Financial Institution Job Trends

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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 234 377
Rank change year-on-year -33 +143 -53
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 518 666 532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 1.34% 0.72%
As % of the General category 1.38% 1.97% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 173 128 295
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £113,750
90th Percentile £129,000 £123,550 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 37,622 33,785 45,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 56.55% 67.78% 61.34%
Number of salaries quoted 20,366 15,449 33,666
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Financial Institution
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Financial Institution relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Financial Institution job vacancy trend in the UK

Financial Institution
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Financial Institution.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Financial Institution

Financial Institution
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Institution over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Top 16 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 12 February 2026. 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 -35 468 £87,500 +1.98% 128
London -12 400 £95,000 - 106
Work from Home +196 197 £87,500 +40.00% 62
UK excluding London +19 106 £70,000 +3.70% 66
North of England +6 34 £75,000 +50.00% 12
Scotland -5 30 £78,000 +44.44% 14
Yorkshire -15 19 £72,500 +12.40% 4
North West +13 15 £115,000 +70.37% 3
Northern Ireland -6 12 £45,000 -18.18% 1
South East +14 11 £53,750 -37.35% 30
South West -11 9 - - 6
Midlands -7 7 £80,000 +14.29% 2
West Midlands +15 5 £80,000 +14.29% 1
East of England -24 3 £37,500 -
East Midlands -16 2 £132,943 +96.95% 1
Wales - 2 - - 1

