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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,014 23,670 36,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.30% 22.86% 23.05%
As % of the General category 32.26% 33.48% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,842 13,871 18,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,150 £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 58,949 70,703 99,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.28% 63.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,565 38,111 51,326
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,318 £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 4 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 4 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 14,851 £65,000 -6.40% 5,901
UK excluding London +2 11,545 £52,500 -4.55% 3,306
Work from Home -2 7,203 £65,000 -6.31% 2,535
London +1 6,741 £80,000 - 2,860
Scotland +2 3,197 £62,500 -3.85% 281
North of England -2 2,419 £55,000 - 854
South East -2 2,198 £50,000 -13.04% 773
Midlands -1 1,572 £50,000 -9.09% 585
North West +1 1,338 £55,000 - 514
South West -7 1,239 £54,795 -0.37% 433
West Midlands +1 1,103 £51,300 -6.73% 362
Yorkshire -3 836 £57,965 +0.81% 253
East of England 0 532 £49,000 -10.91% 322
East Midlands -6 461 £47,500 -13.64% 222
North East 0 245 £50,000 -9.09% 92
Wales -5 244 £45,000 -3.23% 91
Northern Ireland +2 105 £42,500 -15.00% 68
Isle of Man - 38 £46,500 - 5
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 +3.03% 2

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
1 679 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 566 (2.98%) Apache
3 497 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 475 (2.50%) SAS
5 457 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 342 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 279 (1.47%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 94 (0.49%) IIS
10 59 (0.31%) CMS
11 49 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 38 (0.20%) nginx
14 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
14 34 (0.18%) Tomcat
15 30 (0.16%) Captiva
16 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.11%) Camunda
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 16 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,698 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 931 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 454 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 110 (0.58%) 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 (0.089%) 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
1 321 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 174 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 159 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 87 (0.46%) SAP FI
6 79 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 79 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
7 59 (0.31%) 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
11 41 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
12 37 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 34 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
13 34 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
14 33 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
15 29 (0.15%) Elite 3E
15 29 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,174 (16.69%) AWS
2 2,732 (14.37%) Azure
3 1,203 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 1,006 (5.29%) GCP
5 984 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
6 585 (3.08%) SaaS
7 459 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
8 348 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 316 (1.66%) GitHub
10 304 (1.60%) Serverless
11 284 (1.49%) Snowflake
12 259 (1.36%) dbt
13 248 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 218 (1.15%) Entra ID
15 202 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 191 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
17 175 (0.92%) PaaS
18 171 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 171 (0.90%) PowerApps
19 157 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 851 (4.48%) Broadband
2 492 (2.59%) Firewall
3 252 (1.33%) DNS
4 222 (1.17%) Internet
5 202 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 186 (0.98%) WAN
7 175 (0.92%) VPN
8 166 (0.87%) LAN
9 149 (0.78%) DHCP
10 133 (0.70%) Wireless
11 125 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (0.49%) SAN
14 83 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 74 (0.39%) HTTP
15 74 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 64 (0.34%) SNMP
17 63 (0.33%) 5G
17 63 (0.33%) IPsec
18 62 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,005 (5.29%) Power BI
2 891 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 821 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 664 (3.49%) Big Data
5 527 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 460 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 348 (1.83%) Tableau
8 330 (1.74%) MongoDB
9 329 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
10 279 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
11 277 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 274 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 270 (1.42%) Hadoop
14 239 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
15 237 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
16 235 (1.24%) Dremio
17 234 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 178 (0.94%) Metadata
19 161 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
20 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 708 (3.72%) JIRA
2 618 (3.25%) Git
3 592 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.32%) JUnit
5 172 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 163 (0.86%) Selenium
7 131 (0.69%) GitLab
7 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 120 (0.63%) Maven
9 119 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 113 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
12 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
14 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
15 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 65 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
16 63 (0.33%) Protractor
17 55 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,979 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 4,118 (21.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,528 (18.55%) Law
4 2,923 (15.37%) Banking
5 2,739 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2,579 (13.56%) Marketing
7 1,926 (10.13%) Legal
8 1,227 (6.45%) Retail
9 972 (5.11%) Investment Banking
10 963 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
11 893 (4.70%) Public Sector
12 868 (4.57%) Front Office
13 640 (3.37%) Manufacturing
14 603 (3.17%) Financial Institution
15 592 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
16 478 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 445 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
18 283 (1.49%) Back Office
19 267 (1.40%) Billing
20 250 (1.31%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,095 (16.28%) Senior
2 2,925 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2,700 (14.20%) Software Engineer
4 2,339 (12.30%) Lead
5 2,121 (11.15%) Developer
6 1,431 (7.53%) Architect
