Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,199 1,302 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.50% 27.51% 20.35%
As % of the General category 65.80% 36.61% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 428 637 674
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,294 £35,900
25th Percentile £44,500 £51,250 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £56,007
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +16.06% +6.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,019 £96,516 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,862 3,556 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.19% 75.15% 61.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,719 1,940
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,950
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,067 £58,000 £52,644
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +10.17% +5.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £83,934 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Glasgow +3 2,780 £50,000 -20.00% 82
Edinburgh -1 321 £70,000 +4.37% 101
West Lothian +12 23 £34,500 -34.29% 4
Dundee 0 17 £50,000 +26.58% 3
Fife 0 12 £40,818 -18.36% 5
Aberdeen -12 10 £101,100 +83.82% 26
Stirling -2 9 £44,695 +10.18% 2
Renfrewshire - 7 £152,200 - 3
Lanarkshire -6 5 £40,000 -1.23% 38
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 5
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 3
Perth and Kinross - 2 £101,350 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 5
Perthshire -1 1 £50,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire -8 1 £32,500 -4.41%
East Lothian - 1 - - 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 590 (18.44%) Apache Spark
2 149 (4.66%) Apache
3 117 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (3.28%) FileNet
5 49 (1.53%) Confluence
6 32 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.66%) GemFire
9 20 (0.63%) Camunda
9 20 (0.63%) SharePoint
10 12 (0.38%) SAS
10 12 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.34%) CICS
12 10 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.22%) Captiva
14 2 (0.063%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.031%) CMS
15 1 (0.031%) IIS
15 1 (0.031%) Office Communications Server
15 1 (0.031%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 54 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.00%) UserZoom
3 27 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.47%) Sketch
6 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.094%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.094%) InVision
7 3 (0.094%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.031%) EViews
8 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
3 11 (0.34%) Endur
3 11 (0.34%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (0.13%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,241 (38.79%) AWS
2 244 (7.63%) Azure
3 172 (5.38%) GCP
4 117 (3.66%) Datadog
5 108 (3.38%) Amazon S3
6 94 (2.94%) Figma
7 75 (2.34%) SurveyMonkey
8 70 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (2.09%) GitHub
11 59 (1.84%) Serverless
12 58 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
13 56 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 54 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
16 51 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
16 51 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
17 48 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
18 43 (1.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.56%) Kerberos
2 20 (0.63%) Firewall
2 20 (0.63%) Internet
3 18 (0.56%) Broadband
3 18 (0.56%) DSL
4 16 (0.50%) VPN
5 11 (0.34%) IPsec
6 10 (0.31%) SNMP
6 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.25%) HTTP
7 8 (0.25%) MQTT
7 8 (0.25%) Wireless
8 6 (0.19%) WAN
9 4 (0.13%) DHCP
9 4 (0.13%) DNS
9 4 (0.13%) LAN
10 3 (0.094%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.063%) Network Security
11 2 (0.063%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.063%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 680 (21.26%) NoSQL
2 510 (15.94%) Big Data
3 233 (7.28%) Hadoop
4 157 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.10%) Apache Hive
7 129 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 121 (3.78%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.19%) HBase
10 71 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.09%) Metadata
12 52 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 48 (1.50%) SQL Server
14 41 (1.28%) DB2
15 40 (1.25%) Power BI
16 39 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (1.19%) CockroachDB
18 35 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
19 32 (1.00%) Tableau
20 31 (0.97%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 325 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 223 (6.97%) Git
3 217 (6.78%) JUnit
4 145 (4.53%) JIRA
5 120 (3.75%) Jasmine
6 93 (2.91%) Cypress.io
7 86 (2.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 78 (2.44%) Maven
9 76 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 75 (2.34%) Karma Test Runner
11 69 (2.16%) Artifactory
12 65 (2.03%) Selenium
13 60 (1.88%) Protractor
13 60 (1.88%) WebDriver
14 48 (1.50%) Mockito
15 31 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 30 (0.94%) Gradle
17 28 (0.88%) JMeter
18 26 (0.81%) Cucumber
18 26 (0.81%) GitLab
General
1 2,620 (81.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,580 (80.65%) Law
3 1,477 (46.17%) Marketing
4 719 (22.48%) Legal
5 621 (19.41%) Banking
6 402 (12.57%) Social Skills
7 364 (11.38%) Investment Banking
8 264 (8.25%) Financial Institution
9 192 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
10 121 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
11 94 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 92 (2.88%) Private Banking
13 53 (1.66%) Public Sector
14 39 (1.22%) Retail
15 32 (1.00%) Social Science
16 27 (0.84%) Games
17 26 (0.81%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 24 (0.75%) Manufacturing
20 22 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2,022 (63.21%) Software Engineer
2 838 (26.20%) Lead
