Financial Modelling
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Financial Modelling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 796 966
Rank change year-on-year +88 +170 -135
Permanent jobs citing Financial Modelling 178 179 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 86 71 108
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,728 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £55,077 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +4.43% +12.86%
75th Percentile £122,500 £136,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Financial Modelling is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Financial Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Financial Modelling.

Salary trend for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Financial Modelling over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Financial Modelling in the UK

Financial Modelling
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Financial Modelling within the UK 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
England +79 168 £70,000 -15.15% 228
London +143 108 £105,000 -13.40% 175
UK excluding London -41 70 £50,000 - 75
Work from Home +67 49 £60,000 -22.58% 71
North of England +17 20 £42,500 -10.53% 14
North West +12 20 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Midlands -2 20 £50,500 +23.17% 13
South East +2 16 £48,750 -40.91% 34
West Midlands +18 12 £55,500 +30.59% 7
Scotland -59 10 - - 4
East Midlands -18 8 £24,000 -23.81% 6
South West -20 3 £50,000 -9.09% 6
East of England -10 1 £70,000 -11.11% 2

Financial Modelling
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 1 (0.56%) Apache
Applications
1 58 (32.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.47%) AWS
2 31 (17.42%) Power Platform
3 30 (16.85%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (16.85%) Amazon S3
3 30 (16.85%) Amazon SQS
3 30 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 30 (16.85%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (16.85%) OpenShift
3 30 (16.85%) Serverless
4 5 (2.81%) SaaS
5 2 (1.12%) Azure
5 2 (1.12%) IaaS
5 2 (1.12%) PaaS
6 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.56%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.42%) Power BI
2 30 (16.85%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (16.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 19 (10.67%) Data Mining
3 19 (10.67%) Tableau
4 10 (5.62%) Big Data
5 4 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.56%) Flink
6 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) Artifactory
1 30 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) GDB
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 178 (100.00%) Finance
2 63 (35.39%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (29.21%) Marketing
4 43 (24.16%) Social Skills
5 30 (16.85%) Front Office
6 28 (15.73%) Retail
7 21 (11.80%) Banking
8 20 (11.24%) Legal
9 16 (8.99%) Law
9 16 (8.99%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (7.30%) Financial Institution
12 11 (6.18%) Investment Banking
13 10 (5.62%) Games
13 10 (5.62%) Local Government
14 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
15 8 (4.49%) Billing
16 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
17 2 (1.12%) Automotive
17 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (41.01%) Analyst
2 40 (22.47%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (20.79%) Financial Analyst
4 31 (17.42%) Senior
5 30 (16.85%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (16.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (16.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 30 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 29 (16.29%) Senior Analyst
7 20 (11.24%) Development Manager
8 19 (10.67%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 17 (9.55%) Commercial Analyst
10 10 (5.62%) AWS Software Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Principal Modelling Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Principal Software Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.85%) J2EE
2 3 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (0.56%) gRPC
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.85%) Tandem
2 22 (12.36%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.37%) Blog
6 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Derivative
8 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Windows
1 5 (2.81%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.96%) Agile
2 61 (34.27%) Decision-Making
3 53 (29.78%) Financial Analysis
4 43 (24.16%) Business Development
5 42 (23.60%) Asset Management
5 42 (23.60%) Software Engineering
6 41 (23.03%) Mathematics
7 38 (21.35%) Budgeting
8 37 (20.79%) Business Strategy
9 35 (19.66%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 32 (17.98%) Economics
11 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (17.42%) DevOps
11 31 (17.42%) Logistics
12 30 (16.85%) Analytics
12 30 (16.85%) CI/CD
12 30 (16.85%) Deployment Automation
12 30 (16.85%) Open Source
12 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.39%) Python
2 32 (17.98%) Java
3 31 (17.42%) SQL
4 30 (16.85%) Go
5 6 (3.37%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.69%) C++
7 2 (1.12%) VBA
8 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 45 (25.28%) Degree
2 15 (8.43%) ACCA
2 15 (8.43%) CIMA
3 14 (7.87%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.06%) MBA
5 6 (3.37%) CFA
6 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) GAAP
2 2 (1.12%) IFRS
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.85%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 33 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.93%) CA
3 5 (2.81%) Cadence
4 4 (2.25%) SAP
5 3 (1.69%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.69%) MarketAxess
5 3 (1.69%) Murex
5 3 (1.69%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.69%) Tradeweb
6 2 (1.12%) Anaplan
6 2 (1.12%) Facebook
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) Samsung
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Yardi