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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 12,229 15,320 26,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.40% 19.89% 23.99%
As % of the General category 30.99% 32.41% 34.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,674 10,440 16,054
10th Percentile £40,500 £33,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,200 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -6.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -6.09% +4.55%

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 39,465 47,272 75,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.85% 61.37% 68.95%
Number of salaries quoted 16,816 33,985 42,478
10th Percentile £33,162 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 19 February 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 19 February 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 10,334 £71,991 +10.76% 6,200
UK excluding London 0 6,487 £58,500 +8.33% 3,006
London 0 5,355 £85,000 +6.25% 4,057
Work from Home +2 4,673 £72,500 +11.43% 3,857
North of England -1 1,679 £56,700 +2.77% 667
Scotland +1 1,387 £60,000 -7.69% 205
South East +1 1,122 £60,000 +17.07% 1,132
North West 0 1,048 £56,000 +1.82% 395
Midlands -5 907 £57,250 +14.50% 417
South West +3 699 £58,250 +2.19% 330
West Midlands -5 630 £57,500 +15.00% 243
East of England +3 452 £55,000 +15.79% 227
Yorkshire -3 421 £60,743 +5.64% 202
East Midlands -1 274 £52,500 +5.00% 157
North East +6 210 £55,000 +10.00% 76
Wales +6 164 £50,500 +6.32% 61
Northern Ireland -2 61 £60,000 - 33
Isle of Man +5 15 £41,000 -8.89% 3
Channel Islands -4 5 £75,000 -11.76%

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 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 272 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 232 (1.90%) Apache
4 169 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 143 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 138 (1.13%) Confluence
7 99 (0.81%) SAS
8 91 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 39 (0.32%) CMS
10 37 (0.30%) nginx
11 29 (0.24%) IIS
11 29 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 24 (0.20%) Mule
13 15 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 15 (0.12%) OpenEdge
14 12 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 10 (0.082%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
17 8 (0.065%) IBM Domino
17 8 (0.065%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 675 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 629 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 486 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 127 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 23 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 21 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.13%) Trello
10 15 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
11 13 (0.11%) Sketch
12 12 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
13 11 (0.090%) SPSS
14 10 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 10 (0.082%) Adobe XD
14 10 (0.082%) Chatbot
15 9 (0.074%) InDesign
15 9 (0.074%) Maya
16 5 (0.041%) Adobe After Effects
17 4 (0.033%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 327 (2.67%) NEC Housing
2 153 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 120 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 84 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 78 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
6 46 (0.38%) Infor LN
6 46 (0.38%) SAP BPC
7 45 (0.37%) Sage 200
8 42 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 39 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
9 39 (0.32%) Shopify
10 37 (0.30%) Sage 50
11 36 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
12 30 (0.25%) Aladdin
13 28 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 28 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
14 26 (0.21%) SAP Business One
15 25 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
16 24 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
16 24 (0.20%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 1,609 (13.16%) Azure
2 1,447 (11.83%) AWS
3 683 (5.59%) GCP
4 594 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 443 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 357 (2.92%) SaaS
7 270 (2.21%) dbt
8 258 (2.11%) Serverless
9 226 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 194 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 187 (1.53%) Snowflake
13 180 (1.47%) GitHub
14 179 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
15 154 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
16 132 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
17 127 (1.04%) OpenShift
18 123 (1.01%) Amazon S3
19 121 (0.99%) Entra ID
20 120 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,192 (9.75%) Broadband
2 259 (2.12%) Firewall
3 172 (1.41%) DNS
4 137 (1.12%) DHCP
5 119 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
6 116 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 112 (0.92%) Network Security
