Finance Jobs in South Wales

Financial
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Finance 193 235 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 13.39% 20.49% 21.02%
As % of the General category 25.16% 31.46% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 141 113 179
10th Percentile £28,290 £32,300 £36,115
25th Percentile £36,125 £37,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £77,672 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +41.89%

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 767 747 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 53.23% 65.13% 56.30%
Number of salaries quoted 538 387 526
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,516 £31,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,107 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £44,750 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -9.14% +15.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £43,500 £44,666 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% -5.97% +11.76%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in South Wales.

Salary trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
Cardiff -3 117 £46,250 -19.57% 49
Bridgend -28 27 £27,398 -8.68%
Newport +3 25 £52,101 +15.78% 10
Gwent +3 15 £28,290 - 4
Caerphilly -5 5 £30,000 -14.29% 1
Glamorgan +7 4 £28,290 -24.56% 23
Finance
Wales

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 9 (4.66%) Apache
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.63%) Confluence
3 7 (3.63%) SAS
4 5 (2.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.55%) WordPress
6 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (12.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (7.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.52%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.39%) Azure
2 26 (13.47%) AWS
3 23 (11.92%) GCP
4 18 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.29%) Entra ID
6 14 (7.25%) OneDrive
7 12 (6.22%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.63%) WhatsApp
9 6 (3.11%) iPaaS
9 6 (3.11%) PaaS
9 6 (3.11%) SaaS
10 5 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.59%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.55%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.74%) Firewall
1 13 (6.74%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (3.11%) DNS
2 6 (3.11%) VPN
3 5 (2.59%) Internet
3 5 (2.59%) IPsec
3 5 (2.59%) SNMP
4 4 (2.07%) DHCP
4 4 (2.07%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.07%) Wireless
5 3 (1.55%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.04%) Intranet
6 2 (1.04%) SSL
6 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.22%) MySQL
4 11 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.63%) Power BI
6 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.07%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.07%) Tableau
8 3 (1.55%) QlikView
9 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Git
2 11 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.70%) Selenium
3 9 (4.66%) JIRA
4 5 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.04%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 92 (47.67%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.40%) Banking
4 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.22%) Legal
5 12 (6.22%) Marketing
6 11 (5.70%) Games
6 11 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.15%) Retail
9 7 (3.63%) Advertising
9 7 (3.63%) Welsh Language
10 6 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.59%) Police
12 4 (2.07%) Local Government
12 4 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.04%) Law
13 2 (1.04%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 50 (25.91%) Senior
2 41 (21.24%) Developer
3 24 (12.44%) Analyst
4 22 (11.40%) Lead
5 18 (9.33%) Support Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.29%) Consultant
8 13 (6.74%) Desktop Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Desktop Support
8 13 (6.74%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.18%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.15%) Full Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.63%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Financial Analyst
13 6 (3.11%) Senior Financial Analyst
14 5 (2.59%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.84%) React
2 12 (6.22%) AngularJS
2 12 (6.22%) HTML
2 12 (6.22%) REST
3 11 (5.70%) .NET
3 11 (5.70%) CSS
3 11 (5.70%) Spring
3 11 (5.70%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.66%) Laravel
5 6 (3.11%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.11%) Apache Camel
5 6 (3.11%) ASP.NET
5 6 (3.11%) RESTful
6 5 (2.59%) JSON
6 5 (2.59%) Node.js
6 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.59%) YAML
7 4 (2.07%) GatsbyJS
7 4 (2.07%) Redux
8 3 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.15%) Social Media
4 7 (3.63%) Housing Association
4 7 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.63%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.59%) Replication
5 5 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.07%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.07%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.52%) Blog
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.95%) Windows
2 12 (6.22%) Linux
3 5 (2.59%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.04%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (29.53%) Agile
2 49 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (16.06%) Roadmaps
4 28 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (13.99%) Actionable Insight
5 27 (13.99%) Mentoring
6 26 (13.47%) Fintech
7 25 (12.95%) Asset Management
8 23 (11.92%) Test Automation
9 20 (10.36%) Project Management
10 19 (9.84%) Containerisation
11 18 (9.33%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (8.81%) Integration Testing
13 16 (8.29%) Decision-Making
13 16 (8.29%) Mathematics
13 16 (8.29%) SDLC
14 15 (7.77%) Coaching
14 15 (7.77%) Scrum
15 14 (7.25%) ITIL
15 14 (7.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.17%) SQL
2 24 (12.44%) Java
3 19 (9.84%) Python
4 16 (8.29%) C#
5 15 (7.77%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.22%) PHP
8 7 (3.63%) R
9 6 (3.11%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.55%) Groovy
11 2 (1.04%) VBA
12 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (11.40%) Degree
2 13 (6.74%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.11%) ACCA
3 6 (3.11%) CIMA
4 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) MCP
5 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) PMP
5 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.70%) QA
2 10 (5.18%) IFRS
3 6 (3.11%) GDPR
4 4 (2.07%) CRD IV
4 4 (2.07%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (14.51%) Docker
2 21 (10.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.15%) Ansible
3 5 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.59%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.59%) Terraform
3 5 (2.59%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.04%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 39 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.44%) Oracle
3 6 (3.11%) Hyperion
3 6 (3.11%) PeopleSoft
3 6 (3.11%) Veeam
3 6 (3.11%) VMware
4 5 (2.59%) Google
4 5 (2.59%) NetApp
4 5 (2.59%) Palo Alto
4 5 (2.59%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.59%) SolidFire
4 5 (2.59%) Sophos
5 4 (2.07%) Asigra
5 4 (2.07%) Datto
5 4 (2.07%) IBM
5 4 (2.07%) Sage
6 3 (1.55%) WooCommerce
7 2 (1.04%) Blue Prism
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) UiPath