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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,114 17,811 25,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.99% 19.18% 23.53%
As % of the General category 32.51% 31.89% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,619 10,880 15,035
10th Percentile £37,790 £32,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,200 £62,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -9.19% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.43% -8.70% +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 34,187 55,853 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.63% 60.14% 69.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,619 38,659 40,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,393 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.09% -9.52% +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 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 9,336 £71,991 +10.76% 13,312
UK excluding London -1 5,881 £58,500 +11.43% 5,246
London 0 4,847 £85,000 +6.25% 9,182
Work from Home +3 4,111 £72,500 +11.54% 6,144
North of England +1 1,557 £58,500 +6.36% 1,314
Scotland 0 1,288 £60,000 -4.00% 504
South East +1 999 £60,000 +20.00% 1,473
North West +1 958 £58,500 +6.36% 821
Midlands -4 767 £55,000 +10.00% 778
South West +7 654 £60,000 +9.09% 578
West Midlands -7 548 £55,000 +10.00% 504
Yorkshire 0 420 £60,000 +4.35% 351
East of England +8 405 £50,711 +1.42% 454
East Midlands -1 217 £52,500 +8.25% 256
North East +7 178 £56,500 +13.00% 148
Wales +2 130 £50,393 +6.09% 123
Northern Ireland +5 63 £60,000 +14.29% 112
Isle of Man 0 15 £38,500 -17.20% 2
Channel Islands 0 7 £75,000 -11.76%

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
1 287 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 228 (2.05%) Apache
3 214 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 151 (1.36%) Confluence
5 144 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 143 (1.29%) Apache Spark
7 75 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
8 52 (0.47%) SAS
9 51 (0.46%) CMS
10 29 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 24 (0.22%) nginx
12 21 (0.19%) IIS
13 15 (0.13%) OpenEdge
14 13 (0.12%) IBM Domino
14 13 (0.12%) Umbraco
15 12 (0.11%) Apache Solr
16 11 (0.099%) Tomcat
17 9 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
18 8 (0.072%) NetWeaver
19 6 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 629 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 584 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 487 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
4 119 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.25%) Trello
7 25 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.21%) Maya
9 18 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.099%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.099%) SPSS
11 10 (0.090%) Adobe Premiere
11 10 (0.090%) Photoshop
12 9 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 8 (0.072%) InDesign
13 8 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
14 7 (0.063%) Sketch
15 4 (0.036%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.036%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 151 (1.36%) NEC Housing
2 122 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 102 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 72 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 58 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
6 44 (0.40%) Infor LN
6 44 (0.40%) SAP BPC
7 41 (0.37%) SAP FI
8 39 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 39 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 33 (0.30%) Sage 200
9 33 (0.30%) Shopify
10 31 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
11 28 (0.25%) Sage 50
12 25 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 24 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
13 24 (0.22%) Ripple
13 24 (0.22%) Ripple XRP
14 23 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
14 23 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1,496 (13.46%) Azure
2 1,339 (12.05%) AWS
3 675 (6.07%) GCP
4 514 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 383 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 285 (2.56%) dbt
7 280 (2.52%) SaaS
8 249 (2.24%) Serverless
9 234 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
10 190 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 190 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 180 (1.62%) Snowflake
12 176 (1.58%) GitHub
13 163 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
15 141 (1.27%) PaaS
16 122 (1.10%) Amazon S3
17 118 (1.06%) OpenShift
18 109 (0.98%) Entra ID
19 104 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,077 (9.69%) Broadband
2 221 (1.99%) Firewall
3 119 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 108 (0.97%) Network Security
5 106 (0.95%) DNS
6 100 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 88 (0.79%) VPN
