Auditing has been revealed as the most in-demand finance career with accountancy the most desirable financial sector to work in.
That’s certainly the suggestion from a new study of monthly Google searches which saw auditor ranked number one with 222,500 monthly inquiries. People are searching 5,000 times on average a month for ‘auditor jobs’ and 500 times for ‘auditor careers’. There are currently 785 auditor jobs in the finance sector on the job site Indeed.
The study was conducted by CMC Markets, an online trading platform, which analysed the searches using Ahrefs for jobs within the financial industry to see which career is currently the most in demand. They also extracted the number of UK-based listings for each finance role from the job site Indeed during December 2022.
Actuarial careers came closely behind with a combined 166,600 searches per month for ‘actuary careers’ and ‘actuary jobs’. An actuary was the only career within the insurance sector to make it into the top ten. There are currently 1,030 actuary jobs within the finance sector on Indeed.
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’. There are currently 3,748 corporate banking jobs on Indeed.
Another banking career took the fourth spot with bank teller totalling 43,250. Some 12,000 of these monthly searches were for ‘bank teller jobs’. At present, there are only 35 bank teller jobs on Indeed.
As a whole, financial careers are being searched for 2,935,840 times per month on Google
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets said: “Despite the scarcity of jobs in some industries, it seems that there is a noticeable interest within different sectors of the finance world.
“It is interesting to see that a large proportion of this number is made up of searches related to the banking sector. And as a whole, financial careers are being searched for 2,935,840 times per month on Google.
“This number is definitely something to keep an eye on as we approach the new year, as people may look to seek new opportunities in 2023.”
Oher results revealed forensic accounting in fifth place with 39,650 Google searches per month and in sixth was 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 UK, according to Indeed. On the other hand, there are currently 6,685 compliance officer openings listed.
With 29,080, a client advisor was the seventh most searched, even though there are only 811 job openings, and loan officers and branch managers occupied the eighth and ninth place on the list with 22,950 and 18,560. There are 1,744 roles on Indeed for both at the moment.
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