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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,883 10,996 13,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.29% 19.61% 18.33%
As % of the General category 27.67% 28.92% 29.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,690 5,255 7,322
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,293 £33,171
25th Percentile £39,000 £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 £68,750 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £85,000 £84,056
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 42,951 38,023 45,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.28% 67.82% 61.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27,245 18,044 24,742
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £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 £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,500
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 6 June 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 6 June 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 3,063 £59,000 -2.51% 278
North of England -3 2,490 £54,112 -1.62% 957
South East -2 2,401 £52,500 -8.70% 764
Midlands -2 1,782 £50,000 -9.09% 606
North West -1 1,433 £52,500 -4.62% 592
South West -8 1,222 £52,500 -4.55% 461
West Midlands +1 1,193 £53,500 -2.73% 373
Yorkshire -4 791 £55,000 - 258
East Midlands -2 583 £47,500 -13.64% 232
East of England -4 528 £50,000 -9.09% 288
North East +2 266 £50,000 -9.09% 116
Wales -3 250 £45,000 - 101
Northern Ireland -2 110 £42,500 -15.00% 66
Isle of Man +6 37 £54,000 -25.52% 4
Channel Islands 0 17 £85,000 -17.07% 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
1 582 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 283 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 215 (1.81%) Apache
4 201 (1.69%) Confluence
5 195 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 175 (1.47%) SAS
7 131 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
8 102 (0.86%) FileNet
9 55 (0.46%) IIS
10 32 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 30 (0.25%) WordPress
12 27 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 26 (0.22%) CMS
14 21 (0.18%) GemFire
15 20 (0.17%) nginx
16 17 (0.14%) Camunda
17 13 (0.11%) WebSphere
18 12 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
19 11 (0.093%) CICS
20 10 (0.084%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,276 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 836 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
3 333 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 50 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 35 (0.29%) UserZoom
8 29 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.17%) Sketch
10 10 (0.084%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
11 7 (0.059%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.050%) InVision
12 6 (0.050%) OrCAD
13 5 (0.042%) InfoPath
14 4 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 4 (0.034%) Doxygen
14 4 (0.034%) SPSS
14 4 (0.034%) Trello
15 3 (0.025%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 104 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 85 (0.72%) SAP ERP
3 67 (0.56%) NEC Housing
4 56 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 56 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 37 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 35 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 35 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 31 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
8 31 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
9 30 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
10 29 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
11 19 (0.16%) iTrent
12 18 (0.15%) Sage X3
13 17 (0.14%) Sage 200
14 16 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
14 16 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
15 15 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
16 14 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,788 (15.05%) AWS
2 1,457 (12.26%) Azure
3 750 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 552 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 344 (2.89%) GCP
6 298 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 259 (2.18%) SaaS
8 184 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 179 (1.51%) Entra ID
10 165 (1.39%) Amazon S3
11 142 (1.19%) GitHub
12 132 (1.11%) Serverless
13 124 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
14 123 (1.04%) Datadog
15 108 (0.91%) Figma
16 98 (0.82%) Power Automate
17 85 (0.72%) PowerApps
18 80 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
19 76 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
20 72 (0.61%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 385 (3.24%) Broadband
2 270 (2.27%) Firewall
3 156 (1.31%) Internet
4 114 (0.96%) VPN
5 111 (0.93%) DNS
6 101 (0.85%) WAN
7 91 (0.77%) LAN
8 90 (0.76%) Wireless
9 83 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
10 82 (0.69%) Kerberos
11 75 (0.63%) Network Security
12 73 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 69 (0.58%) SAN
14 63 (0.53%) DHCP
15 58 (0.49%) IPsec
16 55 (0.46%) SNMP
17 41 (0.35%) 5G
18 39 (0.33%) Intranet
19 34 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
19 34 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 682 (5.74%) NoSQL
2 649 (5.46%) Power BI
3 521 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 502 (4.22%) Big Data
5 360 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 251 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 245 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 224 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 204 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 192 (1.62%) Tableau
11 190 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 159 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 154 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 129 (1.09%) Metadata
15 123 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
16 120 (1.01%) Apache Hive
17 97 (0.82%) HBase
18 80 (0.67%) MySQL
19 74 (0.62%) Power Query
20 64 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 440 (3.70%) Git
2 423 (3.56%) JIRA
3 386 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 227 (1.91%) JUnit
5 129 (1.09%) Selenium
6 125 (1.05%) Jasmine
7 105 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 88 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 88 (0.74%) Maven
9 83 (0.70%) Bitbucket Server
10 73 (0.61%) GitLab
11 72 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
12 71 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 69 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 63 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 63 (0.53%) WebDriver
15 60 (0.50%) Protractor
16 47 (0.40%) Mockito
17 42 (0.35%) JMeter
18 41 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3,694 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 3,315 (27.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,978 (25.06%) Law
4 2,223 (18.71%) Marketing
5 1,732 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
6 1,553 (13.07%) Legal
7 1,355 (11.40%) Banking
8 1,104 (9.29%) Retail
9 658 (5.54%) Public Sector
10 597 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 587 (4.94%) Investment Banking
12 469 (3.95%) Manufacturing
13 394 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
14 348 (2.93%) Financial Institution
14 348 (2.93%) Telecoms
15 334 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
16 196 (1.65%) Local Government
17 190 (1.60%) Electronics
18 150 (1.26%) Billing
18 150 (1.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,084 (17.54%) Software Engineer