8 81 (0.73%) DHCP
9 73 (0.66%) WAN
10 67 (0.60%) LAN
11 64 (0.58%) Internet
12 57 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 50 (0.45%) SAN
14 47 (0.42%) HTTP
15 43 (0.39%) VLAN
16 36 (0.32%) Wireless
17 32 (0.29%) BGP
18 31 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
19 30 (0.27%) IPsec
20 28 (0.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (4.00%) Power BI
2 350 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 317 (2.85%) Data Lake
4 276 (2.48%) Tableau
5 260 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
6 254 (2.29%) Dremio
7 248 (2.23%) Apache Iceberg
8 241 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 216 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
10 197 (1.77%) NoSQL
11 179 (1.61%) Apache Ignite
12 161 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
13 149 (1.34%) MySQL
14 148 (1.33%) Big Data
15 136 (1.22%) Relational Database
16 115 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
17 112 (1.01%) MongoDB
18 87 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 86 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 83 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 381 (3.43%) Git
2 328 (2.95%) JIRA
3 244 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 108 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 82 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 70 (0.63%) GitLab
7 53 (0.48%) Maven
7 53 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 53 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 49 (0.44%) Selenium
9 48 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 44 (0.40%) webpack
11 43 (0.39%) JUnit
12 37 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 29 (0.26%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.23%) Postman
14 26 (0.23%) TeamCity
15 22 (0.20%) Mockito
16 17 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (0.15%) Gradle
General
1 3,885 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 2,115 (19.03%) Banking
3 2,109 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 950 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 814 (7.32%) Retail
6 804 (7.23%) Marketing
7 730 (6.57%) Front Office
8 726 (6.53%) Financial Institution
9 596 (5.36%) Legal
10 478 (4.30%) Law
11 457 (4.11%) Manufacturing
12 454 (4.08%) German Language
13 452 (4.07%) French Language
14 448 (4.03%) Public Sector
15 380 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
16 339 (3.05%) Telecoms
17 310 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
18 222 (2.00%) Local Government
19 221 (1.99%) Police
20 200 (1.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,843 (16.58%) Senior
2 1,817 (16.35%) Analyst
3 967 (8.70%) Developer
4 870 (7.83%) Project Manager
5 798 (7.18%) Lead
6 633 (5.70%) Software Engineer
7 587 (5.28%) Architect
8 577 (5.19%) Senior Manager
9 536 (4.82%) Sales Representative
10 454 (4.08%) Credit Analyst
11 447 (4.02%) Consultant
12 435 (3.91%) Research Analyst
13 318 (2.86%) Senior Project Manager
14 313 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
15 294 (2.65%) Business Analyst
16 276 (2.48%) Python Engineer
17 245 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
18 241 (2.17%) Development Manager
18 241 (2.17%) Product Manager
19 238 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (4.08%) React
2 388 (3.49%) .NET
3 358 (3.22%) HTML
4 275 (2.47%) CSS
5 259 (2.33%) Node.js
6 255 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 241 (2.17%) Kafka
8 217 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 209 (1.88%) Spring
10 199 (1.79%) NumPy
11 198 (1.78%) PySpark
12 197 (1.77%) Pandas
13 164 (1.48%) RESTful
14 154 (1.39%) REST
14 154 (1.39%) SciPy
15 137 (1.23%) Redux
16 117 (1.05%) gRPC
17 109 (0.98%) .NET Framework
18 102 (0.92%) Protocol Buffers
19 101 (0.91%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,186 (10.67%) Social Media
2 891 (8.02%) Fixed Income
3 666 (5.99%) Driving Licence
4 647 (5.82%) Management Information System
5 547 (4.92%) Credit Risk
6 415 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 406 (3.65%) Hedge funds
8 383 (3.45%) Derivative
9 356 (3.20%) Xbox
10 350 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 346 (3.11%) Equities
12 246 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
13 245 (2.20%) Algorithms
14 180 (1.62%) FMCG
14 180 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 179 (1.61%) Cloud Native
16 160 (1.44%) Cyberattack
17 134 (1.21%) Public Cloud
18 132 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
19 119 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 558 (5.02%) Windows
2 412 (3.71%) Linux
3 189 (1.70%) Unix
4 168 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 107 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 93 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 77 (0.69%) Android
8 49 (0.44%) Windows Vista
9 46 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 42 (0.38%) Solaris
