Finance Job Trends 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 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 826 689 586
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 30.58% 20.79% 24.88%
As % of the General category 49.31% 34.11% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 269 229 493
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £32,000 £39,359 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £55,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% -17.91% +3.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,250 £85,952 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.84% +0.80%

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 1,675 2,020 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 62.01% 60.95% 72.57%
Number of salaries quoted 730 903 1,418
10th Percentile £25,684 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,554 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £55,498 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,051 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Finance job vacancy trend in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 November 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 24 November 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 0 414 £34,000 -44.72% 94
Glasgow +2 245 £60,000 +9.09% 72
Midlothian 0 59 £32,951 - 72
West Lothian +18 27 £34,000 - 3
East Lothian +1 19 £32,851 -
Highlands +1 16 £32,000 -4.48% 3
Perthshire - 14 £24,000 -
Perth and Kinross +6 8 £34,000 -42.96% 3
Stirling +1 5 £54,500 +43.86% 5
North Lanarkshire -11 3 - - 2
Shetland Islands - 3 - -
Aberdeen -6 2 - - 26
Fife +9 1 - - 3
Angus - 1 - - 4
East Ayrshire - 1 £42,500 - 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 20 (2.42%) Confluence
2 18 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 10 (1.21%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) Camunda
6 6 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.61%) SAS
8 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 32 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.09%) Oracle Smart View
4 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Civil 3D
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) Navisworks
5 2 (0.24%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (4.84%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (2.18%) Oracle Assets
3 18 (2.18%) Oracle Financials
3 18 (2.18%) Oracle General Ledger
3 18 (2.18%) Workday HCM
4 9 (1.09%) Hyperion Planning
5 5 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.24%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Travel Management
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (29.66%) Azure
2 120 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
3 101 (12.23%) AWS
4 98 (11.86%) GitHub
5 59 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 55 (6.66%) Entra ID
7 52 (6.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 49 (5.93%) Power Platform
9 47 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (3.87%) dbt
11 31 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (3.75%) OCI
12 24 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (2.06%) SaaS
16 15 (1.82%) GCP
17 14 (1.69%) Power Automate
18 12 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.66%) Firewall
2 18 (2.18%) LAN
2 18 (2.18%) WAN
3 17 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 16 (1.94%) SD-WAN
4 16 (1.94%) Wireless
5 5 (0.61%) Broadband
6 4 (0.48%) DNS
6 4 (0.48%) VPN
7 3 (0.36%) Telnet
8 2 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.12%) Internet
9 1 (0.12%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.12%) Modbus
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
1 44 (5.33%) Power BI
2 38 (4.60%) Tableau
3 22 (2.66%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.18%) Big Data
5 15 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 12 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.21%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.09%) Data Mining
8 9 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.09%) Essbase
8 9 (1.09%) KDB
8 9 (1.09%) Kdb+
8 9 (1.09%) Metadata
8 9 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 8 (0.97%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.85%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 71 (8.60%) JIRA
2 55 (6.66%) Oracle Forms
3 48 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.27%) Git
5 13 (1.57%) ER Studio
6 12 (1.45%) Maven
7 11 (1.33%) JUnit
8 8 (0.97%) ERwin
9 7 (0.85%) webpack
10 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.73%) Vite
11 5 (0.61%) Storybook
12 4 (0.48%) Gradle
13 3 (0.36%) Subversion
14 2 (0.24%) Ant
14 2 (0.24%) Selenium
15 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
15 1 (0.12%) Jasmine
15 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 178 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 168 (20.34%) Retail
3 158 (19.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 150 (18.16%) Law
5 130 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
6 98 (11.86%) Marketing
7 95 (11.50%) Banking
8 36 (4.36%) Legal
9 29 (3.51%) Financial Institution
10 28 (3.39%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.18%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.69%) Private Banking
15 13 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.45%) Front Office
