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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Finance 11,094 17,719 26,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.95% 19.12% 23.60%
As % of the General category 32.48% 31.79% 34.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,628 10,859 15,137
10th Percentile £37,940 £32,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £51,000 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £62,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -9.19% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £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 34,161 55,731 76,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.59% 60.15% 69.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,617 38,619 40,825
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 £50,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -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 2 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 2 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 9,335 £71,991 +10.76% 13,129
UK excluding London 0 5,866 £58,500 +11.43% 5,075
London 0 4,844 £85,000 +6.25% 9,206
Work from Home +3 4,102 £72,500 +11.54% 6,006
North of England +1 1,551 £58,500 +6.36% 1,269
Scotland 0 1,276 £60,000 -4.00% 488
South East +1 999 £60,000 +20.00% 1,503
North West +1 962 £58,500 +6.36% 810
Midlands -4 769 £55,000 +10.00% 714
South West +7 655 £60,000 +9.09% 534
West Midlands -7 551 £55,000 +10.00% 467
Yorkshire 0 408 £60,000 +4.35% 324
East of England +8 405 £51,961 +3.92% 421
East Midlands -3 216 £52,500 +5.02% 230
North East +8 180 £56,500 +13.00% 141
Wales +2 130 £50,393 +6.09% 118
Northern Ireland +7 63 £60,000 +14.29% 108
Isle of Man 0 15 £38,500 -17.20% 1
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
1 287 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
2 230 (2.07%) 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 25 (0.23%) nginx
11 21 (0.19%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 630 (5.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 583 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 486 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
4 120 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 58 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.26%) Trello
7 25 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 19 (0.17%) 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
1 155 (1.40%) NEC Housing
2 125 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 103 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 71 (0.64%) 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 34 (0.31%) 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 1,494 (13.47%) Azure
2 1,337 (12.05%) AWS
3 673 (6.07%) GCP
4 512 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 383 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 285 (2.57%) dbt
7 279 (2.51%) SaaS
8 248 (2.24%) Serverless
9 233 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
10 189 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
11 187 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 178 (1.60%) Snowflake
13 176 (1.59%) GitHub
14 165 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
15 147 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
16 140 (1.26%) PaaS
17 121 (1.09%) Amazon S3
17 121 (1.09%) OpenShift
18 108 (0.97%) Entra ID
19 103 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,077 (9.71%) Broadband
2 220 (1.98%) Firewall
3 119 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
4 109 (0.98%) Network Security
5 105 (0.95%) DNS
6 100 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 88 (0.79%) VPN
8 80 (0.72%) DHCP
9 72 (0.65%) WAN
10 66 (0.59%) LAN
11 63 (0.57%) 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
1 443 (3.99%) Power BI
2 350 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 315 (2.84%) Data Lake
4 274 (2.47%) Tableau
5 260 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
6 254 (2.29%) Dremio
7 248 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
8 241 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 216 (1.95%) Apache Arrow
10 198 (1.78%) NoSQL
11 181 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
12 160 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
13 150 (1.35%) MySQL
14 149 (1.34%) Big Data
15 137 (1.23%) Relational Database
16 115 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
17 111 (1.00%) MongoDB
18 87 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 87 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 85 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 383 (3.45%) Git
2 331 (2.98%) JIRA
3 245 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 108 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 82 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 69 (0.62%) GitLab
7 54 (0.49%) Maven
7 54 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 53 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 49 (0.44%) Selenium
10 44 (0.40%) JUnit
10 44 (0.40%) webpack
11 37 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
12 30 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 26 (0.23%) Postman
13 26 (0.23%) TeamCity
14 23 (0.21%) Mockito
15 18 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (0.15%) Gradle
General
1 3,863 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 2,106 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2,103 (18.96%) Banking
4 947 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 810 (7.30%) Retail
6 799 (7.20%) Marketing
7 728 (6.56%) Financial Institution
7 728 (6.56%) Front Office
8 591 (5.33%) Legal
9 476 (4.29%) Law
10 455 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 454 (4.09%) German Language
12 451 (4.07%) French Language
13 449 (4.05%) Public Sector
14 382 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
15 335 (3.02%) Telecoms
16 305 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
17 226 (2.04%) Local Government
18 225 (2.03%) Police
19 198 (1.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,841 (16.59%) Senior
2 1,810 (16.32%) Analyst
3 959 (8.64%) Developer
4 878 (7.91%) Project Manager
5 801 (7.22%) Lead
6 633 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 581 (5.24%) Architect
