Finance Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Financial
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in South Lanarkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Lanarkshire 12.12% 27.27% 6.90%
As % of the General category 12.90% 27.27% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £105,000
75th Percentile £61,563 - -
90th Percentile £68,875 - -
Scotland median annual salary £46,575 £60,743 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.32% -2.81% -3.85%

All General Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 31 11 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 93.94% 100.00% 75.86%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 13
10th Percentile £27,000 - £41,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -11.80%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Finance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

Finance job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

Finance
Salary Trend in South Lanarkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Finance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing Finance

Finance
Salary Histogram in South Lanarkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Lanarkshire over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Finance in South Lanarkshire

Finance
Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
East Kilbride -2 4 £55,000 - 4
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript