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 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 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,328 22,368 38,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.71% 23.02% 23.36%
As % of the General category 31.92% 33.87% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,819 12,909 18,802
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 60,543 66,044 108,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.62% 67.97% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 40,070 35,832 51,526
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £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 29 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 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
England -1 15,204 £65,000 -5.55% 6,403
UK excluding London +2 11,717 £52,500 -4.55% 3,601
Work from Home -2 7,306 £65,000 -6.40% 2,956
London 0 6,880 £82,500 +3.13% 3,003
Scotland +2 3,138 £59,526 -4.76% 324
North of England -2 2,442 £54,000 -1.82% 978
South East -2 2,326 £52,500 -8.70% 827
Midlands -2 1,690 £50,000 -9.09% 613
North West 0 1,385 £52,500 -4.55% 581
South West -8 1,207 £52,500 -4.55% 445
West Midlands 0 1,153 £52,500 -4.55% 382
Yorkshire -3 799 £56,500 +2.73% 276
East Midlands -4 531 £47,500 -13.64% 230
East of England -4 524 £50,000 -9.09% 309
North East +2 258 £50,000 -9.09% 129
Wales -4 247 £45,000 +2.19% 115
Northern Ireland +3 106 £40,000 -20.00% 76
Isle of Man +7 36 £54,000 -25.52% 6
Channel Islands 0 17 £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
1 702 (3.63%) Apache
2 652 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 644 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 453 (2.34%) SAS
5 434 (2.25%) SharePoint
6 336 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 268 (1.39%) Confluence
8 108 (0.56%) IIS
9 105 (0.54%) 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 28 (0.14%) Skype for Business
15 28 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 21 (0.11%) GemFire
17 19 (0.098%) Camunda
18 17 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
19 13 (0.067%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,849 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,038 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
3 465 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 109 (0.56%) 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%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 314 (1.62%) SAP ERP
2 168 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 134 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 110 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 91 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 70 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 63 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 63 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 50 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 42 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
10 41 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
12 36 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
13 35 (0.18%) Aladdin
14 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
15 31 (0.16%) Elite 3E
16 29 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
17 28 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,260 (16.87%) AWS
2 2,758 (14.27%) Azure
3 1,223 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 976 (5.05%) GCP
5 956 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 556 (2.88%) SaaS
7 486 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
8 399 (2.06%) dbt
9 394 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 339 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 291 (1.51%) Serverless
12 285 (1.47%) Entra ID
13 254 (1.31%) GitHub
14 238 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 198 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
16 179 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
17 172 (0.89%) Power Automate
18 167 (0.86%) PowerApps
19 140 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
20 138 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 848 (4.39%) Broadband
2 497 (2.57%) Firewall
3 231 (1.20%) DNS
4 215 (1.11%) Internet
5 191 (0.99%) WAN
6 173 (0.90%) LAN
7 170 (0.88%) TCP/IP
8 162 (0.84%) VPN
9 135 (0.70%) Network Security
10 133 (0.69%) Wireless
11 127 (0.66%) DHCP
12 110 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.47%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 70 (0.36%) SD-WAN
16 68 (0.35%) IPsec
17 65 (0.34%) SNMP
18 62 (0.32%) Intranet
19 51 (0.26%) 5G
20 41 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,024 (5.30%) Power BI
2 877 (4.54%) SQL Server
3 783 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 659 (3.41%) Big Data
5 598 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 543 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 407 (2.11%) Apache Ignite
8 370 (1.91%) Dremio
9 367 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
10 364 (1.88%) Apache Arrow
11 350 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
12 340 (1.76%) Tableau
13 331 (1.71%) MongoDB
14 275 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 271 (1.40%) Relational Database
16 259 (1.34%) Hadoop
17 225 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 179 (0.93%) Metadata
19 160 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
20 135 (0.70%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 650 (3.36%) JIRA
2 612 (3.17%) Git
3 548 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.30%) JUnit
5 184 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 157 (0.81%) Selenium
7 131 (0.68%) Jasmine
8 130 (0.67%) GitLab
9 120 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 109 (0.56%) Maven
11 105 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 104 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 85 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
14 82 (0.42%) Cucumber
15 81 (0.42%) WebDriver
16 74 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
17 63 (0.33%) CircleCI
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 51 (0.26%) JMeter
19 50 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 5,983 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 4,125 (21.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,496 (18.09%) Law
4 2,889 (14.95%) Banking
5 2,768 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2,694 (13.94%) Marketing
7 2,008 (10.39%) Legal
8 1,340 (6.93%) Retail
9 1,031 (5.33%) Investment Banking
10 982 (5.08%) Front Office
11 937 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
12 889 (4.60%) Public Sector
13 637 (3.30%) Manufacturing
14 605 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
15 581 (3.01%) Financial Institution
16 455 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
17 454 (2.35%) Telecoms
18 291 (1.51%) Back Office
19 266 (1.38%) Local Government
20 261 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3,184 (16.47%) Senior
