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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,847 6,265 11,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.95% 27.73% 31.24%
As % of the General category 48.34% 41.73% 44.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 4,663 8,306
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +10.76% -6.40% +2.88%

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 10,026 15,014 26,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.44% 66.46% 69.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,601 11,200 18,156
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £71,000 £73,449
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -3.33% +4.93%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,836 £52,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +10.16% -13.93% +1.67%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -1 731 £75,000 - 320
South London +16 319 £70,000 +15.70% 66
West London +3 230 £50,000 -28.57% 94
East London 0 145 £80,000 +39.13% 60
North London +16 109 £60,000 +9.19% 10
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
1 282 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
2 215 (4.44%) Apache
3 129 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 101 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 81 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 80 (1.65%) Confluence
7 24 (0.50%) CMS
8 13 (0.27%) nginx
8 13 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.19%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.083%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.083%) IIS
10 4 (0.083%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.083%) WordPress
11 3 (0.062%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.062%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.041%) Mule
12 2 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.041%) Solana
Applications
1 441 (9.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 196 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 195 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.47%) Maya
7 10 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
7 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.17%) InDesign
9 7 (0.14%) Trello
10 5 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.10%) Sketch
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.083%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.062%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.062%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 48 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 46 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (0.95%) NEC Housing
3 41 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 39 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 25 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
6 21 (0.43%) Ripple
6 21 (0.43%) Ripple XRP
7 18 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 17 (0.35%) Elite 3E
9 16 (0.33%) Postilion
10 14 (0.29%) thinkFolio
11 13 (0.27%) Fidessa
11 13 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 13 (0.27%) SAP FI
12 11 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 11 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
13 10 (0.21%) Shopify
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
14 9 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 928 (19.15%) AWS
2 790 (16.30%) Azure
3 358 (7.39%) GCP
4 276 (5.69%) dbt
5 249 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
6 212 (4.37%) Power Platform
7 204 (4.21%) Serverless
8 172 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 163 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
10 138 (2.85%) Snowflake
11 127 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
12 118 (2.43%) SaaS
13 111 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
14 108 (2.23%) Amazon S3
15 104 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
16 99 (2.04%) OpenShift
17 79 (1.63%) GitHub
18 76 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 70 (1.44%) Entra ID
20 66 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.64%) Broadband
2 143 (2.95%) Firewall
3 79 (1.63%) DNS
4 68 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 67 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 64 (1.32%) DHCP
7 59 (1.22%) Network Security
8 50 (1.03%) VPN
9 45 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (0.70%) HTTP
11 33 (0.68%) LAN
11 33 (0.68%) WAN
12 32 (0.66%) SAN
12 32 (0.66%) VLAN
13 21 (0.43%) Wireless
14 19 (0.39%) FTP
14 19 (0.39%) PBX
14 19 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
15 18 (0.37%) SMTP
16 17 (0.35%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.51%) Data Lake
2 258 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
3 248 (5.12%) Apache Iceberg
3 248 (5.12%) Dremio
4 216 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
5 189 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 175 (3.61%) Apache Ignite
7 174 (3.59%) Power BI
8 112 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
9 97 (2.00%) Tableau
10 90 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (1.71%) NoSQL
12 77 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.57%) Relational Database
14 67 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (1.13%) MongoDB
17 53 (1.09%) MySQL
18 51 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 46 (0.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 184 (3.80%) JIRA
2 176 (3.63%) Git
3 96 (1.98%) Artifactory
4 91 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 50 (1.03%) GitLab
6 26 (0.54%) Maven
7 23 (0.47%) JUnit
8 21 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.39%) Selenium
10 18 (0.37%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.35%) Mockito
12 15 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (0.31%) webpack
13 13 (0.27%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.27%) IntelliJ
14 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.25%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.17%) Gradle
15 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,767 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (23.68%) Banking
3 1,048 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 711 (14.67%) Front Office
5 620 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 597 (12.32%) Financial Institution
7 410 (8.46%) German Language
8 409 (8.44%) French Language
9 406 (8.38%) Retail
10 286 (5.90%) Marketing
11 207 (4.27%) Legal
12 199 (4.11%) Law
13 177 (3.65%) Investment Banking
14 148 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
15 144 (2.97%) Telecoms
16 117 (2.41%) Public Sector
17 105 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
18 91 (1.88%) Games
19 83 (1.71%) Manufacturing
20 81 (1.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,029 (21.23%) Analyst
2 799 (16.48%) Senior
3 634 (13.08%) Developer
4 393 (8.11%) Credit Analyst
4 393 (8.11%) Research Analyst
5 384 (7.92%) Software Engineer
6 305 (6.29%) Lead
7 303 (6.25%) Architect
8 297 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
9 267 (5.51%) Python Engineer
10 180 (3.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 175 (3.61%) Business Analyst
11 175 (3.61%) Data Engineer
12 172 (3.55%) Consultant
13 160 (3.30%) AWS Software Engineer
14 143 (2.95%) Senior Manager
15 141 (2.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 140 (2.89%) AWS DevOps
17 131 (2.70%) Python Developer
18 127 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (6.17%) React
2 200 (4.13%) .NET
3 189 (3.90%) NumPy
4 185 (3.82%) Pandas
5 184 (3.80%) PySpark
6 183 (3.78%) AngularJS
7 172 (3.55%) Kafka
7 172 (3.55%) Node.js
8 160 (3.30%) HTML
9 154 (3.18%) SciPy
10 118 (2.43%) Redux
11 114 (2.35%) gRPC
12 113 (2.33%) Spring
13 105 (2.17%) Spring Boot
14 102 (2.10%) Protocol Buffers
15 98 (2.02%) CSS
16 92 (1.90%) J2EE
17 90 (1.86%) REST
18 79 (1.63%) Vue
19 72 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 838 (17.29%) Fixed Income
2 411 (8.48%) Credit Risk
3 395 (8.15%) Hedge funds
4 368 (7.59%) Derivative
5 329 (6.79%) Equities
6 328 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 279 (5.76%) Management Information System
8 256 (5.28%) Social Media
9 229 (4.72%) Driving Licence
10 185 (3.82%) Product Ownership
11 120 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
12 108 (2.23%) Algorithms
13 100 (2.06%) Cloud Native
13 100 (2.06%) Onboarding
14 89 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
15 72 (1.49%) Data Centre
16 70 (1.44%) Cyberattack
17 69 (1.42%) Blockchain
18 64 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
19 56 (1.16%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 338 (6.97%) Windows
2 273 (5.63%) Linux
3 130 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 86 (1.77%) Unix
6 49 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.74%) Android
8 31 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.45%) CentOS
11 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.33%) zOS
14 15 (0.31%) Solaris
15 10 (0.21%) AIX
15 10 (0.21%) Rocky
16 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.14%) VMS
17 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,349 (27.83%) Agile
2 967 (19.95%) Asset Management
3 809 (16.69%) Risk Management
4 764 (15.76%) Decision-Making
5 753 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 681 (14.05%) Software Engineering
7 575 (11.86%) Analytics
8 557 (11.49%) Business Strategy
9 530 (10.93%) DevOps
10 521 (10.75%) Portfolio Management
11 491 (10.13%) CI/CD
12 480 (9.90%) Roadmaps
13 459 (9.47%) Fintech
14 452 (9.33%) Financial Modelling
15 428 (8.83%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 415 (8.56%) Investment Management
17 411 (8.48%) Mentoring
17 411 (8.48%) Risk Assessment
18 388 (8.00%) Project Management
19 353 (7.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (21.77%) Python
2 678 (13.99%) SQL
3 523 (10.79%) Java
4 413 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 286 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 236 (4.87%) C#
7 228 (4.70%) PowerShell
8 156 (3.22%) C++
9 129 (2.66%) Go
10 76 (1.57%) Bash
11 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 53 (1.09%) C
13 51 (1.05%) Scala
14 40 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 21 (0.43%) VBA
18 19 (0.39%) Rust
19 18 (0.37%) Perl
20 17 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 1,128 (23.27%) Degree
2 501 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 407 (8.40%) CFA
4 138 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 128 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 112 (2.31%) CISSP
7 79 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 73 (1.51%) DBS Check
8 73 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 72 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 71 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 52 (1.07%) CISM
12 51 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 49 (1.01%) CCNA
14 46 (0.95%) SC Cleared
15 42 (0.87%) PMI Certification
16 39 (0.80%) CISA
17 38 (0.78%) CCNP
17 38 (0.78%) PhD
18 31 (0.64%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.05%) QA
2 108 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 102 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 95 (1.96%) GDPR
5 87 (1.79%) NIST
6 72 (1.49%) MiFID
7 65 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 62 (1.28%) SLA
9 36 (0.74%) GMP
9 36 (0.74%) ITGC
9 36 (0.74%) PMO
10 35 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.52%) GRC
13 16 (0.33%) GAAP
14 15 (0.31%) COBIT
14 15 (0.31%) IFRS
15 14 (0.29%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 318 (6.56%) Docker
2 192 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.14%) Firmware
10 5 (0.10%) Apache Flume
11 4 (0.083%) XenApp
12 3 (0.062%) Samba
12 3 (0.062%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.062%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.041%) Postfix
13 2 (0.041%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.021%) HDFS
14 1 (0.021%) Lustre
14 1 (0.021%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 370 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 302 (6.23%) Terraform
3 121 (2.50%) Ansible
4 93 (1.92%) SCCM
5 82 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.66%) Grafana
7 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 22 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.43%) Nagios
10 17 (0.35%) Puppet
10 17 (0.35%) WSUS
11 16 (0.33%) CASB
11 16 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.29%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.27%) Istio
14 11 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.17%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
17 7 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 642 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 437 (9.02%) Bloomberg
3 159 (3.28%) Oracle
4 128 (2.64%) Salesforce
5 127 (2.62%) SAP
6 117 (2.41%) VMware
7 115 (2.37%) Cisco
8 110 (2.27%) Google
9 79 (1.63%) Citrix
10 73 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 71 (1.46%) Databricks
12 48 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 46 (0.95%) NEC
14 41 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 37 (0.76%) IBM
16 36 (0.74%) Adobe
16 36 (0.74%) Splunk
17 34 (0.70%) SolarWinds
18 33 (0.68%) Apple
18 33 (0.68%) BISAM