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

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Finance 10,993 18,985 24,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 19.38% 23.13%
As % of the General category 31.05% 32.37% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,722 10,938 14,281
10th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -5.41% +0.91%

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 35,407 58,648 72,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.71% 59.88% 68.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18,445 39,565 38,877
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,001 £92,500 £102,500
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 25 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 25 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 +1 9,674 £71,991 +10.76% 14,495
UK excluding London -2 5,802 £57,500 +9.52% 5,713
London 0 4,786 £85,000 +6.25% 10,032
Work from Home +2 3,690 £72,500 +11.54% 6,494
North of England +3 1,969 £56,500 +2.73% 1,436
North West +1 1,335 £56,000 +1.82% 852
South East -1 997 £60,000 +20.00% 1,554
Scotland -1 805 £60,000 -4.00% 545
Midlands -6 759 £55,000 +10.00% 850
South West +6 653 £57,500 +4.55% 684
West Midlands -7 533 £55,000 +4.76% 531
Yorkshire +1 458 £60,000 +3.51% 441
East of England +8 395 £50,000 +2.04% 425
East Midlands -5 223 £52,500 +10.53% 289
North East +8 175 £56,500 +13.00% 150
Wales -1 134 £50,393 +11.98% 154
Northern Ireland +10 70 £55,000 +4.76% 175
Isle of Man 0 14 £38,000 -18.28% 15
Channel Islands 0 10 £80,000 -5.88% 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
1 288 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 246 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 221 (2.01%) Apache
4 149 (1.36%) Confluence
4 149 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 138 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 76 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 58 (0.53%) CMS
8 47 (0.43%) SAS
9 29 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 28 (0.25%) nginx
11 19 (0.17%) IIS
12 18 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.12%) IBM Domino
13 13 (0.12%) OpenEdge
14 12 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.082%) Apache Solr
16 8 (0.073%) NetWeaver
16 8 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
17 6 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 614 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 566 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 482 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
4 113 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 57 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 36 (0.33%) Maya
7 25 (0.23%) Trello
8 22 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 21 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 14 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 12 (0.11%) SPSS
12 10 (0.091%) Sketch
13 8 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 8 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
14 7 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.064%) Adobe XD
14 7 (0.064%) Photoshop
15 5 (0.045%) InDesign
16 4 (0.036%) Simulink
17 3 (0.027%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 140 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 135 (1.23%) NetSuite
3 79 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 68 (0.62%) NEC Housing
5 64 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
6 52 (0.47%) Aladdin
7 45 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 44 (0.40%) Infor LN
9 43 (0.39%) SAP BPC
10 38 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
11 30 (0.27%) Sage 200
12 28 (0.25%) thinkFolio
13 27 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
13 27 (0.25%) Shopify
14 26 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
15 25 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
16 24 (0.22%) Ripple
16 24 (0.22%) Ripple XRP
16 24 (0.22%) Sage 50
17 23 (0.21%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,540 (14.01%) Azure
2 1,345 (12.24%) AWS
3 683 (6.21%) GCP
4 576 (5.24%) Power Platform
5 386 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 333 (3.03%) SaaS
7 290 (2.64%) dbt
8 264 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 238 (2.17%) Serverless
10 197 (1.79%) Snowflake
11 194 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
12 184 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 171 (1.56%) GitHub
14 151 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
15 150 (1.36%) PaaS
16 133 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
17 114 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
18 113 (1.03%) Amazon S3
19 111 (1.01%) OpenShift
20 105 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 583 (5.30%) Broadband
2 508 (4.62%) DNS
3 500 (4.55%) VPN
4 230 (2.09%) Firewall
5 115 (1.05%) Network Security