16 12 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.33%) Games
18 10 (1.21%) Electronics
19 7 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 151 (18.28%) Software Engineer
2 140 (16.95%) Senior
3 110 (13.32%) Analyst
4 82 (9.93%) Java Engineer
4 82 (9.93%) Java Software Engineer
5 77 (9.32%) Lead
6 45 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
7 39 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
8 35 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 34 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (4.12%) Consultant
9 34 (4.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 33 (4.00%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.03%) Developer
12 24 (2.91%) Python Engineer
12 24 (2.91%) Python Software Engineer
12 24 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.54%) Lead Java Engineer
13 21 (2.54%) Trainee
13 21 (2.54%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.84%) Spring
2 56 (6.78%) RESTful
3 53 (6.42%) React
4 45 (5.45%) Kafka
5 42 (5.08%) Spring Boot
6 40 (4.84%) REST
7 38 (4.60%) SOAP
8 32 (3.87%) OAuth
9 30 (3.63%) JSON
10 26 (3.15%) OAuth2
11 25 (3.03%) SAML
12 22 (2.66%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.30%) Web Services
14 15 (1.82%) .NET
14 15 (1.82%) XML
15 12 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
15 12 (1.45%) OpenAPI
15 12 (1.45%) Swagger
16 11 (1.33%) HTML
16 11 (1.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.74%) Product Ownership
2 95 (11.50%) Cloud Native
3 56 (6.78%) Algorithms
4 39 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.94%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (0.97%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.85%) Equities
16 6 (0.73%) CMDB
16 6 (0.73%) Derivative
17 5 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.18%) Windows
2 5 (0.61%) Linux
3 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.48%) Unix
3 4 (0.48%) VMS
3 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.12%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (49.39%) Coaching
2 338 (40.92%) Agile
3 261 (31.60%) Asset Management
4 225 (27.24%) CI/CD
5 196 (23.73%) Customer Service
6 195 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 190 (23.00%) AI
8 173 (20.94%) Software Engineering
9 168 (20.34%) Customer Experience
10 164 (19.85%) DevOps
11 135 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (15.13%) SDLC
13 123 (14.89%) Analytics
14 116 (14.04%) Operational Stability
15 110 (13.32%) Machine Learning
16 103 (12.47%) Test Automation
17 99 (11.99%) Mentoring
18 94 (11.38%) Roadmaps
19 84 (10.17%) Decision-Making
20 81 (9.81%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 184 (22.28%) SQL
2 175 (21.19%) Python
3 149 (18.04%) Java
4 66 (7.99%) PowerShell
5 37 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 34 (4.12%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.27%) Bash
7 27 (3.27%) Shell Script
8 25 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.57%) Bicep
9 13 (1.57%) C#
10 12 (1.45%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.21%) Groovy
12 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.73%) R
14 5 (0.61%) Go
15 4 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.48%) Rust
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 2 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (4.60%) Degree
2 13 (1.57%) ACCA
3 10 (1.21%) CISSP
4 6 (0.73%) AWS Certification
4 6 (0.73%) Azure Certification
4 6 (0.73%) CREST Certified
4 6 (0.73%) SANS
5 5 (0.61%) CFA
5 5 (0.61%) CISM
5 5 (0.61%) CRISC
5 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.48%) CIMA
6 4 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.48%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.24%) HNC
8 2 (0.24%) PhD
8 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.12%) HND
9 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.54%) GDPR
3 15 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.69%) QA
5 10 (1.21%) NIST
6 9 (1.09%) GAAP
6 9 (1.09%) IFRS
7 5 (0.61%) WCAG
8 4 (0.48%) COBIT
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 2 (0.24%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) JTAG
11 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 28 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.66%) Docker
4 12 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.97%) Firmware
6 4 (0.48%) HDFS
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) RACF
Systems Management
1 108 (13.08%) Terraform
2 53 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.54%) Grafana
6 13 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.97%) SCCM
8 6 (0.73%) Ansible
9 3 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.36%) Netcool
9 3 (0.36%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 3 (0.36%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 151 (18.28%) BT
2 93 (11.26%) Oracle
3 75 (9.08%) Microsoft
4 21 (2.54%) Cisco
4 21 (2.54%) Meraki
5 19 (2.30%) Splunk
6 18 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.18%) Workday
7 17 (2.06%) SolarWinds
8 16 (1.94%) CheckPoint
8 16 (1.94%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.82%) Okta
10 14 (1.69%) SAP
11 13 (1.57%) Avaloq
11 13 (1.57%) Databricks
11 13 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.09%) Ab Initio
12 9 (1.09%) Hyperion
13 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft