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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,844 6,262 12,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.90% 27.75% 31.30%
As % of the General category 48.30% 41.75% 44.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 4,654 8,366
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,810 £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 £100,188
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 10,030 14,998 26,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.41% 66.45% 69.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,610 11,183 18,298
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £54,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £71,183 £73,725
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -3.45% +5.32%
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 2 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 2 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 -1 725 £75,000 - 340
South London +16 319 £70,000 +15.70% 67
West London +3 230 £50,000 -28.57% 85
East London 0 146 £80,000 +39.13% 60
North London +16 109 £60,000 +9.19% 12
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
2 217 (4.48%) Apache
3 129 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 100 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 82 (1.69%) Confluence
6 81 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.50%) CMS
8 14 (0.29%) nginx
9 13 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.19%) OpenEdge
11 5 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.083%) IIS
12 4 (0.083%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.083%) WordPress
13 3 (0.062%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.062%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.041%) Mule
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.041%) Solana
Applications
1 441 (9.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 195 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 193 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.39%) Maya
7 10 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
7 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.17%) InDesign
8 8 (0.17%) Trello
9 5 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.10%) Sketch
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.083%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.062%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.062%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 49 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 47 (0.97%) NEC Housing
3 44 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 42 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.81%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
7 21 (0.43%) Ripple
7 21 (0.43%) Ripple XRP
8 18 (0.37%) Elite 3E
9 16 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
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 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
14 8 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 924 (19.08%) AWS
2 786 (16.23%) Azure
3 356 (7.35%) GCP
4 276 (5.70%) dbt
5 249 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
6 210 (4.34%) Power Platform
7 203 (4.19%) Serverless
8 171 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
9 165 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
10 136 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 130 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
12 117 (2.42%) SaaS
13 109 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
14 107 (2.21%) Amazon S3
15 102 (2.11%) OpenShift
16 101 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
17 79 (1.63%) GitHub
18 77 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
19 69 (1.42%) Entra ID
20 67 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 225 (4.64%) Broadband
2 143 (2.95%) Firewall
3 78 (1.61%) DNS
4 68 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
4 68 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.30%) DHCP
6 60 (1.24%) Network Security
7 50 (1.03%) VPN
8 45 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 34 (0.70%) HTTP
10 32 (0.66%) LAN
10 32 (0.66%) SAN
10 32 (0.66%) VLAN
10 32 (0.66%) WAN
11 21 (0.43%) Wireless
12 19 (0.39%) FTP
12 19 (0.39%) PBX
12 19 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
13 18 (0.37%) SMTP
14 17 (0.35%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (5.47%) Data Lake
2 258 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
3 248 (5.12%) Apache Iceberg
3 248 (5.12%) Dremio
4 216 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
5 190 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 177 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
7 172 (3.55%) Power BI
8 111 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
9 95 (1.96%) Tableau
10 89 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 83 (1.71%) NoSQL
12 79 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.57%) Relational Database
14 69 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 55 (1.14%) MongoDB
17 54 (1.11%) MySQL
18 52 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 46 (0.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 187 (3.86%) JIRA
2 178 (3.67%) Git
3 96 (1.98%) Artifactory
4 92 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 50 (1.03%) GitLab
6 27 (0.56%) Maven
7 24 (0.50%) JUnit
8 21 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 19 (0.39%) Selenium
9 19 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 18 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 18 (0.37%) Mockito
11 16 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (0.31%) webpack
13 14 (0.29%) IntelliJ
14 13 (0.27%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.27%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.19%) AppScan
17 8 (0.17%) Mocha
General
1 1,755 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 1,146 (23.66%) Banking
3 1,042 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 709 (14.64%) Front Office
5 619 (12.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 598 (12.35%) Financial Institution
7 410 (8.46%) German Language
8 408 (8.42%) French Language
9 402 (8.30%) Retail
10 283 (5.84%) Marketing
11 204 (4.21%) Legal
12 197 (4.07%) Law
13 174 (3.59%) Investment Banking
14 144 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
