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 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 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,555 11,305 12,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.14% 19.17% 18.07%
As % of the General category 28.22% 27.92% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,642 5,408 7,160
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,358 £33,975
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £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
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 40,940 40,486 43,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.17% 68.66% 60.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,522 18,466 24,237
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,284 £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 £62,500 £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 18 May 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 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
Scotland +2 3,186 £60,000 -4.00% 287
North of England -2 2,411 £55,000 - 894
South East -2 2,237 £51,500 -10.43% 1,198
Midlands -1 1,598 £50,000 -9.09% 603
North West +1 1,356 £55,000 - 517
South West -8 1,211 £54,043 -1.74% 435
West Midlands 0 1,116 £52,000 -5.45% 385
Yorkshire -3 805 £56,500 +2.73% 270
East of England -2 524 £50,000 -9.09% 294
East Midlands -2 475 £47,500 -13.64% 218
North East 0 250 £50,000 -9.09% 115
Wales -4 246 £45,000 +3.37% 119
Northern Ireland +1 103 £40,000 -20.00% 70
Isle of Man - 36 £50,250 - 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 1
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
1 632 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 287 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 236 (2.04%) Apache
4 204 (1.77%) Confluence
5 194 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 189 (1.64%) SAS
7 136 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
8 115 (1.00%) FileNet
9 55 (0.48%) IIS
10 32 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
11 28 (0.24%) WordPress
12 27 (0.23%) CMS
12 27 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 26 (0.23%) WebSphere
14 21 (0.18%) GemFire
14 21 (0.18%) nginx
15 20 (0.17%) Camunda
16 18 (0.16%) Captiva
17 12 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
18 11 (0.095%) CICS
Applications
1 1,052 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 612 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 280 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 52 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.33%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 11 (0.095%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.061%) OrCAD
11 7 (0.061%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.052%) InVision
12 6 (0.052%) SPSS
13 5 (0.043%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.035%) Doxygen
15 3 (0.026%) Simulink
15 3 (0.026%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 104 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.74%) SAP ERP
3 60 (0.52%) NEC Housing
3 60 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 56 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 31 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 30 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 30 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 30 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
7 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 26 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
9 25 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 25 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
10 18 (0.16%) Sage X3
11 17 (0.15%) iTrent
11 17 (0.15%) Sage 200
12 16 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
12 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
13 15 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
14 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,868 (16.17%) AWS
2 1,473 (12.75%) Azure
3 743 (6.43%) Power Platform
4 562 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 434 (3.76%) GCP
6 269 (2.33%) SaaS
7 253 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 181 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (1.51%) GitHub
10 165 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 135 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
11 135 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 131 (1.13%) Serverless
13 124 (1.07%) Datadog
14 107 (0.93%) Figma
15 96 (0.83%) Power Automate
16 83 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
16 83 (0.72%) PowerApps
17 78 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 384 (3.32%) Broadband
2 268 (2.32%) Firewall
3 157 (1.36%) Internet
4 117 (1.01%) VPN
5 104 (0.90%) DNS
6 101 (0.87%) WAN
7 91 (0.79%) LAN
8 90 (0.78%) Wireless
9 83 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
10 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 74 (0.64%) TCP/IP
12 73 (0.63%) Network Security
13 67 (0.58%) SAN
14 60 (0.52%) DHCP
15 55 (0.48%) SNMP
16 54 (0.47%) IPsec
17 43 (0.37%) 5G
18 39 (0.34%) Intranet
19 37 (0.32%) SD-WAN
20 34 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 733 (6.34%) NoSQL
2 641 (5.55%) Power BI
3 548 (4.74%) Big Data
4 524 (4.53%) SQL Server
5 367 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
6 258 (2.23%) MongoDB
7 251 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 243 (2.10%) Hadoop
9 217 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 198 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 191 (1.65%) Tableau
12 166 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 133 (1.15%) Apache Hive
15 127 (1.10%) Metadata
16 124 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
17 103 (0.89%) HBase
18 86 (0.74%) MySQL
19 75 (0.65%) Power Query
20 67 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 451 (3.90%) Git
2 445 (3.85%) JIRA
3 426 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 232 (2.01%) JUnit
5 136 (1.18%) Selenium
6 130 (1.13%) Jasmine
7 109 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 100 (0.87%) Maven
9 88 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 86 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
11 75 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
12 73 (0.63%) GitLab
12 73 (0.63%) Visual Studio
13 69 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 68 (0.59%) Cucumber
15 64 (0.55%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.52%) Protractor
17 53 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
18 47 (0.41%) Mockito
19 46 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3,652 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 3,414 (29.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,094 (26.78%) Law
4 2,118 (18.33%) Marketing
5 1,620 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
6 1,506 (13.03%) Legal
7 1,490 (12.89%) Banking
8 915 (7.92%) Retail
9 667 (5.77%) Public Sector
10 613 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
11 601 (5.20%) Investment Banking
12 458 (3.96%) Manufacturing
13 420 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
14 366 (3.17%) Financial Institution
15 345 (2.99%) Telecoms
16 319 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
17 192 (1.66%) Electronics
18 186 (1.61%) Local Government
19 151 (1.31%) Games
20 146 (1.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,192 (18.97%) Software Engineer
2 1,706 (14.76%) Lead
3 1,677 (14.51%) Senior
4 1,562 (13.52%) Analyst
5 974 (8.43%) Developer
6 832 (7.20%) Java Engineer
