Finance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Finance 9,702 9,517 15,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.86% 19.77% 19.83%
As % of the General category 27.54% 30.09% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,260 5,163 7,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,115 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,475 £84,095
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,229 31,627 50,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 65.69% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,712 17,348 26,425
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,720
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Scotland +2 2,259 £55,000 -8.33% 143
South East -1 2,100 £54,000 -6.09% 568
North of England -4 2,019 £55,000 -0.08% 513
Midlands 0 1,558 £53,500 -2.73% 356
North West -4 1,198 £55,000 -4.35% 309
South West -6 1,059 £52,500 -4.80% 325
West Midlands 0 989 £55,000 - 205
Yorkshire -5 619 £57,965 +5.39% 146
East Midlands -1 565 £50,000 -9.09% 148
East of England -1 399 £52,500 -4.55% 158
North East +8 202 £49,274 -10.41% 66
Wales -5 175 £45,000 - 56
Northern Ireland 0 103 £50,000 - 142
Isle of Man +2 33 £46,500 -35.86% 4
Channel Islands 0 13 £60,000 -41.46% 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 353 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 246 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 193 (1.99%) SAS
4 157 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 156 (1.61%) Confluence
6 142 (1.46%) Apache
7 98 (1.01%) FileNet
8 83 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
9 43 (0.44%) IIS
10 32 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
11 24 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 23 (0.24%) nginx
13 21 (0.22%) GemFire
14 20 (0.21%) CMS
14 20 (0.21%) WordPress
15 12 (0.12%) ArcGIS
16 11 (0.11%) CICS
16 11 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
17 9 (0.093%) WebSphere
18 6 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1,307 (13.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 897 (9.25%) Microsoft Office
3 329 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 66 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 21 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.18%) Sketch
9 8 (0.082%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.072%) OrCAD
10 7 (0.072%) Siemens NX
10 7 (0.072%) UserZoom
11 6 (0.062%) SPSS
11 6 (0.062%) Trello
12 4 (0.041%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.031%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.031%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.031%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.031%) InVision
13 3 (0.031%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 91 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.93%) NEC Housing
3 86 (0.89%) SAP ERP
4 50 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 45 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
6 36 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 31 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 31 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 29 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 27 (0.28%) NetSuite
10 25 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 23 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
11 23 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
12 20 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
12 20 (0.21%) Sage 200
13 19 (0.20%) iTrent
14 17 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
14 17 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
14 17 (0.18%) Primavera
15 16 (0.16%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (13.17%) AWS
2 1,061 (10.94%) Azure
3 508 (5.24%) Power Platform
4 426 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 262 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 216 (2.23%) SaaS
7 207 (2.13%) GCP
8 169 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 161 (1.66%) Entra ID
10 158 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 129 (1.33%) GitHub
12 122 (1.26%) Datadog
13 101 (1.04%) Serverless
14 93 (0.96%) Figma
15 71 (0.73%) Power Automate
16 69 (0.71%) PowerApps
17 66 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
18 60 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 59 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
20 53 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 379 (3.91%) Broadband
2 214 (2.21%) Firewall
3 142 (1.46%) Internet
4 109 (1.12%) VPN
5 87 (0.90%) DNS
6 85 (0.88%) WAN
7 84 (0.87%) LAN
8 78 (0.80%) Network Security
9 69 (0.71%) Wireless
10 61 (0.63%) Kerberos
11 58 (0.60%) IPsec
11 58 (0.60%) TCP/IP
12 55 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 54 (0.56%) SNMP
14 53 (0.55%) DHCP
15 50 (0.52%) SAN
16 48 (0.49%) 5G
17 32 (0.33%) Ethernet
18 31 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
