Financial Institution Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Financial Institution
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 405 527
Rank change year-on-year -182 +122 -51
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 93 134 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.39% 0.17%
As % of the General category 0.24% 0.59% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 40 49 47
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,300 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,418 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,750 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £85,250 £74,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +17.86% -14.63%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Financial Institution 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38,314 22,847 28,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.21% 65.84% 54.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23,609 11,068 12,547
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Financial Institution
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Financial Institution.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in the UK excluding London

Financial Institution
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 Financial Institution within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
North of England -76 43 £81,500 +18.55% 75
Scotland +10 29 £100,000 +40.35% 71
North East -46 20 £62,500 - 22
Yorkshire -41 17 £100,000 +53.85% 23
Midlands -68 9 £85,000 +21.43% 37
North West -52 6 £95,000 +31.03% 30
South West -79 6 £50,000 -16.32% 36
East Midlands -36 5 £132,943 +74.92% 16
West Midlands -41 4 £45,000 -14.29% 21
South East -55 4 £132,943 +179.88% 85
Northern Ireland -94 3 £27,500 -60.14% 39
East of England -29 2 - - 24
Financial Institution
UK

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.08%) Apache
1 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.08%) Confluence
1 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.83%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.45%) GCP
4 5 (5.38%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.15%) Serverless
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) ATM
2 1 (1.08%) LAN
2 1 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
1 6 (6.45%) Tableau
2 3 (3.23%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (3.23%) Power BI
3 2 (2.15%) Big Data
3 2 (2.15%) Metadata
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Redis
4 1 (1.08%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) JIRA
2 3 (3.23%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
2 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.15%) ERwin
General
1 93 (100.00%) Finance
2 26 (27.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (27.96%) Law
3 22 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
5 12 (12.90%) Games
6 11 (11.83%) Billing
6 11 (11.83%) General Ledger
7 9 (9.68%) Marketing
8 7 (7.53%) Legal
9 6 (6.45%) Digital Economy
10 4 (4.30%) Banking
10 4 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (3.23%) Japanese Language
12 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (2.15%) Retail
13 1 (1.08%) Advertising
13 1 (1.08%) Military
13 1 (1.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Software Engineer
2 16 (17.20%) Lead
3 15 (16.13%) Senior
4 12 (12.90%) Analyst
4 12 (12.90%) Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Architect
6 8 (8.60%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Principal Software Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Site Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Technical Manager
9 5 (5.38%) IT Support
9 5 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Principal Architect
9 5 (5.38%) Principal Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Risk Manager
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.23%) React
1 3 (3.23%) SignalR
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
1 3 (3.23%) WebSockets
2 2 (2.15%) .NET
2 2 (2.15%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.08%) DAO
3 1 (1.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.08%) Memcached
3 1 (1.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.30%) Taxonomies
3 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.23%) EMV
3 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.15%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.81%) Software Engineering
2 22 (23.66%) Agile
3 19 (20.43%) AI
3 19 (20.43%) Analytics
3 19 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.28%) Programme Management
5 17 (18.28%) Risk Management
6 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (15.05%) ITIL
8 13 (13.98%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.98%) KYC
9 12 (12.90%) ITSM
9 12 (12.90%) Practice Management
10 11 (11.83%) Accounts Payable
10 11 (11.83%) Accounts Receivable
10 11 (11.83%) Budgeting
10 11 (11.83%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 11 (11.83%) Computer Science
10 11 (11.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) SQL
2 16 (17.20%) Java
3 13 (13.98%) Python
4 5 (5.38%) C#
4 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.30%) C++
5 4 (4.30%) Go
6 3 (3.23%) COBOL
7 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Degree
2 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.23%) MOS
3 1 (1.08%) CISA
3 1 (1.08%) CISM
3 1 (1.08%) CISSP
3 1 (1.08%) CRISC
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) GDPR
1 4 (4.30%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Docker
1 3 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Grafana
2 3 (3.23%) Ansible
2 3 (3.23%) Control-M
2 3 (3.23%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.15%) QRadar
4 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Aderant
3 5 (5.38%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.30%) VocaLink
5 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.23%) Avaloq
5 3 (3.23%) HP
5 3 (3.23%) SAP
5 3 (3.23%) Splunk
5 3 (3.23%) VMware
6 2 (2.15%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (2.15%) NCR
6 2 (2.15%) Sparx
7 1 (1.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.08%) Workday