Financial Institution Job Trends in England

Financial Institution
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 270 541
Rank change year-on-year -117 +271 -180
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 393 494 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.14% 0.36%
As % of the General category 0.96% 1.65% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 168 167 169
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £38,400
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +13.79% -14.71%
75th Percentile £102,750 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £118,750 £122,861
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -14.71%

All General Skills
England

Financial Institution falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,904 30,028 50,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 46.70% 69.31% 57.72%
Number of salaries quoted 26,116 15,657 34,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in England

Financial Institution
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in England

Financial Institution
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the England region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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 -41 345 £87,500 -2.78% 138
North of England -42 36 £70,000 -3.45% 16
Yorkshire -28 16 £90,000 +22.03% 4
North West -24 13 £95,000 +31.03% 11
South East -16 7 £132,943 +136.34% 8
Midlands -45 7 £132,943 +93.37% 2
North East -48 7 £62,500 - 1
East Midlands -45 6 £132,943 +80.87% 1
East of England -28 1 - -
West Midlands -45 1 £41,000 -21.90% 1
South West -71 1 £45,000 -24.69% 1
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.76%) Confluence
3 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Eikon
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.25%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.94%) SaaS
2 89 (22.65%) AWS
3 64 (16.28%) GCP
4 50 (12.72%) Azure
5 35 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (4.58%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.56%) LangSmith
8 11 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.78%) Figma
9 7 (1.78%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.27%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.02%) Serverless
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (0.76%) Azure Functions
13 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.82%) CHAP
2 5 (1.27%) BGP
3 4 (1.02%) Internet
3 4 (1.02%) VPN
4 3 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.76%) VLAN
4 3 (0.76%) Wireless
5 2 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.51%) Firewall
5 2 (0.51%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.51%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.51%) LAN
5 2 (0.51%) MPLS
5 2 (0.51%) Network Security
5 2 (0.51%) OSPF
5 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.51%) WAN
6 1 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.33%) Metadata
2 15 (3.82%) Data Lake
3 14 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.78%) Power BI
5 7 (1.78%) RDBMS
5 7 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.53%) Big Data
7 5 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.02%) Tableau
9 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.76%) Db2
10 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.51%) Redis
10 2 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 32 (8.14%) TeamCity
2 9 (2.29%) ERwin
2 9 (2.29%) GitLab
3 8 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 7 (1.78%) JIRA
5 6 (1.53%) Gradle
6 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.51%) JUnit
8 1 (0.25%) MSI
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 393 (100.00%) Finance
2 200 (50.89%) Banking
3 108 (27.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (26.46%) Law
5 99 (25.19%) Social Skills
6 91 (23.16%) Retail
7 83 (21.12%) Back Office
8 69 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.60%) Front Office
10 19 (4.83%) Polish Language
11 18 (4.58%) Legal
12 14 (3.56%) Marketing
12 14 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.54%) Japanese Language
14 9 (2.29%) Digital Economy
15 7 (1.78%) Brand Awareness
15 7 (1.78%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.27%) French Language
16 5 (1.27%) German Language
Job Titles
1 63 (16.03%) Senior
2 44 (11.20%) Architect
3 40 (10.18%) Lead
4 36 (9.16%) Development Manager
5 32 (8.14%) Software Engineer
6 29 (7.38%) Analyst
7 27 (6.87%) Business Manager
8 26 (6.62%) Business Development Manager