11 29 (0.26%) zOS
12 24 (0.22%) CentOS
12 24 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 23 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 21 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 19 (0.17%) AIX
16 12 (0.11%) Rocky
17 8 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
17 8 (0.072%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,605 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
2 2,562 (23.05%) Agile
3 1,739 (15.65%) Project Management
4 1,580 (14.22%) Risk Management
5 1,442 (12.97%) Decision-Making
6 1,345 (12.10%) Analytics
7 1,202 (10.82%) Software Engineering
8 1,138 (10.24%) Customer Service
9 1,092 (9.83%) DevOps
10 1,087 (9.78%) Asset Management
11 1,011 (9.10%) Mentoring
12 952 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 900 (8.10%) Business Strategy
14 887 (7.98%) Roadmaps
15 862 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 861 (7.75%) CI/CD
17 803 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
18 700 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence
19 678 (6.10%) Fintech
20 655 (5.89%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,495 (13.45%) Python
2 1,398 (12.58%) SQL
3 932 (8.39%) Java
4 717 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 440 (3.96%) C#
6 388 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 309 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 245 (2.20%) C++
9 171 (1.54%) Go
10 129 (1.16%) Bash
11 107 (0.96%) PHP
12 96 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 89 (0.80%) C
14 85 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 79 (0.71%) Scala
16 67 (0.60%) R
17 62 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.35%) VBA
19 38 (0.34%) Rust
20 33 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,253 (20.27%) Degree
2 689 (6.20%) Master's Degree
3 468 (4.21%) CFA
4 404 (3.64%) DBS Check
5 356 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 257 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 208 (1.87%) ACCA
8 201 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 196 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 192 (1.73%) CISSP
11 152 (1.37%) CIMA
11 152 (1.37%) PMI Certification
12 121 (1.09%) PMP
13 118 (1.06%) SC Cleared
14 112 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
15 103 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 101 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
17 91 (0.82%) CISM
18 88 (0.79%) PhD
19 79 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (3.31%) QA
2 365 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 249 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 192 (1.73%) GDPR
5 172 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 146 (1.31%) NIST
7 128 (1.15%) PMO
8 123 (1.11%) SLA
9 119 (1.07%) IFRS
10 101 (0.91%) GAAP
11 91 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 81 (0.73%) MiFID
13 72 (0.65%) PCI DSS
14 68 (0.61%) ITGC
15 57 (0.51%) COBIT
16 40 (0.36%) ISO 9001
17 38 (0.34%) GRC
18 37 (0.33%) GMP
19 36 (0.32%) NCSC
20 33 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 558 (5.02%) Docker
2 272 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 122 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 48 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (0.19%) Firmware
8 21 (0.19%) vSphere
9 10 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.054%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.045%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.045%) XenApp
12 4 (0.036%) HDFS
12 4 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.036%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.027%) Samba
13 3 (0.027%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.027%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 648 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 454 (4.08%) Terraform
3 175 (1.57%) Ansible
4 104 (0.94%) SCCM
5 103 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (0.53%) Grafana
7 41 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 32 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (0.26%) Istio
10 29 (0.26%) Puppet
11 23 (0.21%) Nagios
12 22 (0.20%) CASB
13 17 (0.15%) WSUS
14 15 (0.13%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.11%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
17 9 (0.081%) CA Endevor
17 9 (0.081%) Kibana
17 9 (0.081%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,394 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 691 (6.22%) Sun
3 516 (4.64%) Oracle
4 503 (4.53%) Bloomberg
5 470 (4.23%) SAP
6 320 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 286 (2.57%) Google
8 199 (1.79%) NEC
9 175 (1.57%) Cisco
10 174 (1.57%) VMware
11 132 (1.19%) Databricks
11 132 (1.19%) IBM
12 127 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 118 (1.06%) Citrix
14 66 (0.59%) Infor
15 63 (0.57%) Adobe
16 57 (0.51%) Red Hat
17 53 (0.48%) Cognos
18 52 (0.47%) Workday
19 46 (0.41%) Sage