Financial
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,093 19,065 23,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.54% 19.29% 22.90%
As % of the General category 29.84% 32.25% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,673 10,869 13,742
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £52,111
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 37,181 59,113 70,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.85% 59.80% 68.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18,455 39,631 37,788
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Finance in the UK

Finance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK

Finance
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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 +1 9,857 £71,991 +10.76% 11,744
UK excluding London -2 6,147 £57,500 +9.52% 6,310
London 0 4,550 £85,000 +6.25% 7,542
Work from Home +2 4,041 £72,500 +11.54% 6,844
North of England +2 2,062 £56,500 +2.73% 1,367
North West +1 1,422 £56,000 +1.82% 847
South East +1 1,249 £60,000 +19.89% 2,449
Midlands -6 808 £55,000 +10.00% 810
Scotland -2 712 £60,000 -4.00% 430
South West +6 684 £57,500 +5.33% 649
West Midlands -7 538 £55,000 +7.21% 484
Yorkshire +3 461 £60,000 +3.51% 385
East of England +6 424 £50,000 +2.04% 443
East Midlands -5 266 £52,500 +10.53% 288
North East +3 178 £56,500 +13.00% 144
Wales -4 135 £50,447 +12.10% 162
Northern Ireland +9 64 £55,000 +29.41% 124
Isle of Man 0 14 £38,000 -18.28% 14
Channel Islands 0 9 £80,000 -5.88% 3

Finance
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
1 303 (2.73%) Confluence
2 287 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 244 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 219 (1.97%) Apache
5 146 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 135 (1.22%) Apache Spark
7 76 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
8 65 (0.59%) CMS
9 47 (0.42%) SAS
10 29 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 26 (0.23%) nginx
12 23 (0.21%) IIS
13 19 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.12%) IBM Domino
15 12 (0.11%) OpenEdge
16 11 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
16 11 (0.099%) Umbraco
17 8 (0.072%) NetWeaver
18 7 (0.063%) Apache Solr
18 7 (0.063%) WordPress
Applications
1 597 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 583 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 483 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 108 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.32%) Maya
7 25 (0.23%) Trello
8 22 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 19 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.14%) Chatbot
11 12 (0.11%) SPSS
12 10 (0.090%) Sketch
13 8 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
14 7 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.063%) Adobe XD
14 7 (0.063%) Photoshop
15 6 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 5 (0.045%) InDesign
17 4 (0.036%) Simulink
18 3 (0.027%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 134 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 133 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 86 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 67 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
5 57 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 46 (0.41%) NEC Housing
7 44 (0.40%) Infor LN
7 44 (0.40%) SAP FI
8 43 (0.39%) SAP BPC
9 33 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
9 33 (0.30%) thinkFolio
10 28 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
10 28 (0.25%) Sage 200
11 26 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 26 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
11 26 (0.23%) Shopify
12 24 (0.22%) Ripple
12 24 (0.22%) Ripple XRP
12 24 (0.22%) SAP CO
13 23 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,740 (15.69%) Azure
2 1,527 (13.77%) AWS
3 837 (7.55%) GCP
4 586 (5.28%) Power Platform
5 389 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 352 (3.17%) SaaS
7 291 (2.62%) dbt
8 270 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
9 228 (2.06%) Serverless
10 200 (1.80%) Snowflake
11 196 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 175 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
13 164 (1.48%) GitHub
14 155 (1.40%) PaaS
15 141 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
16 126 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 121 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
18 108 (0.97%) OpenShift
19 106 (0.96%) Entra ID
20 103 (0.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 502 (4.53%) VPN
2 499 (4.50%) DNS
3 235 (2.12%) Firewall
4 117 (1.05%) Network Security
5 109 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 89 (0.80%) WAN
7 79 (0.71%) LAN
8 70 (0.63%) DHCP
9 55 (0.50%) Internet
10 51 (0.46%) HTTP
