Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,890 9,762 21,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.52% 30.59% 29.44%
As % of the General category 42.47% 44.65% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,701 6,980 10,234
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,589 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,823 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.96% +3.85%

All General Skills
London

Finance is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,222 21,862 50,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.14% 68.50% 69.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,382 15,350 22,828
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London -1 961 £75,000 -3.85% 299
West London +1 369 £80,000 +18.52% 82
South London +7 158 £67,500 +22.73% 32
East London +2 70 £57,500 -25.81% 56
North London -8 16 £52,975 -11.71% 7
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 529 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
2 487 (7.07%) Apache
3 273 (3.96%) SAS
4 138 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 128 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 61 (0.89%) Confluence
7 50 (0.73%) IIS
8 38 (0.55%) Apache Spark
9 31 (0.45%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 14 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 12 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 7 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
17 6 (0.087%) Ethereum
17 6 (0.087%) IBM Notes
18 5 (0.073%) Appian
18 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 622 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 297 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 31 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.33%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.087%) InDesign
11 5 (0.073%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.044%) Oracle Smart View
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.015%) Revit
15 1 (0.015%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 225 (3.27%) SAP ERP
2 56 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.36%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 21 (0.30%) NEC Housing
9 20 (0.29%) thinkFolio
10 19 (0.28%) SAP BPC
11 16 (0.23%) SAP FI
12 15 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
13 14 (0.20%) SAP CO
13 14 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
14 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
15 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
16 10 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
16 10 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
16 10 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
17 9 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,428 (20.73%) AWS
2 1,240 (18.00%) Azure
3 610 (8.85%) GCP
4 431 (6.26%) Power Platform
5 393 (5.70%) dbt
6 355 (5.15%) Snowflake
7 343 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 268 (3.89%) SaaS
9 170 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 147 (2.13%) Serverless
11 142 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 100 (1.45%) GitHub
13 97 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 97 (1.41%) Entra ID
14 85 (1.23%) PaaS
15 74 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 66 (0.96%) IaaS
17 64 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
18 57 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
19 56 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.53%) Broadband
2 220 (3.19%) Firewall
3 119 (1.73%) DNS
4 81 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 79 (1.15%) LAN
5 79 (1.15%) WAN
6 60 (0.87%) DHCP
7 58 (0.84%) Internet
7 58 (0.84%) Network Security
8 44 (0.64%) VPN
9 34 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.46%) Skype
11 31 (0.45%) Wireless
12 29 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
12 29 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
14 21 (0.30%) SAN
15 20 (0.29%) BGP
16 18 (0.26%) Intranet
16 18 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (6.05%) Apache Ignite
2 397 (5.76%) Data Lake
3 384 (5.57%) Dremio
4 378 (5.49%) Apache Arrow
5 377 (5.47%) Amazon Athena
6 362 (5.25%) Power BI
7 331 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 224 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 176 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 151 (2.19%) Tableau
11 126 (1.83%) Big Data
12 82 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 75 (1.09%) NoSQL
13 75 (1.09%) Relational Database
14 67 (0.97%) MongoDB
15 65 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 52 (0.75%) Metadata
17 51 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
18 43 (0.62%) MySQL
19 42 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 209 (3.03%) JIRA
2 163 (2.37%) Git
3 143 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 57 (0.83%) GitLab
6 41 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 36 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 28 (0.41%) Selenium
9 25 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 19 (0.28%) JUnit
11 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.26%) Maven
11 18 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
12 16 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.20%) Snyk
14 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 2,069 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 1,445 (20.97%) Banking
3 1,023 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 925 (13.43%) Front Office
5 641 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 444 (6.44%) Investment Banking
7 424 (6.15%) Legal
8 416 (6.04%) Law
9 415 (6.02%) Marketing
10 309 (4.48%) Retail
11 305 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
12 211 (3.06%) Financial Institution
13 202 (2.93%) Back Office
14 169 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
15 160 (2.32%) Public Sector
16 131 (1.90%) Manufacturing
17 111 (1.61%) Retail Banking
18 107 (1.55%) Billing
19 104 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
20 96 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,367 (19.84%) Senior
2 1,264 (18.35%) Analyst
3 1,103 (16.01%) Developer
4 744 (10.80%) Architect
5 607 (8.81%) Lead
6 593 (8.61%) Software Engineer
7 430 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
8 316 (4.59%) Financial Analyst
9 315 (4.57%) Python Engineer
10 305 (4.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 283 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
