Finance Jobs in Edinburgh

Financial
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 1 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 400 282 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.61% 18.68% 39.22%
As % of the General category 56.50% 31.72% 50.34%
Number of salaries quoted 181 208 430
10th Percentile £25,313 £40,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £32,851 £48,250 £51,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +5.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £82,548
90th Percentile £126,222 £108,250 £97,328
Scotland median annual salary £50,445 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.50% -5.60% +8.70%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 708 889 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 80.73% 58.87% 77.91%
Number of salaries quoted 290 658 867
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,150
25th Percentile £32,851 £45,000 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,870 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.88% +5.73%
75th Percentile £82,688 £72,483 £79,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Finance in Edinburgh

Finance
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Edinburgh 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
Balerno - 9 £32,851 -
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 11 (2.75%) Umbraco
2 5 (1.25%) Confluence
3 2 (0.50%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.25%) AWS
2 42 (10.50%) GCP
3 31 (7.75%) Azure
4 14 (3.50%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.75%) SaaS
6 7 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 7 (1.75%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
8 5 (1.25%) GitHub
8 5 (1.25%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.75%) OCI
10 3 (0.75%) Serverless
11 2 (0.50%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.00%) Network Security
2 9 (2.25%) Internet
3 7 (1.75%) Firewall
4 6 (1.50%) VPN
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) SNA
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.25%) Tableau
2 14 (3.50%) Big Data
2 14 (3.50%) Power BI
3 11 (2.75%) BigQuery
4 8 (2.00%) MySQL
5 5 (1.25%) MS Access
6 4 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.00%) Metadata
6 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.75%) DB2
7 3 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.50%) Looker
8 2 (0.50%) OLAP
8 2 (0.50%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (5.25%) Jenkins
2 19 (4.75%) Git
3 12 (3.00%) JIRA
4 10 (2.50%) Maven
5 4 (1.00%) webpack
6 3 (0.75%) Xcode
6 3 (0.75%) XCTest
6 3 (0.75%) XCUITest
7 2 (0.50%) ERwin
7 2 (0.50%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) JUnit
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 168 (42.00%) Banking
2 99 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 84 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.00%) Retail
5 31 (7.75%) Legal
6 16 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.75%) Front Office
8 11 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Games
9 7 (1.75%) Marketing
10 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.00%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.75%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.50%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.50%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Russian Language
13 2 (0.50%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (23.25%) Analyst
2 56 (14.00%) Lead
3 42 (10.50%) Senior
4 35 (8.75%) Architect
5 28 (7.00%) Risk Manager
6 27 (6.75%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.00%) Developer
7 20 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (3.50%) Data Analyst
8 14 (3.50%) Operations Analyst
9 13 (3.25%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
11 11 (2.75%) Lead Architect
11 11 (2.75%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.75%) Product Analyst
11 11 (2.75%) Service Analyst
12 10 (2.50%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.25%) Customer Analyst
13 9 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.00%) CSS
1 20 (5.00%) React
2 15 (3.75%) RESTful
3 14 (3.50%) HTML
4 12 (3.00%) OAuth
4 12 (3.00%) OpenID
4 12 (3.00%) SAML
4 12 (3.00%) Software Packaging
4 12 (3.00%) Spring
5 11 (2.75%) Ajax
5 11 (2.75%) jQuery
5 11 (2.75%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.00%) Android Jetpack
6 8 (2.00%) Jetpack Compose
7 5 (1.25%) .NET
7 5 (1.25%) Jest
7 5 (1.25%) LAMP
7 5 (1.25%) Laravel
7 5 (1.25%) REST
8 4 (1.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.50%) Credit Risk
3 14 (3.50%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.25%) Market Risk
4 13 (3.25%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.25%) Online Banking
7 8 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.75%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.50%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.50%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.25%) Android
2 6 (1.50%) Linux
2 6 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) Unix
4 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (20.25%) Coaching
2 80 (20.00%) Agile
2 80 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 72 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 68 (17.00%) Roadmaps
5 67 (16.75%) Analytics
6 62 (15.50%) Risk Management
7 56 (14.00%) Software Engineering
8 55 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (12.75%) Mathematics
11 43 (10.75%) Artificial Intelligence
12 40 (10.00%) Project Management
13 39 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (9.00%) Decision-Making
15 34 (8.50%) Microservices
16 33 (8.25%) CI/CD
16 33 (8.25%) DevOps
17 32 (8.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (11.00%) SQL
2 43 (10.75%) Python
3 36 (9.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (5.00%) Java
5 9 (2.25%) Kotlin
6 6 (1.50%) PHP
7 5 (1.25%) C#
7 5 (1.25%) VBA
8 4 (1.00%) Swift
9 3 (0.75%) JCL
9 3 (0.75%) R
10 2 (0.50%) ABAP
10 2 (0.50%) Go
10 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Groovy
11 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (14.50%) Degree
2 17 (4.25%) CISSP
3 14 (3.50%) Master's Degree
4 13 (3.25%) PhD
5 10 (2.50%) CISM
6 8 (2.00%) CISA
6 8 (2.00%) CRISC
7 5 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.00%) CCA
8 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (0.75%) ACCA
9 3 (0.75%) CFA
10 2 (0.50%) CIMA
10 2 (0.50%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PMP
10 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.25%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.25%) NIST
3 12 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.00%) GDPR
5 7 (1.75%) ITGC
5 7 (1.75%) NCSC
6 6 (1.50%) COBIT
6 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.25%) QA
8 4 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (5.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.75%) Terraform
3 11 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
5 2 (0.50%) Istio
5 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 43 (10.75%) BT
2 24 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.75%) Google
4 12 (3.00%) Oracle
5 7 (1.75%) Avaloq
6 5 (1.25%) Adobe
7 4 (1.00%) Blue Prism
7 4 (1.00%) Tealium
7 4 (1.00%) UiPath
8 3 (0.75%) Genesys
8 3 (0.75%) Verint
9 2 (0.50%) IBM
9 2 (0.50%) Informatica
9 2 (0.50%) SAP
10 1 (0.25%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.25%) Maxymiser
10 1 (0.25%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.25%) Planview
10 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.25%) Twitter