Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,186 1,310 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.45% 27.65% 20.13%
As % of the General category 65.79% 36.79% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 440 636 657
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,647 £35,525
25th Percentile £44,500 £51,250 £44,138
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £97,290 £83,872
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% +4.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,843 3,561 3,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.13% 75.17% 61.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,558 1,705 1,917
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +13.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £87,419 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +3 2,754 £50,000 -20.00% 75
Edinburgh -1 334 £70,000 +4.37% 109
West Lothian +13 23 £34,500 -34.29% 5
Dundee +1 17 £50,000 +26.58% 3
Fife 0 12 £40,818 -18.36% 6
Aberdeen -11 10 £101,100 +83.82% 20
Stirling -3 9 £44,695 +10.18% 2
Renfrewshire - 7 £152,200 - 3
Lanarkshire -7 5 £40,000 -1.23% 26
Argyll and Bute -6 3 - - 5
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 3
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 6
Perth and Kinross - 2 £101,350 - 1
Perthshire -1 1 £50,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire -9 1 £32,500 -
East Lothian - 1 - - 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
1 590 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 149 (4.68%) Apache
3 117 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 103 (3.23%) FileNet
5 51 (1.60%) Confluence
6 31 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
7 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.66%) GemFire
8 21 (0.66%) SharePoint
9 20 (0.63%) Camunda
10 12 (0.38%) SAS
10 12 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.35%) CICS
12 10 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.22%) Captiva
14 2 (0.063%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.031%) CMS
15 1 (0.031%) IIS
15 1 (0.031%) Office Communications Server
15 1 (0.031%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 55 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.00%) UserZoom
3 28 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.47%) Sketch
6 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.094%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.094%) InVision
7 3 (0.094%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.031%) EViews
8 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (0.38%) PlanetPress Connect
4 11 (0.35%) Endur
5 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,229 (38.58%) AWS
2 244 (7.66%) Azure
3 170 (5.34%) GCP
4 115 (3.61%) Datadog
5 106 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 93 (2.92%) Figma
7 75 (2.35%) SurveyMonkey
8 70 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (2.07%) GitHub
11 58 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 58 (1.82%) Serverless
12 55 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 55 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
13 51 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 51 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
13 51 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
14 47 (1.48%) BlazeMeter
15 44 (1.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.57%) Kerberos
2 20 (0.63%) Firewall
2 20 (0.63%) Internet
3 18 (0.56%) Broadband
3 18 (0.56%) DSL
4 16 (0.50%) VPN
5 11 (0.35%) IPsec
6 10 (0.31%) SNMP
6 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.25%) HTTP
7 8 (0.25%) MQTT
7 8 (0.25%) Wireless
8 6 (0.19%) WAN
9 4 (0.13%) DHCP
9 4 (0.13%) DNS
9 4 (0.13%) LAN
10 3 (0.094%) Software-Defined Radio
11 2 (0.063%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.063%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.063%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 677 (21.25%) NoSQL
2 512 (16.07%) Big Data
3 233 (7.31%) Hadoop
4 152 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
5 150 (4.71%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.11%) Apache Hive
7 128 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 120 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.20%) HBase
10 69 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.10%) Metadata
12 52 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 49 (1.54%) SQL Server
14 42 (1.32%) DB2
15 41 (1.29%) Power BI
16 38 (1.19%) CockroachDB
17 37 (1.16%) Qlik Sense
18 36 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
19 32 (1.00%) MySQL
20 30 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 328 (10.30%) Jenkins
2 224 (7.03%) Git
3 215 (6.75%) JUnit
4 149 (4.68%) JIRA
5 119 (3.74%) Jasmine
6 93 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 86 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 77 (2.42%) Maven
9 76 (2.39%) Bitbucket
10 75 (2.35%) Karma Test Runner
11 69 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 66 (2.07%) Selenium
13 60 (1.88%) Protractor
13 60 (1.88%) WebDriver
14 47 (1.48%) Mockito
15 31 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 30 (0.94%) Gradle
17 27 (0.85%) Cucumber
17 27 (0.85%) JMeter
18 26 (0.82%) GitLab
General
1 2,595 (81.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,554 (80.16%) Law
3 1,460 (45.83%) Marketing
4 715 (22.44%) Legal
5 628 (19.71%) Banking
6 400 (12.55%) Social Skills
7 359 (11.27%) Investment Banking
8 261 (8.19%) Financial Institution
9 192 (6.03%) Influencing Skills
10 124 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
11 93 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 91 (2.86%) Private Banking
13 52 (1.63%) Public Sector
14 40 (1.26%) Retail
15 32 (1.00%) Social Science
16 26 (0.82%) Games
17 25 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 25 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (0.78%) Retail Banking
18 22 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2,007 (62.99%) Software Engineer
2 832 (26.11%) Lead
3 797 (25.02%) Java Engineer
4 792 (24.86%) Java Software Engineer
5 684 (21.47%) Lead Software Engineer
6 397 (12.46%) Senior
7 390 (12.24%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.24%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 328 (10.30%) Python Engineer
8 328 (10.30%) Python Software Engineer
9 321 (10.08%) Full Stack Engineer
10 317 (9.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 299 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
11 299 (9.38%) AWS Software Engineer
12 274 (8.60%) Lead Java Engineer
13 237 (7.44%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.16%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.16%) Scala Software Engineer
15 223 (7.00%) Engineering Manager
16 209 (6.56%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (22.25%) Spring
2 536 (16.82%) React
3 426 (13.37%) AngularJS
4 381 (11.96%) Spring Boot
5 380 (11.93%) Kafka
6 291 (9.13%) HTML
7 259 (8.13%) CSS
8 246 (7.72%) J2EE
9 218 (6.84%) JSON
10 201 (6.31%) RESTful
11 195 (6.12%) Hibernate
12 191 (5.99%) Node.js
13 172 (5.40%) PySpark
14 170 (5.34%) JMS
15 165 (5.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 154 (4.83%) jQuery
17 151 (4.74%) Web Services
18 127 (3.99%) GraphQL
19 124 (3.89%) REST
20 116 (3.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 923 (28.97%) Cloud Native
2 786 (24.67%) Algorithms
3 300 (9.42%) Public Cloud
4 185 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 162 (5.08%) Management Information System
6 161 (5.05%) Product Ownership
7 137 (4.30%) Reference Data
8 129 (4.05%) Market Risk
9 114 (3.58%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 64 (2.01%) Distributed Applications
12 60 (1.88%) Credit Risk
13 46 (1.44%) Private Cloud
14 43 (1.35%) Legacy Code
15 31 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 27 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
17 26 (0.82%) Virtual Team
18 23 (0.72%) Social Media
19 21 (0.66%) Replication
19 21 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.21%) Unix
2 154 (4.83%) Linux
3 58 (1.82%) Windows
4 34 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 31 (0.97%) Android
6 10 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
7 7 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.031%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,509 (78.75%) Agile
2 2,392 (75.08%) Software Engineering
3 2,114 (66.35%) SDLC
4 1,978 (62.08%) CI/CD
5 1,864 (58.51%) Operational Stability
6 1,412 (44.32%) Machine Learning
7 1,407 (44.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,294 (40.62%) Community of Practice
9 891 (27.97%) Visualisation
10 873 (27.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 729 (22.88%) Risk Management
12 582 (18.27%) Decision-Making
13 517 (16.23%) Microservices
14 492 (15.44%) Continuous Delivery
15 441 (13.84%) Information Architecture
16 438 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
17 415 (13.03%) Architectural Design
18 381 (11.96%) Full Stack Development
19 364 (11.42%) Computer Science
20 310 (9.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,712 (53.74%) Java
2 1,173 (36.82%) SQL
3 981 (30.79%) Python
4 362 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 319 (10.01%) Scala
6 218 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 151 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 82 (2.57%) Go
9 73 (2.29%) C#
10 65 (2.04%) Prolog
10 65 (2.04%) SPARQL
11 43 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.32%) Groovy
13 39 (1.22%) R
14 31 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.63%) Ruby
17 18 (0.56%) PowerShell
18 11 (0.35%) COBOL
18 11 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 292 (9.17%) Degree
2 81 (2.54%) Master's Degree
3 51 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.41%) PhD
5 25 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 17 (0.53%) ACCA
8 16 (0.50%) SC Cleared
9 15 (0.47%) CISA
10 11 (0.35%) CIMA
11 9 (0.28%) CISSP
11 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.22%) CISM
14 6 (0.19%) AAT
14 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.19%) PMP
15 5 (0.16%) OCP
16 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.73%) Accessibility
2 69 (2.17%) SLA
3 47 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.38%) QA
5 36 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 35 (1.10%) PMO
7 24 (0.75%) GDPR
8 15 (0.47%) WAI
9 13 (0.41%) ITGC
10 12 (0.38%) NIST
11 9 (0.28%) IFRS
11 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.25%) IFRS 9
12 8 (0.25%) SEPA
13 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.094%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.094%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.094%) WCAG
15 2 (0.063%) COSHH
15 2 (0.063%) DICOM
System Software
1 108 (3.39%) Docker
2 102 (3.20%) HDFS
3 87 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.31%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.063%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.031%) KVM
9 1 (0.031%) Xen
Systems Management
1 404 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 288 (9.04%) Terraform
3 177 (5.56%) Grafana
4 92 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.97%) Ansible
6 26 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
7 22 (0.69%) Kibana
8 21 (0.66%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.66%) Zipkin
9 10 (0.31%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.22%) Graphite
10 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.19%) Istio
12 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.063%) Rancher
13 1 (0.031%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.031%) Nagios
13 1 (0.031%) Puppet
13 1 (0.031%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.031%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 392 (12.30%) Oracle
2 263 (8.25%) Databricks
3 185 (5.81%) Splunk
4 164 (5.15%) Dynatrace
5 137 (4.30%) Microsoft
6 105 (3.30%) Google
7 88 (2.76%) Informatica
8 72 (2.26%) Cloudera
9 64 (2.01%) Qualtrics
10 55 (1.73%) Alteryx
11 50 (1.57%) SAP
12 40 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 30 (0.94%) Atlassian
14 28 (0.88%) VMware
15 27 (0.85%) Pega
16 23 (0.72%) Sybase
17 22 (0.69%) IBM
18 19 (0.60%) CA
19 18 (0.56%) Cognos
19 18 (0.56%) Sage