Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 5,916 7,219 20,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.33% 32.18% 31.13%
As % of the General category 41.93% 47.37% 43.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 5,656 10,761
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +1.27% +5.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All General Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 14,110 15,239 45,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 69.96% 67.94% 71.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,872 11,947 23,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Central London -2 902 £75,000 - 237
West London +1 347 £54,000 -15.29% 62
South London -6 140 £75,000 +36.36% 25
East London -3 20 £77,000 -3.75% 30
North London -6 8 £62,500 +59.91% 9
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 735 (12.42%) Apache Airflow
2 688 (11.63%) Apache
3 280 (4.73%) SAS
4 99 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 78 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 41 (0.69%) Apache Spark
7 37 (0.63%) Confluence
8 24 (0.41%) IIS
9 16 (0.27%) nginx
10 11 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.17%) Appian
11 10 (0.17%) CMS
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.14%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 6 (0.10%) Solana
14 4 (0.068%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.068%) Skype for Business
15 3 (0.051%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 3 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 446 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.10%) SPSS
8 4 (0.068%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.051%) InDesign
9 3 (0.051%) Sketch
10 2 (0.034%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.034%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.017%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.017%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.017%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.017%) Maya
11 1 (0.017%) Revit
11 1 (0.017%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 259 (4.38%) SAP ERP
2 68 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 61 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 60 (1.01%) Ripple
5 57 (0.96%) NEC Housing
6 44 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
7 17 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
8 13 (0.22%) Postilion
8 13 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 12 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 12 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.17%) Endur
10 10 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.15%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.15%) Summit
12 8 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (25.69%) AWS
2 1,048 (17.71%) Azure
3 700 (11.83%) GCP
4 659 (11.14%) dbt
5 590 (9.97%) Snowflake
6 376 (6.36%) Power Platform
7 225 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 166 (2.81%) SaaS
9 134 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
10 125 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
11 114 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (1.40%) Serverless
14 75 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 70 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
16 68 (1.15%) Entra ID
16 68 (1.15%) GitHub
16 68 (1.15%) PaaS
17 64 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 486 (8.22%) Broadband
2 138 (2.33%) Firewall
3 97 (1.64%) DNS
4 82 (1.39%) Network Security
5 67 (1.13%) DHCP
6 50 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 41 (0.69%) WAN
8 36 (0.61%) SD-WAN
8 36 (0.61%) VPN
9 35 (0.59%) Internet
10 34 (0.57%) LAN
11 32 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
12 28 (0.47%) Wireless
13 25 (0.42%) BGP
13 25 (0.42%) HTTP
14 21 (0.35%) OSPF
14 21 (0.35%) SAN
15 17 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (0.24%) VLAN
17 13 (0.22%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 691 (11.68%) Data Lake
2 646 (10.92%) Dremio
3 623 (10.53%) Apache Ignite
4 616 (10.41%) Amazon Athena
5 600 (10.14%) Apache Arrow
6 307 (5.19%) Power BI
7 256 (4.33%) SQL Server
8 190 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
9 158 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
10 138 (2.33%) Big Data
11 112 (1.89%) Tableau
12 69 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 69 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 67 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 60 (1.01%) MongoDB
15 57 (0.96%) Relational Database
16 37 (0.63%) Metadata
17 34 (0.57%) MySQL
18 33 (0.56%) BigQuery
18 33 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 153 (2.59%) Git
2 131 (2.21%) JIRA
3 103 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 77 (1.30%) GitLab
5 50 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 36 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 26 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 26 (0.44%) JUnit
7 26 (0.44%) TeamCity
8 22 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 19 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 18 (0.30%) Selenium
12 17 (0.29%) CircleCI
13 15 (0.25%) Maven
13 15 (0.25%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.22%) Postman
14 13 (0.22%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,771 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 1,576 (26.64%) Banking
3 1,005 (16.99%) Front Office
4 869 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
5 695 (11.75%) Investment Banking
6 458 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 333 (5.63%) Legal
8 305 (5.16%) Law
9 286 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
10 267 (4.51%) Marketing
11 241 (4.07%) Retail
12 210 (3.55%) Financial Institution
13 143 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 129 (2.18%) Public Sector
15 121 (2.05%) Manufacturing
16 100 (1.69%) Back Office
17 96 (1.62%) Billing
18 95 (1.61%) Retail Banking
19 67 (1.13%) Local Government
20 57 (0.96%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,276 (21.57%) Senior
2 1,039 (17.56%) Analyst
3 901 (15.23%) Developer
4 750 (12.68%) Architect
5 721 (12.19%) Software Engineer
6 587 (9.92%) Lead
7 494 (8.35%) Solutions Architect
8 449 (7.59%) Python Engineer
9 341 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
