Finance Jobs in South Wales

Financial
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Finance 196 242 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 13.19% 20.95% 20.65%
As % of the General category 25.13% 31.88% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 138 104 186
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,569 £36,115
25th Percentile £36,125 £35,938 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +36.47%
75th Percentile £57,450 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,625 £77,500 £80,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £43,534 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.37% -17.08% +44.96%

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 780 759 872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 52.49% 65.71% 57.71%
Number of salaries quoted 546 364 532
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,362 £31,612
25th Percentile £31,375 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £44,666 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -10.67% +17.65%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £62,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £43,379 £44,414 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.50% +13.10%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in South Wales over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in South Wales

Finance
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cardiff -1 112 £45,000 -18.18% 66
Bridgend -21 35 £27,398 +1.47% 2
Newport +3 25 £52,101 +4.16% 12
Gwent +3 15 £28,290 - 1
Caerphilly -4 5 £30,000 -14.29% 3
Glamorgan +7 4 £28,290 -24.56% 30
Finance
Wales

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (4.08%) Apache
1 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.06%) SAS
3 5 (2.55%) Confluence
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (13.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (9.69%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (7.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.51%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 51 (26.02%) Azure
2 28 (14.29%) AWS
3 20 (10.20%) GCP
4 18 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 14 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 11 (5.61%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.57%) iPaaS
8 7 (3.57%) PaaS
8 7 (3.57%) WhatsApp
9 6 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.06%) SaaS
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.55%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.55%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.53%) DigitalOcean
11 3 (1.53%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.63%) Firewall
1 13 (6.63%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (3.06%) VPN
3 5 (2.55%) Internet
3 5 (2.55%) IPsec
3 5 (2.55%) SNMP
4 4 (2.04%) DHCP
4 4 (2.04%) DNS
4 4 (2.04%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.04%) Wireless
5 3 (1.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.02%) Intranet
7 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.67%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.59%) MySQL
5 7 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.55%) Power BI
8 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.04%) Tableau
9 3 (1.53%) QlikView
10 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Git
2 11 (5.61%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.61%) Selenium
3 7 (3.57%) JIRA
4 5 (2.55%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.53%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.02%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
General
1 96 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.18%) Banking
4 15 (7.65%) Marketing
5 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.12%) Legal
6 12 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.61%) Games
8 10 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.57%) Advertising
9 7 (3.57%) Welsh Language
10 6 (3.06%) Retail
11 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.55%) Police
12 4 (2.04%) Local Government
12 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.53%) Law
14 2 (1.02%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 54 (27.55%) Senior
2 41 (20.92%) Developer
3 26 (13.27%) Analyst
4 21 (10.71%) Consultant
4 21 (10.71%) Lead
5 17 (8.67%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.16%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.63%) Desktop Engineer
7 13 (6.63%) Desktop Support
7 13 (6.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 12 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (5.61%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Financial Analyst
10 9 (4.59%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Full Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.55%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.18%) React
2 12 (6.12%) REST
3 11 (5.61%) .NET
3 11 (5.61%) AngularJS
3 11 (5.61%) Spring
3 11 (5.61%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.10%) CSS
4 10 (5.10%) HTML
5 9 (4.59%) Laravel
6 6 (3.06%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.06%) Apache Camel
6 6 (3.06%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.55%) JSON
7 5 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.55%) RESTful
7 5 (2.55%) YAML
8 4 (2.04%) GatsbyJS
8 4 (2.04%) Node.js
8 4 (2.04%) Redux
9 3 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.63%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.61%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.08%) Social Media
4 7 (3.57%) Housing Association
4 7 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.55%) Replication
6 5 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.04%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.53%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.51%) FMCG
10 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.51%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.76%) Windows
2 10 (5.10%) Linux
3 5 (2.55%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) VMS
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.51%) Agile
2 47 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.37%) Roadmaps
4 31 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
6 25 (12.76%) Asset Management
6 25 (12.76%) Fintech
7 24 (12.24%) Mentoring
8 23 (11.73%) Test Automation
9 19 (9.69%) Project Management
10 18 (9.18%) Containerisation
10 18 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (8.67%) Integration Testing
11 17 (8.67%) Service Delivery
12 16 (8.16%) Decision-Making
13 15 (7.65%) Mathematics
13 15 (7.65%) Scrum
14 14 (7.14%) Coaching
14 14 (7.14%) ITIL
14 14 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (18.88%) SQL
2 23 (11.73%) Java
3 18 (9.18%) Python
4 16 (8.16%) C#
5 15 (7.65%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.63%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.12%) PHP
8 6 (3.06%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.06%) R
9 3 (1.53%) Groovy
10 2 (1.02%) VBA
11 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (12.24%) Degree
2 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.59%) ACCA
3 9 (4.59%) CIMA
4 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) CISM
6 1 (0.51%) CISSP
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) MCP
6 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.12%) IFRS
2 11 (5.61%) QA
3 6 (3.06%) GDPR
4 3 (1.53%) CRD IV
4 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.53%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.02%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (13.78%) Docker
2 21 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.08%) Ansible
3 5 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.55%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.55%) Terraform
3 5 (2.55%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.02%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.51%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 42 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.78%) Oracle
3 9 (4.59%) Hyperion
3 9 (4.59%) PeopleSoft
4 6 (3.06%) Veeam
4 6 (3.06%) VMware
5 5 (2.55%) NetApp
5 5 (2.55%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.55%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.55%) SolidFire
5 5 (2.55%) Sophos
6 4 (2.04%) Asigra
6 4 (2.04%) Datto
6 4 (2.04%) Google
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Sage
7 3 (1.53%) WooCommerce
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.02%) SAP
8 2 (1.02%) UiPath