Finance Jobs in the UK excluding London

Financial
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,777 11,019 13,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.45% 19.49% 18.22%
As % of the General category 27.82% 28.72% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 5,282 7,217
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,261 £33,733
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,557 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,913 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,329 38,368 45,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.54% 67.87% 61.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27,091 18,143 24,509
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in the UK excluding London

Finance
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Scotland +2 3,101 £59,000 -2.51% 322
North of England -3 2,473 £54,900 -0.18% 996
South East -2 2,350 £52,500 -8.70% 888
Midlands -2 1,720 £50,000 -9.09% 615
North West -1 1,405 £52,500 -4.55% 619
South West -8 1,214 £52,500 -4.55% 481
West Midlands +1 1,169 £52,500 -4.55% 385
Yorkshire -4 807 £56,500 +2.73% 262
East Midlands -5 545 £47,500 -13.64% 230
East of England -4 523 £50,000 -9.09% 299
North East +1 261 £50,000 -9.09% 127
Wales -3 250 £45,000 - 116
Northern Ireland -1 109 £42,500 -15.00% 85
Isle of Man +7 36 £54,000 -25.52% 5
Channel Islands 0 17 £85,000 -5.56% 2
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 595 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 283 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 221 (1.88%) Apache
4 202 (1.72%) Confluence
5 196 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 177 (1.50%) SAS
7 132 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
8 104 (0.88%) FileNet
9 56 (0.48%) IIS
10 32 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 30 (0.25%) WordPress
12 27 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 26 (0.22%) CMS
14 21 (0.18%) GemFire
15 20 (0.17%) nginx
16 18 (0.15%) Camunda
17 15 (0.13%) WebSphere
18 12 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
19 11 (0.093%) CICS
20 10 (0.085%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,202 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 758 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 307 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 50 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.31%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 11 (0.093%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.059%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.051%) InVision
12 6 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
12 6 (0.051%) OrCAD
13 5 (0.042%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.034%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.034%) SPSS
15 3 (0.025%) Simulink
15 3 (0.025%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 103 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.72%) SAP ERP
3 64 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 57 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 54 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 38 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 35 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
8 33 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 33 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
9 31 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 31 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
10 30 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
11 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
12 19 (0.16%) iTrent
13 18 (0.15%) Sage X3
14 17 (0.14%) Sage 200
15 16 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
15 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
16 15 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
17 14 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,805 (15.33%) AWS
2 1,447 (12.29%) Azure
3 747 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 551 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 363 (3.08%) GCP
6 289 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
7 257 (2.18%) SaaS
8 183 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 177 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 163 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 145 (1.23%) GitHub
12 130 (1.10%) Serverless
13 126 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
14 123 (1.04%) Datadog
15 108 (0.92%) Figma
16 97 (0.82%) Power Automate
17 85 (0.72%) PowerApps
18 81 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
19 75 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
20 73 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 385 (3.27%) Broadband
2 267 (2.27%) Firewall
3 156 (1.32%) Internet
4 115 (0.98%) VPN
5 109 (0.93%) DNS
6 103 (0.87%) WAN
7 93 (0.79%) LAN
8 90 (0.76%) Wireless
9 82 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 82 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 75 (0.64%) Network Security
10 75 (0.64%) TCP/IP
11 70 (0.59%) SAN
12 64 (0.54%) DHCP
13 57 (0.48%) IPsec
14 55 (0.47%) SNMP
15 41 (0.35%) 5G
16 39 (0.33%) Intranet
17 35 (0.30%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 696 (5.91%) NoSQL
2 646 (5.49%) Power BI
3 515 (4.37%) Big Data
4 513 (4.36%) SQL Server
5 357 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 254 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 247 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
8 229 (1.94%) Hadoop
9 207 (1.76%) Data Lake
10 194 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 192 (1.63%) Tableau
12 161 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 128 (1.09%) Metadata
15 123 (1.04%) Apache Hive
15 123 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
16 99 (0.84%) HBase
17 80 (0.68%) MySQL
18 73 (0.62%) Power Query
19 65 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 443 (3.76%) Git
2 426 (3.62%) JIRA
3 396 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 230 (1.95%) JUnit
5 131 (1.11%) Selenium
6 126 (1.07%) Jasmine
7 105 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 91 (0.77%) Maven
9 87 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 84 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
11 74 (0.63%) GitLab
12 73 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
13 70 (0.59%) Visual Studio
14 69 (0.59%) Artifactory
15 67 (0.57%) Cucumber
16 63 (0.53%) WebDriver
17 60 (0.51%) Protractor
18 47 (0.40%) Mockito
19 42 (0.36%) JMeter
20 41 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3,659 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 3,354 (28.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,017 (25.62%) Law
4 2,185 (18.55%) Marketing
5 1,683 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 1,539 (13.07%) Legal
7 1,385 (11.76%) Banking
8 1,030 (8.75%) Retail
9 653 (5.54%) Public Sector
10 600 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
11 592 (5.03%) Investment Banking
12 463 (3.93%) Manufacturing
13 399 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
14 354 (3.01%) Financial Institution
15 343 (2.91%) Telecoms
16 331 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
17 192 (1.63%) Local Government
18 187 (1.59%) Electronics
19 150 (1.27%) Games
20 148 (1.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,112 (17.93%) Software Engineer
2 1,708 (14.50%) Senior
3 1,704 (14.47%) Lead
4 1,597 (13.56%) Analyst
5 1,005 (8.53%) Developer
6 804 (6.83%) Java Engineer
7 781 (6.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 737 (6.26%) Project Manager
