Finance Jobs in Scotland

Financial
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +11
Permanent jobs citing Finance 3,186 1,243 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.45% 27.20% 21.60%
As % of the General category 65.80% 36.11% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 402 600 712
10th Percentile £36,025 £38,753 £36,527
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £76,875 £79,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,654 £95,229 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,842 3,442 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.12% 75.32% 61.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,648 1,957
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,744 £31,133
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in Scotland.

Salary trend for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in Scotland

Finance
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Glasgow +3 2,793 £50,000 -20.00% 91
Edinburgh -2 296 £69,500 +6.92% 113
West Lothian +9 23 £34,500 -27.37% 4
Dundee +1 16 £50,000 -4.76% 1
Fife +4 12 £40,818 -18.36% 9
Aberdeen -13 10 £101,100 +83.82% 18
Stirling -1 9 £44,695 +10.18% 2
Renfrewshire - 7 £152,200 - 3
Lanarkshire -5 5 £40,000 -1.23% 32
Highlands - 3 £152,200 - 4
Argyll and Bute - 3 - - 6
Perth and Kinross 0 2 £101,350 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £105,000 - 3
Perthshire -2 1 £50,500 - 2
North Lanarkshire -8 1 £32,500 -4.41%
East Lothian - 1 - -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 589 (18.49%) Apache Spark
2 148 (4.65%) Apache
3 117 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 104 (3.26%) FileNet
5 42 (1.32%) Confluence
6 32 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 22 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.66%) GemFire
9 20 (0.63%) Camunda
10 18 (0.56%) SharePoint
11 11 (0.35%) CICS
11 11 (0.35%) SAS
11 11 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.19%) Captiva
14 2 (0.063%) BizTalk Server
15 1 (0.031%) CMS
15 1 (0.031%) IIS
15 1 (0.031%) Office Communications Server
15 1 (0.031%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 50 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.00%) UserZoom
3 24 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.47%) Sketch
6 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.094%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.094%) InVision
9 1 (0.031%) EViews
9 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.35%) Endur
1 11 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 8 (0.25%) PlanetPress Connect
3 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.031%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 1,245 (39.08%) AWS
2 244 (7.66%) Azure
3 165 (5.18%) GCP
4 117 (3.67%) Datadog
5 108 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 94 (2.95%) Figma
7 75 (2.35%) SurveyMonkey
8 70 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (2.10%) GitHub
11 59 (1.85%) Serverless
12 58 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
13 56 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
15 51 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
15 51 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (1.51%) BlazeMeter
17 41 (1.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.57%) Kerberos
2 20 (0.63%) Firewall
2 20 (0.63%) Internet
3 18 (0.56%) Broadband
3 18 (0.56%) DSL
4 16 (0.50%) VPN
5 11 (0.35%) IPsec
6 10 (0.31%) SNMP
6 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.25%) Wireless
8 7 (0.22%) HTTP
8 7 (0.22%) MQTT
9 6 (0.19%) WAN
10 4 (0.13%) DHCP
10 4 (0.13%) DNS
10 4 (0.13%) LAN
11 3 (0.094%) Software-Defined Radio
12 2 (0.063%) Network Security
12 2 (0.063%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.063%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 679 (21.31%) NoSQL
2 506 (15.88%) Big Data
3 233 (7.31%) Hadoop
4 157 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
5 152 (4.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 131 (4.11%) Apache Hive
7 129 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 118 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 102 (3.20%) HBase
10 74 (2.32%) Data Lake
11 67 (2.10%) Metadata
12 52 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 45 (1.41%) SQL Server
14 40 (1.26%) DB2
15 39 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (1.19%) CockroachDB
16 38 (1.19%) Power BI
17 36 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
18 32 (1.00%) Tableau
19 28 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 320 (10.04%) Jenkins
2 218 (6.84%) Git
3 216 (6.78%) JUnit
4 135 (4.24%) JIRA
5 120 (3.77%) Jasmine
6 92 (2.89%) Cypress.io
7 86 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 81 (2.54%) Maven
9 76 (2.39%) Bitbucket
10 75 (2.35%) Karma Test Runner
11 69 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 65 (2.04%) Selenium
13 60 (1.88%) Protractor
13 60 (1.88%) WebDriver
14 47 (1.48%) Mockito
15 31 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 30 (0.94%) Gradle
17 28 (0.88%) JMeter
18 26 (0.82%) GitLab
19 25 (0.78%) Android Studio
General
1 2,618 (82.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2,579 (80.95%) Law
3 1,482 (46.52%) Marketing
4 720 (22.60%) Legal
5 596 (18.71%) Banking
6 405 (12.71%) Social Skills
7 364 (11.42%) Investment Banking
8 264 (8.29%) Financial Institution
9 188 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
10 113 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
11 97 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 92 (2.89%) Private Banking
13 52 (1.63%) Public Sector
14 36 (1.13%) Retail
15 32 (1.00%) Social Science
16 27 (0.85%) Games
17 25 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.75%) Retail Banking
19 22 (0.69%) Manufacturing
19 22 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 2,015 (63.25%) Software Engineer
2 834 (26.18%) Lead
3 808 (25.36%) Java Engineer
4 803 (25.20%) Java Software Engineer
5 688 (21.59%) Lead Software Engineer
6 406 (12.74%) Senior
7 390 (12.24%) Big Data Engineer
7 390 (12.24%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 332 (10.42%) Python Engineer
8 332 (10.42%) Python Software Engineer
9 322 (10.11%) Full Stack Engineer
10 321 (10.08%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 301 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
11 301 (9.45%) AWS Software Engineer
12 278 (8.73%) Lead Java Engineer
13 241 (7.56%) Data Engineer
14 228 (7.16%) Scala Engineer
14 228 (7.16%) Scala Software Engineer
15 226 (7.09%) Engineering Manager
16 212 (6.65%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (22.41%) Spring
2 526 (16.51%) React
3 421 (13.21%) AngularJS
4 378 (11.86%) Kafka
5 377 (11.83%) Spring Boot
6 288 (9.04%) HTML
7 257 (8.07%) CSS
8 250 (7.85%) J2EE
9 218 (6.84%) JSON
10 196 (6.15%) RESTful
11 195 (6.12%) Hibernate
12 183 (5.74%) Node.js
13 174 (5.46%) PySpark
14 171 (5.37%) JMS
15 166 (5.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 155 (4.87%) jQuery
17 149 (4.68%) Web Services
18 129 (4.05%) GraphQL
19 123 (3.86%) REST
20 117 (3.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 933 (29.28%) Cloud Native
2 793 (24.89%) Algorithms
3 301 (9.45%) Public Cloud
4 185 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 167 (5.24%) Management Information System
6 156 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 138 (4.33%) Reference Data
8 131 (4.11%) Market Risk
9 114 (3.58%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
10 65 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 62 (1.95%) Credit Risk
12 46 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 43 (1.35%) Legacy Code
14 31 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (0.75%) Virtual Team
17 23 (0.72%) Social Media
18 21 (0.66%) Replication
18 21 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 162 (5.08%) Unix
2 149 (4.68%) Linux
3 55 (1.73%) Windows
4 32 (1.00%) Android
4 32 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
6 7 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.13%) CentOS
7 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,491 (78.19%) Agile
2 2,406 (75.52%) Software Engineering
3 2,123 (66.64%) SDLC
4 1,995 (62.62%) CI/CD
5 1,881 (59.04%) Operational Stability
6 1,423 (44.66%) Machine Learning
7 1,419 (44.54%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,305 (40.96%) Community of Practice
9 897 (28.15%) Visualisation
10 882 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 733 (23.01%) Risk Management
12 582 (18.27%) Decision-Making
13 513 (16.10%) Microservices
14 490 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
15 442 (13.87%) Information Architecture
16 436 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
17 416 (13.06%) Architectural Design
18 381 (11.96%) Full Stack Development
19 371 (11.64%) Computer Science
20 304 (9.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,712 (53.74%) Java
2 1,176 (36.91%) SQL
3 988 (31.01%) Python
4 356 (11.17%) JavaScript
5 319 (10.01%) Scala
6 218 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 155 (4.87%) PL/SQL
8 83 (2.61%) Go
9 70 (2.20%) C#
10 65 (2.04%) Prolog
10 65 (2.04%) SPARQL
11 43 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.32%) Groovy
13 38 (1.19%) R
14 32 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.63%) Ruby
17 19 (0.60%) PowerShell
18 11 (0.35%) COBOL
18 11 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 291 (9.13%) Degree
2 82 (2.57%) Master's Degree
3 51 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (1.41%) PhD
5 30 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 19 (0.60%) ACCA
7 18 (0.56%) Security Cleared
8 16 (0.50%) SC Cleared
9 14 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 13 (0.41%) CISA
11 11 (0.35%) CIMA
12 10 (0.31%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.28%) CISSP
14 8 (0.25%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.22%) CISM
16 6 (0.19%) AAT
16 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.19%) PMP
17 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
18 3 (0.094%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (2.89%) Accessibility
2 69 (2.17%) SLA
3 51 (1.60%) QA
4 46 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 32 (1.00%) PMO
7 27 (0.85%) GDPR
8 15 (0.47%) WAI
9 12 (0.38%) NIST
10 11 (0.35%) ITGC
11 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.25%) IFRS
13 7 (0.22%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.13%) SEPA
14 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.094%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.094%) WCAG
16 2 (0.063%) COSHH
16 2 (0.063%) CRD IV
16 2 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (3.20%) HDFS
2 98 (3.08%) Docker
3 87 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 26 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 9 (0.28%) Firmware
7 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.063%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.063%) KVM
8 2 (0.063%) vSphere
8 2 (0.063%) Xen
9 1 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.031%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.031%) RACF
Systems Management
1 394 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 284 (8.91%) Terraform
3 179 (5.62%) Grafana
4 93 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.97%) Ansible
6 26 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.66%) HAProxy
7 21 (0.66%) Kibana
7 21 (0.66%) Zipkin
8 10 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.22%) Graphite
9 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.19%) Istio
11 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.063%) Rancher
12 1 (0.031%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 399 (12.52%) Oracle
2 263 (8.25%) Databricks
3 186 (5.84%) Splunk
4 166 (5.21%) Dynatrace
5 133 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 100 (3.14%) Google
7 88 (2.76%) Informatica
8 72 (2.26%) Cloudera
9 64 (2.01%) Qualtrics
10 57 (1.79%) Alteryx
11 47 (1.48%) SAP
12 34 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 28 (0.88%) VMware
14 26 (0.82%) Atlassian
14 26 (0.82%) Pega
15 23 (0.72%) Sybase
16 19 (0.60%) CA
16 19 (0.60%) IBM
17 18 (0.56%) Cognos
17 18 (0.56%) SaltStack