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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 10,364 19,023 23,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.87% 19.34% 23.01%
As % of the General category 29.45% 32.32% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,685 10,898 14,021
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.59% +4.05%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,438 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -5.41% +0.91%

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 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +1 9,229 £71,991 +10.76% 8,533
UK excluding London -3 5,467 £57,500 +9.52% 3,849
London 0 4,517 £85,000 +6.25% 5,196
Work from Home +2 3,494 £72,500 +11.54% 4,200
North of England +3 1,963 £56,500 +2.73% 1,088
North West +1 1,330 £56,000 +1.82% 678
South East -4 922 £60,000 +20.00% 789
Midlands -6 754 £55,000 +10.00% 663
South West +4 646 £57,500 +4.55% 509
Scotland -2 623 £60,000 -4.00% 356
West Midlands -6 523 £55,000 +7.21% 426
Yorkshire +1 459 £60,000 +3.51% 298
East of England +3 338 £50,000 +2.04% 281
East Midlands -6 227 £52,500 +10.53% 228
North East +7 173 £56,500 +13.00% 117
Wales -3 132 £50,393 +11.98% 114
Northern Ireland +9 69 £55,000 +29.41% 110
Isle of Man 0 14 £38,000 -18.28% 15
Channel Islands 0 10 £80,000 -5.88% 2

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
1 290 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 246 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 225 (2.17%) Apache
4 148 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 147 (1.42%) Confluence
6 136 (1.31%) Apache Spark
7 76 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 61 (0.59%) CMS
9 47 (0.45%) SAS
10 29 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 28 (0.27%) nginx
12 20 (0.19%) IIS
13 18 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.13%) IBM Domino
14 13 (0.13%) OpenEdge
15 12 (0.12%) Umbraco
16 9 (0.087%) Apache Solr
17 8 (0.077%) NetWeaver
17 8 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
18 6 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 603 (5.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 567 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 486 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
4 110 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.35%) Maya
7 25 (0.24%) Trello
8 22 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 22 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.12%) SPSS
11 10 (0.096%) Sketch
12 8 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
13 7 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.068%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.068%) Photoshop
14 5 (0.048%) InDesign
15 4 (0.039%) Simulink
16 3 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 139 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 138 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 80 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 64 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
5 60 (0.58%) NEC Housing
6 54 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 45 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 44 (0.42%) Infor LN
9 43 (0.41%) SAP BPC
10 37 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
11 30 (0.29%) Sage 200
11 30 (0.29%) thinkFolio
12 28 (0.27%) Shopify
13 27 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
14 26 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
15 25 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
16 24 (0.23%) Ripple
16 24 (0.23%) Ripple XRP
16 24 (0.23%) Sage 50
16 24 (0.23%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,527 (14.73%) Azure
2 1,328 (12.81%) AWS
3 678 (6.54%) GCP
4 572 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 387 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 341 (3.29%) SaaS
7 292 (2.82%) dbt
8 266 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
9 235 (2.27%) Serverless
10 199 (1.92%) Snowflake
11 191 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
12 182 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 170 (1.64%) GitHub
14 152 (1.47%) PaaS
15 151 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
16 133 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
17 117 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 113 (1.09%) OpenShift
19 111 (1.07%) Amazon S3
20 106 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 505 (4.87%) DNS
2 500 (4.82%) VPN
3 232 (2.24%) Firewall
4 115 (1.11%) Network Security
4 115 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 87 (0.84%) WAN
6 81 (0.78%) LAN
7 73 (0.70%) DHCP
8 59 (0.57%) Internet
9 53 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (0.50%) HTTP
11 50 (0.48%) SAN
12 41 (0.40%) VLAN
13 38 (0.37%) BGP
14 37 (0.36%) Wireless
15 30 (0.29%) IPsec
15 30 (0.29%) MPLS
