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 cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +3
Permanent jobs citing Finance 12,608 12,636 29,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.90% 24.54% 24.84%
As % of the General category 29.36% 37.34% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 8,716 18,069
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,200 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +0.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.24% +3.52% +4.55%

All General Skills
UK

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,946 33,840 80,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 64.37% 65.72% 68.86%
Number of salaries quoted 18,359 23,541 47,059
10th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -2 10,750 £72,500 +3.57% 3,904
UK excluding London -3 6,623 £57,000 -4.24% 1,909
London -1 5,582 £85,000 +3.03% 2,229
Work from Home -1 4,682 £75,000 +7.14% 2,863
North of England -3 1,585 £55,000 -10.57% 535
Scotland 0 1,368 £55,000 -18.52% 140
South East 0 1,298 £60,000 +8.23% 385
North West -2 1,067 £55,500 -7.88% 306
Midlands -2 1,020 £57,000 +5.56% 358
South West -4 687 £55,000 -7.65% 268
West Midlands -2 677 £57,500 +7.48% 195
East of England -2 452 £55,000 +26.44% 145
Yorkshire -10 363 £55,000 -15.38% 166
East Midlands +1 341 £52,500 -2.78% 160
North East +7 156 £52,500 -8.70% 66
Wales 0 125 £47,500 -5.00% 47
Northern Ireland +3 75 £60,000 -14.29% 68
Isle of Man +2 15 £41,000 -8.89% 3
Channel Islands -9 3 £75,000 -11.76% 3

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
1 357 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 324 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 318 (2.52%) Apache
4 183 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 152 (1.21%) SAS
6 130 (1.03%) Confluence
7 112 (0.89%) Apache Spark
8 84 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
9 44 (0.35%) nginx
10 38 (0.30%) IIS
11 30 (0.24%) CMS
12 24 (0.19%) Mule
13 21 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 18 (0.14%) OpenEdge
15 15 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
16 14 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 9 (0.071%) Jupyter
18 8 (0.063%) ArcGIS
18 8 (0.063%) Tomcat
19 6 (0.048%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 807 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 617 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 401 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 128 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 25 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 25 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.16%) Trello
8 19 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
9 16 (0.13%) SPSS
10 12 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.087%) Adobe XD
12 10 (0.079%) Sketch
13 8 (0.063%) InDesign
14 7 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.056%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.032%) Final Cut Pro
15 4 (0.032%) Maya
Business Applications
1 370 (2.93%) NEC Housing
2 166 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 148 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
4 103 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 100 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
6 63 (0.50%) Aladdin
7 62 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
8 59 (0.47%) Ripple
9 50 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
10 47 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
11 46 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
11 46 (0.36%) SAP ERP
12 44 (0.35%) Sage 200
13 38 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
14 37 (0.29%) Sage 50
15 36 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
15 36 (0.29%) Shopify
16 29 (0.23%) SAP Business One
17 28 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
18 27 (0.21%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 1,645 (13.05%) Azure
2 1,626 (12.90%) AWS
3 688 (5.46%) GCP
4 660 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 457 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
6 400 (3.17%) SaaS
7 338 (2.68%) dbt
8 288 (2.28%) Snowflake
9 236 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 221 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 217 (1.72%) Serverless
12 189 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
13 183 (1.45%) GitHub
14 176 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
15 151 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
16 145 (1.15%) Entra ID
17 130 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
18 129 (1.02%) PaaS
19 112 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
20 106 (0.84%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1,220 (9.68%) Broadband
2 233 (1.85%) Firewall
3 185 (1.47%) DNS
4 151 (1.20%) DHCP
5 127 (1.01%) Network Security
6 110 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
7 95 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 72 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 71 (0.56%) VPN
