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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,766 10,801 19,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.66% 30.53% 29.45%
As % of the General category 42.46% 44.37% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,665 7,644 10,236
10th Percentile £43,500 £48,091 £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 £107,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +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 15,935 24,341 45,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.50% 68.79% 67.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 16,765 22,519
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,469 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 2 May 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 2 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
Central London 0 978 £75,000 -6.25% 287
West London +1 374 £75,000 +15.38% 74
South London +8 170 £63,000 +14.55% 31
East London +2 84 £57,500 -8.00% 93
North London -8 18 £54,950 -11.01% 16
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
1 365 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 332 (4.91%) Apache
3 279 (4.12%) SAS
4 154 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 137 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 57 (0.84%) Confluence
7 42 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 42 (0.62%) IIS
8 29 (0.43%) CMS
8 29 (0.43%) Skype for Business
9 17 (0.25%) nginx
10 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 13 (0.19%) WordPress
12 10 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.12%) JBoss
14 7 (0.10%) Ethereum
15 6 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (0.089%) IBM Notes
16 5 (0.074%) Appian
16 5 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 649 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 339 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 193 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.35%) 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 (3.33%) SAP ERP
2 58 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 55 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 37 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 25 (0.37%) Elite 3E
6 24 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 22 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 22 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 22 (0.33%) thinkFolio
8 20 (0.30%) Fidessa
9 19 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 18 (0.27%) SAP BPC
11 15 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
11 15 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
12 14 (0.21%) NEC Housing
13 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,259 (18.61%) AWS
2 1,177 (17.40%) Azure
3 549 (8.11%) GCP
4 394 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 365 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
6 277 (4.09%) SaaS
7 242 (3.58%) dbt
8 232 (3.43%) Snowflake
9 167 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 160 (2.36%) Serverless
11 149 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 123 (1.82%) GitHub
13 107 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
14 106 (1.57%) PaaS
15 84 (1.24%) Entra ID
15 84 (1.24%) IaaS
16 83 (1.23%) Amazon S3
17 65 (0.96%) OpenShift
18 62 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
18 62 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 452 (6.68%) Broadband
2 213 (3.15%) Firewall
3 114 (1.68%) DNS
4 79 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 73 (1.08%) LAN
6 71 (1.05%) WAN
7 62 (0.92%) Internet
8 60 (0.89%) DHCP
9 54 (0.80%) VPN
10 51 (0.75%) Network Security
11 34 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (0.49%) Skype
13 32 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 32 (0.47%) Wireless
14 31 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
15 25 (0.37%) Telepresence
16 23 (0.34%) SAN
17 18 (0.27%) Intranet
18 17 (0.25%) BGP
19 15 (0.22%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (4.80%) Power BI
2 321 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 281 (4.15%) Apache Ignite
4 253 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 241 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
6 239 (3.53%) Apache Arrow
7 237 (3.50%) Dremio
8 203 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
9 169 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 153 (2.26%) Tableau
11 102 (1.51%) Big Data
12 76 (1.12%) NoSQL
13 69 (1.02%) Relational Database
14 68 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 65 (0.96%) MongoDB
16 64 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 61 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
18 46 (0.68%) Metadata
18 46 (0.68%) MySQL
19 39 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 215 (3.18%) JIRA
2 163 (2.41%) Git
3 149 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 57 (0.84%) Cypress.io
4 57 (0.84%) GitLab
5 44 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 35 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 28 (0.41%) Selenium
8 26 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 23 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 21 (0.31%) Maven
11 20 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 18 (0.27%) WebDriver
13 17 (0.25%) TeamCity
14 16 (0.24%) JUnit
15 14 (0.21%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.21%) Snyk
16 12 (0.18%) SonarQube
17 11 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 10 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 2,064 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 1,315 (19.44%) Banking
3 1,013 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 811 (11.99%) Front Office
5 576 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 409 (6.04%) Legal
7 396 (5.85%) Law
8 394 (5.82%) Marketing
9 376 (5.56%) Investment Banking
10 309 (4.57%) Retail
11 300 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
12 224 (3.31%) Financial Institution
13 201 (2.97%) Back Office
14 169 (2.50%) Public Sector
15 155 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.73%) Manufacturing
17 116 (1.71%) Billing
18 107 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
19 104 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
20 94 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,306 (19.30%) Senior
2 1,294 (19.13%) Analyst
3 1,091 (16.12%) Developer
4 703 (10.39%) Architect
5 572 (8.45%) Lead
6 490 (7.24%) Software Engineer
7 416 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 297 (4.39%) Financial Analyst
9 279 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