12 279 (4.05%) Python Developer
13 259 (3.76%) Python Software Engineer
14 249 (3.61%) Senior Manager
15 243 (3.53%) Senior Developer
16 241 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
17 211 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
18 205 (2.98%) Java Developer
19 195 (2.83%) Consultant
20 189 (2.74%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 508 (7.37%) gRPC
2 490 (7.11%) Protocol Buffers
3 462 (6.71%) React
4 409 (5.94%) .NET
5 359 (5.21%) Pandas
6 325 (4.72%) NumPy
7 306 (4.44%) SciPy
8 291 (4.22%) AngularJS
9 266 (3.86%) Redux
10 161 (2.34%) Vue
11 156 (2.26%) HTML
12 140 (2.03%) REST
13 137 (1.99%) .NET Core
14 135 (1.96%) Node.js
15 133 (1.93%) ASP.NET
16 130 (1.89%) Material-UI
17 128 (1.86%) Spring
18 127 (1.84%) Web Services
19 125 (1.81%) Kafka
20 120 (1.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 782 (11.35%) Hedge funds
2 704 (10.22%) Fixed Income
3 590 (8.56%) Equities
4 578 (8.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 572 (8.30%) Derivative
6 274 (3.98%) Management Information System
7 217 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
8 212 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 206 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 125 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
11 98 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 85 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 85 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 81 (1.18%) Reinsurance
14 77 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 76 (1.10%) Clustering
16 70 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
17 66 (0.96%) Cloud Native
17 66 (0.96%) Social Media
18 65 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 543 (7.88%) Windows
2 375 (5.44%) Linux
3 159 (2.31%) Unix
4 150 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 111 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 53 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 43 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 40 (0.58%) Solaris
9 39 (0.57%) CentOS
10 36 (0.52%) Android
11 35 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 24 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 21 (0.30%) zOS
14 19 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 12 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 12 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
17 11 (0.16%) AIX
17 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,132 (30.94%) Agile
2 1,069 (15.52%) Asset Management
3 988 (14.34%) Software Engineering
4 899 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 801 (11.63%) Investment Management
6 712 (10.33%) Mentoring
6 712 (10.33%) Roadmaps
7 634 (9.20%) Analytics
8 616 (8.94%) DevOps
9 570 (8.27%) Decision-Making
10 520 (7.55%) Fintech
11 510 (7.40%) Project Management
12 490 (7.11%) Change Management
13 477 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
14 474 (6.88%) Data Management
15 417 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 406 (5.89%) Computer Science
17 404 (5.86%) Performance Management
18 402 (5.83%) Full Stack Development
19 399 (5.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,568 (22.76%) Python
2 1,192 (17.30%) SQL
3 834 (12.10%) Java
4 798 (11.58%) JavaScript
5 702 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 523 (7.59%) C#
7 255 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 166 (2.41%) Go
9 111 (1.61%) C++
10 98 (1.42%) R
11 97 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 96 (1.39%) Bash
13 69 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 56 (0.81%) Perl
15 50 (0.73%) VBA
16 48 (0.70%) Ruby
17 43 (0.62%) C
17 43 (0.62%) Scala
18 31 (0.45%) PHP
19 30 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,047 (15.20%) Degree
2 375 (5.44%) ACCA
3 261 (3.79%) CIMA
4 229 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 174 (2.53%) CISSP
7 115 (1.67%) Security Cleared
8 91 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 73 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 73 (1.06%) CISM
10 69 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 63 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 62 (0.90%) PMI Certification
13 61 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 57 (0.83%) CISA
15 53 (0.77%) MBA
16 46 (0.67%) SC Cleared
17 40 (0.58%) CRISC
17 40 (0.58%) PMP
18 38 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 205 (2.98%) QA
3 165 (2.39%) SLA
4 113 (1.64%) IFRS
5 98 (1.42%) GDPR
6 96 (1.39%) NIST
7 90 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 58 (0.84%) GAAP
9 57 (0.83%) PMO
10 49 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 33 (0.48%) COBIT
12 32 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.36%) GRC
13 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.32%) GMP
14 22 (0.32%) IFRS 9
15 20 (0.29%) ITGC
16 18 (0.26%) IFRS 17
16 18 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 297 (4.31%) Docker
2 245 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.57%) XenApp
5 38 (0.55%) XenDesktop
6 30 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.38%) vSphere
8 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 13 (0.19%) Firmware
12 7 (0.10%) HDFS
13 6 (0.087%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.087%) RACF
13 6 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.058%) NFS
14 4 (0.058%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 452 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 330 (4.79%) Terraform
3 147 (2.13%) Ansible
4 79 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 77 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.03%) SCCM
7 26 (0.38%) Puppet
8 19 (0.28%) SCOM
8 19 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.26%) Istio
10 17 (0.25%) Grafana
11 15 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.16%) Nagios
14 11 (0.16%) Nmap
15 9 (0.13%) Nessus
16 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
16 8 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,368 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 516 (7.49%) Oracle
3 403 (5.85%) SAP
4 243 (3.53%) Google
5 237 (3.44%) Anaplan
6 236 (3.43%) Hyperion
7 163 (2.37%) VMware
8 160 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 148 (2.15%) Bloomberg
10 131 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 124 (1.80%) Cisco
12 115 (1.67%) Dell
13 109 (1.58%) Citrix
14 103 (1.49%) CA
15 97 (1.41%) Red Hat
16 72 (1.04%) Databricks
16 72 (1.04%) IBM
17 50 (0.73%) Qualys
18 45 (0.65%) Apple
19 41 (0.60%) Adobe