Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,099 1,182 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.32% 27.17% 22.56%
As % of the General category 64.54% 36.30% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 393 566 734
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,317 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,375 £44,160
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £61,509 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +6.97% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,802 3,256 3,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.23% 74.83% 62.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,564 1,975
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +3 2,711 £50,000 -16.67% 95
Edinburgh -4 284 £67,500 +3.85% 115
West Lothian +12 23 £34,500 -34.29% 5
Dundee -2 15 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Fife +1 12 £40,818 -18.36% 9
Renfrewshire - 12 £65,000 - 4
Aberdeen -13 10 £101,100 +83.82% 25
Stirling -2 9 £44,695 +10.18% 2
Lanarkshire -8 5 £40,000 -1.23% 40
East Lothian - 3 - -
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 3
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 5
Perth and Kinross 0 2 £101,350 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 2
Perthshire -2 1 £50,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire -5 1 £32,500 -4.41% 4
Inverclyde - 1 - - 1
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 563 (18.17%) Apache Spark
2 141 (4.55%) Apache
3 114 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 102 (3.29%) FileNet
5 42 (1.36%) Confluence
6 32 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
7 27 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.68%) GemFire
9 18 (0.58%) Camunda
10 16 (0.52%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.35%) CICS
12 10 (0.32%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.29%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.23%) SAS
15 4 (0.13%) Captiva
16 2 (0.065%) BizTalk Server
16 2 (0.065%) IIS
17 1 (0.032%) CMS
17 1 (0.032%) Office Communications Server
17 1 (0.032%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 47 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.97%) UserZoom
3 22 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.48%) Sketch
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.097%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.097%) InVision
8 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.35%) Endur
1 11 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 9 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.19%) PlanetPress Connect
5 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.032%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.032%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.032%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.032%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,186 (38.27%) AWS
2 231 (7.45%) Azure
3 140 (4.52%) GCP
4 116 (3.74%) Datadog
5 108 (3.48%) Amazon S3
6 94 (3.03%) Figma
7 73 (2.36%) SurveyMonkey
8 67 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
10 62 (2.00%) GitHub
11 57 (1.84%) Serverless
12 56 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 50 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
16 49 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
16 49 (1.58%) Amazon EMR
16 49 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
17 46 (1.48%) BlazeMeter
18 40 (1.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.65%) Kerberos
2 22 (0.71%) Firewall
3 18 (0.58%) Broadband
3 18 (0.58%) Internet
4 16 (0.52%) DSL
5 14 (0.45%) VPN
6 13 (0.42%) IPsec
7 12 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.32%) SNMP
9 7 (0.23%) HTTP
9 7 (0.23%) MQTT
10 6 (0.19%) DHCP
10 6 (0.19%) DNS
10 6 (0.19%) WAN
10 6 (0.19%) Wireless
11 4 (0.13%) LAN
12 3 (0.097%) Software-Defined Radio
13 2 (0.065%) Structured Cabling
13 2 (0.065%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.065%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 654 (21.10%) NoSQL
2 475 (15.33%) Big Data
3 221 (7.13%) Hadoop
4 153 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 123 (3.97%) Apache Hive
7 120 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 111 (3.58%) MongoDB
9 98 (3.16%) HBase
10 69 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.16%) Metadata
12 50 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
13 42 (1.36%) SQL Server
14 39 (1.26%) Qlik Sense
15 38 (1.23%) CockroachDB
15 38 (1.23%) DB2
16 37 (1.19%) Power BI
17 31 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
17 31 (1.00%) Tableau
18 28 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 308 (9.94%) Jenkins
2 214 (6.91%) JUnit
3 213 (6.87%) Git
4 130 (4.19%) JIRA
5 118 (3.81%) Jasmine
6 92 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 84 (2.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 76 (2.45%) Bitbucket
8 76 (2.45%) Maven
9 73 (2.36%) Karma Test Runner
10 69 (2.23%) Artifactory
11 64 (2.07%) Selenium
12 60 (1.94%) Protractor
12 60 (1.94%) WebDriver
13 47 (1.52%) Mockito
14 29 (0.94%) CircleCI
14 29 (0.94%) JMeter
15 28 (0.90%) Gradle
16 26 (0.84%) GitLab
17 25 (0.81%) Android Studio
General
1 2,534 (81.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,494 (80.48%) Law
3 1,429 (46.11%) Marketing
4 707 (22.81%) Legal
5 553 (17.84%) Banking
6 392 (12.65%) Social Skills
7 356 (11.49%) Investment Banking
8 254 (8.20%) Financial Institution
9 182 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
10 100 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
11 89 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 82 (2.65%) Private Banking
13 53 (1.71%) Public Sector
14 32 (1.03%) Social Science
15 31 (1.00%) Retail
16 27 (0.87%) Games
17 26 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.77%) Retail Banking
19 23 (0.74%) Manufacturing
20 22 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 1,940 (62.60%) Software Engineer
2 811 (26.17%) Lead
3 782 (25.23%) Java Engineer
4 777 (25.07%) Java Software Engineer
5 663 (21.39%) Lead Software Engineer
6 401 (12.94%) Senior
7 372 (12.00%) Big Data Engineer
