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 have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 2 3 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 13,123 31,167 25,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.59% 24.87% 19.73%
As % of the General category 37.39% 36.22% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 9,165 18,670 17,283
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +6.84% -
75th Percentile £91,934 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +4.55% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,097 86,059 77,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.77% 68.66% 59.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 48,938 48,014
10th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 11,581 £70,000 - 6,736
UK excluding London +2 6,543 £59,526 +3.52% 3,516
London +1 5,984 £80,000 - 3,688
Work from Home 0 5,757 £70,000 +3.70% 3,261
North of England +3 1,875 £62,500 +8.70% 956
South East -4 1,272 £57,500 -4.17% 944
Midlands +2 973 £54,000 -1.82% 500
South West 0 918 £59,556 +8.28% 408
Yorkshire +3 905 £65,000 +13.04% 286
North West +3 899 £62,500 +8.70% 579
Scotland 0 788 £67,500 +3.85% 305
West Midlands +3 703 £54,000 -1.82% 334
East of England +2 352 £45,000 -18.18% 303
East Midlands 0 265 £54,000 -1.82% 161
Wales -4 237 £50,000 -4.76% 105
Northern Ireland -1 125 £70,000 +33.33% 88
North East 0 67 £57,500 -9.45% 102
Isle of Man +1 17 £45,000 -10.00%
Channel Islands +4 5 £66,000 -12.00%

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
1 296 (2.26%) Confluence
2 243 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 190 (1.45%) Apache
4 135 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 132 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 130 (0.99%) SAS
7 61 (0.46%) IIS
8 46 (0.35%) MS Exchange
9 42 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 38 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 37 (0.28%) CMS
12 24 (0.18%) Captiva
12 24 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 22 (0.17%) FileNet
14 19 (0.14%) Jetty
15 16 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
16 11 (0.084%) IBM HTTP Server
16 11 (0.084%) nginx
16 11 (0.084%) WebSphere Application Server
17 9 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 724 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 687 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
3 374 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.12%) Sketch
8 12 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.069%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.061%) AutoCAD
11 7 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.053%) Simulink
12 5 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
12 5 (0.038%) Adobe Premiere
12 5 (0.038%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.038%) InDesign
12 5 (0.038%) OrCAD
13 4 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
13 4 (0.030%) Autodesk Inventor
13 4 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 364 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 168 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 114 (0.87%) Hyperion Planning
4 90 (0.69%) NetSuite
5 79 (0.60%) SAP FI
6 78 (0.59%) SAP CO
7 77 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
8 65 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
9 62 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
10 58 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
11 54 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
12 52 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
13 34 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
13 34 (0.26%) PlanetPress Connect
14 31 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
14 31 (0.24%) SAP ERP
15 30 (0.23%) SAP MM
16 28 (0.21%) SAP SD
17 27 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
18 25 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2,803 (21.36%) Azure
2 1,700 (12.95%) AWS
3 1,202 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 1,118 (8.52%) GCP
5 774 (5.90%) SaaS
6 686 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
7 651 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
8 637 (4.85%) PaaS
9 560 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
10 533 (4.06%) IaaS
11 412 (3.14%) Serverless
12 384 (2.93%) GitHub
13 259 (1.97%) Azure Functions
14 188 (1.43%) PowerApps
15 175 (1.33%) Entra ID
16 137 (1.04%) OpenShift
17 134 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
18 121 (0.92%) Power Automate
19 105 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
20 99 (0.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 330 (2.51%) Firewall
2 234 (1.78%) DNS
3 179 (1.36%) VPN
4 155 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 153 (1.17%) Internet
6 152 (1.16%) DHCP
7 125 (0.95%) WAN
8 88 (0.67%) Wireless
9 86 (0.66%) HTTP
9 86 (0.66%) LAN
10 79 (0.60%) 5G
11 74 (0.56%) Network Security
12 73 (0.56%) SAN
13 57 (0.43%) SD-WAN
14 46 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
15 40 (0.30%) Intranet
16 37 (0.28%) Unified Communications
17 32 (0.24%) Broadband
