Finance Job Trends 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 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 5,387 4,628 6,525
As % of all permanent jobs in London 23.96% 37.26% 29.20%
As % of the General category 44.23% 49.20% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,514 2,738 4,412
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £84,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 general skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,180 9,407 15,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 54.17% 75.73% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,811 5,625 10,489
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Finance job vacancy trend in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

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 19 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
Central London +1 1,041 £78,750 +1.61% 322
West London -4 97 £70,000 +51.35% 79
South London -1 75 £85,000 +3.03% 28
East London 0 62 £100,000 +11.11% 61
North London -8 9 £26,000 -70.29% 10
Finance
England

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 83 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 76 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 47 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 46 (0.85%) Confluence
5 35 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (0.59%) SAS
7 30 (0.56%) Apache
8 16 (0.30%) CMS
9 12 (0.22%) IIS
10 7 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.093%) ColdFusion
11 5 (0.093%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.074%) JBoss
12 4 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.056%) Appian
13 3 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.037%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.037%) Camunda
14 2 (0.037%) nginx
Applications
1 213 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.37%) PlantUML
6 19 (0.35%) SPSS
7 17 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.15%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.093%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.074%) Sketch
11 4 (0.074%) Trello
12 3 (0.056%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.056%) Productboard
13 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.019%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.019%) Maya
14 1 (0.019%) Notion
Business Applications
1 99 (1.84%) NetSuite
2 74 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 57 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
4 43 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 26 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
7 20 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 19 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
8 19 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 18 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 18 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 18 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 17 (0.32%) Elite 3E
10 17 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
10 17 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
12 14 (0.26%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
14 11 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 930 (17.26%) Azure
2 802 (14.89%) AWS
3 466 (8.65%) SaaS
4 332 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 293 (5.44%) GCP
6 193 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
7 154 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 144 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (1.86%) Serverless
10 97 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
11 94 (1.74%) GitHub
12 92 (1.71%) Entra ID
13 88 (1.63%) Snowflake
14 78 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 77 (1.43%) Power Automate
16 73 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
17 72 (1.34%) PaaS
18 65 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
19 64 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
20 63 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.47%) Firewall
2 103 (1.91%) DNS
3 92 (1.71%) Network Security
4 90 (1.67%) VPN
5 74 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 66 (1.23%) VLAN
7 63 (1.17%) WAN
8 60 (1.11%) DHCP
9 53 (0.98%) LAN
10 46 (0.85%) BGP
11 45 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
12 42 (0.78%) HTTP
13 33 (0.61%) Multicast
14 32 (0.59%) Internet
15 30 (0.56%) OSPF
16 28 (0.52%) SAN
17 25 (0.46%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.45%) VXLAN
19 21 (0.39%) Wireless
20 15 (0.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (4.36%) Power BI
2 165 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 97 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 96 (1.78%) Tableau
5 83 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 83 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 81 (1.50%) Big Data
7 58 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 52 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 46 (0.85%) Metadata
10 44 (0.82%) MySQL
11 35 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (0.65%) Oracle Database
12 31 (0.58%) DynamoDB
13 30 (0.56%) Spark SQL
14 27 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 26 (0.48%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.41%) Apache Hive
17 21 (0.39%) Delta Lake
17 21 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 160 (2.97%) Git
2 120 (2.23%) JIRA
3 73 (1.36%) GitLab
4 68 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 43 (0.80%) TeamCity
6 31 (0.58%) Claude Code
7 28 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
9 17 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
11 14 (0.26%) Selenium
12 12 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 9 (0.17%) Maven
14 8 (0.15%) ERwin
14 8 (0.15%) Metasploit
15 7 (0.13%) Gradle
15 7 (0.13%) JUnit
15 7 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
16 6 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,376 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 1,027 (19.06%) Banking
3 682 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 400 (7.43%) Law
5 350 (6.50%) Legal
6 346 (6.42%) Financial Institution
7 344 (6.39%) Retail
8 336 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 258 (4.79%) Marketing
10 197 (3.66%) Front Office
11 157 (2.91%) Back Office
12 143 (2.65%) Public Sector
13 135 (2.51%) Investment Banking
14 129 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
15 114 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
16 99 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
17 95 (1.76%) Billing
18 68 (1.26%) Telecoms
19 59 (1.10%) Advertising
20 56 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 901 (16.73%) Senior
