Finance Jobs in Central London

Financial
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 649 964 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 27.04% 25.50% 28.77%
As % of the General category 37.62% 41.00% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 465 707 1,173
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,147 £48,550
25th Percentile £58,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £117,250
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +3.23%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,725 2,351 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 71.88% 62.18% 65.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 1,747 2,633
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,873
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,975 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,037 £73,500
% change year-on-year +7.09% -4.71% +5.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London -1 559 £75,000 - 335
City of Westminster -1 31 £62,500 -24.24% 8
Camden +1 18 - - 3
West End of London +5 15 £102,500 +13.89% 23
Southwark -3 14 £65,000 -16.13% 1
Lambeth -2 2 £80,000 +77.78%
Finance
London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 26 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.23%) Confluence
5 5 (0.77%) nginx
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
7 3 (0.46%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Solana
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.15%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Sketch
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.62%) Adaptiv
3 4 (0.62%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.46%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Eikon
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 174 (26.81%) Azure
2 73 (11.25%) AWS
3 66 (10.17%) Power Platform
4 57 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (5.86%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (5.24%) SaaS
8 31 (4.78%) GitHub
9 26 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.93%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.16%) GCP
11 14 (2.16%) Serverless
12 13 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (2.00%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.69%) PaaS
15 10 (1.54%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.47%) HTTP
2 12 (1.85%) DNS
3 11 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.54%) DHCP
5 8 (1.23%) Firewall
6 7 (1.08%) Network Security
6 7 (1.08%) VPN
7 5 (0.77%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.77%) LAN
7 5 (0.77%) WAN
8 3 (0.46%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.46%) VLAN
8 3 (0.46%) Wireless
9 2 (0.31%) Broadband
9 2 (0.31%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.31%) Multicast
9 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.31%) Telnet
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.40%) Power BI
2 43 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 29 (4.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (4.31%) Tableau
5 22 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.54%) DB2
7 10 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.23%) Data Hub
8 8 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.23%) SQL CLR
9 7 (1.08%) MySQL
10 6 (0.92%) Metadata
10 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.77%) Redis
12 4 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (6.93%) JIRA
2 44 (6.78%) Git
3 10 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.77%) GitLab
7 4 (0.62%) Maven
7 4 (0.62%) Selenium
8 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.46%) Postman
8 3 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) Mockito
9 2 (0.31%) MSTest
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.31%) XCTest
General
1 257 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (16.49%) Banking
4 69 (10.63%) Retail
5 51 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (7.70%) Marketing
7 36 (5.55%) Games
7 36 (5.55%) Law
8 35 (5.39%) Advertising
9 31 (4.78%) Telecoms
10 29 (4.47%) Financial Institution
11 28 (4.31%) Legal
12 26 (4.01%) Back Office
13 24 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (3.39%) Front Office
15 21 (3.24%) Investment Banking
15 21 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (2.16%) Billing
17 13 (2.00%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (24.19%) Senior
2 113 (17.41%) Analyst
3 93 (14.33%) Developer
4 46 (7.09%) Lead
5 40 (6.16%) Software Engineer
6 37 (5.70%) Senior Analyst
7 33 (5.08%) Architect
8 28 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 22 (3.39%) Applications Support
10 22 (3.39%) Data Analyst
10 22 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.24%) Python Developer
12 20 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 20 (3.08%) Senior Developer
13 18 (2.77%) Support Analyst
14 17 (2.62%) Data Architect
15 16 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 16 (2.47%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.47%) .NET
2 34 (5.24%) React
3 28 (4.31%) Kafka
4 27 (4.16%) REST
5 24 (3.70%) .NET Framework
6 21 (3.24%) Node.js
7 14 (2.16%) Web Services
8 13 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (1.85%) Django
10 11 (1.69%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.69%) RESTful
11 10 (1.54%) HTML
12 9 (1.39%) Entity Framework
12 9 (1.39%) Spring
13 8 (1.23%) OAuth
14 7 (1.08%) CSS
14 7 (1.08%) SOAP
15 6 (0.92%) Flask
15 6 (0.92%) HTML5
15 6 (0.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 27 (4.16%) Blockchain
3 25 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.54%) Robotics
5 22 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.54%) Derivative
11 10 (1.54%) Equities
12 9 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.39%) Social Media
12 9 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 8 (1.23%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.78%) Windows
2 41 (6.32%) Linux
3 22 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.77%) Unix
5 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.92%) CentOS
9 4 (0.62%) Rocky
9 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (27.73%) Agile
2 138 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (19.72%) Analytics
4 112 (17.26%) Mentoring
5 103 (15.87%) DevOps
6 88 (13.56%) CI/CD
7 71 (10.94%) Coaching
8 70 (10.79%) Project Management
9 69 (10.63%) Risk Management
10 64 (9.86%) Software Engineering
11 61 (9.40%) Data Analytics
12 59 (9.09%) Roadmaps
13 55 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
14 53 (8.17%) Computer Science
15 51 (7.86%) Artificial Intelligence
15 51 (7.86%) Decision-Making
15 51 (7.86%) Fintech
16 49 (7.55%) Creative Thinking
17 46 (7.09%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 144 (22.19%) SQL
2 143 (22.03%) Python
3 63 (9.71%) C#
4 49 (7.55%) Java
5 47 (7.24%) JavaScript
6 38 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 25 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 23 (3.54%) T-SQL
9 19 (2.93%) Bash
10 16 (2.47%) Scala
11 13 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.69%) C++
13 10 (1.54%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.08%) Rust
15 6 (0.92%) VBA
16 3 (0.46%) Ruby
16 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.31%) Groovy
17 2 (0.31%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.31%) Perl
Qualifications
1 137 (21.11%) Degree
2 24 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (2.77%) CISA
4 17 (2.62%) ACCA
4 17 (2.62%) CIMA
4 17 (2.62%) PMP
5 16 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.00%) CCAB
7 13 (2.00%) CIPFA
7 13 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.00%) ICAEW
8 12 (1.85%) ISACA
9 9 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.23%) CFA
10 8 (1.23%) CISM
10 8 (1.23%) CISSP
11 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.54%) ITGC
2 20 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.31%) QA
4 12 (1.85%) GDPR
5 9 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.39%) SLA
6 8 (1.23%) PMO
7 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.62%) NIST
9 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.31%) COBIT
10 2 (0.31%) GAAP
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) PMBOK
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.85%) Docker
3 16 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.46%) Firmware
5 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (5.86%) Terraform
2 36 (5.55%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.01%) Ansible
4 18 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.47%) SCCM
6 15 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.39%) Grafana
7 9 (1.39%) Nagios
8 5 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.77%) QRadar
9 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.31%) Kibana
10 2 (0.31%) logstash
10 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.31%) SCOM
11 1 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 169 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.93%) Oracle
3 27 (4.16%) Databricks
4 26 (4.01%) Google
4 26 (4.01%) SAP
5 23 (3.54%) VMware
6 19 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.77%) Apple
8 16 (2.47%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.31%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.00%) Cisco
11 12 (1.85%) Splunk
12 11 (1.69%) Alteryx
12 11 (1.69%) Siebel
12 11 (1.69%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.54%) Aderant
13 10 (1.54%) Citrix
13 10 (1.54%) Murex
14 9 (1.39%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.92%) Ping Identity