Finance Jobs in London

Financial
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Finance 4,523 6,983 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.13% 28.18% 30.66%
As % of the General category 45.57% 42.23% 44.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 4,753 6,854
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% +2.88%

All General Skills
London

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 in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,925 16,537 21,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 77.09% 66.74% 68.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,298 11,503 15,104
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,063 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Finance in London.

Salary trend for Finance in London

Finance
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Finance in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Finance in London

Finance
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Central London 0 663 £80,000 +6.67% 625
South London +8 187 £82,500 +24.53% 44
West London -2 131 £50,000 -37.50% 94
East London 0 121 £87,500 +34.62% 48
North London +9 70 £80,000 +51.01% 7
Finance
England

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 254 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 161 (3.56%) Apache
3 100 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 89 (1.97%) Confluence
5 87 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 75 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.55%) CMS
8 19 (0.42%) nginx
9 8 (0.18%) SAS
10 6 (0.13%) IIS
10 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.13%) WordPress
11 4 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.088%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.088%) Moodle
11 4 (0.088%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.088%) Traefik
12 3 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.044%) JBoss
Applications
1 319 (7.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 214 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 205 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (0.75%) Maya
5 29 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.29%) Sketch
8 12 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 11 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) InDesign
10 5 (0.11%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
11 4 (0.088%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.088%) Trello
12 3 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.022%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.022%) Stata
Business Applications
1 69 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 59 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 40 (0.88%) thinkFolio
4 35 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 34 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 21 (0.46%) SAP FI
7 19 (0.42%) SAP CO
7 19 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
8 18 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
9 15 (0.33%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.24%) SAP IBP
11 10 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.18%) Fidessa
14 7 (0.15%) Adaptiv
14 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
14 7 (0.15%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 947 (20.94%) AWS
2 770 (17.02%) Azure
3 375 (8.29%) GCP
4 246 (5.44%) dbt
5 241 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 188 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
7 168 (3.71%) Serverless
8 159 (3.52%) SaaS
9 148 (3.27%) Snowflake
10 131 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
11 120 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (2.30%) GitHub
13 94 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
14 83 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
15 78 (1.72%) Amazon S3
16 73 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
17 71 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
18 66 (1.46%) OpenShift
19 58 (1.28%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.07%) Firewall
2 86 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 83 (1.84%) VPN
4 62 (1.37%) DNS
5 60 (1.33%) WAN
6 58 (1.28%) Network Security
7 51 (1.13%) LAN
8 40 (0.88%) DHCP
9 34 (0.75%) HTTP
10 28 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.55%) BGP
12 24 (0.53%) Broadband
13 20 (0.44%) VLAN
14 19 (0.42%) MPLS
15 18 (0.40%) OSPF
16 16 (0.35%) Multicast
16 16 (0.35%) SAN
17 13 (0.29%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.27%) Wireless
19 10 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
2 237 (5.24%) Apache Iceberg
3 225 (4.97%) Dremio
4 217 (4.80%) Apache Arrow
5 211 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 184 (4.07%) Power BI
7 154 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 153 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
9 123 (2.72%) Apache Ignite
10 120 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
11 107 (2.37%) Relational Database
12 104 (2.30%) NoSQL
13 93 (2.06%) Tableau
14 57 (1.26%) Metadata
15 56 (1.24%) MongoDB
16 52 (1.15%) MySQL
17 44 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 40 (0.88%) DynamoDB
19 39 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
20 36 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 209 (4.62%) JIRA
2 205 (4.53%) Git
3 105 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 60 (1.33%) Artifactory
4 60 (1.33%) GitLab
5 33 (0.73%) Maven
6 31 (0.69%) JUnit
7 22 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 22 (0.49%) Mockito
8 20 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 20 (0.44%) Vite
9 18 (0.40%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.40%) Selenium
10 17 (0.38%) webpack
11 16 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.33%) Visual Studio
13 14 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.29%) Postman
15 12 (0.27%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,743 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 1,198 (26.49%) Banking
3 965 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
4 817 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 607 (13.42%) Front Office
6 535 (11.83%) Law
7 508 (11.23%) Marketing
8 455 (10.06%) Financial Institution
9 285 (6.30%) Legal
10 271 (5.99%) French Language
11 264 (5.84%) German Language
12 217 (4.80%) Retail
13 215 (4.75%) Investment Banking
14 169 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
15 152 (3.36%) Public Sector
16 128 (2.83%) Telecoms
17 113 (2.50%) Manufacturing
18 106 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
19 105 (2.32%) Games
20 85 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 862 (19.06%) Senior
2 806 (17.82%) Analyst
