Financial Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Financial Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 812 907
Rank change year-on-year +69 +95 -88
Permanent jobs citing Financial Modelling 148 192 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 85 81 122
10th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £50,125
25th Percentile £57,000 £62,322 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +7.59% +12.86%
75th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Financial Modelling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,920 103,131 145,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 95.65% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 59,805 60,258 83,543
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,456 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +2.43% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +9.38%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 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 +78 138 £105,000 +20.00% 126
London +154 101 £105,000 -17.65% 92
UK excluding London -32 47 £48,750 -2.50% 33
Work from Home +63 39 £58,500 -17.97% 47
North of England +29 19 £42,500 -10.53% 7
North West +25 19 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Scotland -46 10 - - 2
Midlands +18 9 £50,000 +58.73% 5
West Midlands +50 7 £60,000 +46.34% 2
South East +9 5 £45,000 -45.45% 11
South West -3 3 £50,000 -9.09% 5
East Midlands -22 2 £24,000 -23.81% 3
East of England +16 1 £70,000 +9.80% 3

Financial Modelling
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 1 (0.68%) Apache
Applications
1 34 (22.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.68%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.76%) AWS
2 37 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 36 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
3 36 (24.32%) Amazon ECS
3 36 (24.32%) Amazon SQS
3 36 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
3 36 (24.32%) OpenShift
3 36 (24.32%) Serverless
4 21 (14.19%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.38%) SaaS
6 2 (1.35%) IaaS
6 2 (1.35%) PaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure
7 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 36 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (14.19%) Power BI
4 16 (10.81%) Tableau
5 15 (10.14%) Data Mining
6 10 (6.76%) Big Data
7 2 (1.35%) MS Access
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.68%) Flink
8 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.68%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 36 (24.32%) Artifactory
1 36 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.68%) GDB
2 1 (0.68%) JIRA
2 1 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 148 (100.00%) Finance
2 44 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (24.32%) Front Office
4 33 (22.30%) Marketing
5 30 (20.27%) Social Skills
6 18 (12.16%) Banking
7 17 (11.49%) Legal
8 16 (10.81%) Law
9 13 (8.78%) Financial Institution
9 13 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (8.78%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (7.43%) Investment Banking
10 11 (7.43%) Retail
11 10 (6.76%) Games
11 10 (6.76%) Local Government
12 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
13 7 (4.73%) Billing
14 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 2 (1.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 63 (42.57%) Analyst
2 46 (31.08%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (24.32%) AWS DevOps
3 36 (24.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 36 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (24.32%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 36 (24.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 31 (20.95%) Financial Analyst
5 25 (16.89%) Senior
6 23 (15.54%) Senior Analyst
7 16 (10.81%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 14 (9.46%) Commercial Analyst
9 10 (6.76%) AWS Software Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Principal Modelling Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Principal Software Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Python Software Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Client Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.32%) J2EE
2 3 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (0.68%) gRPC
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.32%) Tandem
2 18 (12.16%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.38%) Blog
6 3 (2.03%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.68%) Derivative
8 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Windows
1 5 (3.38%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (45.27%) Decision-Making
2 53 (35.81%) Agile
3 48 (32.43%) Asset Management
3 48 (32.43%) Software Engineering
4 44 (29.73%) Financial Analysis
5 37 (25.00%) DevOps
5 37 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 36 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 36 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
6 36 (24.32%) Open Source
6 36 (24.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (19.59%) Budgeting
7 29 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (18.92%) Business Strategy
9 26 (17.57%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 25 (16.89%) Analytics
10 25 (16.89%) Economics
11 23 (15.54%) Business Development
11 23 (15.54%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (11.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (43.92%) Python
2 38 (25.68%) Java
3 36 (24.32%) Go
4 26 (17.57%) SQL
5 6 (4.05%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.70%) VBA
7 3 (2.03%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 42 (28.38%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.41%) ACCA
3 8 (5.41%) CIMA
3 8 (5.41%) MBA
4 6 (4.05%) CFA
5 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.03%) GAAP
2 2 (1.35%) IFRS
2 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (24.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (24.32%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) CA
3 3 (2.03%) Bloomberg
3 3 (2.03%) MarketAxess
3 3 (2.03%) Murex
3 3 (2.03%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.03%) Tradeweb
4 2 (1.35%) Cadence
4 2 (1.35%) Facebook
4 2 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.68%) DocuSign
5 1 (0.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.68%) Samsung
5 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) Yardi