18 31 (0.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 30 (0.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 698 (5.32%) Power BI
2 689 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 498 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
4 298 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 270 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 255 (1.94%) Tableau
7 247 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
8 234 (1.78%) Big Data
9 199 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 198 (1.51%) MySQL
11 197 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 175 (1.33%) MongoDB
13 170 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 127 (0.97%) Metadata
15 119 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 111 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
17 107 (0.82%) Hadoop
18 91 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
19 90 (0.69%) Apache Ignite
20 88 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 497 (3.79%) JIRA
2 443 (3.38%) Git
3 436 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 119 (0.91%) Selenium
5 113 (0.86%) Maven
6 94 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 92 (0.70%) GitLab
8 88 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 84 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 78 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 72 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 70 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
12 70 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 69 (0.53%) Visual Studio
14 63 (0.48%) Spinnaker
15 61 (0.46%) SonarQube
16 55 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
17 52 (0.40%) CircleCI
18 38 (0.29%) JUnit
19 36 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 3,681 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 3,039 (23.16%) Banking
3 1,437 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 990 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 912 (6.95%) Retail
6 663 (5.05%) Legal
7 660 (5.03%) Front Office
8 632 (4.82%) Marketing
9 522 (3.98%) Public Sector
10 517 (3.94%) Law
11 463 (3.53%) Manufacturing
12 447 (3.41%) Telecoms
13 438 (3.34%) Investment Banking
14 418 (3.19%) Financial Institution
15 364 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
16 358 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
17 346 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
18 269 (2.05%) Games
19 244 (1.86%) Back Office
20 211 (1.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,143 (16.33%) Analyst
2 1,846 (14.07%) Architect
3 1,826 (13.91%) Senior
4 1,622 (12.36%) Developer
5 1,062 (8.09%) Lead
6 778 (5.93%) Software Engineer
7 671 (5.11%) Consultant
8 618 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 605 (4.61%) Project Manager
10 432 (3.29%) Business Analyst
11 417 (3.18%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 394 (3.00%) Senior Developer
13 371 (2.83%) Enterprise Architect
14 358 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
15 307 (2.34%) IT Manager
15 307 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
16 299 (2.28%) Java Developer
17 283 (2.16%) Support Analyst
18 276 (2.10%) Business Manager
19 272 (2.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 867 (6.61%) .NET
2 632 (4.82%) React
3 512 (3.90%) HTML
4 440 (3.35%) AngularJS
5 363 (2.77%) Kafka
6 339 (2.58%) CSS
7 306 (2.33%) Spring
8 298 (2.27%) RESTful
9 287 (2.19%) ASP.NET
10 284 (2.16%) Node.js
11 269 (2.05%) REST
12 230 (1.75%) Web Services
13 220 (1.68%) Spring Boot
14 196 (1.49%) Redux
15 175 (1.33%) .NET Core
16 174 (1.33%) JSON
17 154 (1.17%) OpenID
18 150 (1.14%) .NET Framework
19 146 (1.11%) Middleware
20 136 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 608 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
2 570 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 454 (3.46%) Public Cloud
4 433 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 343 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 331 (2.52%) Fixed Income
7 317 (2.42%) Derivative
8 280 (2.13%) Hedge funds
9 260 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 259 (1.97%) Equities
11 243 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 240 (1.83%) Data Centre
13 231 (1.76%) Algorithms
14 228 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
15 206 (1.57%) NHS
16 169 (1.29%) Blockchain
17 160 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
18 157 (1.20%) Cyberattack
19 150 (1.14%) Mainframe
20 138 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 875 (6.67%) Windows
2 672 (5.12%) Linux
3 353 (2.69%) Unix
4 278 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 179 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 134 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 106 (0.81%) Android
8 80 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 80 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 68 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 66 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 47 (0.36%) CentOS
12 44 (0.34%) Solaris
13 38 (0.29%) AIX
