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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,107 22,846 37,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.26% 22.91% 23.22%
As % of the General category 32.19% 33.58% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,817 13,313 18,651
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £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 £112,500 £115,000 £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 59,357 68,044 102,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.24% 64.38%
Number of salaries quoted 39,610 36,681 50,943
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 15 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 15 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 14,940 £65,000 -6.40% 5,968
UK excluding London +2 11,536 £52,500 -4.55% 3,373
Work from Home -2 7,248 £65,000 -6.36% 2,771
London +1 6,841 £80,000 - 2,858
Scotland +2 3,192 £60,000 -4.66% 303
North of England -2 2,415 £55,000 - 877
South East -2 2,214 £51,500 -10.43% 778
Midlands -1 1,592 £50,000 -9.09% 585
North West +1 1,353 £55,000 - 519
South West -8 1,208 £54,043 -1.74% 418
West Midlands +1 1,114 £52,250 -5.00% 369
Yorkshire -3 813 £57,500 +4.55% 256
East of England -1 525 £50,000 -9.09% 305
East Midlands -4 471 £47,500 -13.64% 215
North East 0 249 £50,000 -9.09% 108
Wales -4 245 £45,000 - 119
Northern Ireland +2 105 £40,000 -20.00% 67
Isle of Man - 37 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 2

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
1 673 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 640 (3.35%) Apache
3 579 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 469 (2.45%) SAS
5 446 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 338 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 272 (1.42%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 106 (0.55%) IIS
10 59 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 41 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 39 (0.20%) nginx
15 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 29 (0.15%) Captiva
17 28 (0.15%) Skype for Business
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 14 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,747 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 953 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 465 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 108 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 87 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 29 (0.15%) SPSS
10 21 (0.11%) Sketch
11 16 (0.084%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.084%) Trello
12 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
14 8 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 7 (0.037%) InDesign
15 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
16 6 (0.031%) InVision
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 316 (1.65%) SAP ERP
2 169 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 81 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 80 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 72 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 72 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
8 45 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 43 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 42 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
13 39 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
14 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
15 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
16 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
17 30 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
18 28 (0.15%) Elite 3E
18 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,236 (16.94%) AWS
2 2,759 (14.44%) Azure
3 1,199 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 1,030 (5.39%) GCP
5 974 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
6 576 (3.01%) SaaS
7 457 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
8 335 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 334 (1.75%) Snowflake
10 323 (1.69%) dbt
11 305 (1.60%) GitHub
12 297 (1.55%) Serverless
13 245 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 227 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 205 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 186 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
17 171 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 165 (0.86%) PowerApps
19 161 (0.84%) PaaS
20 146 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 850 (4.45%) Broadband
2 490 (2.56%) Firewall
3 226 (1.18%) DNS
4 222 (1.16%) Internet
5 187 (0.98%) WAN
6 171 (0.89%) VPN
7 168 (0.88%) LAN
7 168 (0.88%) TCP/IP
8 131 (0.69%) Wireless
9 125 (0.65%) Network Security
10 121 (0.63%) DHCP
11 114 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 92 (0.48%) SAN
13 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 72 (0.38%) SD-WAN
15 64 (0.33%) SNMP
16 63 (0.33%) IPsec
17 62 (0.32%) Intranet
18 58 (0.30%) 5G
19 42 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,004 (5.25%) Power BI
2 890 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 814 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 669 (3.50%) Big Data
5 552 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 533 (2.79%) Data Lake
7 355 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 344 (1.80%) Apache Ignite
9 338 (1.77%) Tableau
10 332 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 300 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
12 295 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
12 295 (1.54%) Dremio
13 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 274 (1.43%) Relational Database
15 267 (1.40%) Hadoop
16 235 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 184 (0.96%) Metadata
18 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 688 (3.60%) JIRA
2 622 (3.26%) Git
3 578 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.31%) JUnit
5 183 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 162 (0.85%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 126 (0.66%) GitLab
9 123 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 121 (0.63%) Maven
11 109 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 107 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
14 84 (0.44%) Cucumber
15 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
16 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
17 66 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
18 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
19 63 (0.33%) Protractor
20 51 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,999 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 4,116 (21.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,516 (18.40%) Law
4 2,928 (15.32%) Banking
5 2,731 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2,615 (13.69%) Marketing
7 1,955 (10.23%) Legal
8 1,256 (6.57%) Retail
9 997 (5.22%) Investment Banking
10 953 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
11 929 (4.86%) Front Office
12 899 (4.71%) Public Sector
13 640 (3.35%) Manufacturing
14 625 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
15 595 (3.11%) Financial Institution
16 464 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 446 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
18 289 (1.51%) Back Office
19 260 (1.36%) Billing
20 253 (1.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,122 (16.34%) Senior
2 2,941 (15.39%) Analyst
3 2,747 (14.38%) Software Engineer
4 2,347 (12.28%) Lead
5 2,138 (11.19%) Developer
