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 have cited Financial Institution over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 386 414
Rank change year-on-year -33 +28 +91
Permanent jobs citing Financial Institution 599 879 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.87% 0.88%
As % of the General category 1.01% 1.28% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 242 463 674
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £50,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% +4.35% +9.52%

All General Skills
UK

Financial Institution 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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
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 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Institution in the UK

Financial Institution
Top 17 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 10 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
UK excluding London -16 371 £68,750 +14.58% 31
England -167 314 £80,000 +6.67% 180
Scotland +79 264 £120,000 +87.78% 1
London -47 214 £87,610 -2.66% 146
Work from Home -80 115 £80,000 +23.08% 71
South West -52 43 £73,750 +18.00% 9
South East -101 24 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North of England -28 16 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Midlands -33 12 £44,500 -27.35% 2
West Midlands 0 10 £44,500 -28.80% 2
North East -27 9 - -
Wales +9 6 £52,500 -9.19% 1
Yorkshire +71 5 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Channel Islands - 4 £60,000 -
East Midlands -32 2 - -
North West -35 2 £43,000 -33.85% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £66,250 - 1

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 72 (12.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.17%) nginx
3 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.67%) SAS
5 2 (0.33%) Appian
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 218 (36.39%) AWS
2 62 (10.35%) Azure
3 36 (6.01%) GCP
4 26 (4.34%) SaaS
5 15 (2.50%) npm
6 13 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 5 (0.83%) Azure Stack
8 5 (0.83%) PowerApps
9 4 (0.67%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.67%) Firebase
9 4 (0.67%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.67%) IaaS
10 3 (0.50%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (0.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.33%) Datadog
11 2 (0.33%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.01%) DSL
2 17 (2.84%) Firewall
3 9 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.17%) DNS
4 7 (1.17%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.00%) DHCP
6 5 (0.83%) VPN
7 4 (0.67%) BGP
7 4 (0.67%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (0.67%) Network Security
7 4 (0.67%) OSPF
7 4 (0.67%) SMS
8 2 (0.33%) SAN
8 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.33%) VLAN
8 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (19.53%) NoSQL
2 78 (13.02%) Big Data
3 34 (5.68%) MongoDB
3 34 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 33 (5.51%) Data Lake
5 30 (5.01%) DB2
6 27 (4.51%) Tableau
7 17 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.34%) Metadata
9 12 (2.00%) Data Hub
9 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.50%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (1.34%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.83%) MySQL
12 5 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 20 (3.34%) Jenkins
2 13 (2.17%) Storybook
3 9 (1.50%) JUnit
4 8 (1.34%) Jaeger
4 8 (1.34%) JIRA
4 8 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.17%) Selenium
5 7 (1.17%) WebDriver
6 5 (0.83%) Git
6 5 (0.83%) Maven
7 4 (0.67%) Crashlytics
8 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.33%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) GDB
10 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.17%) Mockito
General
1 599 (100.00%) Finance
2 308 (51.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 297 (49.58%) Law
4 250 (41.74%) Marketing
5 220 (36.73%) Banking
6 125 (20.87%) Investment Banking
7 104 (17.36%) Social Skills
8 65 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (9.02%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (5.01%) Legal
11 26 (4.34%) Games
12 21 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (3.17%) Front Office
14 15 (2.50%) Retail Banking
15 12 (2.00%) Retail
16 11 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (1.00%) Private Banking
19 4 (0.67%) Public Sector
20 2 (0.33%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 168 (28.05%) Engineering Manager
1 168 (28.05%) Software Engineering Manager
2 90 (15.03%) Software Engineer
3 65 (10.85%) Lead
4 57 (9.52%) Senior
5 53 (8.85%) Big Data Manager
6 52 (8.68%) Analyst
7 45 (7.51%) Architect
8 44 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (7.35%) AWS Software Engineer
9 40 (6.68%) Developer