14 37 (0.28%) Mac OS
15 35 (0.27%) Windows 7
16 29 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 24 (0.18%) HPUX
18 22 (0.17%) zOS
19 20 (0.15%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,645 (35.40%) Agile
2 1,939 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
3 1,855 (14.14%) DevOps
4 1,598 (12.18%) Roadmaps
5 1,395 (10.63%) Analytics
6 1,361 (10.37%) Software Engineering
7 1,218 (9.28%) Mentoring
8 1,208 (9.21%) Project Management
9 1,121 (8.54%) Asset Management
10 1,092 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 1,023 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
12 980 (7.47%) CI/CD
13 966 (7.36%) Actionable Insight
14 912 (6.95%) Project Delivery
15 862 (6.57%) Microservices
16 838 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
17 823 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 778 (5.93%) Decision-Making
19 777 (5.92%) ITIL
20 744 (5.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2,257 (17.20%) SQL
2 1,673 (12.75%) Python
3 1,259 (9.59%) Java
4 979 (7.46%) JavaScript
5 952 (7.25%) C#
6 513 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 493 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 318 (2.42%) Bash
9 230 (1.75%) T-SQL
10 226 (1.72%) C++
11 187 (1.42%) Go
12 184 (1.40%) R
13 108 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 98 (0.75%) C
15 88 (0.67%) Scala
16 83 (0.63%) Ruby
17 80 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 70 (0.53%) Rust
19 68 (0.52%) Kotlin
20 58 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,849 (14.09%) Degree
2 698 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 354 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 266 (2.03%) DBS Check
5 233 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 192 (1.46%) SC Cleared
7 172 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 158 (1.20%) ACCA
9 154 (1.17%) CISSP
10 148 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 147 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 124 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 104 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 104 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 99 (0.75%) CISM
15 96 (0.73%) PMP
16 68 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 68 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 63 (0.48%) CIMA
18 61 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (3.32%) QA
2 263 (2.00%) PMO
3 253 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 235 (1.79%) SLA
5 217 (1.65%) GDPR
6 187 (1.42%) NIST
7 185 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 100 (0.76%) IFRS
9 94 (0.72%) GRC
10 84 (0.64%) Accessibility
11 78 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 71 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 48 (0.37%) COBIT
14 47 (0.36%) GAAP
14 47 (0.36%) MiFID
15 46 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 32 (0.24%) IFRS 9
17 31 (0.24%) NCSC
18 30 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
19 28 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 697 (5.31%) Docker
2 517 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 309 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 206 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 38 (0.29%) Firmware
7 35 (0.27%) vSphere
8 30 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.099%) VMware Workstation
11 12 (0.091%) BitLocker
12 11 (0.084%) XenApp
13 10 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
13 10 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 8 (0.061%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.053%) VMware NSX
16 6 (0.046%) HDFS
17 5 (0.038%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 5 (0.038%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.038%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 896 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 663 (5.05%) Terraform
3 304 (2.32%) Ansible
4 178 (1.36%) SCCM
5 116 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 68 (0.52%) Istio
7 66 (0.50%) Puppet
8 65 (0.50%) SCOM
9 61 (0.46%) Grafana
10 50 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 46 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 41 (0.31%) Rancher
13 39 (0.30%) Argo
14 37 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 35 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
16 30 (0.23%) Kibana
17 29 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 23 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
18 23 (0.18%) FortiGate
19 20 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,256 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 731 (5.57%) Oracle
3 603 (4.59%) SAP
4 492 (3.75%) Google
5 283 (2.16%) VMware
6 274 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 248 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 220 (1.68%) Cisco
9 190 (1.45%) Citrix
10 158 (1.20%) Bloomberg
11 144 (1.10%) Splunk
12 137 (1.04%) IBM
13 133 (1.01%) Hyperion
14 103 (0.78%) Red Hat
15 100 (0.76%) Databricks
16 98 (0.75%) Dell
17 95 (0.72%) Atlassian
18 93 (0.71%) HP
19 73 (0.56%) Sage
20 72 (0.55%) CheckPoint