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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 792 3,192 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.45% 47.60% 27.37%
As % of the General category 40.78% 65.75% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 305 412 613
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,025 £39,294
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,800 £50,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £64,472
Median % change year-on-year - -6.94% +12.13%
75th Percentile £85,253 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,350 £100,057 £95,800
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 1,942 4,855 3,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 64.86% 72.40% 75.31%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,551 1,677
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year - -13.28% +5.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,253 £82,548 £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 12 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 12 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 +2 418 £71,991 +2.84% 226
Glasgow -2 101 £60,000 +20.00% 160
Lanarkshire +10 63 £66,000 +65.00% 19
Midlothian - 26 £32,851 - 33
North Lanarkshire +10 24 - - 4
West Lothian +4 24 £32,851 -4.78% 4
Stirling +2 23 £42,500 -4.91%
Dundee +6 17 £32,500 -35.00% 14
Fife -7 13 £60,000 +46.99% 3
South Lanarkshire +5 11 - - 1
Renfrewshire -12 11 - - 94
East Ayrshire - 9 £60,000 - 1
East Lothian +1 5 £32,851 - 4
South Ayrshire - 5 £60,000 -
Moray - 5 £60,000 -
Aberdeen +24 4 - - 20
Inverclyde - 4 £24,990 -
Falkirk - 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - - 1
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 57 (7.20%) Confluence
2 18 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.89%) Oracle Application Server
4 11 (1.39%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.88%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.25%) LaTeX
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (2.02%) Sage 200
1 16 (2.02%) Sage 50
2 8 (1.01%) Infor LN
2 8 (1.01%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (14.65%) AWS
2 112 (14.14%) GCP
3 108 (13.64%) Azure
4 27 (3.41%) GitHub
5 22 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 21 (2.65%) SaaS
7 10 (1.26%) OpenShift
8 7 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (0.88%) Serverless
8 7 (0.88%) Snowflake
9 6 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (0.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.63%) Google Analytics
10 5 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) Internet
1 13 (1.64%) Network Security
2 12 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.26%) Modbus
4 9 (1.14%) Firewall
5 6 (0.76%) VPN
6 3 (0.38%) HTTP
7 2 (0.25%) SNA
8 1 (0.13%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.13%) MQTT
8 1 (0.13%) NAS
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) VoIP
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.04%) Tableau
3 19 (2.40%) Power BI
4 17 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.77%) Big Data
8 13 (1.64%) MySQL
8 13 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.26%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (1.01%) MS Access
13 6 (0.76%) DB2
13 6 (0.76%) Metadata
14 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (0.38%) Data Vault
15 3 (0.38%) SAP HANA
15 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (8.21%) JIRA
2 59 (7.45%) Maven
3 55 (6.94%) GitLab
4 53 (6.69%) Selenium
5 52 (6.57%) SonarQube
5 52 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 49 (6.19%) Bitbucket
6 49 (6.19%) Cucumber
7 48 (6.06%) Jenkins
8 29 (3.66%) Git
9 17 (2.15%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.88%) webpack
12 5 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.38%) Xcode
13 3 (0.38%) XCTest
13 3 (0.38%) XCUITest
14 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.25%) JUnit
General
1 364 (45.96%) Banking
2 176 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.83%) Retail
5 58 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (6.44%) Legal
7 41 (5.18%) Public Sector
8 33 (4.17%) Local Government
9 30 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.53%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.53%) Marketing
13 15 (1.89%) Military
14 11 (1.39%) Games
14 11 (1.39%) Law
15 9 (1.14%) Front Office
16 8 (1.01%) Police
17 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 236 (29.80%) Senior
2 114 (14.39%) Analyst
3 95 (11.99%) Software Engineer
4 79 (9.97%) Designer
4 79 (9.97%) Senior Designer
4 79 (9.97%) Senior UX Designer
4 79 (9.97%) UX Designer
