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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,102 23,003 37,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.29% 22.92% 23.17%
As % of the General category 32.23% 33.60% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,823 13,412 18,776
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,613
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £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 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 59,267 68,463 102,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.23% 64.28%
Number of salaries quoted 39,596 36,975 51,269
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £82,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 14 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 14 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 14,933 £65,000 -6.40% 6,045
UK excluding London +2 11,542 £52,500 -4.55% 3,433
Work from Home -2 7,246 £65,000 -6.40% 2,794
London +1 6,835 £80,000 - 2,876
Scotland +2 3,198 £60,000 -5.81% 300
North of England -2 2,420 £55,000 - 894
South East -2 2,206 £52,000 -9.57% 788
Midlands -1 1,577 £50,000 -9.09% 605
North West +1 1,351 £55,000 - 531
South West -8 1,224 £54,370 -1.15% 427
West Midlands 0 1,104 £51,300 -6.73% 384
Yorkshire -3 821 £57,500 +4.55% 262
East of England -1 525 £50,000 -9.09% 312
East Midlands -4 466 £47,500 -13.64% 220
North East 0 248 £48,750 -11.36% 107
Wales -5 247 £45,000 - 119
Northern Ireland +1 105 £40,000 -20.00% 67
Isle of Man - 37 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 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
1 675 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 642 (3.36%) Apache
3 580 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 472 (2.47%) SAS
5 449 (2.35%) SharePoint
6 337 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 272 (1.42%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 106 (0.55%) IIS
10 60 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 41 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 39 (0.20%) nginx
15 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 30 (0.16%) Captiva
17 28 (0.15%) Skype for Business
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 14 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,729 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 940 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 458 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 108 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 86 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 29 (0.15%) SPSS
10 22 (0.12%) Sketch
11 16 (0.084%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.084%) Trello
12 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
14 8 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 7 (0.037%) InDesign
15 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
16 6 (0.031%) InVision
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 316 (1.65%) SAP ERP
2 169 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 80 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 77 (0.40%) NEC Housing
7 72 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 72 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
8 45 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 43 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 42 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
12 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
13 39 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
14 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
15 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
16 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
17 30 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
18 28 (0.15%) Elite 3E
18 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,251 (17.02%) AWS
2 2,759 (14.44%) Azure
3 1,197 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (5.43%) GCP
5 977 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
6 578 (3.03%) SaaS
7 455 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 339 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 335 (1.75%) Snowflake
10 324 (1.70%) dbt
11 304 (1.59%) GitHub
12 296 (1.55%) Serverless
13 245 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 228 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 205 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 186 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
17 171 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 165 (0.86%) PaaS
18 165 (0.86%) PowerApps
19 149 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 850 (4.45%) Broadband
2 492 (2.58%) Firewall
3 242 (1.27%) DNS
4 221 (1.16%) Internet
5 189 (0.99%) WAN
6 187 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 171 (0.90%) VPN
8 169 (0.88%) LAN
9 138 (0.72%) DHCP
10 131 (0.69%) Wireless
11 126 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (0.49%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 73 (0.38%) SD-WAN
16 64 (0.34%) SNMP
17 63 (0.33%) IPsec
18 62 (0.32%) Intranet
19 59 (0.31%) 5G
19 59 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,001 (5.24%) Power BI
2 888 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 816 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 670 (3.51%) Big Data
5 558 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 537 (2.81%) Data Lake
7 352 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 344 (1.80%) Apache Ignite
9 337 (1.76%) Tableau
10 331 (1.73%) MongoDB
11 300 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
12 295 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
12 295 (1.54%) Dremio
13 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 275 (1.44%) Relational Database
15 267 (1.40%) Hadoop
16 237 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 184 (0.96%) Metadata
18 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 689 (3.61%) JIRA
2 625 (3.27%) Git
3 579 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.31%) JUnit
5 183 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 163 (0.85%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 126 (0.66%) GitLab
9 122 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 120 (0.63%) Maven
11 109 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 107 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
14 84 (0.44%) Cucumber
15 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
16 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
17 66 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
18 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
19 63 (0.33%) Protractor
20 51 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,997 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 4,120 (21.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,517 (18.41%) Law
4 2,940 (15.39%) Banking
5 2,728 (14.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2,611 (13.67%) Marketing
7 1,953 (10.22%) Legal
8 1,242 (6.50%) Retail
9 998 (5.22%) Investment Banking
10 954 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
11 929 (4.86%) Front Office
12 897 (4.70%) Public Sector
13 641 (3.36%) Manufacturing
14 625 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
15 595 (3.11%) Financial Institution
16 464 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 443 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
18 286 (1.50%) Back Office
19 261 (1.37%) Billing
20 249 (1.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,136 (16.42%) Senior
2 2,944 (15.41%) Analyst
3 2,744 (14.36%) Software Engineer