10 336 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 307 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 282 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
13 278 (4.70%) Java Engineer
14 277 (4.68%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 259 (4.38%) AWS Software Engineer
16 253 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
17 243 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
18 190 (3.21%) Python Developer
19 177 (2.99%) Senior Developer
20 176 (2.97%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (11.56%) gRPC
2 673 (11.38%) Protocol Buffers
3 598 (10.11%) Pandas
4 582 (9.84%) NumPy
5 560 (9.47%) SciPy
6 338 (5.71%) React
7 274 (4.63%) .NET
8 183 (3.09%) Redux
9 170 (2.87%) AngularJS
10 150 (2.54%) PySpark
11 121 (2.05%) Node.js
12 116 (1.96%) Kafka
13 99 (1.67%) REST
14 94 (1.59%) Spring
15 91 (1.54%) Web Services
16 90 (1.52%) RESTful
17 83 (1.40%) .NET Core
18 81 (1.37%) Material-UI
19 76 (1.28%) HTML
20 75 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 932 (15.75%) Hedge funds
2 856 (14.47%) Fixed Income
3 773 (13.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 756 (12.78%) Equities
5 719 (12.15%) Derivative
6 273 (4.61%) Product Ownership
7 183 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 179 (3.03%) Onboarding
9 142 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 113 (1.91%) Cloud Native
11 103 (1.74%) Pricing Data
12 91 (1.54%) Blockchain
13 90 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
14 82 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
14 82 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 68 (1.15%) Clustering
16 66 (1.12%) Data Centre
17 64 (1.08%) Algorithms
18 57 (0.96%) Reinsurance
19 53 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 391 (6.61%) Windows
2 325 (5.49%) Linux
3 147 (2.48%) Unix
4 128 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 80 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 41 (0.69%) Android
7 40 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (0.64%) Solaris
9 35 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 33 (0.56%) zOS
11 28 (0.47%) CentOS
12 23 (0.39%) Mac OS
13 22 (0.37%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 9 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.10%) AIX
19 5 (0.085%) VMS
20 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,191 (37.04%) Agile
2 1,156 (19.54%) Asset Management
3 1,119 (18.91%) Software Engineering
4 839 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
5 813 (13.74%) Investment Management
6 678 (11.46%) Roadmaps
7 609 (10.29%) Analytics
8 577 (9.75%) DevOps
9 569 (9.62%) Mentoring
10 529 (8.94%) Fintech
11 512 (8.65%) Decision-Making
12 459 (7.76%) Data Management
13 429 (7.25%) Change Management
14 400 (6.76%) Project Management
15 391 (6.61%) Computer Science
16 388 (6.56%) ERP
17 384 (6.49%) Performance Management
18 383 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
19 371 (6.27%) Risk Management
19 371 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,679 (28.38%) Python
2 1,095 (18.51%) SQL
3 1,033 (17.46%) Java
4 873 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 787 (13.30%) TypeScript
6 352 (5.95%) C#
7 285 (4.82%) PowerShell
8 112 (1.89%) Go
9 109 (1.84%) C++
10 103 (1.74%) Bash
11 83 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 63 (1.06%) Rust
13 52 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 48 (0.81%) VBA
15 45 (0.76%) Scala
16 43 (0.73%) Perl
17 40 (0.68%) R
18 33 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 33 (0.56%) Solidity
19 24 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 832 (14.06%) Degree
2 408 (6.90%) ACCA
3 247 (4.18%) CIMA
4 185 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 141 (2.38%) CISSP
7 81 (1.37%) CISA
7 81 (1.37%) Security Cleared
8 69 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.00%) CISM
10 59 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 58 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 42 (0.71%) SC Cleared
13 40 (0.68%) AWS Certification
14 39 (0.66%) PhD
15 38 (0.64%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.59%) MBA
16 35 (0.59%) PMP
17 34 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 193 (3.26%) QA
3 151 (2.55%) IFRS
4 102 (1.72%) GAAP
5 99 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 75 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 74 (1.25%) NIST
8 62 (1.05%) SLA
9 39 (0.66%) GDPR
9 39 (0.66%) PMO
10 30 (0.51%) IFRS 9
10 30 (0.51%) MiFID
11 26 (0.44%) GRC
12 25 (0.42%) ITGC
13 23 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 22 (0.37%) Solvency II
15 21 (0.35%) GMP
15 21 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 18 (0.30%) COBIT
17 16 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 276 (4.67%) Docker
2 181 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.90%) XenApp
5 52 (0.88%) XenDesktop
6 27 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 14 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 8 (0.14%) NFS
11 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.10%) RACF
13 5 (0.085%) Firmware
14 3 (0.051%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 2 (0.034%) KVM
15 2 (0.034%) OpenAM
15 2 (0.034%) OpenDJ
15 2 (0.034%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.034%) Xen
16 1 (0.017%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 375 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 314 (5.31%) Terraform
3 212 (3.58%) Ansible
4 94 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 85 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 47 (0.79%) SCCM
7 32 (0.54%) Puppet
8 29 (0.49%) Grafana
9 24 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.30%) Istio
12 15 (0.25%) Nagios
12 15 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (0.19%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.15%) Packer
15 8 (0.14%) WSUS
16 7 (0.12%) Consul
16 7 (0.12%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.12%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,027 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 448 (7.57%) Oracle
3 397 (6.71%) SAP
4 260 (4.39%) Anaplan
5 257 (4.34%) Hyperion
6 208 (3.52%) Google
7 199 (3.36%) Bloomberg
8 134 (2.27%) VMware
9 133 (2.25%) CA
10 106 (1.79%) Citrix
11 104 (1.76%) Salesforce
12 94 (1.59%) Cisco
13 84 (1.42%) Reuters
14 78 (1.32%) Databricks
15 74 (1.25%) ServiceNow
16 63 (1.06%) Red Hat
17 56 (0.95%) F5
17 56 (0.95%) NEC
18 54 (0.91%) BISAM
19 43 (0.73%) Atlassian