Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for FFIEC qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 713 902 907
Rank change year-on-year +189 +5 +385
Permanent jobs citing FFIEC 8 5 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.031% 0.018% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £85,000 - £44,013
25th Percentile £103,750 £31,250 £80,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £32,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +230.77% -71.11% +161.63%
75th Percentile £155,000 £33,750 £115,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £32,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -31.58% +10.47%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

FFIEC falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,857 28,256 30,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 44.24% 26.17% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,746 16,999 14,248
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,954 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -11.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +8.62%

FFIEC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FFIEC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FFIEC.

Salary trend for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FFIEC over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FFIEC within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
England +153 8 £107,500 +230.77% 29
London +100 5 £107,500 - 23
UK excluding London +186 3 - - 5
South West +116 3 - -

FFIEC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (50.00%) IaaS
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) HBase
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Legal
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) IT Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Internal Audit
4 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (50.00%) Information Management
4 4 (50.00%) Information Security
4 4 (50.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (37.50%) Computer Forensics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Security
5 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
5 3 (37.50%) Information Assurance
5 3 (37.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) Project Management
5 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Change
6 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CISA
1 5 (62.50%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) SANS
3 3 (37.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (37.50%) CCSP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (37.50%) CISM
3 3 (37.50%) CRISC
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) CCNA
4 2 (25.00%) CCNP
4 2 (25.00%) CCSK
4 2 (25.00%) GCED
4 2 (25.00%) GCIA
4 2 (25.00%) GCIH
4 2 (25.00%) GIAC
4 2 (25.00%) GREM
4 2 (25.00%) GSEC
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) NIST
2 5 (62.50%) GDPR
2 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (12.50%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase