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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 35 65
Rank change year-on-year -32 +30 +20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 3,661 7,254 8,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 6.99% 5.24%
As % of the General category 6.20% 10.23% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,212 4,499 3,996
10th Percentile £46,306 £46,433 £41,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £75,000 £73,999
Median % change year-on-year +11.44% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £126,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £64,750 £57,810
% change year-on-year +9.00% +12.00% +0.54%

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 59,028 70,875 99,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.86% 68.29% 63.83%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 38,205 51,280
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,269 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -37 2,876 £84,000 +12.00% 722
UK excluding London -48 1,811 £70,576 +9.00% 209
London -6 1,767 £90,000 +5.88% 546
Work from Home -54 1,272 £80,000 +14.29% 270
Scotland -31 676 £72,500 +4.40% 34
North of England -62 424 £70,576 +15.36% 60
South West -20 397 £70,576 +7.50% 26
Yorkshire -34 200 £70,576 +10.22% 15
North West -71 180 £70,000 +16.67% 41
South East -80 133 £60,000 -7.69% 34
Midlands -69 110 £55,000 - 33
West Midlands -60 66 £55,000 - 21
North East +27 44 £56,750 +106.36% 4
East Midlands -30 43 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East of England -36 36 £60,000 -4.00% 16
Wales -32 33 £51,528 -6.11% 4
Northern Ireland +10 12 £100,000 +97.04% 4

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
1 295 (8.06%) Apache
2 277 (7.57%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (3.25%) SharePoint
4 104 (2.84%) Confluence
5 91 (2.49%) SAS
6 82 (2.24%) Apache Spark
7 74 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 33 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 28 (0.76%) Captiva
9 28 (0.76%) FileNet
10 22 (0.60%) GemFire
11 17 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.36%) IIS
13 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) nginx
16 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
17 3 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 2 (0.055%) GlassFish
18 2 (0.055%) WildFly
Applications
1 263 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 185 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.16%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.082%) InVision
8 3 (0.082%) Sketch
9 2 (0.055%) EViews
9 2 (0.055%) SPSS
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.027%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 14 (0.38%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 10 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.22%) Adaptiv
8 6 (0.16%) ION Anvil
8 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) Finacle
11 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
12 2 (0.055%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 2 (0.055%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 897 (24.50%) AWS
2 563 (15.38%) GCP
3 483 (13.19%) Azure
4 189 (5.16%) dbt
5 175 (4.78%) Snowflake
6 153 (4.18%) Power Platform
7 130 (3.55%) GitHub
8 84 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
9 83 (2.27%) SaaS
10 59 (1.61%) PaaS
11 45 (1.23%) OpenShift
12 43 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
14 30 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.79%) Serverless
16 26 (0.71%) IaaS
17 25 (0.68%) Google Play
18 23 (0.63%) Power Automate
19 22 (0.60%) Entra ID
19 22 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.67%) Firewall
2 44 (1.20%) DNS
3 36 (0.98%) DHCP
4 35 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 24 (0.66%) Internet
6 22 (0.60%) VPN
6 22 (0.60%) WAN
7 20 (0.55%) Wireless
8 18 (0.49%) DSL
8 18 (0.49%) LAN
9 15 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
9 15 (0.41%) VLAN
10 11 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
11 10 (0.27%) SMS
12 9 (0.25%) Extranet
12 9 (0.25%) Network Security
12 9 (0.25%) SSL
12 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.19%) SMTP
13 7 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (7.07%) Apache Ignite
2 244 (6.66%) Data Lake
3 192 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
4 189 (5.16%) Apache Arrow
4 189 (5.16%) Dremio
5 145 (3.96%) SQL Server
6 140 (3.82%) Power BI
7 132 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 121 (3.31%) Big Data
9 105 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
10 100 (2.73%) NoSQL
11 73 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 67 (1.83%) Tableau
13 57 (1.56%) BigQuery
14 52 (1.42%) Relational Database
15 51 (1.39%) Metadata
16 47 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
17 41 (1.12%) MySQL
18 35 (0.96%) Hadoop
19 31 (0.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 244 (6.66%) JIRA
2 148 (4.04%) Git
3 127 (3.47%) Cypress.io
4 123 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 115 (3.14%) JUnit
6 89 (2.43%) Selenium
7 75 (2.05%) Jasmine
7 75 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
8 67 (1.83%) WebDriver
9 61 (1.67%) Maven
10 60 (1.64%) Protractor
11 48 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
12 41 (1.12%) Cucumber
13 37 (1.01%) IBM UrbanCode
14 30 (0.82%) TeamCity
15 26 (0.71%) GitLab
16 25 (0.68%) Android Studio
17 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
18 19 (0.52%) Spinnaker
19 16 (0.44%) CircleCI
General
1 2,934 (80.14%) Finance
2 1,130 (30.87%) Investment Banking
3 890 (24.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 825 (22.53%) Law
5 784 (21.41%) Social Skills
6 525 (14.34%) Front Office
7 442 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
8 311 (8.49%) Legal
9 220 (6.01%) Financial Institution
10 196 (5.35%) Retail
11 192 (5.24%) Marketing
12 182 (4.97%) Retail Banking
13 150 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
14 117 (3.20%) Private Banking
15 84 (2.29%) Back Office
16 68 (1.86%) Publishing
17 50 (1.37%) Games
18 46 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
19 42 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
20 33 (0.90%) French Language
Job Titles
1 700 (19.12%) Software Engineer
2 655 (17.89%) Senior
3 622 (16.99%) Analyst
4 533 (14.56%) Developer
