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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,149 23,210 36,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.29% 22.90% 23.16%
As % of the General category 32.25% 33.58% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,849 13,561 18,643
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,000 £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 59,384 69,119 101,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.82% 68.21% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,693 37,378 50,873
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £82,000 £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 12 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 12 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 14,974 £65,000 -6.40% 5,946
UK excluding London +2 11,581 £52,500 -4.55% 3,311
Work from Home -2 7,262 £65,000 -6.40% 2,731
London +1 6,837 £80,000 - 2,883
Scotland +2 3,196 £60,000 -6.94% 271
North of England -2 2,431 £55,000 - 860
South East -2 2,211 £51,500 -10.43% 789
Midlands -1 1,585 £50,000 -9.09% 569
North West +1 1,360 £55,000 - 509
South West -7 1,237 £54,590 -0.75% 429
West Midlands 0 1,110 £51,300 -6.73% 357
Yorkshire -3 823 £57,500 +4.55% 252
East of England -1 527 £50,000 -9.09% 296
East Midlands -4 468 £47,500 -13.64% 212
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 104
Wales -5 248 £45,000 - 101
Northern Ireland +3 106 £40,000 -20.00% 72
Isle of Man - 37 £46,500 - 8
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 -5.56% 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
1 675 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 618 (3.23%) Apache
3 550 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 473 (2.47%) SAS
5 452 (2.36%) SharePoint
6 341 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 272 (1.42%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 104 (0.54%) IIS
10 60 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 41 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 38 (0.20%) nginx
15 34 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
16 30 (0.16%) Captiva
17 28 (0.15%) Skype for Business
18 21 (0.11%) Camunda
18 21 (0.11%) GemFire
19 15 (0.078%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,732 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 945 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 458 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 110 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 87 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 29 (0.15%) SPSS
10 23 (0.12%) Sketch
11 16 (0.084%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.084%) Trello
12 13 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
14 8 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 7 (0.037%) InDesign
15 7 (0.037%) OrCAD
16 6 (0.031%) InVision
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 317 (1.66%) SAP ERP
2 171 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 148 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 80 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 77 (0.40%) NEC Housing
7 72 (0.38%) SAP CO
7 72 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
8 47 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 45 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
11 41 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
13 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
14 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
15 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
16 30 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
17 28 (0.15%) Elite 3E
17 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,248 (16.96%) AWS
2 2,768 (14.46%) Azure
3 1,202 (6.28%) Power Platform
4 1,025 (5.35%) GCP
5 981 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
6 580 (3.03%) SaaS
7 460 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 342 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 315 (1.64%) Snowflake
10 306 (1.60%) GitHub
11 300 (1.57%) dbt
12 299 (1.56%) Serverless
13 247 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 227 (1.19%) Entra ID
15 204 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 188 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
17 173 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 169 (0.88%) PaaS
18 169 (0.88%) PowerApps
19 152 (0.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 850 (4.44%) Broadband
2 494 (2.58%) Firewall
3 255 (1.33%) DNS
4 221 (1.15%) Internet
5 200 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 188 (0.98%) WAN
7 171 (0.89%) VPN
8 169 (0.88%) LAN
9 152 (0.79%) DHCP
10 131 (0.68%) Wireless
11 127 (0.66%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (0.49%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 73 (0.38%) HTTP
15 73 (0.38%) SD-WAN
16 64 (0.33%) SNMP
17 63 (0.33%) IPsec
18 62 (0.32%) Intranet
19 59 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,005 (5.25%) Power BI
2 894 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 816 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 664 (3.47%) Big Data
5 558 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 516 (2.69%) Data Lake
7 348 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
8 341 (1.78%) Tableau
9 331 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 320 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
11 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 276 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
13 274 (1.43%) Relational Database
14 271 (1.42%) Apache Arrow
14 271 (1.42%) Dremio
15 267 (1.39%) Hadoop
16 235 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 184 (0.96%) Metadata
18 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
19 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 699 (3.65%) JIRA
2 622 (3.25%) Git
3 581 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 252 (1.32%) JUnit
5 180 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 162 (0.85%) Selenium
7 132 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 129 (0.67%) GitLab
9 121 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 119 (0.62%) Maven
11 111 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 108 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 82 (0.43%) WebDriver
15 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
16 65 (0.34%) CircleCI
16 65 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 63 (0.33%) Protractor
18 53 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6,029 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 4,141 (21.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,528 (18.42%) Law
4 2,921 (15.25%) Banking
5 2,742 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
6 2,611 (13.64%) Marketing
7 1,958 (10.23%) Legal
8 1,242 (6.49%) Retail
9 986 (5.15%) Investment Banking
10 956 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
11 910 (4.75%) Front Office
12 901 (4.71%) Public Sector
13 640 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 619 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
15 599 (3.13%) Financial Institution
16 464 (2.42%) Telecoms
17 445 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
18 288 (1.50%) Back Office
19 262 (1.37%) Billing
20 249 (1.30%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,151 (16.46%) Senior
2 2,956 (15.44%) Analyst
3 2,730 (14.26%) Software Engineer
4 2,341 (12.23%) Lead
5 2,132 (11.13%) Developer
6 1,417 (7.40%) Architect
