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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,940 9,604 21,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.31% 30.57% 29.50%
As % of the General category 42.33% 44.72% 42.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,710 6,877 10,304
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,378 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.31% +2.78% +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 16,396 21,476 51,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 66.89% 68.37% 69.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,419 15,147 23,078
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 9 June 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 9 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
Central London -1 957 £75,000 -3.23% 310
West London +1 369 £80,000 +23.08% 89
South London +3 160 £67,500 +22.73% 33
East London +1 58 £65,000 -16.13% 64
North London -8 16 £52,975 -11.71% 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
1 572 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 533 (7.68%) Apache
3 274 (3.95%) SAS
4 137 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 124 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 61 (0.88%) Confluence
7 50 (0.72%) IIS
8 35 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 31 (0.45%) CMS
10 28 (0.40%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.24%) nginx
12 14 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 12 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 8 (0.12%) JBoss
16 7 (0.10%) Ethereum
16 7 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
17 6 (0.086%) IBM Notes
18 5 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
18 5 (0.072%) WebLogic
Applications
1 620 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 285 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 144 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (0.33%) SPSS
7 17 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.086%) InDesign
11 5 (0.072%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.029%) Oracle Smart View
15 1 (0.014%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.014%) Revit
15 1 (0.014%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 225 (3.24%) SAP ERP
2 58 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 39 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 26 (0.37%) Elite 3E
7 23 (0.33%) Fidessa
8 21 (0.30%) NEC Housing
9 20 (0.29%) SAP BPC
10 18 (0.26%) thinkFolio
11 17 (0.24%) Ripple
12 16 (0.23%) SAP FI
13 15 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
14 14 (0.20%) SAP CO
14 14 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
15 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
15 13 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
16 10 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
16 10 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
17 9 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,479 (21.31%) AWS
2 1,244 (17.93%) Azure
3 639 (9.21%) GCP
4 445 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 440 (6.34%) dbt
6 391 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 336 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
8 265 (3.82%) SaaS
9 174 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 142 (2.05%) Serverless
11 141 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 97 (1.40%) Entra ID
13 96 (1.38%) GitHub
14 92 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
15 80 (1.15%) PaaS
16 70 (1.01%) Amazon S3
17 65 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
17 65 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
18 63 (0.91%) IaaS
19 62 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.48%) Broadband
2 224 (3.23%) Firewall
3 118 (1.70%) DNS
4 78 (1.12%) LAN
4 78 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.12%) WAN
5 61 (0.88%) Network Security
6 60 (0.86%) Internet
7 59 (0.85%) DHCP
8 43 (0.62%) VPN
9 35 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 33 (0.48%) Wireless
11 31 (0.45%) Skype
12 28 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
12 28 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.36%) Telepresence
14 22 (0.32%) BGP
14 22 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
15 19 (0.27%) SAN
16 18 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (6.61%) Apache Ignite
2 442 (6.37%) Data Lake
3 431 (6.21%) Dremio
4 422 (6.08%) Apache Arrow
5 420 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
6 373 (5.37%) Power BI
7 339 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 218 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 176 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
10 151 (2.18%) Tableau
11 128 (1.84%) Big Data
12 85 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 75 (1.08%) Relational Database
14 68 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 66 (0.95%) MongoDB
15 66 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 51 (0.73%) Metadata
17 46 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
18 41 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
18 41 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 209 (3.01%) JIRA
2 162 (2.33%) Git
3 139 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 75 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 57 (0.82%) GitLab
6 42 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 37 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 29 (0.42%) Selenium
9 22 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 17 (0.24%) JUnit
11 17 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.23%) Maven
13 15 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.19%) Snyk
15 12 (0.17%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
16 11 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 2,070 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 1,477 (21.28%) Banking
3 1,023 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 959 (13.82%) Front Office
5 650 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 479 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 442 (6.37%) Legal
8 431 (6.21%) Law
9 408 (5.88%) Marketing
10 312 (4.50%) Retail
11 306 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
12 223 (3.21%) Financial Institution
13 198 (2.85%) Back Office
14 169 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
15 145 (2.09%) Public Sector
16 130 (1.87%) Manufacturing
17 112 (1.61%) Retail Banking
18 104 (1.50%) Billing
19 103 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
20 95 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,406 (20.26%) Senior
2 1,270 (18.30%) Analyst
3 1,125 (16.21%) Developer
4 767 (11.05%) Architect
5 627 (9.03%) Software Engineer
6 621 (8.95%) Lead
7 444 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 334 (4.81%) Python Engineer
