Financial Institution Jobs

Financial Institution
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Financial Institution 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 215 405 381
Rank change year-on-year +190 -24 +25
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 735 615 915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 0.63% 0.88%
As % of the General category 2.09% 1.04% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 155 257 480
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,800 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £111,125 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £127,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% +4.35%

All General Skills
UK

Financial Institution 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%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Financial Institution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Institution.

Salary trend for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Institution 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 +324 713 £85,800 +7.25% 447
London +224 597 £90,000 +2.73% 391
UK excluding London +2 137 £75,000 +13.21% 88
East of England - 41 - - 4
Work from Home +98 33 £72,500 -9.38% 181
North of England +98 33 £72,500 +26.09% 17
North West +63 33 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Scotland -36 18 £95,000 -20.83% 14
South West +90 17 £57,750 -21.69% 6
Midlands +65 16 £67,500 +51.69% 14
South East +96 9 £85,800 +37.28% 8
West Midlands +50 9 - - 11
East Midlands +54 7 £67,500 - 3
Northern Ireland +37 3 £69,000 +4.15% 23

Financial Institution
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 7 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) Confluence
3 3 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.14%) Apache
4 1 (0.14%) Jetty
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 426 (57.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) SPSS
5 1 (0.14%) SPSS Modeler
5 1 (0.14%) Stata
Business Applications
1 24 (3.27%) Ripple
1 24 (3.27%) Ripple XRP
2 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) BASE24
3 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Eikon
3 1 (0.14%) Finacle
3 1 (0.14%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 99 (13.47%) AWS
2 51 (6.94%) Azure
3 32 (4.35%) GCP
4 10 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.09%) Serverless
6 7 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (0.82%) Amazon S3
7 6 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.54%) Figma
8 4 (0.54%) Google Workspace
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.54%) Miro
8 4 (0.54%) Slack
9 3 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.41%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.41%) Wireless
2 2 (0.27%) Firewall
2 2 (0.27%) Network Security
2 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.27%) VLAN
2 2 (0.27%) WAN
3 1 (0.14%) ATM
3 1 (0.14%) BGP
3 1 (0.14%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.14%) Internet
3 1 (0.14%) Junos
3 1 (0.14%) LAN
3 1 (0.14%) MPLS
3 1 (0.14%) OSPF
3 1 (0.14%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.40%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 24 (3.27%) DynamoDB
3 23 (3.13%) Metadata
4 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.95%) Tableau
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.68%) Apache Hive
5 5 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.68%) MySQL
6 4 (0.54%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.54%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.41%) Power BI
8 2 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.27%) Tableau Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Arrow
9 1 (0.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (1.90%) JIRA
2 13 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.09%) Git
4 5 (0.68%) Selenium
5 4 (0.54%) Appium
5 4 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 4 (0.54%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.54%) Fiddler
5 4 (0.54%) GitLab
5 4 (0.54%) JMeter
5 4 (0.54%) LoadRunner
5 4 (0.54%) Postman
5 4 (0.54%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.27%) MagicDraw
6 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.27%) webpack
7 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.14%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 735 (100.00%) Finance
2 562 (76.46%) Social Skills
3 536 (72.93%) Banking
4 509 (69.25%) Analytical Skills
5 455 (61.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 424 (57.69%) French Language
6 424 (57.69%) German Language
7 53 (7.21%) Law
8 27 (3.67%) Retail Banking
9 24 (3.27%) Digital Economy
10 14 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.22%) Front Office
13 8 (1.09%) Marketing
14 6 (0.82%) Advertising
14 6 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
14 6 (0.82%) Retail
15 5 (0.68%) Legal
16 4 (0.54%) Cantonese Language
16 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 466 (63.40%) Analyst
2 422 (57.41%) Credit Analyst
2 422 (57.41%) Research Analyst
