Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 34 61
Rank change year-on-year -37 +27 +25
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,623 6,401 9,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 6.83% 5.55%
As % of the General category 5.83% 10.09% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,158 3,987 4,387
10th Percentile £47,231 £46,350 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £119,688 £100,000 £94,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £130,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,066 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.10% +8.33% +4.35%

All General Skills
UK

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 62,111 63,448 111,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.56% 67.70% 65.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40,626 35,352 52,401
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,874 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking.

Salary trend for Banking in the UK

Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Banking in the UK

Banking
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. 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 -42 2,943 £87,500 +16.67% 689
London -4 1,943 £95,000 +11.76% 488
UK excluding London -72 1,602 £65,066 +0.10% 231
Work from Home -52 1,293 £90,000 +27.66% 377
Scotland -28 587 £72,500 +4.40% 37
South West -32 379 £70,576 +12.92% 37
North of England -93 328 £69,447 +15.27% 63
North West -101 145 £67,500 +12.50% 46
Yorkshire -76 133 £70,576 +15.36% 14
South East -102 123 £60,000 -7.94% 44
Midlands -76 120 £55,000 -2.65% 30
West Midlands -60 70 £50,000 -11.50% 15
North East +22 50 £58,500 +112.73% 3
East Midlands -51 49 £70,000 +16.67% 14
East of England -45 42 £50,000 -23.08% 5
Wales -45 25 £67,500 +22.99% 9
Northern Ireland -13 8 £82,500 +32.00% 9

