Finance Jobs in the City of London

Financial
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 881 1,384 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.10% 29.32% 27.93%
As % of the General category 42.52% 44.78% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 692 1,160 1,587
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All General Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,072 3,091 4,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 61.37% 65.47% 63.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 2,525 3,636
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the City of London.

Salary trend for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Finance in the City of London

Finance
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the City of London 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
London Bridge -1 2 £105,000 +27.27%
Finance
Central London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 35 (3.97%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.84%) Skype for Business
3 24 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (2.04%) Apache
5 9 (1.02%) Confluence
5 9 (1.02%) IIS
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) nginx
8 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.45%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.34%) SAS
10 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 56 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Blender
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) Aladdin
1 13 (1.48%) thinkFolio
2 10 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.57%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.45%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.34%) SAP GTS
6 3 (0.34%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 2 (0.23%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.23%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 181 (20.54%) Azure
2 122 (13.85%) AWS
3 114 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (7.72%) Power Platform
5 31 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (3.52%) SaaS
5 31 (3.52%) Serverless
6 24 (2.72%) Entra ID
7 22 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (2.27%) WhatsApp
9 17 (1.93%) GitHub
10 16 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.82%) Google Sheets
11 14 (1.59%) Amazon S3
11 14 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (1.48%) GCP
13 11 (1.25%) PaaS
14 9 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.02%) IaaS
15 8 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.45%) Firewall
2 30 (3.41%) LAN
3 29 (3.29%) Skype
4 26 (2.95%) Cisco IOS
5 24 (2.72%) Telepresence
6 22 (2.50%) DNS
7 21 (2.38%) WAN
8 20 (2.27%) Network Security
8 20 (2.27%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.70%) VPN
10 12 (1.36%) Internet
11 9 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.91%) DHCP
12 8 (0.91%) SAN
13 7 (0.79%) Wireshark
14 6 (0.68%) Broadband
14 6 (0.68%) IPsec
15 5 (0.57%) SNMP
16 4 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
17 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.15%) Power BI
2 38 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.48%) GIS
5 12 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.25%) MySQL
7 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.02%) Metadata
8 8 (0.91%) Big Data
8 8 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.91%) Tableau
9 7 (0.79%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.57%) Flink
11 5 (0.57%) Redis
11 5 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (3.06%) JIRA
2 20 (2.27%) GitLab
3 19 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.93%) Git
5 9 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.68%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.34%) Protractor
9 3 (0.34%) Snyk
9 3 (0.34%) Storybook
9 3 (0.34%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.23%) MSTest
10 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 217 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (12.71%) Banking
4 49 (5.56%) Law
5 46 (5.22%) Retail
6 40 (4.54%) Marketing
6 40 (4.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 37 (4.20%) Financial Institution
7 37 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 36 (4.09%) Legal
9 30 (3.41%) Automotive
10 26 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.84%) Advertising
12 22 (2.50%) Back Office
12 22 (2.50%) Front Office
13 20 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (2.04%) Retail Banking
16 14 (1.59%) Public Sector
17 11 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (16.91%) Analyst
2 147 (16.69%) Senior
3 111 (12.60%) Lead
4 104 (11.80%) Developer
5 55 (6.24%) Architect
6 47 (5.33%) Support Engineer
7 39 (4.43%) Software Engineer
8 32 (3.63%) Consultant
9 31 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
10 30 (3.41%) Systems Analyst
11 29 (3.29%) Project Manager
11 29 (3.29%) Security Analyst
12 25 (2.84%) Senior Developer
13 22 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (2.50%) IT Analyst
14 20 (2.27%) Support Analyst
15 19 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.16%) Senior Security Analyst
