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 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 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,047 23,809 35,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.33% 22.94% 23.04%
As % of the General category 32.30% 33.53% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,871 13,936 18,817
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £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 £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% +0.08% +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 58,971 71,012 99,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.41% 63.82%
Number of salaries quoted 39,619 38,243 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,481 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 2 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 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
England -1 14,883 £65,000 -6.40% 5,556
UK excluding London +2 11,555 £52,500 -4.62% 3,086
Work from Home -2 7,215 £65,000 -5.55% 2,282
London +1 6,766 £80,000 - 2,739
Scotland +2 3,199 £62,500 -3.85% 280
North of England -2 2,420 £55,000 - 775
South East -2 2,199 £50,000 -13.04% 734
Midlands -2 1,571 £50,000 -9.09% 544
North West +1 1,333 £55,000 - 478
South West -7 1,243 £54,370 -1.15% 411
West Midlands +1 1,102 £51,300 -6.73% 341
Yorkshire -3 843 £57,732 +0.40% 215
East of England +1 533 £49,000 -10.91% 290
East Midlands -6 461 £47,500 -13.64% 202
Wales -5 246 £45,000 -3.84% 89
North East -1 244 £50,000 -9.09% 86
Northern Ireland +2 104 £42,500 -15.00% 68
Isle of Man - 39 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 +3.03% 2

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
1 679 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 568 (2.98%) Apache
3 501 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 475 (2.49%) SAS
5 459 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 344 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 280 (1.47%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 95 (0.50%) IIS
10 60 (0.32%) CMS
11 49 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 38 (0.20%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 34 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 30 (0.16%) Captiva
16 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.11%) Camunda
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 16 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,696 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 930 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 458 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 111 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 85 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 27 (0.14%) SPSS
10 23 (0.12%) Sketch
11 17 (0.089%) Photoshop
12 16 (0.084%) Trello
13 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
15 9 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 8 (0.042%) InDesign
17 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
18 6 (0.032%) InVision
Business Applications
1 322 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 173 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 160 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 87 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 79 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 79 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 54 (0.28%) NEC Housing
8 49 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 41 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 37 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 35 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
14 33 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
15 32 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
16 29 (0.15%) Elite 3E
16 29 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,180 (16.70%) AWS
2 2,749 (14.43%) Azure
3 1,207 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 1,014 (5.32%) GCP
5 987 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
6 592 (3.11%) SaaS
7 452 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 352 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 319 (1.67%) GitHub
10 305 (1.60%) Serverless
11 285 (1.50%) Snowflake
12 261 (1.37%) dbt
13 249 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 221 (1.16%) Entra ID
15 202 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 193 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
17 177 (0.93%) PaaS
18 173 (0.91%) Power Automate
18 173 (0.91%) PowerApps
19 159 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 851 (4.47%) Broadband
2 497 (2.61%) Firewall
3 255 (1.34%) DNS
4 222 (1.17%) Internet
5 202 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 187 (0.98%) WAN
7 178 (0.93%) VPN
8 166 (0.87%) LAN
9 152 (0.80%) DHCP
10 134 (0.70%) Wireless
11 126 (0.66%) Network Security
12 117 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 95 (0.50%) SAN
14 83 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 75 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 74 (0.39%) HTTP
17 64 (0.34%) 5G
17 64 (0.34%) SNMP
18 63 (0.33%) IPsec
19 62 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,007 (5.29%) Power BI
2 894 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 822 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 665 (3.49%) Big Data
5 528 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 462 (2.43%) Data Lake
7 349 (1.83%) Tableau
8 331 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 327 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
10 281 (1.48%) Apache Ignite
11 278 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 274 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 270 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 241 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
15 239 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
16 237 (1.24%) Dremio
17 234 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 178 (0.93%) Metadata
19 161 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
20 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 708 (3.72%) JIRA
2 620 (3.26%) Git
3 593 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.32%) JUnit
5 172 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 164 (0.86%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) GitLab
8 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
9 120 (0.63%) Maven
9 120 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 113 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
12 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
14 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
15 66 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 65 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 55 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,982 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 4,121 (21.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,527 (18.52%) Law
4 2,932 (15.39%) Banking
5 2,733 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2,577 (13.53%) Marketing
7 1,927 (10.12%) Legal
8 1,226 (6.44%) Retail
9 981 (5.15%) Investment Banking
10 963 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
11 889 (4.67%) Public Sector
12 877 (4.60%) Front Office
13 637 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 612 (3.21%) Financial Institution
15 593 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
16 478 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 446 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
18 278 (1.46%) Back Office
19 270 (1.42%) Billing