Banking
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
1 454 (12.53%) Apache
2 444 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 92 (2.54%) Confluence
5 74 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 70 (1.93%) SAS
7 49 (1.35%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.61%) GemFire
9 17 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 10 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.22%) IIS
11 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.19%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) CMS
13 6 (0.17%) nginx
14 4 (0.11%) Captiva
14 4 (0.11%) FileNet
14 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.083%) WildFly
16 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 213 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.083%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.083%) InVision
7 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.083%) Sketch
8 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.028%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 15 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 14 (0.39%) SAP BPC
4 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 10 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.22%) Ripple
9 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.17%) ION Anvil
9 6 (0.17%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) Finacle
12 2 (0.055%) Adaptiv
12 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 1,043 (28.79%) AWS
2 520 (14.35%) GCP
3 440 (12.14%) Azure
4 355 (9.80%) dbt
5 318 (8.78%) Snowflake
6 156 (4.31%) Power Platform
7 74 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 66 (1.82%) GitHub
9 64 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
10 63 (1.74%) SaaS
11 34 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
12 33 (0.91%) OpenShift
13 31 (0.86%) Serverless
14 30 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (0.75%) Power Automate
17 25 (0.69%) Google Play
17 25 (0.69%) PaaS
18 22 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.85%) Firewall
2 44 (1.21%) DNS
3 38 (1.05%) DHCP
4 37 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 27 (0.75%) WAN
6 24 (0.66%) Internet
7 23 (0.63%) LAN
8 20 (0.55%) Wireless
9 19 (0.52%) VPN
10 18 (0.50%) FIX Connectivity
11 14 (0.39%) DSL
11 14 (0.39%) VLAN
12 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.28%) SMS
14 9 (0.25%) Extranet
15 8 (0.22%) Network Security
15 8 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (0.22%) SMTP
16 6 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.17%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (11.57%) Apache Ignite
2 393 (10.85%) Data Lake
3 355 (9.80%) Dremio
4 346 (9.55%) Apache Arrow
5 342 (9.44%) Amazon Athena
6 140 (3.86%) Power BI
7 139 (3.84%) SQL Server
8 118 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
9 110 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
10 108 (2.98%) Big Data
11 79 (2.18%) Tableau
12 71 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 71 (1.96%) NoSQL
13 55 (1.52%) Metadata
14 47 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 47 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 47 (1.30%) Relational Database
15 35 (0.97%) MySQL
16 31 (0.86%) Hadoop
17 27 (0.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 204 (5.63%) JIRA
2 142 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 113 (3.12%) Git
4 111 (3.06%) JUnit
5 86 (2.37%) Jenkins
6 83 (2.29%) Selenium
7 75 (2.07%) Jasmine
8 71 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
9 65 (1.79%) WebDriver
10 60 (1.66%) Protractor
11 50 (1.38%) Maven
12 37 (1.02%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.83%) GitLab
14 25 (0.69%) Android Studio
14 25 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 24 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
16 21 (0.58%) Jaeger
17 15 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
18 13 (0.36%) CircleCI
18 13 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 2,877 (79.41%) Finance
2 1,214 (33.51%) Investment Banking
3 882 (24.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 802 (22.14%) Law
5 728 (20.09%) Social Skills
6 693 (19.13%) Front Office
7 385 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
8 376 (10.38%) Legal
9 211 (5.82%) Financial Institution
10 187 (5.16%) Marketing
11 178 (4.91%) Retail Banking
12 166 (4.58%) Retail
13 119 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
14 96 (2.65%) Private Banking
15 80 (2.21%) Back Office
16 69 (1.90%) Publishing
17 45 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 37 (1.02%) Games
19 33 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
20 32 (0.88%) French Language
Job Titles
1 751 (20.73%) Senior
2 737 (20.34%) Software Engineer
3 629 (17.36%) Analyst
4 544 (15.02%) Developer
5 532 (14.68%) Lead
6 374 (10.32%) Java Engineer
7 352 (9.72%) Architect
8 348 (9.61%) Java Software Engineer
9 281 (7.76%) Python Engineer
10 266 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
11 195 (5.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 190 (5.24%) Lead Software Engineer
13 176 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
14 171 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
15 162 (4.47%) AWS Software Engineer
16 158 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
17 153 (4.22%) Java Developer
18 152 (4.20%) Python Developer
19 133 (3.67%) Lead Java Engineer
20 132 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (11.84%) gRPC
2 426 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
3 361 (9.96%) React
4 347 (9.58%) Pandas
5 327 (9.03%) NumPy
5 327 (9.03%) SciPy
6 310 (8.56%) Spring
7 207 (5.71%) Kafka
8 205 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 189 (5.22%) HTML
10 185 (5.11%) CSS
11 183 (5.05%) AngularJS
12 132 (3.64%) Redux
13 130 (3.59%) .NET
14 104 (2.87%) Material-UI
15 94 (2.59%) jQuery
16 89 (2.46%) JSON
16 89 (2.46%) Node.js
17 88 (2.43%) RESTful
18 78 (2.15%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 523 (14.44%) Hedge funds
2 520 (14.35%) Fixed Income
3 446 (12.31%) Derivative
4 432 (11.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 427 (11.79%) Equities
6 246 (6.79%) Cloud Native
7 150 (4.14%) Algorithms
8 144 (3.97%) Product Ownership
9 129 (3.56%) Management Information System
10 127 (3.51%) Public Cloud
11 115 (3.17%) Data Structures
12 105 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
13 92 (2.54%) Credit Risk
14 79 (2.18%) Data Centre
15 78 (2.15%) Onboarding
16 51 (1.41%) Mobile App
17 48 (1.32%) Pricing Data
18 38 (1.05%) Blog
18 38 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
19 35 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 233 (6.43%) Windows
2 218 (6.02%) Linux
3 100 (2.76%) Unix
4 60 (1.66%) Android
4 60 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.91%) CentOS
7 30 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.72%) Solaris
8 26 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 26 (0.72%) zOS
9 25 (0.69%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.33%) AIX
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Windows XP
13 3 (0.083%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,620 (44.71%) Agile
2 1,033 (28.51%) Software Engineering
3 837 (23.10%) Asset Management
4 545 (15.04%) CI/CD
5 531 (14.66%) Investment Management
6 495 (13.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 489 (13.50%) Machine Learning
8 452 (12.48%) SDLC
9 400 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
10 380 (10.49%) Analytics
11 348 (9.61%) Operational Stability
12 340 (9.38%) Coaching
13 323 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 305 (8.42%) DevOps
15 285 (7.87%) Data Management
16 284 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
17 280 (7.73%) Fintech
18 262 (7.23%) Microservices
19 252 (6.96%) Community of Practice
20 247 (6.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 996 (27.49%) Java
2 898 (24.79%) Python
3 672 (18.55%) SQL
4 652 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 555 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 194 (5.35%) C#
7 162 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 66 (1.82%) Bash
9 65 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 47 (1.30%) Scala
10 47 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.24%) Groovy
11 45 (1.24%) Perl
12 42 (1.16%) Ruby
13 35 (0.97%) Go
13 35 (0.97%) R
14 30 (0.83%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.75%) C++
16 19 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 361 (9.96%) Degree
2 61 (1.68%) Master's Degree
3 58 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (1.19%) ACCA
5 36 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 36 (0.99%) CISSP
6 33 (0.91%) Security Cleared
7 28 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 19 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 18 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.47%) CIMA
10 17 (0.47%) CISA
10 17 (0.47%) CISM
10 17 (0.47%) MBA
11 16 (0.44%) PMP
11 16 (0.44%) SC Cleared
12 12 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.28%) MCP
13 10 (0.28%) PhD
14 9 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 170 (4.69%) GDPR
3 91 (2.51%) SLA
4 78 (2.15%) QA
5 61 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 58 (1.60%) IFRS
6 58 (1.60%) IFRS 9
7 34 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (0.66%) NIST
9 13 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.33%) PMO
10 12 (0.33%) SEPA
11 11 (0.30%) MiFID
11 11 (0.30%) PSD2
11 11 (0.30%) WAI
12 7 (0.19%) GRC
12 7 (0.19%) UCITS
13 6 (0.17%) COBIT
13 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (3.75%) Docker
2 123 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.38%) RACF
4 46 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) XenApp
6 19 (0.52%) XenDesktop
7 18 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.25%) HDFS
9 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.22%) vSphere
10 4 (0.11%) KVM
10 4 (0.11%) Xen
11 3 (0.083%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.083%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.055%) NFS
13 1 (0.028%) Ceph
13 1 (0.028%) GridGain
13 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 215 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 127 (3.51%) Terraform
3 72 (1.99%) Ansible
4 64 (1.77%) Grafana
5 33 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 31 (0.86%) SCCM
7 23 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
7 23 (0.63%) Kibana
8 21 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.58%) Puppet
8 21 (0.58%) Zipkin
9 17 (0.47%) Istio
10 16 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (0.33%) Graphite
12 12 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.19%) Control-M
15 5 (0.14%) logstash
16 4 (0.11%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 394 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 226 (6.24%) Google
3 188 (5.19%) Oracle
4 85 (2.35%) ServiceNow
5 69 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 68 (1.88%) CyberArk
7 67 (1.85%) Splunk
8 65 (1.79%) Bloomberg
9 61 (1.68%) VMware
10 58 (1.60%) IBM
11 57 (1.57%) Citrix
12 56 (1.55%) SAP
13 50 (1.38%) Alteryx
14 41 (1.13%) ION Trading
15 40 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 39 (1.08%) Dynatrace
17 37 (1.02%) Databricks
18 32 (0.88%) Reuters
19 30 (0.83%) Cisco
20 26 (0.72%) CA