11 50 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.44%) SAN
13 40 (0.36%) VLAN
14 39 (0.35%) BGP
14 39 (0.35%) Wireless
15 31 (0.28%) VoIP
16 30 (0.27%) MPLS
17 29 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
18 28 (0.25%) IPsec
19 24 (0.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 581 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 488 (4.40%) Power BI
3 321 (2.89%) Data Lake
4 282 (2.54%) Tableau
5 269 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
6 268 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 262 (2.36%) Dremio
8 256 (2.31%) Apache Iceberg
9 235 (2.12%) Apache Arrow
10 184 (1.66%) NoSQL
11 178 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
12 170 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
13 146 (1.32%) MySQL
14 140 (1.26%) Big Data
15 120 (1.08%) Relational Database
16 112 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
17 100 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 95 (0.86%) MongoDB
19 94 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 86 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 556 (5.01%) JIRA
2 384 (3.46%) Git
3 288 (2.60%) GitLab
4 275 (2.48%) Maven
5 266 (2.40%) SonarQube
6 260 (2.34%) Cucumber
6 260 (2.34%) Selenium
7 250 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 237 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 234 (2.11%) Jenkins
10 92 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 83 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
12 49 (0.44%) JUnit
12 49 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 42 (0.38%) webpack
14 35 (0.32%) Postman
15 28 (0.25%) Mockito
16 27 (0.24%) Cypress.io
17 26 (0.23%) TeamCity
18 19 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4,279 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 2,487 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
3 2,311 (20.83%) Banking
4 1,419 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,100 (9.92%) Marketing
6 738 (6.65%) Financial Institution
7 714 (6.44%) Front Office
8 640 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 638 (5.75%) Legal
10 540 (4.87%) Retail
11 520 (4.69%) Law
12 504 (4.54%) Manufacturing
13 435 (3.92%) French Language
13 435 (3.92%) German Language
14 399 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
15 328 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
16 294 (2.65%) Telecoms
17 252 (2.27%) Investment Banking
18 177 (1.60%) Games
19 176 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,844 (16.62%) Senior
2 1,819 (16.40%) Analyst
3 1,342 (12.10%) Developer
4 836 (7.54%) Software Engineer
5 819 (7.38%) Lead
6 752 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 554 (4.99%) Architect
8 550 (4.96%) Senior Manager
9 494 (4.45%) Development Manager
10 457 (4.12%) Software Developer
11 445 (4.01%) Business Manager
12 429 (3.87%) Credit Analyst
13 414 (3.73%) Research Analyst
14 396 (3.57%) Consultant
15 347 (3.13%) Business Development Manager
16 312 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
17 310 (2.79%) Business Analyst
18 276 (2.49%) Senior Project Manager
19 265 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
20 249 (2.24%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 659 (5.94%) React
2 484 (4.36%) CSS
3 472 (4.25%) HTML
4 459 (4.14%) Kafka
5 429 (3.87%) Spring
6 423 (3.81%) Spring Boot
7 375 (3.38%) .NET
8 320 (2.88%) Redux
9 263 (2.37%) AngularJS
10 247 (2.23%) Node.js
11 224 (2.02%) REST
12 221 (1.99%) RESTful
13 217 (1.96%) JPA
14 200 (1.80%) Hibernate
15 194 (1.75%) Pandas
16 190 (1.71%) NumPy
17 188 (1.69%) PySpark
18 156 (1.41%) SciPy
19 125 (1.13%) HTML5
20 112 (1.01%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 877 (7.91%) Fixed Income
2 627 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 611 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 524 (4.72%) Credit Risk
5 471 (4.25%) Cyberattack
6 418 (3.77%) Hedge funds
7 384 (3.46%) Derivative
8 372 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 370 (3.34%) Equities
10 319 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
11 260 (2.34%) Driving Licence
12 248 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
13 233 (2.10%) Algorithms
14 205 (1.85%) Cloud Native
15 204 (1.84%) FMCG
16 203 (1.83%) Onboarding
17 131 (1.18%) Social Media
18 123 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
19 120 (1.08%) Public Cloud
20 111 (1.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 794 (7.16%) Linux
2 537 (4.84%) Windows
3 472 (4.25%) Android
4 177 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 127 (1.14%) Unix
6 96 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 88 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 50 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (0.45%) Windows Vista
9 30 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 26 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (0.23%) zOS
