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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,113 22,725 37,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.15% 22.90% 23.24%
As % of the General category 32.10% 33.57% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 13,235 18,686
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,386
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,833 £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 59,547 67,691 103,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.67% 68.21% 64.47%
Number of salaries quoted 39,710 36,611 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,113 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 17 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 17 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 14,956 £65,000 -5.80% 6,493
UK excluding London +2 11,537 £52,500 -4.55% 3,795
Work from Home -2 7,258 £65,000 -6.31% 2,975
London 0 6,849 £80,000 - 3,368
Scotland +2 3,184 £60,000 -4.16% 277
North of England -2 2,405 £55,000 - 873
South East -2 2,234 £51,500 -10.43% 1,210
Midlands -1 1,592 £50,000 -9.09% 598
North West +1 1,352 £55,000 - 502
South West -8 1,210 £54,043 -1.74% 433
West Midlands 0 1,113 £52,000 -5.45% 386
Yorkshire -3 804 £56,500 +2.73% 265
East of England -1 524 £50,000 -9.09% 301
East Midlands -4 472 £47,500 -13.64% 212
North East +1 249 £50,000 -9.09% 113
Wales -4 246 £45,000 +2.27% 112
Northern Ireland 0 103 £40,000 -20.00% 70
Isle of Man - 36 £50,250 - 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 1

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
1 672 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 654 (3.42%) Apache
3 589 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 470 (2.46%) SAS
5 447 (2.34%) SharePoint
6 337 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 273 (1.43%) Confluence
8 119 (0.62%) FileNet
9 105 (0.55%) IIS
10 60 (0.31%) CMS
11 44 (0.23%) WordPress
12 43 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 41 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 39 (0.20%) nginx
15 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 28 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 22 (0.12%) Captiva
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 15 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,748 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 945 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 463 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 109 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 87 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 29 (0.15%) SPSS
10 21 (0.11%) Sketch
11 16 (0.084%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.084%) Trello
12 12 (0.063%) Adobe XD
12 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
13 8 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.037%) InDesign
14 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
15 6 (0.031%) InVision
16 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
16 5 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 315 (1.65%) SAP ERP
2 168 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 148 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 81 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 79 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 71 (0.37%) SAP CO
7 71 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
8 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 44 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 43 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 42 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 40 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
12 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
14 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
15 30 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
15 30 (0.16%) Elite 3E
16 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,242 (16.96%) AWS
2 2,764 (14.46%) Azure
3 1,211 (6.34%) Power Platform
4 1,026 (5.37%) GCP
5 973 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
6 577 (3.02%) SaaS
7 460 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
8 344 (1.80%) Snowflake
9 337 (1.76%) dbt
10 335 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 297 (1.55%) GitHub
11 297 (1.55%) Serverless
12 244 (1.28%) Amazon S3
13 226 (1.18%) Entra ID
14 205 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
15 185 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
16 173 (0.91%) Power Automate
17 166 (0.87%) PowerApps
18 159 (0.83%) PaaS
19 146 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 848 (4.44%) Broadband
2 490 (2.56%) Firewall
3 228 (1.19%) DNS
4 222 (1.16%) Internet
5 187 (0.98%) WAN
6 170 (0.89%) VPN
7 169 (0.88%) LAN
8 168 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 130 (0.68%) Wireless
10 126 (0.66%) Network Security
11 122 (0.64%) DHCP
12 114 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (0.49%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 71 (0.37%) SD-WAN
16 64 (0.33%) IPsec
16 64 (0.33%) SNMP
17 62 (0.32%) Intranet
18 55 (0.29%) 5G
19 42 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,014 (5.31%) Power BI
2 890 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 815 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 672 (3.52%) Big Data
5 549 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 549 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 355 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
7 354 (1.85%) Apache Ignite
8 340 (1.78%) Tableau
9 333 (1.74%) MongoDB
10 310 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
11 309 (1.62%) Apache Arrow
11 309 (1.62%) Dremio
12 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 274 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 266 (1.39%) Hadoop
15 235 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 182 (0.95%) Metadata
17 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
18 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 678 (3.55%) JIRA
2 623 (3.26%) Git
3 580 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 251 (1.31%) JUnit
5 183 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 164 (0.86%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 129 (0.67%) GitLab
9 121 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 120 (0.63%) Maven
11 109 (0.57%) Artifactory
12 106 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
14 82 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
15 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
16 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 58 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
19 50 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 5,995 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 4,122 (21.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,514 (18.39%) Law
4 2,932 (15.34%) Banking
5 2,729 (14.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2,614 (13.68%) Marketing
7 1,947 (10.19%) Legal
8 1,259 (6.59%) Retail
9 1,008 (5.27%) Investment Banking
10 947 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
11 939 (4.91%) Front Office
12 896 (4.69%) Public Sector
13 639 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 624 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
15 594 (3.11%) Financial Institution
16 465 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 445 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
18 290 (1.52%) Back Office
19 261 (1.37%) Billing