7 972 (5.11%) Project Manager
8 912 (4.80%) Java Engineer
9 879 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
10 779 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 763 (4.01%) Consultant
12 713 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 648 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
14 590 (3.10%) Financial Analyst
15 573 (3.01%) Python Engineer
16 524 (2.76%) Senior Manager
17 516 (2.71%) Python Software Engineer
18 508 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
19 493 (2.59%) Senior Developer
20 473 (2.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,247 (6.56%) React
2 967 (5.09%) .NET
3 936 (4.92%) Spring
4 909 (4.78%) AngularJS
5 777 (4.09%) HTML
6 618 (3.25%) Kafka
7 572 (3.01%) CSS
8 563 (2.96%) Spring Boot
9 438 (2.30%) Node.js
10 423 (2.22%) REST
11 398 (2.09%) gRPC
12 394 (2.07%) Web Services
13 391 (2.06%) JSON
14 388 (2.04%) RESTful
15 347 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 338 (1.78%) Protocol Buffers
17 334 (1.76%) Pandas
18 301 (1.58%) J2EE
19 298 (1.57%) .NET Core
20 288 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,135 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 860 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 750 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 667 (3.51%) Hedge funds
6 616 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 592 (3.11%) Fixed Income
8 559 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 556 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 516 (2.71%) Public Cloud
11 508 (2.67%) Derivative
12 472 (2.48%) Equities
13 270 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 253 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 203 (1.07%) Credit Risk
16 203 (1.07%) PMI
17 179 (0.94%) Mobile App
18 172 (0.90%) Driving Licence
19 165 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,263 (6.64%) Windows
2 885 (4.65%) Linux
3 424 (2.23%) Unix
4 340 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 202 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 142 (0.75%) Android
7 105 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 100 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 89 (0.47%) CentOS
11 77 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 66 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 61 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 45 (0.24%) Solaris
15 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 32 (0.17%) zOS
17 30 (0.16%) AIX
17 30 (0.16%) Mac OS
18 18 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,875 (36.16%) Agile
2 3,703 (19.48%) Software Engineering
3 3,068 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
4 2,743 (14.43%) CI/CD
5 2,570 (13.52%) SDLC
6 2,186 (11.50%) Mentoring
7 2,073 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,063 (10.85%) Machine Learning
9 2,042 (10.74%) Decision-Making
10 2,038 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,964 (10.33%) Project Management
12 1,933 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 1,928 (10.14%) Operational Stability
14 1,692 (8.90%) Risk Management
15 1,539 (8.09%) Analytics
16 1,499 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
17 1,421 (7.47%) DevOps
18 1,407 (7.40%) Coaching
19 1,377 (7.24%) Asset Management
20 1,359 (7.15%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,474 (18.27%) SQL
2 2,911 (15.31%) Python
3 2,827 (14.87%) Java
4 1,501 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 1,133 (5.96%) C#
6 1,032 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 437 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 388 (2.04%) Scala
9 315 (1.66%) Go
10 241 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 231 (1.21%) R
12 212 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 201 (1.06%) Bash
14 198 (1.04%) C++
15 142 (0.75%) C
16 128 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 106 (0.56%) PHP
18 91 (0.48%) VBA
19 88 (0.46%) Shell Script
20 80 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,812 (14.79%) Degree
2 813 (4.28%) ACCA
3 646 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 622 (3.27%) CIMA
5 431 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 406 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 332 (1.75%) SC Cleared
8 299 (1.57%) CISSP
9 294 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 267 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 169 (0.89%) Azure Certification
12 165 (0.87%) 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
18 121 (0.64%) MBA
19 113 (0.59%) CISA
20 104 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (2.99%) QA
2 508 (2.67%) GDPR
3 483 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 462 (2.43%) SLA
5 247 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 241 (1.27%) IFRS
6 241 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 240 (1.26%) PMO
8 211 (1.11%) NIST
9 91 (0.48%) GAAP
10 88 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
12 72 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 70 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 69 (0.36%) GRC
15 52 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 47 (0.25%) COBIT
16 47 (0.25%) ITGC
17 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 696 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 662 (3.48%) Docker
3 346 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 105 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 105 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (0.32%) Firmware
7 57 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 52 (0.27%) vSphere
9 43 (0.23%) XenApp
10 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 32 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
14 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.058%) IAG
15 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
16 10 (0.053%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
18 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,032 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 778 (4.09%) Terraform
3 266 (1.40%) Ansible
4 215 (1.13%) Grafana
5 192 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 163 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 133 (0.70%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 44 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.18%) Puppet
11 34 (0.18%) Kibana
12 31 (0.16%) SCOM
13 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
14 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.14%) Istio
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 18 (0.095%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,579 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 1,410 (7.42%) Oracle
3 1,043 (5.49%) SAP
4 573 (3.01%) Google
5 461 (2.42%) VMware
6 405 (2.13%) Databricks
7 351 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 335 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 325 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 284 (1.49%) Splunk
11 275 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 252 (1.33%) Cisco
13 205 (1.08%) Dell
14 200 (1.05%) IBM
15 193 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 190 (1.00%) CA
17 178 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 177 (0.93%) Citrix
19 149 (0.78%) Bloomberg
20 145 (0.76%) Alteryx