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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 18,991 23,193 36,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.28% 22.84% 23.15%
As % of the General category 32.24% 33.47% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,820 13,562 18,760
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,250 £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 58,908 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,488 37,345 51,003
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 7 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 7 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 14,840 £65,000 -6.40% 6,020
UK excluding London +2 11,504 £52,500 -4.55% 3,234
Work from Home -2 7,174 £65,000 -5.55% 2,628
London +1 6,761 £80,000 - 3,021
Scotland +2 3,185 £60,249 -6.75% 269
North of England -2 2,414 £55,000 - 844
South East -2 2,189 £50,047 -12.96% 751
Midlands 0 1,568 £50,000 -9.09% 564
North West +1 1,340 £55,000 - 511
South West -8 1,234 £54,590 -0.75% 419
West Midlands +1 1,098 £51,300 -6.73% 360
Yorkshire -3 830 £57,965 +4.63% 250
East of England -1 527 £49,000 -10.91% 307
East Midlands -5 463 £47,500 -13.64% 203
North East +1 244 £47,500 -13.64% 87
Wales -5 243 £45,000 -1.64% 89
Northern Ireland +3 103 £41,250 -17.50% 74
Isle of Man - 38 £46,500 - 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 1

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
1 674 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 594 (3.13%) Apache
3 537 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 473 (2.49%) SAS
5 454 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 340 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 274 (1.44%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 94 (0.49%) IIS
10 59 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 37 (0.19%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
15 31 (0.16%) Tomcat
16 30 (0.16%) Captiva
17 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 15 (0.079%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,710 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 938 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 459 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 109 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 85 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 27 (0.14%) SPSS
10 23 (0.12%) Sketch
11 17 (0.090%) Photoshop
12 16 (0.084%) Trello
13 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
15 9 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 8 (0.042%) InDesign
17 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
18 6 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
18 6 (0.032%) InVision
Business Applications
1 317 (1.67%) SAP ERP
2 172 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 151 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 81 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 73 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 73 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 60 (0.32%) NEC Housing
8 49 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 45 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 41 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
12 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
13 37 (0.19%) Aladdin
14 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
15 32 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
15 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
16 28 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
16 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,202 (16.86%) AWS
2 2,731 (14.38%) Azure
3 1,184 (6.23%) Power Platform
4 1,018 (5.36%) GCP
5 981 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 579 (3.05%) SaaS
7 453 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
8 345 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 307 (1.62%) GitHub
10 303 (1.60%) Snowflake
11 299 (1.57%) Serverless
12 286 (1.51%) dbt
13 247 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 223 (1.17%) Entra ID
15 200 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
16 188 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
17 171 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 169 (0.89%) PaaS
19 168 (0.88%) PowerApps
20 151 (0.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 851 (4.48%) Broadband
2 490 (2.58%) Firewall
3 250 (1.32%) DNS
4 220 (1.16%) Internet
5 200 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 187 (0.98%) WAN
7 171 (0.90%) VPN
8 167 (0.88%) LAN
9 149 (0.78%) DHCP
10 132 (0.70%) Wireless
11 125 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (0.48%) SAN
14 83 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 74 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 73 (0.38%) HTTP
17 64 (0.34%) SNMP
18 63 (0.33%) IPsec
19 62 (0.33%) Intranet
20 61 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 988 (5.20%) Power BI
2 880 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 813 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 663 (3.49%) Big Data
5 526 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 475 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 339 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 337 (1.77%) Tableau
9 328 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 310 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
11 276 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 271 (1.43%) Relational Database
13 270 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 265 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
15 261 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
16 260 (1.37%) Dremio
17 230 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 181 (0.95%) Metadata
19 161 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
20 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 698 (3.68%) JIRA
2 621 (3.27%) Git
3 580 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 253 (1.33%) JUnit
5 179 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 162 (0.85%) Selenium
7 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 130 (0.68%) GitLab
9 122 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 117 (0.62%) Maven
11 111 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 83 (0.44%) WebDriver
15 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
16 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
16 65 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 53 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,970 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 4,120 (21.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,517 (18.52%) Law
4 2,916 (15.35%) Banking
5 2,711 (14.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2,584 (13.61%) Marketing
7 1,937 (10.20%) Legal
8 1,234 (6.50%) Retail
9 976 (5.14%) Investment Banking
10 956 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
11 899 (4.73%) Front Office
12 886 (4.67%) Public Sector
13 632 (3.33%) Manufacturing
14 600 (3.16%) Financial Institution
15 591 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
16 468 (2.46%) Telecoms
17 443 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
18 281 (1.48%) Back Office
19 263 (1.38%) Billing
20 248 (1.31%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,093 (16.29%) Senior
2 2,923 (15.39%) Analyst
3 2,721 (14.33%) Software Engineer
4 2,337 (12.31%) Lead
5 2,130 (11.22%) Developer
6 1,417 (7.46%) Architect
7 962 (5.07%) Project Manager