19 25 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (4.85%) NoSQL
2 433 (4.46%) Power BI
3 304 (3.13%) Big Data
4 281 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 197 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 191 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
7 171 (1.76%) Tableau
8 143 (1.47%) MongoDB
9 137 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
10 134 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 127 (1.31%) Relational Database
12 122 (1.26%) Hadoop
13 118 (1.22%) Metadata
14 104 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
15 76 (0.78%) Oracle Database
16 74 (0.76%) Apache Hive
17 66 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 65 (0.67%) MySQL
19 61 (0.63%) HBase
20 60 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 337 (3.47%) JIRA
2 332 (3.42%) Git
3 251 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 201 (2.07%) JUnit
5 123 (1.27%) Selenium
6 113 (1.16%) Jasmine
7 96 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 63 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 62 (0.64%) WebDriver
10 60 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 60 (0.62%) Bitbucket Server
10 60 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
10 60 (0.62%) Protractor
11 58 (0.60%) Maven
12 52 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 47 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 47 (0.48%) Mockito
14 46 (0.47%) GitLab
15 40 (0.41%) JMeter
16 30 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3,099 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 2,431 (25.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,139 (22.05%) Law
4 1,806 (18.61%) Marketing
5 1,730 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
6 1,302 (13.42%) Legal
7 1,047 (10.79%) Retail
8 999 (10.30%) Banking
9 512 (5.28%) Investment Banking
10 479 (4.94%) Public Sector
11 470 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
12 413 (4.26%) Manufacturing
13 323 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
14 277 (2.86%) Telecoms
15 270 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
16 207 (2.13%) Financial Institution
17 194 (2.00%) Local Government
18 142 (1.46%) Electronics
19 134 (1.38%) Billing
20 118 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,445 (14.89%) Software Engineer
2 1,411 (14.54%) Senior
3 1,321 (13.62%) Analyst
4 1,219 (12.56%) Lead
5 730 (7.52%) Developer
6 556 (5.73%) Java Engineer
7 541 (5.58%) Architect
7 541 (5.58%) Project Manager
8 539 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 497 (5.12%) Development Manager
10 447 (4.61%) Consultant
11 442 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 371 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
13 272 (2.80%) Data Engineer
14 264 (2.72%) Financial Analyst
15 243 (2.50%) Big Data Engineer
15 243 (2.50%) IT Manager
16 242 (2.49%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 237 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
18 225 (2.32%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (5.65%) React
2 529 (5.45%) Spring
3 424 (4.37%) HTML
4 379 (3.91%) AngularJS
5 371 (3.82%) Kafka
6 367 (3.78%) .NET
7 352 (3.63%) CSS
8 244 (2.51%) JSON
8 244 (2.51%) Spring Boot
9 242 (2.49%) Node.js
10 222 (2.29%) J2EE
11 202 (2.08%) Web Services
12 195 (2.01%) Hibernate
13 180 (1.86%) REST
14 172 (1.77%) RESTful
15 169 (1.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 165 (1.70%) jQuery
17 163 (1.68%) GraphQL
17 163 (1.68%) JMS
18 152 (1.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 714 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 617 (6.36%) Algorithms
3 449 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 386 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 282 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 254 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 212 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 159 (1.64%) Credit Risk
9 158 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 143 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 129 (1.33%) Driving Licence
12 120 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 109 (1.12%) NHS
14 108 (1.11%) Market Risk
15 99 (1.02%) PMI
16 94 (0.97%) Reference Data
17 74 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 69 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
19 58 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
20 57 (0.59%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 624 (6.43%) Windows
2 344 (3.55%) Linux
3 195 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 153 (1.58%) Unix
5 117 (1.21%) Windows 10
6 91 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 73 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 67 (0.69%) Android
9 63 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 49 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
11 34 (0.35%) CentOS
12 31 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 31 (0.32%) Windows 7
