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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,283 6,880 10,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.75% 28.70% 30.60%
As % of the General category 43.94% 42.55% 44.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 4,707 7,078
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £136,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +7.69% -5.55% +1.96%

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 9,747 16,168 22,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.81% 67.44% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,211 11,369 15,557
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Central London -1 640 £77,500 +3.33% 394
South London +6 186 £82,500 +24.53% 44
West London -2 134 £53,750 -32.81% 600
East London -1 116 £85,000 +47.83% 54
North London +9 72 £80,000 +51.01% 5
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
1 251 (5.86%) Apache Airflow
2 166 (3.88%) Apache
3 105 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 87 (2.03%) Confluence
5 83 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 76 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.61%) CMS
8 16 (0.37%) nginx
9 9 (0.21%) SAS
10 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.14%) WordPress
11 5 (0.12%) IIS
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.093%) Moodle
13 3 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.070%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.047%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.047%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.047%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.047%) Traefik
Applications
1 324 (7.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 207 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 205 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.82%) Maya
5 33 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.19%) Sketch
9 7 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.12%) InDesign
12 4 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.093%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.093%) Trello
13 3 (0.070%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.047%) SPSS
15 1 (0.023%) Stata
Business Applications
1 62 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 59 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.93%) thinkFolio
4 35 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 29 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
6 21 (0.49%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
8 18 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (0.35%) Elite 3E
10 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
10 12 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 11 (0.26%) SAP IBP
12 10 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 10 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
13 9 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
14 8 (0.19%) Fidessa
14 8 (0.19%) Postilion
14 8 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
14 8 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 864 (20.17%) AWS
2 734 (17.14%) Azure
3 337 (7.87%) GCP
4 249 (5.81%) dbt
5 232 (5.42%) Power Platform
6 199 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 162 (3.78%) Serverless
8 146 (3.41%) SaaS
9 138 (3.22%) Snowflake
10 131 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 127 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
12 116 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
13 89 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
14 86 (2.01%) GitHub
15 79 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
16 72 (1.68%) OpenShift
17 71 (1.66%) Amazon S3
18 64 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
19 60 (1.40%) Entra ID
20 56 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.36%) Firewall
2 85 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 77 (1.80%) VPN
4 67 (1.56%) DNS
5 59 (1.38%) Network Security
5 59 (1.38%) WAN
6 50 (1.17%) LAN
7 44 (1.03%) DHCP
8 35 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (0.79%) HTTP
10 25 (0.58%) BGP
10 25 (0.58%) SAN
10 25 (0.58%) VLAN
11 23 (0.54%) Broadband
12 19 (0.44%) MPLS
13 18 (0.42%) OSPF
14 16 (0.37%) Multicast
15 14 (0.33%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.30%) Internet
16 13 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (5.60%) Amazon Athena
2 230 (5.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 224 (5.23%) Dremio
4 214 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 212 (4.95%) Apache Arrow
6 183 (4.27%) Power BI
7 153 (3.57%) SQL Server
8 136 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
9 127 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
10 111 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
11 96 (2.24%) Tableau
12 85 (1.98%) NoSQL
13 82 (1.91%) Relational Database
14 53 (1.24%) Metadata
14 53 (1.24%) MongoDB
15 49 (1.14%) MySQL
16 47 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 43 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 36 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
19 32 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 204 (4.76%) JIRA
2 191 (4.46%) Git
3 96 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 68 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 61 (1.42%) GitLab
6 33 (0.77%) Maven
7 30 (0.70%) JUnit
8 23 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.51%) Mockito
10 20 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 16 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 15 (0.35%) webpack
14 14 (0.33%) IntelliJ
15 13 (0.30%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.30%) Selenium
16 12 (0.28%) Postman
17 11 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,649 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 1,064 (24.84%) Banking
3 917 (21.41%) Analytical Skills
4 617 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 603 (14.08%) Front Office
6 440 (10.27%) Financial Institution
7 423 (9.88%) Marketing
8 343 (8.01%) Law
9 280 (6.54%) French Language
10 276 (6.44%) German Language
11 237 (5.53%) Legal
12 193 (4.51%) Retail
13 179 (4.18%) Investment Banking
14 157 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
15 143 (3.34%) Public Sector
16 121 (2.83%) Telecoms
17 108 (2.52%) Manufacturing
18 106 (2.47%) Games
19 97 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
20 79 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 834 (19.47%) Analyst
2 771 (18.00%) Senior
3 604 (14.10%) Developer
4 476 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 384 (8.97%) Lead