8 917 (4.83%) Java Engineer
9 883 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 783 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
11 744 (3.92%) Consultant
12 701 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
13 654 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
14 599 (3.15%) Financial Analyst
15 592 (3.12%) Python Engineer
16 533 (2.81%) Python Software Engineer
17 521 (2.74%) Senior Manager
18 517 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
19 491 (2.59%) Senior Developer
20 479 (2.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,256 (6.61%) React
2 966 (5.09%) .NET
3 928 (4.89%) Spring
4 908 (4.78%) AngularJS
5 776 (4.09%) HTML
6 610 (3.21%) Kafka
7 572 (3.01%) CSS
8 557 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 438 (2.31%) Node.js
10 437 (2.30%) gRPC
11 425 (2.24%) REST
12 395 (2.08%) Web Services
13 389 (2.05%) JSON
14 382 (2.01%) RESTful
15 375 (1.97%) Protocol Buffers
16 353 (1.86%) Pandas
17 350 (1.84%) ASP.NET
18 299 (1.57%) .NET Core
18 299 (1.57%) J2EE
19 291 (1.53%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 1,130 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 940 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 861 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 736 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 702 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 624 (3.29%) Fixed Income
7 608 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 574 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 554 (2.92%) Onboarding
10 523 (2.75%) Derivative
11 508 (2.67%) Public Cloud
12 497 (2.62%) Equities
13 268 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 253 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 203 (1.07%) Credit Risk
17 202 (1.06%) PMI
18 179 (0.94%) Mobile App
19 173 (0.91%) Driving Licence
20 164 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,260 (6.63%) Windows
2 880 (4.63%) Linux
3 417 (2.20%) Unix
4 343 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 204 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 140 (0.74%) Android
7 104 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 100 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 89 (0.47%) CentOS
11 76 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 65 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 61 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 46 (0.24%) Solaris
16 44 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) Mac OS
17 32 (0.17%) zOS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
19 18 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,865 (36.15%) Agile
2 3,719 (19.58%) Software Engineering
3 3,054 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2,730 (14.38%) CI/CD
5 2,566 (13.51%) SDLC
6 2,177 (11.46%) Mentoring
7 2,074 (10.92%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,062 (10.86%) Machine Learning
9 2,031 (10.69%) Decision-Making
10 2,018 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,947 (10.25%) Project Management
12 1,928 (10.15%) Operational Stability
13 1,926 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 1,687 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 1,518 (7.99%) Analytics
16 1,481 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
17 1,411 (7.43%) DevOps
18 1,407 (7.41%) Asset Management
19 1,399 (7.37%) Coaching
20 1,361 (7.17%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,466 (18.25%) SQL
2 2,938 (15.47%) Python
3 2,832 (14.91%) Java
4 1,523 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 1,129 (5.94%) C#
6 1,059 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 439 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 387 (2.04%) Scala
9 319 (1.68%) Go
10 242 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 228 (1.20%) R
12 211 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 198 (1.04%) Bash
14 197 (1.04%) C++
15 140 (0.74%) C
16 127 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 106 (0.56%) PHP
18 88 (0.46%) Shell Script
19 87 (0.46%) VBA
20 78 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,801 (14.75%) Degree
2 814 (4.29%) ACCA
3 644 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 629 (3.31%) CIMA
5 427 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 407 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 331 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 299 (1.57%) CISSP
9 293 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 268 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 167 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 164 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 161 (0.85%) CISM
14 155 (0.82%) PMP
15 150 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 135 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
17 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 120 (0.63%) MBA
19 112 (0.59%) CISA
20 104 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 570 (3.00%) QA
2 515 (2.71%) GDPR
3 495 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 463 (2.44%) SLA
5 250 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 242 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 238 (1.25%) IFRS
8 235 (1.24%) PMO
9 211 (1.11%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 89 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
13 72 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 69 (0.36%) GRC
15 62 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 51 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 46 (0.24%) COBIT
17 46 (0.24%) ITGC
18 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
19 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 694 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 657 (3.46%) Docker
3 340 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 104 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 103 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Firmware
8 58 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 43 (0.23%) XenApp
11 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 32 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) IAG
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.053%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,030 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 776 (4.09%) Terraform
3 267 (1.41%) Ansible
4 216 (1.14%) Grafana
5 200 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 163 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 131 (0.69%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Kibana
10 34 (0.18%) Puppet
11 31 (0.16%) SCOM
12 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
13 29 (0.15%) Istio
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
15 23 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.11%) Backup Exec
19 17 (0.090%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,584 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 1,406 (7.40%) Oracle
3 1,032 (5.43%) SAP
4 576 (3.03%) Google
5 454 (2.39%) VMware
6 404 (2.13%) Databricks
7 353 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 335 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 327 (1.72%) Anaplan
10 283 (1.49%) Splunk
11 276 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 249 (1.31%) Cisco
13 205 (1.08%) Dell
14 198 (1.04%) IBM
15 194 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 189 (1.00%) CA
17 177 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 175 (0.92%) Citrix
19 150 (0.79%) Bloomberg
20 143 (0.75%) Alteryx