Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,073 2,808 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.86% 40.70% 27.29%
As % of the General category 49.84% 60.83% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 369 382 537
10th Percentile £30,900 £33,000 £37,885
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,483 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,153 4,616 3,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.95% 66.91% 74.78%
Number of salaries quoted 919 1,627 1,530
10th Percentile £25,020 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £73,430
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Scotland.

Salary trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Edinburgh +5 397 £60,000 -7.79% 676
Glasgow 0 305 £57,500 +17.35% 639
Midlothian - 88 £32,851 - 62
Lanarkshire +11 60 £66,000 +65.00% 19
West Lothian +6 39 £32,851 -4.78% 41
North Lanarkshire +12 23 - - 16
Stirling +6 23 £42,500 -4.91% 15
East Lothian +1 22 £32,851 -
Fife -2 12 £60,000 +46.99% 47
Dundee +10 11 £32,500 -19.04% 39
South Lanarkshire - 11 - - 13
East Ayrshire - 11 £60,000 - 6
Renfrewshire -10 10 - - 44
South Ayrshire - 7 £60,000 - 5
Moray - 7 £60,000 - 2
Highlands +5 5 - - 15
Aberdeen +30 4 - - 182
Shetland Islands - 4 - - 1
Perthshire +5 3 £24,000 -52.48% 1
Inverclyde -5 3 £24,990 - 1
Falkirk - 3 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - - 4
Ayrshire - 1 - - 4
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 1
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 54 (5.03%) Confluence
2 27 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.40%) Oracle Application Server
4 13 (1.21%) Apache
5 12 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.03%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.75%) Camunda
7 8 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.56%) SAS
9 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.28%) Revit
4 2 (0.19%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Sage 200
1 10 (0.93%) Sage 50
2 8 (0.75%) Infor LN
2 8 (0.75%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.093%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 183 (17.05%) AWS
2 117 (10.90%) Azure
3 110 (10.25%) GCP
4 21 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 19 (1.77%) GitHub
6 17 (1.58%) Amazon S3
7 15 (1.40%) Serverless
8 14 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (1.30%) SaaS
9 11 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (1.03%) Snowflake
10 9 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (0.84%) OpenShift
11 8 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.75%) npm
12 7 (0.65%) Yarn
13 6 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.12%) Network Security
2 10 (0.93%) Internet
3 9 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.75%) Firewall
4 8 (0.75%) Modbus
5 6 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.19%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (0.19%) MQTT
6 2 (0.19%) SNA
6 2 (0.19%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.093%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.093%) NAS
7 1 (0.093%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 36 (3.36%) Big Data
3 32 (2.98%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.42%) Tableau
5 25 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (1.68%) Power BI
8 17 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.49%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.12%) KDB
12 12 (1.12%) Kdb+
13 11 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.03%) MySQL
14 10 (0.93%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.84%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 73 (6.80%) Maven
2 66 (6.15%) JIRA
3 53 (4.94%) GitLab
3 53 (4.94%) Selenium
4 52 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 51 (4.75%) SonarQube
5 51 (4.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 50 (4.66%) Bitbucket
7 49 (4.57%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.98%) Git
9 16 (1.49%) JUnit
10 12 (1.12%) webpack
11 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.75%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.65%) Vite
15 5 (0.47%) ER Studio
15 5 (0.47%) Gradle
16 4 (0.37%) Subversion
17 3 (0.28%) Xcode
General
1 409 (38.12%) Banking
2 256 (23.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 217 (20.22%) Retail
4 199 (18.55%) Law
5 175 (16.31%) Social Skills
6 132 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
7 101 (9.41%) Marketing
8 54 (5.03%) Legal
9 42 (3.91%) Public Sector
10 34 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (3.08%) Local Government
12 18 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.49%) Front Office
13 16 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.40%) Military
15 11 (1.03%) Private Banking
16 9 (0.84%) Games
17 8 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 265 (24.70%) Software Engineer
2 228 (21.25%) Senior
3 125 (11.65%) Lead
4 101 (9.41%) Java Engineer
5 100 (9.32%) Analyst
5 100 (9.32%) Java Software Engineer
6 79 (7.36%) Designer
6 79 (7.36%) Senior Designer
6 79 (7.36%) Senior UX Designer
6 79 (7.36%) UX Designer
