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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing Finance 2,259 1,043 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 39.65% 27.49% 23.23%
As % of the General category 59.24% 37.17% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 311 535 821
10th Percentile £33,000 £37,652 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,177 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,542 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%

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 3,813 2,806 3,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 66.92% 73.96% 65.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,519 2,130
10th Percentile £28,650 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,350 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Glasgow +2 1,877 £50,000 -16.67% 43
Edinburgh -1 277 £65,000 +7.41% 36
West Lothian +9 23 £34,500 -23.33% 5
Dundee +4 13 £32,500 -41.61% 2
Renfrewshire - 13 £65,000 - 1
Fife +2 12 £40,818 -18.36% 4
Aberdeen -12 11 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Lanarkshire -5 7 £40,000 -36.00% 31
Argyll and Bute - 4 £48,000 - 1
Perth and Kinross +1 3 £59,608 -
Stirling -7 3 £44,695 -8.09% 3
East Lothian - 3 - - 1
Inverclyde - 3 - -
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 3
Perthshire -3 1 £50,500 -43.89%
North Lanarkshire -6 1 £32,500 -4.41% 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
1 324 (14.34%) Apache Spark
2 98 (4.34%) FileNet
3 70 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (2.97%) Apache
5 35 (1.55%) Confluence
6 32 (1.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 23 (1.02%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.93%) GemFire
8 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.71%) SAS
10 11 (0.49%) CICS
11 7 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) IIS
14 2 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.044%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.044%) CMS
15 1 (0.044%) Office Communications Server
15 1 (0.044%) Tuxedo
15 1 (0.044%) WildFly
Applications
1 38 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.66%) Sketch
5 7 (0.31%) UserZoom
6 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.13%) InVision
8 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.044%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.35%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.27%) Endur
3 6 (0.27%) Sage 200
3 6 (0.27%) Sage 50
4 4 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.044%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.044%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.044%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.044%) JDE World
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.044%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.044%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.044%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 784 (34.71%) AWS
2 175 (7.75%) Azure
3 116 (5.14%) Datadog
4 108 (4.78%) Amazon S3
5 85 (3.76%) GCP
6 72 (3.19%) Figma
7 61 (2.70%) GitHub
8 55 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (2.12%) SurveyMonkey
10 47 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (1.77%) Serverless
12 35 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
13 34 (1.51%) Power Platform
14 33 (1.46%) BlazeMeter
15 32 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
17 29 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.70%) Kerberos
2 25 (1.11%) Firewall
3 18 (0.80%) Broadband
4 14 (0.62%) IPsec
4 14 (0.62%) VPN
5 12 (0.53%) Internet
6 11 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.44%) SNMP
8 7 (0.31%) DHCP
8 7 (0.31%) DNS
9 6 (0.27%) LAN
9 6 (0.27%) WAN
10 4 (0.18%) Wireless
11 3 (0.13%) Software-Defined Radio
11 3 (0.13%) VoIP
12 2 (0.089%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.089%) HTTP
12 2 (0.089%) Network Security
13 1 (0.044%) Modbus
13 1 (0.044%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (19.88%) NoSQL
2 278 (12.31%) Big Data
3 135 (5.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 132 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
5 121 (5.36%) Hadoop
6 74 (3.28%) Apache Hive
7 72 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 60 (2.66%) HBase
9 53 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 48 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 46 (2.04%) Metadata
12 38 (1.68%) CockroachDB
13 35 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
14 30 (1.33%) Power BI
15 29 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
16 21 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (0.93%) Hazelcast
17 20 (0.89%) DB2
17 20 (0.89%) SQL Server
18 19 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 206 (9.12%) Jenkins
2 195 (8.63%) JUnit
3 136 (6.02%) Git
4 105 (4.65%) Jasmine
5 97 (4.29%) JIRA
6 90 (3.98%) Cypress.io
7 68 (3.01%) Selenium
8 60 (2.66%) Bitbucket Server
8 60 (2.66%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (2.66%) Protractor
8 60 (2.66%) WebDriver
9 55 (2.43%) Bitbucket
10 49 (2.17%) Maven
11 48 (2.12%) Artifactory
12 46 (2.04%) Mockito
13 31 (1.37%) JMeter
14 29 (1.28%) Cucumber
15 25 (1.11%) Android Studio
16 23 (1.02%) GitLab
17 21 (0.93%) Jaeger
General
1 1,726 (76.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1,687 (74.68%) Law
3 913 (40.42%) Marketing
4 517 (22.89%) Legal
5 363 (16.07%) Banking
6 311 (13.77%) Social Skills
7 282 (12.48%) Investment Banking
8 138 (6.11%) Financial Institution
9 103 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
10 79 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
11 47 (2.08%) Public Sector
12 37 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.33%) Social Science
14 27 (1.20%) Games
15 25 (1.11%) Retail
16 22 (0.97%) Prime Brokerage
16 22 (0.97%) Retail Banking
17 21 (0.93%) Publishing
18 18 (0.80%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.62%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1,322 (58.52%) Software Engineer