2 2,951 (15.27%) Analyst
3 2,732 (14.13%) Software Engineer
4 2,381 (12.32%) Lead
5 2,172 (11.24%) Developer
6 1,426 (7.38%) Architect
7 959 (4.96%) Project Manager
8 941 (4.87%) Java Engineer
9 905 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
10 795 (4.11%) Consultant
11 794 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
12 725 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 703 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
14 641 (3.32%) Python Engineer
15 629 (3.25%) Financial Analyst
16 579 (3.00%) Python Software Engineer
17 549 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 525 (2.72%) Senior Manager
19 490 (2.54%) Senior Developer
20 485 (2.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,250 (6.47%) React
2 973 (5.03%) .NET
3 902 (4.67%) AngularJS
4 896 (4.64%) Spring
5 745 (3.85%) HTML
6 601 (3.11%) Kafka
7 582 (3.01%) CSS
8 542 (2.80%) gRPC
8 542 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 484 (2.50%) Protocol Buffers
10 445 (2.30%) Pandas
11 444 (2.30%) Node.js
12 428 (2.21%) REST
13 410 (2.12%) Web Services
14 380 (1.97%) NumPy
15 377 (1.95%) JSON
16 369 (1.91%) RESTful
17 347 (1.80%) ASP.NET
18 306 (1.58%) Vue
19 301 (1.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1,082 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 933 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 924 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 795 (4.11%) Hedge funds
5 711 (3.68%) Fixed Income
6 709 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 661 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 608 (3.15%) Product Ownership
9 596 (3.08%) Derivative
10 584 (3.02%) Equities
11 551 (2.85%) Onboarding
12 494 (2.56%) Public Cloud
13 273 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 255 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 193 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 190 (0.98%) PMI
17 182 (0.94%) Credit Risk
18 181 (0.94%) Driving Licence
19 178 (0.92%) Mobile App
20 161 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,274 (6.59%) Windows
2 862 (4.46%) Linux
3 399 (2.06%) Unix
4 360 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 212 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 133 (0.69%) Android
7 113 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 101 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 97 (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 (0.14%) AIX
19 25 (0.13%) zOS
20 21 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,881 (35.60%) Agile
2 3,746 (19.38%) Software Engineering
3 3,059 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
4 2,689 (13.91%) CI/CD
5 2,489 (12.88%) SDLC
6 2,151 (11.13%) Mentoring
7 2,066 (10.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,059 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 2,047 (10.59%) Decision-Making
10 2,017 (10.44%) Machine Learning
11 1,953 (10.10%) Project Management
12 1,942 (10.05%) Roadmaps
13 1,900 (9.83%) Operational Stability
14 1,715 (8.87%) Risk Management
15 1,503 (7.78%) Analytics
16 1,489 (7.70%) Asset Management
17 1,475 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
18 1,431 (7.40%) Coaching
19 1,354 (7.01%) Community of Practice
20 1,345 (6.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3,505 (18.13%) SQL
2 3,000 (15.52%) Python
3 2,833 (14.66%) Java
4 1,608 (8.32%) JavaScript
5 1,138 (5.89%) TypeScript
6 1,137 (5.88%) C#
7 523 (2.71%) PowerShell
8 375 (1.94%) Scala
9 326 (1.69%) Go
10 250 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 211 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 202 (1.05%) R
13 199 (1.03%) C++
14 186 (0.96%) Bash
15 134 (0.69%) C
16 128 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 114 (0.59%) PHP
18 106 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 95 (0.49%) VBA
20 79 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,824 (14.61%) Degree
2 831 (4.30%) ACCA
3 673 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 636 (3.29%) CIMA
5 433 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 404 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 356 (1.84%) SC Cleared
8 312 (1.61%) CISSP
9 285 (1.47%) DBS Check
9 285 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 186 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 164 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 163 (0.84%) CISM
13 157 (0.81%) PMP
14 148 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 139 (0.72%) DV Cleared
16 134 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
17 119 (0.62%) MBA
18 108 (0.56%) PhD
19 105 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 579 (3.00%) QA
2 543 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 500 (2.59%) GDPR
4 461 (2.39%) SLA
5 270 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 243 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 231 (1.20%) IFRS
8 222 (1.15%) PMO
9 220 (1.14%) NIST
10 92 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 91 (0.47%) GAAP
12 74 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.34%) GRC
14 65 (0.34%) IFRS 9
15 53 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 52 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 46 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 748 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 640 (3.31%) Docker
3 338 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (0.55%) HDFS
5 103 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 98 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 63 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 60 (0.31%) XenApp
9 59 (0.31%) Firmware
10 58 (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 (0.072%) 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 1,010 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 755 (3.91%) Terraform
3 274 (1.42%) Ansible
4 211 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 208 (1.08%) Grafana
6 171 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 131 (0.68%) SCCM
8 76 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 40 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.17%) Kibana
11 32 (0.17%) Puppet
12 30 (0.16%) SCOM
13 29 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
14 28 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 26 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 25 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
17 24 (0.12%) Istio
17 24 (0.12%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3,826 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 1,397 (7.23%) Oracle
3 970 (5.02%) SAP
4 538 (2.78%) Google
5 462 (2.39%) VMware
6 398 (2.06%) Databricks
7 337 (1.74%) Hyperion
8 328 (1.70%) Anaplan
9 324 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 291 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 276 (1.43%) Splunk
12 244 (1.26%) Cisco
13 198 (1.02%) CA
14 192 (0.99%) Dynatrace
15 191 (0.99%) Red Hat
16 187 (0.97%) Dell
17 186 (0.96%) Citrix
18 169 (0.87%) IBM
19 155 (0.80%) Bloomberg
20 150 (0.78%) NEC