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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 1,089 2,614 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.82% 39.75% 27.35%
As % of the General category 49.55% 59.64% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 372 363 536
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £47,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -7.65% +3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,466 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £94,500 £89,301
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +2.27%

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 2,198 4,383 3,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.26% 66.65% 74.62%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,598 1,548
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,039
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,831 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +4 399 £60,000 -11.11% 539
Glasgow 0 307 £57,500 +17.35% 506
Midlothian - 88 £32,851 - 83
Lanarkshire +10 60 £66,000 +65.00% 43
West Lothian +6 42 £32,851 -4.78% 17
North Lanarkshire +12 23 - - 8
Stirling +5 23 £42,500 -4.91% 11
East Lothian +1 22 £32,851 - 1
Fife -2 14 £60,000 +46.99% 25
East Ayrshire - 13 £60,000 - 2
South Lanarkshire - 11 - - 3
Dundee +9 10 £32,500 -19.04% 24
Renfrewshire -13 10 - - 7
Moray - 9 £60,000 - 5
South Ayrshire - 9 £60,000 - 6
Highlands +4 5 - - 9
Aberdeen +31 4 - - 120
Perthshire +5 4 £24,000 -52.48%
Shetland Islands - 4 - - 2
Inverclyde -6 3 £24,990 - 12
Falkirk - 3 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 3
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 2
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 (4.96%) Confluence
2 27 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
4 13 (1.19%) Apache
5 11 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.01%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.73%) Camunda
6 8 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 5 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.28%) Revit
4 2 (0.18%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 9 (0.83%) Sage 200
1 9 (0.83%) Sage 50
2 8 (0.73%) Infor LN
2 8 (0.73%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.092%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 182 (16.71%) AWS
2 116 (10.65%) Azure
3 107 (9.83%) GCP
4 23 (2.11%) Power Platform
5 17 (1.56%) Amazon S3
5 17 (1.56%) GitHub
6 15 (1.38%) Serverless
7 14 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (1.29%) SaaS
8 11 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (1.01%) Snowflake
9 9 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (0.83%) OpenShift
10 8 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (0.73%) npm
11 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (0.64%) Yarn
12 6 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.10%) Network Security
2 10 (0.92%) Internet
3 8 (0.73%) Modbus
3 8 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.64%) Firewall
5 6 (0.55%) VPN
6 3 (0.28%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.18%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.18%) MQTT
7 2 (0.18%) SNA
8 1 (0.092%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.092%) NAS
8 1 (0.092%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.12%) Big Data
3 32 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.39%) Tableau
5 25 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (1.74%) Power BI
8 17 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.10%) KDB
12 12 (1.10%) Kdb+
13 11 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.01%) MySQL
14 10 (0.92%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.83%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 73 (6.70%) Maven
2 66 (6.06%) JIRA
3 53 (4.87%) GitLab
3 53 (4.87%) Selenium
4 51 (4.68%) SonarQube
4 51 (4.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (4.59%) Bitbucket
6 49 (4.50%) Cucumber
6 49 (4.50%) Jenkins
7 32 (2.94%) Git
8 16 (1.47%) JUnit
9 12 (1.10%) webpack
10 10 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.73%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.64%) Vite
13 5 (0.46%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.46%) Gradle
14 4 (0.37%) Subversion
15 3 (0.28%) Xcode
General
1 404 (37.10%) Banking
2 256 (23.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 217 (19.93%) Retail
4 200 (18.37%) Law
5 179 (16.44%) Social Skills
6 134 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
7 101 (9.27%) Marketing
8 57 (5.23%) Legal
9 42 (3.86%) Public Sector
10 34 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (3.03%) Local Government
12 20 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.65%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.47%) Front Office
14 16 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.38%) Military
16 11 (1.01%) Private Banking
17 9 (0.83%) Games