11 24 (0.22%) CentOS
11 24 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.17%) Solaris
13 17 (0.15%) AIX
14 14 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.11%) Rocky
16 7 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,239 (29.20%) Agile
2 1,925 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
3 1,681 (15.15%) Project Management
4 1,558 (14.04%) Analytics
5 1,502 (13.54%) Risk Management
6 1,445 (13.03%) Decision-Making
7 1,368 (12.33%) Software Engineering
8 1,309 (11.80%) DevOps
9 1,263 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,070 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 1,064 (9.59%) CI/CD
12 1,043 (9.40%) Asset Management
13 997 (8.99%) Mentoring
14 896 (8.08%) Roadmaps
15 882 (7.95%) Business Strategy
16 870 (7.84%) ERP
17 858 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
18 811 (7.31%) Data Management
19 755 (6.81%) Mathematics
20 726 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 1,843 (16.61%) Python
2 1,553 (14.00%) SQL
3 1,508 (13.59%) Java
4 898 (8.10%) JavaScript
5 633 (5.71%) C++
6 549 (4.95%) Go
7 444 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 430 (3.88%) C#
9 292 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 134 (1.21%) Bash
11 108 (0.97%) PHP
12 103 (0.93%) C
13 96 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 79 (0.71%) R
15 77 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 57 (0.51%) Scala
17 52 (0.47%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.30%) VBA
19 31 (0.28%) Rust
20 29 (0.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,284 (20.59%) Degree
2 688 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 673 (6.07%) Master's Degree
4 507 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 422 (3.80%) CFA
6 323 (2.91%) DBS Check
7 305 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 259 (2.33%) CISSP
9 254 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 237 (2.14%) ACCA
11 190 (1.71%) CIMA
12 169 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 133 (1.20%) SC Cleared
14 130 (1.17%) PMP
15 127 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
16 123 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
17 117 (1.05%) Azure Certification
18 99 (0.89%) PhD
19 95 (0.86%) CISA
20 83 (0.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (5.26%) QA
2 345 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 299 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 223 (2.01%) GDPR
5 190 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (1.33%) NIST
7 136 (1.23%) PMO
8 135 (1.22%) SLA
9 102 (0.92%) IFRS
10 92 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 86 (0.78%) MiFID
12 82 (0.74%) GAAP
13 76 (0.69%) ITGC
14 67 (0.60%) PCI DSS
15 56 (0.50%) COBIT
16 41 (0.37%) GMP
16 41 (0.37%) GRC
17 37 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
18 36 (0.32%) NCSC
19 35 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,154 (10.40%) Docker
2 254 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 135 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 47 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 39 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.29%) Firmware
8 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.11%) vSphere
11 5 (0.045%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.045%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.036%) HDFS
13 3 (0.027%) Samba
13 3 (0.027%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.018%) Postfix
14 2 (0.018%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.018%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 834 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 573 (5.17%) Ansible
3 432 (3.89%) Terraform
4 113 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 94 (0.85%) SCCM
6 67 (0.60%) Grafana
7 46 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 40 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 31 (0.28%) Nagios
10 31 (0.28%) Puppet
11 28 (0.25%) Istio
12 19 (0.17%) CASB
13 16 (0.14%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
15 14 (0.13%) SCOM
15 14 (0.13%) WSUS
16 10 (0.090%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.081%) Kibana
17 9 (0.081%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,471 (13.26%) Microsoft
2 529 (4.77%) SAP
3 508 (4.58%) Oracle
4 475 (4.28%) Bloomberg
5 330 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 293 (2.64%) Google
7 217 (1.96%) Solace
8 190 (1.71%) VMware
9 172 (1.55%) Cisco
10 142 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 134 (1.21%) Databricks
12 126 (1.14%) IBM
13 93 (0.84%) Citrix
14 73 (0.66%) NEC
15 68 (0.61%) Adobe
16 62 (0.56%) Infor
17 61 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 61 (0.55%) Workday
18 53 (0.48%) BISAM
18 53 (0.48%) Cognos