10 63 (0.50%) Internet
11 60 (0.48%) LAN
12 54 (0.43%) VLAN
12 54 (0.43%) WAN
12 54 (0.43%) Wireless
13 52 (0.41%) HTTP
14 43 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
15 39 (0.31%) SAN
16 34 (0.27%) SD-WAN
17 33 (0.26%) Intranet
18 27 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (4.41%) Power BI
2 481 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 403 (3.20%) Data Lake
4 333 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 312 (2.47%) Dremio
6 307 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 296 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
8 274 (2.17%) Apache Ignite
9 254 (2.01%) Apache Arrow
10 247 (1.96%) Tableau
11 206 (1.63%) Relational Database
12 197 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
13 160 (1.27%) NoSQL
14 130 (1.03%) MySQL
15 120 (0.95%) Big Data
16 115 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 112 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 104 (0.82%) MongoDB
19 101 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
20 100 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 382 (3.03%) Git
2 310 (2.46%) JIRA
3 220 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 99 (0.79%) GitLab
5 71 (0.56%) Artifactory
5 71 (0.56%) Visual Studio
6 58 (0.46%) Selenium
7 40 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 38 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 37 (0.29%) JUnit
10 34 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
11 33 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 32 (0.25%) Maven
12 32 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
13 28 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 28 (0.22%) webpack
14 22 (0.17%) Postman
15 21 (0.17%) Mockito
15 21 (0.17%) PHPUnit
16 20 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4,014 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 2,085 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
3 1,848 (14.66%) Banking
4 1,042 (8.26%) Retail
5 916 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 797 (6.32%) Front Office
7 733 (5.81%) Legal
8 726 (5.76%) Public Sector
9 690 (5.47%) Marketing
10 542 (4.30%) Manufacturing
11 516 (4.09%) Law
12 472 (3.74%) Financial Institution
13 442 (3.51%) Local Government
14 396 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
15 391 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
16 386 (3.06%) Police
17 381 (3.02%) Telecoms
18 350 (2.78%) Investment Banking
19 336 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
20 216 (1.71%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 2,208 (17.51%) Senior
2 1,821 (14.44%) Analyst
3 1,162 (9.22%) Developer
4 1,079 (8.56%) Project Manager
5 794 (6.30%) Lead
6 708 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 703 (5.58%) Architect
8 692 (5.49%) Consultant
9 624 (4.95%) Senior Manager
10 537 (4.26%) Sales Representative
11 378 (3.00%) Python Engineer
12 315 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
13 308 (2.44%) Financial Analyst
14 304 (2.41%) Business Analyst
15 301 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
16 298 (2.36%) IT Manager
17 289 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
18 288 (2.28%) Senior Project Manager
19 284 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
20 278 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (3.92%) .NET
2 449 (3.56%) React
3 381 (3.02%) HTML
4 318 (2.52%) Pandas
5 312 (2.47%) NumPy
6 280 (2.22%) SciPy
7 258 (2.05%) Node.js
8 255 (2.02%) gRPC
9 251 (1.99%) AngularJS
10 247 (1.96%) Protocol Buffers
11 239 (1.90%) CSS
12 197 (1.56%) PySpark
13 185 (1.47%) Kafka
14 161 (1.28%) REST
15 159 (1.26%) Redux
16 156 (1.24%) Spring
17 154 (1.22%) Spring Boot
18 149 (1.18%) .NET Framework
18 149 (1.18%) RESTful
19 139 (1.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1,228 (9.74%) Social Media
2 727 (5.77%) Fixed Income
3 635 (5.04%) Driving Licence
4 613 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 509 (4.04%) Hedge funds
6 492 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 485 (3.85%) Derivative
8 437 (3.47%) Equities
9 424 (3.36%) Product Ownership
10 409 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
11 356 (2.82%) Xbox
12 289 (2.29%) Credit Risk
13 211 (1.67%) Onboarding
14 180 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 179 (1.42%) Housing Association
16 175 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
17 162 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 151 (1.20%) Data Centre
19 149 (1.18%) Cloud Native
20 143 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 783 (6.21%) Windows
2 544 (4.31%) Linux
3 299 (2.37%) Unix
4 245 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 154 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 89 (0.71%) Solaris
7 81 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 74 (0.59%) Android
9 46 (0.36%) Windows Vista
10 38 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 36 (0.29%) CentOS
