Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,744 11,012 19,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.65% 30.69% 29.28%
As % of the General category 42.51% 44.46% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,667 7,766 10,251
10th Percentile £43,500 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £106,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,250 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.48% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,865 24,769 44,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.40% 69.04% 67.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11,334 17,006 22,530
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Central London 0 986 £75,000 -6.25% 286
West London +1 376 £75,000 +17.65% 62
South London +14 176 £63,000 +14.55% 28
East London +1 87 £57,500 -8.00% 97
North London -9 18 £54,950 -6.07% 8
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 327 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 300 (4.45%) Apache
3 280 (4.15%) SAS
4 159 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 139 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (0.86%) Confluence
7 44 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 39 (0.58%) IIS
9 29 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 28 (0.42%) CMS
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 8 (0.12%) JBoss
14 8 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.10%) Ethereum
16 6 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.089%) IBM Notes
17 5 (0.074%) Appian
17 5 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 661 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 351 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 206 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 26 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.31%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.10%) InDesign
11 5 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
11 5 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.074%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.044%) Sketch
14 2 (0.030%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.030%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.015%) Blender
Business Applications
1 225 (3.34%) SAP ERP
2 59 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 54 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.37%) Elite 3E
7 24 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 22 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 22 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 22 (0.33%) thinkFolio
9 21 (0.31%) Fidessa
10 19 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
11 18 (0.27%) SAP BPC
12 15 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
14 12 (0.18%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 1,220 (18.09%) AWS
2 1,163 (17.24%) Azure
3 534 (7.92%) GCP
4 398 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 370 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 273 (4.05%) SaaS
7 215 (3.19%) dbt
8 201 (2.98%) Snowflake
9 166 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 162 (2.40%) Serverless
11 156 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
12 131 (1.94%) GitHub
13 111 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
14 109 (1.62%) PaaS
15 87 (1.29%) IaaS
16 86 (1.28%) Amazon S3
17 85 (1.26%) Entra ID
18 67 (0.99%) OpenShift
19 64 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
20 63 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 452 (6.70%) Broadband
2 210 (3.11%) Firewall
3 114 (1.69%) DNS
4 79 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.07%) LAN
6 69 (1.02%) WAN
7 62 (0.92%) DHCP
7 62 (0.92%) Internet
8 53 (0.79%) VPN
9 51 (0.76%) Network Security
10 35 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.49%) Skype
12 32 (0.47%) Wireless
13 31 (0.46%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
15 25 (0.37%) Telepresence
16 23 (0.34%) SAN
17 18 (0.27%) Intranet
18 17 (0.25%) BGP
18 17 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (4.88%) Power BI
2 325 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 249 (3.69%) Apache Ignite
4 225 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 214 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
6 212 (3.14%) Apache Arrow
7 210 (3.11%) Dremio
8 195 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
9 173 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
10 155 (2.30%) Tableau
11 98 (1.45%) Big Data
12 78 (1.16%) NoSQL
13 72 (1.07%) Relational Database
14 67 (0.99%) MongoDB
14 67 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 66 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 64 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (0.79%) MySQL
18 44 (0.65%) Metadata
19 40 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 216 (3.20%) JIRA
2 165 (2.45%) Git
3 154 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 56 (0.83%) GitLab
5 51 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 46 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 34 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 28 (0.42%) Selenium
9 26 (0.39%) CircleCI
10 24 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 22 (0.33%) Maven
12 20 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.28%) WebDriver
14 17 (0.25%) JUnit
14 17 (0.25%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.21%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.21%) Snyk
16 13 (0.19%) SonarQube
17 12 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 11 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,059 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 1,290 (19.13%) Banking
3 1,011 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
4 780 (11.57%) Front Office
5 556 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 400 (5.93%) Legal
7 384 (5.69%) Marketing
8 382 (5.66%) Law
9 367 (5.44%) Investment Banking
10 317 (4.70%) Retail
11 303 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
12 226 (3.35%) Financial Institution
13 204 (3.02%) Back Office
14 167 (2.48%) Public Sector
15 152 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.73%) Billing
16 117 (1.73%) Manufacturing
17 107 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
18 104 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
19 96 (1.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,305 (19.35%) Analyst
2 1,296 (19.22%) Senior
3 1,079 (16.00%) Developer
4 702 (10.41%) Architect
5 554 (8.21%) Lead
6 460 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 421 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
8 297 (4.40%) Financial Analyst
