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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 5,247 6,192 12,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.23% 28.53% 31.92%
As % of the General category 46.71% 43.28% 45.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,876 4,727 8,884
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £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% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +6.06%

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 11,233 14,308 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 75.41% 65.92% 70.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,769 10,942 19,179
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -0.97% +4.59%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £116,250 £116,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -1 823 £75,000 - 260
South London +13 337 £57,500 -4.17% 31
West London +3 230 £50,000 -18.70% 89
East London 0 135 £80,000 +39.13% 52
North London +15 108 £60,000 +9.19% 13
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
1 275 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
2 214 (4.08%) Apache
3 129 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 108 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 85 (1.62%) Confluence
6 83 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 20 (0.38%) CMS
8 18 (0.34%) SAS
9 13 (0.25%) nginx
10 9 (0.17%) OpenEdge
11 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.095%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.076%) IIS
13 4 (0.076%) Mule
13 4 (0.076%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.057%) NServiceBus
14 3 (0.057%) WordPress
15 2 (0.038%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.038%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.038%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 438 (8.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 264 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 186 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.25%) Maya
7 11 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
7 11 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 7 (0.13%) InDesign
9 7 (0.13%) Sketch
10 6 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
11 5 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.076%) Final Cut Pro
12 4 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
13 3 (0.057%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 94 (1.79%) NEC Housing
2 84 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 44 (0.84%) NetSuite
4 39 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 26 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.48%) Raiser’s Edge
7 21 (0.40%) Postilion
7 21 (0.40%) Ripple
7 21 (0.40%) Ripple XRP
8 18 (0.34%) Elite 3E
9 15 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 14 (0.27%) SAP FI
11 13 (0.25%) Shopify
12 12 (0.23%) Fidessa
12 12 (0.23%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.21%) PlanetPress Connect
14 10 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
14 10 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 957 (18.24%) AWS
2 821 (15.65%) Azure
3 378 (7.20%) GCP
4 270 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 269 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 257 (4.90%) dbt
7 202 (3.85%) Serverless
8 173 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
8 173 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 138 (2.63%) SaaS
10 131 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
11 127 (2.42%) Snowflake
12 113 (2.15%) Amazon S3
13 107 (2.04%) OpenShift
14 103 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
15 86 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
16 85 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
17 79 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
18 75 (1.43%) GitHub
19 66 (1.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 257 (4.90%) Broadband
2 150 (2.86%) Firewall
3 109 (2.08%) DNS
4 96 (1.83%) DHCP
5 68 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
5 68 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.11%) Network Security
8 39 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
9 38 (0.72%) HTTP
10 37 (0.71%) SAN
11 36 (0.69%) VLAN
12 34 (0.65%) VPN
13 27 (0.51%) WAN
14 25 (0.48%) LAN
14 25 (0.48%) Unified Communications
14 25 (0.48%) Wireless
15 22 (0.42%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.40%) ATM
16 21 (0.40%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (4.92%) Data Lake
2 239 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 235 (4.48%) Power BI
4 229 (4.36%) Apache Iceberg
4 229 (4.36%) Dremio
5 223 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 197 (3.75%) Apache Arrow
7 181 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
8 137 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
9 122 (2.33%) Tableau
10 115 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
11 92 (1.75%) NoSQL
12 81 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 81 (1.54%) Relational Database
13 76 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 67 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 60 (1.14%) MongoDB
16 55 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 53 (1.01%) MySQL
18 44 (0.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 185 (3.53%) JIRA
2 182 (3.47%) Git
3 108 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.75%) Artifactory
5 63 (1.20%) GitLab
6 28 (0.53%) JUnit
7 24 (0.46%) Maven
8 20 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 19 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.34%) Selenium
10 18 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (0.32%) Mockito
12 15 (0.29%) IntelliJ
13 13 (0.25%) webpack
14 12 (0.23%) AppScan
14 12 (0.23%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 11 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,843 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,181 (22.51%) Banking
3 1,073 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 687 (13.09%) Front Office
5 660 (12.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 575 (10.96%) Financial Institution
7 432 (8.23%) Retail
8 409 (7.79%) German Language
9 405 (7.72%) French Language
10 237 (4.52%) Marketing
11 229 (4.36%) Legal
12 214 (4.08%) Law
13 159 (3.03%) Public Sector
14 150 (2.86%) Investment Banking
15 137 (2.61%) Telecoms
16 128 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
17 122 (2.33%) Local Government
18 118 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
19 93 (1.77%) Police
20 84 (1.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,082 (20.62%) Analyst
2 894 (17.04%) Senior
3 680 (12.96%) Developer
4 393 (7.49%) Credit Analyst