9 21 (5.34%) Auditor
10 20 (5.09%) Java Engineer
11 19 (4.83%) Consultant
11 19 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (4.58%) Developer
12 18 (4.58%) Internal Auditor
13 17 (4.33%) Data Scientist
14 16 (4.07%) Data Consultant
15 15 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 15 (3.82%) Senior Data Scientist
15 15 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
16 14 (3.56%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.58%) LangChain
2 17 (4.33%) Spring
2 17 (4.33%) Spring Boot
3 15 (3.82%) LlamaIndex
3 15 (3.82%) REST
3 15 (3.82%) RESTful
4 14 (3.56%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (3.56%) Langfuse
4 14 (3.56%) Model Context Protocol
4 14 (3.56%) SpaCy
5 11 (2.80%) Kafka
6 10 (2.54%) OpenAPI
6 10 (2.54%) Swagger
6 10 (2.54%) XML
7 9 (2.29%) React
8 8 (2.04%) FpML
9 7 (1.78%) .NET
9 7 (1.78%) JSON
9 7 (1.78%) XML Schema
10 4 (1.02%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 58 (14.76%) e-Learning
3 47 (11.96%) Product Ownership
4 30 (7.63%) Management Information System
5 28 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.83%) AI Agents
6 19 (4.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.80%) Blockchain
8 11 (2.80%) Blog
8 11 (2.80%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.29%) Derivative
11 8 (2.04%) AS400
11 8 (2.04%) Market Risk
11 8 (2.04%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.78%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.53%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.05%) Windows
2 5 (1.27%) Android
2 5 (1.27%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.02%) Unix
4 3 (0.76%) AIX
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (23.41%) Agile
2 91 (23.16%) Analytics
3 84 (21.37%) Fintech
4 81 (20.61%) AI
5 73 (18.58%) Collaborative Culture
6 69 (17.56%) CI/CD
7 63 (16.03%) Roadmaps
8 62 (15.78%) Business Development
9 61 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (15.01%) Risk Management
11 57 (14.50%) Machine Learning
11 57 (14.50%) Mentoring
12 52 (13.23%) Software Engineering
13 51 (12.98%) Test Automation
14 47 (11.96%) Project Management
15 46 (11.70%) Microservices
16 44 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (11.20%) Information Security
17 43 (10.94%) Migration
18 41 (10.43%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.58%) Python
2 68 (17.30%) Java
3 41 (10.43%) SQL
4 13 (3.31%) C#
5 9 (2.29%) COBOL
5 9 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 8 (2.04%) RPG
7 7 (1.78%) Go
7 7 (1.78%) R
8 6 (1.53%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.27%) C++
9 5 (1.27%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) VBA
11 1 (0.25%) VC++
Qualifications
1 73 (18.58%) Degree
2 29 (7.38%) CISSP
3 20 (5.09%) AWS Certification
4 19 (4.83%) CISA
5 17 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.07%) CISM
6 16 (4.07%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.82%) CGEIT
7 15 (3.82%) FFIEC
7 15 (3.82%) SANS
8 14 (3.56%) PhD
9 12 (3.05%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.04%) CRISC
11 6 (1.53%) MOS
12 4 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.02%) OSCP
13 3 (0.76%) ACCA
13 3 (0.76%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.11%) GDPR
2 23 (5.85%) NIST
3 16 (4.07%) COBIT
3 16 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.31%) SOC 2
6 10 (2.54%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.29%) GRC
8 7 (1.78%) Basel III
8 7 (1.78%) EU AI Act
9 6 (1.53%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.53%) QA
10 5 (1.27%) IFRS
10 5 (1.27%) PMO
11 3 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.76%) SEPA
12 2 (0.51%) GAAP
12 2 (0.51%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.51%) PSD2
12 2 (0.51%) TARGET2
System Software
1 4 (1.02%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (10.43%) Terraform
2 35 (8.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (8.14%) Grafana
4 3 (0.76%) Ansible
4 3 (0.76%) Control-M
4 3 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.51%) QRadar
5 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.80%) Databricks
3 9 (2.29%) Sparx
4 8 (2.04%) IBM
4 8 (2.04%) Oracle
5 6 (1.53%) Solace
6 4 (1.02%) Citrix
6 4 (1.02%) SAP
6 4 (1.02%) Splunk
7 3 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.76%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
7 3 (0.76%) VMware
8 2 (0.51%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.51%) Meraki
8 2 (0.51%) Reuters
8 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.51%) SolarWinds