Finance Jobs in Central London

Financial
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 961 1,436 2,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 25.40% 28.85% 27.14%
As % of the General category 40.84% 43.94% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 704 1,175 1,755
10th Percentile £42,147 £48,600 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £99,063 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £110,850
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% +3.23% +3.33%

All General Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,353 3,268 5,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 62.18% 65.66% 62.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,745 2,624 4,109
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £42,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +0.34% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,500 £74,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.73% +5.71% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Finance in Central London

Finance
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in Central London

Finance
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
City of London 0 862 £75,000 -6.25% 245
City of Westminster -11 26 £82,500 -4.35% 4
West End of London -12 14 £90,000 +38.46% 4
Lambeth +5 10 £45,000 -
Southwark -5 8 £77,500 -6.06%
Camden -14 6 £35,000 -48.15% 3
Kensington and Chelsea +2 1 £40,000 -23.08% 7
Finance
London

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 28 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.60%) Skype for Business
3 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.98%) Apache
5 9 (0.94%) Confluence
5 9 (0.94%) IIS
6 6 (0.62%) CMS
6 6 (0.62%) nginx
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.42%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 77 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.98%) Aladdin
1 19 (1.98%) thinkFolio
2 10 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.94%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.42%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.31%) SAP GTS
6 3 (0.31%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) PeopleSoft Financials
7 2 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.21%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 181 (18.83%) Azure
2 114 (11.86%) AWS
3 108 (11.24%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (7.70%) Power Platform
5 39 (4.06%) SaaS
6 28 (2.91%) Entra ID
6 28 (2.91%) Serverless
7 27 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (1.98%) GitHub
10 17 (1.77%) WhatsApp
11 16 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (1.66%) Google Sheets
12 14 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.35%) GCP
14 11 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (0.94%) IaaS
15 9 (0.94%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.62%) Firewall
2 31 (3.23%) LAN
3 29 (3.02%) Skype
4 25 (2.60%) Network Security
5 24 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
5 24 (2.50%) Telepresence
6 23 (2.39%) DNS
7 22 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 22 (2.29%) WAN
8 12 (1.25%) Internet
9 11 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 11 (1.14%) VPN
10 10 (1.04%) Broadband
10 10 (1.04%) DHCP
11 9 (0.94%) Wireshark
12 8 (0.83%) SAN
13 5 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.52%) IPsec
13 5 (0.52%) SNMP
13 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.49%) Power BI
2 49 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.35%) GIS
8 12 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.94%) Metadata
10 9 (0.94%) Tableau
11 8 (0.83%) Big Data
12 7 (0.73%) MySQL
12 7 (0.73%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.52%) Flink
14 5 (0.52%) SAP BW
15 4 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (3.02%) JIRA
2 22 (2.29%) GitLab
3 20 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.87%) Git
5 13 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.73%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (0.52%) Selenium
7 5 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.31%) MSTest
9 3 (0.31%) NUnit
9 3 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.31%) Protractor
9 3 (0.31%) Snyk
9 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 167 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (10.72%) Banking
4 67 (6.97%) Marketing
5 61 (6.35%) Law
6 59 (6.14%) Retail
7 56 (5.83%) Legal
8 52 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 36 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 35 (3.64%) Financial Institution
11 31 (3.23%) Advertising
12 29 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (2.91%) Automotive
13 28 (2.91%) Front Office
14 25 (2.60%) Back Office
15 24 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
16 19 (1.98%) Retail Banking
17 16 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 191 (19.88%) Analyst
2 167 (17.38%) Senior
3 114 (11.86%) Lead
4 99 (10.30%) Developer
5 64 (6.66%) Architect
6 47 (4.89%) Support Engineer
7 40 (4.16%) Senior Analyst
8 39 (4.06%) Systems Analyst
9 37 (3.85%) Software Engineer
10 35 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
11 34 (3.54%) Consultant
12 28 (2.91%) Security Analyst
13 26 (2.71%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.50%) Support Analyst
15 23 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.29%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.29%) Service Manager
17 21 (2.19%) Applications Support
18 20 (2.08%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.37%) .NET
