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

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,099 17,675 26,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.98% 19.14% 23.65%
As % of the General category 32.50% 31.80% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,632 10,837 15,147
10th Percentile £38,025 £32,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £51,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.19% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £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 34,156 55,582 76,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.65% 60.20% 69.12%
Number of salaries quoted 17,609 38,495 40,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £44,000
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 £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -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 1 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 1 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 9,351 £71,991 +10.76% 13,267
UK excluding London 0 5,874 £58,500 +11.43% 5,209
London 0 4,846 £85,000 +6.25% 9,245
Work from Home +3 4,087 £72,500 +11.54% 6,317
North of England +1 1,554 £58,500 +6.36% 1,300
Scotland 0 1,270 £60,000 -4.00% 502
South East +1 1,005 £60,000 +20.00% 1,527
North West +1 967 £58,500 +6.36% 804
Midlands -5 777 £55,000 +10.00% 739
South West +7 657 £60,000 +9.09% 538
West Midlands -5 554 £55,000 +10.00% 482
Yorkshire 0 407 £60,000 +4.35% 348
East of England +8 402 £52,500 +5.00% 439
East Midlands -2 221 £52,500 +5.02% 239
North East +8 179 £56,500 +13.00% 154
Wales +4 130 £50,393 +6.09% 125
Northern Ireland +7 65 £60,000 +14.29% 118
Isle of Man 0 11 £38,500 -17.20%
Channel Islands 0 7 £75,000 -11.76% 1

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
1 288 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (2.09%) Apache
3 214 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 153 (1.38%) Confluence
5 143 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 143 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 75 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
7 52 (0.47%) SAS
8 51 (0.46%) CMS
9 29 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 27 (0.24%) nginx
11 23 (0.21%) IIS
12 15 (0.14%) OpenEdge
13 13 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 13 (0.12%) IBM Domino
13 13 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 11 (0.099%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
16 8 (0.072%) NetWeaver
17 6 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 627 (5.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 583 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 487 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 122 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.26%) Trello
7 28 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 19 (0.17%) Maya
9 17 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
10 11 (0.099%) Chatbot
10 11 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.099%) SPSS
11 9 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.081%) InDesign
12 8 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
13 7 (0.063%) Sketch
14 5 (0.045%) Adobe After Effects
14 5 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.036%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 157 (1.41%) NEC Housing
2 125 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 104 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 73 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 56 (0.50%) 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 35 (0.32%) Shopify
10 33 (0.30%) Sage 200
11 31 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
12 28 (0.25%) Sage 50
13 24 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
13 24 (0.22%) Ripple
13 24 (0.22%) Ripple XRP
14 23 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
14 23 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
14 23 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,499 (13.51%) Azure
2 1,336 (12.04%) AWS
3 677 (6.10%) GCP
4 507 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 384 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
6 285 (2.57%) dbt
7 280 (2.52%) SaaS
8 246 (2.22%) Serverless
9 232 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 188 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (1.60%) Snowflake
13 175 (1.58%) GitHub
14 165 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
15 145 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 140 (1.26%) PaaS
17 121 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 119 (1.07%) Amazon S3
19 108 (0.97%) Entra ID
20 102 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,077 (9.70%) Broadband
2 221 (1.99%) Firewall
3 119 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 108 (0.97%) Network Security
5 106 (0.96%) DNS
