) Git
3 215 (6.85%) JUnit
4 130 (4.14%) JIRA
5 119 (3.79%) Jasmine
6 92 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 85 (2.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 77 (2.45%) Maven
9 76 (2.42%) Bitbucket
10 74 (2.36%) Karma Test Runner
11 69 (2.20%) Artifactory
12 64 (2.04%) Selenium
13 60 (1.91%) Protractor
13 60 (1.91%) WebDriver
14 47 (1.50%) Mockito
15 30 (0.96%) CircleCI
16 29 (0.92%) Gradle
16 29 (0.92%) JMeter
17 26 (0.83%) GitLab
18 25 (0.80%) Cucumber
General
1 2,579 (82.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,539 (80.91%) Law
3 1,457 (46.43%) Marketing
4 716 (22.82%) Legal
5 563 (17.94%) Banking
6 394 (12.56%) Social Skills
7 360 (11.47%) Investment Banking
8 259 (8.25%) Financial Institution
9 186 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
10 101 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
11 92 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
12 87 (2.77%) Private Banking
13 53 (1.69%) Public Sector
14 32 (1.02%) Social Science
15 31 (0.99%) Retail
16 27 (0.86%) Games
17 25 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.76%) Retail Banking
19 23 (0.73%) Manufacturing
20 22 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 1,977 (63.00%) Software Engineer
2 822 (26.20%) Lead
3 794 (25.30%) Java Engineer
4 789 (25.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 675 (21.51%) Lead Software Engineer
6 405 (12.91%) Senior
7 382 (12.17%) Big Data Engineer
7 382 (12.17%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 327 (10.42%) Python Engineer
8 327 (10.42%) Python Software Engineer
9 315 (10.04%) Full Stack Engineer
10 314 (10.01%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 295 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
11 295 (9.40%) AWS Software Engineer
12 274 (8.73%) Lead Java Engineer
13 236 (7.52%) Data Engineer
14 224 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
14 224 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
14 224 (7.14%) Scala Software Engineer
15 209 (6.66%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (22.28%) Spring
2 518 (16.51%) React
3 413 (13.16%) AngularJS
4 369 (11.76%) Kafka
5 364 (11.60%) Spring Boot
6 284 (9.05%) HTML
7 253 (8.06%) CSS
8 248 (7.90%) J2EE
9 214 (6.82%) JSON
10 194 (6.18%) Hibernate
11 191 (6.09%) RESTful
12 184 (5.86%) Node.js
13 172 (5.48%) PySpark
14 171 (5.45%) JMS
15 166 (5.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 154 (4.91%) jQuery
17 149 (4.75%) Web Services
18 128 (4.08%) GraphQL
19 116 (3.70%) XML
20 115 (3.66%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 914 (29.13%) Cloud Native
2 784 (24.98%) Algorithms
3 288 (9.18%) Public Cloud
4 183 (5.83%) Onboarding
5 170 (5.42%) Management Information System
6 152 (4.84%) Product Ownership
7 136 (4.33%) Reference Data
8 130 (4.14%) Market Risk
9 113 (3.60%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 59 (1.88%) Credit Risk
12 42 (1.34%) Legacy Code
13 41 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 31 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 23 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
16 23 (0.73%) Social Media
17 21 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 156 (4.97%) Unix
2 141 (4.49%) Linux
3 55 (1.75%) Windows
4 33 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
7 9 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.064%) CentOS
9 2 (0.064%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.064%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,433 (77.53%) Agile
2 2,363 (75.30%) Software Engineering
3 2,089 (66.57%) SDLC
4 1,966 (62.65%) CI/CD
5 1,847 (58.86%) Operational Stability
6 1,395 (44.46%) Machine Learning
7 1,393 (44.39%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,289 (41.08%) Community of Practice
9 884 (28.17%) Visualisation
10 872 (27.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 722 (23.01%) Risk Management
12 564 (17.97%) Decision-Making
13 497 (15.84%) Microservices
14 478 (15.23%) Continuous Delivery
15 435 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
16 434 (13.83%) Information Architecture
17 408 (13.00%) Architectural Design
18 373 (11.89%) Full Stack Development
19 368 (11.73%) Computer Science
20 292 (9.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,671 (53.25%) Java
2 1,149 (36.62%) SQL
3 962 (30.66%) Python
4 351 (11.19%) JavaScript
5 312 (9.94%) Scala
6 216 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 152 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 81 (2.58%) Go
9 74 (2.36%) C#
10 65 (2.07%) Prolog
10 65 (2.07%) SPARQL
11 42 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.24%) Groovy
13 36 (1.15%) R
14 32 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.80%) PowerShell
15 25 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.61%) Ruby
17 11 (0.35%) COBOL
17 11 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 279 (8.89%) Degree
2 82 (2.61%) Master's Degree
3 52 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.43%) PhD
5 27 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 20 (0.64%) Security Cleared
7 19 (0.61%) ACCA
8 17 (0.54%) SC Cleared
9 15 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 13 (0.41%) CISA
11 11 (0.35%) CIMA
12 10 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.29%) CISSP
14 8 (0.25%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.22%) CISM
15 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.19%) AAT
16 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.19%) PMP
17 3 (0.096%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 65 (2.07%) SLA
3 54 (1.72%) QA
4 45 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 31 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 31 (0.99%) PMO
6 25 (0.80%) GDPR
7 14 (0.45%) WAI
8 12 (0.38%) NIST
9 11 (0.35%) ITGC
10 9 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.22%) IFRS
12 6 (0.19%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.096%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.096%) WCAG
15 2 (0.064%) COSHH
15 2 (0.064%) GLP
15 2 (0.064%) NCSC
15 2 (0.064%) SEPA
System Software
1 100 (3.19%) HDFS
2 94 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 90 (2.87%) Docker
4 26 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.29%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) RACF
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.096%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.064%) KVM
9 2 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.064%) vSphere
9 2 (0.064%) Xen
10 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 380 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 277 (8.83%) Terraform
3 177 (5.64%) Grafana
4 92 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.89%) Ansible
6 26 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.67%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.67%) Kibana
7 21 (0.67%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.22%) Graphite
10 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.064%) Rancher
13 1 (0.032%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 392 (12.49%) Oracle
2 257 (8.19%) Databricks
3 185 (5.90%) Splunk
4 165 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 141 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 92 (2.93%) Google
7 87 (2.77%) Informatica
8 70 (2.23%) Cloudera
9 63 (2.01%) Qualtrics
10 56 (1.78%) Alteryx
11 45 (1.43%) SAP
12 29 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 28 (0.89%) VMware
14 23 (0.73%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.73%) Pega
15 22 (0.70%) Sybase
16 19 (0.61%) CA
17 18 (0.57%) Cognos
17 18 (0.57%) SaltStack
18 16 (0.51%) Sage