2 574 (25.41%) Lead
3 537 (23.77%) Java Engineer
4 534 (23.64%) Java Software Engineer
5 432 (19.12%) Lead Software Engineer
6 317 (14.03%) Senior
7 242 (10.71%) Big Data Engineer
7 242 (10.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 214 (9.47%) Python Engineer
8 214 (9.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 206 (9.12%) Full Stack Engineer
10 205 (9.07%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 196 (8.68%) Lead Java Engineer
12 192 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
12 192 (8.50%) AWS Software Engineer
13 171 (7.57%) Data Engineer
14 149 (6.60%) Engineering Manager
15 135 (5.98%) Scala Engineer
15 135 (5.98%) Scala Software Engineer
16 134 (5.93%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (21.38%) Spring
2 370 (16.38%) React
3 289 (12.79%) Kafka
4 268 (11.86%) AngularJS
5 220 (9.74%) J2EE
6 215 (9.52%) HTML
7 212 (9.38%) Spring Boot
8 192 (8.50%) CSS
9 191 (8.46%) Hibernate
10 183 (8.10%) JSON
11 173 (7.66%) Node.js
12 162 (7.17%) JMS
13 158 (6.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 138 (6.11%) jQuery
15 117 (5.18%) GraphQL
15 117 (5.18%) PySpark
16 113 (5.00%) Web Services
17 109 (4.83%) RESTful
18 102 (4.52%) Spring Integration
19 96 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 638 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 551 (24.39%) Algorithms
3 140 (6.20%) Public Cloud
4 127 (5.62%) Onboarding
5 119 (5.27%) Management Information System
6 101 (4.47%) Market Risk
7 97 (4.29%) Data Structures
8 89 (3.94%) Reference Data
9 74 (3.28%) Product Ownership
10 62 (2.74%) Credit Risk
11 47 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
12 44 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 28 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (0.93%) Legacy Code
14 21 (0.93%) Replication
15 20 (0.89%) Private Cloud
15 20 (0.89%) Social Media
16 19 (0.84%) Data Centre
17 14 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 105 (4.65%) Unix
2 87 (3.85%) Linux
3 51 (2.26%) Windows
4 29 (1.28%) Android
4 29 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
5 10 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.089%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.044%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,602 (70.92%) Agile
2 1,575 (69.72%) Software Engineering
3 1,395 (61.75%) SDLC
4 1,318 (58.34%) CI/CD
5 1,224 (54.18%) Operational Stability
6 967 (42.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 947 (41.92%) Machine Learning
8 881 (39.00%) Community of Practice
9 605 (26.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 598 (26.47%) Visualisation
11 517 (22.89%) Risk Management
12 371 (16.42%) Decision-Making
13 315 (13.94%) Continuous Delivery
14 308 (13.63%) Microservices
15 296 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
16 294 (13.01%) Information Architecture
17 278 (12.31%) Computer Science
18 262 (11.60%) Architectural Design
19 244 (10.80%) Full Stack Development
20 215 (9.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (47.41%) Java
2 756 (33.47%) SQL
3 568 (25.14%) Python
4 253 (11.20%) JavaScript
5 182 (8.06%) Scala
6 168 (7.44%) TypeScript
7 94 (4.16%) PL/SQL
8 53 (2.35%) C#
9 49 (2.17%) Go
10 44 (1.95%) Prolog
10 44 (1.95%) SPARQL
11 40 (1.77%) Groovy
12 31 (1.37%) R
13 30 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.24%) PowerShell
15 21 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.49%) COBOL
17 11 (0.49%) JCL
18 7 (0.31%) Bash
Qualifications
1 194 (8.59%) Degree
2 80 (3.54%) Master's Degree
3 47 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 41 (1.81%) PhD
5 21 (0.93%) ACCA
6 16 (0.71%) CIMA
7 14 (0.62%) Security Cleared
8 12 (0.53%) CISA
8 12 (0.53%) SC Cleared
9 11 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 10 (0.44%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.40%) CISSP
12 8 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.35%) CISM
13 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.22%) CFA
15 5 (0.22%) PMP
16 3 (0.13%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (2.39%) QA
2 43 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.93%) GDPR
5 18 (0.80%) IFRS
6 17 (0.75%) SLA
7 14 (0.62%) NIST
8 13 (0.58%) PMO
9 10 (0.44%) GAAP
9 10 (0.44%) Solvency II
10 9 (0.40%) ITGC
11 7 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 6 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.18%) NCSC
14 3 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.13%) WCAG
15 2 (0.089%) COSHH
15 2 (0.089%) DICOM
15 2 (0.089%) GLP
System Software
1 76 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.05%) Docker
3 60 (2.66%) HDFS
4 22 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.22%) RACF
7 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.18%) Firmware
8 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.089%) KVM
10 2 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 196 (8.68%) Terraform
3 148 (6.55%) Grafana
4 89 (3.94%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (0.97%) Ansible
7 21 (0.93%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.93%) Kibana
7 21 (0.93%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.31%) Graphite
9 7 (0.31%) Istio
10 6 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.13%) Fortio
11 3 (0.13%) Kiali
11 3 (0.13%) Puppet
12 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.044%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 281 (12.44%) Oracle
2 159 (7.04%) Splunk
3 149 (6.60%) Databricks
4 140 (6.20%) Dynatrace
5 112 (4.96%) Microsoft
6 72 (3.19%) Google
7 61 (2.70%) Informatica
8 37 (1.64%) Alteryx
8 37 (1.64%) Qualtrics
9 35 (1.55%) SAP
10 30 (1.33%) Cloudera
11 26 (1.15%) VMware
12 25 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 21 (0.93%) CA
14 16 (0.71%) Sage
15 14 (0.62%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.49%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.44%) NetApp
17 10 (0.44%) SaltStack
17 10 (0.44%) SolidFire