Financial Institution
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.16%) Confluence
3 3 (0.58%) Apache
3 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) TPMS
4 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Stata
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 150 (28.96%) AWS
2 111 (21.43%) SaaS
3 89 (17.18%) GCP
4 66 (12.74%) Azure
5 38 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 9 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (1.74%) Serverless
8 8 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
8 8 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (1.35%) GitHub
10 6 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 6 (1.16%) AWS Direct Connect
10 6 (1.16%) Route 53
10 6 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (0.97%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.67%) CHAP
2 9 (1.74%) Firewall
3 8 (1.54%) BGP
4 7 (1.35%) Network Security
5 6 (1.16%) RTP
5 6 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.16%) VLAN
5 6 (1.16%) VPN
6 4 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.39%) Broadband
8 2 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.39%) LAN
8 2 (0.39%) MPLS
8 2 (0.39%) OSPF
8 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.39%) WAN
8 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.37%) Data Lake
1 33 (6.37%) Tableau
2 28 (5.41%) Metadata
3 21 (4.05%) Power BI
4 16 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.12%) Big Data
7 11 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.54%) Apache Hive
9 8 (1.54%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.97%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.58%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.58%) DB2
11 3 (0.58%) Power Query
12 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (6.56%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.74%) JIRA
3 5 (0.97%) Git
3 5 (0.97%) GitLab
3 5 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.77%) Gradle
5 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) JUnit
6 1 (0.19%) NUnit
6 1 (0.19%) Postman
6 1 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 518 (100.00%) Finance
2 261 (50.39%) Banking
3 161 (31.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (26.64%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (26.64%) Social Skills
5 106 (20.46%) Retail
6 97 (18.73%) Law
7 90 (17.37%) Back Office
8 35 (6.76%) Marketing
9 34 (6.56%) Digital Economy
10 25 (4.83%) Retail Banking
11 23 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (4.05%) Billing
13 17 (3.28%) Front Office
13 17 (3.28%) Legal
14 13 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.51%) Polish Language
15 8 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.54%) International Banking
15 8 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (16.80%) Senior
2 64 (12.36%) Analyst
3 54 (10.42%) Software Engineer
4 50 (9.65%) Architect
5 42 (8.11%) Lead
6 34 (6.56%) Data Analyst
7 29 (5.60%) Java Engineer
8 26 (5.02%) Data Architect
9 24 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 22 (4.25%) Developer
11 21 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (3.86%) Auditor
13 19 (3.67%) Security Auditor
14 18 (3.47%) Internal Auditor
15 17 (3.28%) Consultant
16 14 (2.70%) Development Manager
16 14 (2.70%) Senior Java Engineer
17 12 (2.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (2.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.98%) Kafka
2 27 (5.21%) Spring
2 27 (5.21%) Spring Boot
3 15 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (2.51%) RxJava
5 12 (2.32%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (2.32%) Akka
5 12 (2.32%) JMS
5 12 (2.32%) Micronaut
5 12 (2.32%) RESTful
5 12 (2.32%) Spring WebFlux
6 10 (1.93%) REST
7 9 (1.74%) .NET
8 8 (1.54%) boto
8 8 (1.54%) React
8 8 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
9 7 (1.35%) SpaCy
10 6 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.97%) Swagger
11 5 (0.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.78%) Cloud Native
2 60 (11.58%) Self-Motivation
3 54 (10.42%) Product Ownership
4 39 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (6.95%) Management Information System
6 29 (5.60%) Onboarding
7 28 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (4.83%) e-Learning
9 23 (4.44%) Data Centre
10 20 (3.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 18 (3.47%) Blog
12 13 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (2.32%) Blockchain
13 12 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (2.12%) Algorithms
15 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
17 6 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 5 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.09%) Windows
2 11 (2.12%) Linux
3 4 (0.77%) Android
3 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.77%) Mac OS
3 4 (0.77%) Unix
4 3 (0.58%) AIX
4 3 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.58%) zOS
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (22.97%) Agile
2 106 (20.46%) Analytics
3 105 (20.27%) Fintech
4 97 (18.73%) Risk Management
5 93 (17.95%) Information Security
5 93 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 88 (16.99%) Migration
8 85 (16.41%) Software Engineering
9 82 (15.83%) AI
10 67 (12.93%) Roadmaps
11 66 (12.74%) Mentoring
12 64 (12.36%) Business Development
13 63 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
14 62 (11.97%) Asset Management
15 60 (11.58%) DevOps
16 58 (11.20%) Test Automation
17 56 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (10.81%) Microservices
18 51 (9.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.66%) Java
2 85 (16.41%) Python
3 36 (6.95%) SQL
4 14 (2.70%) Go
5 13 (2.51%) C#
6 9 (1.74%) C++
7 8 (1.54%) Scala
8 6 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.97%) Bash
9 5 (0.97%) RPG
10 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.77%) VBA
11 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.58%) JCL
11 3 (0.58%) R
11 3 (0.58%) REXX
11 3 (0.58%) Rust
12 2 (0.39%) VC++
13 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 86 (16.60%) Degree
2 49 (9.46%) AWS Certification
3 39 (7.53%) Azure Certification
4 33 (6.37%) CISSP
5 30 (5.79%) Numerate Degree
6 27 (5.21%) CISA
7 24 (4.63%) CISM
8 22 (4.25%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.86%) FFIEC
10 19 (3.67%) CGEIT
10 19 (3.67%) SANS
11 17 (3.28%) CRISC
12 11 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.74%) PhD
14 8 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.35%) MBA
16 6 (1.16%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.77%) CREST Certified
17 4 (0.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.95%) GDPR
3 27 (5.21%) NIST
3 27 (5.21%) SOC 2
4 25 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.83%) PCI DSS
5 22 (4.25%) COBIT
6 19 (3.67%) ISO 20022
7 15 (2.90%) SEPA
8 12 (2.32%) GRC
8 12 (2.32%) QA
9 9 (1.74%) TARGET2
10 8 (1.54%) PMO
11 6 (1.16%) PSD2
12 5 (0.97%) EMIR
12 5 (0.97%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.97%) SLA
13 4 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.77%) MiFID
13 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (3.67%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) HDFS
3 6 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 50 (9.65%) Terraform
3 29 (5.60%) Grafana
4 4 (0.77%) Ansible
4 4 (0.77%) Cilium
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) Suricata
Vendors
1 54 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.18%) Bloomberg
3 30 (5.79%) Alteryx
4 14 (2.70%) Avaloq
5 11 (2.12%) Oracle
6 10 (1.93%) Databricks
6 10 (1.93%) Foundry
7 9 (1.74%) Google
8 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.35%) Solace
10 5 (0.97%) Citrix
10 5 (0.97%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.97%) IBM
11 4 (0.77%) Cisco
11 4 (0.77%) Meraki
12 3 (0.58%) Broadcom
12 3 (0.58%) Dell
12 3 (0.58%) Polycom
12 3 (0.58%) VMware
13 2 (0.39%) CheckPoint