7 372 (12.00%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 321 (10.36%) Python Engineer
8 321 (10.36%) Python Software Engineer
9 307 (9.91%) Full Stack Engineer
10 306 (9.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 289 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
11 289 (9.33%) AWS Software Engineer
12 270 (8.71%) Lead Java Engineer
13 229 (7.39%) Data Engineer
14 221 (7.13%) Engineering Manager
15 220 (7.10%) Scala Engineer
15 220 (7.10%) Scala Software Engineer
16 206 (6.65%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (22.23%) Spring
2 512 (16.52%) React
3 405 (13.07%) AngularJS
4 365 (11.78%) Kafka
5 356 (11.49%) Spring Boot
6 280 (9.04%) HTML
7 249 (8.03%) CSS
8 246 (7.94%) J2EE
9 214 (6.91%) JSON
10 193 (6.23%) Hibernate
11 188 (6.07%) RESTful
12 184 (5.94%) Node.js
13 171 (5.52%) PySpark
14 170 (5.49%) JMS
15 166 (5.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 152 (4.90%) jQuery
17 147 (4.74%) Web Services
18 127 (4.10%) GraphQL
19 115 (3.71%) XML
20 112 (3.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 898 (28.98%) Cloud Native
2 772 (24.91%) Algorithms
3 276 (8.91%) Public Cloud
4 181 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 169 (5.45%) Management Information System
6 147 (4.74%) Product Ownership
7 134 (4.32%) Reference Data
8 129 (4.16%) Market Risk
9 112 (3.61%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.10%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
11 59 (1.90%) Credit Risk
12 41 (1.32%) Legacy Code
13 40 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 31 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 23 (0.74%) Social Media
17 21 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 154 (4.97%) Unix
2 138 (4.45%) Linux
3 55 (1.77%) Windows
4 33 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.03%) Android
6 10 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
7 9 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.065%) CentOS
9 2 (0.065%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.065%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,388 (77.06%) Agile
2 2,322 (74.93%) Software Engineering
3 2,049 (66.12%) SDLC
4 1,930 (62.28%) CI/CD
5 1,813 (58.50%) Operational Stability
6 1,372 (44.27%) Machine Learning
7 1,371 (44.24%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,270 (40.98%) Community of Practice
9 869 (28.04%) Visualisation
10 859 (27.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 713 (23.01%) Risk Management
12 549 (17.72%) Decision-Making
13 491 (15.84%) Microservices
14 469 (15.13%) Continuous Delivery
15 429 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
16 426 (13.75%) Information Architecture
17 400 (12.91%) Architectural Design
18 365 (11.78%) Full Stack Development
19 364 (11.75%) Computer Science
20 288 (9.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,638 (52.86%) Java
2 1,125 (36.30%) SQL
3 939 (30.30%) Python
4 346 (11.16%) JavaScript
5 302 (9.75%) Scala
6 213 (6.87%) TypeScript
7 147 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 80 (2.58%) Go
9 72 (2.32%) C#
10 65 (2.10%) Prolog
10 65 (2.10%) SPARQL
11 40 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.26%) Groovy
13 36 (1.16%) R
14 32 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 24 (0.77%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.58%) Ruby
18 11 (0.35%) COBOL
18 11 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 276 (8.91%) Degree
2 82 (2.65%) Master's Degree
3 52 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.45%) PhD
5 26 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 20 (0.65%) Security Cleared
7 19 (0.61%) ACCA
8 17 (0.55%) SC Cleared
9 15 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 13 (0.42%) CISA
11 11 (0.35%) CIMA
12 10 (0.32%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.29%) CISSP
14 8 (0.26%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.23%) CISM
15 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.19%) AAT
16 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.19%) PMP
17 3 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.81%) Accessibility
2 61 (1.97%) SLA
3 54 (1.74%) QA
4 44 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 30 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 30 (0.97%) PMO
6 25 (0.81%) GDPR
7 13 (0.42%) NIST
7 13 (0.42%) WAI
8 11 (0.35%) ITGC
9 10 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.23%) IFRS
11 6 (0.19%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.097%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.097%) NCSC
13 3 (0.097%) WCAG
14 2 (0.065%) DICOM
14 2 (0.065%) GLP
14 2 (0.065%) SEPA
System Software
1 98 (3.16%) HDFS
2 94 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 87 (2.81%) Docker
4 26 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.29%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) RACF
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.097%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.065%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.065%) KVM
9 2 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.065%) vSphere
9 2 (0.065%) Xen
10 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 373 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 272 (8.78%) Terraform
3 176 (5.68%) Grafana
4 92 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.90%) Ansible
6 26 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.68%) Kibana
7 21 (0.68%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.23%) Graphite
10 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.065%) Rancher
13 1 (0.032%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 385 (12.42%) Oracle
2 250 (8.07%) Databricks
3 184 (5.94%) Splunk
4 164 (5.29%) Dynatrace
5 139 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 91 (2.94%) Google
7 86 (2.78%) Informatica
8 68 (2.19%) Cloudera
9 62 (2.00%) Qualtrics
10 55 (1.77%) Alteryx
11 46 (1.48%) SAP
12 29 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 28 (0.90%) VMware
14 22 (0.71%) Atlassian
14 22 (0.71%) Pega
15 21 (0.68%) Sybase
16 19 (0.61%) CA
17 18 (0.58%) SaltStack
18 17 (0.55%) Cognos
19 16 (0.52%) Sage