Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,722 10,999 19,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.63% 30.71% 29.30%
As % of the General category 42.47% 44.49% 43.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,650 7,763 10,269
10th Percentile £43,500 £48,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £106,438 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £63,749 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.21% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,828 24,723 44,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.42% 69.03% 67.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,305 16,984 22,561
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 0 982 £75,000 -6.25% 285
West London +1 376 £75,000 +15.38% 62
South London +15 175 £63,000 +14.55% 28
East London +2 87 £57,500 -8.00% 97
North London -9 18 £54,950 -6.07% 8
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
1 327 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 300 (4.46%) Apache
3 279 (4.15%) SAS
4 158 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 139 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (0.86%) Confluence
7 42 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 41 (0.61%) IIS
9 29 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 28 (0.42%) CMS
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 10 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 7 (0.10%) Ethereum
17 6 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
17 6 (0.089%) IBM Notes
18 5 (0.074%) Appian
18 5 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 659 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 348 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
3 204 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 26 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.31%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 8 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.10%) InDesign
11 5 (0.074%) Adobe After Effects
11 5 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.074%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.045%) Sketch
14 2 (0.030%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.030%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.015%) Blender
Business Applications
1 225 (3.35%) SAP ERP
2 59 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 54 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.54%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.37%) Elite 3E
7 24 (0.36%) SAP FI
8 22 (0.33%) SAP CO
8 22 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 22 (0.33%) thinkFolio
9 21 (0.31%) Fidessa
10 19 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
11 18 (0.27%) SAP BPC
12 15 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 14 (0.21%) NEC Housing
14 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
15 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
15 12 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (18.03%) AWS
2 1,161 (17.27%) Azure
3 532 (7.91%) GCP
4 395 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 369 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 273 (4.06%) SaaS
7 215 (3.20%) dbt
8 201 (2.99%) Snowflake
9 165 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 160 (2.38%) Serverless
11 155 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
12 127 (1.89%) GitHub
13 109 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (1.62%) PaaS
14 87 (1.29%) IaaS
15 86 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 85 (1.26%) Entra ID
17 67 (1.00%) OpenShift
18 64 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
19 63 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 452 (6.72%) Broadband
2 210 (3.12%) Firewall
3 114 (1.70%) DNS
4 79 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.07%) LAN
6 69 (1.03%) WAN
7 62 (0.92%) DHCP
7 62 (0.92%) Internet
8 53 (0.79%) VPN
9 51 (0.76%) Network Security
10 35 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (0.49%) Skype
12 32 (0.48%) Wireless
13 31 (0.46%) SD-WAN
14 30 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
15 25 (0.37%) Telepresence
16 23 (0.34%) SAN
17 18 (0.27%) Intranet
18 17 (0.25%) BGP
18 17 (0.25%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (4.86%) Power BI
2 326 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 249 (3.70%) Apache Ignite
4 223 (3.32%) Data Lake
5 214 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
6 212 (3.15%) Apache Arrow
7 210 (3.12%) Dremio
8 193 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
9 173 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
10 153 (2.28%) Tableau
11 96 (1.43%) Big Data
12 76 (1.13%) NoSQL
13 67 (1.00%) Relational Database
13 67 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 66 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 65 (0.97%) MongoDB
16 64 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
17 49 (0.73%) MySQL
18 44 (0.65%) Metadata
19 40 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 216 (3.21%) JIRA
2 163 (2.42%) Git
3 152 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 55 (0.82%) GitLab
5 51 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 46 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 34 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 28 (0.42%) Selenium
9 26 (0.39%) CircleCI
10 24 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 22 (0.33%) Maven
12 20 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 19 (0.28%) WebDriver
14 17 (0.25%) JUnit
14 17 (0.25%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.21%) Cucumber
15 14 (0.21%) Snyk
16 13 (0.19%) SonarQube
17 12 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 11 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,055 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (19.04%) Banking
3 1,012 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 779 (11.59%) Front Office
5 557 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 400 (5.95%) Legal
7 385 (5.73%) Marketing
8 382 (5.68%) Law
9 364 (5.42%) Investment Banking
10 314 (4.67%) Retail
11 302 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
12 225 (3.35%) Financial Institution
13 204 (3.03%) Back Office
14 170 (2.53%) Public Sector
15 152 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.74%) Billing
16 117 (1.74%) Manufacturing
17 107 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
18 104 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 96 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,302 (19.37%) Analyst
2 1,293 (19.24%) Senior
3 1,076 (16.01%) Developer
4 699 (10.40%) Architect
5 549 (8.17%) Lead
6 458 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 419 (6.23%) Solutions Architect
8 297 (4.42%) Financial Analyst
