Financial Institution
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Financial Institution over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 373 416
Rank change year-on-year -55 +43 +73
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 582 856 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.88% 0.87%
As % of the General category 0.97% 1.29% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 227 435 697
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £68,200
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +9.97% +4.92%
75th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +6.48%

All General Skills
UK

Financial Institution 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 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,426 £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%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Financial Institution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Institution.

Salary trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
UK excluding London -12 360 £67,500 +12.50% 38
England -196 302 £80,000 +6.67% 188
Scotland +78 259 £101,000 +44.29% 5
London -45 205 £87,610 -2.66% 149
Work from Home -57 118 £80,000 +18.52% 61
South West -57 43 £73,750 +9.26% 10
South East -106 23 £65,000 +18.18% 10
North of England -25 14 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Midlands -22 12 £44,500 -27.64% 5
West Midlands +11 10 £44,500 -28.23% 5
North East -26 9 - -
Wales +5 5 £52,500 -9.19%
Channel Islands - 4 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +62 3 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North West -30 2 £45,000 -30.77% 3
East Midlands -32 2 - -

Financial Institution
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 70 (12.03%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.03%) nginx
3 4 (0.69%) SAS
4 2 (0.34%) Appian
4 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 212 (36.43%) AWS
2 59 (10.14%) Azure
3 38 (6.53%) GCP
4 24 (4.12%) SaaS
5 15 (2.58%) npm
6 9 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.86%) Azure Stack
7 5 (0.86%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (0.86%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.86%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.69%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.69%) Firebase
8 4 (0.69%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.34%) WeChat
11 1 (0.17%) IaaS
11 1 (0.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.92%) DSL
2 16 (2.75%) Firewall
3 8 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.03%) OpenVPN
5 5 (0.86%) DNS
6 4 (0.69%) BGP
6 4 (0.69%) BIG-IP
6 4 (0.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (0.69%) DHCP
6 4 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (0.69%) OSPF
6 4 (0.69%) SMS
7 3 (0.52%) Network Security
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
8 2 (0.34%) PPP
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) HTTP
9 1 (0.17%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (19.76%) NoSQL
2 76 (13.06%) Big Data
3 34 (5.84%) Data Lake
4 33 (5.67%) MongoDB
5 32 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 29 (4.98%) DB2
7 26 (4.47%) Tableau
8 17 (2.92%) BigQuery
9 16 (2.75%) Metadata
10 12 (2.06%) Data Hub
10 12 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (1.37%) CockroachDB
14 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (0.69%) MySQL
15 4 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 20 (3.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (2.23%) Storybook
3 8 (1.37%) Jaeger
3 8 (1.37%) JIRA
3 8 (1.37%) JUnit
3 8 (1.37%) Selenium
3 8 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.20%) WebDriver
5 5 (0.86%) Git
5 5 (0.86%) Maven
6 4 (0.69%) Crashlytics
7 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.34%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) GDB
9 1 (0.17%) JMeter
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
General
1 582 (100.00%) Finance
2 305 (52.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 291 (50.00%) Law
4 244 (41.92%) Marketing
5 216 (37.11%) Banking
6 119 (20.45%) Investment Banking
7 95 (16.32%) Social Skills
8 67 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
9 53 (9.11%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (5.33%) Legal
11 26 (4.47%) Games
12 21 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (3.26%) Front Office
14 17 (2.92%) Retail Banking
15 10 (1.72%) Retail
16 9 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.86%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.86%) Public Sector
18 2 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 165 (28.35%) Engineering Manager
1 165 (28.35%) Software Engineering Manager
2 88 (15.12%) Software Engineer
3 63 (10.82%) Lead
4 59 (10.14%) Senior
5 53 (9.11%) Analyst