16 29 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
16 29 (0.28%) VoIP
17 25 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (4.59%) Power BI
2 369 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 319 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 279 (2.69%) Tableau
5 271 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
6 264 (2.55%) Dremio
7 259 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 258 (2.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 234 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
10 188 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 178 (1.72%) Apache Ignite
12 174 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
13 144 (1.39%) MySQL
14 142 (1.37%) Big Data
15 129 (1.24%) Relational Database
16 112 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
17 103 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 99 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 95 (0.92%) MongoDB
20 82 (0.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 377 (3.64%) Git
2 343 (3.31%) JIRA
3 244 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 101 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 81 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
6 75 (0.72%) GitLab
7 62 (0.60%) Maven
8 56 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 54 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 51 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 50 (0.48%) JUnit
12 49 (0.47%) Selenium
13 41 (0.40%) webpack
14 38 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
15 35 (0.34%) Postman
16 29 (0.28%) Mockito
17 27 (0.26%) Cypress.io
18 26 (0.25%) Bitbucket
19 25 (0.24%) TeamCity
20 17 (0.16%) Gradle
General
1 3,768 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2,485 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2,073 (20.00%) Banking
4 1,217 (11.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 824 (7.95%) Marketing
6 735 (7.09%) Financial Institution
7 732 (7.06%) Front Office
8 617 (5.95%) Legal
9 503 (4.85%) Manufacturing
10 498 (4.81%) Law
11 487 (4.70%) Retail
12 443 (4.27%) German Language
13 442 (4.26%) French Language
14 404 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
15 383 (3.70%) Public Sector
16 322 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
17 275 (2.65%) Telecoms
18 205 (1.98%) Investment Banking
19 178 (1.72%) Games
20 174 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,830 (17.66%) Analyst
2 1,810 (17.46%) Senior
3 1,350 (13.03%) Developer
4 799 (7.71%) Lead
5 764 (7.37%) Project Manager
6 629 (6.07%) Software Engineer
7 556 (5.36%) Senior Manager
8 555 (5.36%) Architect
9 458 (4.42%) Software Developer
10 438 (4.23%) Credit Analyst
11 422 (4.07%) Research Analyst
12 401 (3.87%) Consultant
13 321 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
14 310 (2.99%) Business Analyst
15 283 (2.73%) Senior Project Manager
16 266 (2.57%) Financial Analyst
17 261 (2.52%) Python Engineer
18 233 (2.25%) Senior Developer
19 226 (2.18%) Data Engineer
20 225 (2.17%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 445 (4.29%) React
2 380 (3.67%) .NET
3 273 (2.63%) CSS
4 262 (2.53%) AngularJS
5 261 (2.52%) HTML
6 253 (2.44%) Kafka
7 248 (2.39%) Node.js
8 222 (2.14%) Spring Boot
9 221 (2.13%) Spring
10 194 (1.87%) Pandas
11 192 (1.85%) NumPy
12 188 (1.81%) PySpark
13 168 (1.62%) REST
14 165 (1.59%) RESTful
15 158 (1.52%) SciPy
16 117 (1.13%) Redux
17 114 (1.10%) .NET Framework
17 114 (1.10%) gRPC
18 107 (1.03%) Vue
19 100 (0.96%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 892 (8.61%) Fixed Income
2 615 (5.93%) Management Information System
3 531 (5.12%) Credit Risk
4 471 (4.54%) Cyberattack
5 425 (4.10%) Hedge funds
6 419 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 390 (3.76%) Derivative
8 374 (3.61%) Equities
8 374 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 257 (2.48%) Driving Licence
10 247 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
11 238 (2.30%) Algorithms
12 204 (1.97%) FMCG
13 199 (1.92%) Onboarding
14 196 (1.89%) Cloud Native
15 132 (1.27%) Social Media
16 124 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
17 119 (1.15%) Public Cloud
18 110 (1.06%) Blockchain
18 110 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 798 (7.70%) Linux
2 551 (5.32%) Windows
3 475 (4.58%) Android
4 181 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 145 (1.40%) Unix
6 101 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 97 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.51%) Windows Vista
9 48 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 30 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 27 (0.26%) zOS
12 25 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 24 (0.23%) CentOS
13 24 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 24 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 21 (0.20%) Solaris
