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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,527 11,921 12,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.45% 19.21% 17.68%
As % of the General category 28.60% 27.72% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,762 5,759 7,134
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,723 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,600 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,634 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +4.05% +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 40,309 43,008 42,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.52% 69.31% 59.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,401 19,362 24,036
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,189
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 £78,750
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 25 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 25 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 3,178 £62,500 -3.85% 308
North of England -2 2,447 £55,000 -4.35% 791
South East -2 2,184 £50,000 -13.04% 835
Midlands -1 1,577 £50,000 -9.09% 536
North West 0 1,342 £55,000 -1.79% 491
South West -8 1,207 £55,000 - 427
West Midlands +1 1,110 £51,300 -6.73% 354
Yorkshire -2 867 £57,965 +0.81% 223
East of England -1 538 £49,000 -10.91% 333
East Midlands -4 459 £47,500 -13.64% 182
Wales -5 249 £45,000 -10.00% 86
North East -2 238 £50,000 -9.09% 82
Northern Ireland +1 105 £51,250 +2.50% 84
Isle of Man +6 40 £46,500 +32.86% 7
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
1 642 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 292 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 233 (2.02%) Apache
4 214 (1.86%) Confluence
5 192 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 192 (1.67%) SAS
6 136 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
7 118 (1.02%) FileNet
8 46 (0.40%) 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
13 21 (0.18%) GemFire
13 21 (0.18%) nginx
14 20 (0.17%) Camunda
14 20 (0.17%) Tomcat
15 11 (0.095%) CICS
15 11 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 976 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 575 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
3 248 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 83 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 62 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 47 (0.41%) 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%) Siemens NX
14 3 (0.026%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 109 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 90 (0.78%) SAP ERP
3 65 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 61 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 34 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 33 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
7 32 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 31 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 29 (0.25%) SAP CO
9 29 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
10 27 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 26 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
12 24 (0.21%) NEC Housing
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 1,492 (12.94%) Azure
3 755 (6.55%) Power Platform
4 573 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
5 468 (4.06%) GCP
6 279 (2.42%) SaaS
7 234 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 197 (1.71%) GitHub
9 188 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 163 (1.41%) Amazon S3
11 136 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
12 133 (1.15%) Serverless
13 122 (1.06%) Datadog
14 119 (1.03%) Entra ID
15 106 (0.92%) Figma
16 91 (0.79%) Power Automate
17 86 (0.75%) PowerApps
18 83 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
19 80 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
20 78 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 388 (3.37%) Broadband
2 279 (2.42%) Firewall
3 156 (1.35%) Internet
4 140 (1.21%) DNS
5 126 (1.09%) VPN
6 109 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 103 (0.89%) WAN
8 93 (0.81%) Wireless
9 91 (0.79%) LAN
10 90 (0.78%) DHCP
11 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 82 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 70 (0.61%) Network Security
13 68 (0.59%) SAN
14 60 (0.52%) HTTP
15 55 (0.48%) IPsec
15 55 (0.48%) SNMP
16 51 (0.44%) 5G
17 41 (0.36%) SD-WAN
18 39 (0.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 748 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 654 (5.67%) Power BI
3 564 (4.89%) Big Data
4 539 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 348 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 274 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 246 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 246 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 206 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 205 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 191 (1.66%) Tableau
11 172 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 152 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 134 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
14 133 (1.15%) Apache Hive
15 128 (1.11%) Metadata
16 118 (1.02%) MySQL
17 103 (0.89%) HBase
18 71 (0.62%) Power Query
19 66 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 475 (4.12%) JIRA
2 470 (4.08%) Git
3 448 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 231 (2.00%) JUnit
5 137 (1.19%) 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%) Cucumber
11 75 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
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 3,613 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 3,362 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,029 (26.28%) Law
4 2,040 (17.70%) Marketing
5 1,630 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1,586 (13.76%) Banking
7 1,472 (12.77%) Legal
8 884 (7.67%) Retail
9 649 (5.63%) Public Sector
10 636 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
11 558 (4.84%) Investment Banking
12 473 (4.10%) Manufacturing
13 401 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
14 371 (3.22%) Financial Institution
15 350 (3.04%) Telecoms
16 310 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
17 197 (1.71%) Electronics
18 153 (1.33%) Games
18 153 (1.33%) Local Government
19 149 (1.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,219 (19.25%) Software Engineer
2 1,690 (14.66%) Lead
3 1,659 (14.39%) Senior
4 1,534 (13.31%) Analyst
5 978 (8.48%) Developer
6 816 (7.08%) Java Engineer
7 793 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 739 (6.41%) Project Manager
9 692 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 652 (5.66%) Architect