7 967 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 927 (4.84%) Java Engineer
9 891 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 794 (4.15%) Consultant
11 784 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
12 706 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
13 676 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
14 608 (3.18%) Financial Analyst
15 601 (3.14%) Python Engineer
16 541 (2.83%) Python Software Engineer
17 524 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
18 522 (2.73%) Senior Manager
19 487 (2.54%) Data Engineer
20 486 (2.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,256 (6.56%) React
2 969 (5.06%) .NET
3 930 (4.86%) Spring
4 908 (4.74%) AngularJS
5 779 (4.07%) HTML
6 612 (3.20%) Kafka
7 576 (3.01%) CSS
8 562 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 447 (2.33%) gRPC
10 438 (2.29%) Node.js
11 427 (2.23%) REST
12 405 (2.11%) Web Services
13 389 (2.03%) JSON
14 385 (2.01%) Protocol Buffers
15 384 (2.01%) RESTful
16 367 (1.92%) Pandas
17 350 (1.83%) ASP.NET
18 304 (1.59%) NumPy
19 300 (1.57%) .NET Core
20 299 (1.56%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,131 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 942 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 864 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 738 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 712 (3.72%) Hedge funds
6 634 (3.31%) Fixed Income
7 612 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 589 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 564 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 533 (2.78%) Derivative
11 521 (2.72%) Public Cloud
12 509 (2.66%) Equities
13 271 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 256 (1.34%) Data Structures
15 205 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 202 (1.05%) Credit Risk
16 202 (1.05%) PMI
17 181 (0.95%) Mobile App
18 178 (0.93%) Driving Licence
19 162 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,262 (6.59%) Windows
2 883 (4.61%) Linux
3 430 (2.25%) Unix
4 341 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 206 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 141 (0.74%) Android
7 106 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 97 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 90 (0.47%) CentOS
10 88 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 74 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 65 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 60 (0.31%) Windows 7
14 57 (0.30%) Solaris
15 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 45 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
19 25 (0.13%) zOS
20 18 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,879 (35.92%) Agile
2 3,734 (19.50%) Software Engineering
3 3,074 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
4 2,731 (14.26%) CI/CD
5 2,565 (13.39%) SDLC
6 2,170 (11.33%) Mentoring
7 2,104 (10.99%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,062 (10.77%) Machine Learning
9 2,043 (10.67%) Decision-Making
10 2,032 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,968 (10.28%) Roadmaps
12 1,964 (10.26%) Project Management
13 1,929 (10.07%) Operational Stability
14 1,700 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 1,527 (7.97%) Analytics
16 1,491 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
17 1,425 (7.44%) Asset Management
18 1,398 (7.30%) Coaching
19 1,397 (7.30%) DevOps
20 1,365 (7.13%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,500 (18.28%) SQL
2 2,968 (15.50%) Python
3 2,849 (14.88%) Java
4 1,537 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 1,134 (5.92%) C#
6 1,071 (5.59%) TypeScript
7 446 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 388 (2.03%) Scala
9 324 (1.69%) Go
10 248 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 227 (1.19%) R
12 215 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 200 (1.04%) C++
14 196 (1.02%) Bash
15 139 (0.73%) C
16 130 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 108 (0.56%) PHP
18 99 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 94 (0.49%) VBA
20 79 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,846 (14.86%) Degree
2 821 (4.29%) ACCA
3 661 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 634 (3.31%) CIMA
5 430 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 406 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 334 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 301 (1.57%) CISSP
9 294 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 273 (1.43%) DBS Check
11 194 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 191 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 162 (0.85%) CISM
14 156 (0.81%) PMP
15 150 (0.78%) DV Cleared
16 140 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
17 134 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 120 (0.63%) MBA
19 110 (0.57%) CISA
20 105 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 576 (3.01%) QA
2 528 (2.76%) GDPR
3 506 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 464 (2.42%) SLA
5 268 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 245 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 242 (1.26%) IFRS
8 232 (1.21%) PMO
9 215 (1.12%) NIST
10 90 (0.47%) GAAP
11 89 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
13 72 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 68 (0.36%) GRC
15 61 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
16 50 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 47 (0.25%) COBIT
18 46 (0.24%) ITGC
19 45 (0.23%) ISO 9001
20 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 696 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 657 (3.43%) Docker
3 339 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.57%) HDFS
5 103 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 99 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 58 (0.30%) Firmware
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 46 (0.24%) XenApp
11 36 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 35 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.057%) IAG
16 11 (0.057%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.052%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 8 (0.042%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,031 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 781 (4.08%) Terraform
3 268 (1.40%) Ansible
4 216 (1.13%) Grafana
5 201 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 163 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 129 (0.67%) SCCM
8 72 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 34 (0.18%) Kibana
11 33 (0.17%) Puppet
12 31 (0.16%) SCOM
13 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
14 29 (0.15%) Istio
15 27 (0.14%) HAProxy
16 24 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 23 (0.12%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
20 18 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3,628 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 1,426 (7.45%) Oracle
3 1,027 (5.36%) SAP
4 569 (2.97%) Google
5 456 (2.38%) VMware
6 406 (2.12%) Databricks
7 349 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 336 (1.75%) Hyperion
9 328 (1.71%) Anaplan
10 283 (1.48%) Splunk
11 281 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 251 (1.31%) Cisco
13 208 (1.09%) Dell
14 198 (1.03%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 192 (1.00%) CA
17 178 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 177 (0.92%) Citrix
19 152 (0.79%) Bloomberg
20 143 (0.75%) Alteryx