2 1,709 (14.38%) Senior
3 1,707 (14.37%) Lead
4 1,597 (13.44%) Analyst
5 1,017 (8.56%) Developer
6 791 (6.66%) Java Engineer
7 767 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 737 (6.20%) Project Manager
9 668 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 634 (5.34%) Architect
11 541 (4.55%) Consultant
12 390 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
13 367 (3.09%) Big Data Engineer
14 366 (3.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 336 (2.83%) Data Engineer
16 331 (2.79%) Full Stack Engineer
17 325 (2.73%) Python Engineer
18 319 (2.68%) Python Software Engineer
19 310 (2.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 304 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 772 (6.50%) React
2 745 (6.27%) Spring
3 587 (4.94%) AngularJS
4 570 (4.80%) HTML
5 540 (4.54%) .NET
6 459 (3.86%) CSS
7 457 (3.85%) Kafka
8 398 (3.35%) Spring Boot
9 304 (2.56%) Node.js
10 286 (2.41%) JSON
11 278 (2.34%) RESTful
12 276 (2.32%) REST
13 263 (2.21%) Web Services
14 246 (2.07%) J2EE
15 212 (1.78%) ASP.NET
16 202 (1.70%) Hibernate
17 195 (1.64%) PySpark
18 193 (1.62%) jQuery
19 185 (1.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 174 (1.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 978 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 826 (6.95%) Algorithms
3 621 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 443 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 385 (3.24%) Public Cloud
6 368 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 326 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 174 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 173 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 153 (1.29%) Driving Licence
11 150 (1.26%) PMI
12 149 (1.25%) Credit Risk
13 145 (1.22%) Mobile App
14 137 (1.15%) Reference Data
15 134 (1.13%) Market Risk
16 120 (1.01%) NHS
17 105 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
18 87 (0.73%) Virtual Team
19 82 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 80 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 712 (5.99%) Windows
2 471 (3.96%) Linux
3 225 (1.89%) Unix
4 215 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 104 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 104 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 96 (0.81%) Android
7 84 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 71 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 51 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 49 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
11 47 (0.40%) CentOS
12 28 (0.24%) Windows 7
13 22 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 19 (0.16%) AIX
15 17 (0.14%) Windows 8
15 17 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
16 16 (0.13%) Solaris
17 15 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 12 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,612 (38.81%) Agile
2 2,686 (22.60%) Software Engineering
3 2,235 (18.81%) SDLC
4 2,213 (18.62%) CI/CD
5 2,037 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1,814 (15.27%) Operational Stability
7 1,679 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,658 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1,637 (13.78%) Machine Learning
10 1,430 (12.03%) Decision-Making
11 1,378 (11.60%) Mentoring
12 1,336 (11.24%) Project Management
13 1,293 (10.88%) Community of Practice
14 1,272 (10.70%) Risk Management
15 1,152 (9.69%) Roadmaps
16 1,078 (9.07%) Coaching
17 1,055 (8.88%) Visualisation
18 947 (7.97%) Business Intelligence
19 853 (7.18%) Analytics
20 763 (6.42%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 2,226 (18.73%) SQL
2 1,919 (16.15%) Java
3 1,396 (11.75%) Python
4 794 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 585 (4.92%) C#
6 423 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 315 (2.65%) Scala
8 267 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 175 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 154 (1.30%) Go
11 148 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 97 (0.82%) Bash
12 97 (0.82%) R
13 90 (0.76%) PHP
14 86 (0.72%) C
15 79 (0.66%) C++
16 69 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 65 (0.55%) Prolog
17 65 (0.55%) SPARQL
18 54 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,671 (14.06%) Degree
2 486 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 439 (3.69%) ACCA
4 356 (3.00%) CIMA
5 266 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 216 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 214 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 198 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 134 (1.13%) CISSP
11 107 (0.90%) PMP
12 101 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 94 (0.79%) DV Cleared
14 90 (0.76%) Azure Certification
15 88 (0.74%) CISM
16 81 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 71 (0.60%) PhD
18 70 (0.59%) MBA
19 57 (0.48%) CRISC
20 56 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (3.11%) GDPR
2 336 (2.83%) QA
3 278 (2.34%) SLA
4 276 (2.32%) Data Quality
5 197 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 156 (1.31%) PMO
7 154 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 121 (1.02%) NIST
9 115 (0.97%) IFRS
10 66 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 43 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 42 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 41 (0.35%) IFRS 9
13 41 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.33%) GRC
15 33 (0.28%) GAAP
16 29 (0.24%) ISO 9001
17 26 (0.22%) ITGC
18 25 (0.21%) NCSC
19 24 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 496 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 329 (2.77%) Docker
3 235 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 96 (0.81%) HDFS
5 82 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 70 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 46 (0.39%) Firmware
8 44 (0.37%) RACF
9 34 (0.29%) vSphere
10 32 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (0.21%) XenApp
12 20 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
13 16 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.12%) OpenSSH
15 11 (0.093%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
15 11 (0.093%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.059%) IAG
16 7 (0.059%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 536 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 415 (3.49%) Terraform
3 188 (1.58%) Grafana
4 134 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 114 (0.96%) Ansible
6 89 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 63 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 59 (0.50%) SCCM
9 27 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 26 (0.22%) Kibana
11 25 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.20%) HAProxy
13 22 (0.19%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.18%) Zipkin
15 16 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
17 14 (0.12%) Backup Exec
17 14 (0.12%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.12%) PowerCLI
18 12 (0.10%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2,471 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 804 (6.77%) Oracle
3 504 (4.24%) SAP
4 308 (2.59%) Databricks
5 297 (2.50%) VMware
6 278 (2.34%) Google
7 228 (1.92%) Splunk
8 184 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 147 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 130 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 125 (1.05%) Cisco
12 120 (1.01%) NEC
13 111 (0.93%) Informatica
14 102 (0.86%) Hyperion
14 102 (0.86%) Red Hat
15 98 (0.82%) CA
16 96 (0.81%) Alteryx
17 90 (0.76%) Anaplan
18 89 (0.75%) Sage
19 87 (0.73%) Palo Alto