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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 10,387 19,069 23,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.96% 19.36% 23.01%
As % of the General category 29.55% 32.34% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,700 10,906 14,011
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 £87,500 £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 35,150 58,962 71,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.54% 59.87% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,382 39,636 38,356
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 9,247 £71,991 +10.76% 10,363
UK excluding London -3 5,486 £57,500 +9.52% 5,632
London 0 4,518 £85,000 +6.25% 6,313
Work from Home +2 3,509 £72,500 +11.54% 4,901
North of England +3 1,968 £56,250 +2.27% 1,317
North West +1 1,332 £56,000 +1.82% 798
South East -4 927 £60,000 +20.00% 1,920
Midlands -6 754 £55,000 +10.00% 801
South West +4 648 £57,500 +4.55% 611
Scotland -2 626 £60,000 -4.00% 430
West Midlands -7 523 £55,000 +7.21% 480
Yorkshire +2 462 £60,000 +3.51% 371
East of England +4 343 £50,000 +2.04% 428
East Midlands -7 227 £52,500 +10.53% 279
North East +8 173 £56,500 +13.00% 156
Wales -1 132 £50,393 +11.98% 152
Northern Ireland +9 69 £55,000 +29.41% 119
Isle of Man 0 14 £38,000 -18.28% 15
Channel Islands 0 9 £80,000 -5.88% 4

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
1 292 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
2 246 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 224 (2.16%) Apache
4 148 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 147 (1.42%) Confluence
6 135 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 76 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 63 (0.61%) CMS
9 47 (0.45%) SAS
10 29 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 28 (0.27%) nginx
12 21 (0.20%) 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 7 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 603 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 570 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 487 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
4 111 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.35%) Maya
7 25 (0.24%) Trello
8 22 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 22 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 14 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 12 (0.12%) SPSS
11 10 (0.096%) Sketch
12 8 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
13 7 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.067%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.067%) Photoshop
14 5 (0.048%) InDesign
15 4 (0.039%) Simulink
16 3 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 139 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 137 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 80 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 67 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
5 56 (0.54%) 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 36 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
11 30 (0.29%) thinkFolio
12 29 (0.28%) Sage 200
13 28 (0.27%) Shopify
14 27 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
15 26 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
16 25 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
17 24 (0.23%) Ripple
17 24 (0.23%) Ripple XRP
17 24 (0.23%) SAP CO
18 23 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,537 (14.80%) Azure
2 1,336 (12.86%) AWS
3 681 (6.56%) GCP
4 574 (5.53%) Power Platform
5 391 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
6 344 (3.31%) SaaS
7 295 (2.84%) dbt
8 267 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
9 238 (2.29%) Serverless
10 200 (1.93%) Snowflake
11 192 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 185 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (1.62%) GitHub
14 153 (1.47%) PaaS
15 152 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
17 117 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 112 (1.08%) OpenShift
19 111 (1.07%) Amazon S3
20 107 (1.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 504 (4.85%) DNS
2 501 (4.82%) VPN
3 234 (2.25%) Firewall
4 117 (1.13%) Network Security
5 113 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 87 (0.84%) WAN
7 81 (0.78%) LAN
8 72 (0.69%) DHCP
9 59 (0.57%) Internet
10 52 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (0.49%) HTTP
12 50 (0.48%) SAN
13 41 (0.39%) VLAN
14 38 (0.37%) BGP
15 37 (0.36%) Wireless
16 30 (0.29%) IPsec
16 30 (0.29%) MPLS
16 30 (0.29%) VoIP
17 29 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
18 25 (0.24%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (4.61%) Power BI
2 370 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 324 (3.12%) Data Lake
4 279 (2.69%) Tableau
5 273 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
6 266 (2.56%) Dremio
7 262 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 260 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 236 (2.27%) Apache Arrow
10 186 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 177 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
12 176 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
13 145 (1.40%) MySQL
14 142 (1.37%) Big Data
15 127 (1.22%) Relational Database
16 112 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
17 102 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 98 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 95 (0.91%) MongoDB
20 82 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 376 (3.62%) Git
2 342 (3.29%) JIRA
3 241 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 99 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 81 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
6 75 (0.72%) GitLab
7 62 (0.60%) Maven
8 56 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 53 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 50 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 49 (0.47%) JUnit
11 49 (0.47%) Selenium
12 41 (0.39%) webpack
13 38 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
14 35 (0.34%) Postman
15 28 (0.27%) Mockito
16 27 (0.26%) Cypress.io
17 26 (0.25%) Bitbucket
17 26 (0.25%) TeamCity
18 17 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,770 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 2,490 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
3 2,067 (19.90%) Banking
4 1,215 (11.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 830 (7.99%) Marketing
6 737 (7.10%) Financial Institution
7 735 (7.08%) Front Office
8 624 (6.01%) Legal
9 505 (4.86%) Manufacturing
10 498 (4.79%) Law
11 489 (4.71%) Retail
12 442 (4.26%) German Language
13 441 (4.25%) French Language
14 403 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
15 384 (3.70%) Public Sector
16 324 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
17 279 (2.69%) Telecoms
18 205 (1.97%) Investment Banking