5 73 (9.22%) Developer
6 70 (8.84%) Lead
7 59 (7.45%) Senior Manager
8 49 (6.19%) Architect
9 43 (5.43%) Audit Manager
10 38 (4.80%) Senior Audit Manager
11 31 (3.91%) Risk Manager
12 22 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.65%) Senior Developer
13 21 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (2.40%) Operations Analyst
15 18 (2.27%) .NET Developer
15 18 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (12.75%) CSS
2 92 (11.62%) HTML
3 83 (10.48%) React
4 76 (9.60%) Spring Boot
5 74 (9.34%) Spring
6 58 (7.32%) Kafka
7 56 (7.07%) Redux
8 53 (6.69%) Hibernate
9 49 (6.19%) JPA
10 27 (3.41%) jQuery
11 21 (2.65%) .NET
11 21 (2.65%) .NET Framework
12 18 (2.27%) .NET Core
13 17 (2.15%) OAuth
14 16 (2.02%) HTML5
14 16 (2.02%) React Native
14 16 (2.02%) RESTful
15 12 (1.52%) OpenID
15 12 (1.52%) SAML
15 12 (1.52%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 52 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.28%) Credit Risk
5 24 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.89%) Market Risk
8 13 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.52%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.26%) Learning Management System
12 9 (1.14%) Device Driver
12 9 (1.14%) Online Banking
12 9 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.88%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.51%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.78%) Linux
2 12 (1.52%) Windows
3 9 (1.14%) Android
3 9 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (1.14%) Unix
4 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.25%) zOS
6 1 (0.13%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (40.78%) Agile
2 168 (21.21%) Project Management
3 156 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 151 (19.07%) Coaching
5 140 (17.68%) Software Engineering
6 120 (15.15%) DevOps
7 112 (14.14%) Customer Experience
8 109 (13.76%) User Experience
9 105 (13.26%) UX Design
10 104 (13.13%) Microservices
11 102 (12.88%) Prototyping
11 102 (12.88%) User Research
12 101 (12.75%) CI/CD
13 98 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (12.37%) Journey Map
14 96 (12.12%) Customer Service
14 96 (12.12%) Design Thinking
14 96 (12.12%) Usability Testing
14 96 (12.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 96 (12.12%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 135 (17.05%) SQL
2 122 (15.40%) JavaScript
3 107 (13.51%) Java
4 58 (7.32%) Python
5 25 (3.16%) C#
6 14 (1.77%) Kotlin
7 12 (1.52%) C
8 11 (1.39%) C++
8 11 (1.39%) PHP
8 11 (1.39%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.01%) Bash
9 8 (1.01%) Go
10 7 (0.88%) JCL
10 7 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.76%) VBA
12 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.51%) Scala
13 4 (0.51%) Swift
14 3 (0.38%) ABAP
15 2 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 110 (13.89%) Degree
2 44 (5.56%) ACCA
3 28 (3.54%) CISSP
4 24 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.65%) PhD
7 15 (1.89%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.39%) CISA
9 10 (1.26%) CIMA
9 10 (1.26%) CRISC
10 9 (1.14%) CISM
10 9 (1.14%) HNC
10 9 (1.14%) HND
11 6 (0.76%) Security Cleared
12 5 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.63%) PMP
12 5 (0.63%) SC Cleared
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 63 (7.95%) QA
3 45 (5.68%) IFRS
4 41 (5.18%) GAAP
5 19 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 16 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.77%) NIST
8 10 (1.26%) COBIT
9 9 (1.14%) GDPR
10 7 (0.88%) NCSC
11 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.76%) ITGC
12 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.38%) CRD IV
14 3 (0.38%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.25%) SLA
16 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (11.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (1.26%) Firmware
3 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (11.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.16%) Terraform
3 11 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.63%) CA Endevor
5 4 (0.51%) Grafana
6 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.25%) Ansible
7 2 (0.25%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (6.57%) BT
2 49 (6.19%) Solace
3 46 (5.81%) Oracle
4 38 (4.80%) Microsoft
5 26 (3.28%) Google
6 18 (2.27%) Sage
7 16 (2.02%) SAP
8 8 (1.01%) Cognos
8 8 (1.01%) Infor
9 7 (0.88%) Avaloq
10 6 (0.76%) IBM
11 5 (0.63%) Adobe
12 4 (0.51%) Blue Prism
12 4 (0.51%) Informatica
12 4 (0.51%) Tealium
12 4 (0.51%) UiPath
13 3 (0.38%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.38%) Sybase
14 2 (0.25%) Genesys
14 2 (0.25%) Twitter