8 80 (0.65%) VPN
9 76 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
10 70 (0.57%) Internet
11 68 (0.56%) WAN
12 63 (0.52%) LAN
13 61 (0.50%) VLAN
14 54 (0.44%) SAN
15 51 (0.42%) Wireless
16 48 (0.39%) HTTP
17 44 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
18 36 (0.29%) BGP
19 34 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
20 32 (0.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 530 (4.33%) Power BI
2 471 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 328 (2.68%) Data Lake
4 312 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 289 (2.36%) Tableau
6 244 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 237 (1.94%) Dremio
8 232 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
9 202 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
10 196 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
11 194 (1.59%) Apache Arrow
12 192 (1.57%) Relational Database
13 186 (1.52%) NoSQL
14 164 (1.34%) Big Data
15 148 (1.21%) MySQL
16 121 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 113 (0.92%) MongoDB
18 109 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
19 105 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 99 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 401 (3.28%) Git
2 294 (2.40%) JIRA
3 251 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 102 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 85 (0.70%) GitLab
6 84 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
7 56 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 50 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 50 (0.41%) Selenium
9 44 (0.36%) Maven
10 43 (0.35%) webpack
11 40 (0.33%) JUnit
12 39 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 29 (0.24%) Cypress.io
13 29 (0.24%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
15 24 (0.20%) Postman
16 23 (0.19%) Mockito
17 21 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
18 20 (0.16%) CircleCI
General
1 4,173 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 2,247 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 2,009 (16.43%) Banking
4 1,140 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 856 (7.00%) Retail
6 700 (5.72%) Front Office
7 685 (5.60%) Marketing
8 682 (5.58%) Financial Institution
9 631 (5.16%) Public Sector
10 595 (4.87%) Legal
11 516 (4.22%) Manufacturing
12 431 (3.52%) German Language
13 430 (3.52%) Law
14 424 (3.47%) French Language
15 415 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
16 391 (3.20%) Local Government
17 389 (3.18%) Police
18 382 (3.12%) Telecoms
19 328 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
20 275 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2,082 (17.03%) Senior
2 1,932 (15.80%) Analyst
3 1,109 (9.07%) Project Manager
4 1,090 (8.91%) Developer
5 834 (6.82%) Lead
6 645 (5.27%) Senior Manager
7 642 (5.25%) Architect
7 642 (5.25%) Consultant
8 638 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 535 (4.37%) Sales Representative
10 435 (3.56%) Credit Analyst
11 415 (3.39%) Research Analyst
12 342 (2.80%) Senior Project Manager
13 316 (2.58%) Python Engineer
14 301 (2.46%) Development Manager
15 297 (2.43%) AWS Engineer
16 293 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 280 (2.29%) Financial Analyst
18 269 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
19 259 (2.12%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (3.92%) React
2 458 (3.75%) .NET
3 386 (3.16%) HTML
4 286 (2.34%) Node.js
5 276 (2.26%) AngularJS
6 264 (2.16%) CSS
7 231 (1.89%) Kafka
8 209 (1.71%) Pandas
9 203 (1.66%) NumPy
10 202 (1.65%) Spring Boot
11 180 (1.47%) Spring
12 179 (1.46%) PySpark
13 174 (1.42%) RESTful
14 167 (1.37%) Redux
14 167 (1.37%) REST
15 166 (1.36%) SciPy
16 134 (1.10%) gRPC
17 130 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
18 122 (1.00%) .NET Framework
19 109 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,228 (10.04%) Social Media
2 852 (6.97%) Fixed Income
3 689 (5.63%) Driving Licence
4 679 (5.55%) Management Information System
5 517 (4.23%) Credit Risk
6 391 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 390 (3.19%) Hedge funds
8 363 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 356 (2.91%) Xbox
10 355 (2.90%) Derivative
11 346 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 322 (2.63%) Equities
13 228 (1.86%) Algorithms
14 187 (1.53%) Cyberattack
15 181 (1.48%) Housing Association
16 172 (1.41%) Onboarding
17 158 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
18 150 (1.23%) Cloud Native
19 147 (1.20%) FMCG
20 141 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 713 (5.83%) Windows
2 524 (4.28%) Linux
3 287 (2.35%) Unix
4 211 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 133 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 90 (0.74%) Solaris
7 84 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 81 (0.66%) Android
9 43 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 43 (0.35%) Windows Vista
10 42 (0.34%) CentOS
11 30 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 29 (0.24%) zOS
