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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Finance 18,991 23,901 35,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.36% 22.97% 22.90%
As % of the General category 32.34% 33.49% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 10,881 14,023 18,832
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,634 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +4.05% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,449 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.32% +0.82% +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 58,714 71,372 98,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.60% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,481 38,391 51,151
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 14,839 £63,500 -8.56% 5,767
UK excluding London +2 11,543 £52,500 -5.32% 3,107
Work from Home -2 7,234 £65,000 -6.40% 2,369
London +1 6,723 £80,000 - 2,950
Scotland +2 3,189 £62,500 -3.85% 275
North of England -2 2,444 £55,000 -0.72% 770
South East -2 2,181 £50,000 -13.04% 718
Midlands -1 1,576 £50,000 -9.09% 537
North West 0 1,339 £55,000 - 488
South West -8 1,225 £55,000 - 423
West Midlands +1 1,108 £51,300 -6.73% 357
Yorkshire -2 862 £57,965 +0.81% 206
East of England -1 536 £49,000 -10.91% 309
East Midlands -4 460 £47,500 -13.64% 179
Wales -5 248 £45,000 -7.02% 92
North East 0 243 £50,000 -9.09% 80
Northern Ireland +1 103 £47,500 -5.00% 86
Isle of Man +6 39 £46,500 +32.86% 6
Channel Islands 0 18 £85,000 +3.03% 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
1 682 (3.59%) Apache Spark
2 538 (2.83%) Apache
3 476 (2.51%) SAS
4 463 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 463 (2.44%) SharePoint
5 343 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 284 (1.50%) Confluence
7 124 (0.65%) FileNet
8 94 (0.49%) IIS
9 59 (0.31%) CMS
10 49 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 44 (0.23%) WordPress
12 38 (0.20%) nginx
13 36 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 33 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 30 (0.16%) Captiva
16 29 (0.15%) Skype for Business
17 21 (0.11%) Camunda
17 21 (0.11%) GemFire
18 16 (0.084%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,700 (8.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 940 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 463 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 114 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 114 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 84 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
7 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.14%) SPSS
9 23 (0.12%) Sketch
10 17 (0.090%) Photoshop
11 16 (0.084%) Trello
12 14 (0.074%) Adobe XD
13 12 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
14 9 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 8 (0.042%) InDesign
16 6 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
16 6 (0.032%) Adobe Illustrator
16 6 (0.032%) InVision
16 6 (0.032%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 323 (1.70%) SAP ERP
2 177 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 157 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 85 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 77 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 77 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 52 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 49 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 41 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
11 38 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
12 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 35 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
14 33 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
15 32 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
16 30 (0.16%) SAP BPC
17 29 (0.15%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3,130 (16.48%) AWS
2 2,732 (14.39%) Azure
3 1,215 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 1,003 (5.28%) GCP
5 991 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 587 (3.09%) SaaS
7 449 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 357 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 327 (1.72%) GitHub
10 304 (1.60%) Serverless
11 256 (1.35%) Snowflake
12 250 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 235 (1.24%) dbt
14 216 (1.14%) Entra ID
15 203 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 196 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
17 179 (0.94%) PaaS
18 178 (0.94%) PowerApps
19 172 (0.91%) Power Automate
20 162 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 852 (4.49%) Broadband
2 495 (2.61%) Firewall
3 257 (1.35%) DNS
4 220 (1.16%) Internet
5 203 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 185 (0.97%) WAN
7 179 (0.94%) VPN
8 164 (0.86%) LAN
9 154 (0.81%) DHCP
10 132 (0.70%) Wireless
11 126 (0.66%) Network Security
12 117 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 96 (0.51%) SAN
14 83 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 75 (0.39%) HTTP
15 75 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 65 (0.34%) 5G
17 64 (0.34%) IPsec
17 64 (0.34%) SNMP
18 62 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,018 (5.36%) Power BI
2 905 (4.77%) SQL Server
3 823 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 664 (3.50%) Big Data
5 531 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 433 (2.28%) Data Lake
7 349 (1.84%) Tableau
8 339 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 327 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
10 274 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 273 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
12 271 (1.43%) Hadoop
13 249 (1.31%) Apache Ignite
14 236 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 215 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 212 (1.12%) Apache Arrow
17 210 (1.11%) Dremio
18 174 (0.92%) Metadata
19 158 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
20 157 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 716 (3.77%) JIRA
2 630 (3.32%) Git
3 603 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 250 (1.32%) JUnit
5 166 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 164 (0.86%) Selenium
7 130 (0.68%) GitLab
7 130 (0.68%) Jasmine
8 122 (0.64%) Maven
9 120 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 115 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 109 (0.57%) Bitbucket
12 88 (0.46%) Cucumber
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
14 83 (0.44%) WebDriver
15 75 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
16 67 (0.35%) CircleCI
17 64 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
18 63 (0.33%) Protractor
19 57 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5,954 (31.35%) Social Skills
2 4,057 (21.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,471 (18.28%) Law
4 2,924 (15.40%) Banking
5 2,749 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2,540 (13.37%) Marketing
7 1,918 (10.10%) Legal
8 1,234 (6.50%) Retail
9 966 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
10 944 (4.97%) Investment Banking
11 886 (4.67%) Public Sector
12 842 (4.43%) Front Office
13 640 (3.37%) Manufacturing
14 611 (3.22%) Financial Institution
15 586 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
16 479 (2.52%) Telecoms
17 444 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
18 281 (1.48%) Back Office
19 270 (1.42%) Billing
20 249 (1.31%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,083 (16.23%) Senior
2 2,942 (15.49%) Analyst