10 39 (6.51%) Python Engineer
10 39 (6.51%) Python Software Engineer
11 28 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 24 (4.01%) Java Engineer
13 23 (3.84%) Java Software Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Principal Software Engineer
15 20 (3.34%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.19%) Spring Boot
2 78 (13.02%) Spring
3 60 (10.02%) NumPy
3 60 (10.02%) Pandas
4 53 (8.85%) RESTful
5 45 (7.51%) Kafka
6 36 (6.01%) AngularJS
7 32 (5.34%) REST
8 24 (4.01%) HTML
9 23 (3.84%) CSS
9 23 (3.84%) React
10 22 (3.67%) Middleware
11 17 (2.84%) JSON
12 16 (2.67%) JPA
13 13 (2.17%) Node.js
13 13 (2.17%) Sass
14 11 (1.84%) Redux
15 9 (1.50%) Web Services
16 8 (1.34%) .NET
16 8 (1.34%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 187 (31.22%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.85%) Market Risk
3 50 (8.35%) Distributed Applications
4 45 (7.51%) Public Cloud
5 43 (7.18%) Management Information System
6 30 (5.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (3.84%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.51%) Cyberattack
9 20 (3.34%) Data Fabric
10 17 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (2.50%) Hedge funds
11 15 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (2.34%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.84%) Equities
14 10 (1.67%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.50%) Low-Code
16 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.34%) Replication
17 6 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.68%) Linux
2 38 (6.34%) Windows
3 20 (3.34%) zOS
4 17 (2.84%) Unix
5 16 (2.67%) CentOS
6 10 (1.67%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.34%) Solaris
8 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.33%) Debian
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (54.09%) Agile
2 293 (48.91%) Software Engineering
3 263 (43.91%) CI/CD
4 250 (41.74%) SDLC
5 180 (30.05%) Computer Science
6 155 (25.88%) Continuous Delivery
7 150 (25.04%) Mathematics
8 138 (23.04%) Analytics
8 138 (23.04%) Coaching
9 123 (20.53%) Asset Management
10 110 (18.36%) Microservices
11 93 (15.53%) Machine Learning
12 88 (14.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 88 (14.69%) Mentoring
13 82 (13.69%) Operational Stability
14 71 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
15 69 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
16 65 (10.85%) Fintech
17 52 (8.68%) Data Analysis
18 50 (8.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 218 (36.39%) Java
2 202 (33.72%) SQL
3 150 (25.04%) Python
4 72 (12.02%) Scala
5 67 (11.19%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.01%) C#
7 18 (3.01%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.50%) R
9 8 (1.34%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.00%) Bash
12 5 (0.83%) C++
13 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.67%) PHP
13 4 (0.67%) Swift
14 2 (0.33%) C
14 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.33%) VBA
15 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (10.35%) Degree
2 18 (3.01%) Azure Certification
3 16 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 10 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.00%) AAT
6 6 (1.00%) CISSP
6 6 (1.00%) ICAEW
7 5 (0.83%) CCNP
7 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.83%) CISM
8 4 (0.67%) CCIE
8 4 (0.67%) CISA
8 4 (0.67%) CRISC
8 4 (0.67%) PhD
8 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.67%) PMP
9 3 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.33%) CFA
10 2 (0.33%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.51%) Accessibility
2 31 (5.18%) SLA
3 17 (2.84%) QA
4 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.67%) GDPR
5 4 (0.67%) ISO 14001
5 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.67%) PMO
6 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) COSO
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PSD2
8 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (7.18%) Docker
2 9 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.67%) Ansible
3 8 (1.34%) Kiali
4 7 (1.17%) Grafana
5 4 (0.67%) SCCM
6 2 (0.33%) Control-M
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.33%) SafeCom
6 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.17%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.17%) Terraform
7 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.51%) Oracle
3 31 (5.18%) Databricks
4 19 (3.17%) Alteryx
4 19 (3.17%) Sybase
5 18 (3.01%) Cognos
6 17 (2.84%) F5
7 14 (2.34%) Splunk
8 12 (2.00%) VMware
9 10 (1.67%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.67%) IBM
10 9 (1.50%) Cisco
11 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.00%) Adobe
12 6 (1.00%) CA
12 6 (1.00%) Google
12 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.83%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (0.83%) iManage
13 5 (0.83%) TIBCO