Financial Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Financial Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 794 949
Rank change year-on-year +40 +155 -114
Permanent jobs citing Financial Modelling 156 187 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 86 75 118
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £57,654 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £82,500 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +6.11% +11.07%
75th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Financial Modelling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +68 146 £95,000 +11.76% 178
London +150 104 £105,000 -17.65% 115
UK excluding London -63 52 £50,000 -4.76% 61
Work from Home +54 44 £57,000 -26.45% 42
North of England +32 19 £42,500 -10.53% 20
North West +27 19 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Midlands +12 10 £50,500 +60.32% 12
Scotland -58 10 - - 2
South East 0 9 £48,750 -40.91% 20
West Midlands +29 8 £55,500 +35.37% 5
South West -30 3 £50,000 -9.09% 6
East Midlands -19 2 £24,000 -23.81% 7
East of England +1 1 £70,000 -11.11% 2

Financial Modelling
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 1 (0.64%) Apache
Applications
1 35 (22.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.64%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.64%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.85%) AWS
2 35 (22.44%) Amazon S3
3 34 (21.79%) Amazon EC2
3 34 (21.79%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (21.79%) Amazon SQS
3 34 (21.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 34 (21.79%) AWS Lambda
3 34 (21.79%) OpenShift
3 34 (21.79%) Serverless
4 22 (14.10%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.21%) SaaS
6 2 (1.28%) IaaS
6 2 (1.28%) PaaS
7 1 (0.64%) Azure
7 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.64%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 34 (21.79%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (14.10%) Power BI
4 16 (10.26%) Tableau
5 15 (9.62%) Data Mining
6 10 (6.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.64%) Flink
7 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.64%) Looker
7 1 (0.64%) MS Access
7 1 (0.64%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 34 (21.79%) Artifactory
1 34 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.64%) GDB
2 1 (0.64%) JIRA
2 1 (0.64%) Mockito
General
1 156 (100.00%) Finance
2 47 (30.13%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.72%) Social Skills
4 36 (23.08%) Marketing
5 34 (21.79%) Front Office
6 19 (12.18%) Banking
6 19 (12.18%) Legal
7 16 (10.26%) Law
8 15 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (8.97%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (8.33%) Financial Institution
11 12 (7.69%) Retail
12 11 (7.05%) Investment Banking
13 10 (6.41%) Games
13 10 (6.41%) Local Government
14 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
15 8 (5.13%) Billing
16 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
16 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (1.28%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 65 (41.67%) Analyst
2 44 (28.21%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (21.79%) AWS DevOps
3 34 (21.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 34 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (21.79%) Financial Analyst
3 34 (21.79%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 34 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 24 (15.38%) Senior
5 22 (14.10%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (10.26%) Commercial Analyst
6 16 (10.26%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 10 (6.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Infrastructure Manager
7 10 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Principal Modelling Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Principal Software Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Python Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.79%) J2EE
2 3 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (0.64%) gRPC
3 1 (0.64%) Kafka
3 1 (0.64%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.79%) Tandem
2 18 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.85%) Blog
6 3 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.64%) Derivative
8 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Windows
1 5 (3.21%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (41.67%) Decision-Making
2 52 (33.33%) Agile
3 48 (30.77%) Financial Analysis
4 46 (29.49%) Asset Management
4 46 (29.49%) Software Engineering
5 37 (23.72%) Mathematics
6 35 (22.44%) Budgeting
6 35 (22.44%) DevOps
7 34 (21.79%) CI/CD
7 34 (21.79%) Deployment Automation
7 34 (21.79%) Open Source
7 34 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 32 (20.51%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 30 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.59%) Analytics
10 29 (18.59%) Business Strategy
11 27 (17.31%) Business Development
12 26 (16.67%) Economics
13 24 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (12.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.03%) Python
2 36 (23.08%) Java
3 34 (21.79%) Go
4 25 (16.03%) SQL
5 6 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.92%) C++
6 3 (1.92%) VBA
7 1 (0.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (26.92%) Degree
2 13 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 12 (7.69%) ACCA
3 12 (7.69%) CIMA
4 8 (5.13%) MBA
5 6 (3.85%) CFA
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) GAAP
2 2 (1.28%) IFRS
2 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 34 (21.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (22.44%) Kubernetes
2 34 (21.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 13 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.85%) CA
3 4 (2.56%) SAP
4 3 (1.92%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.92%) MarketAxess
4 3 (1.92%) Murex
4 3 (1.92%) PagerDuty
4 3 (1.92%) Tradeweb
5 2 (1.28%) Anaplan
5 2 (1.28%) Cadence
5 2 (1.28%) Facebook
5 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.64%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) Samsung
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) Yardi