2 517 (9.60%) Analyst
3 483 (8.97%) Developer
4 470 (8.72%) Lead
5 404 (7.50%) Architect
6 337 (6.26%) Software Engineer
7 266 (4.94%) Consultant
8 185 (3.43%) Senior Manager
9 166 (3.08%) Business Analyst
10 163 (3.03%) Accountant
11 145 (2.69%) Business Manager
12 141 (2.62%) Finance Manager
13 137 (2.54%) Development Manager
14 130 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
15 121 (2.25%) Senior Developer
16 113 (2.10%) Business Development Manager
16 113 (2.10%) Engineering Manager
16 113 (2.10%) Financial Analyst
16 113 (2.10%) IT Manager
17 108 (2.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (3.53%) React
2 184 (3.42%) .NET
3 182 (3.38%) Kafka
4 170 (3.16%) REST
5 115 (2.13%) Spring
6 94 (1.74%) Node.js
7 84 (1.56%) Spring Boot
8 74 (1.37%) RESTful
9 68 (1.26%) FIX Protocol
10 59 (1.10%) LangChain
11 57 (1.06%) GraphQL
12 55 (1.02%) Redux
13 47 (0.87%) PySpark
14 43 (0.80%) JSON
15 41 (0.76%) Middleware
15 41 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
16 40 (0.74%) LangGraph
17 39 (0.72%) AngularJS
18 35 (0.65%) .NET Core
18 35 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 348 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 310 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 248 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 195 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 152 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 126 (2.34%) Fixed Income
7 123 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 119 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 109 (2.02%) Data Structures
9 109 (2.02%) Derivative
10 100 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 97 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 96 (1.78%) Equities
13 88 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
14 87 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
15 82 (1.52%) Hedge funds
16 78 (1.45%) e-Learning
17 72 (1.34%) Algorithms
18 70 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
19 69 (1.28%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 259 (4.81%) Linux
2 228 (4.23%) Windows
3 65 (1.21%) Unix
4 49 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.30%) Android
8 15 (0.28%) AIX
8 15 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.19%) CentOS
10 10 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.074%) Rocky
12 4 (0.074%) VMS
12 4 (0.074%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.019%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.019%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (17.23%) Agile
2 797 (14.79%) AI
3 717 (13.31%) Roadmaps
4 658 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 629 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 626 (11.62%) Software Engineering
7 600 (11.14%) Analytics
8 571 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
9 532 (9.88%) CI/CD
10 511 (9.49%) Decision-Making
11 507 (9.41%) Fintech
12 464 (8.61%) DevOps
13 446 (8.28%) Mentoring
14 401 (7.44%) Risk Management
15 379 (7.04%) ERP
16 353 (6.55%) Business Development
17 336 (6.24%) Migration
18 333 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
19 332 (6.16%) Budgeting
20 316 (5.87%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 789 (14.65%) Python
2 678 (12.59%) SQL
3 441 (8.19%) Java
4 230 (4.27%) C#
5 183 (3.40%) C++
6 178 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 162 (3.01%) JavaScript
8 126 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 101 (1.87%) Bash
10 91 (1.69%) Go
11 45 (0.84%) C
12 40 (0.74%) Rust
13 36 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 34 (0.63%) PHP
15 30 (0.56%) Ruby
16 25 (0.46%) Scala
17 24 (0.45%) Bicep
17 24 (0.45%) VBA
18 23 (0.43%) R
19 17 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 571 (10.60%) Degree
2 348 (6.46%) ACCA
3 298 (5.53%) CIMA
4 196 (3.64%) CISSP
5 127 (2.36%) CISM
6 125 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 115 (2.13%) Security Cleared
8 89 (1.65%) CISA
9 82 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 81 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 73 (1.36%) CRISC
12 71 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 65 (1.21%) Azure Certification
14 59 (1.10%) SC Cleared
15 47 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 41 (0.76%) PMP
17 36 (0.67%) PhD
18 32 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 32 (0.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (4.05%) QA
2 213 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 157 (2.91%) GDPR
5 153 (2.84%) NIST
6 110 (2.04%) IFRS
7 109 (2.02%) GAAP
8 87 (1.61%) PMO
9 66 (1.23%) GRC
10 64 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 56 (1.04%) COBIT
12 54 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 41 (0.76%) SLA
14 38 (0.71%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.71%) SOC 2
15 34 (0.63%) ITGC
16 29 (0.54%) MiFID
17 27 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
18 18 (0.33%) EMIR
19 15 (0.28%) FINREP
System Software
1 143 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 131 (2.43%) Docker
3 51 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 45 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 10 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.13%) IAG
8 4 (0.074%) Firmware
8 4 (0.074%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.037%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.019%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.019%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.019%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.019%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 276 (5.12%) Terraform
2 247 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 89 (1.65%) Ansible
4 71 (1.32%) Grafana
5 45 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 32 (0.59%) Nagios
8 18 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.30%) SCCM
10 14 (0.26%) EnCase
10 14 (0.26%) FTK
11 12 (0.22%) Argo
11 12 (0.22%) Data Guard
11 12 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.19%) Istio
14 8 (0.15%) Control-M
15 7 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
16 6 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 677 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 305 (5.66%) Oracle
3 219 (4.07%) SAP
4 145 (2.69%) Databricks
5 108 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 98 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 93 (1.73%) Cisco
8 89 (1.65%) Google
9 76 (1.41%) VMware
10 61 (1.13%) Workday
11 41 (0.76%) Red Hat
12 39 (0.72%) Palo Alto
13 36 (0.67%) IBM
14 33 (0.61%) Bloomberg
14 33 (0.61%) Splunk
15 31 (0.58%) Sage
16 29 (0.54%) OpenAI
17 28 (0.52%) Concur
18 27 (0.50%) Xero
19 26 (0.48%) Zscaler