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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,863 10,300 20,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.02% 30.54% 29.43%
As % of the General category 42.68% 44.45% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,707 7,307 10,216
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,599 £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 £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £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 16,080 23,174 48,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.99% 68.71% 68.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 16,046 22,705
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 20 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 20 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 0 971 £75,000 -5.06% 322
West London +1 372 £80,000 +14.29% 75
South London +6 163 £65,000 +18.18% 44
East London +2 81 £57,500 -20.69% 516
North London -9 17 £54,950 -11.01% 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
1 471 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
2 428 (6.24%) Apache
3 277 (4.04%) SAS
4 147 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 133 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 60 (0.87%) Confluence
7 48 (0.70%) IIS
8 40 (0.58%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.44%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 14 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 13 (0.19%) WordPress
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 6 (0.087%) Ethereum
16 6 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2010
16 6 (0.087%) IBM Notes
17 5 (0.073%) Appian
17 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 645 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 323 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 177 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.34%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.087%) InDesign
11 5 (0.073%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
15 1 (0.015%) Revit
15 1 (0.015%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 225 (3.28%) SAP ERP
2 55 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 54 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 35 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 25 (0.36%) Elite 3E
7 22 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 21 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 21 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 21 (0.31%) thinkFolio
9 20 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 20 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 18 (0.26%) SAP BPC
11 17 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
12 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
13 12 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
13 12 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
14 11 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
14 11 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
14 11 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,361 (19.83%) AWS
2 1,205 (17.56%) Azure
3 594 (8.66%) GCP
4 406 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 354 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
6 331 (4.82%) dbt
7 307 (4.47%) Snowflake
8 270 (3.93%) SaaS
9 160 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 154 (2.24%) Serverless
11 136 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 113 (1.65%) GitHub
13 101 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
14 94 (1.37%) PaaS
15 90 (1.31%) Entra ID
16 79 (1.15%) Amazon S3
17 74 (1.08%) IaaS
18 64 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
19 62 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
20 60 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.56%) Broadband
2 214 (3.12%) Firewall
3 123 (1.79%) DNS
4 82 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 78 (1.14%) LAN
6 76 (1.11%) WAN
7 61 (0.89%) DHCP
7 61 (0.89%) Internet
8 52 (0.76%) Network Security
8 52 (0.76%) VPN
9 33 (0.48%) SD-WAN
10 32 (0.47%) Skype
11 31 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
11 31 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (0.45%) Wireless
12 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
13 23 (0.34%) SAN
14 18 (0.26%) BGP
14 18 (0.26%) Intranet
15 16 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (5.33%) Apache Ignite
2 338 (4.92%) Power BI
3 337 (4.91%) Data Lake
4 330 (4.81%) SQL Server
5 324 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
6 323 (4.71%) Apache Arrow
6 323 (4.71%) Dremio
7 229 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
8 169 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 144 (2.10%) Tableau
10 122 (1.78%) Big Data
11 80 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 79 (1.15%) NoSQL
13 73 (1.06%) Relational Database
14 69 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 67 (0.98%) MongoDB
16 57 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
17 52 (0.76%) Metadata
18 46 (0.67%) MySQL
19 42 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 215 (3.13%) JIRA
2 166 (2.42%) Git
3 146 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.09%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.77%) GitLab
6 40 (0.58%) Artifactory
7 38 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 26 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 26 (0.38%) Selenium
9 20 (0.29%) Maven
9 20 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 17 (0.25%) JUnit
12 14 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.20%) Snyk
13 11 (0.16%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.15%) Postman
14 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,078 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 1,406 (20.49%) Banking
3 1,020 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 886 (12.91%) Front Office
5 612 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 413 (6.02%) Investment Banking
7 412 (6.00%) Legal
8 402 (5.86%) Marketing
9 399 (5.81%) Law
10 314 (4.58%) Retail
11 306 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
12 211 (3.07%) Financial Institution
13 210 (3.06%) Back Office
14 175 (2.55%) Public Sector
15 168 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.94%) Manufacturing
17 111 (1.62%) Billing
18 105 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
19 101 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
19 101 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,329 (19.36%) Senior
2 1,286 (18.74%) Analyst
3 1,097 (15.98%) Developer
4 724 (10.55%) Architect
5 584 (8.51%) Lead
6 548 (7.98%) Software Engineer
7 430 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
8 308 (4.49%) Financial Analyst
9 300 (4.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 283 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
11 281 (4.09%) Python Engineer
12 277 (4.04%) Python Developer
13 244 (3.56%) Senior Manager
14 243 (3.54%) Senior Developer
15 230 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
16 223 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
17 205 (2.99%) Consultant
18 203 (2.96%) Java Developer
19 195 (2.84%) Project Manager
20 184 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (6.72%) gRPC
2 458 (6.67%) React
3 439 (6.40%) Protocol Buffers
4 409 (5.96%) .NET
5 308 (4.49%) Pandas
6 289 (4.21%) AngularJS
7 273 (3.98%) NumPy
8 262 (3.82%) Redux
9 253 (3.69%) SciPy
10 162 (2.36%) HTML
11 158 (2.30%) Vue
12 140 (2.04%) REST
13 137 (2.00%) .NET Core
14 133 (1.94%) ASP.NET
14 133 (1.94%) Material-UI
15 131 (1.91%) Spring
16 129 (1.88%) Node.js
17 123 (1.79%) Web Services
18 122 (1.78%) Kafka
19 118 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 745 (10.86%) Hedge funds
2 660 (9.62%) Fixed Income
3 549 (8.00%) Equities
4 534 (7.78%) Derivative
5 532 (7.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 268 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 236 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
8 209 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 193 (2.81%) Product Ownership
10 129 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 101 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 92 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 85 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 80 (1.17%) Reinsurance
15 79 (1.15%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.11%) Clustering
17 72 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
18 66 (0.96%) Social Media
19 63 (0.92%) Life Science
20 59 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 540 (7.87%) Windows
2 366 (5.33%) Linux
3 152 (2.21%) Unix
4 146 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 116 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 48 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 48 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 39 (0.57%) CentOS
8 38 (0.55%) Solaris
9 37 (0.54%) Android
9 37 (0.54%) Windows 7
10 23 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.31%) zOS
12 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 11 (0.16%) AIX
15 11 (0.16%) Mac OS X
15 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,075 (30.23%) Agile
2 1,041 (15.17%) Asset Management
3 929 (13.54%) Software Engineering
4 898 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 764 (11.13%) Investment Management
6 715 (10.42%) Roadmaps
7 712 (10.37%) Mentoring
8 629 (9.17%) Analytics
9 616 (8.98%) DevOps
10 585 (8.52%) Decision-Making
11 513 (7.47%) Project Management
12 510 (7.43%) Fintech
13 497 (7.24%) Change Management
14 479 (6.98%) Data Management
15 473 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
16 435 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 405 (5.90%) Performance Management
18 403 (5.87%) Computer Science
19 398 (5.80%) Full Stack Development
20 396 (5.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,521 (22.16%) Python
2 1,180 (17.19%) SQL
3 792 (11.54%) Java
4 749 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 659 (9.60%) TypeScript
6 527 (7.68%) C#
7 236 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 172 (2.51%) Go
9 115 (1.68%) C++
10 106 (1.54%) R
11 95 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 93 (1.36%) Bash
13 69 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 49 (0.71%) Perl
15 48 (0.70%) VBA
16 46 (0.67%) C
16 46 (0.67%) Ruby
17 45 (0.66%) Scala
18 30 (0.44%) PHP
19 28 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,063 (15.49%) Degree
2 376 (5.48%) ACCA
3 262 (3.82%) CIMA
4 227 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 184 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 165 (2.40%) CISSP
7 109 (1.59%) Security Cleared
8 92 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 77 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 74 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 71 (1.03%) CISM
12 70 (1.02%) PMI Certification
13 66 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 56 (0.82%) AWS Certification
15 54 (0.79%) CISA
16 52 (0.76%) MBA
17 43 (0.63%) PMP
18 41 (0.60%) CRISC
19 40 (0.58%) SC Cleared
20 38 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 201 (2.93%) QA
3 168 (2.45%) SLA
4 118 (1.72%) GDPR
5 114 (1.66%) IFRS
6 92 (1.34%) NIST
7 90 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 59 (0.86%) PMO
9 57 (0.83%) GAAP
10 48 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 32 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 31 (0.45%) COBIT
13 25 (0.36%) GRC
13 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 23 (0.34%) IFRS 9
15 21 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 21 (0.31%) GMP
16 20 (0.29%) ITGC
17 19 (0.28%) IFRS 17
18 16 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 293 (4.27%) Docker
2 248 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 103 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.50%) XenApp
5 33 (0.48%) XenDesktop
6 30 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.38%) vSphere
8 24 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 13 (0.19%) Firmware
12 8 (0.12%) HDFS
13 6 (0.087%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.073%) NFS
15 4 (0.058%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.044%) RACF
17 2 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
18 1 (0.015%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 444 (6.47%) Kubernetes
2 323 (4.71%) Terraform
3 131 (1.91%) Ansible
4 79 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 76 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.09%) SCCM
7 22 (0.32%) Puppet
8 19 (0.28%) Grafana
8 19 (0.28%) SCOM
8 19 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.25%) Istio
10 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (0.16%) Nmap
13 10 (0.15%) Nagios
14 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
14 9 (0.13%) Nessus
15 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,371 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 525 (7.65%) Oracle
3 420 (6.12%) SAP
4 251 (3.66%) Google
5 237 (3.45%) Anaplan
5 237 (3.45%) Hyperion
6 163 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 158 (2.30%) VMware
8 148 (2.16%) Bloomberg
9 128 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 122 (1.78%) Cisco
11 120 (1.75%) Dell
12 106 (1.54%) Citrix
13 103 (1.50%) CA
14 90 (1.31%) Red Hat
15 76 (1.11%) IBM
16 74 (1.08%) Databricks
17 49 (0.71%) Apple
18 48 (0.70%) Qualys
19 44 (0.64%) Adobe