Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 16,512 18,944 42,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 23.48% 24.42%
As % of the General category 31.96% 35.50% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,759 12,033 20,010
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,294 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,833 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +8.91%

All General Skills
UK

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 51,660 53,362 118,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.16% 66.13% 67.50%
Number of salaries quoted 31,702 33,264 55,108
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,350 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%
75th Percentile £72,557 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England 0 13,409 £67,500 -2.80% 2,704
UK excluding London +1 9,702 £54,000 -1.82% 2,183
London 0 6,152 £85,000 +6.25% 1,001
Work from Home -1 5,966 £70,000 +0.80% 1,302
Scotland +2 2,259 £55,000 -8.33% 143
South East -1 2,100 £54,000 -6.09% 568
North of England -4 2,019 £55,000 -0.08% 513
Midlands 0 1,558 £53,500 -2.73% 356
North West -4 1,198 £55,000 -4.35% 309
South West -6 1,059 £52,500 -4.80% 325
West Midlands 0 989 £55,000 - 205
Yorkshire -5 619 £57,965 +5.39% 146
East Midlands -1 565 £50,000 -9.09% 148
East of England -1 399 £52,500 -4.55% 158
North East +8 202 £49,274 -10.41% 66
Wales -5 175 £45,000 - 56
Northern Ireland 0 103 £50,000 - 142
Isle of Man +2 33 £46,500 -35.86% 4
Channel Islands 0 13 £60,000 -41.46% 1

Finance
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
1 866 (5.24%) Apache
2 841 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 454 (2.75%) SAS
4 389 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 372 (2.25%) SharePoint
6 247 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 200 (1.21%) Confluence
8 98 (0.59%) FileNet
9 84 (0.51%) IIS
10 45 (0.27%) CMS
11 42 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 38 (0.23%) nginx
13 34 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
14 26 (0.16%) WordPress
15 23 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
16 21 (0.13%) GemFire
16 21 (0.13%) WebSphere
17 13 (0.079%) JBoss
18 12 (0.073%) ArcGIS
19 11 (0.067%) CICS
Applications
1 1,890 (11.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,093 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
3 409 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 85 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 68 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 34 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 24 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.11%) Sketch
9 17 (0.10%) SPSS
10 9 (0.055%) Trello
11 8 (0.048%) InfoPath
12 7 (0.042%) OrCAD
12 7 (0.042%) Siemens NX
12 7 (0.042%) UserZoom
13 6 (0.036%) Photoshop
14 5 (0.030%) InDesign
15 4 (0.024%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.024%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.024%) Oracle Smart View
16 3 (0.018%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 314 (1.90%) SAP ERP
2 139 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 131 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 120 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 69 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 69 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 62 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 62 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 60 (0.36%) Ripple
8 59 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
9 54 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 50 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
10 50 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
11 48 (0.29%) Aladdin
12 47 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
13 43 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
14 36 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
15 30 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
16 28 (0.17%) Elite 3E
17 25 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 2,864 (17.34%) AWS
2 2,205 (13.35%) Azure
3 973 (5.89%) Power Platform
4 961 (5.82%) GCP
5 708 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 658 (3.98%) dbt
7 572 (3.46%) Snowflake
8 448 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
9 402 (2.43%) SaaS
10 278 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 240 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 210 (1.27%) GitHub
13 207 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 204 (1.24%) Serverless
15 169 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
16 143 (0.87%) Power Automate
17 139 (0.84%) PowerApps
18 136 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
19 134 (0.81%) Datadog
20 132 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 842 (5.10%) Broadband
2 368 (2.23%) Firewall
3 195 (1.18%) Internet
4 181 (1.10%) DNS
5 151 (0.91%) VPN
6 149 (0.90%) WAN
7 142 (0.86%) Network Security
8 140 (0.85%) LAN
9 126 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 110 (0.67%) Wireless
11 108 (0.65%) DHCP
12 83 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 66 (0.40%) IPsec
