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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 361 1,030 2,248
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 10.75% 41.50% 41.07%
As % of the General category 22.33% 56.22% 59.85%
Number of salaries quoted 189 350 313
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,284 £33,358
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -25.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,775 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £92,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%

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 1,617 1,832 3,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.15% 73.81% 68.62%
Number of salaries quoted 734 729 1,403
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,313 £28,300
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £40,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -19.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -4 135 £55,000 -8.63% 70
Glasgow -6 124 £45,000 -21.74% 88
South Lanarkshire -2 12 £55,000 - 3
Lanarkshire -3 11 £45,000 -31.82% 47
Renfrewshire +2 9 £31,500 - 4
Stirling -8 9 £54,500 +28.24% 2
Clackmannanshire -3 8 - -
North Lanarkshire -6 8 £31,500 - 1
Aberdeen -13 6 £34,750 - 3
Aberdeenshire - 6 - - 3
Midlothian -1 5 - - 41
Dumfries and Galloway - 4 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 3 £31,500 -
West Lothian -18 3 £27,500 -16.42%
South Ayrshire - 3 £19,000 -
North Ayrshire 0 2 £31,500 -
Ayrshire 0 2 £31,500 -
East Ayrshire -1 2 £31,500 -
Fife -8 2 £39,250 - 2
Highlands -9 2 £39,500 - 2
Dunbartonshire - 2 £16,640 -
Inverclyde 0 1 £60,000 -
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 (1.94%) Jupyter
2 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.83%) Confluence
3 3 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.83%) Simulink
5 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.55%) LaTeX
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.11%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.55%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.53%) Azure
2 23 (6.37%) AWS
3 18 (4.99%) SaaS
4 7 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.39%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.11%) Boomi
7 4 (1.11%) GitHub
7 4 (1.11%) iPaaS
7 4 (1.11%) Workato
8 3 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.83%) GCP
8 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (0.83%) PaaS
9 2 (0.55%) Collibra
9 2 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.55%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.55%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.28%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) Broadband
2 4 (1.11%) 5G
2 4 (1.11%) Firewall
2 4 (1.11%) Wireless
3 2 (0.55%) DHCP
3 2 (0.55%) DNS
3 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 2 (0.55%) Mobile Broadband
3 2 (0.55%) Softphone
3 2 (0.55%) VLAN
3 2 (0.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.28%) MPLS
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) SDH
4 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (1.94%) Data Mining
3 7 (1.94%) Tableau
4 4 (1.11%) Power BI
5 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.83%) Metadata
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.55%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.28%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (3.60%) JIRA
2 6 (1.66%) Git
3 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.83%) ERwin
6 2 (0.55%) Maven
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) Flyway
7 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.28%) Mockito
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 130 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.24%) Banking
2 55 (15.24%) Legal
3 38 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.97%) Presentation Skills
5 35 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.82%) Retail
7 17 (4.71%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.43%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.16%) Marketing
9 15 (4.16%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.32%) Aerospace
10 12 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.05%) Law
12 8 (2.22%) Billing
12 8 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.94%) Local Government
14 5 (1.39%) Advertising
14 5 (1.39%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 62 (17.17%) Analyst
2 56 (15.51%) Senior
3 42 (11.63%) Lead
4 26 (7.20%) Senior Manager
5 25 (6.93%) Architect
6 22 (6.09%) Support Analyst
7 21 (5.82%) Project Manager
8 18 (4.99%) Business Analyst
9 17 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (4.71%) Trainee
10 16 (4.43%) Administrator
10 16 (4.43%) Financial Analyst
11 14 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 14 (3.88%) Associate Director
11 14 (3.88%) Developer
11 14 (3.88%) Senior Associate Director
12 12 (3.32%) Consultant
12 12 (3.32%) IT Support
12 12 (3.32%) Systems Analyst
12 12 (3.32%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.49%) Hugging Face
2 8 (2.22%) .NET
2 8 (2.22%) AWS CDK
3 6 (1.66%) Web Services
4 5 (1.39%) Matplotlib
4 5 (1.39%) NumPy
4 5 (1.39%) Pandas
4 5 (1.39%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.39%) Streamlit
5 4 (1.11%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.83%) React
6 3 (0.83%) RESTful
7 2 (0.55%) CSS
7 2 (0.55%) HTML
7 2 (0.55%) HTML5
7 2 (0.55%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.55%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.55%) Spring
8 1 (0.28%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.25%) Podcast
1 37 (10.25%) Web Conferencing
2 14 (3.88%) Algorithms
3 13 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.05%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.77%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) FPGA
9 3 (0.83%) VHDL
10 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.55%) Derivative
10 2 (0.55%) iPhone
10 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.94%) Windows
2 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
4 2 (0.55%) Android
4 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (13.30%) Mentoring
4 47 (13.02%) Coaching
5 46 (12.74%) Agile
6 45 (12.47%) AI
7 36 (9.97%) Statistical Analysis
8 35 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 34 (9.42%) ERP
10 33 (9.14%) Decision-Making
11 29 (8.03%) Analytics
11 29 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (7.20%) Service Delivery
13 24 (6.65%) Customer Service
14 23 (6.37%) Change Management
15 21 (5.82%) Business Analysis
16 19 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (4.99%) Customer Experience
17 18 (4.99%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.31%) SQL
2 24 (6.65%) Python
3 13 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.77%) Java
4 10 (2.77%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.83%) C#
6 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
6 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.83%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.28%) C
8 1 (0.28%) C++
8 1 (0.28%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.28%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (8.03%) Degree
2 16 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (4.43%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.77%) ACCA
4 9 (2.49%) CIMA
4 9 (2.49%) PhD
5 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.94%) ICAEW
7 6 (1.66%) CISSP
7 6 (1.66%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.66%) IRCA
8 5 (1.39%) AAT
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.39%) PMP
9 4 (1.11%) CISA
9 4 (1.11%) CISM
10 3 (0.83%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.68%) QA
2 14 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.32%) GDPR
4 8 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.22%) NEBOSH
5 6 (1.66%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.83%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) NCSC
7 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) UCITS
System Software
1 5 (1.39%) Firmware
1 5 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.83%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Grafana
3 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.71%) SAP
3 11 (3.05%) Google
4 10 (2.77%) Oracle
5 8 (2.22%) Meraki
6 7 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.39%) Avaloq
8 5 (1.39%) IFS
9 4 (1.11%) Siemens
10 3 (0.83%) Xero
11 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.55%) Bomgar
11 2 (0.55%) Charles River
11 2 (0.55%) Databricks
11 2 (0.55%) iManage
11 2 (0.55%) Informatica
11 2 (0.55%) VMware
11 2 (0.55%) Xilinx
12 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace