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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,825 10,422 19,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.89% 30.37% 29.53%
As % of the General category 42.65% 44.25% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,693 7,396 10,188
10th Percentile £43,593 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £104,970 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +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 16,002 23,553 46,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.74% 68.64% 68.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 16,283 22,459
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £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 10 May 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 10 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
Central London 0 982 £75,000 -6.25% 299
West London +1 373 £77,500 +19.23% 69
South London +11 170 £63,000 +14.55% 30
East London +2 83 £57,500 -14.81% 82
North London -10 18 £54,950 -11.01% 11
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
1 414 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 376 (5.51%) Apache
3 279 (4.09%) SAS
4 149 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 136 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (0.85%) Confluence
7 45 (0.66%) IIS
8 41 (0.60%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.44%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 16 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 12 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 6 (0.088%) Ethereum
16 6 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.088%) IBM Notes
17 5 (0.073%) Appian
17 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 647 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 330 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 181 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 22 (0.32%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.088%) InDesign
11 5 (0.073%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.044%) Sketch
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 225 (3.30%) SAP ERP
2 57 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 52 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 38 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 24 (0.35%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 22 (0.32%) thinkFolio
8 21 (0.31%) Fidessa
9 20 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 20 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 19 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
11 18 (0.26%) NEC Housing
11 18 (0.26%) SAP BPC
12 14 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
12 14 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
13 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
13 13 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,315 (19.27%) AWS
2 1,202 (17.61%) Azure
3 569 (8.34%) GCP
4 398 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 365 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
6 280 (4.10%) dbt
7 274 (4.01%) SaaS
8 263 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 160 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 155 (2.27%) Serverless
11 142 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 116 (1.70%) GitHub
13 104 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
14 101 (1.48%) PaaS
15 89 (1.30%) Entra ID
16 82 (1.20%) Amazon S3
17 80 (1.17%) IaaS
18 64 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
19 63 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
19 63 (0.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 451 (6.61%) Broadband
2 214 (3.14%) Firewall
3 119 (1.74%) DNS
4 82 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 77 (1.13%) LAN
6 75 (1.10%) WAN
7 60 (0.88%) DHCP
7 60 (0.88%) Internet
8 52 (0.76%) Network Security
8 52 (0.76%) VPN
9 33 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.47%) Skype
10 32 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (0.45%) Wireless
12 30 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
13 25 (0.37%) Telepresence
14 23 (0.34%) SAN
15 18 (0.26%) Intranet
16 16 (0.23%) BGP
16 16 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (4.85%) Power BI
1 331 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 320 (4.69%) Apache Ignite
3 286 (4.19%) Data Lake
4 276 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
5 271 (3.97%) Apache Arrow
5 271 (3.97%) Dremio
6 220 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
7 176 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 149 (2.18%) Tableau
9 107 (1.57%) Big Data
10 76 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 75 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 72 (1.05%) Relational Database
13 68 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 68 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 61 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
15 53 (0.78%) Metadata
16 46 (0.67%) MySQL
17 41 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 219 (3.21%) JIRA
2 165 (2.42%) Git
3 146 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 67 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 55 (0.81%) GitLab
6 42 (0.62%) Artifactory
7 38 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 28 (0.41%) Selenium
9 26 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 22 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 20 (0.29%) Maven
12 19 (0.28%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.26%) JUnit
13 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 17 (0.25%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.23%) Cucumber
16 14 (0.21%) Snyk
17 11 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.16%) SonarQube
18 10 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 2,076 (30.42%) Social Skills
2 1,346 (19.72%) Banking
3 1,028 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 846 (12.40%) Front Office
5 597 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 414 (6.07%) Legal
7 402 (5.89%) Law
8 398 (5.83%) Marketing
9 383 (5.61%) Investment Banking
10 302 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
11 300 (4.40%) Retail
12 214 (3.14%) Financial Institution
13 207 (3.03%) Back Office
14 173 (2.53%) Public Sector
15 160 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
16 121 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 113 (1.66%) Billing
18 106 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
19 101 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
20 96 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,323 (19.38%) Senior
2 1,288 (18.87%) Analyst
3 1,092 (16.00%) Developer