20 249 (1.31%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,101 (16.28%) Senior
2 2,945 (15.46%) Analyst
3 2,709 (14.22%) Software Engineer
4 2,342 (12.30%) Lead
5 2,132 (11.19%) Developer
6 1,430 (7.51%) Architect
7 978 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 911 (4.78%) Java Engineer
9 879 (4.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 780 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 766 (4.02%) Consultant
12 712 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
13 652 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 587 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
15 577 (3.03%) Python Engineer
16 524 (2.75%) Senior Manager
17 519 (2.72%) Python Software Engineer
18 510 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
19 496 (2.60%) Senior Developer
20 477 (2.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,254 (6.58%) React
2 969 (5.09%) .NET
3 939 (4.93%) Spring
4 914 (4.80%) AngularJS
5 779 (4.09%) HTML
6 619 (3.25%) Kafka
7 574 (3.01%) CSS
8 563 (2.96%) Spring Boot
9 441 (2.32%) Node.js
10 423 (2.22%) REST
11 402 (2.11%) gRPC
12 394 (2.07%) Web Services
13 391 (2.05%) JSON
13 391 (2.05%) RESTful
14 348 (1.83%) ASP.NET
15 342 (1.80%) Protocol Buffers
16 338 (1.77%) Pandas
17 301 (1.58%) .NET Core
17 301 (1.58%) J2EE
18 292 (1.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,137 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.94%) Algorithms
3 859 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 751 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 669 (3.51%) Hedge funds
6 614 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 595 (3.12%) Fixed Income
8 557 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 557 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 516 (2.71%) Public Cloud
10 510 (2.68%) Derivative
11 474 (2.49%) Equities
12 270 (1.42%) Data Centre
13 253 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 205 (1.08%) Credit Risk
14 205 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 204 (1.07%) PMI
16 180 (0.95%) Mobile App
17 169 (0.89%) Driving Licence
18 163 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,269 (6.66%) Windows
2 889 (4.67%) Linux
3 422 (2.22%) Unix
4 341 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 203 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 144 (0.76%) Android
7 107 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 102 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 91 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 89 (0.47%) CentOS
11 78 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 62 (0.33%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 46 (0.24%) Solaris
16 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) zOS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
18 30 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 19 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,894 (36.19%) Agile
2 3,709 (19.47%) Software Engineering
3 3,072 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 2,745 (14.41%) CI/CD
5 2,579 (13.54%) SDLC
6 2,189 (11.49%) Mentoring
7 2,074 (10.89%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,066 (10.85%) Machine Learning
9 2,040 (10.71%) Decision-Making
10 2,031 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,967 (10.33%) Project Management
12 1,930 (10.13%) Roadmaps
13 1,928 (10.12%) Operational Stability
14 1,686 (8.85%) Risk Management
15 1,543 (8.10%) Analytics
16 1,503 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
17 1,433 (7.52%) DevOps
18 1,406 (7.38%) Coaching
19 1,389 (7.29%) Asset Management
20 1,358 (7.13%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,477 (18.25%) SQL
2 2,917 (15.31%) Python
3 2,835 (14.88%) Java
4 1,510 (7.93%) JavaScript
5 1,138 (5.97%) C#
6 1,040 (5.46%) TypeScript
7 435 (2.28%) PowerShell
8 390 (2.05%) Scala
9 315 (1.65%) Go
10 241 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 231 (1.21%) R
12 214 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 204 (1.07%) Bash
14 202 (1.06%) C++
15 144 (0.76%) C
16 129 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 107 (0.56%) PHP
18 92 (0.48%) VBA
19 88 (0.46%) Shell Script
20 83 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,811 (14.76%) Degree
2 817 (4.29%) ACCA
3 642 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 621 (3.26%) CIMA
5 434 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 405 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 331 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 298 (1.56%) CISSP
9 293 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 266 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 172 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 165 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 161 (0.85%) CISM
14 153 (0.80%) PMP
15 150 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 132 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
16 132 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 121 (0.64%) MBA
18 116 (0.61%) CISA
19 103 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 566 (2.97%) QA
2 507 (2.66%) GDPR
3 483 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 464 (2.44%) SLA
5 245 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 243 (1.28%) IFRS
7 242 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 242 (1.27%) PMO
8 212 (1.11%) NIST
9 93 (0.49%) GAAP
10 90 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
12 74 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 70 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 69 (0.36%) GRC
15 52 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 47 (0.25%) COBIT
16 47 (0.25%) ITGC
17 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 703 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 666 (3.50%) Docker
3 347 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 106 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 106 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 61 (0.32%) Firmware
7 57 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 51 (0.27%) vSphere
9 43 (0.23%) XenApp
10 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 32 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.058%) IAG
15 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.053%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
18 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,032 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 780 (4.10%) Terraform
3 267 (1.40%) Ansible
4 215 (1.13%) Grafana
5 192 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 163 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 133 (0.70%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 44 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.19%) Puppet
11 34 (0.18%) Kibana
12 32 (0.17%) SCOM
13 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.14%) Istio
15 23 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.11%) Backup Exec
19 19 (0.100%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,585 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 1,404 (7.37%) Oracle
3 1,041 (5.47%) SAP
4 575 (3.02%) Google
5 464 (2.44%) VMware
6 407 (2.14%) Databricks
7 356 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 335 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 326 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 284 (1.49%) Splunk
11 274 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 255 (1.34%) Cisco
13 206 (1.08%) Dell
14 200 (1.05%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 194 (1.02%) CA
17 179 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 178 (0.93%) Citrix
19 149 (0.78%) Bloomberg
20 147 (0.77%) Alteryx