14 63 (0.38%) Kerberos
14 63 (0.38%) SAN
15 62 (0.38%) SNMP
16 58 (0.35%) 5G
17 45 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
18 42 (0.25%) HTTP
18 42 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 815 (4.94%) Power BI
2 784 (4.75%) Data Lake
3 638 (3.86%) Apache Ignite
4 635 (3.85%) Dremio
5 606 (3.67%) Apache Arrow
6 605 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
7 588 (3.56%) SQL Server
8 518 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 446 (2.70%) Big Data
10 345 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
11 317 (1.92%) Tableau
12 299 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
13 218 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
14 204 (1.24%) MongoDB
15 193 (1.17%) Relational Database
16 165 (1.00%) Metadata
17 143 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
18 137 (0.83%) Hadoop
19 126 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 120 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 489 (2.96%) JIRA
2 478 (2.89%) Git
3 361 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 217 (1.31%) JUnit
5 170 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 142 (0.86%) Selenium
7 117 (0.71%) Jasmine
8 107 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 96 (0.58%) GitLab
10 87 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 69 (0.42%) Maven
12 67 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 66 (0.40%) WebDriver
14 63 (0.38%) Cucumber
15 61 (0.37%) Protractor
16 60 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
16 60 (0.36%) Karma Test Runner
17 54 (0.33%) Mockito
18 47 (0.28%) JMeter
19 46 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 5,115 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 3,054 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,716 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2,614 (15.83%) Banking
5 2,498 (15.13%) Law
6 2,217 (13.43%) Marketing
7 1,758 (10.65%) Legal
8 1,360 (8.24%) Retail
9 1,158 (7.01%) Investment Banking
10 1,107 (6.70%) Front Office
11 799 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
12 654 (3.96%) Public Sector
13 592 (3.59%) Manufacturing
14 521 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
15 448 (2.71%) Financial Institution
16 352 (2.13%) Telecoms
17 349 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
18 265 (1.60%) Local Government
19 252 (1.53%) Billing
20 190 (1.15%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,794 (16.92%) Senior
2 2,541 (15.39%) Analyst
3 2,168 (13.13%) Software Engineer
4 1,890 (11.45%) Lead
5 1,772 (10.73%) Developer
6 1,356 (8.21%) Architect
7 785 (4.75%) Java Engineer
8 753 (4.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 733 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 726 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
11 702 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
12 681 (4.12%) Consultant
13 633 (3.83%) Python Engineer
14 592 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
15 564 (3.42%) Financial Analyst
16 550 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
17 548 (3.32%) Development Manager
18 520 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
19 449 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
20 426 (2.58%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 952 (5.77%) React
2 759 (4.60%) gRPC
3 734 (4.45%) .NET
4 707 (4.28%) Protocol Buffers
5 648 (3.92%) Spring
6 642 (3.89%) Pandas
7 603 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 600 (3.63%) NumPy
9 551 (3.34%) HTML
10 535 (3.24%) SciPy
11 500 (3.03%) Kafka
12 427 (2.59%) CSS
13 363 (2.20%) Node.js
14 354 (2.14%) Spring Boot
15 319 (1.93%) Web Services
16 311 (1.88%) JSON
17 304 (1.84%) REST
18 281 (1.70%) PySpark
19 252 (1.53%) Redux
20 250 (1.51%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 948 (5.74%) Hedge funds
2 902 (5.46%) Fixed Income
3 876 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 815 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 768 (4.65%) Equities
6 755 (4.57%) Derivative
7 702 (4.25%) Management Information System
8 689 (4.17%) Algorithms
9 576 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
10 541 (3.28%) Product Ownership
11 477 (2.89%) Onboarding
12 283 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 245 (1.48%) Data Centre
14 212 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 196 (1.19%) Credit Risk
16 167 (1.01%) Mobile App
17 149 (0.90%) Driving Licence
18 147 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
19 130 (0.79%) Market Risk
20 124 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,083 (6.56%) Windows
2 701 (4.25%) Linux
3 329 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 305 (1.85%) Unix
5 195 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 97 (0.59%) Android
7 96 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 85 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 79 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 70 (0.42%) CentOS
11 69 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 61 (0.37%) Solaris
13 57 (0.35%) Apple iOS
14 54 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