2 34 (3.54%) React
3 29 (3.02%) REST
4 21 (2.19%) Node.js
4 21 (2.19%) Web Services
5 19 (1.98%) CSS
5 19 (1.98%) HTML
6 17 (1.77%) Kafka
7 16 (1.66%) ASP.NET
8 15 (1.56%) JSON
8 15 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.56%) RESTful
9 14 (1.46%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.46%) XML
10 13 (1.35%) Spring
11 12 (1.25%) YAML
12 11 (1.14%) .NET Framework
12 11 (1.14%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.04%) SOAP
14 9 (0.94%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.99%) Management Information System
2 42 (4.37%) Life Science
3 29 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.91%) Security Posture
5 26 (2.71%) Video Conferencing
6 21 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.87%) Fixed Income
9 17 (1.77%) Derivative
10 14 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.46%) Hedge funds
11 13 (1.35%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.25%) FPGA
13 11 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.14%) Equities
13 11 (1.14%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.14%) Reinsurance
14 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 126 (13.11%) Windows
2 45 (4.68%) Linux
3 44 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 40 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 31 (3.23%) Windows 7
6 17 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.66%) Android
8 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.73%) Unix
9 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.52%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.42%) CentOS
11 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (19.56%) Agile
2 121 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (11.45%) ITIL
4 106 (11.03%) DevOps
5 87 (9.05%) Mentoring
6 84 (8.74%) Analytics
6 84 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
7 81 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (8.22%) Software Engineering
9 75 (7.80%) Decision-Making
10 67 (6.97%) CI/CD
11 62 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
12 61 (6.35%) Change Management
13 60 (6.24%) Computer Science
14 59 (6.14%) Roadmaps
15 56 (5.83%) Fintech
16 55 (5.72%) Project Management
17 47 (4.89%) Actionable Insight
17 47 (4.89%) Line Management
18 46 (4.79%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 179 (18.63%) SQL
2 145 (15.09%) Python
3 64 (6.66%) Java
4 49 (5.10%) JavaScript
4 49 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 48 (4.99%) C#
6 24 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.39%) C++
8 22 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.56%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.04%) Go
11 9 (0.94%) VBA
12 8 (0.83%) Bash
12 8 (0.83%) Clojure
12 8 (0.83%) F#
12 8 (0.83%) Haskell
12 8 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.83%) Rust
13 7 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (20.40%) Degree
2 46 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (4.68%) CISSP
4 44 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 28 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 27 (2.81%) MBA
7 24 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (2.29%) CCSP
9 20 (2.08%) ACCA
10 19 (1.98%) CIMA
11 13 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.14%) PhD
13 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.83%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.83%) CEH
14 8 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.73%) CRISC
15 7 (0.73%) SANS
15 7 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.71%) NIST
2 24 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.19%) QA
4 18 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.56%) SLA
6 13 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.25%) GDPR
8 9 (0.94%) SOC 1
9 8 (0.83%) GRC
10 7 (0.73%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.73%) PMO
11 6 (0.62%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.31%) ITGC
13 3 (0.31%) NCSC
14 2 (0.21%) EMIR
14 2 (0.21%) MiFID
15 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (6.97%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.75%) Docker
3 17 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.21%) KVM
5 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) vSphere
5 2 (0.21%) Xen
6 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.10%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.10%) XenApp
6 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.20%) Terraform
3 19 (1.98%) Ansible
4 18 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.94%) Nmap
6 9 (0.94%) SCCM
7 5 (0.52%) Packer
7 5 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.42%) Backup Exec
8 4 (0.42%) HP Data Protector
8 4 (0.42%) Nagios
8 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.31%) Istio
10 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.21%) Puppet
10 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.10%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.10%) Kibana
11 1 (0.10%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 242 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.06%) Bloomberg
3 38 (3.95%) Oracle
4 36 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.64%) Cisco
6 32 (3.33%) Apple
7 29 (3.02%) Google
8 27 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 26 (2.71%) Dell
10 24 (2.50%) Polycom
11 21 (2.19%) SAP
12 19 (1.98%) Charles River
13 17 (1.77%) VMware
14 16 (1.66%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.66%) Veeam
15 14 (1.46%) Aderant
16 12 (1.25%) Palo Alto
17 11 (1.14%) Databricks
17 11 (1.14%) HP
18 9 (0.94%) Splunk