Finance Jobs in Glasgow

Financial
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 1 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 201 2,752 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 34.96% 68.53% 21.33%
As % of the General category 48.67% 85.71% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 48 137 103
10th Percentile £32,851 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £47,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,000 £82,250
Scotland median annual salary £50,445 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.50% -5.60% +8.70%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 413 3,211 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 71.83% 79.96% 68.76%
Number of salaries quoted 165 448 374
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £39,969 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -10.91% +10.31%
75th Percentile £67,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Glasgow

Finance
Salary Trend in Glasgow

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

Salary trend for Finance in Glasgow

Finance
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

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

Salary histogram for Finance in Glasgow

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 15 (7.46%) Apache Spark
1 15 (7.46%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (3.48%) Apache
3 4 (1.99%) Camunda
3 4 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.50%) Confluence
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.37%) AWS
2 29 (14.43%) Azure
3 15 (7.46%) GCP
4 10 (4.98%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.48%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (3.48%) Serverless
6 6 (2.99%) SaaS
7 5 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.99%) GitHub
9 3 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.49%) npm
9 3 (1.49%) Yarn
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Firewall
1 1 (0.50%) NAS
1 1 (0.50%) SAN
1 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.46%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (7.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 15 (7.46%) Oracle Reports
3 14 (6.97%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.47%) Big Data
4 13 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.48%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.48%) Power BI
9 6 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.99%) KDB
9 6 (2.99%) Kdb+
9 6 (2.99%) MySQL
10 5 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (2.49%) DB2
11 4 (1.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.98%) Git
3 7 (3.48%) JUnit
3 7 (3.48%) Maven
4 4 (1.99%) GitLab
4 4 (1.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.49%) Selenium
5 3 (1.49%) Vite
5 3 (1.49%) webpack
6 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.00%) Gradle
6 2 (1.00%) Subversion
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.50%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.50%) Snyk
7 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (49.75%) Law
2 99 (49.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 62 (30.85%) Banking
4 40 (19.90%) Marketing
5 38 (18.91%) Social Skills
6 29 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (11.94%) Public Sector
8 22 (10.95%) Local Government
9 15 (7.46%) Military
9 15 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (5.47%) Retail
11 10 (4.98%) Investment Banking
11 10 (4.98%) Legal
12 5 (2.49%) Games
13 4 (1.99%) Private Banking
14 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.00%) Front Office
14 2 (1.00%) Publishing
15 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (47.26%) Software Engineer
2 50 (24.88%) Senior
3 49 (24.38%) Java Engineer
4 48 (23.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 31 (15.42%) Lead
5 31 (15.42%) Senior Manager
6 27 (13.43%) Lead Software Engineer
7 26 (12.94%) Audit Manager
7 26 (12.94%) Senior Audit Manager
8 22 (10.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (10.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 21 (10.45%) Developer
10 18 (8.96%) Python Engineer
11 16 (7.96%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (6.97%) Java Developer
13 12 (5.97%) Lead Java Engineer
13 12 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) AWS Software Engineer
15 9 (4.48%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (24.88%) Spring
2 37 (18.41%) Kafka
3 33 (16.42%) React
4 31 (15.42%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.97%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.97%) REST
7 11 (5.47%) RESTful
8 10 (4.98%) HTML
9 8 (3.98%) CSS
10 7 (3.48%) Hibernate
11 6 (2.99%) PySpark
11 6 (2.99%) Web Services
12 5 (2.49%) JPA
12 5 (2.49%) Pandas
13 4 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (1.99%) JDBC
13 4 (1.99%) OpenAPI
13 4 (1.99%) Swagger
13 4 (1.99%) WSDL
14 3 (1.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.91%) Algorithms
2 29 (14.43%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.48%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.99%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.99%) Derivative
5 4 (1.99%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.49%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.00%) Equities
7 2 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.49%) Windows
2 4 (1.99%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (73.13%) Agile
2 100 (49.75%) Software Engineering
3 78 (38.81%) SDLC
4 77 (38.31%) Operational Stability
5 72 (35.82%) CI/CD
6 57 (28.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 54 (26.87%) Machine Learning
8 52 (25.87%) Community of Practice
9 42 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (19.40%) Visualisation
11 37 (18.41%) Coaching
12 34 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (16.42%) Analytics
14 28 (13.93%) Decision-Making
15 27 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (12.94%) DevOps
17 23 (11.44%) Customer Experience
18 20 (9.95%) ITIL
19 19 (9.45%) Data Management
20 18 (8.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (40.30%) Java
2 44 (21.89%) SQL
3 38 (18.91%) Python
4 15 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.46%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.49%) C#
6 4 (1.99%) PHP
7 3 (1.49%) Go
7 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.49%) Scala
8 2 (1.00%) Bash
8 2 (1.00%) C
8 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.50%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.50%) R
9 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (10.95%) ACCA
2 15 (7.46%) DBS Check
3 10 (4.98%) Degree
4 5 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.99%) CISA
5 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.95%) GAAP
1 22 (10.95%) IFRS
2 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.00%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) HDFS
3 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (15.92%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.96%) Terraform
3 10 (4.98%) Grafana
4 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.99%) Ansible
6 2 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.00%) Netcool
6 2 (1.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 2 (1.00%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (21.39%) Oracle
2 11 (5.47%) Splunk
3 9 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.98%) BT
4 8 (3.98%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.48%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) Google
6 4 (1.99%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.99%) Sybase
7 3 (1.49%) Facebook
8 2 (1.00%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Murex
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.50%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco
9 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.50%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Solace
9 1 (0.50%) VMware