4 2,345 (12.28%) Lead
5 2,135 (11.18%) Developer
6 1,405 (7.36%) Architect
7 960 (5.03%) Project Manager
8 931 (4.87%) Java Engineer
9 895 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
10 789 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
11 787 (4.12%) Consultant
12 701 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
13 669 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
14 612 (3.20%) Python Engineer
15 608 (3.18%) Financial Analyst
16 552 (2.89%) Python Software Engineer
17 533 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
18 522 (2.73%) Senior Manager
19 489 (2.56%) Data Engineer
20 486 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,257 (6.58%) React
2 970 (5.08%) .NET
3 930 (4.87%) Spring
4 910 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 765 (4.00%) HTML
6 612 (3.20%) Kafka
7 576 (3.02%) CSS
8 561 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 477 (2.50%) gRPC
10 441 (2.31%) Node.js
11 429 (2.25%) REST
12 415 (2.17%) Protocol Buffers
13 405 (2.12%) Web Services
14 388 (2.03%) JSON
15 385 (2.02%) Pandas
16 384 (2.01%) RESTful
17 350 (1.83%) ASP.NET
18 321 (1.68%) NumPy
19 300 (1.57%) .NET Core
20 297 (1.55%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,116 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 864 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 738 (3.86%) Hedge funds
5 732 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 656 (3.43%) Fixed Income
7 614 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 604 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 558 (2.92%) Onboarding
10 546 (2.86%) Derivative
11 529 (2.77%) Equities
12 520 (2.72%) Public Cloud
13 273 (1.43%) Data Centre
14 259 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 203 (1.06%) PMI
16 202 (1.06%) Credit Risk
17 201 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
18 180 (0.94%) Mobile App
19 178 (0.93%) Driving Licence
20 161 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,260 (6.60%) Windows
2 881 (4.61%) Linux
3 428 (2.24%) Unix
4 341 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 207 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 138 (0.72%) Android
7 103 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 97 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.47%) CentOS
10 89 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 76 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 64 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 60 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 57 (0.30%) Solaris
15 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 31 (0.16%) Mac OS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
19 25 (0.13%) zOS
20 19 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,867 (35.95%) Agile
2 3,750 (19.63%) Software Engineering
3 3,059 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
4 2,724 (14.26%) CI/CD
5 2,551 (13.35%) SDLC
6 2,168 (11.35%) Mentoring
7 2,107 (11.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,062 (10.79%) Machine Learning
9 2,041 (10.68%) Decision-Making
10 2,031 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,955 (10.23%) Project Management
12 1,951 (10.21%) Roadmaps
13 1,929 (10.10%) Operational Stability
14 1,696 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 1,523 (7.97%) Analytics
16 1,488 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
17 1,446 (7.57%) Asset Management
18 1,397 (7.31%) Coaching
19 1,396 (7.31%) DevOps
20 1,363 (7.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,499 (18.32%) SQL
2 2,991 (15.66%) Python
3 2,862 (14.98%) Java
4 1,555 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 1,132 (5.93%) C#
6 1,091 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 448 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 387 (2.03%) Scala
9 329 (1.72%) Go
10 249 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 225 (1.18%) R
12 214 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 198 (1.04%) C++
14 193 (1.01%) Bash
15 139 (0.73%) C
16 128 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 109 (0.57%) PHP
18 99 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 93 (0.49%) VBA
20 77 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,844 (14.89%) Degree
2 822 (4.30%) ACCA
3 636 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 634 (3.32%) CIMA
5 429 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 405 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 332 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 302 (1.58%) CISSP
9 295 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 273 (1.43%) DBS Check
11 192 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 177 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 162 (0.85%) CISM
14 155 (0.81%) PMP
15 140 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
17 130 (0.68%) DV Cleared
18 120 (0.63%) MBA
19 110 (0.58%) CISA
20 103 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 576 (3.02%) QA
2 527 (2.76%) GDPR
3 519 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 465 (2.43%) SLA
5 259 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 244 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 242 (1.27%) IFRS
8 225 (1.18%) PMO
9 215 (1.13%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 89 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
13 71 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 67 (0.35%) GRC
15 61 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
16 49 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 47 (0.25%) COBIT
18 46 (0.24%) ITGC
19 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
20 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 694 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 655 (3.43%) Docker
3 336 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 103 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 99 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 58 (0.30%) Firmware
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 46 (0.24%) XenApp
11 36 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 35 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) IAG
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.052%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 8 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,034 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 767 (4.02%) Terraform
3 269 (1.41%) Ansible
4 214 (1.12%) Grafana
5 206 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 166 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 127 (0.66%) SCCM
8 72 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Kibana
11 31 (0.16%) Puppet
11 31 (0.16%) SCOM
12 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 29 (0.15%) Istio
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 24 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
19 18 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3,617 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 1,422 (7.44%) Oracle
3 1,027 (5.38%) SAP
4 573 (3.00%) Google
5 453 (2.37%) VMware
6 405 (2.12%) Databricks
7 348 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 336 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 327 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 285 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 282 (1.48%) Splunk
12 249 (1.30%) Cisco
13 206 (1.08%) Dell
14 198 (1.04%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 192 (1.01%) CA
17 177 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 176 (0.92%) Citrix
19 152 (0.80%) Bloomberg
20 143 (0.75%) Alteryx