7 73 (6.80%) Developer
8 70 (6.52%) Senior Manager
9 55 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
10 45 (4.19%) Architect
10 45 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (4.10%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 38 (3.54%) Audit Manager
12 38 (3.54%) Senior Audit Manager
13 34 (3.17%) Python Engineer
14 32 (2.98%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (14.54%) Spring
2 131 (12.21%) React
3 117 (10.90%) Kafka
4 114 (10.62%) Spring Boot
5 88 (8.20%) CSS
6 85 (7.92%) HTML
7 62 (5.78%) Hibernate
8 58 (5.41%) JPA
9 53 (4.94%) Redux
10 36 (3.36%) RESTful
11 30 (2.80%) REST
12 29 (2.70%) AngularJS
13 26 (2.42%) jQuery
14 18 (1.68%) OAuth
14 18 (1.68%) OpenID
14 18 (1.68%) SAML
15 17 (1.58%) .NET
16 15 (1.40%) Web Services
17 14 (1.30%) PySpark
18 12 (1.12%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 86 (8.01%) Product Ownership
2 79 (7.36%) Algorithms
3 61 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 55 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.77%) Credit Risk
8 15 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.21%) Market Risk
9 13 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.03%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.93%) Derivative
12 9 (0.84%) Online Banking
13 8 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.75%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.75%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.65%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.65%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.68%) Linux
2 13 (1.21%) Windows
3 10 (0.93%) Android
3 10 (0.93%) Unix
4 7 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (43.80%) Agile
2 301 (28.05%) Software Engineering
3 283 (26.37%) Coaching
4 250 (23.30%) Customer Experience
5 236 (21.99%) Customer Service
6 227 (21.16%) CI/CD
7 219 (20.41%) SDLC
8 175 (16.31%) Project Management
9 164 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 159 (14.82%) Operational Stability
11 157 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (13.98%) Artificial Intelligence
13 130 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
15 115 (10.72%) Machine Learning
16 110 (10.25%) Prototyping
17 107 (9.97%) Visualisation
18 106 (9.88%) DevOps
18 106 (9.88%) User Experience
18 106 (9.88%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 220 (20.50%) Java
2 181 (16.87%) SQL
3 119 (11.09%) JavaScript
4 110 (10.25%) Python
5 30 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 21 (1.96%) C#
7 11 (1.03%) C
8 10 (0.93%) C++
9 9 (0.84%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.84%) R
10 8 (0.75%) Go
10 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.65%) PHP
12 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.56%) Swift
13 5 (0.47%) Bash
13 5 (0.47%) Scala
13 5 (0.47%) VBA
14 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.28%) JCL
Qualifications
1 111 (10.34%) Degree
2 45 (4.19%) ACCA
3 37 (3.45%) CISSP
4 29 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.40%) DBS Check
6 14 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.12%) PhD
8 10 (0.93%) CIMA
8 10 (0.93%) CISA
8 10 (0.93%) CISM
8 10 (0.93%) HNC
9 9 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.84%) HND
10 7 (0.65%) CRISC
11 5 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.47%) Security Cleared
12 4 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.37%) CCA
12 4 (0.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.72%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.94%) QA
3 42 (3.91%) IFRS
4 41 (3.82%) GAAP
5 24 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.21%) NIST
8 9 (0.84%) GDPR
9 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.65%) ITGC
9 7 (0.65%) NCSC
10 5 (0.47%) COBIT
11 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.28%) SEPA
12 3 (0.28%) SLA
13 2 (0.19%) JTAG
14 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.093%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (8.29%) Docker
2 8 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (0.75%) Firmware
3 5 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 132 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.29%) Terraform
3 20 (1.86%) Grafana
4 11 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.65%) Ansible
7 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.37%) Netcool
7 4 (0.37%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 4 (0.37%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.19%) Istio
8 2 (0.19%) Tivoli NetView
9 1 (0.093%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.093%) Puppet
Vendors
1 198 (18.45%) BT
2 84 (7.83%) Oracle
3 49 (4.57%) Solace
4 39 (3.63%) Microsoft
5 29 (2.70%) Google
6 22 (2.05%) Splunk
7 17 (1.58%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.49%) SAP
9 15 (1.40%) Databricks
10 12 (1.12%) Sage
11 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.75%) Avaloq
12 8 (0.75%) Cognos
12 8 (0.75%) Infor
13 6 (0.56%) Facebook
13 6 (0.56%) IBM
14 5 (0.47%) Adobe
14 5 (0.47%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.37%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.37%) Sybase