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 have cited Finance over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,043 23,767 36,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.31% 22.90% 23.05%
As % of the General category 32.26% 33.53% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,866 13,928 18,844
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,083 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,148 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.80% +0.27% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 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 -1 14,876 £65,000 -6.40% 5,589
UK excluding London +2 11,554 £52,500 -4.80% 3,071
Work from Home -2 7,215 £65,000 -5.55% 2,268
London +1 6,761 £80,000 - 2,777
Scotland +2 3,199 £62,500 -3.85% 279
North of England -2 2,420 £55,000 - 770
South East -2 2,199 £50,000 -13.04% 731
Midlands -2 1,573 £50,000 -9.09% 548
North West +1 1,337 £55,000 - 474
South West -7 1,240 £54,590 -0.75% 400
West Midlands +1 1,103 £51,300 -6.73% 347
Yorkshire -3 839 £57,732 +0.40% 216
East of England 0 533 £49,000 -10.91% 290
East Midlands -4 462 £47,500 -13.64% 200
Wales -5 246 £45,000 -3.84% 87
North East +1 244 £50,000 -9.09% 83
Northern Ireland +3 105 £42,500 -15.00% 66
Isle of Man - 38 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 +3.03% 2

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
1 679 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 566 (2.97%) Apache
3 497 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 475 (2.49%) SAS
5 459 (2.41%) SharePoint
6 343 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 280 (1.47%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 94 (0.49%) IIS
10 60 (0.32%) CMS
11 49 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 38 (0.20%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 34 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 30 (0.16%) Captiva
16 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.11%) Camunda
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 16 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,698 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 933 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 456 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 111 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 85 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 27 (0.14%) SPSS
10 23 (0.12%) Sketch
11 17 (0.089%) Photoshop
12 16 (0.084%) Trello
13 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
15 9 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 8 (0.042%) InDesign
17 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
18 6 (0.032%) InVision
Business Applications
1 321 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 174 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 159 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 86 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 78 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 78 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 56 (0.29%) NEC Housing
8 49 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 41 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 37 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 34 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
13 34 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
14 33 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.15%) Elite 3E
15 29 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,176 (16.68%) AWS
2 2,738 (14.38%) Azure
3 1,207 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 1,006 (5.28%) GCP
5 987 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
6 589 (3.09%) SaaS
7 458 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
8 350 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
9 319 (1.68%) GitHub
10 304 (1.60%) Serverless
11 284 (1.49%) Snowflake
12 259 (1.36%) dbt
13 249 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 218 (1.14%) Entra ID
15 202 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 192 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
17 175 (0.92%) PaaS
18 172 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 172 (0.90%) PowerApps
19 157 (0.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 851 (4.47%) Broadband
2 494 (2.59%) Firewall
3 252 (1.32%) DNS
4 222 (1.17%) Internet
5 202 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 187 (0.98%) WAN
7 175 (0.92%) VPN
8 166 (0.87%) LAN
9 149 (0.78%) DHCP
10 133 (0.70%) Wireless
11 126 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (0.49%) SAN
14 83 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 75 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 74 (0.39%) HTTP
17 64 (0.34%) 5G
17 64 (0.34%) SNMP
18 63 (0.33%) IPsec
19 62 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,008 (5.29%) Power BI
2 890 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 821 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 665 (3.49%) Big Data
5 528 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 461 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 349 (1.83%) Tableau
8 332 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 327 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
10 279 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
11 278 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 275 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 270 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 239 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
15 237 (1.24%) Apache Arrow
16 235 (1.23%) Dremio
17 234 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 178 (0.93%) Metadata
19 161 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
20 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 709 (3.72%) JIRA
2 621 (3.26%) Git
3 593 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.32%) JUnit
5 172 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 164 (0.86%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) GitLab
8 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
9 120 (0.63%) Maven
9 120 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 113 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
12 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
14 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
15 66 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 65 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 55 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,984 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 4,119 (21.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,530 (18.54%) Law
4 2,934 (15.41%) Banking
5 2,739 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2,582 (13.56%) Marketing
7 1,928 (10.12%) Legal
8 1,228 (6.45%) Retail
9 976 (5.13%) Investment Banking
10 963 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
11 892 (4.68%) Public Sector
12 869 (4.56%) Front Office
13 639 (3.36%) Manufacturing
14 609 (3.20%) Financial Institution
15 592 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
16 480 (2.52%) Telecoms
17 446 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
18 280 (1.47%) Back Office
19 268 (1.41%) Billing
20 251 (1.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,100 (16.28%) Senior
2 2,938 (15.43%) Analyst
3 2,702 (14.19%) Software Engineer
4 2,340 (12.29%) Lead
5 2,124 (11.15%) Developer
6 1,433 (7.53%) Architect