15 18 (0.17%) AIX
16 12 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.12%) Rocky
17 8 (0.077%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,982 (28.77%) Agile
2 1,915 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
3 1,654 (15.96%) Project Management
4 1,508 (14.55%) Risk Management
5 1,454 (14.03%) Decision-Making
6 1,354 (13.06%) Analytics
7 1,172 (11.31%) Software Engineering
8 1,093 (10.55%) DevOps
9 1,069 (10.31%) Asset Management
10 1,000 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 928 (8.95%) Mentoring
12 898 (8.66%) Roadmaps
13 893 (8.62%) Business Strategy
14 887 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 866 (8.36%) CI/CD
16 839 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
17 749 (7.23%) Mathematics
18 702 (6.77%) Line Management
19 666 (6.43%) Fintech
20 658 (6.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,858 (17.93%) Python
2 1,355 (13.07%) SQL
3 1,313 (12.67%) Java
4 700 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 637 (6.15%) C++
6 554 (5.35%) Go
7 438 (4.23%) C#
8 389 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 299 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 134 (1.29%) Bash
11 108 (1.04%) PHP
12 100 (0.96%) C
13 98 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 79 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 77 (0.74%) R
16 63 (0.61%) Scala
17 52 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.32%) VBA
19 32 (0.31%) Bicep
20 31 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,302 (22.21%) Degree
2 679 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 668 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 507 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 430 (4.15%) CFA
6 334 (3.22%) DBS Check
7 302 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 262 (2.53%) CISSP
9 257 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 226 (2.18%) ACCA
11 184 (1.78%) CIMA
12 167 (1.61%) PMI Certification
13 130 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 127 (1.23%) PMP
15 125 (1.21%) SC Cleared
16 123 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
17 119 (1.15%) Azure Certification
18 93 (0.90%) PhD
19 92 (0.89%) CISA
20 86 (0.83%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (3.49%) QA
2 296 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 262 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 217 (2.09%) GDPR
5 189 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 146 (1.41%) NIST
7 137 (1.32%) PMO
8 134 (1.29%) SLA
9 96 (0.93%) IFRS
10 92 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 86 (0.83%) MiFID
12 77 (0.74%) GAAP
13 76 (0.73%) ITGC
14 72 (0.69%) PCI DSS
15 55 (0.53%) COBIT
16 41 (0.40%) GMP
17 38 (0.37%) GRC
18 37 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
19 34 (0.33%) NCSC
20 33 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 947 (9.14%) Docker
2 263 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 132 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 49 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.28%) Firmware
9 12 (0.12%) vSphere
10 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.048%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.048%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.039%) HDFS
13 3 (0.029%) Samba
13 3 (0.029%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.029%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.019%) Postfix
14 2 (0.019%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 642 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 576 (5.56%) Ansible
3 442 (4.26%) Terraform
4 112 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 96 (0.93%) SCCM
6 63 (0.61%) Grafana
7 42 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 42 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 35 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (0.30%) Puppet
10 30 (0.29%) Istio
11 29 (0.28%) Nagios
12 22 (0.21%) CASB
13 16 (0.15%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.14%) WSUS
15 14 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
16 13 (0.13%) SCOM
17 10 (0.096%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.087%) Kustomize
18 9 (0.087%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,442 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 524 (5.06%) SAP
3 508 (4.90%) Oracle
4 486 (4.69%) Bloomberg
5 335 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 292 (2.82%) Google
7 185 (1.79%) VMware
8 170 (1.64%) Cisco
9 138 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 130 (1.25%) IBM
11 128 (1.24%) Databricks
12 94 (0.91%) Citrix
13 91 (0.88%) NEC
14 69 (0.67%) Adobe
15 62 (0.60%) Infor
15 62 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 61 (0.59%) Workday
17 53 (0.51%) Cognos
18 49 (0.47%) BISAM
18 49 (0.47%) SolarWinds