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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 931 3,136 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 30.70% 45.94% 27.34%
As % of the General category 44.72% 64.91% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 327 390 575
10th Percentile £30,550 £34,879 £38,752
25th Percentile £32,851 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,445 £59,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% -5.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,885 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 2,082 4,831 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.64% 70.77% 74.81%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,564 1,582
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,500 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £81,250 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +4 400 £62,500 -8.76% 186
Glasgow 0 201 £57,500 +15.00% 180
Midlothian - 65 £32,851 - 14
Lanarkshire +12 62 £66,000 +65.00% 9
West Lothian +5 34 £32,851 -4.78% 4
North Lanarkshire +11 23 - - 3
Stirling +3 23 £42,500 -4.91% 1
East Lothian +1 16 £32,851 -
Dundee +8 14 £32,500 -35.00% 12
Fife -6 12 £60,000 +46.99% 4
South Lanarkshire +5 11 - - 2
Renfrewshire -14 10 - - 103
East Ayrshire - 9 £60,000 - 1
South Ayrshire - 5 £60,000 - 1
Moray - 5 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeen +25 4 - - 15
Inverclyde -7 4 £24,990 -
Highlands +5 3 - - 4
Shetland Islands - 3 - -
Falkirk - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 3
North Ayrshire - 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 (5.80%) Confluence
2 15 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.61%) Oracle Application Server
2 15 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.18%) Umbraco
4 7 (0.75%) Apache
5 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.43%) Camunda
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.21%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.21%) SAS
6 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.21%) Revit
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Sage 200
1 13 (1.40%) Sage 50
2 8 (0.86%) Infor LN
2 8 (0.86%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 148 (15.90%) AWS
2 110 (11.82%) Azure
3 107 (11.49%) GCP
4 24 (2.58%) Power Platform
5 22 (2.36%) GitHub
6 17 (1.83%) SaaS
7 12 (1.29%) Amazon S3
7 12 (1.29%) Serverless
8 11 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (0.97%) OpenShift
10 9 (0.97%) Snowflake
11 8 (0.86%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.54%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.54%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.43%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.29%) Network Security
2 11 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.97%) Internet
3 9 (0.97%) Modbus
4 8 (0.86%) Firewall
5 6 (0.64%) VPN
6 2 (0.21%) SNA
7 1 (0.11%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.11%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.11%) MQTT
7 1 (0.11%) NAS
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.22%) Tableau
3 27 (2.90%) Big Data
4 21 (2.26%) Power BI
5 19 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (1.50%) MySQL
10 11 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (1.07%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.86%) DB2
13 8 (0.86%) MS Access
14 7 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.64%) KDB
15 6 (0.64%) Kdb+
15 6 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (6.98%) Maven
2 64 (6.87%) JIRA
3 54 (5.80%) GitLab
4 52 (5.59%) Selenium
5 51 (5.48%) SonarQube
5 51 (5.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 50 (5.37%) Bitbucket
7 49 (5.26%) Cucumber
8 45 (4.83%) Jenkins
9 30 (3.22%) Git
10 14 (1.50%) Visual Studio
11 10 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (0.97%) JUnit
13 7 (0.75%) webpack
14 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.32%) Vite
15 3 (0.32%) Xcode
15 3 (0.32%) XCTest
15 3 (0.32%) XCUITest
16 2 (0.21%) Gradle
General
1 374 (40.17%) Banking
2 169 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 166 (17.83%) Retail
4 158 (16.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
6 104 (11.17%) Law
7 56 (6.02%) Marketing
8 48 (5.16%) Legal
9 43 (4.62%) Public Sector
10 33 (3.54%) Local Government
10 33 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 19 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.61%) Military
14 13 (1.40%) Front Office
15 12 (1.29%) Games
16 10 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.86%) Police
18 6 (0.64%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (23.63%) Senior
2 172 (18.47%) Software Engineer
3 110 (11.82%) Analyst
4 96 (10.31%) Lead
5 79 (8.49%) Designer
5 79 (8.49%) Senior Designer
5 79 (8.49%) Senior UX Designer