6 99 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 86 (0.77%) VPN
8 81 (0.73%) DHCP
9 72 (0.65%) WAN
10 66 (0.59%) LAN
11 63 (0.57%) Internet
12 56 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.44%) SAN
14 46 (0.41%) HTTP
15 43 (0.39%) VLAN
16 36 (0.32%) Wireless
17 33 (0.30%) BGP
18 31 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
19 30 (0.27%) IPsec
20 28 (0.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (3.96%) Power BI
2 350 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 315 (2.84%) Data Lake
4 272 (2.45%) Tableau
5 260 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
6 254 (2.29%) Dremio
7 248 (2.23%) Apache Iceberg
8 242 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 216 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
10 198 (1.78%) NoSQL
11 182 (1.64%) Apache Ignite
12 160 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
13 149 (1.34%) Big Data
13 149 (1.34%) MySQL
14 137 (1.23%) Relational Database
15 116 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
16 110 (0.99%) MongoDB
17 88 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 87 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 84 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 384 (3.46%) Git
2 329 (2.96%) JIRA
3 244 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 108 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 82 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 68 (0.61%) GitLab
7 54 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 53 (0.48%) Maven
8 53 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.44%) Selenium
10 48 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 44 (0.40%) webpack
12 43 (0.39%) JUnit
13 37 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 31 (0.28%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.23%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.23%) Postman
17 22 (0.20%) Mockito
18 18 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 17 (0.15%) Gradle
General
1 3,869 (34.86%) Social Skills
2 2,104 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
3 2,093 (18.86%) Banking
4 948 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 812 (7.32%) Retail
6 794 (7.15%) Marketing
7 728 (6.56%) Financial Institution
8 725 (6.53%) Front Office
9 591 (5.32%) Legal
10 476 (4.29%) Law
11 453 (4.08%) German Language
11 453 (4.08%) Manufacturing
12 451 (4.06%) French Language
12 451 (4.06%) Public Sector
13 381 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
14 331 (2.98%) Telecoms
15 306 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
16 227 (2.05%) Local Government
17 225 (2.03%) Police
18 196 (1.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,830 (16.49%) Senior
2 1,817 (16.37%) Analyst
3 948 (8.54%) Developer
4 889 (8.01%) Project Manager
5 800 (7.21%) Lead
6 632 (5.69%) Software Engineer
7 585 (5.27%) Architect
8 582 (5.24%) Senior Manager
9 536 (4.83%) Sales Representative
10 454 (4.09%) Credit Analyst
11 450 (4.05%) Consultant
12 435 (3.92%) Research Analyst
13 322 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
14 315 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
15 296 (2.67%) Business Analyst
16 280 (2.52%) Python Engineer
17 246 (2.22%) Financial Analyst
18 241 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
19 240 (2.16%) Development Manager
19 240 (2.16%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (4.11%) React
2 393 (3.54%) .NET
3 360 (3.24%) HTML
4 274 (2.47%) CSS
5 263 (2.37%) Node.js
6 255 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 239 (2.15%) Kafka
8 218 (1.96%) Spring Boot
9 210 (1.89%) Spring
10 199 (1.79%) NumPy
11 198 (1.78%) PySpark
12 197 (1.77%) Pandas
13 166 (1.50%) RESTful
14 157 (1.41%) REST
15 154 (1.39%) SciPy
16 140 (1.26%) Redux
17 120 (1.08%) gRPC
18 109 (0.98%) .NET Framework
19 105 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
20 101 (0.91%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,186 (10.69%) Social Media
2 889 (8.01%) Fixed Income
3 673 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 647 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 546 (4.92%) Credit Risk
6 412 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 405 (3.65%) Hedge funds
8 379 (3.41%) Derivative
9 356 (3.21%) Xbox
10 344 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 340 (3.06%) Equities
12 244 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
13 242 (2.18%) Algorithms
14 184 (1.66%) Onboarding
15 180 (1.62%) FMCG
16 173 (1.56%) Cloud Native
17 160 (1.44%) Cyberattack
18 135 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
19 134 (1.21%) Public Cloud
20 120 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 565 (5.09%) Windows
2 418 (3.77%) Linux
3 189 (1.70%) Unix
4 171 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 108 (0.97%) 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
9 46 (0.41%) Solaris
10 29 (0.26%) zOS
11 24 (0.22%) CentOS
11 24 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (0.21%) Mac OS
13 22 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
14 21 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 18 (0.16%) AIX
16 12 (0.11%) Rocky
17 9 (0.081%) Ubuntu
18 8 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,605 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
2 2,534 (22.83%) Agile
3 1,728 (15.57%) Project Management
4 1,568 (14.13%) Risk Management
5 1,442 (12.99%) Decision-Making
6 1,332 (12.00%) Analytics
7 1,208 (10.88%) Software Engineering
8 1,134 (10.22%) Customer Service
9 1,096 (9.87%) DevOps
10 1,087 (9.79%) Asset Management
11 1,007 (9.07%) Mentoring
12 925 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 889 (8.01%) Business Strategy
14 883 (7.96%) Roadmaps
15 864 (7.78%) CI/CD
16 857 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 800 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
18 690 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
19 683 (6.15%) Fintech
20 651 (5.87%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,491 (13.43%) Python
2 1,411 (12.71%) SQL
3 924 (8.33%) Java
4 727 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 443 (3.99%) C#
6 392 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 313 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 239 (2.15%) C++
9 171 (1.54%) Go
10 128 (1.15%) Bash
11 106 (0.96%) PHP
12 96 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 89 (0.80%) C
14 85 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 79 (0.71%) Scala
16 69 (0.62%) R
17 62 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.38%) VBA
19 38 (0.34%) Rust
20 34 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,247 (20.25%) Degree
2 686 (6.18%) Master's Degree
3 470 (4.23%) CFA
4 406 (3.66%) DBS Check
5 349 (3.14%) Security Cleared
6 256 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 209 (1.88%) ACCA
8 201 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 193 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 189 (1.70%) CISSP
11 150 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 149 (1.34%) CIMA
13 123 (1.11%) PMP
14 114 (1.03%) SC Cleared
15 113 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
16 104 (0.94%) Azure Certification
17 101 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
18 90 (0.81%) CISM
19 87 (0.78%) PhD
20 79 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (3.33%) QA
2 346 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 248 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 195 (1.76%) GDPR
5 171 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (1.33%) NIST
7 129 (1.16%) PMO
8 122 (1.10%) IFRS
8 122 (1.10%) SLA
9 103 (0.93%) GAAP
10 94 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 72 (0.65%) MiFID
11 72 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 64 (0.58%) ITGC
13 57 (0.51%) COBIT
14 45 (0.41%) ISO 9001
15 37 (0.33%) GMP
15 37 (0.33%) GRC
16 36 (0.32%) NCSC
17 33 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 564 (5.08%) Docker
2 273 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 124 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 49 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (0.23%) vSphere
9 21 (0.19%) Firmware
10 10 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.054%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.045%) Apache Flume
12 5 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.045%) XenApp
13 4 (0.036%) HDFS
13 4 (0.036%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.027%) Samba
14 3 (0.027%) Terminal Server
14 3 (0.027%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.018%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 655 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 460 (4.14%) Terraform
3 180 (1.62%) Ansible
4 104 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 104 (0.94%) SCCM
5 60 (0.54%) Grafana
6 42 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 39 (0.35%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.27%) Puppet
9 29 (0.26%) Istio
9 29 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.21%) CASB
10 23 (0.21%) Nagios
11 17 (0.15%) WSUS
12 15 (0.14%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.11%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.081%) CA Endevor
15 9 (0.081%) Kibana
15 9 (0.081%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,399 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 691 (6.23%) Sun
3 513 (4.62%) Oracle
4 503 (4.53%) Bloomberg
5 467 (4.21%) SAP
6 323 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 289 (2.60%) Google
8 210 (1.89%) NEC
9 179 (1.61%) VMware
10 178 (1.60%) Cisco
11 132 (1.19%) Databricks
12 131 (1.18%) IBM
13 127 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 123 (1.11%) Citrix
15 66 (0.59%) Infor
16 62 (0.56%) Adobe
17 60 (0.54%) Red Hat
18 53 (0.48%) Cognos
19 49 (0.44%) Workday
20 46 (0.41%) Sage