7 977 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 912 (4.79%) Java Engineer
9 879 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
10 779 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
11 764 (4.01%) Consultant
12 715 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 650 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
14 590 (3.10%) Financial Analyst
15 574 (3.01%) Python Engineer
16 523 (2.75%) Senior Manager
17 517 (2.71%) Python Software Engineer
18 508 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
19 494 (2.59%) Senior Developer
20 474 (2.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,248 (6.55%) React
2 970 (5.09%) .NET
3 937 (4.92%) Spring
4 910 (4.78%) AngularJS
5 779 (4.09%) HTML
6 620 (3.26%) Kafka
7 574 (3.01%) CSS
8 564 (2.96%) Spring Boot
9 439 (2.31%) Node.js
10 424 (2.23%) REST
11 398 (2.09%) gRPC
12 394 (2.07%) Web Services
13 392 (2.06%) JSON
14 390 (2.05%) RESTful
15 347 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 338 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
17 334 (1.75%) Pandas
18 301 (1.58%) J2EE
19 299 (1.57%) .NET Core
20 289 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,136 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.94%) Algorithms
3 859 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 751 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 670 (3.52%) Hedge funds
6 617 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 592 (3.11%) Fixed Income
8 560 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 557 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 516 (2.71%) Public Cloud
11 509 (2.67%) Derivative
12 472 (2.48%) Equities
13 270 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 253 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) Credit Risk
15 204 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 203 (1.07%) PMI
17 180 (0.95%) Mobile App
18 169 (0.89%) Driving Licence
19 164 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,266 (6.65%) Windows
2 889 (4.67%) Linux
3 422 (2.22%) Unix
4 341 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 202 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 143 (0.75%) Android
7 106 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 101 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 89 (0.47%) CentOS
11 77 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 62 (0.33%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 46 (0.24%) Solaris
16 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) zOS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
18 30 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 19 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,891 (36.19%) Agile
2 3,706 (19.46%) Software Engineering
3 3,072 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 2,747 (14.43%) CI/CD
5 2,578 (13.54%) SDLC
6 2,192 (11.51%) Mentoring
7 2,075 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,066 (10.85%) Machine Learning
9 2,044 (10.73%) Decision-Making
10 2,038 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,966 (10.32%) Project Management
12 1,932 (10.15%) Roadmaps
13 1,928 (10.12%) Operational Stability
14 1,692 (8.89%) Risk Management
15 1,540 (8.09%) Analytics
16 1,504 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
17 1,428 (7.50%) DevOps
18 1,408 (7.39%) Coaching
19 1,380 (7.25%) Asset Management
20 1,359 (7.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,479 (18.27%) SQL
2 2,917 (15.32%) Python
3 2,832 (14.87%) Java
4 1,503 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 1,138 (5.98%) C#
6 1,032 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 438 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 388 (2.04%) Scala
9 315 (1.65%) Go
10 242 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 231 (1.21%) R
12 212 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 203 (1.07%) Bash
14 201 (1.06%) C++
15 143 (0.75%) C
16 128 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 107 (0.56%) PHP
18 92 (0.48%) VBA
19 88 (0.46%) Shell Script
20 81 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,818 (14.80%) Degree
2 814 (4.27%) ACCA
3 643 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 622 (3.27%) CIMA
5 435 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 407 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 332 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 301 (1.58%) CISSP
9 294 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 266 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 169 (0.89%) Azure Certification
12 165 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 162 (0.85%) CISM
14 155 (0.81%) PMP
15 150 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 135 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
17 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 121 (0.64%) MBA
19 115 (0.60%) CISA
20 104 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 567 (2.98%) QA
2 508 (2.67%) GDPR
3 484 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 463 (2.43%) SLA
5 244 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 244 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 241 (1.27%) IFRS
6 241 (1.27%) PMO
7 212 (1.11%) NIST
8 91 (0.48%) GAAP
9 89 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
11 73 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 70 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 69 (0.36%) GRC
14 52 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 47 (0.25%) COBIT
15 47 (0.25%) ITGC
16 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 698 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 665 (3.49%) Docker
3 346 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 105 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 105 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (0.32%) Firmware
7 57 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 52 (0.27%) vSphere
9 43 (0.23%) XenApp
10 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 32 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.058%) IAG
15 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.053%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
18 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,035 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 779 (4.09%) Terraform
3 268 (1.41%) Ansible
4 215 (1.13%) Grafana
5 192 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 163 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 133 (0.70%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 44 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 36 (0.19%) Puppet
11 34 (0.18%) Kibana
12 31 (0.16%) SCOM
13 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.14%) Istio
15 23 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.11%) Backup Exec
19 18 (0.095%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,583 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 1,406 (7.38%) Oracle
3 1,042 (5.47%) SAP
4 574 (3.01%) Google
5 461 (2.42%) VMware
6 406 (2.13%) Databricks
7 352 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 335 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 326 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 284 (1.49%) Splunk
11 275 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 252 (1.32%) Cisco
13 206 (1.08%) Dell
14 200 (1.05%) IBM
15 193 (1.01%) Dynatrace
16 191 (1.00%) CA
17 179 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 177 (0.93%) Citrix
19 149 (0.78%) Bloomberg
20 145 (0.76%) Alteryx