18 8 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 263 (24.15%) Software Engineer
2 238 (21.85%) Senior
3 125 (11.48%) Lead
4 101 (9.27%) Java Engineer
5 100 (9.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 98 (9.00%) Analyst
7 79 (7.25%) Designer
7 79 (7.25%) Senior Designer
7 79 (7.25%) Senior Manager
7 79 (7.25%) Senior UX Designer
7 79 (7.25%) UX Designer
8 73 (6.70%) Developer
9 54 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 45 (4.13%) Architect
10 45 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 38 (3.49%) Audit Manager
12 38 (3.49%) Senior Audit Manager
13 34 (3.12%) Python Engineer
14 32 (2.94%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (14.14%) Spring
2 131 (12.03%) React
3 117 (10.74%) Kafka
4 112 (10.28%) Spring Boot
5 86 (7.90%) CSS
6 83 (7.62%) HTML
7 62 (5.69%) Hibernate
8 58 (5.33%) JPA
9 53 (4.87%) Redux
10 36 (3.31%) RESTful
11 29 (2.66%) AngularJS
11 29 (2.66%) REST
12 25 (2.30%) jQuery
13 18 (1.65%) OAuth
13 18 (1.65%) OpenID
13 18 (1.65%) SAML
14 16 (1.47%) .NET
15 15 (1.38%) Web Services
16 14 (1.29%) PySpark
17 12 (1.10%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 79 (7.25%) Algorithms
3 61 (5.60%) Cloud Native
4 55 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.74%) Credit Risk
8 15 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.10%) Market Risk
11 11 (1.01%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.92%) Derivative
13 9 (0.83%) Online Banking
14 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.64%) Mainframe
15 7 (0.64%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.64%) Operational Technology
16 6 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.47%) Linux
2 12 (1.10%) Windows
3 10 (0.92%) Android
4 9 (0.83%) Unix
5 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (43.34%) Agile
2 299 (27.46%) Software Engineering
3 286 (26.26%) Coaching
4 252 (23.14%) Customer Experience
5 241 (22.13%) Customer Service
6 225 (20.66%) CI/CD
7 217 (19.93%) SDLC
8 185 (16.99%) Project Management
9 164 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 159 (14.60%) Operational Stability
10 159 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 151 (13.87%) Artificial Intelligence
12 133 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 115 (10.56%) Machine Learning
15 110 (10.10%) Prototyping
16 106 (9.73%) User Experience
16 106 (9.73%) UX Design
17 105 (9.64%) DevOps
17 105 (9.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 217 (19.93%) Java
2 178 (16.35%) SQL
3 117 (10.74%) JavaScript
4 109 (10.01%) Python
5 30 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.84%) C#
7 11 (1.01%) C
8 10 (0.92%) C++
9 9 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.83%) R
10 8 (0.73%) Go
10 8 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.64%) PHP
12 6 (0.55%) Swift
13 5 (0.46%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.46%) Scala
14 4 (0.37%) Bash
14 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.37%) VBA
15 3 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 119 (10.93%) Degree
2 47 (4.32%) ACCA
3 44 (4.04%) CISSP
4 37 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 15 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.10%) PhD
7 11 (1.01%) CIMA
8 10 (0.92%) CISA
8 10 (0.92%) HNC
9 9 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.83%) CISM
9 9 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.83%) HND
10 7 (0.64%) CRISC
11 6 (0.55%) Security Cleared
12 5 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.46%) SC Cleared
13 4 (0.37%) CCA
13 4 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.56%) Accessibility
2 52 (4.78%) QA
3 44 (4.04%) IFRS
4 43 (3.95%) GAAP
5 24 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.19%) NIST
8 10 (0.92%) GDPR
9 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.64%) ITGC
10 7 (0.64%) NCSC
11 5 (0.46%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.28%) SEPA
13 3 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.18%) JTAG
14 2 (0.18%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 89 (8.17%) Docker
2 8 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (0.73%) Firmware
3 5 (0.46%) HDFS
4 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.092%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.22%) Terraform
3 20 (1.84%) Grafana
4 11 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.18%) Istio
8 2 (0.18%) Tivoli NetView
9 1 (0.092%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.092%) Puppet
Vendors
1 198 (18.18%) BT
2 84 (7.71%) Oracle
3 49 (4.50%) Solace
4 40 (3.67%) Microsoft
5 29 (2.66%) Google
6 22 (2.02%) Splunk
7 17 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.47%) SAP
9 15 (1.38%) Databricks
10 11 (1.01%) Sage
11 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.83%) Avaloq
13 8 (0.73%) Cognos
13 8 (0.73%) Infor
14 6 (0.55%) Facebook
14 6 (0.55%) IBM
15 5 (0.46%) Adobe
15 5 (0.46%) Cloudera
16 4 (0.37%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.37%) Sybase