5 79 (8.49%) UX Designer
6 69 (7.41%) Developer
7 60 (6.44%) Senior Manager
8 51 (5.48%) Java Engineer
9 48 (5.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 47 (5.05%) Architect
11 41 (4.40%) Audit Manager
12 38 (4.08%) Senior Audit Manager
13 29 (3.11%) Lead Software Engineer
13 29 (3.11%) Risk Manager
14 22 (2.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (2.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 21 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (11.82%) Spring
2 101 (10.85%) React
3 90 (9.67%) Spring Boot
4 89 (9.56%) CSS
5 87 (9.34%) Kafka
6 85 (9.13%) HTML
7 57 (6.12%) Hibernate
8 53 (5.69%) JPA
8 53 (5.69%) Redux
9 26 (2.79%) jQuery
9 26 (2.79%) RESTful
10 21 (2.26%) .NET
11 17 (1.83%) .NET Framework
11 17 (1.83%) REST
12 15 (1.61%) .NET Core
12 15 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.61%) OAuth
12 15 (1.61%) OpenID
12 15 (1.61%) SAML
13 13 (1.40%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 89 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 53 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 36 (3.87%) Cloud Native
5 32 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.26%) Credit Risk
7 20 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.93%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.40%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (0.97%) Online Banking
11 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.86%) Device Driver
12 8 (0.86%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.75%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.64%) Derivative
14 6 (0.64%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.64%) Reference Data
15 4 (0.43%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.93%) Linux
2 11 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (1.07%) Android
4 8 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (0.75%) Unix
6 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (41.03%) Agile
2 239 (25.67%) Coaching
3 208 (22.34%) Software Engineering
4 201 (21.59%) Customer Experience
5 186 (19.98%) Customer Service
6 165 (17.72%) Project Management
7 161 (17.29%) CI/CD
8 155 (16.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 137 (14.72%) SDLC
10 130 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (11.49%) DevOps
12 105 (11.28%) Prototyping
12 105 (11.28%) User Experience
12 105 (11.28%) UX Design
13 104 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (10.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 101 (10.85%) User Research
15 100 (10.74%) Analytics
16 98 (10.53%) Journey Map
17 96 (10.31%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 154 (16.54%) SQL
2 150 (16.11%) Java
3 112 (12.03%) JavaScript
4 84 (9.02%) Python
5 23 (2.47%) C#
6 17 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.29%) C
8 11 (1.18%) C++
9 10 (1.07%) PHP
10 9 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.54%) Go
11 5 (0.54%) Swift
11 5 (0.54%) VBA
12 4 (0.43%) Bash
12 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.43%) R
13 3 (0.32%) JCL
13 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.32%) Scala
14 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (11.17%) Degree
2 44 (4.73%) ACCA
3 29 (3.11%) CISSP
4 21 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 14 (1.50%) PhD
8 12 (1.29%) CISA
9 10 (1.07%) CIMA
9 10 (1.07%) CISM
10 9 (0.97%) HNC
10 9 (0.97%) HND
11 8 (0.86%) CRISC
12 6 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.14%) Accessibility
2 55 (5.91%) QA
3 42 (4.51%) IFRS
4 41 (4.40%) GAAP
5 18 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.40%) NIST
8 9 (0.97%) GDPR
9 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.75%) ITGC
9 7 (0.75%) NCSC
10 6 (0.64%) COBIT
11 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.32%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.11%) JTAG
13 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 86 (9.24%) Docker
2 9 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (0.97%) Firmware
3 2 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.97%) Terraform
3 13 (1.40%) Grafana
4 11 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.54%) Ansible
7 2 (0.21%) Istio
7 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.21%) Netcool
7 2 (0.21%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.21%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 149 (16.00%) BT
2 63 (6.77%) Oracle
3 49 (5.26%) Solace
4 37 (3.97%) Microsoft
5 26 (2.79%) Google
6 15 (1.61%) Sage
6 15 (1.61%) SAP
7 11 (1.18%) Splunk
8 8 (0.86%) Cognos
8 8 (0.86%) Databricks
8 8 (0.86%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.86%) Infor
9 7 (0.75%) Avaloq
10 5 (0.54%) Adobe
10 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.43%) Blue Prism
11 4 (0.43%) IBM
11 4 (0.43%) Sybase
11 4 (0.43%) Tealium
11 4 (0.43%) UiPath