3 650 (14.37%) Software Engineer
4 622 (13.75%) Developer
5 498 (11.01%) Lead
6 273 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
7 266 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 252 (5.57%) Credit Analyst
9 249 (5.51%) Research Analyst
10 241 (5.33%) Architect
11 220 (4.86%) Java Engineer
12 209 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 200 (4.42%) Business Manager
13 200 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
14 196 (4.33%) AWS Software Engineer
15 195 (4.31%) Python Software Engineer
16 179 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
17 164 (3.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 162 (3.58%) Data Engineer
19 161 (3.56%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (7.83%) React
2 244 (5.39%) Kafka
3 210 (4.64%) AngularJS
4 191 (4.22%) .NET
5 173 (3.82%) Pandas
6 167 (3.69%) NumPy
7 153 (3.38%) Node.js
8 147 (3.25%) SciPy
9 144 (3.18%) Spring
10 130 (2.87%) RESTful
11 123 (2.72%) PySpark
11 123 (2.72%) Vue
12 122 (2.70%) REST
13 106 (2.34%) Spring Boot
14 103 (2.28%) HTML
15 102 (2.26%) CSS
16 88 (1.95%) gRPC
17 73 (1.61%) Protocol Buffers
18 70 (1.55%) Redux
19 63 (1.39%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 639 (14.13%) Fixed Income
2 342 (7.56%) Derivative
3 330 (7.30%) Equities
4 325 (7.19%) Hedge funds
5 319 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 275 (6.08%) Credit Risk
7 259 (5.73%) Cloud Native
8 217 (4.80%) Management Information System
9 178 (3.94%) Product Ownership
10 155 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
11 130 (2.87%) Algorithms
12 125 (2.76%) Onboarding
13 108 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
14 79 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
15 70 (1.55%) Data Structures
16 65 (1.44%) Public Cloud
17 62 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
18 58 (1.28%) Virtual Team
19 56 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
20 54 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 259 (5.73%) Linux
2 235 (5.20%) Windows
3 100 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.90%) Unix
5 52 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (0.60%) Android
7 27 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 22 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.35%) CentOS
12 10 (0.22%) Rocky
13 9 (0.20%) zOS
14 5 (0.11%) AIX
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.088%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.088%) VMS
16 3 (0.066%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,505 (33.27%) Agile
2 891 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 880 (19.46%) Software Engineering
4 765 (16.91%) Risk Management
5 721 (15.94%) Asset Management
6 660 (14.59%) Decision-Making
7 654 (14.46%) CI/CD
8 565 (12.49%) Analytics
9 513 (11.34%) DevOps
10 492 (10.88%) Fintech
11 452 (9.99%) Business Strategy
12 427 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 407 (9.00%) Project Management
14 405 (8.95%) Roadmaps
15 379 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence
16 373 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
17 360 (7.96%) Investment Management
18 359 (7.94%) Portfolio Management
19 354 (7.83%) SDLC
20 345 (7.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (24.05%) Python
2 674 (14.90%) SQL
3 616 (13.62%) Java
4 394 (8.71%) JavaScript
5 369 (8.16%) TypeScript
6 220 (4.86%) C#
7 170 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 150 (3.32%) C++
9 147 (3.25%) Go
10 84 (1.86%) Bash
11 65 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 62 (1.37%) C
13 50 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 49 (1.08%) R
14 49 (1.08%) Scala
15 32 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.51%) Rust
17 17 (0.38%) Perl
18 15 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 951 (21.03%) Degree
2 353 (7.80%) Master's Degree
3 264 (5.84%) CFA
4 125 (2.76%) CISSP
5 106 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 83 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 81 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 80 (1.77%) Security Cleared
10 76 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 72 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 65 (1.44%) PMP
13 62 (1.37%) CISA
14 53 (1.17%) ACCA
15 50 (1.11%) CISM
16 48 (1.06%) CCNA
16 48 (1.06%) CIMA
17 45 (0.99%) PhD
18 43 (0.95%) SC Cleared
19 41 (0.91%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (4.02%) QA
2 98 (2.17%) GDPR
3 92 (2.03%) NIST
4 84 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 83 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 77 (1.70%) Data Quality
7 65 (1.44%) SLA
8 61 (1.35%) PMO
9 44 (0.97%) MiFID
10 43 (0.95%) ITGC
11 33 (0.73%) GMP
12 31 (0.69%) GRC
13 26 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
14 24 (0.53%) IFRS
15 22 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 18 (0.40%) SOC 2
18 14 (0.31%) NIST 800
18 14 (0.31%) PCI DSS
19 13 (0.29%) COBIT
System Software
1 282 (6.23%) Docker
2 150 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.27%) Firmware
8 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.18%) vSphere
9 5 (0.11%) Apache Flume
10 4 (0.088%) ProxySG
11 3 (0.066%) NFS
11 3 (0.066%) Samba
12 2 (0.044%) Postfix
12 2 (0.044%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.022%) HDFS
13 1 (0.022%) KVM
13 1 (0.022%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.022%) Xen
13 1 (0.022%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 410 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 313 (6.92%) Terraform
3 144 (3.18%) Ansible
4 73 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 68 (1.50%) SCCM
6 55 (1.22%) Grafana
7 49 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 32 (0.71%) Nagios
9 26 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.40%) Puppet
11 15 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 14 (0.31%) SCOM
13 13 (0.29%) Argo
14 12 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
15 10 (0.22%) Istio
15 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.20%) RSA Archer
17 8 (0.18%) Mesos
18 7 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 647 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 284 (6.28%) Bloomberg
3 168 (3.71%) SAP
4 163 (3.60%) Oracle
5 162 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 130 (2.87%) Google
7 96 (2.12%) VMware
8 87 (1.92%) Databricks
9 86 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 81 (1.79%) Cisco
11 55 (1.22%) BISAM
12 54 (1.19%) Adobe
13 49 (1.08%) SolarWinds
14 48 (1.06%) Charles River
14 48 (1.06%) Red Hat
15 45 (0.99%) Citrix
15 45 (0.99%) SimCorp
16 39 (0.86%) Calypso
17 37 (0.82%) Splunk
18 30 (0.66%) Workday
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