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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,521 11,840 12,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.45% 19.16% 17.74%
As % of the General category 28.61% 27.65% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,741 5,747 7,172
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,723 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,603 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +1.10% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,200 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% +4.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 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
Scotland +2 3,186 £62,500 -3.85% 263
North of England -2 2,442 £55,000 -4.35% 753
South East -2 2,175 £50,000 -13.04% 691
Midlands -1 1,576 £50,000 -9.09% 518
North West 0 1,339 £55,000 - 474
South West -8 1,215 £55,000 - 413
West Midlands +1 1,108 £51,300 -6.73% 342
Yorkshire -2 861 £57,965 +0.81% 205
East of England 0 535 £49,000 -10.91% 300
East Midlands -4 460 £47,500 -13.64% 175
Wales -5 248 £45,000 -10.00% 89
North East -1 242 £50,000 -9.09% 78
Northern Ireland 0 103 £47,500 -5.00% 72
Isle of Man +6 39 £46,500 +32.86% 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 +3.03% 2
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
1 640 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 290 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 235 (2.04%) Apache
4 216 (1.87%) Confluence
5 192 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 192 (1.67%) SAS
6 136 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
7 118 (1.02%) FileNet
8 49 (0.43%) IIS
9 31 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 28 (0.24%) WordPress
11 27 (0.23%) CMS
12 24 (0.21%) Captiva
12 24 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 21 (0.18%) GemFire
13 21 (0.18%) nginx
14 20 (0.17%) Camunda
15 11 (0.095%) CICS
15 11 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 986 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 577 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 253 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 62 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 49 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.33%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 13 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.052%) InVision
12 6 (0.052%) OrCAD
12 6 (0.052%) SPSS
13 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 4 (0.035%) Doxygen
13 4 (0.035%) InfoPath
14 3 (0.026%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 109 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 66 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 61 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 34 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 32 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
8 31 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 30 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
10 29 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 29 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
11 28 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
12 26 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
13 19 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
14 18 (0.16%) Sage 200
15 17 (0.15%) iTrent
15 17 (0.15%) Sage X3
16 16 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
16 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
17 15 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,883 (16.34%) AWS
2 1,480 (12.85%) Azure
3 753 (6.54%) Power Platform
4 568 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 462 (4.01%) GCP
6 276 (2.40%) SaaS
7 234 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 191 (1.66%) GitHub
9 184 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 163 (1.41%) Amazon S3
11 134 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 133 (1.15%) Serverless
13 122 (1.06%) Datadog
14 118 (1.02%) Entra ID
15 106 (0.92%) Figma
16 93 (0.81%) Power Automate
17 87 (0.76%) PowerApps
18 83 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
19 80 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
20 76 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 388 (3.37%) Broadband
2 276 (2.40%) Firewall
3 154 (1.34%) Internet
4 139 (1.21%) DNS
5 125 (1.08%) VPN
6 109 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 102 (0.89%) WAN
8 92 (0.80%) Wireless
9 91 (0.79%) LAN
10 90 (0.78%) DHCP
11 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 82 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 71 (0.62%) Network Security
13 68 (0.59%) SAN
14 61 (0.53%) HTTP
15 55 (0.48%) IPsec
15 55 (0.48%) SNMP
16 50 (0.43%) 5G
17 40 (0.35%) SD-WAN
18 39 (0.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 745 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 651 (5.65%) Power BI
3 562 (4.88%) Big Data
4 538 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 347 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 266 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 246 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 246 (2.14%) Hadoop
8 204 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 202 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 191 (1.66%) Tableau
11 170 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 152 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 133 (1.15%) Apache Hive
14 129 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
15 127 (1.10%) Metadata
16 107 (0.93%) MySQL
17 103 (0.89%) HBase
18 71 (0.62%) Power Query
19 66 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 474 (4.11%) JIRA
2 463 (4.02%) Git
3 444 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 231 (2.01%) JUnit
5 136 (1.18%) Selenium
6 130 (1.13%) Jasmine
7 113 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 100 (0.87%) Maven
9 89 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 86 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 75 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
12 74 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 74 (0.64%) GitLab
12 74 (0.64%) Visual Studio
13 69 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 64 (0.56%) WebDriver
15 60 (0.52%) Protractor
16 57 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
17 48 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
18 47 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 3,627 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 3,387 (29.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,052 (26.49%) Law
4 2,048 (17.78%) Marketing
5 1,632 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1,577 (13.69%) Banking
7 1,473 (12.79%) Legal
8 879 (7.63%) Retail
9 658 (5.71%) Public Sector
10 636 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
11 573 (4.97%) Investment Banking
12 472 (4.10%) Manufacturing
13 402 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
14 372 (3.23%) Financial Institution
15 350 (3.04%) Telecoms
16 312 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
17 197 (1.71%) Electronics
18 165 (1.43%) Local Government
19 154 (1.34%) Games
20 148 (1.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,206 (19.15%) Software Engineer
2 1,697 (14.73%) Lead
3 1,657 (14.38%) Senior
4 1,540 (13.37%) Analyst
5 977 (8.48%) Developer
6 819 (7.11%) Java Engineer
7 796 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
8 740 (6.42%) Project Manager
9 694 (6.02%) Lead Software Engineer