19 178 (1.71%) Games
20 175 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,832 (17.64%) Analyst
2 1,813 (17.45%) Senior
3 1,344 (12.94%) Developer
4 802 (7.72%) Lead
5 765 (7.36%) Project Manager
6 629 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 556 (5.35%) Senior Manager
8 554 (5.33%) Architect
9 458 (4.41%) Software Developer
10 437 (4.21%) Credit Analyst
11 421 (4.05%) Research Analyst
12 399 (3.84%) Consultant
13 324 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
14 309 (2.97%) Business Analyst
15 282 (2.71%) Senior Project Manager
16 265 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
17 261 (2.51%) Python Engineer
18 233 (2.24%) Senior Developer
19 228 (2.20%) Data Engineer
20 227 (2.19%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (4.30%) React
2 379 (3.65%) .NET
3 274 (2.64%) CSS
4 264 (2.54%) AngularJS
5 262 (2.52%) HTML
6 249 (2.40%) Kafka
6 249 (2.40%) Node.js
7 220 (2.12%) Spring
8 219 (2.11%) Spring Boot
9 196 (1.89%) Pandas
10 194 (1.87%) NumPy
11 188 (1.81%) PySpark
12 167 (1.61%) REST
13 165 (1.59%) RESTful
14 160 (1.54%) SciPy
15 116 (1.12%) Redux
16 113 (1.09%) .NET Framework
16 113 (1.09%) gRPC
17 110 (1.06%) Vue
18 99 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 891 (8.58%) Fixed Income
2 614 (5.91%) Management Information System
3 531 (5.11%) Credit Risk
4 471 (4.53%) Cyberattack
5 425 (4.09%) Hedge funds
6 420 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 389 (3.75%) Derivative
8 374 (3.60%) Equities
9 372 (3.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 257 (2.47%) Driving Licence
11 248 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
12 236 (2.27%) Algorithms
13 204 (1.96%) FMCG
14 199 (1.92%) Onboarding
15 197 (1.90%) Cloud Native
16 132 (1.27%) Social Media
17 122 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
18 118 (1.14%) Public Cloud
19 110 (1.06%) Blockchain
20 108 (1.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 795 (7.65%) Linux
2 549 (5.29%) Windows
3 475 (4.57%) Android
4 181 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 141 (1.36%) Unix
6 101 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 96 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.51%) Windows Vista
9 49 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 31 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 26 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (0.25%) zOS
12 24 (0.23%) CentOS
12 24 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 20 (0.19%) Solaris
14 18 (0.17%) AIX
15 12 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.12%) Rocky
16 8 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,982 (28.71%) Agile
2 1,921 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
3 1,658 (15.96%) Project Management
4 1,508 (14.52%) Risk Management
5 1,456 (14.02%) Decision-Making
6 1,359 (13.08%) Analytics
7 1,174 (11.30%) Software Engineering
8 1,096 (10.55%) DevOps
9 1,067 (10.27%) Asset Management
10 1,002 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 926 (8.91%) Mentoring
12 899 (8.66%) Roadmaps
13 895 (8.62%) Business Strategy
14 890 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 869 (8.37%) CI/CD
16 845 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
17 756 (7.28%) Mathematics
18 701 (6.75%) Line Management
19 667 (6.42%) Fintech
20 660 (6.35%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,862 (17.93%) Python
2 1,358 (13.07%) SQL
3 1,312 (12.63%) Java
4 702 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 634 (6.10%) C++
6 554 (5.33%) Go
7 437 (4.21%) C#
8 392 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 299 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 133 (1.28%) Bash
11 108 (1.04%) PHP
12 101 (0.97%) C
13 98 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 79 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 78 (0.75%) R
16 60 (0.58%) Scala
17 52 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.32%) VBA
19 32 (0.31%) Bicep
20 31 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,307 (22.21%) Degree
2 679 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 671 (6.46%) Master's Degree
4 507 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 429 (4.13%) CFA
6 332 (3.20%) DBS Check
7 303 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 262 (2.52%) CISSP
9 257 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 228 (2.20%) ACCA
11 185 (1.78%) CIMA
12 168 (1.62%) PMI Certification
13 130 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 128 (1.23%) PMP
15 125 (1.20%) SC Cleared
16 123 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
17 118 (1.14%) Azure Certification
18 96 (0.92%) PhD
19 92 (0.89%) CISA
20 84 (0.81%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 364 (3.50%) QA
2 297 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 259 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 220 (2.12%) GDPR
5 190 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (1.42%) NIST
7 138 (1.33%) PMO
8 134 (1.29%) SLA
9 98 (0.94%) IFRS
10 93 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 86 (0.83%) MiFID
12 78 (0.75%) GAAP
13 76 (0.73%) ITGC
14 73 (0.70%) PCI DSS
15 57 (0.55%) COBIT
16 41 (0.39%) GMP
17 38 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
18 37 (0.36%) GRC
19 35 (0.34%) NCSC
20 33 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 947 (9.12%) Docker
2 263 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 134 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 49 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 30 (0.29%) 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%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.019%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 640 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 575 (5.54%) Ansible
3 447 (4.30%) Terraform
4 114 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 97 (0.93%) SCCM
6 66 (0.64%) Grafana
7 45 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 41 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (0.30%) Puppet
11 30 (0.29%) Istio
12 29 (0.28%) Nagios
13 22 (0.21%) CASB
14 16 (0.15%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.14%) WSUS
16 14 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
16 14 (0.13%) SCOM
17 11 (0.11%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.087%) Kustomize
18 9 (0.087%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,450 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 526 (5.06%) SAP
3 508 (4.89%) Oracle
4 484 (4.66%) Bloomberg
5 336 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 292 (2.81%) Google
7 187 (1.80%) VMware
8 172 (1.66%) Cisco
9 140 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 134 (1.29%) Databricks
11 129 (1.24%) IBM
12 95 (0.91%) Citrix
13 87 (0.84%) NEC
14 69 (0.66%) Adobe
15 62 (0.60%) Infor
16 61 (0.59%) Red Hat
16 61 (0.59%) Workday
17 53 (0.51%) Cognos
18 49 (0.47%) BISAM
18 49 (0.47%) SolarWinds