5 115 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 87 (0.79%) WAN
7 82 (0.75%) LAN
8 76 (0.69%) DHCP
9 60 (0.55%) Internet
10 53 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.47%) HTTP
12 50 (0.45%) SAN
13 41 (0.37%) VLAN
14 38 (0.35%) BGP
14 38 (0.35%) Wireless
15 31 (0.28%) MPLS
16 30 (0.27%) IPsec
17 29 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
18 28 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (4.38%) Power BI
2 368 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 318 (2.89%) Data Lake
4 287 (2.61%) Tableau
5 269 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
6 262 (2.38%) Dremio
7 260 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 256 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 230 (2.09%) Apache Arrow
10 192 (1.75%) NoSQL
11 182 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
12 174 (1.58%) Apache Ignite
13 146 (1.33%) Big Data
14 143 (1.30%) MySQL
15 133 (1.21%) Relational Database
16 112 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
17 103 (0.94%) MongoDB
18 102 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 99 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 82 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 377 (3.43%) Git
2 345 (3.14%) JIRA
3 247 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 101 (0.92%) Artifactory
5 81 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 73 (0.66%) GitLab
7 62 (0.56%) Maven
8 56 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 54 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 51 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 50 (0.45%) JUnit
11 50 (0.45%) Selenium
12 43 (0.39%) webpack
13 38 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (0.33%) Postman
15 29 (0.26%) Cypress.io
15 29 (0.26%) Mockito
16 27 (0.25%) TeamCity
17 26 (0.24%) Bitbucket
18 17 (0.15%) Gradle
General
1 3,784 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 2,494 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2,102 (19.12%) Banking
4 1,238 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 872 (7.93%) Retail
6 823 (7.49%) Marketing
7 746 (6.79%) Financial Institution
8 739 (6.72%) Front Office
9 611 (5.56%) Legal
10 508 (4.62%) Manufacturing
11 505 (4.59%) Law
12 455 (4.14%) German Language
13 454 (4.13%) French Language
14 404 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
15 392 (3.57%) Public Sector
16 320 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
17 271 (2.47%) Telecoms
18 202 (1.84%) Investment Banking
19 177 (1.61%) Games
20 176 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,855 (16.87%) Analyst
2 1,828 (16.63%) Senior
3 1,358 (12.35%) Developer
4 810 (7.37%) Lead
5 779 (7.09%) Project Manager
6 636 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 562 (5.11%) Senior Manager
8 554 (5.04%) Architect
9 458 (4.17%) Software Developer
10 452 (4.11%) Credit Analyst
11 435 (3.96%) Research Analyst
12 409 (3.72%) Consultant
13 320 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
14 313 (2.85%) Business Analyst
15 290 (2.64%) Sales Representative
16 286 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
17 264 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
18 261 (2.37%) Python Engineer
19 233 (2.12%) Senior Developer
20 229 (2.08%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (4.10%) React
2 389 (3.54%) .NET
3 275 (2.50%) CSS
4 265 (2.41%) HTML
5 263 (2.39%) AngularJS
6 257 (2.34%) Kafka
7 256 (2.33%) Node.js
8 224 (2.04%) Spring Boot
9 223 (2.03%) Spring
10 192 (1.75%) Pandas
11 190 (1.73%) NumPy
11 190 (1.73%) PySpark
12 168 (1.53%) REST
13 167 (1.52%) RESTful
14 156 (1.42%) SciPy
15 122 (1.11%) Redux
16 113 (1.03%) .NET Framework
17 110 (1.00%) gRPC
18 108 (0.98%) Vue
19 98 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 908 (8.26%) Fixed Income
2 704 (6.40%) Social Media
3 647 (5.89%) Driving Licence
4 615 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 545 (4.96%) Credit Risk
6 473 (4.30%) Cyberattack
7 426 (3.88%) Hedge funds
8 423 (3.85%) Product Ownership
9 390 (3.55%) Derivative
10 376 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 375 (3.41%) Equities
12 242 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
13 241 (2.19%) Algorithms
14 203 (1.85%) FMCG
15 199 (1.81%) Cloud Native
16 198 (1.80%) Onboarding
17 126 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
18 122 (1.11%) Public Cloud
19 113 (1.03%) Blockchain
20 111 (1.01%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 805 (7.32%) Linux
2 552 (5.02%) Windows
3 475 (4.32%) Android
4 184 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 155 (1.41%) Unix
6 101 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 100 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 53 (0.48%) Windows Vista
