Financial Institution Job Trends in London

Financial Institution
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 124 210
Rank change year-on-year +7 +86 +3
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 353 401 279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.52% 2.60% 1.52%
As % of the General category 3.75% 3.55% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 123 74 216
10th Percentile £61,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,813 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £113,750 £109,688 £115,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £135,000 £131,250
England median annual salary £87,500 £85,400 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.75% +6.67%

All General Skills
London

Financial Institution 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 9,408 11,303 12,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.20% 73.34% 65.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,774 6,017 9,357
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £39,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,028 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% - +3.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.00%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in London

Financial Institution
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Financial Institution.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in London

Financial Institution
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution within the London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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 +49 46 £90,000 -5.26% 23
East London -21 14 £96,250 - 2
South London -32 3 £42,500 -54.67% 3
West London -39 2 £73,750 - 1
Financial Institution
England

Financial Institution
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 18 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.13%) Confluence
3 3 (0.85%) Apache
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) SAS
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) TPMS
Applications
1 14 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.85%) Stata
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 111 (31.44%) AWS
2 76 (21.53%) GCP
3 63 (17.85%) Azure
4 55 (15.58%) SaaS
5 21 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
5 21 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (2.83%) GitHub
7 8 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
7 8 (2.27%) Serverless
8 6 (1.70%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.42%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.13%) dbt
10 4 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.85%) Route 53
11 3 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.97%) CHAP
2 11 (3.12%) Firewall
3 7 (1.98%) Network Security
4 6 (1.70%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (1.70%) RTP
5 4 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.85%) BGP
6 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.85%) VLAN
6 3 (0.85%) VPN
7 2 (0.57%) SSL
7 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) Multicast
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.07%) Data Lake
2 30 (8.50%) Tableau
3 27 (7.65%) Metadata
4 21 (5.95%) Power BI
5 17 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (3.97%) Big Data
7 13 (3.68%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.83%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.27%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.42%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (0.85%) DB2
13 3 (0.85%) Power Query
13 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (5.95%) TeamCity
2 10 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.70%) JIRA
4 5 (1.42%) Git
5 4 (1.13%) GitLab
6 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.57%) webpack
8 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 353 (100.00%) Finance
2 194 (54.96%) Banking
3 120 (33.99%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (31.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (28.90%) Social Skills
6 58 (16.43%) Retail
7 52 (14.73%) Law
8 48 (13.60%) Back Office
9 27 (7.65%) Digital Economy
10 26 (7.37%) Retail Banking
11 17 (4.82%) Marketing
11 17 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (4.25%) Billing
13 13 (3.68%) Front Office
14 9 (2.55%) International Banking
15 6 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.70%) Publishing
16 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.42%) Investment Banking
17 4 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (13.88%) Senior
2 48 (13.60%) Analyst
3 41 (11.61%) Architect
4 32 (9.07%) Data Analyst
5 30 (8.50%) Lead
6 29 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 26 (7.37%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.67%) Java Engineer