6 261 (6.09%) Credit Analyst
7 260 (6.07%) Research Analyst
8 254 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 237 (5.53%) Python Engineer
10 233 (5.44%) Architect
11 194 (4.53%) Business Manager
12 172 (4.02%) AWS Software Engineer
13 165 (3.85%) Java Engineer
14 158 (3.69%) Business Analyst
14 158 (3.69%) Development Manager
15 156 (3.64%) Python Software Engineer
15 156 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
16 153 (3.57%) Data Engineer
17 151 (3.53%) Consultant
18 150 (3.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (6.89%) React
2 207 (4.83%) Kafka
3 190 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 180 (4.20%) .NET
5 158 (3.69%) Pandas
6 156 (3.64%) NumPy
7 145 (3.39%) Node.js
8 136 (3.18%) SciPy
9 131 (3.06%) PySpark
10 110 (2.57%) Spring
10 110 (2.57%) Vue
11 109 (2.54%) REST
12 97 (2.26%) RESTful
13 93 (2.17%) HTML
14 90 (2.10%) CSS
15 86 (2.01%) Spring Boot
16 81 (1.89%) gRPC
17 74 (1.73%) Redux
18 67 (1.56%) Protocol Buffers
19 66 (1.54%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 652 (15.22%) Fixed Income
2 336 (7.84%) Hedge funds
3 333 (7.77%) Derivative
4 316 (7.38%) Equities
5 302 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 280 (6.54%) Credit Risk
7 214 (5.00%) Management Information System
8 173 (4.04%) Cloud Native
9 170 (3.97%) Product Ownership
10 142 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
11 113 (2.64%) Onboarding
12 106 (2.47%) Algorithms
13 81 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
14 71 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
15 61 (1.42%) Data Structures
16 57 (1.33%) Data Centre
17 52 (1.21%) Blockchain
17 52 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
18 49 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
19 47 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 271 (6.33%) Linux
2 263 (6.14%) Windows
3 109 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.82%) Unix
5 60 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 37 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (0.68%) Android
8 26 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 24 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 21 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.44%) CentOS
13 10 (0.23%) Rocky
13 10 (0.23%) zOS
14 7 (0.16%) AIX
15 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.12%) VMS
17 4 (0.093%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.093%) Ubuntu
18 3 (0.070%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,337 (31.22%) Agile
2 794 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
3 722 (16.86%) Asset Management
4 719 (16.79%) Risk Management
5 700 (16.34%) Software Engineering
6 633 (14.78%) Decision-Making
7 546 (12.75%) CI/CD
8 530 (12.37%) Analytics
9 495 (11.56%) DevOps
10 449 (10.48%) Business Strategy
11 436 (10.18%) Fintech
12 407 (9.50%) Roadmaps
13 394 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 380 (8.87%) Project Management
15 373 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
15 373 (8.71%) Portfolio Management
16 365 (8.52%) Investment Management
17 313 (7.31%) Mentoring
18 295 (6.89%) Financial Modelling
19 294 (6.86%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (24.07%) Python
2 649 (15.15%) SQL
3 509 (11.88%) Java
4 360 (8.41%) JavaScript
5 311 (7.26%) TypeScript
6 214 (5.00%) C#
7 185 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 140 (3.27%) C++
9 130 (3.04%) Go
10 80 (1.87%) Bash
11 61 (1.42%) C
12 51 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 41 (0.96%) R
14 39 (0.91%) Scala
15 32 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 22 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.42%) Rust
18 17 (0.40%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.40%) VBA
19 16 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 943 (22.02%) Degree
2 361 (8.43%) Master's Degree
3 268 (6.26%) CFA
4 127 (2.97%) CISSP
5 104 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (1.84%) Security Cleared
8 78 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 74 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 73 (1.70%) PMI Certification
11 64 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 59 (1.38%) CISA
13 54 (1.26%) CCNA
14 51 (1.19%) PMP
15 47 (1.10%) CISM
16 46 (1.07%) SC Cleared
17 44 (1.03%) ACCA
18 43 (1.00%) PhD
19 42 (0.98%) CCNP
20 41 (0.96%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (3.99%) QA
2 93 (2.17%) GDPR
3 86 (2.01%) NIST
4 77 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 77 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 64 (1.49%) SLA
7 55 (1.28%) PMO
8 48 (1.12%) MiFID
9 45 (1.05%) ITGC
10 35 (0.82%) GMP
11 30 (0.70%) GRC
12 23 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 19 (0.44%) IFRS
15 17 (0.40%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 15 (0.35%) PCI DSS
18 13 (0.30%) IFRS 9
18 13 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 266 (6.21%) Docker
2 156 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.26%) Firmware
7 11 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.19%) vSphere
9 5 (0.12%) Apache Flume
10 3 (0.070%) NFS
10 3 (0.070%) Samba
11 2 (0.047%) Postfix
11 2 (0.047%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.047%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.023%) HDFS
12 1 (0.023%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.023%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 354 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 290 (6.77%) Terraform
3 139 (3.25%) Ansible
4 76 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 75 (1.75%) SCCM
6 48 (1.12%) Grafana
7 41 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.79%) Nagios
9 23 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 18 (0.42%) Puppet
12 14 (0.33%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.30%) SCOM
14 12 (0.28%) Istio
15 11 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.21%) RSA Archer
17 8 (0.19%) WSUS
18 7 (0.16%) Argo
18 7 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 640 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 293 (6.84%) Bloomberg
3 155 (3.62%) Oracle
3 155 (3.62%) Salesforce
3 155 (3.62%) SAP
4 113 (2.64%) Google
5 104 (2.43%) VMware
6 91 (2.12%) Cisco
7 85 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 78 (1.82%) Databricks
9 58 (1.35%) BISAM
10 54 (1.26%) Citrix
11 49 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 48 (1.12%) Charles River
12 48 (1.12%) SolarWinds
13 46 (1.07%) Adobe
14 45 (1.05%) SimCorp
15 39 (0.91%) Calypso
16 34 (0.79%) Splunk
17 31 (0.72%) IBM