Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Finance over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 6,835 10,370 20,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.98% 30.50% 29.51%
As % of the General category 42.68% 44.38% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,694 7,351 10,218
10th Percentile £43,528 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £133,375 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +2.88% +3.85%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16,013 23,368 46,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.89% 68.72% 68.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,363 16,161 22,597
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,502 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London 0 979 £75,000 -6.25% 323
West London +1 373 £77,500 +19.23% 71
South London +9 169 £63,000 +14.55% 28
East London +2 81 £57,500 -22.03% 85
North London -10 18 £54,950 -11.01% 9
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 444 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 401 (5.87%) Apache
3 277 (4.05%) SAS
4 147 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 134 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (0.85%) Confluence
7 47 (0.69%) IIS
8 40 (0.59%) Apache Spark
9 30 (0.44%) CMS
10 28 (0.41%) Skype for Business
11 17 (0.25%) nginx
12 16 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.19%) WordPress
14 8 (0.12%) JBoss
15 6 (0.088%) Ethereum
15 6 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (0.088%) IBM Notes
16 5 (0.073%) Appian
16 5 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 645 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 328 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 179 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.34%) SPSS
8 13 (0.19%) Trello
9 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.088%) InDesign
11 5 (0.073%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
12 4 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.029%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.029%) Sketch
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Premiere
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 225 (3.29%) SAP ERP
2 56 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 54 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 38 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 24 (0.35%) Elite 3E
7 23 (0.34%) SAP FI
8 22 (0.32%) thinkFolio
9 21 (0.31%) Fidessa
9 21 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 21 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
10 19 (0.28%) NEC Housing
11 18 (0.26%) SAP BPC
12 17 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
13 13 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
14 12 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
15 11 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,336 (19.55%) AWS
2 1,201 (17.57%) Azure
3 581 (8.50%) GCP
4 394 (5.76%) Power Platform
5 360 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
6 304 (4.45%) dbt
7 284 (4.16%) Snowflake
8 271 (3.96%) SaaS
9 157 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 154 (2.25%) Serverless
11 142 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 114 (1.67%) GitHub
13 102 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 97 (1.42%) PaaS
15 89 (1.30%) Entra ID
16 80 (1.17%) Amazon S3
17 76 (1.11%) IaaS
18 63 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
19 62 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
20 61 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 451 (6.60%) Broadband
2 214 (3.13%) Firewall
3 120 (1.76%) DNS
4 82 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 77 (1.13%) LAN
6 75 (1.10%) WAN
7 60 (0.88%) DHCP
7 60 (0.88%) Internet
8 52 (0.76%) Network Security
9 51 (0.75%) VPN
10 33 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 32 (0.47%) Skype
11 32 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (0.45%) Wireless
13 30 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
14 25 (0.37%) Telepresence
15 23 (0.34%) SAN
16 18 (0.26%) Intranet
17 16 (0.23%) BGP
17 16 (0.23%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (5.03%) Apache Ignite
2 330 (4.83%) SQL Server
3 327 (4.78%) Power BI
4 308 (4.51%) Data Lake
5 300 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
6 295 (4.32%) Apache Arrow
6 295 (4.32%) Dremio
7 224 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
8 173 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 144 (2.11%) Tableau
10 113 (1.65%) Big Data
11 78 (1.14%) NoSQL
12 77 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 73 (1.07%) Relational Database
14 69 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 68 (0.99%) MongoDB
16 58 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (0.78%) Metadata
18 46 (0.67%) MySQL
19 41 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 215 (3.15%) JIRA
2 167 (2.44%) Git
3 144 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 71 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 53 (0.78%) GitLab
6 40 (0.59%) Artifactory
7 39 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 28 (0.41%) Selenium
9 26 (0.38%) CircleCI
10 21 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 20 (0.29%) Maven
12 18 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 18 (0.26%) WebDriver
13 17 (0.25%) JUnit
13 17 (0.25%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.20%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.20%) Snyk
15 11 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.16%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,072 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 1,364 (19.96%) Banking
3 1,018 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 865 (12.66%) Front Office
5 601 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 414 (6.06%) Legal
7 401 (5.87%) Law
7 401 (5.87%) Marketing
8 396 (5.79%) Investment Banking
9 306 (4.48%) Retail
10 304 (4.45%) Influencing Skills
11 213 (3.12%) Financial Institution
12 206 (3.01%) Back Office
13 173 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 167 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
15 127 (1.86%) Manufacturing
16 112 (1.64%) Billing
17 106 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
18 101 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
19 97 (1.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,323 (19.36%) Senior
2 1,284 (18.79%) Analyst
3 1,098 (16.06%) Developer
4 713 (10.43%) Architect
5 579 (8.47%) Lead
6 534 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 425 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
8 304 (4.45%) Financial Analyst
9 293 (4.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 280 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
11 273 (3.99%) Python Developer
12 271 (3.96%) Python Engineer
13 247 (3.61%) Senior Manager
14 246 (3.60%) Senior Developer
15 217 (3.17%) Python Software Engineer
16 211 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
17 206 (3.01%) Java Developer
18 204 (2.98%) Consultant
19 197 (2.88%) Project Manager
20 178 (2.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (6.63%) React
2 433 (6.34%) gRPC
3 415 (6.07%) .NET
4 411 (6.01%) Protocol Buffers
5 293 (4.29%) AngularJS
6 289 (4.23%) Pandas
7 258 (3.77%) Redux
8 255 (3.73%) NumPy
9 235 (3.44%) SciPy
10 161 (2.36%) HTML
11 158 (2.31%) Vue
12 139 (2.03%) REST
13 138 (2.02%) .NET Core
13 138 (2.02%) Spring
14 134 (1.96%) ASP.NET
15 129 (1.89%) Node.js
16 128 (1.87%) Material-UI
17 123 (1.80%) Web Services
18 122 (1.78%) Kafka
19 118 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 717 (10.49%) Hedge funds
2 638 (9.33%) Fixed Income
3 524 (7.67%) Equities
4 512 (7.49%) Derivative
5 508 (7.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 261 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 239 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 210 (3.07%) Onboarding
9 187 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 133 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
11 102 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 88 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 86 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 80 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 79 (1.16%) Reinsurance
16 74 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
17 70 (1.02%) Clustering
18 66 (0.97%) Social Media
19 63 (0.92%) Life Science
20 58 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 536 (7.84%) Windows
2 365 (5.34%) Linux
3 150 (2.19%) Unix
4 143 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 115 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 48 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 45 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (0.56%) CentOS
9 37 (0.54%) Android
9 37 (0.54%) Windows 7
10 36 (0.53%) Solaris
11 23 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 21 (0.31%) zOS
13 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.16%) AIX
16 11 (0.16%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
18 9 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,053 (30.04%) Agile
2 1,010 (14.78%) Asset Management
3 916 (13.40%) Software Engineering
4 900 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
5 744 (10.89%) Investment Management
6 720 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 716 (10.48%) Roadmaps
8 627 (9.17%) Analytics
9 615 (9.00%) DevOps
10 584 (8.54%) Decision-Making
11 521 (7.62%) Project Management
12 510 (7.46%) Fintech
13 493 (7.21%) Change Management
14 475 (6.95%) Data Management
15 472 (6.91%) Business Intelligence
16 440 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 406 (5.94%) Performance Management
18 403 (5.90%) Computer Science
19 400 (5.85%) Full Stack Development
20 397 (5.81%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,491 (21.81%) Python
2 1,178 (17.23%) SQL
3 770 (11.27%) Java
4 729 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 640 (9.36%) TypeScript
6 533 (7.80%) C#
7 230 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 166 (2.43%) Go
9 111 (1.62%) C++
10 109 (1.59%) R
11 95 (1.39%) Bash
12 94 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 68 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 47 (0.69%) Perl
15 46 (0.67%) C
15 46 (0.67%) Ruby
15 46 (0.67%) VBA
16 45 (0.66%) Scala
17 30 (0.44%) PHP
18 29 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,068 (15.63%) Degree
2 373 (5.46%) ACCA
3 259 (3.79%) CIMA
4 228 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 186 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 167 (2.44%) CISSP
7 110 (1.61%) Security Cleared
8 93 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 77 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 74 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 74 (1.08%) CISM
11 69 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 67 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 59 (0.86%) CISA
14 55 (0.80%) AWS Certification
15 53 (0.78%) MBA
16 43 (0.63%) PMP
16 43 (0.63%) SC Cleared
17 42 (0.61%) CRISC
18 38 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 201 (2.94%) QA
3 168 (2.46%) SLA
4 121 (1.77%) GDPR
5 114 (1.67%) IFRS
6 95 (1.39%) NIST
7 94 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 58 (0.85%) PMO
9 57 (0.83%) GAAP
10 45 (0.66%) Accessibility
11 33 (0.48%) COBIT
11 33 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.37%) GRC
12 25 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 23 (0.34%) IFRS 9
14 22 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.29%) ITGC
16 19 (0.28%) IFRS 17
17 18 (0.26%) GMP
18 15 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 288 (4.21%) Docker
2 251 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (0.41%) XenApp
6 27 (0.40%) XenDesktop
7 25 (0.37%) vSphere
8 24 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 14 (0.20%) Firmware
12 8 (0.12%) HDFS
13 6 (0.088%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.059%) NFS
14 4 (0.059%) VMware NSX
15 2 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.029%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.015%) Apache Flume
16 1 (0.015%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 437 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 312 (4.56%) Terraform
3 128 (1.87%) Ansible
4 76 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 75 (1.10%) SCCM
6 70 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.34%) Puppet
8 20 (0.29%) Grafana
9 19 (0.28%) SCOM
10 17 (0.25%) Istio
11 16 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
12 12 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.16%) Nmap
14 9 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
14 9 (0.13%) Nagios
14 9 (0.13%) Nessus
15 7 (0.10%) Foglight
15 7 (0.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,365 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 527 (7.71%) Oracle
3 422 (6.17%) SAP
4 246 (3.60%) Google
5 238 (3.48%) Hyperion
6 237 (3.47%) Anaplan
7 164 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 154 (2.25%) VMware
9 146 (2.14%) Bloomberg
10 123 (1.80%) Dell
11 121 (1.77%) Cisco
12 119 (1.74%) Salesforce
13 103 (1.51%) CA
14 101 (1.48%) Citrix
15 86 (1.26%) Red Hat
16 77 (1.13%) IBM
17 72 (1.05%) Databricks
18 49 (0.72%) Apple
19 48 (0.70%) Qualys
20 45 (0.66%) Adobe