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

6 months to
10 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 11,391 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.28% 19.01% 18.04%
As % of the General category 28.37% 27.71% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5,669 5,491 7,136
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,853 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £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 40,733 41,110 42,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.38% 68.60% 60.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26,455 18,729 24,074
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £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 10 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 10 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 3,191 £60,000 -6.94% 259
North of England -2 2,422 £55,000 - 848
South East -2 2,207 £51,500 -10.43% 775
Midlands 0 1,581 £50,000 -9.09% 555
North West +1 1,355 £55,000 - 506
South West -7 1,236 £54,590 -0.75% 418
West Midlands 0 1,108 £51,300 -6.73% 350
Yorkshire -3 819 £57,500 +4.55% 253
East of England 0 529 £50,000 -9.09% 298
East Midlands -5 466 £47,500 -13.64% 205
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 94
Wales -5 245 £45,000 - 95
Northern Ireland 0 104 £40,000 -20.00% 59
Isle of Man - 37 £46,500 - 7
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 2
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
1 635 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 290 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 235 (2.03%) Apache
4 205 (1.77%) Confluence
5 195 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 191 (1.65%) SAS
7 136 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
8 120 (1.04%) FileNet
9 51 (0.44%) IIS
10 32 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
11 31 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 28 (0.24%) WordPress
13 27 (0.23%) CMS
14 24 (0.21%) Captiva
15 23 (0.20%) Tomcat
16 21 (0.18%) GemFire
16 21 (0.18%) nginx
17 20 (0.17%) Camunda
18 11 (0.095%) CICS
18 11 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1,027 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 599 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
3 270 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 59 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
6 51 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.33%) UserZoom
8 28 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 12 (0.10%) 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%) Siemens NX
15 3 (0.026%) Trello
Business Applications
1 105 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 87 (0.75%) SAP ERP
3 60 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 57 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 51 (0.44%) NEC Housing
6 31 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 30 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 30 (0.26%) SAP FI
7 30 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
8 29 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 26 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
10 25 (0.22%) SAP CO
10 25 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
11 18 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
11 18 (0.16%) Sage 200
11 18 (0.16%) Sage X3
12 17 (0.15%) iTrent
13 16 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
14 15 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
15 14 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,895 (16.40%) AWS
2 1,467 (12.70%) Azure
3 739 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 563 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
5 447 (3.87%) GCP
6 268 (2.32%) SaaS
7 252 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 183 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
9 181 (1.57%) GitHub
10 165 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 134 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
12 133 (1.15%) Serverless
13 125 (1.08%) Entra ID
14 124 (1.07%) Datadog
15 107 (0.93%) Figma
16 96 (0.83%) Power Automate
17 84 (0.73%) PowerApps
18 83 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
19 78 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
20 76 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 386 (3.34%) Broadband
2 271 (2.35%) Firewall
3 157 (1.36%) Internet
4 133 (1.15%) DNS
5 118 (1.02%) VPN
6 104 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 101 (0.87%) WAN
8 91 (0.79%) LAN
8 91 (0.79%) Wireless
9 90 (0.78%) DHCP
10 83 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 82 (0.71%) Kerberos
12 73 (0.63%) Network Security
13 66 (0.57%) SAN
14 59 (0.51%) HTTP
15 55 (0.48%) SNMP
16 54 (0.47%) IPsec
17 46 (0.40%) 5G
18 39 (0.34%) Intranet
19 38 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 737 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 636 (5.50%) Power BI
3 552 (4.78%) Big Data
4 526 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 360 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
6 256 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 251 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 244 (2.11%) Hadoop
9 210 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 199 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 191 (1.65%) Tableau
12 167 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 133 (1.15%) Apache Hive
15 128 (1.11%) Metadata
16 123 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
17 103 (0.89%) HBase
18 84 (0.73%) MySQL
19 73 (0.63%) Power Query
20 67 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 455 (3.94%) JIRA
2 454 (3.93%) Git
3 428 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 232 (2.01%) JUnit
5 134 (1.16%) Selenium
6 131 (1.13%) Jasmine
7 111 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 99 (0.86%) Maven
9 89 (0.77%) 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 70 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 69 (0.60%) Artifactory
15 64 (0.55%) WebDriver
16 60 (0.52%) Protractor
17 58 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
18 47 (0.41%) Mockito
18 47 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3,665 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 3,448 (29.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,105 (26.87%) Law
4 2,099 (18.17%) Marketing
5 1,620 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
6 1,517 (13.13%) Banking
7 1,499 (12.97%) Legal
8 899 (7.78%) Retail
9 665 (5.76%) Public Sector
10 624 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
11 602 (5.21%) Investment Banking
12 461 (3.99%) Manufacturing
13 411 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
14 371 (3.21%) Financial Institution
15 343 (2.97%) Telecoms
16 314 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
17 195 (1.69%) Electronics
18 177 (1.53%) Local Government
19 151 (1.31%) Games
20 145 (1.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,197 (19.01%) Software Engineer
2 1,705 (14.76%) Lead
3 1,677 (14.51%) Senior
4 1,569 (13.58%) Analyst
5 974 (8.43%) Developer
6 832 (7.20%) Java Engineer
7 808 (6.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 733 (6.34%) Project Manager
9 698 (6.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 630 (5.45%) Architect
11 489 (4.23%) Consultant
12 391 (3.38%) Big Data Engineer
13 390 (3.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 362 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