15 47 (0.28%) Windows 7
16 38 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 30 (0.18%) zOS
18 28 (0.17%) AIX
18 28 (0.17%) Mac OS
19 17 (0.10%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,847 (35.41%) Agile
2 3,055 (18.50%) Software Engineering
3 2,609 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
4 1,915 (11.60%) CI/CD
5 1,752 (10.61%) SDLC
6 1,751 (10.60%) Decision-Making
7 1,674 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,654 (10.02%) Project Management
9 1,604 (9.71%) Mentoring
10 1,577 (9.55%) Roadmaps
11 1,496 (9.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 1,453 (8.80%) Machine Learning
13 1,410 (8.54%) Asset Management
14 1,405 (8.51%) Risk Management
15 1,303 (7.89%) Analytics
16 1,296 (7.85%) Coaching
17 1,279 (7.75%) Data Management
18 1,271 (7.70%) Operational Stability
19 1,165 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
20 1,057 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2,808 (17.01%) SQL
2 2,710 (16.41%) Python
3 2,304 (13.95%) Java
4 1,507 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 1,131 (6.85%) TypeScript
6 871 (5.27%) C#
7 528 (3.20%) PowerShell
8 240 (1.45%) Go
9 235 (1.42%) Scala
10 186 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 180 (1.09%) C++
12 167 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 157 (0.95%) Bash
14 153 (0.93%) R
15 99 (0.60%) PHP
16 98 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 93 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 91 (0.55%) C
19 80 (0.48%) VBA
20 68 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,434 (14.74%) Degree
2 891 (5.40%) ACCA
3 650 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 620 (3.75%) CIMA
5 388 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 387 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 343 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 289 (1.75%) CISSP
9 231 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 207 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 156 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 146 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 146 (0.88%) CISM
13 125 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 125 (0.76%) PMP
14 121 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 116 (0.70%) CISA
16 109 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 109 (0.66%) MBA
17 99 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 617 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 495 (3.00%) QA
3 352 (2.13%) GDPR
4 304 (1.84%) IFRS
5 300 (1.82%) SLA
6 246 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 224 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 185 (1.12%) PMO
9 162 (0.98%) GAAP
10 160 (0.97%) NIST
11 77 (0.47%) IFRS 9
12 58 (0.35%) GRC
13 57 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 55 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 54 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 40 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 40 (0.24%) ITGC
16 40 (0.24%) Solvency II
17 35 (0.21%) COBIT
18 27 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 626 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 554 (3.36%) Docker
3 303 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 91 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (0.49%) XenApp
6 75 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 69 (0.42%) XenDesktop
8 62 (0.38%) HDFS
9 58 (0.35%) vSphere
10 50 (0.30%) RACF
11 48 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
12 44 (0.27%) Firmware
13 37 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
14 16 (0.097%) OpenSSH
15 14 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
16 11 (0.067%) IAG
16 11 (0.067%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
18 9 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
18 9 (0.055%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 859 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 635 (3.85%) Terraform
3 274 (1.66%) Ansible
4 224 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 189 (1.14%) Grafana
6 152 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 105 (0.64%) SCCM
8 79 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 34 (0.21%) Puppet
10 33 (0.20%) Kibana
11 31 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 30 (0.18%) WSUS
13 28 (0.17%) Istio
13 28 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
15 25 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.14%) HAProxy
17 21 (0.13%) Zipkin
18 18 (0.11%) FortiGate
18 18 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3,332 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 1,204 (7.29%) Oracle
3 875 (5.30%) SAP
4 420 (2.54%) Google
5 416 (2.52%) VMware
6 329 (1.99%) Hyperion
7 313 (1.90%) Anaplan
8 268 (1.62%) Databricks
9 266 (1.61%) CA
10 253 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 234 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 215 (1.30%) Splunk
13 202 (1.22%) Bloomberg
14 187 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 183 (1.11%) Citrix
16 180 (1.09%) Cisco
17 179 (1.08%) NEC
18 147 (0.89%) Dynatrace
19 114 (0.69%) IBM
20 112 (0.68%) Alteryx