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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,504 11,431 12,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.33% 18.97% 17.95%
As % of the General category 28.44% 27.62% 29.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,663 5,486 7,157
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,723 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +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 40,446 41,380 42,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.42% 68.67% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26,324 18,780 24,155
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £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 £75,250 £81,250 £78,750
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 7 May 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 7 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
Scotland +2 3,185 £60,249 -6.75% 289
North of England -2 2,414 £55,000 - 857
South East -2 2,189 £50,047 -12.96% 772
Midlands 0 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 579
North West +1 1,340 £55,000 - 513
South West -8 1,234 £54,590 -0.75% 436
West Midlands +1 1,098 £51,300 -6.73% 364
Yorkshire -3 830 £57,965 +4.63% 256
East of England -1 527 £49,000 -10.91% 312
East Midlands -5 463 £47,500 -13.64% 214
North East +1 244 £47,500 -13.64% 92
Wales -5 243 £45,000 -1.64% 100
Northern Ireland +3 103 £41,250 -17.50% 79
Isle of Man - 38 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 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
1 635 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 289 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 231 (2.01%) Apache
4 208 (1.81%) Confluence
5 195 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 191 (1.66%) SAS
7 136 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
8 120 (1.04%) FileNet
9 47 (0.41%) IIS
10 32 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
11 31 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 28 (0.24%) WordPress
13 27 (0.23%) CMS
14 24 (0.21%) Captiva
15 21 (0.18%) GemFire
15 21 (0.18%) nginx
16 20 (0.17%) Camunda
17 19 (0.17%) Tomcat
18 11 (0.096%) CICS
18 11 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,014 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 595 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 268 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 60 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 50 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.33%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 12 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.061%) OrCAD
11 7 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.052%) InVision
12 6 (0.052%) SPSS
13 5 (0.043%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.035%) Doxygen
15 3 (0.026%) Siemens NX
15 3 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 105 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 87 (0.76%) SAP ERP
3 60 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 58 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 42 (0.37%) NEC Housing
6 31 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 30 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 30 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 30 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
8 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 26 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
10 25 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 25 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 19 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 18 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 18 (0.16%) Sage X3
13 17 (0.15%) iTrent
14 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
15 15 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
16 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,887 (16.40%) AWS
2 1,460 (12.69%) Azure
3 733 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 564 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 446 (3.88%) GCP
6 270 (2.35%) SaaS
7 244 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
8 184 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 181 (1.57%) GitHub
10 165 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 134 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 133 (1.16%) Serverless
13 124 (1.08%) Datadog
14 123 (1.07%) Entra ID
15 107 (0.93%) Figma
16 95 (0.83%) Power Automate
17 83 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
17 83 (0.72%) PowerApps
18 78 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
19 76 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 387 (3.36%) Broadband
2 271 (2.36%) Firewall
3 157 (1.36%) Internet
4 133 (1.16%) DNS
5 119 (1.03%) VPN
6 107 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 102 (0.89%) WAN
8 92 (0.80%) LAN
8 92 (0.80%) Wireless
9 91 (0.79%) DHCP
10 83 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
12 73 (0.63%) Network Security
13 67 (0.58%) SAN
14 59 (0.51%) HTTP
15 55 (0.48%) SNMP
16 54 (0.47%) IPsec
17 47 (0.41%) 5G
18 39 (0.34%) Intranet
19 38 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 738 (6.42%) NoSQL
2 630 (5.48%) Power BI
3 551 (4.79%) Big Data
4 523 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 347 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 256 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 251 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 246 (2.14%) Hadoop
9 199 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 197 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 189 (1.64%) Tableau
12 166 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
14 133 (1.16%) Apache Hive
15 129 (1.12%) Metadata
16 119 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
17 103 (0.90%) HBase
18 86 (0.75%) MySQL
19 73 (0.63%) Power Query
20 67 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 457 (3.97%) JIRA
2 454 (3.95%) Git
3 428 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 233 (2.03%) JUnit
5 134 (1.16%) Selenium
6 131 (1.14%) Jasmine
7 112 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 97 (0.84%) Maven
9 89 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 86 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 75 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
12 73 (0.63%) GitLab
12 73 (0.63%) Visual Studio
13 70 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 69 (0.60%) Artifactory
15 64 (0.56%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.52%) Protractor
17 58 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
18 48 (0.42%) Mockito
19 47 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3,641 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 3,449 (29.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,103 (26.97%) Law
4 2,085 (18.12%) Marketing
5 1,607 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
6 1,527 (13.27%) Banking
7 1,485 (12.91%) Legal
8 894 (7.77%) Retail
9 657 (5.71%) Public Sector
10 628 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
11 601 (5.22%) Investment Banking
12 462 (4.02%) Manufacturing
13 402 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
14 370 (3.22%) Financial Institution
15 344 (2.99%) Telecoms
16 313 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
17 196 (1.70%) Electronics
18 168 (1.46%) Local Government
19 155 (1.35%) Games
20 145 (1.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,197 (19.10%) Software Engineer
2 1,701 (14.79%) Lead
3 1,653 (14.37%) Senior
4 1,558 (13.54%) Analyst
5 971 (8.44%) Developer
6 830 (7.21%) Java Engineer