9 281 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
10 264 (3.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 249 (3.70%) Senior Manager
12 245 (3.64%) Senior Developer
13 242 (3.60%) Python Developer
14 217 (3.23%) Consultant
15 212 (3.15%) Python Engineer
16 206 (3.06%) Java Developer
17 198 (2.95%) Project Manager
18 187 (2.78%) .NET Developer
19 184 (2.74%) Business Analyst
20 180 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (6.38%) React
2 411 (6.11%) .NET
3 320 (4.76%) gRPC
4 300 (4.46%) Protocol Buffers
5 294 (4.37%) AngularJS
6 228 (3.39%) Redux
7 219 (3.26%) Pandas
8 186 (2.77%) NumPy
9 170 (2.53%) SciPy
10 167 (2.48%) HTML
11 158 (2.35%) Vue
12 141 (2.10%) Spring
13 138 (2.05%) .NET Core
14 136 (2.02%) REST
15 130 (1.93%) ASP.NET
16 123 (1.83%) Node.js
17 120 (1.79%) Kafka
18 117 (1.74%) CSS
19 116 (1.73%) Web Services
20 111 (1.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 601 (8.94%) Hedge funds
2 546 (8.12%) Fixed Income
3 455 (6.77%) Derivative
4 438 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 436 (6.49%) Equities
6 262 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 255 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 202 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 174 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 142 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
11 97 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 92 (1.37%) Algorithms
13 86 (1.28%) Public Cloud
14 84 (1.25%) Reinsurance
15 75 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 70 (1.04%) Data Structures
17 66 (0.98%) Social Media
18 63 (0.94%) Life Science
19 55 (0.82%) Blockchain
20 50 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 537 (7.99%) Windows
2 365 (5.43%) Linux
3 144 (2.14%) Unix
4 142 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 110 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 51 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 47 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.58%) Android
9 38 (0.57%) Windows 7
10 37 (0.55%) CentOS
11 33 (0.49%) Solaris
12 24 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.33%) zOS
14 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.16%) AIX
17 10 (0.15%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
17 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
18 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,965 (29.23%) Agile
2 927 (13.79%) Asset Management
3 892 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
4 822 (12.23%) Software Engineering
5 727 (10.82%) Mentoring
6 701 (10.43%) Roadmaps
7 643 (9.57%) Analytics
8 637 (9.48%) Investment Management
9 630 (9.37%) DevOps
10 582 (8.66%) Decision-Making
11 531 (7.90%) Project Management
12 488 (7.26%) Fintech
13 486 (7.23%) Change Management
14 474 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
15 463 (6.89%) Data Management
16 451 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 416 (6.19%) CI/CD
18 406 (6.04%) Performance Management
19 398 (5.92%) ERP
20 391 (5.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,356 (20.17%) Python
2 1,133 (16.86%) SQL
3 684 (10.18%) Java
4 661 (9.83%) JavaScript
5 553 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 537 (7.99%) C#
7 220 (3.27%) PowerShell
8 153 (2.28%) Go
9 115 (1.71%) R
10 112 (1.67%) C++
11 104 (1.55%) Bash
12 85 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 63 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 54 (0.80%) Ruby
15 49 (0.73%) Perl
16 48 (0.71%) C
17 47 (0.70%) Scala
18 41 (0.61%) VBA
19 32 (0.48%) Rust
20 29 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,041 (15.49%) Degree
2 370 (5.50%) ACCA
3 254 (3.78%) CIMA
4 227 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 188 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 164 (2.44%) CISSP
7 99 (1.47%) Security Cleared
8 96 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 76 (1.13%) CISM
10 75 (1.12%) DBS Check
11 71 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 66 (0.98%) CISA
13 65 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 65 (0.97%) PMI Certification
14 55 (0.82%) MBA
15 49 (0.73%) AWS Certification
16 41 (0.61%) CRISC
17 38 (0.57%) SC Cleared
18 36 (0.54%) DV Cleared
18 36 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (2.92%) QA
2 188 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 172 (2.56%) SLA
4 124 (1.84%) GDPR
5 115 (1.71%) IFRS
6 98 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 95 (1.41%) NIST
8 67 (1.00%) PMO
9 58 (0.86%) GAAP
10 38 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 34 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 31 (0.46%) COBIT
13 27 (0.40%) GRC
14 25 (0.37%) Solvency II
15 23 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 23 (0.34%) IFRS 9
16 22 (0.33%) IFRS 17
17 20 (0.30%) ITGC
18 15 (0.22%) NCSC
19 14 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 282 (4.20%) Docker
2 258 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 109 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.34%) vSphere
7 22 (0.33%) XenApp
8 21 (0.31%) XenDesktop
9 20 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 14 (0.21%) Firmware
12 8 (0.12%) HDFS
13 6 (0.089%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.089%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.045%) NFS
14 3 (0.045%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.015%) IAG
15 1 (0.015%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.015%) RACF
15 1 (0.015%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 407 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 300 (4.46%) Terraform
3 127 (1.89%) Ansible
4 75 (1.12%) SCCM
5 74 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 48 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 27 (0.40%) Puppet
8 20 (0.30%) Grafana
9 18 (0.27%) SCOM
10 17 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
11 16 (0.24%) Istio
12 13 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.16%) Control-M
13 11 (0.16%) Nmap
13 11 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.15%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
15 8 (0.12%) Nagios
15 8 (0.12%) Nessus
16 7 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,371 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 524 (7.80%) Oracle
3 424 (6.31%) SAP
4 239 (3.56%) Anaplan
4 239 (3.56%) Hyperion
5 221 (3.29%) Google
6 170 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 156 (2.32%) VMware
8 142 (2.11%) Bloomberg
9 125 (1.86%) Dell
10 120 (1.79%) Cisco
11 106 (1.58%) CA
12 103 (1.53%) Citrix
12 103 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 88 (1.31%) Red Hat
14 78 (1.16%) IBM
15 71 (1.06%) Databricks
16 50 (0.74%) Apple
17 47 (0.70%) Adobe
18 46 (0.68%) Alteryx