9 677 (5.75%) Lead Software Engineer
10 626 (5.32%) Architect
11 536 (4.55%) Consultant
12 392 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
13 373 (3.17%) Big Data Engineer
14 372 (3.16%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 337 (2.86%) Full Stack Engineer
16 335 (2.84%) Data Engineer
17 328 (2.79%) Python Engineer
18 322 (2.73%) Python Software Engineer
19 317 (2.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 310 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 775 (6.58%) React
2 758 (6.44%) Spring
3 592 (5.03%) AngularJS
4 569 (4.83%) HTML
5 530 (4.50%) .NET
6 461 (3.91%) Kafka
7 458 (3.89%) CSS
8 410 (3.48%) Spring Boot
9 302 (2.56%) Node.js
10 287 (2.44%) JSON
11 282 (2.39%) RESTful
12 280 (2.38%) REST
13 266 (2.26%) Web Services
14 247 (2.10%) J2EE
15 210 (1.78%) ASP.NET
16 204 (1.73%) Hibernate
17 195 (1.66%) PySpark
18 193 (1.64%) jQuery
19 185 (1.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 174 (1.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 996 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 834 (7.08%) Algorithms
3 617 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 439 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 394 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 380 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 329 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 172 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 164 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 153 (1.30%) Driving Licence
11 151 (1.28%) Credit Risk
12 150 (1.27%) PMI
13 145 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 139 (1.18%) Reference Data
15 136 (1.15%) Market Risk
16 118 (1.00%) NHS
17 100 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
18 88 (0.75%) Virtual Team
19 82 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 80 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 701 (5.95%) Windows
2 468 (3.97%) Linux
3 231 (1.96%) Unix
4 209 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 101 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 100 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 96 (0.82%) Android
8 83 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 69 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 51 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 49 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
12 47 (0.40%) CentOS
13 26 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 22 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 18 (0.15%) AIX
16 17 (0.14%) Windows 8
17 16 (0.14%) Solaris
17 16 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
18 15 (0.13%) Ubuntu
19 12 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,617 (39.20%) Agile
2 2,723 (23.12%) Software Engineering
3 2,265 (19.23%) SDLC
4 2,239 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 2,041 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1,845 (15.67%) Operational Stability
7 1,696 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,680 (14.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,662 (14.11%) Machine Learning
10 1,413 (12.00%) Decision-Making
11 1,375 (11.68%) Mentoring
12 1,336 (11.34%) Project Management
13 1,310 (11.12%) Community of Practice
14 1,282 (10.89%) Risk Management
15 1,158 (9.83%) Roadmaps
16 1,078 (9.15%) Coaching
17 1,069 (9.08%) Visualisation
18 938 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
19 856 (7.27%) Analytics
20 771 (6.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,241 (19.03%) SQL
2 1,953 (16.58%) Java
3 1,408 (11.96%) Python
4 792 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 573 (4.87%) C#
6 424 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 321 (2.73%) Scala
8 264 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 177 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 155 (1.32%) Go
11 147 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 97 (0.82%) R
13 93 (0.79%) Bash
14 89 (0.76%) PHP
15 86 (0.73%) C
16 80 (0.68%) C++
17 69 (0.59%) Shell Script
18 65 (0.55%) Prolog
18 65 (0.55%) SPARQL
19 54 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,666 (14.15%) Degree
2 478 (4.06%) Security Cleared
3 439 (3.73%) ACCA
4 356 (3.02%) CIMA
5 260 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 216 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 212 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 197 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 187 (1.59%) DBS Check
10 134 (1.14%) CISSP
11 109 (0.93%) PMP
12 100 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 91 (0.77%) DV Cleared
14 90 (0.76%) Azure Certification
15 88 (0.75%) CISM
16 78 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
17 70 (0.59%) PhD
18 68 (0.58%) MBA
19 57 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
19 57 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (3.16%) GDPR
2 339 (2.88%) QA
3 275 (2.34%) SLA
4 270 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 200 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 157 (1.33%) PMO
7 148 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 121 (1.03%) NIST
9 117 (0.99%) IFRS
10 65 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 45 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 44 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 43 (0.37%) IFRS 9
14 41 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 38 (0.32%) GRC
16 33 (0.28%) GAAP
17 29 (0.25%) ISO 9001
18 26 (0.22%) ITGC
19 25 (0.21%) NCSC
20 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 487 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 331 (2.81%) Docker
3 228 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 98 (0.83%) HDFS
5 82 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 66 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (0.38%) Firmware
8 44 (0.37%) RACF
9 32 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 32 (0.27%) vSphere
10 23 (0.20%) XenApp
11 19 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
12 15 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 13 (0.11%) OpenSSH
14 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.085%) XenDesktop
17 8 (0.068%) VMware Workstation
18 7 (0.059%) IAG
19 6 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 543 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 419 (3.56%) Terraform
3 190 (1.61%) Grafana
4 134 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 116 (0.98%) Ansible
6 90 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 62 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 57 (0.48%) SCCM
9 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 27 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 26 (0.22%) Kibana
11 24 (0.20%) HAProxy
12 22 (0.19%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
14 16 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
15 14 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
15 14 (0.12%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.11%) PowerCLI
17 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,373 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 804 (6.83%) Oracle
3 501 (4.25%) SAP
4 313 (2.66%) Databricks
5 289 (2.45%) Google
5 289 (2.45%) VMware
6 230 (1.95%) Splunk
7 186 (1.58%) Dynatrace
8 145 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 129 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 123 (1.04%) Cisco
11 117 (0.99%) NEC
12 109 (0.93%) Informatica
13 100 (0.85%) Hyperion
14 99 (0.84%) Red Hat
15 97 (0.82%) Alteryx
15 97 (0.82%) CA
16 90 (0.76%) Anaplan
17 89 (0.76%) IBM
18 88 (0.75%) Sage