4 393 (7.49%) Research Analyst
5 374 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 324 (6.17%) Lead
7 319 (6.08%) Architect
8 290 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 283 (5.39%) Python Engineer
10 227 (4.33%) Consultant
11 186 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 183 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 181 (3.45%) Data Engineer
14 165 (3.14%) Business Analyst
15 147 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
16 145 (2.76%) AWS Software Engineer
16 145 (2.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 144 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
18 140 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (6.12%) React
2 203 (3.87%) .NET
3 196 (3.74%) Node.js
4 183 (3.49%) HTML
5 182 (3.47%) AngularJS
6 177 (3.37%) Pandas
7 176 (3.35%) NumPy
8 175 (3.34%) PySpark
9 171 (3.26%) Kafka
10 145 (2.76%) SciPy
11 141 (2.69%) Redux
12 115 (2.19%) gRPC
13 113 (2.15%) Spring
14 111 (2.12%) Spring Boot
15 109 (2.08%) Protocol Buffers
16 108 (2.06%) REST
17 102 (1.94%) CSS
18 90 (1.72%) J2EE
19 81 (1.54%) Vue
20 78 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 819 (15.61%) Fixed Income
2 405 (7.72%) Credit Risk
3 362 (6.90%) Hedge funds
4 341 (6.50%) Derivative
5 308 (5.87%) Equities
6 296 (5.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 293 (5.58%) Management Information System
8 260 (4.96%) Social Media
9 229 (4.36%) Driving Licence
10 199 (3.79%) Product Ownership
11 124 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 102 (1.94%) Algorithms
13 96 (1.83%) Cyberattack
14 93 (1.77%) Onboarding
15 89 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
16 87 (1.66%) Cloud Native
17 83 (1.58%) Data Centre
18 80 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
19 62 (1.18%) Blockchain
20 61 (1.16%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 397 (7.57%) Windows
2 312 (5.95%) Linux
3 147 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.15%) Unix
5 109 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 55 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 46 (0.88%) Android
8 34 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (0.59%) CentOS
10 29 (0.55%) Solaris
11 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 21 (0.40%) zOS
13 19 (0.36%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.23%) AIX
16 11 (0.21%) Mac OS
17 10 (0.19%) Rocky
18 7 (0.13%) VMS
19 3 (0.057%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (26.64%) Agile
2 969 (18.47%) Asset Management
3 811 (15.46%) Risk Management
4 799 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
5 771 (14.69%) Decision-Making
6 686 (13.07%) Software Engineering
7 623 (11.87%) Analytics
8 551 (10.50%) DevOps
9 518 (9.87%) Mentoring
10 517 (9.85%) CI/CD
11 516 (9.83%) Business Strategy
12 509 (9.70%) Portfolio Management
13 505 (9.62%) Roadmaps
14 501 (9.55%) Fintech
15 463 (8.82%) Financial Modelling
16 442 (8.42%) Credit Risk Analysis
17 430 (8.20%) Project Management
18 411 (7.83%) Risk Assessment
19 408 (7.78%) Investment Management
20 391 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (20.13%) Python
2 753 (14.35%) SQL
3 524 (9.99%) Java
4 413 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 293 (5.58%) TypeScript
6 242 (4.61%) PowerShell
7 231 (4.40%) C#
8 158 (3.01%) C++
9 121 (2.31%) Go
10 81 (1.54%) Bash
11 67 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 60 (1.14%) Scala
13 52 (0.99%) C
13 52 (0.99%) VBA
14 40 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 40 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.42%) VB.NET
16 21 (0.40%) R
17 18 (0.34%) Perl
17 18 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,167 (22.24%) Degree
2 501 (9.55%) Master's Degree
3 419 (7.99%) CFA
4 163 (3.11%) Security Cleared
5 145 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 117 (2.23%) DBS Check
7 109 (2.08%) CISSP
8 104 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 79 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (1.41%) CISA
11 68 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 62 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 55 (1.05%) CISM
14 50 (0.95%) ACCA
14 50 (0.95%) AWS Certification
15 46 (0.88%) PMI Certification
16 43 (0.82%) CCNA
17 41 (0.78%) SC Cleared
18 37 (0.71%) CCAB
19 35 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (3.68%) QA
2 158 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 115 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 98 (1.87%) NIST
5 94 (1.79%) GDPR
6 72 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 68 (1.30%) MiFID
8 62 (1.18%) SLA
9 55 (1.05%) ITGC
10 42 (0.80%) GAAP
11 38 (0.72%) PMO
12 37 (0.71%) GMP
12 37 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 36 (0.69%) IFRS
14 31 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 30 (0.57%) GRC
16 22 (0.42%) ISO 9001
17 16 (0.30%) COBIT
18 15 (0.29%) SOC 2
19 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 336 (6.40%) Docker
2 217 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 115 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 25 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.46%) vSphere
8 11 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.11%) XenApp
10 5 (0.095%) Apache Flume
10 5 (0.095%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.076%) Firmware
12 3 (0.057%) Samba
12 3 (0.057%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.038%) Postfix
14 1 (0.019%) HDFS
14 1 (0.019%) Lustre
14 1 (0.019%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.019%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 388 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 316 (6.02%) Terraform
3 163 (3.11%) Ansible
4 92 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 91 (1.73%) SCCM
6 38 (0.72%) Grafana
7 37 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.59%) Puppet
9 30 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 27 (0.51%) Nagios
11 19 (0.36%) CASB
12 18 (0.34%) WSUS
13 15 (0.29%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.21%) vCenter Server
16 9 (0.17%) Istio
17 8 (0.15%) Packer
18 7 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 667 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 441 (8.40%) Bloomberg
3 168 (3.20%) Oracle
4 146 (2.78%) SAP
5 145 (2.76%) VMware
6 144 (2.74%) Cisco
7 126 (2.40%) Google
8 117 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 100 (1.91%) Citrix
10 93 (1.77%) NEC
11 75 (1.43%) Databricks
12 70 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 70 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 50 (0.95%) IBM
14 47 (0.90%) Apple
15 45 (0.86%) Palo Alto
16 38 (0.72%) Adobe
17 33 (0.63%) Meraki
18 32 (0.61%) Atlassian
19 31 (0.59%) Splunk