13 27 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
14 25 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 20 (0.16%) AIX
16 18 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
17 17 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.090%) Rocky
19 7 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,704 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 2,636 (21.56%) Agile
3 1,931 (15.79%) Project Management
4 1,545 (12.63%) Risk Management
5 1,403 (11.47%) Analytics
6 1,349 (11.03%) Decision-Making
7 1,233 (10.08%) Customer Service
8 1,218 (9.96%) Software Engineering
9 1,193 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 1,150 (9.40%) DevOps
11 1,104 (9.03%) Asset Management
12 993 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 929 (7.60%) Roadmaps
14 911 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 902 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
16 855 (6.99%) CI/CD
17 841 (6.88%) Business Strategy
18 786 (6.43%) Coaching
19 764 (6.25%) Fintech
20 698 (5.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,806 (14.77%) SQL
2 1,528 (12.49%) Python
3 923 (7.55%) Java
4 756 (6.18%) JavaScript
5 525 (4.29%) C#
6 424 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 356 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 252 (2.06%) C++
9 159 (1.30%) Bash
10 156 (1.28%) Go
11 121 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 118 (0.96%) PHP
13 110 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 91 (0.74%) Scala
15 90 (0.74%) C
16 78 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 78 (0.64%) R
17 67 (0.55%) VBA
18 38 (0.31%) Rust
19 36 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,347 (19.19%) Degree
2 679 (5.55%) Master's Degree
3 574 (4.69%) DBS Check
4 468 (3.83%) CFA
5 394 (3.22%) Security Cleared
6 282 (2.31%) ACCA
7 270 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 209 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 209 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 175 (1.43%) CISSP
10 145 (1.19%) CIMA
11 126 (1.03%) SC Cleared
12 123 (1.01%) PMP
13 122 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 114 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 113 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
16 94 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
17 91 (0.74%) Azure Certification
18 90 (0.74%) CISA
19 84 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (3.93%) Accessibility
2 460 (3.76%) QA
3 260 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 203 (1.66%) GDPR
5 191 (1.56%) IFRS
6 190 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 178 (1.46%) NIST
8 174 (1.42%) GAAP
9 153 (1.25%) PMO
10 143 (1.17%) SLA
11 98 (0.80%) ISO 9001
12 76 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 73 (0.60%) MiFID
14 72 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 70 (0.57%) ITGC
16 51 (0.42%) COBIT
17 49 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
18 42 (0.34%) GRC
19 38 (0.31%) GMP
20 37 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 587 (4.80%) Docker
2 345 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 167 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 42 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 35 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.29%) vSphere
7 34 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (0.13%) Firmware
8 16 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.082%) XenApp
10 9 (0.074%) NDS
10 9 (0.074%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 9 (0.074%) XenDesktop
11 8 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.049%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.033%) Apache Flume
13 4 (0.033%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.025%) Samba
14 3 (0.025%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 649 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 485 (3.97%) Terraform
3 249 (2.04%) Ansible
4 114 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 104 (0.85%) SCCM
6 71 (0.58%) Grafana
7 62 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 52 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 46 (0.38%) Puppet
10 30 (0.25%) Nagios
11 24 (0.20%) CASB
12 23 (0.19%) WSUS
13 21 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (0.16%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.15%) Istio
16 14 (0.11%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.11%) vCenter Server
17 11 (0.090%) Packer
17 11 (0.090%) Red Hat Satellite
18 10 (0.082%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,558 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 690 (5.64%) Sun
3 598 (4.89%) Oracle
4 492 (4.02%) Bloomberg
5 478 (3.91%) SAP
6 392 (3.21%) NEC
7 267 (2.18%) Google
8 241 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 239 (1.95%) VMware
10 224 (1.83%) Cisco
11 184 (1.50%) Citrix
12 142 (1.16%) Databricks
13 130 (1.06%) IBM
14 125 (1.02%) ServiceNow
15 84 (0.69%) Red Hat
16 75 (0.61%) Sage
17 67 (0.55%) Infor
18 63 (0.52%) Cognos
19 61 (0.50%) Adobe
19 61 (0.50%) Apple