8 580 (5.23%) Senior Manager
9 536 (4.83%) Sales Representative
10 454 (4.09%) Credit Analyst
11 452 (4.07%) Consultant
12 435 (3.92%) Research Analyst
13 320 (2.88%) Senior Project Manager
14 315 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
15 296 (2.67%) Business Analyst
16 280 (2.52%) Python Engineer
17 243 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
18 241 (2.17%) Development Manager
19 240 (2.16%) Product Manager
20 239 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (4.09%) React
2 392 (3.53%) .NET
3 358 (3.23%) HTML
4 275 (2.48%) CSS
5 261 (2.35%) Node.js
6 255 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 239 (2.15%) Kafka
8 219 (1.97%) Spring Boot
9 211 (1.90%) Spring
10 199 (1.79%) NumPy
11 198 (1.78%) PySpark
12 197 (1.78%) Pandas
13 166 (1.50%) RESTful
14 156 (1.41%) REST
15 154 (1.39%) SciPy
16 139 (1.25%) Redux
17 119 (1.07%) gRPC
18 109 (0.98%) .NET Framework
19 104 (0.94%) Protocol Buffers
20 101 (0.91%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1,186 (10.69%) Social Media
2 888 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 669 (6.03%) Driving Licence
4 647 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 546 (4.92%) Credit Risk
6 414 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 404 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 381 (3.43%) Derivative
9 356 (3.21%) Xbox
10 344 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 342 (3.08%) Equities
12 245 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
13 244 (2.20%) Algorithms
14 180 (1.62%) FMCG
14 180 (1.62%) Onboarding
15 172 (1.55%) Cloud Native
16 160 (1.44%) Cyberattack
17 134 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
17 134 (1.21%) Public Cloud
18 119 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 563 (5.07%) Windows
2 420 (3.79%) 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
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 19 (0.17%) AIX
16 12 (0.11%) Rocky
17 8 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
17 8 (0.072%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,604 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
2 2,545 (22.94%) Agile
3 1,734 (15.63%) Project Management
4 1,572 (14.17%) Risk Management
5 1,444 (13.02%) Decision-Making
6 1,334 (12.02%) Analytics
7 1,208 (10.89%) Software Engineering
8 1,136 (10.24%) Customer Service
9 1,094 (9.86%) DevOps
10 1,087 (9.80%) Asset Management
11 1,004 (9.05%) Mentoring
12 937 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 890 (8.02%) Business Strategy
14 882 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 862 (7.77%) CI/CD
16 860 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 801 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
18 695 (6.26%) Artificial Intelligence
19 683 (6.16%) Fintech
20 648 (5.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,493 (13.46%) Python
2 1,407 (12.68%) SQL
3 931 (8.39%) Java
4 724 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 442 (3.98%) C#
6 388 (3.50%) TypeScript
7 310 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 247 (2.23%) C++
9 172 (1.55%) Go
10 127 (1.14%) Bash
11 107 (0.96%) PHP
12 96 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 90 (0.81%) C
14 85 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 79 (0.71%) Scala
16 67 (0.60%) R
17 62 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.36%) VBA
19 39 (0.35%) Rust
20 33 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2,244 (20.23%) Degree
2 688 (6.20%) Master's Degree
3 468 (4.22%) CFA
4 406 (3.66%) DBS Check
5 353 (3.18%) Security Cleared
6 258 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 203 (1.83%) ACCA
8 201 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 195 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 191 (1.72%) CISSP
11 152 (1.37%) PMI Certification
12 147 (1.33%) CIMA
13 123 (1.11%) PMP
14 116 (1.05%) SC Cleared
15 114 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
16 105 (0.95%) Azure Certification
17 102 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
18 92 (0.83%) CISM
19 88 (0.79%) PhD
20 79 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (3.32%) QA
2 357 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 246 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 194 (1.75%) GDPR
5 172 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 148 (1.33%) NIST
7 129 (1.16%) PMO
8 123 (1.11%) SLA
9 119 (1.07%) IFRS
10 101 (0.91%) GAAP
11 93 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 72 (0.65%) MiFID
12 72 (0.65%) PCI DSS
13 65 (0.59%) ITGC
14 57 (0.51%) COBIT
15 45 (0.41%) ISO 9001
16 38 (0.34%) GRC
17 37 (0.33%) GMP
18 36 (0.32%) NCSC
19 33 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 561 (5.06%) Docker
2 271 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 125 (1.13%) 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 24 (0.22%) 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%) XenApp
13 4 (0.036%) HDFS
13 4 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
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%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 654 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 460 (4.15%) Terraform
3 178 (1.60%) Ansible
4 104 (0.94%) SCCM
5 103 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (0.53%) Grafana
7 42 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 30 (0.27%) Puppet
10 29 (0.26%) Istio
10 29 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (0.21%) CASB
11 23 (0.21%) Nagios
12 17 (0.15%) WSUS
13 15 (0.14%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.11%) vCenter Server
15 11 (0.099%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.081%) CA Endevor
16 9 (0.081%) Kibana
16 9 (0.081%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,398 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 691 (6.23%) Sun
3 511 (4.61%) Oracle
4 502 (4.52%) Bloomberg
5 468 (4.22%) SAP
6 319 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 286 (2.58%) Google
8 204 (1.84%) NEC
9 178 (1.60%) Cisco
10 176 (1.59%) VMware
11 133 (1.20%) Databricks
11 133 (1.20%) IBM
12 126 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 122 (1.10%) Citrix
14 66 (0.59%) Infor
15 62 (0.56%) Adobe
16 60 (0.54%) Red Hat
17 53 (0.48%) Cognos
18 49 (0.44%) Workday
19 46 (0.41%) Sage