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 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 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,717 11,222 13,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.71% 19.34% 18.27%
As % of the General category 28.02% 28.36% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,629 5,304 7,214
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 £72,276 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £83,799
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 41,817 39,575 44,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.08% 68.21% 60.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26,883 18,174 24,431
10th Percentile £26,000 £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 £62,200 £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 29 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 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
Scotland +2 3,138 £59,526 -4.76% 317
North of England -2 2,442 £54,000 -1.82% 965
South East -2 2,326 £52,500 -8.70% 822
Midlands -2 1,690 £50,000 -9.09% 601
North West 0 1,385 £52,500 -4.55% 576
South West -8 1,207 £52,500 -4.55% 447
West Midlands 0 1,153 £52,500 -4.55% 378
Yorkshire -3 799 £56,500 +2.73% 270
East Midlands -4 531 £47,500 -13.64% 222
East of England -4 524 £50,000 -9.09% 303
North East +2 258 £50,000 -9.09% 127
Wales -4 247 £45,000 +2.19% 112
Northern Ireland +3 106 £40,000 -20.00% 77
Isle of Man +7 36 £54,000 -25.52% 6
Channel Islands 0 17 £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
1 606 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 285 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 224 (1.91%) Apache
4 201 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 198 (1.69%) Confluence
6 176 (1.50%) SAS
7 133 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
8 104 (0.89%) 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 15 (0.13%) WebSphere
18 12 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
19 11 (0.094%) CICS
20 10 (0.085%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,163 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 719 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 297 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (0.44%) 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%) Simulink
15 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 104 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.73%) SAP ERP
3 64 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 57 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 52 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 33 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 31 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 31 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
8 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 29 (0.25%) 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 1,828 (15.60%) AWS
2 1,444 (12.32%) Azure
3 739 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 559 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
5 365 (3.12%) GCP
6 275 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
7 252 (2.15%) SaaS
8 181 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
9 176 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 164 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 146 (1.25%) GitHub
12 131 (1.12%) Serverless
13 128 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
14 123 (1.05%) Datadog
15 108 (0.92%) Figma
16 97 (0.83%) Power Automate
17 85 (0.73%) PowerApps
18 82 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
19 77 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
20 75 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 385 (3.29%) Broadband
2 268 (2.29%) Firewall
3 156 (1.33%) Internet
4 115 (0.98%) VPN
5 108 (0.92%) DNS
6 102 (0.87%) WAN
7 93 (0.79%) LAN
8 91 (0.78%) Wireless
9 82 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 82 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 75 (0.64%) Network Security
10 75 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 67 (0.57%) SAN
12 65 (0.55%) DHCP
13 57 (0.49%) IPsec
14 55 (0.47%) SNMP
15 41 (0.35%) 5G
16 39 (0.33%) Intranet
17 35 (0.30%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 705 (6.02%) NoSQL
2 637 (5.44%) Power BI
3 530 (4.52%) Big Data
4 512 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 356 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 257 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 249 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 236 (2.01%) Hadoop
9 207 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 194 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 189 (1.61%) Tableau
12 161 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 128 (1.09%) Apache Hive
15 126 (1.08%) Metadata
16 123 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
17 101 (0.86%) HBase
18 79 (0.67%) MySQL
19 74 (0.63%) Power Query
20 66 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 445 (3.80%) Git
2 422 (3.60%) JIRA
3 401 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 231 (1.97%) JUnit
5 129 (1.10%) Selenium
6 128 (1.09%) Jasmine
7 106 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 92 (0.79%) Maven
9 88 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 85 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
11 74 (0.63%) GitLab
11 74 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
12 72 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 69 (0.59%) Artifactory
14 67 (0.57%) Cucumber
15 63 (0.54%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.51%) Protractor
17 47 (0.40%) Mockito
18 43 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
19 42 (0.36%) JMeter
General
1 3,651 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 3,389 (28.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,063 (26.14%) Law
4 2,187 (18.67%) Marketing
5 1,659 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
6 1,544 (13.18%) Legal
7 1,396 (11.91%) Banking
8 993 (8.47%) Retail
9 663 (5.66%) Public Sector
10 603 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
11 597 (5.10%) Investment Banking
12 457 (3.90%) Manufacturing
13 400 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
14 360 (3.07%) Financial Institution
15 341 (2.91%) Telecoms
16 329 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
17 192 (1.64%) Local Government
18 187 (1.60%) Electronics
19 148 (1.26%) Billing
20 147 (1.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,144 (18.30%) Software Engineer
2 1,717 (14.65%) Lead
3 1,702 (14.53%) Senior
4 1,584 (13.52%) Analyst
5 999 (8.53%) Developer
6 816 (6.96%) Java Engineer
7 793 (6.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 732 (6.25%) Project Manager
9 688 (5.87%) Lead Software Engineer
10 618 (5.27%) Architect
11 518 (4.42%) Consultant
12 392 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
13 383 (3.27%) Big Data Engineer
14 382 (3.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 345 (2.94%) Full Stack Engineer
16 341 (2.91%) Data Engineer
