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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,106 23,193 36,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.26% 22.84% 23.15%
As % of the General category 32.23% 33.47% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,860 13,562 18,760
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -1 14,939 £65,000 -6.40% 5,902
UK excluding London +2 11,563 £52,500 -4.55% 3,226
Work from Home -2 7,230 £65,000 -5.55% 2,593
London +1 6,813 £80,000 - 2,894
Scotland +2 3,192 £60,249 -6.75% 258
North of England -2 2,433 £55,000 - 860
South East -2 2,196 £50,047 -12.96% 744
Midlands 0 1,579 £50,000 -9.09% 569
North West +1 1,353 £55,000 - 520
South West -8 1,242 £54,795 -0.37% 430
West Midlands 0 1,107 £51,300 -6.73% 359
Yorkshire -3 833 £57,965 +4.63% 255
East of England 0 529 £49,500 -10.00% 296
East Midlands -4 465 £47,500 -13.64% 209
North East +1 247 £48,750 -11.36% 90
Wales -5 246 £45,000 -1.64% 82
Northern Ireland +3 105 £41,250 -17.50% 69
Isle of Man - 38 £46,500 - 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 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
1 676 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 604 (3.16%) Apache
3 540 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 474 (2.48%) SAS
5 456 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 342 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 275 (1.44%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 101 (0.53%) IIS
10 59 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 38 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 37 (0.19%) nginx
15 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 30 (0.16%) Captiva
17 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 15 (0.079%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,725 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 940 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 461 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 109 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 86 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 28 (0.15%) SPSS
10 23 (0.12%) Sketch
11 17 (0.089%) Photoshop
12 16 (0.084%) Trello
13 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
15 9 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 8 (0.042%) InDesign
17 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
18 6 (0.031%) Adobe After Effects
18 6 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
18 6 (0.031%) InVision
Business Applications
1 317 (1.66%) SAP ERP
2 172 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 151 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 81 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 73 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 73 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 72 (0.38%) NEC Housing
8 49 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 45 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 41 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
13 37 (0.19%) Aladdin
14 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
15 32 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
15 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
16 28 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
16 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,226 (16.88%) AWS
2 2,755 (14.42%) Azure
3 1,195 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1,023 (5.35%) GCP
5 982 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
6 581 (3.04%) SaaS
7 458 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 345 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 308 (1.61%) GitHub
10 305 (1.60%) Snowflake
11 299 (1.56%) Serverless
12 289 (1.51%) dbt
13 248 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 225 (1.18%) Entra ID
15 201 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
16 188 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
17 171 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 169 (0.88%) PaaS
19 168 (0.88%) PowerApps
20 151 (0.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 851 (4.45%) Broadband
2 491 (2.57%) Firewall
3 250 (1.31%) DNS
4 221 (1.16%) Internet
5 201 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 188 (0.98%) WAN
7 171 (0.90%) VPN
8 168 (0.88%) LAN
9 149 (0.78%) DHCP
10 132 (0.69%) Wireless
11 126 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (0.48%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 74 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 73 (0.38%) HTTP
17 64 (0.33%) SNMP
18 63 (0.33%) IPsec
19 62 (0.32%) Intranet
20 61 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 999 (5.23%) Power BI
2 886 (4.64%) SQL Server
3 815 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 667 (3.49%) Big Data
5 541 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
6 490 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 345 (1.81%) Tableau
8 344 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 330 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 310 (1.62%) Apache Ignite
11 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 275 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 270 (1.41%) Hadoop
14 267 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
15 261 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
15 261 (1.37%) Dremio
16 231 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 185 (0.97%) Metadata
18 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 700 (3.66%) JIRA
2 622 (3.26%) Git
3 580 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 253 (1.32%) JUnit
5 181 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 163 (0.85%) Selenium
7 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 130 (0.68%) GitLab
9 122 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 117 (0.61%) Maven
11 111 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 83 (0.43%) WebDriver
15 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
16 66 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
17 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
18 63 (0.33%) Protractor
19 53 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6,012 (31.47%) Social Skills
2 4,131 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,530 (18.48%) Law
4 2,925 (15.31%) Banking
5 2,740 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2,598 (13.60%) Marketing
7 1,946 (10.19%) Legal
8 1,238 (6.48%) Retail
9 978 (5.12%) Investment Banking
10 959 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 900 (4.71%) Front Office
12 899 (4.71%) Public Sector
13 636 (3.33%) Manufacturing
14 604 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
15 600 (3.14%) Financial Institution
16 469 (2.45%) Telecoms
17 443 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
18 284 (1.49%) Back Office
19 263 (1.38%) Billing
20 248 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,118 (16.32%) Senior
2 2,945 (15.41%) Analyst
3 2,729 (14.28%) Software Engineer
4 2,343 (12.26%) Lead
5 2,134 (11.17%) Developer
6 1,424 (7.45%) Architect
7 964 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 920 (4.82%) Java Engineer
9 884 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 786 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
11 769 (4.02%) Consultant
12 705 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