9 19 (5.38%) Developer
10 16 (4.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (4.25%) Auditor
12 14 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (3.97%) Internal Auditor
12 14 (3.97%) Security Auditor
13 12 (3.40%) Development Manager
14 11 (3.12%) Data Engineer
15 10 (2.83%) Kafka Engineer
16 9 (2.55%) AWS Data Engineer
16 9 (2.55%) Product Lead
16 9 (2.55%) Product Management Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.63%) Kafka
2 19 (5.38%) Spring
2 19 (5.38%) Spring Boot
3 13 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (2.83%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (2.83%) Akka
4 10 (2.83%) JMS
4 10 (2.83%) RxJava
4 10 (2.83%) Spark Streaming
4 10 (2.83%) Spring WebFlux
5 8 (2.27%) boto
5 8 (2.27%) REST
6 7 (1.98%) SpaCy
7 6 (1.70%) RESTful
7 6 (1.70%) YAML
8 4 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.13%) React
8 4 (1.13%) XML
9 3 (0.85%) React Native
10 2 (0.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.01%) Self-Motivation
2 38 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 33 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (9.35%) Product Ownership
4 23 (6.52%) e-Learning
4 23 (6.52%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.97%) Algorithms
7 13 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (2.55%) Blog
9 8 (2.27%) Blockchain
9 8 (2.27%) Credit Risk
9 8 (2.27%) Equities
9 8 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.98%) Derivative
11 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.10%) Windows
2 16 (4.53%) Linux
3 6 (1.70%) zOS
4 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.85%) Android
5 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.85%) Unix
5 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.57%) AIX
6 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (26.91%) Agile
2 87 (24.65%) Analytics
3 79 (22.38%) Migration
4 77 (21.81%) Risk Management
5 75 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (20.68%) Information Security
7 61 (17.28%) AI
8 58 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (16.43%) CI/CD
9 56 (15.86%) Asset Management
9 56 (15.86%) Business Development
10 52 (14.73%) Data Modelling
10 52 (14.73%) Fintech
11 48 (13.60%) Mentoring
11 48 (13.60%) Software Engineering
12 47 (13.31%) Data Science
13 46 (13.03%) Data Analysis
14 45 (12.75%) Roadmaps
15 41 (11.61%) Business Strategy
16 40 (11.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.08%) Python
2 67 (18.98%) Java
3 25 (7.08%) SQL
4 10 (2.83%) Go
4 10 (2.83%) Scala
5 7 (1.98%) JCL
6 6 (1.70%) C#
6 6 (1.70%) C++
6 6 (1.70%) Kotlin
6 6 (1.70%) REXX
6 6 (1.70%) VBA
7 5 (1.42%) Bash
7 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.42%) RPG
8 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.85%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.85%) R
8 3 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.57%) VC++
10 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 75 (21.25%) Degree
2 45 (12.75%) AWS Certification
3 40 (11.33%) Azure Certification
4 30 (8.50%) Numerate Degree
5 27 (7.65%) CISSP
6 25 (7.08%) Master's Degree
7 19 (5.38%) CISA
7 19 (5.38%) CISM
8 15 (4.25%) FFIEC
9 14 (3.97%) CGEIT
9 14 (3.97%) SANS
10 12 (3.40%) PhD
11 11 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.83%) CRISC
13 7 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (1.70%) MBA
15 5 (1.42%) PMI Certification
16 4 (1.13%) CFA
16 4 (1.13%) OSCE
16 4 (1.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.93%) GDPR
3 22 (6.23%) NIST
4 19 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (5.10%) COBIT
6 15 (4.25%) PCI DSS
6 15 (4.25%) SOC 2
7 11 (3.12%) ISO 20022
8 9 (2.55%) GRC
8 9 (2.55%) PMO
8 9 (2.55%) SEPA
9 4 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.13%) EMIR
9 4 (1.13%) EU AI Act
9 4 (1.13%) PSD2
9 4 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.85%) MiFID
10 3 (0.85%) QA
10 3 (0.85%) SLA
10 3 (0.85%) TARGET2
System Software
1 12 (3.40%) Docker
2 8 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.27%) HDFS
3 7 (1.98%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.22%) Terraform
3 15 (4.25%) Grafana
4 7 (1.98%) Ansible
5 4 (1.13%) Cilium
6 3 (0.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.85%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.57%) Suricata
8 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.78%) Bloomberg
3 30 (8.50%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.55%) Databricks
4 9 (2.55%) Foundry
4 9 (2.55%) IBM
5 6 (1.70%) Broadcom
5 6 (1.70%) Dell
6 5 (1.42%) Oracle
7 4 (1.13%) Citrix
7 4 (1.13%) Solace
8 3 (0.85%) Google
8 3 (0.85%) Polycom
8 3 (0.85%) VMware
9 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.28%) Misys
10 1 (0.28%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.28%) Syncsort
10 1 (0.28%) Temenos