3 807 (25.23%) Java Engineer
4 802 (25.07%) Java Software Engineer
5 690 (21.57%) Lead Software Engineer
6 401 (12.54%) Senior
7 390 (12.19%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.19%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 332 (10.38%) Python Engineer
8 332 (10.38%) Python Software Engineer
9 325 (10.16%) Full Stack Engineer
10 321 (10.03%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 301 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
11 301 (9.41%) AWS Software Engineer
12 278 (8.69%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (7.53%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.13%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.13%) Scala Software Engineer
15 226 (7.06%) Engineering Manager
16 212 (6.63%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (22.32%) Spring
2 535 (16.72%) React
3 426 (13.32%) AngularJS
4 383 (11.97%) Kafka
5 381 (11.91%) Spring Boot
6 292 (9.13%) HTML
7 261 (8.16%) CSS
8 249 (7.78%) J2EE
9 219 (6.85%) JSON
10 201 (6.28%) RESTful
11 196 (6.13%) Hibernate
12 188 (5.88%) Node.js
13 174 (5.44%) PySpark
14 171 (5.35%) JMS
15 166 (5.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 155 (4.85%) jQuery
17 151 (4.72%) Web Services
18 129 (4.03%) GraphQL
19 124 (3.88%) REST
20 117 (3.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 933 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 793 (24.79%) Algorithms
3 302 (9.44%) Public Cloud
4 187 (5.85%) Onboarding
5 163 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 160 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 138 (4.31%) Reference Data
8 131 (4.10%) Market Risk
9 114 (3.56%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
11 63 (1.97%) Credit Risk
12 47 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 43 (1.34%) Legacy Code
14 31 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.72%) Social Media
18 21 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
18 21 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 165 (5.16%) Unix
2 154 (4.81%) Linux
3 57 (1.78%) Windows
4 33 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.00%) Android
6 10 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.031%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,514 (78.59%) Agile
2 2,412 (75.40%) Software Engineering
3 2,129 (66.55%) SDLC
4 1,994 (62.33%) CI/CD
5 1,881 (58.80%) Operational Stability
6 1,428 (44.64%) Machine Learning
7 1,422 (44.45%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,305 (40.79%) Community of Practice
9 899 (28.10%) Visualisation
10 882 (27.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 735 (22.98%) Risk Management
12 586 (18.32%) Decision-Making
13 520 (16.26%) Microservices
14 491 (15.35%) Continuous Delivery
15 442 (13.82%) Information Architecture
16 439 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
17 416 (13.00%) Architectural Design
18 386 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
19 371 (11.60%) Computer Science
20 309 (9.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,718 (53.70%) Java
2 1,179 (36.86%) SQL
3 991 (30.98%) Python
4 363 (11.35%) JavaScript
5 319 (9.97%) Scala
6 219 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 153 (4.78%) PL/SQL
8 83 (2.59%) Go
9 73 (2.28%) C#
10 65 (2.03%) Prolog
10 65 (2.03%) SPARQL
11 43 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.31%) Groovy
13 39 (1.22%) R
14 32 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.63%) Ruby
17 17 (0.53%) PowerShell
18 11 (0.34%) COBOL
18 11 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 292 (9.13%) Degree
2 81 (2.53%) Master's Degree
3 51 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.41%) PhD
5 26 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 17 (0.53%) ACCA
8 16 (0.50%) SC Cleared
9 14 (0.44%) CISA
10 11 (0.34%) CIMA
10 11 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.28%) CISSP
12 8 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.22%) CISM
14 6 (0.19%) AAT
14 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.19%) PMP
15 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.13%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 69 (2.16%) SLA
3 46 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 46 (1.44%) QA
4 34 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 34 (1.06%) PMO
5 24 (0.75%) GDPR
6 15 (0.47%) WAI
7 12 (0.38%) ITGC
7 12 (0.38%) NIST
8 9 (0.28%) IFRS
8 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.25%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.16%) SEPA
11 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.094%) CRD IV
12 3 (0.094%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.094%) WCAG
13 2 (0.063%) COSHH
13 2 (0.063%) DICOM
System Software
1 104 (3.25%) Docker
2 102 (3.19%) HDFS
3 86 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.31%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.063%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.063%) KVM
8 2 (0.063%) vSphere
8 2 (0.063%) Xen
9 1 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 404 (12.63%) Kubernetes
2 287 (8.97%) Terraform
3 179 (5.60%) Grafana
4 93 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.97%) Ansible
6 26 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.66%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.66%) Kibana
7 21 (0.66%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.22%) Graphite
9 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.19%) Istio
11 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.063%) Rancher
12 1 (0.031%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.031%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 397 (12.41%) Oracle
2 263 (8.22%) Databricks
3 186 (5.81%) Splunk
4 165 (5.16%) Dynatrace
5 136 (4.25%) Microsoft
6 105 (3.28%) Google
7 88 (2.75%) Informatica
8 72 (2.25%) Cloudera
9 64 (2.00%) Qualtrics
10 57 (1.78%) Alteryx
11 49 (1.53%) SAP
12 39 (1.22%) ServiceNow
13 29 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 28 (0.88%) VMware
15 27 (0.84%) Pega
16 23 (0.72%) Sybase
17 22 (0.69%) IBM
18 19 (0.59%) CA
19 18 (0.56%) Cognos
19 18 (0.56%) SaltStack