13 17 (0.18%) AIX
13 17 (0.18%) Windows Vista
14 16 (0.16%) Solaris
15 15 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 13 (0.13%) Ubuntu
16 13 (0.13%) Windows 8
17 11 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,540 (36.49%) Agile
2 1,895 (19.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,641 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
4 1,561 (16.09%) CI/CD
5 1,557 (16.05%) SDLC
6 1,292 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,244 (12.82%) Operational Stability
8 1,177 (12.13%) Decision-Making
9 1,155 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1,115 (11.49%) Machine Learning
11 1,112 (11.46%) Project Management
12 1,008 (10.39%) Mentoring
13 990 (10.20%) Risk Management
14 909 (9.37%) Coaching
15 907 (9.35%) Community of Practice
16 863 (8.90%) Roadmaps
17 822 (8.47%) Data Management
18 770 (7.94%) Visualisation
19 753 (7.76%) Business Development
20 682 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,646 (16.97%) SQL
2 1,282 (13.21%) Java
3 1,003 (10.34%) Python
4 567 (5.84%) JavaScript
5 424 (4.37%) C#
6 295 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 249 (2.57%) PowerShell
8 189 (1.95%) Scala
9 131 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 105 (1.08%) T-SQL
11 104 (1.07%) Go
12 95 (0.98%) R
13 74 (0.76%) PHP
14 70 (0.72%) Bash
14 70 (0.72%) C++
15 67 (0.69%) C
16 49 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 44 (0.45%) Prolog
17 44 (0.45%) SPARQL
18 41 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,433 (14.77%) Degree
2 462 (4.76%) ACCA
3 455 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 353 (3.64%) CIMA
5 245 (2.53%) SC Cleared
6 202 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 183 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 173 (1.78%) DBS Check
9 160 (1.65%) PMI Certification
10 113 (1.16%) CISSP
11 111 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 92 (0.95%) PMP
13 82 (0.85%) CISM
14 71 (0.73%) Azure Certification
15 70 (0.72%) MBA
16 69 (0.71%) AWS Certification
17 63 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
18 60 (0.62%) PhD
19 54 (0.56%) CRISC
20 42 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (2.93%) QA
2 282 (2.91%) GDPR
3 281 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 205 (2.11%) SLA
5 166 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 143 (1.47%) IFRS
7 130 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 122 (1.26%) PMO
9 75 (0.77%) NIST
10 59 (0.61%) GAAP
11 46 (0.47%) IFRS 9
12 36 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 36 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 33 (0.34%) GRC
15 25 (0.26%) ISO 9001
16 20 (0.21%) NCSC
17 17 (0.18%) ITGC
18 16 (0.16%) Solvency II
19 15 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 431 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 260 (2.68%) Docker
3 213 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 62 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 60 (0.62%) HDFS
7 44 (0.45%) RACF
8 38 (0.39%) vSphere
9 37 (0.38%) Firmware
10 29 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 29 (0.30%) XenApp
11 20 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
12 18 (0.19%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.16%) OpenSSH
14 13 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
15 11 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
16 9 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.093%) Terminal Services
17 7 (0.072%) IAG
17 7 (0.072%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 407 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 329 (3.39%) Terraform
3 168 (1.73%) Grafana
4 139 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 88 (0.91%) Ansible
6 85 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 65 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 60 (0.62%) SCCM
9 26 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 26 (0.27%) Kibana
10 22 (0.23%) WSUS
11 21 (0.22%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 18 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (0.18%) IBM BigFix
14 16 (0.16%) NetBackup
14 16 (0.16%) PowerCLI
14 16 (0.16%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.13%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.12%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2,133 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 681 (7.02%) Oracle
3 430 (4.43%) SAP
4 276 (2.84%) VMware
5 193 (1.99%) Databricks
6 188 (1.94%) Google
7 177 (1.82%) Splunk
8 145 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 140 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 131 (1.35%) NEC
11 124 (1.28%) CA
12 120 (1.24%) Salesforce
13 103 (1.06%) Cisco
14 99 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 96 (0.99%) Hyperion
16 92 (0.95%) Informatica
17 85 (0.88%) Anaplan
18 80 (0.82%) Alteryx
18 80 (0.82%) Virgin Media
19 78 (0.80%) Sage