3 2,684 (14.13%) Software Engineer
4 2,313 (12.18%) Lead
5 2,118 (11.15%) Developer
6 1,428 (7.52%) Architect
7 977 (5.14%) Project Manager
8 888 (4.68%) Java Engineer
9 857 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 764 (4.02%) Consultant
11 763 (4.02%) Lead Software Engineer
12 722 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 653 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
14 583 (3.07%) Financial Analyst
15 552 (2.91%) Python Engineer
16 521 (2.74%) Senior Manager
17 499 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
18 495 (2.61%) Python Software Engineer
19 494 (2.60%) Senior Developer
20 474 (2.50%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,253 (6.60%) React
2 969 (5.10%) .NET
3 938 (4.94%) Spring
4 929 (4.89%) AngularJS
5 796 (4.19%) HTML
6 622 (3.28%) Kafka
7 578 (3.04%) CSS
8 563 (2.96%) Spring Boot
9 450 (2.37%) Node.js
10 422 (2.22%) REST
11 404 (2.13%) RESTful
12 393 (2.07%) JSON
13 390 (2.05%) Web Services
14 360 (1.90%) gRPC
15 346 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 314 (1.65%) Pandas
17 304 (1.60%) Protocol Buffers
18 299 (1.57%) .NET Core
18 299 (1.57%) J2EE
19 293 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1,120 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 935 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 855 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 759 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 627 (3.30%) Hedge funds
6 613 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 564 (2.97%) Fixed Income
8 556 (2.93%) Onboarding
9 530 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 517 (2.72%) Public Cloud
11 489 (2.57%) Derivative
12 441 (2.32%) Equities
13 270 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 250 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 207 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 205 (1.08%) PMI
17 200 (1.05%) Credit Risk
18 179 (0.94%) Mobile App
19 169 (0.89%) Driving Licence
20 163 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,274 (6.71%) Windows
2 893 (4.70%) Linux
3 428 (2.25%) Unix
4 339 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 200 (1.05%) Windows 10
6 146 (0.77%) Android
7 111 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 99 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 89 (0.47%) CentOS
10 87 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 74 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
12 67 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 63 (0.33%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
15 47 (0.25%) Solaris
16 46 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 32 (0.17%) zOS
18 30 (0.16%) AIX
18 30 (0.16%) Mac OS
19 18 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,890 (36.28%) Agile
2 3,677 (19.36%) Software Engineering
3 3,071 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
4 2,735 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 2,574 (13.55%) SDLC
6 2,194 (11.55%) Mentoring
7 2,052 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,041 (10.75%) Decision-Making
8 2,041 (10.75%) Machine Learning
9 2,018 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 1,971 (10.38%) Project Management
11 1,913 (10.07%) Roadmaps
12 1,911 (10.06%) Operational Stability
13 1,669 (8.79%) Risk Management
14 1,561 (8.22%) Analytics
15 1,502 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
16 1,438 (7.57%) DevOps
17 1,398 (7.36%) Coaching
18 1,361 (7.17%) Asset Management
19 1,346 (7.09%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,468 (18.26%) SQL
2 2,863 (15.08%) Python
3 2,807 (14.78%) Java
4 1,489 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 1,138 (5.99%) C#
6 1,008 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 434 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 390 (2.05%) Scala
9 307 (1.62%) Go
10 241 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 231 (1.22%) R
12 213 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 208 (1.10%) Bash
14 200 (1.05%) C++
15 144 (0.76%) C
16 123 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 104 (0.55%) PHP
18 91 (0.48%) VBA
19 89 (0.47%) Shell Script
20 85 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,793 (14.71%) Degree
2 813 (4.28%) ACCA
3 638 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 617 (3.25%) CIMA
5 428 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 403 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 329 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 295 (1.55%) CISSP
9 293 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 262 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 172 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 163 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 161 (0.85%) CISM
14 153 (0.81%) PMP
15 149 (0.78%) DV Cleared
16 134 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
17 133 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
18 121 (0.64%) MBA
19 118 (0.62%) CISA
20 102 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 568 (2.99%) QA
2 509 (2.68%) GDPR
3 470 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 463 (2.44%) SLA
5 245 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 244 (1.28%) IFRS
7 242 (1.27%) PMO
8 238 (1.25%) Accessibility
9 211 (1.11%) NIST
10 93 (0.49%) GAAP
11 90 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 80 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
14 74 (0.39%) PCI DSS
15 70 (0.37%) GRC
16 52 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 48 (0.25%) COBIT
18 47 (0.25%) ITGC
19 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
20 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 702 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 680 (3.58%) Docker
3 351 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 105 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 104 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (0.32%) Firmware
8 56 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 51 (0.27%) vSphere
10 40 (0.21%) XenApp
11 34 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 29 (0.15%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) IAG
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.053%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,030 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 774 (4.08%) Terraform
3 270 (1.42%) Ansible
4 211 (1.11%) Grafana
5 183 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 159 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 131 (0.69%) SCCM
8 70 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 44 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 38 (0.20%) Puppet
11 35 (0.18%) Kibana
12 32 (0.17%) SCOM
13 30 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
14 28 (0.15%) Istio
15 26 (0.14%) HAProxy
16 22 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
18 20 (0.11%) Backup Exec
19 19 (0.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3,585 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 1,395 (7.35%) Oracle
3 1,037 (5.46%) SAP
4 564 (2.97%) Google
5 465 (2.45%) VMware
6 406 (2.14%) Databricks
7 359 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 334 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 328 (1.73%) Anaplan
10 281 (1.48%) Splunk
11 269 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 255 (1.34%) Cisco
13 214 (1.13%) Dell
14 206 (1.08%) IBM
15 194 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 193 (1.02%) CA
17 179 (0.94%) Red Hat
18 178 (0.94%) Citrix
19 151 (0.80%) Bloomberg
20 143 (0.75%) Alteryx