9 280 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
10 264 (3.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 249 (3.69%) Senior Manager
12 246 (3.65%) Senior Developer
13 242 (3.59%) Python Developer
14 217 (3.22%) Consultant
15 213 (3.16%) Python Engineer
16 208 (3.08%) Java Developer
17 200 (2.97%) Project Manager
18 187 (2.77%) .NET Developer
19 185 (2.74%) Business Analyst
20 180 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (6.36%) React
2 413 (6.12%) .NET
3 320 (4.74%) gRPC
4 300 (4.45%) Protocol Buffers
5 294 (4.36%) AngularJS
6 228 (3.38%) Redux
7 221 (3.28%) Pandas
8 186 (2.76%) NumPy
9 170 (2.52%) SciPy
10 168 (2.49%) HTML
11 158 (2.34%) Vue
12 142 (2.11%) Spring
13 138 (2.05%) .NET Core
14 137 (2.03%) REST
15 130 (1.93%) ASP.NET
16 123 (1.82%) Node.js
17 122 (1.81%) Kafka
18 118 (1.75%) CSS
19 114 (1.69%) Web Services
20 112 (1.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 601 (8.91%) Hedge funds
2 546 (8.10%) Fixed Income
3 455 (6.75%) Derivative
4 438 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 436 (6.47%) Equities
6 263 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 255 (3.78%) Management Information System
8 202 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 174 (2.58%) Product Ownership
10 143 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
11 97 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 92 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 85 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 84 (1.25%) Reinsurance
15 77 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 70 (1.04%) Data Structures
17 66 (0.98%) Social Media
18 63 (0.93%) Life Science
19 55 (0.82%) Blockchain
20 50 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 536 (7.95%) Windows
2 365 (5.41%) Linux
3 143 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 141 (2.09%) Unix
5 110 (1.63%) Windows 10
6 51 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 48 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.58%) Android
9 38 (0.56%) Windows 7
10 37 (0.55%) CentOS
11 31 (0.46%) Solaris
12 24 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.33%) zOS
14 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.16%) AIX
17 10 (0.15%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
17 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
18 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,974 (29.27%) Agile
2 931 (13.80%) Asset Management
3 891 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
4 824 (12.22%) Software Engineering
5 732 (10.85%) Mentoring
6 701 (10.39%) Roadmaps
7 646 (9.58%) Analytics
8 637 (9.45%) Investment Management
9 636 (9.43%) DevOps
10 584 (8.66%) Decision-Making
11 534 (7.92%) Project Management
12 489 (7.25%) Fintech
13 486 (7.21%) Change Management
14 476 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
15 463 (6.87%) Data Management
16 452 (6.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 424 (6.29%) CI/CD
18 406 (6.02%) Performance Management
19 398 (5.90%) ERP
20 393 (5.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,362 (20.20%) Python
2 1,133 (16.80%) SQL
3 687 (10.19%) Java
4 662 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 553 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 539 (7.99%) C#
7 222 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 153 (2.27%) Go
9 115 (1.71%) R
10 113 (1.68%) C++
11 105 (1.56%) Bash
12 85 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 63 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 55 (0.82%) Ruby
15 50 (0.74%) Perl
16 49 (0.73%) C
17 47 (0.70%) Scala
18 41 (0.61%) VBA
19 34 (0.50%) Rust
20 31 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,043 (15.47%) Degree
2 370 (5.49%) ACCA
3 254 (3.77%) CIMA
4 229 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 188 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 164 (2.43%) CISSP
7 96 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 96 (1.42%) Security Cleared
8 76 (1.13%) CISM
9 75 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 71 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
11 66 (0.98%) CISA
12 65 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 65 (0.96%) PMI Certification
13 55 (0.82%) MBA
14 49 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 41 (0.61%) CRISC
16 38 (0.56%) SC Cleared
17 36 (0.53%) DV Cleared
17 36 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (2.95%) QA
2 188 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 172 (2.55%) SLA
4 124 (1.84%) GDPR
5 115 (1.71%) IFRS
6 98 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 95 (1.41%) NIST
8 67 (0.99%) PMO
9 58 (0.86%) GAAP
10 35 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 34 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 31 (0.46%) COBIT
13 27 (0.40%) GRC
14 25 (0.37%) Solvency II
15 23 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 23 (0.34%) IFRS 9
16 22 (0.33%) IFRS 17
17 20 (0.30%) ITGC
18 15 (0.22%) NCSC
19 14 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 285 (4.23%) Docker
2 258 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.34%) vSphere
7 22 (0.33%) XenApp
8 21 (0.31%) XenDesktop
9 20 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 14 (0.21%) Firmware
12 8 (0.12%) HDFS
13 6 (0.089%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.044%) NFS
14 3 (0.044%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.015%) IAG
15 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.015%) RACF
15 1 (0.015%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 408 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 304 (4.51%) Terraform
3 130 (1.93%) Ansible
4 75 (1.11%) SCCM
5 74 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 48 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.42%) Puppet
8 20 (0.30%) Grafana
9 18 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 18 (0.27%) SCOM
10 16 (0.24%) Istio
11 13 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.16%) Control-M
12 11 (0.16%) Nmap
12 11 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 8 (0.12%) Nagios
14 8 (0.12%) Nessus
15 7 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,374 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 522 (7.74%) Oracle
3 424 (6.29%) SAP
4 239 (3.54%) Anaplan
4 239 (3.54%) Hyperion
5 223 (3.31%) Google
6 170 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 156 (2.31%) VMware
8 142 (2.11%) Bloomberg
9 127 (1.88%) Dell
10 120 (1.78%) Cisco
11 106 (1.57%) CA
12 104 (1.54%) Citrix
13 103 (1.53%) Salesforce
14 89 (1.32%) Red Hat
15 78 (1.16%) IBM
16 71 (1.05%) Databricks
17 50 (0.74%) Apple
18 47 (0.70%) Adobe
19 46 (0.68%) Alteryx