4 707 (10.36%) Architect
5 571 (8.37%) Lead
6 521 (7.63%) Software Engineer
7 419 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
8 305 (4.47%) Financial Analyst
9 284 (4.16%) Senior Analyst
10 283 (4.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 268 (3.93%) Python Developer
12 260 (3.81%) Python Engineer
13 245 (3.59%) Senior Manager
14 244 (3.58%) Senior Developer
15 207 (3.03%) Consultant
16 206 (3.02%) Python Software Engineer
17 204 (2.99%) Java Developer
18 203 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
19 195 (2.86%) Project Manager
20 180 (2.64%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (6.59%) React
2 414 (6.07%) .NET
3 403 (5.90%) gRPC
4 381 (5.58%) Protocol Buffers
5 290 (4.25%) AngularJS
6 271 (3.97%) Pandas
7 252 (3.69%) Redux
8 238 (3.49%) NumPy
9 217 (3.18%) SciPy
10 163 (2.39%) HTML
11 156 (2.29%) Vue
12 139 (2.04%) Spring
13 138 (2.02%) .NET Core
13 138 (2.02%) REST
14 134 (1.96%) ASP.NET
15 127 (1.86%) Node.js
16 126 (1.85%) Material-UI
17 122 (1.79%) Kafka
18 121 (1.77%) Web Services
19 117 (1.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 690 (10.11%) Hedge funds
2 616 (9.03%) Fixed Income
3 504 (7.38%) Equities
4 499 (7.31%) Derivative
5 492 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 261 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 243 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
8 212 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 183 (2.68%) Product Ownership
10 137 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
11 100 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 89 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 86 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 82 (1.20%) Reinsurance
15 76 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
16 73 (1.07%) Data Structures
17 66 (0.97%) Social Media
18 63 (0.92%) Clustering
18 63 (0.92%) Life Science
19 54 (0.79%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 539 (7.90%) Windows
2 366 (5.36%) Linux
3 150 (2.20%) Unix
4 145 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 115 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 49 (0.72%) Apple iOS
7 46 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (0.56%) Android
8 38 (0.56%) CentOS
9 37 (0.54%) Windows 7
10 35 (0.51%) Solaris
11 23 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 21 (0.31%) zOS
13 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.16%) AIX
16 11 (0.16%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
18 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,035 (29.82%) Agile
2 990 (14.51%) Asset Management
3 901 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
4 900 (13.19%) Software Engineering
5 724 (10.61%) Investment Management
6 716 (10.49%) Mentoring
7 713 (10.45%) Roadmaps
8 636 (9.32%) Analytics
9 615 (9.01%) DevOps
10 584 (8.56%) Decision-Making
11 522 (7.65%) Project Management
12 510 (7.47%) Fintech
13 493 (7.22%) Change Management
14 478 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
15 473 (6.93%) Data Management
16 439 (6.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 406 (5.95%) Performance Management
18 403 (5.90%) Computer Science
19 402 (5.89%) CI/CD
20 399 (5.85%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,472 (21.57%) Python
2 1,178 (17.26%) SQL
3 753 (11.03%) Java
4 709 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 620 (9.08%) TypeScript
6 533 (7.81%) C#
7 229 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 161 (2.36%) Go
9 115 (1.68%) R
10 113 (1.66%) C++
11 97 (1.42%) Bash
12 92 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 70 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 48 (0.70%) Perl
15 47 (0.69%) Ruby
16 46 (0.67%) C
16 46 (0.67%) VBA
17 45 (0.66%) Scala
18 31 (0.45%) Rust
19 30 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,063 (15.58%) Degree
2 373 (5.47%) ACCA
3 259 (3.79%) CIMA
4 229 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 187 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 166 (2.43%) CISSP
7 110 (1.61%) Security Cleared
8 94 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 77 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 74 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (1.08%) CISM
11 68 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 65 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 59 (0.86%) CISA
14 54 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 53 (0.78%) MBA
16 43 (0.63%) SC Cleared
17 42 (0.62%) CRISC
17 42 (0.62%) PMP
18 38 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 198 (2.90%) QA
3 170 (2.49%) SLA
4 122 (1.79%) GDPR
5 114 (1.67%) IFRS
6 95 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 95 (1.39%) NIST
7 61 (0.89%) PMO
8 57 (0.84%) GAAP
9 45 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 33 (0.48%) COBIT
10 33 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.38%) GRC
12 25 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.34%) IFRS 9
14 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.29%) ITGC
16 19 (0.28%) IFRS 17
17 15 (0.22%) MiFID
17 15 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 288 (4.22%) Docker
2 253 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 106 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (0.41%) XenApp
6 27 (0.40%) XenDesktop
7 25 (0.37%) vSphere
8 24 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 14 (0.21%) Firmware
12 8 (0.12%) HDFS
13 6 (0.088%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.059%) NFS
14 4 (0.059%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.015%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 1 (0.015%) Xen
Systems Management
1 430 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 312 (4.57%) Terraform
3 127 (1.86%) Ansible
4 76 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 76 (1.11%) SCCM
5 64 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.35%) Puppet
7 21 (0.31%) Grafana
8 19 (0.28%) SCOM
9 17 (0.25%) Istio
10 16 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.16%) Nmap
14 9 (0.13%) Nagios
14 9 (0.13%) Nessus
15 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.10%) Control-M
16 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,371 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 530 (7.77%) Oracle
3 420 (6.15%) SAP
4 243 (3.56%) Google
5 238 (3.49%) Hyperion
6 237 (3.47%) Anaplan
7 165 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 156 (2.29%) VMware
9 146 (2.14%) Bloomberg
10 123 (1.80%) Dell
11 121 (1.77%) Cisco
12 111 (1.63%) Salesforce
13 103 (1.51%) CA
13 103 (1.51%) Citrix
14 87 (1.27%) Red Hat
15 77 (1.13%) IBM
16 72 (1.05%) Databricks
17 49 (0.72%) Apple
18 47 (0.69%) Qualys
19 45 (0.66%) Adobe