Finance Jobs in Bristol

Financial
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 350 404 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 28.14% 12.87% 30.32%
As % of the General category 44.47% 25.36% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 249 270 462
10th Percentile £25,313 £35,967 £35,483
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,387 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% +8.17% +13.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,938 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,779 £96,539 £91,110
South West median annual salary £57,443 £54,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.29% -1.74% +4.76%

All General Skills
Bristol

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 787 1,593 1,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 63.26% 50.73% 67.97%
Number of salaries quoted 509 1,157 1,003
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,314
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,373 £55,000 £56,159
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.06% +6.97%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,433 £74,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,524 £87,419
South West median annual salary £48,507 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.00% +2.56%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Bristol

Finance
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
Avonmouth +1 4 £27,500 - 2
Finance
South West

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 16 (4.57%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (1.14%) Confluence
2 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) NetWeaver
3 3 (0.86%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (1.14%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.57%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.86%) AWS
2 65 (18.57%) Azure
2 65 (18.57%) GCP
3 33 (9.43%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.00%) PaaS
5 11 (3.14%) npm
6 10 (2.86%) SaaS
7 9 (2.57%) OCI
8 8 (2.29%) Apigee
8 8 (2.29%) Collibra
9 7 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.00%) GitHub
10 6 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.43%) IaaS
12 4 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (1.14%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.86%) Figma
13 3 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.71%) Firewall
2 8 (2.29%) Network Security
3 7 (2.00%) SSL
3 7 (2.00%) VPN
4 4 (1.14%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) DHCP
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) LAN
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.43%) Power BI
2 26 (7.43%) Tableau
3 23 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.14%) Big Data
5 15 (4.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (3.71%) MySQL
7 12 (3.43%) Metadata
8 11 (3.14%) Data Hub
8 11 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.57%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.29%) Metadata Repository
11 7 (2.00%) Ataccama
11 7 (2.00%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.71%) MS Access
13 5 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.43%) Looker
13 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (12.86%) Git
2 13 (3.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (3.43%) Oracle Forms
4 11 (3.14%) Cucumber
4 11 (3.14%) Cypress.io
4 11 (3.14%) webpack
5 9 (2.57%) GitLab
5 9 (2.57%) JIRA
6 6 (1.71%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.86%) Xcode
7 3 (0.86%) XCTest
8 2 (0.57%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.57%) JUnit
8 2 (0.57%) Maven
8 2 (0.57%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) RStudio
General
1 135 (38.57%) Banking
2 92 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.14%) Military
4 18 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.29%) Retail
6 13 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (3.71%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.43%) Games
7 12 (3.43%) Marketing
8 11 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.00%) Law
11 7 (2.00%) Legal
11 7 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.71%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.43%) Electronics
14 3 (0.86%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.86%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 58 (16.57%) Lead
2 52 (14.86%) Senior
3 51 (14.57%) Analyst
4 38 (10.86%) Software Engineer
5 23 (6.57%) Consultant
6 19 (5.43%) Developer
7 17 (4.86%) Architect
7 17 (4.86%) Data Analyst
8 13 (3.71%) Recruitment Consultant
8 13 (3.71%) Senior Developer
9 12 (3.43%) Data Manager
9 12 (3.43%) Risk Manager
9 12 (3.43%) Security Engineer
10 11 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.14%) Development Manager
11 10 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (2.57%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.57%) Senior Recruitment Consultant
13 8 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.71%) React
1 20 (5.71%) Spring Boot
2 18 (5.14%) Node.js
3 17 (4.86%) RESTful
3 17 (4.86%) Web Services
4 16 (4.57%) CSS
5 15 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 15 (4.29%) HTML
6 12 (3.43%) LAMP
6 12 (3.43%) Laravel
6 12 (3.43%) Software Packaging
7 11 (3.14%) Jest
8 10 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (2.86%) SwiftUI
9 9 (2.57%) Android Jetpack
9 9 (2.57%) Jetpack Compose
9 9 (2.57%) OAuth
10 8 (2.29%) Spring
11 7 (2.00%) UIKit
12 6 (1.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.57%) Mobile App
3 15 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.57%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.00%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.71%) DataPower
9 6 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.43%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.14%) Robotics
12 3 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.86%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.86%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.86%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.14%) Android
2 17 (4.86%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.43%) Linux
3 5 (1.43%) Unix
4 3 (0.86%) AIX
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.57%) Agile
2 92 (26.29%) Analytics
3 71 (20.29%) Software Engineering
4 68 (19.43%) DevOps
5 52 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (13.43%) CI/CD
8 46 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (12.57%) Mentoring
10 41 (11.71%) Visualisation
11 40 (11.43%) Risk Management
12 37 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
13 35 (10.00%) Data Modelling
13 35 (10.00%) Roadmaps
14 34 (9.71%) Containerisation
14 34 (9.71%) Data Management
15 33 (9.43%) Customer Experience
15 33 (9.43%) Test Automation
16 31 (8.86%) Data Science
17 29 (8.29%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 63 (18.00%) SQL
2 48 (13.71%) Java
3 40 (11.43%) Python
4 30 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.43%) PHP
6 11 (3.14%) Swift
7 10 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 10 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.57%) C#
9 8 (2.29%) Bash
10 6 (1.71%) Go
11 5 (1.43%) C
11 5 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.57%) C++
13 2 (0.57%) Rust
14 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.29%) R
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (16.57%) Degree
2 15 (4.29%) DBS Check
3 14 (4.00%) CISSP
4 10 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.29%) PhD
6 7 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.71%) CISM
7 6 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.43%) ACCA
8 5 (1.43%) CIMA
9 4 (1.14%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CCSK
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.57%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.57%) SANS
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.29%) Accessibility
2 19 (5.43%) QA
3 17 (4.86%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.29%) NIST
5 14 (4.00%) GDPR
6 7 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.71%) NCSC
7 6 (1.71%) SLA
8 4 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.14%) PMO
9 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.57%) GAAP
9 2 (0.57%) GRC
9 2 (0.57%) IFRS
9 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) COBIT
10 1 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 35 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.43%) Terraform
3 3 (0.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (0.57%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (0.57%) Istio
4 2 (0.57%) Nmap
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 45 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.00%) Oracle
3 28 (8.00%) Google
4 13 (3.71%) IBM
4 13 (3.71%) SAP
5 9 (2.57%) Avaloq
5 9 (2.57%) Databricks
6 7 (2.00%) Adobe
7 6 (1.71%) Apple
8 4 (1.14%) F5
8 4 (1.14%) Twitter
9 3 (0.86%) IFS
9 3 (0.86%) Planview
10 2 (0.57%) Cognos
10 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.57%) Fiserv
10 2 (0.57%) Infor
10 2 (0.57%) TSYS
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco
11 1 (0.29%) Hyperion