Finance Jobs in Wales

Financial
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 175 331 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.07% 19.36% 19.60%
As % of the General category 19.75% 29.40% 28.55%
Number of salaries quoted 97 144 300
10th Percentile £28,290 £24,440 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £65,589
90th Percentile £62,500 £76,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +0.75% +3.08%

All General Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 886 1,126 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 45.93% 65.85% 68.66%
Number of salaries quoted 609 519 833
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,926 £31,494
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,710 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -10.58% +17.65%
75th Percentile £56,498 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,819 £75,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Wales

Finance
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Wales.

Salary trend for Finance in Wales

Finance
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Wales over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in Wales

Finance
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
South Wales -5 138 £43,500 -3.33% 41
North Wales +5 10 £45,000 +87.50% 14
West Wales +3 9 £51,054 -7.17% 1
Mid Wales -5 5 £60,000 +118.18%
Dyfed - 5 - -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 10 (5.71%) Confluence
2 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.86%) Apache
4 4 (2.29%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.71%) SAS
5 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.14%) WordPress
7 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 22 (12.57%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (10.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.29%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.57%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.14%) Azure
2 22 (12.57%) AWS
3 15 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.14%) Entra ID
4 9 (5.14%) GCP
5 8 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.57%) SaaS
6 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.86%) iPaaS
7 5 (2.86%) PaaS
8 4 (2.29%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.29%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.14%) DigitalOcean
9 2 (1.14%) OCI
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) Firewall
2 6 (3.43%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (3.43%) VPN
3 5 (2.86%) Internet
3 5 (2.86%) IPsec
3 5 (2.86%) SNMP
4 4 (2.29%) DHCP
4 4 (2.29%) DNS
4 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.29%) SSL
4 4 (2.29%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.29%) Wireless
5 3 (1.71%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.29%) Power BI
7 3 (1.71%) QlikView
7 3 (1.71%) Tableau
8 2 (1.14%) MySQL
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 13 (7.43%) JIRA
2 12 (6.86%) Git
3 10 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.14%) Selenium
5 4 (2.29%) Vagrant
6 2 (1.14%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (8.57%) Marketing
3 12 (6.86%) Games
4 11 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.57%) Banking
6 8 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.57%) Law
6 8 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.00%) Advertising
7 7 (4.00%) Legal
8 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.86%) Local Government
9 5 (2.86%) Police
9 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.29%) Welsh Language
11 2 (1.14%) French Language
11 2 (1.14%) German Language
11 2 (1.14%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Senior
2 24 (13.71%) Developer
3 22 (12.57%) Analyst
4 21 (12.00%) Consultant
5 13 (7.43%) Lead
6 12 (6.86%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.71%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Financial Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.00%) IT Technician
10 6 (3.43%) Administrator
10 6 (3.43%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Desktop Support
10 6 (3.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Scrum Master
10 6 (3.43%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.43%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.43%) React
2 10 (5.71%) AngularJS
3 9 (5.14%) REST
3 9 (5.14%) Spring
3 9 (5.14%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.86%) YAML
5 4 (2.29%) .NET
6 3 (1.71%) CSS
6 3 (1.71%) HTML
6 3 (1.71%) RESTful
7 2 (1.14%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.14%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.14%) jQuery
7 2 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.14%) Node.js
7 2 (1.14%) Web Services
8 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.57%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.43%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.86%) Replication
4 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.29%) EPoS
5 4 (2.29%) Housing Association
5 4 (2.29%) Photovoltaics
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.14%) Social Media
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) Clustering
7 1 (0.57%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.00%) Windows
2 12 (6.86%) Linux
3 5 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.29%) CentOS
4 4 (2.29%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) VMS
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (18.29%) Agile
3 30 (17.14%) Roadmaps
4 28 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
5 25 (14.29%) Project Management
6 20 (11.43%) Asset Management
6 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (11.43%) Fintech
7 16 (9.14%) Coaching
7 16 (9.14%) Test Automation
8 14 (8.00%) Containerisation
9 13 (7.43%) Mentoring
9 13 (7.43%) Service Delivery
10 12 (6.86%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 12 (6.86%) Integration Testing
10 12 (6.86%) Mathematics
10 12 (6.86%) Scrum
10 12 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (6.29%) Decision-Making
11 11 (6.29%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (14.29%) SQL
2 12 (6.86%) Java
3 11 (6.29%) Python
3 11 (6.29%) TypeScript
4 8 (4.57%) C#
5 6 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.29%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.71%) PHP
7 3 (1.71%) R
8 2 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (13.71%) Degree
2 15 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.14%) ACCA
4 9 (5.14%) CIMA
5 4 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) MBA
8 1 (0.57%) MCP
8 1 (0.57%) PhD
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
8 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) IFRS
2 7 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.29%) NEBOSH
4 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 21 (12.00%) Docker
2 14 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (5.14%) Ansible
2 7 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.86%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.71%) Terraform
5 1 (0.57%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 35 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) Oracle
3 9 (5.14%) Hyperion
3 9 (5.14%) PeopleSoft
4 6 (3.43%) Veeam
4 6 (3.43%) VMware
5 5 (2.86%) NetApp
5 5 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.86%) SolidFire
5 5 (2.86%) Sophos
6 4 (2.29%) Apple
6 4 (2.29%) Asigra
6 4 (2.29%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.29%) Autodesk
6 4 (2.29%) Datto
6 4 (2.29%) Sage
6 4 (2.29%) SAP
7 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.14%) WooCommerce