10 649 (5.63%) Architect
11 475 (4.12%) Consultant
12 391 (3.39%) Big Data Engineer
13 390 (3.39%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 361 (3.13%) Full Stack Engineer
15 347 (3.01%) Data Engineer
16 342 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
17 338 (2.93%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 334 (2.90%) Python Engineer
19 328 (2.85%) Python Software Engineer
20 319 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (7.10%) React
2 795 (6.90%) Spring
3 625 (5.42%) AngularJS
4 614 (5.33%) HTML
5 526 (4.57%) .NET
6 488 (4.24%) Kafka
7 453 (3.93%) CSS
8 446 (3.87%) Spring Boot
9 319 (2.77%) Node.js
9 319 (2.77%) RESTful
10 304 (2.64%) JSON
11 279 (2.42%) REST
12 261 (2.27%) Web Services
13 248 (2.15%) J2EE
14 216 (1.87%) ASP.NET
14 216 (1.87%) Hibernate
15 192 (1.67%) jQuery
15 192 (1.67%) PySpark
16 184 (1.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 170 (1.48%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,067 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 842 (7.31%) Algorithms
3 565 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 451 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
5 428 (3.71%) Public Cloud
6 418 (3.63%) Product Ownership
7 337 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 177 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 169 (1.47%) Credit Risk
10 158 (1.37%) PMI
11 157 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 148 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 145 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 140 (1.22%) Reference Data
15 137 (1.19%) Market Risk
16 103 (0.89%) NHS
17 94 (0.82%) Virtual Team
18 93 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
19 87 (0.76%) Private Cloud
20 80 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 696 (6.04%) Windows
2 500 (4.34%) Linux
3 270 (2.34%) Unix
4 193 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 107 (0.93%) Android
6 89 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 89 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 75 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 60 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 60 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 49 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
10 44 (0.38%) CentOS
11 25 (0.22%) Windows 7
12 21 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.16%) AIX
14 18 (0.16%) Windows 8
15 16 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 14 (0.12%) Ubuntu
17 13 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,780 (41.49%) Agile
2 2,824 (24.51%) Software Engineering
3 2,375 (20.61%) SDLC
4 2,288 (19.86%) CI/CD
5 2,045 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 1,896 (16.46%) Operational Stability
7 1,718 (14.91%) Machine Learning
8 1,711 (14.85%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,675 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,407 (12.21%) Decision-Making
11 1,401 (12.16%) Mentoring
12 1,324 (11.49%) Community of Practice
13 1,316 (11.42%) Project Management
14 1,282 (11.13%) Risk Management
15 1,150 (9.98%) Roadmaps
16 1,105 (9.59%) Visualisation
17 1,054 (9.15%) Coaching
18 956 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
19 895 (7.77%) Analytics
20 838 (7.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,268 (19.69%) SQL
2 2,094 (18.18%) Java
3 1,473 (12.79%) Python
4 802 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 553 (4.80%) C#
6 438 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 340 (2.95%) Scala
8 201 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 183 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 152 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 146 (1.27%) Go
12 105 (0.91%) R
13 100 (0.87%) Bash
14 91 (0.79%) C
15 74 (0.64%) C++
15 74 (0.64%) PHP
16 65 (0.56%) Prolog
16 65 (0.56%) SPARQL
17 62 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 56 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,623 (14.09%) Degree
2 461 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 421 (3.65%) ACCA
4 340 (2.95%) CIMA
5 244 (2.12%) SC Cleared
6 222 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 205 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 190 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 171 (1.48%) DBS Check
10 128 (1.11%) CISSP
11 111 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 106 (0.92%) PMP
13 100 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 84 (0.73%) CISM
15 71 (0.62%) Azure Certification
16 69 (0.60%) PhD
17 66 (0.57%) MBA
18 63 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
19 60 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
20 53 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (3.26%) GDPR
2 338 (2.93%) QA
3 278 (2.41%) SLA
4 269 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 187 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 162 (1.41%) PMO
7 142 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 127 (1.10%) IFRS
9 109 (0.95%) NIST
10 67 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 63 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 55 (0.48%) IFRS 9
13 42 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 39 (0.34%) GRC
14 39 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.31%) GAAP
16 30 (0.26%) ISO 9001
17 28 (0.24%) ITGC
18 25 (0.22%) NCSC
19 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 427 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 378 (3.28%) Docker
3 233 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.89%) HDFS
5 82 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 74 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (0.41%) Firmware
8 28 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 28 (0.24%) vSphere
9 18 (0.16%) XenApp
10 16 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
13 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
14 10 (0.087%) OpenSSH
15 8 (0.069%) VMware Workstation
15 8 (0.069%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.061%) IAG
17 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.026%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 604 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 466 (4.04%) Terraform
3 191 (1.66%) Grafana
4 135 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 126 (1.09%) Ansible
6 83 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 59 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 56 (0.49%) SCCM
9 32 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 28 (0.24%) Kibana
11 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
12 24 (0.21%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.18%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
14 14 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
14 14 (0.12%) SCOM
15 13 (0.11%) NetBackup
16 12 (0.10%) Graphite
16 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,086 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 800 (6.94%) Oracle
3 528 (4.58%) SAP
4 335 (2.91%) Google
5 329 (2.86%) Databricks
6 291 (2.53%) VMware
7 236 (2.05%) Splunk
8 184 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 167 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 135 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 134 (1.16%) Cisco
12 117 (1.02%) IBM
13 109 (0.95%) Informatica
14 97 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 96 (0.83%) Alteryx
16 94 (0.82%) Hyperion
17 92 (0.80%) Sage
18 91 (0.79%) Red Hat
19 90 (0.78%) Virgin Media
20 88 (0.76%) Palo Alto