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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 891 969
Rank change year-on-year +203 +78 +228
Permanent jobs citing FFIEC 4 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.005% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.016% 0.018% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile £81,875 - £43,838
25th Percentile £95,938 £31,250 £65,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £32,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +230.77% -71.74% +167.44%
75th Percentile £122,188 £33,750 -
90th Percentile £141,875 - -
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 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FFIEC in the UK

FFIEC
Top 2 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 1 May 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 +173 4 £107,500 +230.77% 6
London +113 4 £107,500 - 6

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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) IaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) HBase
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Internal Audit
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Information Management
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Batch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISA
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCSP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) SANS
3 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (50.00%) CCSK
3 2 (50.00%) CISM
3 2 (50.00%) CRISC
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) GCED
3 2 (50.00%) GCIA
3 2 (50.00%) GCIH
3 2 (50.00%) GIAC
3 2 (50.00%) GREM
3 2 (50.00%) GSEC
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (25.00%) COBIT
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase