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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Finance 19,085 23,125 36,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.26% 22.82% 23.16%
As % of the General category 32.23% 33.46% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,835 13,527 18,644
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £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 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,000 £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 9 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 9 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 14,925 £65,000 -6.40% 5,662
UK excluding London +2 11,545 £52,500 -4.55% 3,170
Work from Home -2 7,218 £65,000 -6.40% 2,464
London +1 6,811 £80,000 - 2,721
Scotland +2 3,188 £60,000 -7.14% 257
North of England -2 2,422 £55,000 - 835
South East -2 2,201 £51,500 -10.43% 748
Midlands 0 1,579 £50,000 -9.09% 555
North West +1 1,350 £54,750 -0.45% 501
South West -8 1,235 £54,151 -1.54% 410
West Midlands 0 1,107 £51,300 -6.73% 353
Yorkshire -3 824 £57,500 +4.55% 250
East of England 0 530 £50,000 -9.09% 293
East Midlands -5 465 £47,500 -13.64% 201
North East +1 248 £48,750 -11.36% 89
Wales -5 246 £45,000 -1.64% 88
Northern Ireland +2 104 £40,000 -20.00% 66
Isle of Man - 37 £46,500 - 7
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
1 676 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 614 (3.22%) Apache
3 550 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 473 (2.48%) SAS
5 453 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 343 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 273 (1.43%) Confluence
8 126 (0.66%) FileNet
9 101 (0.53%) IIS
10 59 (0.31%) CMS
11 50 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 44 (0.23%) WordPress
13 38 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 37 (0.19%) 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 (0.079%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,722 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 938 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
3 457 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 109 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 86 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 38 (0.20%) UserZoom
8 33 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 28 (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 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 149 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 112 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 80 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 72 (0.38%) NEC Housing
6 72 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 72 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 47 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 44 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 44 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 44 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 40 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
9 40 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
10 36 (0.19%) Aladdin
11 33 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
12 32 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
13 31 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
14 28 (0.15%) Elite 3E
14 28 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3,231 (16.93%) AWS
2 2,749 (14.40%) Azure
3 1,196 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 1,024 (5.37%) GCP
5 981 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
6 580 (3.04%) SaaS
7 459 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
8 344 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
9 315 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 306 (1.60%) GitHub
11 299 (1.57%) dbt
12 298 (1.56%) Serverless
13 248 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 225 (1.18%) Entra ID
15 202 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
16 188 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
17 172 (0.90%) Power Automate
18 169 (0.89%) PaaS
19 168 (0.88%) PowerApps
20 151 (0.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 850 (4.45%) Broadband
2 492 (2.58%) Firewall
3 252 (1.32%) DNS
4 222 (1.16%) Internet
5 202 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 189 (0.99%) WAN
7 171 (0.90%) VPN
8 169 (0.89%) LAN
9 151 (0.79%) DHCP
10 133 (0.70%) Wireless
11 127 (0.67%) Network Security
12 115 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 92 (0.48%) SAN
14 83 (0.43%) Kerberos
15 74 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 73 (0.38%) HTTP
17 64 (0.34%) SNMP
18 63 (0.33%) IPsec
19 62 (0.32%) Intranet
20 60 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 999 (5.23%) Power BI
2 889 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 814 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 666 (3.49%) Big Data
5 543 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 502 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 345 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
8 342 (1.79%) Tableau
9 329 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 320 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
11 277 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
11 277 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 274 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 271 (1.42%) Apache Arrow
13 271 (1.42%) Dremio
14 267 (1.40%) Hadoop
15 232 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 184 (0.96%) Metadata
17 161 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
18 141 (0.74%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 699 (3.66%) JIRA
2 623 (3.26%) Git
3 579 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 252 (1.32%) JUnit
5 180 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 164 (0.86%) Selenium
7 131 (0.69%) Jasmine
8 130 (0.68%) GitLab
9 122 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 117 (0.61%) Maven
11 111 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 108 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 86 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 86 (0.45%) Cucumber
14 83 (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 6,008 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 4,134 (21.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,527 (18.48%) Law
4 2,918 (15.29%) Banking
5 2,737 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2,595 (13.60%) Marketing
7 1,952 (10.23%) Legal
8 1,232 (6.46%) Retail
9 988 (5.18%) Investment Banking
10 958 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
11 908 (4.76%) Front Office
12 900 (4.72%) Public Sector
13 636 (3.33%) Manufacturing
14 603 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
15 601 (3.15%) Financial Institution
16 470 (2.46%) Telecoms
17 443 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
18 285 (1.49%) Back Office
19 262 (1.37%) Billing
20 249 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3,128 (16.39%) Senior
2 2,954 (15.48%) Analyst
3 2,733 (14.32%) Software Engineer
4 2,338 (12.25%) Lead
5 2,127 (11.14%) Developer
6 1,413 (7.40%) Architect
7 964 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 927 (4.86%) Java Engineer
9 891 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 785 (4.11%) Lead Software Engineer
11 769 (4.03%) Consultant
12 704 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
13 672 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
14 604 (3.16%) Financial Analyst
15 600 (3.14%) Python Engineer
16 541 (2.83%) Python Software Engineer
17 524 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
18 520 (2.72%) Senior Manager
19 484 (2.54%) Senior Developer
20 483 (2.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,255 (6.58%) React
2 969 (5.08%) .NET
3 928 (4.86%) Spring
4 908 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 777 (4.07%) HTML
6 613 (3.21%) Kafka
7 573 (3.00%) CSS
8 559 (2.93%) Spring Boot
9 447 (2.34%) gRPC
10 437 (2.29%) Node.js
11 427 (2.24%) REST
12 401 (2.10%) Web Services
13 389 (2.04%) JSON
14 385 (2.02%) Protocol Buffers
15 382 (2.00%) 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 (1.57%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,131 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 941 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 862 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 738 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 711 (3.73%) Hedge funds
6 633 (3.32%) Fixed Income
7 608 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 583 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 566 (2.97%) Onboarding
10 533 (2.79%) Derivative
11 517 (2.71%) Public Cloud
12 507 (2.66%) Equities
13 273 (1.43%) Data Centre
14 252 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 204 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
16 203 (1.06%) Credit Risk
16 203 (1.06%) PMI
17 181 (0.95%) Mobile App
18 177 (0.93%) Driving Licence
19 162 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1,262 (6.61%) Windows
2 879 (4.61%) Linux
3 424 (2.22%) Unix
4 343 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 206 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 141 (0.74%) Android
7 105 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 99 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 89 (0.47%) CentOS
9 89 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 75 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 64 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 61 (0.32%) Windows 7
13 54 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
13 54 (0.28%) Solaris
14 45 (0.24%) Ubuntu
15 32 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 30 (0.16%) AIX
17 25 (0.13%) zOS
18 18 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,872 (36.01%) Agile
2 3,735 (19.57%) Software Engineering
3 3,065 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
4 2,731 (14.31%) CI/CD
5 2,566 (13.45%) SDLC
6 2,165 (11.34%) Mentoring
7 2,088 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2,061 (10.80%) Machine Learning
9 2,033 (10.65%) Decision-Making
10 2,027 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 1,956 (10.25%) Project Management
12 1,943 (10.18%) Roadmaps
13 1,929 (10.11%) Operational Stability
14 1,692 (8.87%) Risk Management
15 1,527 (8.00%) Analytics
16 1,491 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
17 1,424 (7.46%) Asset Management
18 1,397 (7.32%) DevOps
19 1,396 (7.31%) Coaching
20 1,363 (7.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 3,486 (18.27%) SQL
2 2,960 (15.51%) Python
3 2,845 (14.91%) Java
4 1,533 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 1,135 (5.95%) C#
6 1,070 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 442 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 388 (2.03%) Scala
9 321 (1.68%) Go
10 246 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 229 (1.20%) R
12 214 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 202 (1.06%) C++
14 196 (1.03%) Bash
15 141 (0.74%) C
16 130 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 110 (0.58%) PHP
18 96 (0.50%) Shell Script
19 93 (0.49%) VBA
20 79 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2,829 (14.82%) Degree
2 820 (4.30%) ACCA
3 656 (3.44%) Security Cleared
4 632 (3.31%) CIMA
5 431 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 407 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 333 (1.74%) SC Cleared
8 297 (1.56%) CISSP
9 295 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 269 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 182 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 179 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 160 (0.84%) CISM
14 156 (0.82%) PMP
15 150 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 138 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 133 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 120 (0.63%) MBA
19 111 (0.58%) CISA
20 104 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (2.99%) QA
2 528 (2.77%) GDPR
3 507 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 468 (2.45%) SLA
5 262 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 241 (1.26%) IFRS
6 241 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 235 (1.23%) PMO
8 213 (1.12%) NIST
9 90 (0.47%) GAAP
10 88 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 78 (0.41%) IFRS 9
12 72 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 68 (0.36%) GRC
14 61 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 50 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 46 (0.24%) COBIT
16 46 (0.24%) ITGC
17 45 (0.24%) ISO 9001
18 40 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 697 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 654 (3.43%) Docker
3 339 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 110 (0.58%) HDFS
5 104 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 99 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (0.31%) Firmware
8 58 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 52 (0.27%) vSphere
10 45 (0.24%) XenApp
11 35 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 34 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 16 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.073%) VMware Workstation
15 12 (0.063%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.058%) IAG
16 11 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
17 10 (0.052%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.047%) Forefront TMG
19 7 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1,027 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 780 (4.09%) Terraform
3 266 (1.39%) Ansible
4 216 (1.13%) Grafana
5 200 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 165 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 132 (0.69%) SCCM
8 71 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 45 (0.24%) 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 22 (0.12%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.11%) Zipkin
19 20 (0.10%) Backup Exec
20 17 (0.089%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3,610 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 1,418 (7.43%) Oracle
3 1,031 (5.40%) SAP
4 567 (2.97%) Google
5 456 (2.39%) VMware
6 405 (2.12%) Databricks
7 351 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 336 (1.76%) Hyperion
9 328 (1.72%) Anaplan
10 283 (1.48%) Splunk
11 276 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 251 (1.32%) Cisco
13 205 (1.07%) Dell
14 198 (1.04%) IBM
15 195 (1.02%) Dynatrace
16 190 (1.00%) CA
17 177 (0.93%) Citrix
17 177 (0.93%) Red Hat
18 152 (0.80%) Bloomberg
19 143 (0.75%) Alteryx