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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,193 1,281 1,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.39% 27.24% 20.56%
As % of the General category 65.69% 36.25% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 423 619 686
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,294 £36,389
25th Percentile £44,500 £50,939 £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 £80,000 £79,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,051 £95,200 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +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 4,861 3,534 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.14% 75.16% 61.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 1,703 1,957
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,090 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £57,810 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +6.07% +9.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,269 £85,000 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 2,780 £50,000 -20.00% 85
Edinburgh -1 315 £70,000 +5.10% 113
West Lothian +10 23 £34,500 -34.29% 5
Dundee +1 17 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Fife 0 12 £40,818 -18.36% 8
Aberdeen -12 10 £101,100 +83.82% 26
Stirling -2 9 £44,695 +10.18% 3
Renfrewshire - 7 £152,200 - 3
Lanarkshire -6 5 £40,000 -1.23% 35
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 4
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 3
Perth and Kinross - 2 £101,350 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 5
Perthshire -1 1 £50,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire -8 1 £32,500 -4.41%
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 (18.48%) Apache Spark
2 149 (4.67%) Apache
3 117 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 105 (3.29%) FileNet
5 47 (1.47%) Confluence
6 32 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.66%) GemFire
9 20 (0.63%) Camunda
10 19 (0.60%) SharePoint
11 12 (0.38%) SAS
11 12 (0.38%) WebSphere
12 11 (0.34%) CICS
13 10 (0.31%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.22%) Captiva
15 2 (0.063%) BizTalk Server
16 1 (0.031%) CMS
16 1 (0.031%) IIS
16 1 (0.031%) Office Communications Server
16 1 (0.031%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 53 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.00%) UserZoom
3 26 (0.81%) 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 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.34%) Endur
2 11 (0.34%) PlanetPress Connect
2 11 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
3 4 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.031%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,241 (38.87%) AWS
2 243 (7.61%) Azure
3 172 (5.39%) GCP
4 117 (3.66%) Datadog
5 108 (3.38%) Amazon S3
6 94 (2.94%) Figma
7 75 (2.35%) SurveyMonkey
8 70 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 59 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
11 59 (1.85%) Serverless
12 56 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 55 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
16 48 (1.50%) BlazeMeter
17 42 (1.32%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 680 (21.30%) NoSQL
2 509 (15.94%) Big Data
3 233 (7.30%) Hadoop
4 157 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.10%) Apache Hive
7 129 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 120 (3.76%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.19%) HBase
10 71 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.10%) Metadata
12 52 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 48 (1.50%) SQL Server
14 40 (1.25%) DB2
15 39 (1.22%) Power BI
15 39 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.19%) CockroachDB
17 35 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
18 32 (1.00%) Tableau
19 30 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 323 (10.12%) Jenkins
2 221 (6.92%) Git
3 217 (6.80%) JUnit
4 143 (4.48%) JIRA
5 120 (3.76%) Jasmine
6 92 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 86 (2.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 77 (2.41%) Maven
9 76 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 75 (2.35%) Karma Test Runner
11 69 (2.16%) Artifactory
12 65 (2.04%) Selenium
13 60 (1.88%) Protractor
13 60 (1.88%) WebDriver
14 48 (1.50%) Mockito
15 31 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 30 (0.94%) Gradle
17 28 (0.88%) JMeter
18 26 (0.81%) GitLab
19 25 (0.78%) Android Studio
General
1 2,620 (82.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,580 (80.80%) Law
3 1,478 (46.29%) Marketing
4 718 (22.49%) Legal
5 615 (19.26%) Banking
6 402 (12.59%) Social Skills
7 364 (11.40%) Investment Banking
8 264 (8.27%) Financial Institution
9 192 (6.01%) Influencing Skills
10 120 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
11 94 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 92 (2.88%) Private Banking
13 52 (1.63%) Public Sector
14 39 (1.22%) Retail
15 32 (1.00%) Social Science
16 27 (0.85%) Games
17 26 (0.81%) Retail Banking
18 25 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
19 24 (0.75%) Manufacturing
20 22 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2,021 (63.29%) Software Engineer
2 838 (26.24%) Lead
3 807 (25.27%) Java Engineer
4 802 (25.12%) Java Software Engineer
5 690 (21.61%) Lead Software Engineer
6 398 (12.46%) Senior
7 390 (12.21%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.21%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 332 (10.40%) Python Engineer
8 332 (10.40%) Python Software Engineer
9 324 (10.15%) Full Stack Engineer