7 807 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 734 (6.38%) Project Manager
9 698 (6.07%) Lead Software Engineer
10 636 (5.53%) Architect
11 465 (4.04%) Consultant
12 391 (3.40%) Big Data Engineer
13 390 (3.39%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 353 (3.07%) Full Stack Engineer
15 350 (3.04%) Data Engineer
16 348 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
17 338 (2.94%) Python Engineer
18 332 (2.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 332 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
19 321 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 805 (7.00%) React
2 789 (6.86%) Spring
3 611 (5.31%) AngularJS
4 600 (5.22%) HTML
5 523 (4.55%) .NET
6 478 (4.16%) Kafka
7 452 (3.93%) CSS
8 437 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 306 (2.66%) Node.js
10 302 (2.63%) RESTful
11 299 (2.60%) JSON
12 283 (2.46%) REST
13 265 (2.30%) Web Services
14 251 (2.18%) J2EE
15 216 (1.88%) ASP.NET
16 210 (1.83%) Hibernate
17 194 (1.69%) PySpark
18 193 (1.68%) jQuery
19 185 (1.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 174 (1.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,070 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 850 (7.39%) Algorithms
3 567 (4.93%) Management Information System
4 446 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 423 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 407 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 338 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 177 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 170 (1.48%) Credit Risk
10 158 (1.37%) PMI
11 156 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 149 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 147 (1.28%) Driving Licence
14 142 (1.23%) Reference Data
15 139 (1.21%) Market Risk
16 106 (0.92%) NHS
17 92 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
17 92 (0.80%) Virtual Team
18 88 (0.76%) Private Cloud
19 83 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 685 (5.95%) Windows
2 492 (4.28%) Linux
3 261 (2.27%) Unix
4 194 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 103 (0.90%) Android
6 91 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 90 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 76 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 61 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 56 (0.49%) Apple iOS
11 49 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
12 45 (0.39%) CentOS
13 24 (0.21%) Windows 7
14 23 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 19 (0.17%) AIX
16 18 (0.16%) Windows 8
17 16 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 14 (0.12%) Ubuntu
19 13 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
20 10 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,712 (40.96%) Agile
2 2,811 (24.43%) Software Engineering
3 2,374 (20.64%) SDLC
4 2,300 (19.99%) CI/CD
5 2,037 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 1,913 (16.63%) Operational Stability
7 1,726 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 1,717 (14.93%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,674 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,397 (12.14%) Mentoring
11 1,395 (12.13%) Decision-Making
12 1,339 (11.64%) Community of Practice
13 1,314 (11.42%) Project Management
14 1,284 (11.16%) Risk Management
15 1,154 (10.03%) Roadmaps
16 1,096 (9.53%) Visualisation
17 1,053 (9.15%) Coaching
18 940 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
19 870 (7.56%) Analytics
20 820 (7.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,255 (19.60%) SQL
2 2,070 (17.99%) Java
3 1,469 (12.77%) Python
4 806 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 550 (4.78%) C#
6 436 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 341 (2.96%) Scala
8 204 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 183 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 151 (1.31%) Go
11 150 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 107 (0.93%) R
13 98 (0.85%) Bash
14 90 (0.78%) C
15 77 (0.67%) PHP
16 74 (0.64%) C++
17 65 (0.57%) Prolog
17 65 (0.57%) SPARQL
18 61 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 56 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,633 (14.20%) Degree
2 460 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 421 (3.66%) ACCA
4 349 (3.03%) CIMA
5 242 (2.10%) SC Cleared
6 220 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 207 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 192 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 177 (1.54%) DBS Check
10 130 (1.13%) CISSP
11 112 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 104 (0.90%) PMP
13 101 (0.88%) DV Cleared
14 86 (0.75%) CISM
15 71 (0.62%) Azure Certification
16 69 (0.60%) PhD
17 66 (0.57%) MBA
17 66 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 58 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
19 53 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (3.35%) GDPR
2 337 (2.93%) QA
3 280 (2.43%) SLA
4 266 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 196 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 161 (1.40%) PMO
7 143 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 123 (1.07%) IFRS
9 114 (0.99%) NIST
10 63 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 55 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 50 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 38 (0.33%) GRC
14 38 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.29%) GAAP
16 30 (0.26%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.23%) ITGC
18 25 (0.22%) NCSC
19 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 426 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 354 (3.08%) Docker
3 227 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.89%) HDFS
5 81 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 73 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (0.39%) Firmware
8 29 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (0.24%) vSphere
10 18 (0.16%) XenApp
11 16 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 14 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
15 10 (0.087%) OpenSSH
16 8 (0.070%) VMware Workstation
16 8 (0.070%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.061%) IAG
18 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
19 3 (0.026%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 587 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 461 (4.01%) Terraform
3 195 (1.70%) Grafana
4 137 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 124 (1.08%) Ansible
6 86 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 59 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 53 (0.46%) SCCM
9 32 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.23%) Kibana
11 24 (0.21%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.18%) ZABBIX
12 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
13 14 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
14 13 (0.11%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.11%) SCOM
15 12 (0.10%) Graphite
15 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,104 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 810 (7.04%) Oracle
3 522 (4.54%) SAP
4 327 (2.84%) Databricks
5 326 (2.83%) Google
6 285 (2.48%) VMware
7 237 (2.06%) Splunk
8 187 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 167 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 137 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 130 (1.13%) Cisco
12 110 (0.96%) IBM
13 107 (0.93%) Informatica
14 100 (0.87%) Alteryx
15 95 (0.83%) Hyperion
16 93 (0.81%) NEC
17 92 (0.80%) Red Hat
18 91 (0.79%) Sage
19 90 (0.78%) Anaplan
19 90 (0.78%) Atlassian