6 52 (8.93%) Big Data Manager
7 45 (7.73%) Architect
8 43 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (7.39%) AWS Software Engineer
9 39 (6.70%) Developer
10 38 (6.53%) Python Engineer
10 38 (6.53%) Python Software Engineer
11 27 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 22 (3.78%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.78%) Java Engineer
12 22 (3.78%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (3.78%) Principal Software Engineer
13 19 (3.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.26%) Spring Boot
2 75 (12.89%) Spring
3 59 (10.14%) NumPy
3 59 (10.14%) Pandas
4 53 (9.11%) RESTful
5 44 (7.56%) Kafka
6 35 (6.01%) AngularJS
7 30 (5.15%) REST
8 22 (3.78%) HTML
8 22 (3.78%) Middleware
8 22 (3.78%) React
9 21 (3.61%) CSS
10 16 (2.75%) JSON
11 15 (2.58%) JPA
12 13 (2.23%) Node.js
12 13 (2.23%) Sass
13 10 (1.72%) Redux
13 10 (1.72%) Web Services
14 8 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (1.20%) Apache Thrift
Miscellaneous
1 183 (31.44%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.97%) Market Risk
3 50 (8.59%) Distributed Applications
4 43 (7.39%) Management Information System
4 43 (7.39%) Public Cloud
5 27 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 22 (3.78%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.61%) Cyberattack
8 20 (3.44%) Data Fabric
9 16 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.41%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.89%) Equities
12 11 (1.89%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.55%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.37%) Onboarding
14 8 (1.37%) Replication
15 7 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.22%) Linux
2 36 (6.19%) Windows
3 20 (3.44%) zOS
4 15 (2.58%) CentOS
5 12 (2.06%) Unix
6 10 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.37%) Solaris
8 6 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.69%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (54.98%) Agile
2 286 (49.14%) Software Engineering
3 259 (44.50%) CI/CD
4 245 (42.10%) SDLC
5 178 (30.58%) Computer Science
6 151 (25.95%) Continuous Delivery
7 148 (25.43%) Mathematics
8 137 (23.54%) Coaching
9 135 (23.20%) Analytics
10 121 (20.79%) Asset Management
11 107 (18.38%) Microservices
12 89 (15.29%) Machine Learning
13 87 (14.95%) Mentoring
14 84 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
15 79 (13.57%) Operational Stability
16 69 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
17 63 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
18 62 (10.65%) Fintech
19 51 (8.76%) Test Automation
20 48 (8.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 211 (36.25%) Java
2 195 (33.51%) SQL
3 145 (24.91%) Python
4 70 (12.03%) Scala
5 65 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.70%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.92%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.75%) C#
9 9 (1.55%) R
10 8 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.03%) Bash
13 5 (0.86%) C++
14 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.69%) PHP
14 4 (0.69%) Swift
15 2 (0.34%) C
16 1 (0.17%) Go
16 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (10.48%) Degree
2 18 (3.09%) AWS Certification
2 18 (3.09%) Azure Certification
3 9 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.03%) AAT
5 6 (1.03%) CISSP
5 6 (1.03%) ICAEW
6 5 (0.86%) CISM
7 4 (0.69%) CCIE
7 4 (0.69%) CCNP
7 4 (0.69%) CISA
7 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.69%) CRISC
7 4 (0.69%) PhD
7 4 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 4 (0.69%) PMP
8 3 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.34%) MOS
10 1 (0.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.36%) Accessibility
2 30 (5.15%) SLA
3 18 (3.09%) QA
4 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.69%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.69%) PMO
6 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.17%) COBIT
7 1 (0.17%) COSO
7 1 (0.17%) MiFID
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PSD2
7 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.04%) Docker
2 6 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.34%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.55%) Ansible
3 8 (1.37%) Kiali
4 5 (0.86%) Grafana
5 4 (0.69%) SCCM
6 2 (0.34%) Terraform
6 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.19%) Oracle
3 31 (5.33%) Databricks
4 18 (3.09%) Sybase
5 17 (2.92%) Alteryx
5 17 (2.92%) Cognos
5 17 (2.92%) F5
6 13 (2.23%) Splunk
7 11 (1.89%) VMware
8 10 (1.72%) IBM
9 9 (1.55%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.55%) Cisco
10 6 (1.03%) Adobe
10 6 (1.03%) CA
10 6 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.03%) Google
11 5 (0.86%) Automation Anywhere
11 5 (0.86%) eFront
11 5 (0.86%) iManage
12 4 (0.69%) Amplitude