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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,547 6,771 11,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.35% 28.74% 30.70%
As % of the General category 46.43% 42.63% 44.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,786 4,693 7,785
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,500 £48,500
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 £106,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £130,000 £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 9,794 15,882 24,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.15% 67.42% 69.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,644 11,356 17,069
10th Percentile £41,422 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,315
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.96% +0.53%

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 26 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 26 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 -1 713 £75,000 - 312
South London +8 238 £72,500 +15.08% 45
West London +1 140 £50,000 -33.33% 80
East London 0 108 £80,000 +39.13% 51
North London +9 97 £68,500 +24.66% 7
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
1 288 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 211 (4.64%) Apache
3 123 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 100 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 87 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 76 (1.67%) Confluence
7 29 (0.64%) CMS
8 13 (0.29%) nginx
9 12 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.20%) OpenEdge
11 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.13%) WordPress
13 5 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.066%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.066%) NServiceBus
14 3 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.044%) Moodle
15 2 (0.044%) Mule
15 2 (0.044%) Solana
Applications
1 444 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 201 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 183 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.79%) Maya
6 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.11%) InDesign
9 5 (0.11%) Sketch
9 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
10 4 (0.088%) Trello
11 3 (0.066%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.044%) SPSS
13 1 (0.022%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 58 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (1.19%) Aladdin
3 41 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 40 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
5 30 (0.66%) thinkFolio
6 22 (0.48%) NEC Housing
7 21 (0.46%) Raiser’s Edge
7 21 (0.46%) Ripple
7 21 (0.46%) Ripple XRP
8 18 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
8 18 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.35%) SAP CO
9 16 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
10 15 (0.33%) Elite 3E
11 13 (0.29%) Fidessa
11 13 (0.29%) Postilion
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
13 10 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 10 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
13 10 (0.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 945 (20.78%) AWS
2 802 (17.64%) Azure
3 368 (8.09%) GCP
4 286 (6.29%) dbt
5 233 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
6 230 (5.06%) Power Platform
7 195 (4.29%) Serverless
8 165 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 154 (3.39%) Snowflake
10 151 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
11 141 (3.10%) SaaS
12 131 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
13 116 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 108 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 98 (2.16%) Amazon S3
16 93 (2.05%) OpenShift
17 78 (1.72%) GitHub
18 74 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
19 68 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
20 67 (1.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 153 (3.36%) Firewall
2 80 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 79 (1.74%) DNS
4 67 (1.47%) VPN
5 64 (1.41%) Network Security
6 60 (1.32%) DHCP
7 45 (0.99%) LAN
7 45 (0.99%) WAN
8 42 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (0.77%) HTTP
10 30 (0.66%) SAN
11 29 (0.64%) VLAN
12 19 (0.42%) Wireless
13 18 (0.40%) BGP
14 17 (0.37%) MPLS
14 17 (0.37%) PBX
14 17 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.35%) FTP
15 16 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
16 15 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.96%) Data Lake
2 270 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
3 260 (5.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 260 (5.72%) Dremio
4 234 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
5 181 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 179 (3.94%) Power BI
7 174 (3.83%) Apache Ignite
8 123 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 101 (2.22%) Tableau
10 98 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
11 73 (1.61%) NoSQL
12 72 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
13 70 (1.54%) Relational Database
14 60 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 55 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 50 (1.10%) Metadata
16 50 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 45 (0.99%) DynamoDB
17 45 (0.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 187 (4.11%) JIRA
2 171 (3.76%) Git
3 93 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.98%) Artifactory
5 52 (1.14%) GitLab
6 31 (0.68%) Maven
7 26 (0.57%) JUnit
8 20 (0.44%) Mockito
9 19 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 19 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.40%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.37%) Selenium
12 15 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (0.33%) webpack
13 14 (0.31%) IntelliJ
14 13 (0.29%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.26%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.26%) Postman
16 10 (0.22%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1,698 (37.34%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (25.45%) Banking
3 1,009 (22.19%) Analytical Skills
4 719 (15.81%) Front Office
5 597 (13.13%) Financial Institution
6 565 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 402 (8.84%) French Language
8 401 (8.82%) German Language
9 301 (6.62%) Marketing
10 216 (4.75%) Legal
11 213 (4.68%) Law
12 192 (4.22%) Retail
13 184 (4.05%) Investment Banking
14 158 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
15 108 (2.38%) Games
16 106 (2.33%) Manufacturing
17 104 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
18 102 (2.24%) Public Sector
19 96 (2.11%) Telecoms
20 78 (1.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,017 (22.37%) Analyst