13 661 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
14 601 (3.15%) Financial Analyst
15 594 (3.11%) Python Engineer
16 534 (2.79%) Python Software Engineer
17 522 (2.73%) Senior Manager
18 517 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
19 491 (2.57%) Senior Developer
20 484 (2.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,261 (6.60%) React
2 971 (5.08%) .NET
3 930 (4.87%) Spring
4 910 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 777 (4.07%) HTML
6 612 (3.20%) Kafka
7 572 (2.99%) CSS
8 559 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 441 (2.31%) Node.js
10 438 (2.29%) gRPC
11 428 (2.24%) REST
12 403 (2.11%) Web Services
13 390 (2.04%) JSON
14 383 (2.00%) RESTful
15 375 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
16 356 (1.86%) Pandas
17 351 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 301 (1.58%) J2EE
19 300 (1.57%) .NET Core
20 293 (1.53%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 1,132 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 863 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 740 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 702 (3.67%) Hedge funds
6 624 (3.27%) Fixed Income
7 610 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 575 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 568 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 525 (2.75%) Derivative
11 517 (2.71%) Public Cloud
12 499 (2.61%) Equities
13 271 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 254 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) Credit Risk
15 204 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 203 (1.06%) PMI
17 180 (0.94%) Mobile App
18 177 (0.93%) Driving Licence
19 164 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,269 (6.64%) Windows
2 889 (4.65%) Linux
3 428 (2.24%) Unix
4 343 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 205 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 140 (0.73%) Android
7 104 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 101 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 91 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 90 (0.47%) CentOS
11 77 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 65 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 61 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 53 (0.28%) Solaris
16 44 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) Mac OS
17 32 (0.17%) zOS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
19 18 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,883 (36.03%) Agile
2 3,729 (19.52%) Software Engineering
3 3,073 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2,733 (14.30%) CI/CD
5 2,569 (13.45%) SDLC
6 2,181 (11.42%) Mentoring
7 2,088 (10.93%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,065 (10.81%) Machine Learning
9 2,038 (10.67%) Decision-Making
10 2,026 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,956 (10.24%) Roadmaps
12 1,955 (10.23%) Project Management
13 1,929 (10.10%) Operational Stability
14 1,691 (8.85%) Risk Management
15 1,530 (8.01%) Analytics
16 1,492 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
17 1,419 (7.43%) Asset Management
18 1,413 (7.40%) DevOps
19 1,402 (7.34%) Coaching
20 1,363 (7.13%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,489 (18.26%) SQL
2 2,953 (15.46%) Python
3 2,844 (14.89%) Java
4 1,527 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 1,136 (5.95%) C#
6 1,063 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 440 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 387 (2.03%) Scala
9 320 (1.67%) Go
10 243 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 231 (1.21%) R
12 213 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 200 (1.05%) C++
14 199 (1.04%) Bash
15 140 (0.73%) C
16 130 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 106 (0.55%) PHP
18 95 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 92 (0.48%) VBA
20 78 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,828 (14.80%) Degree
2 821 (4.30%) ACCA
3 660 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 633 (3.31%) CIMA
5 430 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 407 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 333 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 299 (1.56%) CISSP
9 296 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 268 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 180 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 177 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 161 (0.84%) CISM
14 157 (0.82%) PMP
15 151 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 138 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 134 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 120 (0.63%) MBA
19 112 (0.59%) CISA
20 104 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 572 (2.99%) QA
2 517 (2.71%) GDPR
3 505 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 465 (2.43%) SLA
5 262 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 242 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 241 (1.26%) IFRS
8 236 (1.24%) PMO
9 212 (1.11%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 89 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
13 72 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 69 (0.36%) GRC
15 62 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
16 51 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 46 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
19 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 696 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 659 (3.45%) Docker
3 340 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 104 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 103 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Firmware
8 58 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 43 (0.23%) XenApp
11 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 32 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) IAG
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.052%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,033 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 778 (4.07%) Terraform
3 267 (1.40%) Ansible
4 216 (1.13%) Grafana
5 200 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 164 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 131 (0.69%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Kibana
10 34 (0.18%) Puppet
11 31 (0.16%) SCOM
12 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 29 (0.15%) Istio
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 23 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
19 17 (0.089%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,613 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 1,420 (7.43%) Oracle
3 1,032 (5.40%) SAP
4 578 (3.03%) Google
5 455 (2.38%) VMware
6 405 (2.12%) Databricks
7 354 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 336 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 329 (1.72%) Anaplan
10 283 (1.48%) Splunk
11 276 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 250 (1.31%) Cisco
13 205 (1.07%) Dell
14 199 (1.04%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 190 (0.99%) CA
17 178 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 175 (0.92%) Citrix
19 150 (0.79%) Bloomberg
20 143 (0.75%) Alteryx