15 141 (2.91%) Telecoms
16 117 (2.42%) Public Sector
17 106 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
18 84 (1.73%) Games
19 81 (1.67%) Advertising
19 81 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,030 (21.26%) Analyst
2 801 (16.54%) Senior
3 637 (13.15%) Developer
4 393 (8.11%) Credit Analyst
4 393 (8.11%) Research Analyst
5 383 (7.91%) Software Engineer
6 307 (6.34%) Lead
7 300 (6.19%) Architect
8 299 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
9 271 (5.59%) Python Engineer
10 182 (3.76%) 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
14 145 (2.99%) Senior Manager
15 143 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
16 141 (2.91%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 129 (2.66%) Python Developer
18 128 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (6.19%) React
2 201 (4.15%) .NET
3 189 (3.90%) NumPy
4 185 (3.82%) Pandas
5 184 (3.80%) PySpark
6 183 (3.78%) AngularJS
7 174 (3.59%) Node.js
8 171 (3.53%) Kafka
9 160 (3.30%) HTML
10 154 (3.18%) SciPy
11 120 (2.48%) Redux
12 116 (2.39%) gRPC
13 114 (2.35%) Spring
14 106 (2.19%) Spring Boot
15 104 (2.15%) Protocol Buffers
16 98 (2.02%) CSS
17 92 (1.90%) J2EE
17 92 (1.90%) REST
18 80 (1.65%) Vue
19 73 (1.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 835 (17.24%) Fixed Income
2 410 (8.46%) Credit Risk
3 393 (8.11%) Hedge funds
4 366 (7.56%) Derivative
5 325 (6.71%) Equities
6 322 (6.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 282 (5.82%) Management Information System
8 256 (5.28%) Social Media
9 229 (4.73%) Driving Licence
10 185 (3.82%) Product Ownership
11 120 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
12 107 (2.21%) Algorithms
13 99 (2.04%) Onboarding
14 94 (1.94%) Cloud Native
15 91 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
16 73 (1.51%) Data Centre
17 70 (1.45%) Cyberattack
18 67 (1.38%) Blockchain
19 65 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
20 56 (1.16%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 340 (7.02%) Windows
2 278 (5.74%) Linux
3 130 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 93 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 86 (1.78%) Unix
6 49 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 36 (0.74%) Android
8 31 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.45%) CentOS
9 22 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 16 (0.33%) Solaris
12 16 (0.33%) zOS
13 10 (0.21%) AIX
13 10 (0.21%) Rocky
14 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.14%) VMS
15 4 (0.083%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,345 (27.77%) Agile
2 967 (19.96%) Asset Management
3 801 (16.54%) Risk Management
4 766 (15.81%) Decision-Making
5 750 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 683 (14.10%) Software Engineering
7 572 (11.81%) Analytics
8 548 (11.31%) Business Strategy
9 531 (10.96%) DevOps
10 519 (10.71%) Portfolio Management
11 491 (10.14%) CI/CD
12 477 (9.85%) Roadmaps
13 462 (9.54%) Fintech
14 453 (9.35%) Financial Modelling
15 430 (8.88%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 412 (8.51%) Risk Assessment
17 411 (8.48%) Investment Management
18 408 (8.42%) Mentoring
19 389 (8.03%) Project Management
20 354 (7.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (21.76%) Python
2 680 (14.04%) SQL
3 522 (10.78%) Java
4 419 (8.65%) JavaScript
5 287 (5.92%) TypeScript
6 236 (4.87%) C#
7 229 (4.73%) PowerShell
8 158 (3.26%) C++
9 130 (2.68%) Go
10 75 (1.55%) Bash
11 57 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 54 (1.11%) C
13 51 (1.05%) Scala
14 40 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.47%) VB.NET
17 22 (0.45%) VBA
18 20 (0.41%) Rust
19 18 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 18 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,126 (23.25%) Degree
2 501 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 407 (8.40%) CFA
4 137 (2.83%) Security Cleared
5 128 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 111 (2.29%) CISSP
7 81 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 74 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 73 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 72 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 71 (1.47%) Azure Certification
12 53 (1.09%) CISM
13 51 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 49 (1.01%) CCNA
15 45 (0.93%) SC Cleared
16 42 (0.87%) PMI Certification
17 38 (0.78%) CCNP
17 38 (0.78%) CISA
17 38 (0.78%) PhD
18 31 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.06%) QA
2 107 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 100 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 97 (2.00%) GDPR
5 89 (1.84%) NIST
6 72 (1.49%) MiFID
7 65 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 62 (1.28%) SLA
9 37 (0.76%) PMO
9 37 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 36 (0.74%) GMP
11 33 (0.68%) ITGC
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 11 (0.23%) ISO 9001
17 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 321 (6.63%) Docker
2 191 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.98%) 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 16 (0.33%) 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
1 375 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 308 (6.36%) Terraform
3 124 (2.56%) Ansible
4 93 (1.92%) SCCM
5 82 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (0.66%) Grafana
7 24 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 23 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.43%) Nagios
10 18 (0.37%) Puppet
11 17 (0.35%) CASB
11 17 (0.35%) WSUS
12 14 (0.29%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.27%) Istio
13 13 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
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
1 641 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 436 (9.00%) Bloomberg
3 155 (3.20%) Oracle
4 126 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 125 (2.58%) SAP
6 119 (2.46%) VMware
7 118 (2.44%) Cisco
8 110 (2.27%) Google
9 80 (1.65%) Citrix
10 74 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 72 (1.49%) Databricks
12 51 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 47 (0.97%) NEC
14 41 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 38 (0.78%) IBM
16 36 (0.74%) Splunk
17 35 (0.72%) Adobe
18 34 (0.70%) SolarWinds
19 33 (0.68%) Apple
19 33 (0.68%) BISAM