3 63 (8.57%) Senior
4 53 (7.21%) Software Engineer
5 43 (5.85%) Architect
6 34 (4.63%) Risk Manager
7 33 (4.49%) Credit Risk Manager
8 28 (3.81%) Java Engineer
9 26 (3.54%) Java Software Engineer
9 26 (3.54%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (3.13%) Data Architect
11 20 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (2.31%) Lead
13 15 (2.04%) Developer
14 13 (1.77%) Product Owner
14 13 (1.77%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (1.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 13 (1.77%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (1.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.94%) AngularJS
1 51 (6.94%) Spring
2 49 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 33 (4.49%) React
4 27 (3.67%) Kafka
5 26 (3.54%) Node.js
6 23 (3.13%) Akka
7 13 (1.77%) RxJava
7 13 (1.77%) Spring WebFlux
8 6 (0.82%) RESTful
9 5 (0.68%) .NET
9 5 (0.68%) REST
9 5 (0.68%) WebSockets
10 4 (0.54%) CSS
10 4 (0.54%) Keras
10 4 (0.54%) NumPy
10 4 (0.54%) SciPy
10 4 (0.54%) SpaCy
10 4 (0.54%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 457 (62.18%) Credit Risk
2 425 (57.82%) Fixed Income
3 26 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.40%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.40%) Blockchain
5 24 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.50%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.68%) Cyberattack
9 5 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.54%) Derivative
11 3 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.27%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.27%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.27%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.18%) Linux
2 7 (0.95%) Windows
3 5 (0.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (64.76%) Risk Management
2 462 (62.86%) Decision-Making
3 459 (62.45%) Asset Management
4 436 (59.32%) Risk Assessment
5 425 (57.82%) Business Strategy
6 424 (57.69%) Portfolio Management
7 423 (57.55%) Credit Risk Analysis
8 422 (57.41%) Financial Modelling
9 125 (17.01%) Agile
10 81 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 60 (8.16%) Mentoring
12 59 (8.03%) Software Engineering
13 53 (7.21%) Fintech
14 52 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (6.53%) Roadmaps
16 42 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (5.58%) Line Management
18 40 (5.44%) Test Strategy
19 38 (5.17%) CI/CD
20 36 (4.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 64 (8.71%) Java
2 29 (3.95%) Python
3 26 (3.54%) C++
3 26 (3.54%) SQL
4 15 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.09%) Bash
5 8 (1.09%) PowerShell
5 8 (1.09%) TypeScript
6 6 (0.82%) C#
7 4 (0.54%) Perl
7 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.41%) Bicep
8 3 (0.41%) R
9 2 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.27%) COBOL
9 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.14%) C
10 1 (0.14%) Groovy
10 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 449 (61.09%) Degree
2 428 (58.23%) Master's Degree
3 423 (57.55%) CFA
4 26 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.68%) PMP
7 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.54%) PhD
7 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.41%) CISSP
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) ACCA
9 1 (0.14%) CIMA
9 1 (0.14%) CISA
9 1 (0.14%) CISM
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.14%) OSCP
9 1 (0.14%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.82%) QA
2 4 (0.54%) SLA
3 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.41%) GDPR
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.41%) NCSC
3 3 (0.41%) NIST
4 2 (0.27%) Basel III
4 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.27%) MiFID
5 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.14%) COBIT
5 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.14%) ITGC
5 1 (0.14%) PMO
5 1 (0.14%) PSD2
5 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (7.89%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.36%) Terraform
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
3 4 (0.54%) Grafana
3 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.27%) Nagios
4 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.27%) Puppet
4 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.14%) Control-M
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 423 (57.55%) Bloomberg
2 43 (5.85%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.63%) Avaloq
4 13 (1.77%) Oracle
5 8 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 7 (0.95%) Google
7 4 (0.54%) VMware
8 3 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe
9 2 (0.27%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.27%) Splunk
10 1 (0.14%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.14%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.14%) Canon
10 1 (0.14%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.14%) FIS
10 1 (0.14%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.14%) Meraki
10 1 (0.14%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.14%) PayPal