7 808 (6.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 726 (6.28%) Project Manager
9 698 (6.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 599 (5.18%) Architect
11 505 (4.37%) Consultant
12 391 (3.38%) Big Data Engineer
13 390 (3.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 368 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
15 352 (3.05%) Data Engineer
16 351 (3.04%) Full Stack Engineer
17 339 (2.93%) Python Engineer
18 333 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
19 332 (2.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 322 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 793 (6.86%) React
2 788 (6.82%) Spring
3 605 (5.24%) AngularJS
4 574 (4.97%) HTML
5 525 (4.54%) .NET
6 475 (4.11%) Kafka
7 457 (3.95%) CSS
8 435 (3.76%) Spring Boot
9 302 (2.61%) Node.js
10 295 (2.55%) JSON
10 295 (2.55%) RESTful
11 284 (2.46%) REST
12 270 (2.34%) Web Services
13 251 (2.17%) J2EE
14 217 (1.88%) ASP.NET
15 209 (1.81%) Hibernate
16 197 (1.70%) jQuery
17 194 (1.68%) PySpark
18 187 (1.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 174 (1.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,040 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 853 (7.38%) Algorithms
3 580 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 444 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
5 429 (3.71%) Public Cloud
6 403 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 332 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 173 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 164 (1.42%) Credit Risk
10 160 (1.38%) PMI
11 155 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 152 (1.32%) Driving Licence
13 148 (1.28%) Mobile App
14 143 (1.24%) Reference Data
15 138 (1.19%) Market Risk
16 112 (0.97%) NHS
17 95 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
18 92 (0.80%) Virtual Team
19 83 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 83 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 688 (5.95%) Windows
2 485 (4.20%) Linux
3 259 (2.24%) Unix
4 197 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 101 (0.87%) Android
6 91 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 89 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 76 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 61 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 55 (0.48%) Apple iOS
11 49 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
12 46 (0.40%) CentOS
13 23 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 21 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 18 (0.16%) AIX
15 18 (0.16%) Windows 8
16 16 (0.14%) Solaris
17 14 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 14 (0.12%) Ubuntu
17 14 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,649 (40.23%) Agile
2 2,804 (24.27%) Software Engineering
3 2,343 (20.28%) SDLC
4 2,302 (19.92%) CI/CD
5 2,039 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 1,913 (16.56%) Operational Stability
7 1,731 (14.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,718 (14.87%) Machine Learning
9 1,688 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,419 (12.28%) Decision-Making
11 1,383 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 1,341 (11.61%) Community of Practice
13 1,325 (11.47%) Project Management
14 1,291 (11.17%) Risk Management
15 1,152 (9.97%) Roadmaps
16 1,100 (9.52%) Visualisation
17 1,051 (9.10%) Coaching
18 939 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
19 870 (7.53%) Analytics
20 812 (7.03%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,265 (19.60%) SQL
2 2,051 (17.75%) Java
3 1,472 (12.74%) Python
4 798 (6.91%) JavaScript
5 560 (4.85%) C#
6 433 (3.75%) TypeScript
7 340 (2.94%) Scala
8 215 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 187 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 155 (1.34%) Go
11 153 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 106 (0.92%) R
13 95 (0.82%) Bash
14 89 (0.77%) C
15 82 (0.71%) PHP
16 79 (0.68%) C++
17 70 (0.61%) Shell Script
18 65 (0.56%) Prolog
18 65 (0.56%) SPARQL
19 56 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,659 (14.36%) Degree
2 436 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 430 (3.72%) ACCA
4 352 (3.05%) CIMA
5 240 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 223 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 209 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 193 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 184 (1.59%) DBS Check
10 132 (1.14%) CISSP
11 104 (0.90%) PMP
12 103 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 92 (0.80%) Azure Certification
14 87 (0.75%) CISM
15 70 (0.61%) PhD
16 68 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 67 (0.58%) DV Cleared
17 67 (0.58%) MBA
18 56 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
19 54 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (3.38%) GDPR
2 334 (2.89%) QA
3 282 (2.44%) SLA
4 272 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 207 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 158 (1.37%) PMO
7 145 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 124 (1.07%) IFRS
9 118 (1.02%) NIST
10 64 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 52 (0.45%) IFRS 9
12 50 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 42 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 39 (0.34%) GRC
15 38 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 33 (0.29%) GAAP
17 30 (0.26%) ISO 9001
18 26 (0.23%) ITGC
19 24 (0.21%) NCSC
20 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 435 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 349 (3.02%) Docker
3 224 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.88%) HDFS
5 79 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 68 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (0.37%) Firmware
8 29 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.25%) vSphere
9 19 (0.16%) XenApp
10 16 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 15 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
13 11 (0.095%) OpenSSH
13 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.078%) RACF
15 8 (0.069%) VMware Workstation
15 8 (0.069%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.061%) IAG
17 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 575 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 430 (3.72%) Terraform
3 193 (1.67%) Grafana
4 135 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 124 (1.07%) Ansible
6 87 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 60 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 52 (0.45%) SCCM
9 32 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
11 26 (0.23%) Kibana
12 24 (0.21%) HAProxy
13 21 (0.18%) ZABBIX
13 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
14 14 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
14 14 (0.12%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.10%) Graphite
15 12 (0.10%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,155 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 825 (7.14%) Oracle
3 510 (4.41%) SAP
4 326 (2.82%) Databricks
5 317 (2.74%) Google
6 282 (2.44%) VMware
7 236 (2.04%) Splunk
8 188 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 156 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 135 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 125 (1.08%) Cisco
12 112 (0.97%) NEC
13 109 (0.94%) Informatica
14 106 (0.92%) IBM
15 99 (0.86%) Alteryx
16 97 (0.84%) Hyperion
17 93 (0.80%) Red Hat
18 92 (0.80%) CA
19 90 (0.78%) Anaplan
19 90 (0.78%) Atlassian