17 334 (2.85%) Python Engineer
18 328 (2.80%) Python Software Engineer
19 325 (2.77%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 316 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 784 (6.69%) React
2 768 (6.55%) Spring
3 602 (5.14%) AngularJS
4 574 (4.90%) HTML
5 532 (4.54%) .NET
6 465 (3.97%) Kafka
7 463 (3.95%) CSS
8 418 (3.57%) Spring Boot
9 302 (2.58%) Node.js
10 286 (2.44%) JSON
10 286 (2.44%) RESTful
11 281 (2.40%) REST
12 269 (2.30%) Web Services
13 249 (2.13%) J2EE
14 212 (1.81%) ASP.NET
15 205 (1.75%) Hibernate
16 195 (1.66%) jQuery
17 194 (1.66%) PySpark
18 186 (1.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 174 (1.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,013 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 846 (7.22%) Algorithms
3 615 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 437 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 406 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 383 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 331 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 171 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 160 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 153 (1.31%) Driving Licence
11 151 (1.29%) Credit Risk
12 150 (1.28%) PMI
13 144 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 141 (1.20%) Reference Data
15 137 (1.17%) Market Risk
16 117 (1.00%) NHS
17 98 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
18 88 (0.75%) Virtual Team
19 82 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 80 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 699 (5.97%) Windows
2 469 (4.00%) Linux
3 233 (1.99%) Unix
4 208 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 102 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 101 (0.86%) Windows 10
7 97 (0.83%) Android
8 84 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 52 (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
16 16 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 12 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,637 (39.57%) Agile
2 2,754 (23.50%) Software Engineering
3 2,304 (19.66%) SDLC
4 2,273 (19.40%) CI/CD
5 2,040 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 1,879 (16.04%) Operational Stability
7 1,699 (14.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,689 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 1,683 (14.36%) Machine Learning
10 1,416 (12.09%) Decision-Making
11 1,378 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 1,331 (11.36%) Project Management
13 1,329 (11.34%) Community of Practice
14 1,288 (10.99%) Risk Management
15 1,161 (9.91%) Roadmaps
16 1,083 (9.24%) Visualisation
17 1,077 (9.19%) Coaching
18 931 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
19 853 (7.28%) Analytics
20 780 (6.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,256 (19.25%) SQL
2 1,986 (16.95%) Java
3 1,426 (12.17%) Python
4 797 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 569 (4.86%) C#
6 429 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 331 (2.82%) Scala
8 261 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 184 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 152 (1.30%) Go
11 150 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 96 (0.82%) R
13 93 (0.79%) Bash
14 86 (0.73%) C
15 84 (0.72%) PHP
16 78 (0.67%) C++
17 70 (0.60%) Shell Script
18 65 (0.55%) Prolog
18 65 (0.55%) SPARQL
19 54 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,658 (14.15%) Degree
2 474 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 435 (3.71%) ACCA
4 354 (3.02%) CIMA
5 259 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 215 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 209 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 197 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 192 (1.64%) DBS Check
10 136 (1.16%) CISSP
11 108 (0.92%) PMP
12 101 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 92 (0.79%) Azure Certification
14 89 (0.76%) CISM
14 89 (0.76%) DV Cleared
15 77 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
16 70 (0.60%) PhD
17 67 (0.57%) MBA
18 57 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
19 56 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (3.23%) GDPR
2 335 (2.86%) QA
3 278 (2.37%) SLA
4 270 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 204 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 156 (1.33%) PMO
7 146 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 121 (1.03%) NIST
9 116 (0.99%) IFRS
10 65 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 46 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 43 (0.37%) IFRS 9
12 43 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 40 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.32%) GRC
15 33 (0.28%) GAAP
16 29 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.22%) ITGC
18 24 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 24 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 487 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 332 (2.83%) Docker
3 227 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 100 (0.85%) HDFS
5 83 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 67 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (0.39%) Firmware
8 44 (0.38%) RACF
9 32 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (0.27%) vSphere
10 23 (0.20%) XenApp
11 19 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 15 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 13 (0.11%) OpenSSH
14 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.085%) XenDesktop
17 8 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
18 7 (0.060%) IAG
19 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 548 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 421 (3.59%) Terraform
3 191 (1.63%) Grafana
4 134 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 116 (0.99%) Ansible
6 91 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 62 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 59 (0.50%) SCCM
9 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 27 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 26 (0.22%) Kibana
11 24 (0.20%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.19%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
14 16 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
15 14 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
15 14 (0.12%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.11%) PowerCLI
17 12 (0.10%) Graphite
Vendors
1 2,335 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 810 (6.91%) Oracle
3 489 (4.17%) SAP
4 319 (2.72%) Databricks
5 288 (2.46%) Google
5 288 (2.46%) VMware
6 232 (1.98%) Splunk
7 187 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 145 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 133 (1.14%) Salesforce
10 122 (1.04%) Cisco
11 117 (1.00%) NEC
12 108 (0.92%) Informatica
13 100 (0.85%) Hyperion
14 98 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 97 (0.83%) Red Hat
16 95 (0.81%) CA
17 91 (0.78%) Anaplan
18 89 (0.76%) Sage
19 88 (0.75%) IBM