12 31 (0.25%) zOS
13 29 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
14 27 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 23 (0.18%) Ubuntu
16 20 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
17 16 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
18 15 (0.12%) AIX
18 15 (0.12%) Windows 7
19 10 (0.079%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,916 (23.13%) Agile
2 2,741 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 1,899 (15.06%) Project Management
4 1,384 (10.98%) Analytics
5 1,303 (10.33%) Software Engineering
6 1,295 (10.27%) Customer Service
7 1,255 (9.95%) Risk Management
8 1,192 (9.45%) Mentoring
9 1,084 (8.60%) DevOps
10 1,069 (8.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 1,066 (8.45%) Decision-Making
12 1,055 (8.37%) Asset Management
13 1,011 (8.02%) Roadmaps
14 957 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 913 (7.24%) Coaching
16 851 (6.75%) Business Intelligence
17 833 (6.61%) Fintech
18 743 (5.89%) Migration
19 739 (5.86%) CI/CD
20 715 (5.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2,030 (16.10%) SQL
2 1,762 (13.98%) Python
3 975 (7.73%) Java
4 848 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 578 (4.58%) C#
6 529 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 398 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 239 (1.90%) C++
9 158 (1.25%) Bash
10 129 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 122 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 121 (0.96%) Go
13 106 (0.84%) PHP
14 92 (0.73%) R
14 92 (0.73%) Scala
15 88 (0.70%) C
16 78 (0.62%) VBA
17 72 (0.57%) Kotlin
18 67 (0.53%) Rust
19 42 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,053 (16.28%) Degree
2 638 (5.06%) DBS Check
3 473 (3.75%) Master's Degree
4 414 (3.28%) Security Cleared
5 355 (2.82%) ACCA
6 301 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 229 (1.82%) CFA
8 185 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 167 (1.32%) SC Cleared
10 154 (1.22%) CISSP
11 142 (1.13%) PMP
12 135 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 116 (0.92%) CIMA
14 115 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 115 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 114 (0.90%) CISA
16 98 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
17 87 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
18 86 (0.68%) CISM
19 84 (0.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 402 (3.19%) QA
3 370 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 254 (2.01%) IFRS
5 225 (1.78%) GAAP
6 202 (1.60%) GDPR
7 179 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 165 (1.31%) PMO
9 159 (1.26%) NIST
10 141 (1.12%) SLA
11 99 (0.79%) ISO 9001
12 82 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 73 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 67 (0.53%) ITGC
15 59 (0.47%) GRC
16 57 (0.45%) MiFID
17 53 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
18 45 (0.36%) IFRS 9
19 36 (0.29%) COBIT
20 33 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 485 (3.85%) Docker
2 391 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 209 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 88 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 46 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.33%) vSphere
8 40 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 34 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 32 (0.25%) XenApp
11 18 (0.14%) Firmware
11 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.071%) NDS
12 9 (0.071%) NetIQ eDirectory
13 8 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.048%) NFS
15 3 (0.024%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.024%) Terminal Server
15 3 (0.024%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 529 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 460 (3.65%) Terraform
3 274 (2.17%) Ansible
4 124 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 111 (0.88%) SCCM
6 63 (0.50%) Grafana
7 53 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 52 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 45 (0.36%) Puppet
10 34 (0.27%) WSUS
11 23 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 23 (0.18%) Nagios
12 21 (0.17%) CASB
13 19 (0.15%) Istio
14 18 (0.14%) vCenter Server
15 17 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.12%) NetBackup
17 11 (0.087%) Packer
18 9 (0.071%) NetIQ Identity Manager
19 8 (0.063%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,843 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 690 (5.47%) Sun
3 631 (5.00%) Oracle
4 475 (3.77%) SAP
5 432 (3.43%) NEC
6 330 (2.62%) Bloomberg
7 285 (2.26%) VMware
8 258 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 245 (1.94%) Google
10 215 (1.71%) Cisco
11 213 (1.69%) Citrix
12 147 (1.17%) Databricks
13 144 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 121 (0.96%) IBM
15 95 (0.75%) Sage
16 77 (0.61%) Red Hat
17 65 (0.52%) Apple
18 58 (0.46%) Reuters
19 56 (0.44%) Adobe
20 54 (0.43%) BISAM