10 321 (10.05%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 301 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
11 301 (9.43%) AWS Software Engineer
12 278 (8.71%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (7.55%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.14%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.14%) Scala Software Engineer
15 226 (7.08%) Engineering Manager
16 212 (6.64%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 713 (22.33%) Spring
2 532 (16.66%) React
3 424 (13.28%) AngularJS
4 382 (11.96%) Kafka
5 378 (11.84%) Spring Boot
6 291 (9.11%) HTML
7 260 (8.14%) CSS
8 249 (7.80%) J2EE
9 218 (6.83%) JSON
10 200 (6.26%) RESTful
11 195 (6.11%) Hibernate
12 185 (5.79%) Node.js
13 174 (5.45%) PySpark
14 171 (5.36%) JMS
15 166 (5.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 155 (4.85%) jQuery
17 151 (4.73%) Web Services
18 129 (4.04%) GraphQL
19 123 (3.85%) REST
20 117 (3.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 933 (29.22%) Cloud Native
2 793 (24.84%) Algorithms
3 300 (9.40%) Public Cloud
4 187 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 163 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 160 (5.01%) Product Ownership
7 138 (4.32%) Reference Data
8 131 (4.10%) Market Risk
9 114 (3.57%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 63 (1.97%) Credit Risk
12 47 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 43 (1.35%) Legacy Code
14 31 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (0.75%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.72%) Social Media
18 21 (0.66%) Replication
18 21 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 164 (5.14%) Unix
2 153 (4.79%) Linux
3 56 (1.75%) Windows
4 32 (1.00%) Android
4 32 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
6 7 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.13%) CentOS
9 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.031%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.031%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,508 (78.55%) Agile
2 2,411 (75.51%) Software Engineering
3 2,128 (66.65%) SDLC
4 1,993 (62.42%) CI/CD
5 1,881 (58.91%) Operational Stability
6 1,427 (44.69%) Machine Learning
7 1,421 (44.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,305 (40.87%) Community of Practice
9 899 (28.16%) Visualisation
10 880 (27.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 735 (23.02%) Risk Management
12 586 (18.35%) Decision-Making
13 516 (16.16%) Microservices
14 490 (15.35%) Continuous Delivery
15 442 (13.84%) Information Architecture
16 439 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
17 416 (13.03%) Architectural Design
18 384 (12.03%) Full Stack Development
19 372 (11.65%) Computer Science
20 309 (9.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,715 (53.71%) Java
2 1,178 (36.89%) SQL
3 991 (31.04%) Python
4 360 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 319 (9.99%) Scala
6 218 (6.83%) TypeScript
7 153 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 83 (2.60%) Go
9 72 (2.25%) 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 32 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.63%) Ruby
17 17 (0.53%) PowerShell
18 11 (0.34%) COBOL
18 11 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 292 (9.15%) Degree
2 82 (2.57%) Master's Degree
3 52 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.41%) PhD
5 26 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 17 (0.53%) ACCA
8 16 (0.50%) SC Cleared
9 13 (0.41%) CISA
10 11 (0.34%) CIMA
10 11 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.28%) CISSP
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%) PMP
15 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 69 (2.16%) SLA
3 46 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 46 (1.44%) QA
4 34 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 33 (1.03%) PMO
6 24 (0.75%) GDPR
7 15 (0.47%) WAI
8 12 (0.38%) NIST
9 11 (0.34%) ITGC
10 9 (0.28%) IFRS
10 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.25%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.16%) 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
1 102 (3.19%) HDFS
2 101 (3.16%) Docker
3 86 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
6 10 (0.31%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.063%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.063%) KVM
8 2 (0.063%) vSphere
8 2 (0.063%) Xen
9 1 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 401 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 286 (8.96%) Terraform
3 179 (5.61%) Grafana
4 93 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.97%) Ansible
6 26 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.66%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.66%) Kibana
7 21 (0.66%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.22%) Graphite
9 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.19%) Istio
11 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.063%) Rancher
12 1 (0.031%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.031%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 396 (12.40%) Oracle
2 263 (8.24%) Databricks
3 186 (5.83%) Splunk
4 165 (5.17%) Dynatrace
5 134 (4.20%) Microsoft
6 105 (3.29%) Google
7 88 (2.76%) Informatica
8 72 (2.25%) Cloudera
9 64 (2.00%) Qualtrics
10 57 (1.79%) Alteryx
11 48 (1.50%) SAP
12 38 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 28 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 28 (0.88%) VMware
14 27 (0.85%) Pega
15 23 (0.72%) Sybase
16 22 (0.69%) IBM
17 19 (0.60%) CA
18 18 (0.56%) Cognos
18 18 (0.56%) SaltStack