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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 368 767 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 11.18% 38.58% 49.74%
As % of the General category 23.83% 50.07% 66.60%
Number of salaries quoted 147 294 412
10th Percentile £28,800 £26,194 £36,025
25th Percentile £34,250 £38,750 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -6.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,395 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,450 £100,057
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

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 general skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,544 1,532 4,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 46.89% 77.06% 74.69%
Number of salaries quoted 650 655 1,551
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,094 £32,851 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -13.28%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £93,778 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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
Edinburgh -3 213 £47,500 -33.09% 63
Glasgow -5 102 £45,000 -25.00% 51
Stirling -10 12 £54,500 +28.24%
Renfrewshire -4 7 - - 7
South Lanarkshire -5 7 £72,500 - 2
Aberdeen -13 6 £34,750 - 6
Highlands - 3 £39,500 - 1
West Lothian -20 2 £27,500 -16.29% 2
Dunbartonshire - 2 £16,640 - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 - - 1
East Lothian +2 1 £30,000 -8.68% 1
Inverclyde +1 1 £60,000 +140.10% 2
Midlothian -5 1 - - 37
West Dunbartonshire -6 1 £49,000 -
Dundee -13 1 - - 2
South Ayrshire - 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 7 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (1.36%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.90%) Oracle Smart View
5 5 (1.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.54%) Weka
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (5.71%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (3.80%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (3.80%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (3.80%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (3.80%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (3.80%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.90%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (1.09%) Markit EDM
4 4 (1.09%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.82%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.54%) Alphatax
6 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.99%) Azure
2 61 (16.58%) GitHub
3 59 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (9.24%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 28 (7.61%) AWS
7 25 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (6.52%) dbt
9 19 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.62%) SaaS
11 14 (3.80%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (3.80%) OCI
12 13 (3.53%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.90%) Azure Event Grid
14 7 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.90%) Salesforce Einstein
14 7 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.90%) Telnet
2 5 (1.36%) Broadband
2 5 (1.36%) Firewall
3 4 (1.09%) 5G
3 4 (1.09%) Wireless
4 2 (0.54%) DHCP
4 2 (0.54%) DNS
4 2 (0.54%) Mobile Broadband
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) Softphone
4 2 (0.54%) VLAN
4 2 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.35%) Tableau
3 13 (3.53%) Power BI
4 9 (2.45%) Data Mining
4 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.90%) Essbase
5 7 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (1.36%) Metadata
7 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (7.61%) JIRA
1 28 (7.61%) Oracle Forms
2 19 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.99%) Git
4 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.09%) ERwin
6 3 (0.82%) Storybook
7 1 (0.27%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.27%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.27%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
General
1 122 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.97%) Marketing
5 21 (5.71%) Legal
6 19 (5.16%) Financial Institution
7 17 (4.62%) Retail
8 14 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.26%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.99%) Banking
12 10 (2.72%) Front Office
12 10 (2.72%) General Ledger
13 9 (2.45%) Advertising
14 8 (2.17%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.36%) Local Government
16 4 (1.09%) Electronics
16 4 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
16 4 (1.09%) Law
16 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (25.27%) Analyst
2 84 (22.83%) Senior
3 33 (8.97%) Business Analyst
4 29 (7.88%) Trainee
5 27 (7.34%) Applications Engineer
6 26 (7.07%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
8 20 (5.43%) IT Support
8 20 (5.43%) Support Analyst
9 15 (4.08%) Applications Support
9 15 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.80%) Lead
10 14 (3.80%) Oracle Analyst
10 14 (3.80%) Salesforce Engineer
10 14 (3.80%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 13 (3.53%) Architect
11 13 (3.53%) Financial Analyst
12 12 (3.26%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.71%) OAuth
1 21 (5.71%) RESTful
1 21 (5.71%) SOAP
2 18 (4.89%) JSON
3 17 (4.62%) .NET
4 14 (3.80%) Lightning Web Components
4 14 (3.80%) OAuth2
4 14 (3.80%) REST
5 8 (2.17%) XML
6 7 (1.90%) ADO
6 7 (1.90%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (1.90%) GraphQL
6 7 (1.90%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.90%) SAML
6 7 (1.90%) Swagger
6 7 (1.90%) Web Services
6 7 (1.90%) YAML
7 5 (1.36%) Hugging Face
7 5 (1.36%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.16%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.17%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.17%) Equities
7 8 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.63%) Life Science
9 6 (1.63%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.82%) Podcast
11 3 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.54%) iPhone
13 1 (0.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.16%) Windows
2 10 (2.72%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.09%) Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (31.79%) Coaching
2 110 (29.89%) Asset Management
3 101 (27.45%) Agile
4 84 (22.83%) CI/CD
5 83 (22.55%) DevOps
6 77 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (16.30%) Analytics
8 60 (16.30%) Mentoring
9 53 (14.40%) AI
10 52 (14.13%) Test Automation
11 49 (13.32%) Observability
12 46 (12.50%) ERP
12 46 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 43 (11.68%) Migration
14 40 (10.87%) Data Modelling
15 36 (9.78%) Project Management
15 36 (9.78%) Root Cause Analysis
16 32 (8.70%) Business Analysis
17 31 (8.42%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (26.09%) SQL
2 61 (16.58%) Python
3 32 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 25 (6.79%) Java
5 14 (3.80%) Apex Code
5 14 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.80%) PL/SQL
5 14 (3.80%) Shell Script
6 10 (2.72%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.17%) C#
8 7 (1.90%) Bicep
8 7 (1.90%) Groovy
8 7 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (5.98%) Degree
2 13 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.99%) PMI Certification
3 11 (2.99%) PMP
4 8 (2.17%) CISSP
5 7 (1.90%) A+ Certification
5 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.63%) IRCA
7 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.36%) CREST Certified
7 5 (1.36%) SANS
8 4 (1.09%) ACCA
8 4 (1.09%) CIMA
9 3 (0.82%) CFA
9 3 (0.82%) CISM
9 3 (0.82%) HNC
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 20 (5.43%) QA
3 15 (4.08%) GDPR
4 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.63%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.09%) NEBOSH
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) WCAG
7 2 (0.54%) GRC
7 2 (0.54%) GxP
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.45%) Docker
3 5 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.54%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.54%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (11.68%) Terraform
2 15 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (2.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.90%) Grafana
4 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) CASB
Vendors
1 61 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.14%) Oracle
3 14 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.53%) SAP
5 11 (2.99%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.72%) Hyperion
7 8 (2.17%) Avaloq
8 7 (1.90%) Charles River
8 7 (1.90%) IBM
8 7 (1.90%) Okta
9 6 (1.63%) Meraki
10 5 (1.36%) Anaplan
10 5 (1.36%) Databricks
11 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.54%) Bomgar
12 2 (0.54%) iManage
13 1 (0.27%) Arista
13 1 (0.27%) Infor
13 1 (0.27%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.27%) Xero