11 473 (4.10%) Consultant
12 390 (3.38%) Big Data Engineer
13 389 (3.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 368 (3.19%) Full Stack Engineer
15 348 (3.02%) Data Engineer
16 345 (2.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 343 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
18 333 (2.89%) Python Engineer
19 327 (2.84%) Python Software Engineer
20 319 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 821 (7.12%) React
2 796 (6.91%) Spring
3 632 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 627 (5.44%) HTML
5 530 (4.60%) .NET
6 494 (4.29%) Kafka
7 458 (3.97%) CSS
8 446 (3.87%) Spring Boot
9 327 (2.84%) RESTful
10 326 (2.83%) Node.js
11 304 (2.64%) JSON
12 279 (2.42%) REST
13 257 (2.23%) Web Services
14 248 (2.15%) J2EE
15 217 (1.88%) Hibernate
16 215 (1.87%) ASP.NET
17 193 (1.67%) jQuery
18 191 (1.66%) PySpark
19 185 (1.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 170 (1.47%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 1,063 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 839 (7.28%) Algorithms
3 566 (4.91%) Management Information System
4 444 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 423 (3.67%) Public Cloud
6 417 (3.62%) Product Ownership
7 338 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 177 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 168 (1.46%) Credit Risk
10 158 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 158 (1.37%) PMI
11 146 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 142 (1.23%) Driving Licence
13 140 (1.21%) Reference Data
14 136 (1.18%) Market Risk
15 104 (0.90%) NHS
16 94 (0.82%) Virtual Team
17 93 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
18 87 (0.75%) Private Cloud
19 81 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 699 (6.06%) Windows
2 499 (4.33%) Linux
3 262 (2.27%) Unix
4 196 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 109 (0.95%) Android
6 89 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 89 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 75 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
8 62 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 61 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 49 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
11 44 (0.38%) CentOS
12 25 (0.22%) Windows 7
13 21 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 19 (0.16%) AIX
15 18 (0.16%) Windows 8
16 15 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 14 (0.12%) Ubuntu
18 13 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,796 (41.61%) Agile
2 2,836 (24.60%) Software Engineering
3 2,380 (20.65%) SDLC
4 2,285 (19.82%) CI/CD
5 2,049 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 1,890 (16.40%) Operational Stability
7 1,713 (14.86%) Machine Learning
8 1,707 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,671 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,404 (12.18%) Decision-Making
11 1,402 (12.16%) Mentoring
12 1,318 (11.43%) Community of Practice
13 1,311 (11.37%) Project Management
14 1,280 (11.10%) Risk Management
15 1,150 (9.98%) Roadmaps
16 1,103 (9.57%) Visualisation
17 1,055 (9.15%) Coaching
18 958 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
19 895 (7.76%) Analytics
20 840 (7.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,279 (19.77%) SQL
2 2,103 (18.24%) Java
3 1,472 (12.77%) Python
4 799 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 556 (4.82%) C#
6 438 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 338 (2.93%) Scala
8 206 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 183 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 154 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 147 (1.28%) Go
12 104 (0.90%) Bash
12 104 (0.90%) R
13 90 (0.78%) C
14 75 (0.65%) C++
15 74 (0.64%) PHP
16 65 (0.56%) Prolog
16 65 (0.56%) SPARQL
17 58 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 57 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,617 (14.03%) Degree
2 450 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 423 (3.67%) ACCA
4 340 (2.95%) CIMA
5 244 (2.12%) SC Cleared
6 221 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 205 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 189 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 170 (1.47%) DBS Check
10 127 (1.10%) CISSP
11 111 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 105 (0.91%) PMP
13 100 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 83 (0.72%) 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
1 377 (3.27%) GDPR
2 338 (2.93%) QA
3 279 (2.42%) SLA
4 271 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 173 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 160 (1.39%) PMO
7 142 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 130 (1.13%) IFRS
9 108 (0.94%) NIST
10 67 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 63 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 55 (0.48%) IFRS 9
13 43 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 39 (0.34%) GRC
14 39 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 38 (0.33%) 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
1 431 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 390 (3.38%) Docker
3 234 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.88%) HDFS
5 83 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 76 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (0.41%) Firmware
8 29 (0.25%) vSphere
9 28 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
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 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
15 10 (0.087%) OpenSSH
16 8 (0.069%) VMware Workstation
16 8 (0.069%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.061%) IAG
18 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
19 3 (0.026%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 612 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 471 (4.09%) Terraform
3 192 (1.67%) Grafana
4 137 (1.19%) 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 30 (0.26%) 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%) Opsgenie
16 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,081 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 792 (6.87%) Oracle
3 526 (4.56%) SAP
4 336 (2.91%) Google
5 330 (2.86%) Databricks
6 293 (2.54%) VMware
7 237 (2.06%) Splunk
8 185 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 167 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 134 (1.16%) Cisco
10 134 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 117 (1.02%) IBM
12 109 (0.95%) Informatica
13 97 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 95 (0.82%) Alteryx
15 94 (0.82%) Hyperion
16 92 (0.80%) Sage
17 90 (0.78%) CA
17 90 (0.78%) Red Hat
17 90 (0.78%) Virgin Media