9 326 (4.70%) Financial Analyst
10 316 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 290 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
12 284 (4.09%) Python Developer
13 277 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
14 256 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
14 256 (3.69%) Senior Manager
15 249 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 229 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 211 (3.04%) Java Developer
18 191 (2.75%) Consultant
18 191 (2.75%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (7.90%) gRPC
2 532 (7.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 471 (6.79%) React
4 420 (6.05%) .NET
5 404 (5.82%) Pandas
6 371 (5.35%) NumPy
7 349 (5.03%) SciPy
8 298 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 267 (3.85%) Redux
10 162 (2.33%) Vue
11 156 (2.25%) HTML
12 140 (2.02%) .NET Core
12 140 (2.02%) REST
13 135 (1.95%) ASP.NET
13 135 (1.95%) Node.js
14 134 (1.93%) Spring
15 131 (1.89%) Web Services
16 128 (1.84%) Material-UI
17 126 (1.82%) Kafka
18 124 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 822 (11.84%) Hedge funds
2 743 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 629 (9.06%) Equities
4 626 (9.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 607 (8.75%) Derivative
6 273 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 223 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 213 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 209 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
10 124 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 97 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 84 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 83 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 80 (1.15%) Reinsurance
15 77 (1.11%) Data Structures
16 76 (1.10%) Clustering
17 69 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
18 68 (0.98%) Cloud Native
19 67 (0.97%) Blockchain
20 66 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 539 (7.77%) Windows
2 372 (5.36%) Linux
3 157 (2.26%) Unix
4 149 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 107 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 55 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (0.59%) Solaris
8 39 (0.56%) CentOS
9 38 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 34 (0.49%) Windows 7
11 32 (0.46%) Android
12 24 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 21 (0.30%) zOS
14 20 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
15 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 12 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
18 11 (0.16%) AIX
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.10%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,175 (31.34%) Agile
2 1,102 (15.88%) Asset Management
3 1,035 (14.91%) Software Engineering
4 917 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 820 (11.82%) Investment Management
6 715 (10.30%) Mentoring
7 706 (10.17%) Roadmaps
8 638 (9.19%) Analytics
9 616 (8.88%) DevOps
10 568 (8.18%) Decision-Making
11 527 (7.59%) Fintech
12 513 (7.39%) Project Management
13 497 (7.16%) Change Management
14 482 (6.95%) Business Intelligence
15 479 (6.90%) Data Management
16 421 (6.07%) Computer Science
17 412 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 407 (5.86%) Full Stack Development
19 404 (5.82%) Performance Management
20 401 (5.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,618 (23.31%) Python
2 1,217 (17.54%) SQL
3 882 (12.71%) Java
4 845 (12.18%) JavaScript
5 741 (10.68%) TypeScript
6 527 (7.59%) C#
7 258 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 163 (2.35%) Go
9 108 (1.56%) C++
10 98 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 95 (1.37%) Bash
11 95 (1.37%) R
12 65 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 59 (0.85%) Perl
14 53 (0.76%) VBA
15 49 (0.71%) Ruby
16 44 (0.63%) Scala
17 40 (0.58%) C
18 35 (0.50%) Rust
19 32 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,059 (15.26%) Degree
2 377 (5.43%) ACCA
3 262 (3.78%) CIMA
4 232 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 189 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 181 (2.61%) CISSP
7 118 (1.70%) Security Cleared
8 87 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 79 (1.14%) CISM
10 74 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 69 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 65 (0.94%) CISA
13 60 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 58 (0.84%) PMI Certification
15 53 (0.76%) MBA
16 49 (0.71%) DBS Check
17 48 (0.69%) SC Cleared
18 43 (0.62%) CRISC
19 42 (0.61%) PhD
20 40 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 211 (3.04%) QA
3 165 (2.38%) SLA
4 114 (1.64%) IFRS
5 98 (1.41%) NIST
6 89 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 84 (1.21%) GDPR
8 61 (0.88%) PMO
9 60 (0.86%) GAAP
10 49 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 34 (0.49%) COBIT
12 29 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.36%) GRC
13 25 (0.36%) Solvency II
14 23 (0.33%) GMP
15 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 22 (0.32%) IFRS 9
16 20 (0.29%) ITGC
16 20 (0.29%) MiFID
17 18 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 301 (4.34%) Docker
2 240 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (0.59%) XenApp
5 40 (0.58%) XenDesktop
6 27 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.37%) vSphere
8 25 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 13 (0.19%) Firmware
12 6 (0.086%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.086%) HDFS
12 6 (0.086%) RACF
12 6 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.058%) NFS
13 4 (0.058%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.029%) Xen
Systems Management
1 454 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 327 (4.71%) Terraform
3 151 (2.18%) Ansible
4 78 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 78 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 66 (0.95%) SCCM
6 27 (0.39%) Puppet
7 19 (0.27%) SCOM
8 18 (0.26%) Istio
8 18 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.23%) Grafana
9 16 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.17%) Nagios
11 12 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.13%) Nmap
13 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,361 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 512 (7.38%) Oracle
3 402 (5.79%) SAP
4 239 (3.44%) Google
5 237 (3.41%) Anaplan
6 235 (3.39%) Hyperion
7 162 (2.33%) VMware
8 161 (2.32%) Bloomberg
9 159 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 129 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 124 (1.79%) Cisco
12 115 (1.66%) Dell
13 107 (1.54%) Citrix
14 103 (1.48%) CA
15 100 (1.44%) Red Hat
16 72 (1.04%) IBM
17 71 (1.02%) Databricks
18 47 (0.68%) Qualys
19 44 (0.63%) Apple
19 44 (0.63%) Reuters