6 1,400 (7.33%) Architect
7 960 (5.02%) Project Manager
8 931 (4.87%) Java Engineer
9 895 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 789 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
11 788 (4.12%) Consultant
12 698 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
13 667 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
14 611 (3.20%) Python Engineer
15 607 (3.18%) Financial Analyst
16 552 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
17 533 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
18 521 (2.73%) Senior Manager
19 491 (2.57%) Data Engineer
20 485 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,257 (6.58%) React
2 970 (5.08%) .NET
3 929 (4.86%) Spring
4 909 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 749 (3.92%) HTML
6 612 (3.20%) Kafka
7 576 (3.01%) CSS
8 560 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 477 (2.50%) gRPC
10 440 (2.30%) Node.js
11 429 (2.25%) REST
12 415 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
13 406 (2.12%) Web Services
14 387 (2.03%) JSON
15 384 (2.01%) Pandas
16 382 (2.00%) RESTful
17 351 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 321 (1.68%) NumPy
19 299 (1.56%) .NET Core
20 298 (1.56%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,100 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 864 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 738 (3.86%) Hedge funds
5 733 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
6 655 (3.43%) Fixed Income
7 613 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 605 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 558 (2.92%) Onboarding
10 547 (2.86%) Derivative
11 529 (2.77%) Equities
12 522 (2.73%) Public Cloud
13 271 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 260 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) PMI
16 201 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
17 197 (1.03%) Credit Risk
18 181 (0.95%) Driving Licence
19 178 (0.93%) Mobile App
20 161 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,263 (6.61%) Windows
2 882 (4.62%) Linux
3 425 (2.22%) Unix
4 343 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 208 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 138 (0.72%) Android
7 103 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 98 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 91 (0.48%) CentOS
10 90 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 77 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 64 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 60 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 57 (0.30%) Solaris
15 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 31 (0.16%) Mac OS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
19 25 (0.13%) zOS
20 19 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,844 (35.82%) Agile
2 3,749 (19.62%) Software Engineering
3 3,064 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
4 2,726 (14.27%) CI/CD
5 2,534 (13.26%) SDLC
6 2,170 (11.36%) Mentoring
7 2,102 (11.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,056 (10.76%) Machine Learning
9 2,051 (10.73%) Decision-Making
10 2,034 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,955 (10.23%) Project Management
12 1,930 (10.10%) Operational Stability
13 1,926 (10.08%) Roadmaps
14 1,696 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 1,520 (7.96%) Analytics
16 1,487 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
17 1,447 (7.57%) Asset Management
18 1,399 (7.32%) Coaching
19 1,396 (7.31%) DevOps
20 1,364 (7.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,499 (18.31%) SQL
2 2,988 (15.64%) Python
3 2,864 (14.99%) Java
4 1,553 (8.13%) JavaScript
5 1,137 (5.95%) C#
6 1,091 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 448 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 387 (2.03%) Scala
9 329 (1.72%) Go
10 249 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 223 (1.17%) R
12 215 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 201 (1.05%) C++
14 192 (1.00%) Bash
15 139 (0.73%) C
16 130 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 109 (0.57%) PHP
18 99 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 94 (0.49%) VBA
20 76 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,844 (14.88%) Degree
2 826 (4.32%) ACCA
3 636 (3.33%) CIMA
4 622 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 430 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 406 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 331 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 301 (1.58%) CISSP
9 297 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 274 (1.43%) DBS Check
11 192 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 163 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 160 (0.84%) CISM
14 156 (0.82%) PMP
15 140 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
17 120 (0.63%) MBA
18 114 (0.60%) DV Cleared
19 107 (0.56%) CISA
20 104 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (3.03%) QA
2 524 (2.74%) GDPR
3 518 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 467 (2.44%) SLA
5 263 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 245 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 240 (1.26%) IFRS
8 226 (1.18%) PMO
9 214 (1.12%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 89 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 75 (0.39%) IFRS 9
13 71 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 68 (0.36%) GRC
15 61 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
16 50 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 46 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 41 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 693 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 655 (3.43%) Docker
3 336 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 103 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 99 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 57 (0.30%) Firmware
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 47 (0.25%) XenApp
11 36 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 36 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.058%) IAG
15 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.052%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
18 8 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,032 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 751 (3.93%) Terraform
3 267 (1.40%) Ansible
4 213 (1.11%) Grafana
5 205 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 167 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 128 (0.67%) SCCM
8 72 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Kibana
11 31 (0.16%) SCOM
12 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
12 30 (0.16%) Puppet
13 28 (0.15%) Istio
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 25 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
18 20 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3,636 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 1,427 (7.47%) Oracle
3 1,024 (5.36%) SAP
4 572 (2.99%) Google
5 454 (2.38%) VMware
6 405 (2.12%) Databricks
7 347 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 336 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 327 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 290 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 281 (1.47%) Splunk
12 248 (1.30%) Cisco
13 205 (1.07%) Dell
14 199 (1.04%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 193 (1.01%) CA
17 178 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 177 (0.93%) Citrix
19 152 (0.80%) Bloomberg
20 142 (0.74%) Alteryx