9 49 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 29 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 27 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 27 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 27 (0.25%) zOS
12 26 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
13 24 (0.22%) CentOS
14 21 (0.19%) Solaris
15 18 (0.16%) AIX
16 12 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
16 12 (0.11%) Rocky
17 8 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,005 (27.34%) Agile
2 2,109 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1,666 (15.16%) Project Management
4 1,521 (13.84%) Risk Management
5 1,472 (13.39%) Decision-Making
6 1,357 (12.34%) Analytics
7 1,184 (10.77%) Software Engineering
8 1,100 (10.01%) DevOps
9 1,085 (9.87%) Asset Management
10 992 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 930 (8.46%) Customer Service
12 926 (8.42%) Mentoring
13 902 (8.21%) Business Strategy
14 898 (8.17%) Roadmaps
15 884 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 878 (7.99%) CI/CD
17 845 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
18 750 (6.82%) Mathematics
19 703 (6.39%) Line Management
20 683 (6.21%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,876 (17.07%) Python
2 1,377 (12.53%) SQL
3 1,320 (12.01%) Java
4 704 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 641 (5.83%) C++
6 557 (5.07%) Go
7 443 (4.03%) C#
8 393 (3.58%) TypeScript
9 305 (2.77%) PowerShell
10 135 (1.23%) Bash
11 107 (0.97%) PHP
12 101 (0.92%) C
13 100 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 79 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 78 (0.71%) R
16 66 (0.60%) Scala
17 55 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.32%) Rust
19 34 (0.31%) VBA
20 32 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,315 (21.06%) Degree
2 688 (6.26%) Security Cleared
3 680 (6.19%) Master's Degree
4 509 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 443 (4.03%) CFA
6 341 (3.10%) DBS Check
7 301 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 260 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 259 (2.36%) CISSP
10 226 (2.06%) ACCA
11 184 (1.67%) CIMA
12 168 (1.53%) PMI Certification
13 131 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 129 (1.17%) SC Cleared
15 126 (1.15%) PMP
16 123 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
17 120 (1.09%) Azure Certification
18 92 (0.84%) CISA
18 92 (0.84%) PhD
19 86 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (3.35%) QA
2 298 (2.71%) Data Quality
3 284 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 213 (1.94%) GDPR
5 188 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (1.35%) NIST
7 137 (1.25%) PMO
8 134 (1.22%) SLA
9 96 (0.87%) IFRS
10 93 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 86 (0.78%) MiFID
12 76 (0.69%) GAAP
12 76 (0.69%) ITGC
13 73 (0.66%) PCI DSS
14 55 (0.50%) COBIT
15 41 (0.37%) GMP
16 38 (0.35%) GRC
17 35 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 35 (0.32%) NCSC
18 33 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 949 (8.63%) Docker
2 268 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 134 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 51 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.26%) Firmware
9 15 (0.14%) vSphere
10 11 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.045%) Apache Flume
11 5 (0.045%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.036%) HDFS
13 3 (0.027%) Samba
13 3 (0.027%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.027%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.018%) Postfix
14 2 (0.018%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.018%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 643 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 579 (5.27%) Ansible
3 447 (4.07%) Terraform
4 112 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 98 (0.89%) SCCM
6 63 (0.57%) Grafana
7 42 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 42 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 35 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (0.28%) Puppet
10 30 (0.27%) Istio
11 29 (0.26%) Nagios
12 23 (0.21%) CASB
13 16 (0.15%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.14%) WSUS
15 13 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
15 13 (0.12%) SCOM
16 12 (0.11%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.082%) Kustomize
17 9 (0.082%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,431 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 523 (4.76%) SAP
3 511 (4.65%) Oracle
4 500 (4.55%) Bloomberg
5 336 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 293 (2.67%) Google
7 195 (1.77%) Sun
8 187 (1.70%) VMware
9 168 (1.53%) Cisco
10 139 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 131 (1.19%) Databricks
12 130 (1.18%) IBM
13 99 (0.90%) NEC
14 96 (0.87%) Citrix
15 71 (0.65%) Adobe
16 64 (0.58%) Infor
17 63 (0.57%) Red Hat
18 59 (0.54%) Workday
19 53 (0.48%) Cognos
20 49 (0.45%) SolarWinds