16 18 (2.04%) Applications Support
16 18 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.88%) .NET
2 38 (4.31%) React
3 28 (3.18%) REST
4 19 (2.16%) Node.js
5 18 (2.04%) Web Services
6 16 (1.82%) CSS
6 16 (1.82%) HTML
6 16 (1.82%) Spring
7 15 (1.70%) ASP.NET
7 15 (1.70%) JSON
7 15 (1.70%) RESTful
8 14 (1.59%) AngularJS
8 14 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.48%) Kafka
10 11 (1.25%) SOAP
10 11 (1.25%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.25%) XML
10 11 (1.25%) YAML
11 9 (1.02%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.20%) Management Information System
2 28 (3.18%) Video Conferencing
3 25 (2.84%) Security Posture
4 21 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.27%) Fixed Income
6 19 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.82%) Derivative
8 16 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.36%) Equities
10 12 (1.36%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.14%) FPGA
11 10 (1.14%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (0.91%) Product Ownership
13 8 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
14 7 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.19%) Windows
2 47 (5.33%) Linux
3 44 (4.99%) Windows Server
4 39 (4.43%) Windows 10
5 33 (3.75%) Windows 7
6 18 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.93%) Android
8 12 (1.36%) Unix
9 6 (0.68%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.57%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.34%) CentOS
13 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.11%) AIX
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (20.43%) Agile
2 112 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (11.92%) DevOps
4 102 (11.58%) ITIL
5 86 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (9.31%) Software Engineering
7 77 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
8 72 (8.17%) Decision-Making
9 70 (7.95%) Mentoring
10 69 (7.83%) CI/CD
11 61 (6.92%) Analytics
11 61 (6.92%) Roadmaps
12 59 (6.70%) Fintech
13 58 (6.58%) Change Management
14 57 (6.47%) Project Management
15 53 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
16 47 (5.33%) Computer Science
17 46 (5.22%) Risk Management
18 45 (5.11%) Data Analysis
18 45 (5.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.59%) SQL
2 137 (15.55%) Python
3 62 (7.04%) Java
4 51 (5.79%) C#
5 43 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 25 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.61%) C++
9 14 (1.59%) Apex Code
9 14 (1.59%) Clojure
9 14 (1.59%) F#
9 14 (1.59%) Haskell
9 14 (1.59%) Rust
10 11 (1.25%) Bash
10 11 (1.25%) Go
11 10 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.02%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.91%) VBA
14 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 143 (16.23%) Degree
2 48 (5.45%) Master's Degree
3 44 (4.99%) CISSP
4 38 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.41%) MBA
6 27 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (3.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 22 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 22 (2.50%) CCSP
8 13 (1.48%) ACCA
8 13 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.36%) CIMA
10 10 (1.14%) CRISC
11 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.91%) CEH
12 8 (0.91%) CISA
12 8 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.79%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.79%) SANS
13 7 (0.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.06%) NIST
2 24 (2.72%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.27%) QA
4 14 (1.59%) GDPR
5 13 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.91%) PMO
7 7 (0.79%) GRC
7 7 (0.79%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.79%) SLA
8 6 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.34%) EMIR
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 3 (0.34%) NCSC
9 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.23%) ITGC
10 2 (0.23%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 65 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 36 (4.09%) Docker
3 19 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Xen
6 1 (0.11%) XenApp
6 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.33%) Terraform
3 18 (2.04%) Ansible
3 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.14%) SCCM
5 9 (1.02%) Nmap
6 5 (0.57%) Packer
6 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.45%) Backup Exec
7 4 (0.45%) HP Data Protector
7 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.34%) Istio
8 3 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.23%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 204 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.43%) Bloomberg
3 37 (4.20%) Cisco
4 35 (3.97%) Apple
5 31 (3.52%) Oracle
5 31 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.41%) Google
7 24 (2.72%) Polycom
8 19 (2.16%) VMware
9 18 (2.04%) SAP
9 18 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.48%) Charles River
10 13 (1.48%) HP
10 13 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.36%) Databricks
12 10 (1.14%) Dell
13 9 (1.02%) Splunk
14 8 (0.91%) Qualys
14 8 (0.91%) Veeam