15 352 (3.05%) Full Stack Engineer
16 350 (3.03%) Data Engineer
17 339 (2.93%) Python Engineer
18 333 (2.88%) Python Software Engineer
19 332 (2.87%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 321 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 800 (6.92%) React
2 789 (6.83%) Spring
3 609 (5.27%) AngularJS
4 603 (5.22%) HTML
5 524 (4.53%) .NET
6 477 (4.13%) Kafka
7 455 (3.94%) CSS
8 439 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 303 (2.62%) Node.js
10 300 (2.60%) RESTful
11 298 (2.58%) JSON
12 282 (2.44%) REST
13 267 (2.31%) Web Services
14 250 (2.16%) J2EE
15 216 (1.87%) ASP.NET
16 210 (1.82%) Hibernate
17 194 (1.68%) jQuery
17 194 (1.68%) PySpark
18 185 (1.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 174 (1.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,070 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 851 (7.36%) Algorithms
3 568 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 448 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 429 (3.71%) Public Cloud
6 407 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 338 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 175 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 169 (1.46%) Credit Risk
10 158 (1.37%) PMI
11 155 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 150 (1.30%) Driving Licence
12 150 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 143 (1.24%) Reference Data
14 139 (1.20%) Market Risk
15 110 (0.95%) NHS
16 92 (0.80%) Virtual Team
17 91 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
18 88 (0.76%) Private Cloud
19 83 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 679 (5.88%) Windows
2 488 (4.22%) Linux
3 263 (2.28%) Unix
4 191 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 102 (0.88%) Android
6 90 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 87 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 73 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 57 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 56 (0.48%) Apple iOS
11 49 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
12 44 (0.38%) CentOS
13 23 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 19 (0.16%) AIX
15 18 (0.16%) Windows 8
16 15 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 14 (0.12%) Ubuntu
18 13 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
19 12 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,707 (40.74%) Agile
2 2,812 (24.34%) Software Engineering
3 2,373 (20.54%) SDLC
4 2,301 (19.91%) CI/CD
5 2,044 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1,913 (16.56%) Operational Stability
7 1,728 (14.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,726 (14.94%) Machine Learning
9 1,678 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,403 (12.14%) Decision-Making
11 1,388 (12.01%) Mentoring
12 1,340 (11.60%) Community of Practice
13 1,322 (11.44%) Project Management
14 1,289 (11.16%) Risk Management
15 1,166 (10.09%) Roadmaps
16 1,098 (9.50%) Visualisation
17 1,049 (9.08%) Coaching
18 944 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
19 874 (7.56%) Analytics
20 819 (7.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2,259 (19.55%) SQL
2 2,067 (17.89%) Java
3 1,472 (12.74%) Python
4 804 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 554 (4.79%) C#
6 434 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 341 (2.95%) Scala
8 203 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 186 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 154 (1.33%) Go
11 152 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 107 (0.93%) R
13 97 (0.84%) Bash
14 89 (0.77%) C
15 78 (0.68%) PHP
16 76 (0.66%) C++
17 66 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 65 (0.56%) Prolog
18 65 (0.56%) SPARQL
19 56 (0.48%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,648 (14.26%) Degree
2 468 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 425 (3.68%) ACCA
4 352 (3.05%) CIMA
5 244 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 219 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 208 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 192 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 179 (1.55%) DBS Check
10 131 (1.13%) CISSP
11 122 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 103 (0.89%) PMP
13 101 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 87 (0.75%) CISM
15 82 (0.71%) Azure Certification
16 70 (0.61%) PhD
17 69 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 67 (0.58%) MBA
19 57 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
20 54 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (3.43%) GDPR
2 336 (2.91%) QA
3 281 (2.43%) SLA
4 269 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 205 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 162 (1.40%) PMO
7 144 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 125 (1.08%) IFRS
9 115 (1.00%) NIST
10 62 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 55 (0.48%) IFRS 9
12 50 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 42 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 38 (0.33%) GRC
14 38 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 33 (0.29%) GAAP
16 30 (0.26%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.23%) ITGC
18 25 (0.22%) NCSC
19 23 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 426 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 351 (3.04%) Docker
3 225 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 102 (0.88%) HDFS
5 80 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 69 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (0.38%) Firmware
8 29 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (0.23%) vSphere
10 18 (0.16%) XenApp
11 16 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 14 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 12 (0.10%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
15 10 (0.087%) OpenSSH
16 8 (0.069%) VMware Workstation
16 8 (0.069%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.061%) IAG
18 5 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
19 3 (0.026%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 583 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 461 (3.99%) Terraform
3 195 (1.69%) Grafana
4 137 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 124 (1.07%) Ansible
6 85 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 59 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 53 (0.46%) SCCM
9 32 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 27 (0.23%) Kibana
11 24 (0.21%) HAProxy
12 21 (0.18%) ZABBIX
12 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
13 14 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
14 13 (0.11%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.10%) Graphite
15 12 (0.10%) SCOM
15 12 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,121 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 820 (7.10%) Oracle
3 520 (4.50%) SAP
4 328 (2.84%) Databricks
5 320 (2.77%) Google
6 283 (2.45%) VMware
7 237 (2.05%) Splunk
8 188 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 163 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 137 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 129 (1.12%) Cisco
12 110 (0.95%) IBM
13 107 (0.93%) Informatica
14 102 (0.88%) NEC
15 100 (0.87%) Alteryx
16 96 (0.83%) Hyperion
17 91 (0.79%) Anaplan
17 91 (0.79%) Atlassian
17 91 (0.79%) Red Hat
17 91 (0.79%) Sage