2 802 (17.64%) Senior
3 621 (13.66%) Developer
4 398 (8.75%) Software Engineer
5 384 (8.45%) Credit Analyst
5 384 (8.45%) Research Analyst
6 306 (6.73%) Lead
7 304 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
8 263 (5.78%) Architect
9 259 (5.70%) Python Engineer
10 191 (4.20%) Business Analyst
11 176 (3.87%) AWS Software Engineer
12 173 (3.80%) Data Engineer
13 166 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
14 165 (3.63%) Consultant
15 143 (3.14%) Business Manager
15 143 (3.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 135 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
17 134 (2.95%) Java Engineer
17 134 (2.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (6.55%) React
2 205 (4.51%) .NET
3 197 (4.33%) AngularJS
4 186 (4.09%) NumPy
5 184 (4.05%) Pandas
6 182 (4.00%) Kafka
7 177 (3.89%) PySpark
8 172 (3.78%) Node.js
9 160 (3.52%) SciPy
10 115 (2.53%) Spring
11 111 (2.44%) gRPC
12 106 (2.33%) Spring Boot
13 104 (2.29%) Redux
14 100 (2.20%) Protocol Buffers
15 97 (2.13%) HTML
16 96 (2.11%) REST
17 93 (2.05%) CSS
18 87 (1.91%) Vue
19 86 (1.89%) J2EE
20 72 (1.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 850 (18.69%) Fixed Income
2 415 (9.13%) Hedge funds
3 400 (8.80%) Credit Risk
4 382 (8.40%) Derivative
5 360 (7.92%) Equities
6 359 (7.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 225 (4.95%) Management Information System
8 188 (4.13%) Product Ownership
9 115 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 112 (2.46%) Algorithms
11 109 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
12 107 (2.35%) Cloud Native
13 86 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
14 71 (1.56%) Blockchain
15 68 (1.50%) Data Centre
16 61 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
17 57 (1.25%) Data Structures
18 52 (1.14%) Security Posture
19 47 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
20 45 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 325 (7.15%) Windows
2 281 (6.18%) Linux
3 136 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 79 (1.74%) Unix
6 51 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 39 (0.86%) Android
8 33 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
11 23 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 22 (0.48%) CentOS
13 14 (0.31%) zOS
14 10 (0.22%) Rocky
15 9 (0.20%) AIX
15 9 (0.20%) Solaris
16 7 (0.15%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.15%) VMS
16 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,385 (30.46%) Agile
2 962 (21.16%) Asset Management
3 785 (17.26%) Risk Management
4 750 (16.49%) Decision-Making
5 731 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
6 668 (14.69%) Software Engineering
7 578 (12.71%) Business Strategy
8 558 (12.27%) Analytics
9 524 (11.52%) Portfolio Management
10 522 (11.48%) DevOps
11 503 (11.06%) CI/CD
12 487 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 446 (9.81%) Fintech
14 438 (9.63%) Financial Modelling
15 423 (9.30%) Investment Management
16 407 (8.95%) Credit Risk Analysis
17 405 (8.91%) Risk Assessment
18 383 (8.42%) Project Management
19 361 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
20 359 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (23.18%) Python
2 684 (15.04%) SQL
3 509 (11.19%) Java
4 415 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 296 (6.51%) TypeScript
6 241 (5.30%) C#
7 225 (4.95%) PowerShell
8 163 (3.58%) C++
9 123 (2.71%) Go
10 82 (1.80%) Bash
11 61 (1.34%) C
12 58 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 41 (0.90%) Scala
14 34 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 32 (0.70%) R
16 24 (0.53%) VB.NET
17 19 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.42%) VBA
18 18 (0.40%) Perl
19 16 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,119 (24.61%) Degree
2 481 (10.58%) Master's Degree
3 387 (8.51%) CFA
4 132 (2.90%) CISSP
5 122 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 93 (2.05%) Security Cleared
7 90 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 78 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 76 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 60 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 56 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 54 (1.19%) CCNA
13 53 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 51 (1.12%) SC Cleared
15 50 (1.10%) CISA
15 50 (1.10%) CISM
16 40 (0.88%) CCNP
17 39 (0.86%) PhD
18 36 (0.79%) PMP
19 34 (0.75%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (3.39%) QA
2 108 (2.38%) GDPR
3 99 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 90 (1.98%) NIST
5 89 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 75 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 68 (1.50%) MiFID
8 66 (1.45%) SLA
9 41 (0.90%) PMO
10 40 (0.88%) GMP
10 40 (0.88%) ITGC
11 33 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 32 (0.70%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.51%) GRC
14 20 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.31%) COBIT
16 13 (0.29%) IFRS
16 13 (0.29%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.24%) PMBOK
18 10 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 310 (6.82%) Docker
2 181 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.20%) Firmware
8 9 (0.20%) vSphere
9 5 (0.11%) Apache Flume
10 3 (0.066%) Samba
10 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.044%) Postfix
11 2 (0.044%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.022%) HDFS
12 1 (0.022%) KVM
12 1 (0.022%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.022%) XenApp
12 1 (0.022%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 367 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 291 (6.40%) Terraform
3 126 (2.77%) Ansible
4 87 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 86 (1.89%) SCCM
6 36 (0.79%) Grafana
7 28 (0.62%) Nagios
7 28 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.42%) Puppet
9 19 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.37%) CASB
11 15 (0.33%) NetBackup
11 15 (0.33%) WSUS
12 14 (0.31%) Istio
13 11 (0.24%) SCOM
14 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
16 7 (0.15%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 661 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 425 (9.35%) Bloomberg
3 164 (3.61%) Oracle
4 138 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 136 (2.99%) SAP
6 123 (2.71%) VMware
7 120 (2.64%) Google
8 107 (2.35%) Cisco
9 81 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 72 (1.58%) Citrix
11 70 (1.54%) Databricks
12 49 (1.08%) BISAM
12 49 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 45 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 43 (0.95%) Adobe
15 38 (0.84%) Charles River
15 38 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 36 (0.79%) IBM
17 34 (0.75%) Splunk
18 33 (0.73%) SimCorp