LONDON–Which careers in financial services are most in demand?
A new study from the online training platform CMC Markets offers some answers. The company’s review of monthly Google searches used Ahrefs for jobs within the financial industry to see which careers are the most in demand. It also extracted number of U.K.-based listings for each finance role from the job site Indeed during the month of December 2022.
According to the company, searches for “auditor” ranked number one on the list with 222,500 monthly Google searches. “People are searching 5,000 times on average a month for ‘auditor jobs’ and 500 times for ‘auditor careers’,” CMC Markets said, noting it found 785 auditor jobs in the finance sector on Indeed at the time of its review.
And in Second Place…
Meanwhile, actuarial careers came closely behind as the second-most sought-after job in finance with a combined 166,600 searches per month for “actuary careers” and “actuary jobs,” CMC reported. The company said actuary was the only career within the insurance sector to make it into the top 10. There currently 1,030 actuary jobs within the finance sector listed on Indeed, at the time of the review.
The Bronze Medal
The third most desirable finance career is “corporate banking,” which amassed a total of 96,280 Google searches per month, 1,200 of which were for the search term “corporate banking jobs,” the study found.
The company added there were 3,748 “corporate banking” jobs posted on Indeed at the time of its review.
Other Positions
Other findings in the study:
- Searches for “bank teller” finished in fourth place, totaling 43,250 Google searches every month, with 12,000 of these monthly searches were for “bank teller jobs,” the study found. CMC noted, however, there were only 35 bank teller jobs on Indeed at the time of its analysis.
- In fifth place came forensic accounting, with 39,650 Google searches per month.
- The sixth most in demand career in finance was a compliance officer, with 35,170 monthly Google searches. “Despite being one of the ten most desirable finance jobs, forensic accounting only yields 64 job openings in the U.K., according to Indeed,” CMC said. “On the other hand, there are currently 6,685 compliance officer openings in the U.K. on Indeed.”
A full chart of searches for jobs can be seen in the chart below.
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