20 253 (1.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,127 (16.36%) Senior
2 2,936 (15.36%) Analyst
3 2,743 (14.35%) Software Engineer
4 2,348 (12.28%) Lead
5 2,135 (11.17%) Developer
6 1,402 (7.34%) Architect
7 958 (5.01%) Project Manager
8 938 (4.91%) Java Engineer
9 902 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
10 789 (4.13%) Consultant
11 788 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
12 700 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
13 668 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
14 616 (3.22%) Python Engineer
15 613 (3.21%) Financial Analyst
16 558 (2.92%) Python Software Engineer
17 540 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
18 518 (2.71%) Senior Manager
19 493 (2.58%) Data Engineer
20 482 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,255 (6.57%) React
2 969 (5.07%) .NET
3 925 (4.84%) Spring
4 906 (4.74%) AngularJS
5 751 (3.93%) HTML
6 612 (3.20%) Kafka
7 579 (3.03%) CSS
8 558 (2.92%) Spring Boot
9 487 (2.55%) gRPC
10 439 (2.30%) Node.js
11 431 (2.26%) REST
12 425 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
13 404 (2.11%) Web Services
14 394 (2.06%) Pandas
15 385 (2.01%) JSON
16 378 (1.98%) RESTful
17 350 (1.83%) ASP.NET
18 331 (1.73%) NumPy
19 298 (1.56%) J2EE
20 296 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1,101 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 938 (4.91%) Algorithms
3 869 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 752 (3.93%) Hedge funds
5 728 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 668 (3.50%) Fixed Income
7 617 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 617 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 561 (2.94%) Derivative
9 556 (2.91%) Onboarding
10 542 (2.84%) Equities
11 522 (2.73%) Public Cloud
12 272 (1.42%) Data Centre
13 257 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 204 (1.07%) PMI
15 203 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
16 197 (1.03%) Credit Risk
17 180 (0.94%) Driving Licence
18 178 (0.93%) Mobile App
19 161 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,269 (6.64%) Windows
2 874 (4.57%) Linux
3 421 (2.20%) Unix
4 348 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 208 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 138 (0.72%) Android
7 103 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 100 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 92 (0.48%) CentOS
9 92 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 79 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 67 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 60 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 58 (0.30%) Solaris
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
16 31 (0.16%) Mac OS
17 29 (0.15%) AIX
18 25 (0.13%) zOS
19 19 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,836 (35.77%) Agile
2 3,746 (19.60%) Software Engineering
3 3,066 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
4 2,721 (14.24%) CI/CD
5 2,534 (13.26%) SDLC
6 2,160 (11.30%) Mentoring
7 2,100 (10.99%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,054 (10.75%) Decision-Making
8 2,054 (10.75%) Machine Learning
9 2,044 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,947 (10.19%) Project Management
11 1,930 (10.10%) Operational Stability
12 1,918 (10.04%) Roadmaps
13 1,698 (8.88%) Risk Management
14 1,518 (7.94%) Analytics
15 1,483 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
16 1,464 (7.66%) Asset Management
17 1,391 (7.28%) Coaching
18 1,388 (7.26%) DevOps
19 1,364 (7.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,500 (18.31%) SQL
2 3,003 (15.71%) Python
3 2,859 (14.96%) Java
4 1,563 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 1,138 (5.95%) C#
6 1,099 (5.75%) TypeScript
7 454 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 387 (2.02%) Scala
9 329 (1.72%) Go
10 252 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 223 (1.17%) R
12 213 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 203 (1.06%) C++
14 190 (0.99%) Bash
15 139 (0.73%) C
16 130 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 112 (0.59%) PHP
18 101 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 93 (0.49%) VBA
20 78 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,841 (14.86%) Degree
2 827 (4.33%) ACCA
3 636 (3.33%) CIMA
4 618 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 429 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 403 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 326 (1.71%) SC Cleared
8 301 (1.57%) CISSP
9 298 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 274 (1.43%) DBS Check
11 190 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 163 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 159 (0.83%) CISM
14 156 (0.82%) PMP
15 139 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
16 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
17 119 (0.62%) MBA
18 116 (0.61%) DV Cleared
19 105 (0.55%) CISA
20 104 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 572 (2.99%) QA
2 522 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 518 (2.71%) GDPR
4 468 (2.45%) SLA
5 266 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 241 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 240 (1.26%) IFRS
8 226 (1.18%) PMO
9 215 (1.12%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 75 (0.39%) IFRS 9
12 71 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 66 (0.35%) GRC
14 61 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 51 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 46 (0.24%) ISO 9001
16 46 (0.24%) ITGC
17 45 (0.24%) COBIT
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 691 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 659 (3.45%) Docker
3 336 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 101 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 98 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 56 (0.29%) Firmware
9 55 (0.29%) vSphere
10 52 (0.27%) XenApp
11 40 (0.21%) XenDesktop
12 38 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) IAG
16 11 (0.058%) OpenSSH
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
18 8 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,030 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 756 (3.96%) Terraform
3 271 (1.42%) Ansible
4 212 (1.11%) Grafana
5 205 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 167 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 129 (0.67%) SCCM
8 74 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 33 (0.17%) Kibana
11 31 (0.16%) Puppet
12 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
12 30 (0.16%) SCOM
13 28 (0.15%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.14%) Istio
15 26 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
16 23 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3,636 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 1,417 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1,013 (5.30%) SAP
4 571 (2.99%) Google
5 458 (2.40%) VMware
6 406 (2.12%) Databricks
7 340 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 335 (1.75%) Hyperion
9 327 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 292 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 280 (1.46%) Splunk
12 248 (1.30%) Cisco
13 202 (1.06%) Dell
14 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
15 194 (1.02%) CA
16 192 (1.00%) IBM
17 183 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 181 (0.95%) Citrix
19 153 (0.80%) Bloomberg
20 142 (0.74%) Alteryx