10 272 (4.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 255 (3.77%) Python Developer
12 250 (3.69%) Senior Developer
13 249 (3.68%) Senior Manager
14 235 (3.47%) Python Engineer
15 216 (3.19%) Consultant
16 209 (3.09%) Java Developer
17 198 (2.93%) Project Manager
18 189 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
19 187 (2.76%) Business Analyst
20 183 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (6.44%) React
2 410 (6.06%) .NET
3 359 (5.31%) gRPC
4 338 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 290 (4.29%) AngularJS
6 242 (3.58%) Pandas
7 237 (3.50%) Redux
8 208 (3.07%) NumPy
9 191 (2.82%) SciPy
10 165 (2.44%) HTML
11 157 (2.32%) Vue
12 142 (2.10%) Spring
13 138 (2.04%) .NET Core
14 135 (2.00%) REST
15 132 (1.95%) ASP.NET
16 124 (1.83%) Node.js
17 120 (1.77%) Kafka
18 118 (1.74%) Web Services
19 116 (1.71%) CSS
20 115 (1.70%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 644 (9.52%) Hedge funds
2 577 (8.53%) Fixed Income
3 476 (7.04%) Derivative
4 469 (6.93%) Equities
5 464 (6.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 257 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 252 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
8 201 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 176 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 137 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 97 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 91 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 85 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 85 (1.26%) Reinsurance
14 76 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 72 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 67 (0.99%) Social Media
17 63 (0.93%) Life Science
18 55 (0.81%) Blockchain
18 55 (0.81%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 535 (7.91%) Windows
2 365 (5.39%) Linux
3 144 (2.13%) Unix
4 141 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 113 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 49 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 47 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (0.56%) Android
8 38 (0.56%) Windows 7
9 36 (0.53%) CentOS
10 32 (0.47%) Solaris
11 23 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 22 (0.33%) zOS
13 16 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 11 (0.16%) AIX
15 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.15%) Mac OS X
16 10 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
17 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,002 (29.59%) Agile
2 951 (14.06%) Asset Management
3 901 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
4 860 (12.71%) Software Engineering
5 718 (10.61%) Mentoring
6 706 (10.43%) Roadmaps
7 673 (9.95%) Investment Management
8 636 (9.40%) Analytics
9 631 (9.33%) DevOps
10 586 (8.66%) Decision-Making
11 522 (7.72%) Project Management
12 501 (7.40%) Fintech
13 488 (7.21%) Change Management
14 477 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
15 465 (6.87%) Data Management
16 450 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 413 (6.10%) CI/CD
18 405 (5.99%) Performance Management
19 402 (5.94%) Computer Science
20 396 (5.85%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,407 (20.80%) Python
2 1,139 (16.83%) SQL
3 722 (10.67%) Java
4 678 (10.02%) JavaScript
5 584 (8.63%) TypeScript
6 535 (7.91%) C#
7 219 (3.24%) PowerShell
8 158 (2.34%) Go
9 116 (1.71%) R
10 114 (1.68%) C++
11 99 (1.46%) Bash
12 84 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 69 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 52 (0.77%) Ruby
15 48 (0.71%) C
15 48 (0.71%) Perl
16 46 (0.68%) Scala
17 42 (0.62%) VBA
18 33 (0.49%) Rust
19 30 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,053 (15.56%) Degree
2 371 (5.48%) ACCA
3 257 (3.80%) CIMA
4 231 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 191 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 166 (2.45%) CISSP
7 103 (1.52%) Security Cleared
8 95 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 76 (1.12%) CISM
9 76 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 70 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 65 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 64 (0.95%) CISA
14 55 (0.81%) MBA
15 51 (0.75%) AWS Certification
16 41 (0.61%) CRISC
16 41 (0.61%) SC Cleared
17 39 (0.58%) PMP
18 36 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (2.96%) Data Quality
2 192 (2.84%) QA
3 171 (2.53%) SLA
4 122 (1.80%) GDPR
5 114 (1.68%) IFRS
6 98 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 94 (1.39%) NIST
8 66 (0.98%) PMO
9 57 (0.84%) GAAP
10 39 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 34 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 32 (0.47%) 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 21 (0.31%) IFRS 17
17 20 (0.30%) ITGC
18 15 (0.22%) NCSC
19 14 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 284 (4.20%) Docker
2 254 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (0.37%) XenApp
6 24 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.35%) XenDesktop
7 23 (0.34%) vSphere
8 21 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.27%) Hyper-V
10 14 (0.21%) Firmware
11 8 (0.12%) HDFS
12 6 (0.089%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.059%) NFS
14 3 (0.044%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.015%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.015%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.015%) Xen
Systems Management
1 417 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 308 (4.55%) Terraform
3 126 (1.86%) Ansible
4 78 (1.15%) SCCM
5 75 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 56 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.38%) Puppet
8 21 (0.31%) Grafana
9 18 (0.27%) SCOM
10 16 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
11 15 (0.22%) Istio
12 14 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.16%) Control-M
13 11 (0.16%) Nmap
13 11 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.16%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.13%) Nessus
15 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
15 8 (0.12%) Nagios
16 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,369 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 523 (7.73%) Oracle
3 423 (6.25%) SAP
4 239 (3.53%) Hyperion
5 237 (3.50%) Anaplan
6 235 (3.47%) Google
7 168 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 155 (2.29%) VMware
9 141 (2.08%) Bloomberg
10 121 (1.79%) Cisco
11 119 (1.76%) Dell
12 107 (1.58%) Salesforce
13 105 (1.55%) CA
14 102 (1.51%) Citrix
15 87 (1.29%) Red Hat
16 77 (1.14%) IBM
17 72 (1.06%) Databricks
18 50 (0.74%) Apple
19 46 (0.68%) Adobe
19 46 (0.68%) Alteryx