5 505 (13.79%) Lead
6 367 (10.02%) Architect
7 334 (9.12%) Java Engineer
8 308 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 198 (5.41%) Python Engineer
10 193 (5.27%) Python Software Engineer
11 175 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
12 161 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 157 (4.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 147 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 125 (3.41%) Lead Java Engineer
16 122 (3.33%) Python Developer
17 114 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 112 (3.06%) Full Stack Engineer
18 112 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
19 111 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (9.48%) React
2 335 (9.15%) Spring
3 269 (7.35%) gRPC
4 266 (7.27%) Protocol Buffers
5 241 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 240 (6.56%) Kafka
7 200 (5.46%) AngularJS
8 199 (5.44%) HTML
9 198 (5.41%) Pandas
10 191 (5.22%) CSS
11 177 (4.83%) NumPy
11 177 (4.83%) SciPy
12 141 (3.85%) .NET
13 110 (3.00%) RESTful
14 107 (2.92%) Redux
15 102 (2.79%) JSON
16 101 (2.76%) jQuery
16 101 (2.76%) Node.js
17 90 (2.46%) REST
18 81 (2.21%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 363 (9.92%) Hedge funds
2 346 (9.45%) Fixed Income
3 295 (8.06%) Derivative
4 285 (7.78%) Cloud Native
5 272 (7.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 253 (6.91%) Equities
7 177 (4.83%) Public Cloud
8 160 (4.37%) Product Ownership
9 156 (4.26%) Algorithms
10 139 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
11 123 (3.36%) Data Structures
12 122 (3.33%) Credit Risk
13 77 (2.10%) Management Information System
14 75 (2.05%) Private Cloud
15 71 (1.94%) Onboarding
16 66 (1.80%) Data Centre
17 47 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
18 46 (1.26%) Mobile App
19 40 (1.09%) Blockchain
20 38 (1.04%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 251 (6.86%) Linux
2 249 (6.80%) Windows
3 141 (3.85%) Unix
4 65 (1.78%) Android
5 55 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (0.98%) Windows 10
9 33 (0.90%) zOS
10 30 (0.82%) CentOS
11 24 (0.66%) Solaris
12 23 (0.63%) Ubuntu
13 12 (0.33%) AIX
14 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
15 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
18 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
18 2 (0.055%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,652 (45.12%) Agile
2 944 (25.79%) Software Engineering
3 730 (19.94%) Asset Management
4 597 (16.31%) CI/CD
5 527 (14.39%) Machine Learning
6 523 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 500 (13.66%) SDLC
8 424 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
9 423 (11.55%) Investment Management
10 405 (11.06%) Analytics
11 396 (10.82%) DevOps
12 375 (10.24%) Operational Stability
13 364 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 347 (9.48%) Coaching
15 307 (8.39%) Microservices
16 283 (7.73%) Full Stack Development
17 277 (7.57%) Mentoring
18 274 (7.48%) Risk Management
19 269 (7.35%) Community of Practice
19 269 (7.35%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 931 (25.43%) Java
2 761 (20.79%) Python
3 661 (18.06%) SQL
4 514 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 397 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 218 (5.95%) C#
7 111 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 67 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 64 (1.75%) Bash
10 59 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 57 (1.56%) Groovy
12 56 (1.53%) Scala
13 52 (1.42%) R
14 40 (1.09%) Ruby
15 37 (1.01%) Go
15 37 (1.01%) Perl
16 25 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 23 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 20 (0.55%) C++
19 18 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 373 (10.19%) Degree
2 57 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 54 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (1.09%) ACCA
5 35 (0.96%) PMI Certification
6 34 (0.93%) Security Cleared
7 30 (0.82%) CISSP
8 26 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 24 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.52%) PMP
11 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.46%) CISA
12 17 (0.46%) CISM
13 16 (0.44%) MBA
14 13 (0.36%) CIMA
14 13 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (0.33%) OCP
16 11 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.27%) MCP
18 9 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 173 (4.73%) GDPR
3 101 (2.76%) SLA
4 74 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.99%) IFRS
5 73 (1.99%) IFRS 9
6 70 (1.91%) QA
7 27 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.49%) CRD IV
9 17 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.41%) NIST
10 15 (0.41%) PMO
10 15 (0.41%) SEPA
10 15 (0.41%) WAI
11 12 (0.33%) PSD2
12 11 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.19%) GRC
14 6 (0.16%) COBIT
14 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 153 (4.18%) Docker
2 92 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.33%) XenApp
6 11 (0.30%) HDFS
6 11 (0.30%) XenDesktop
7 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.25%) vSphere
8 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.082%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.082%) KVM
9 3 (0.082%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.082%) Xen
10 2 (0.055%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.055%) NFS
11 1 (0.027%) GridGain
11 1 (0.027%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 268 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 148 (4.04%) Terraform
3 77 (2.10%) Ansible
4 69 (1.88%) Grafana
5 40 (1.09%) SCCM
6 31 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 28 (0.76%) Progress Chef
8 24 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
9 23 (0.63%) Istio
9 23 (0.63%) Kibana
10 22 (0.60%) Puppet
11 21 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 21 (0.57%) Zipkin
12 14 (0.38%) Control-M
13 12 (0.33%) Graphite
13 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 12 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.22%) CA Endevor
15 7 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 399 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 279 (7.62%) Google
3 218 (5.95%) Oracle
4 121 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 101 (2.76%) IBM
6 81 (2.21%) SAP
7 80 (2.19%) Splunk
8 60 (1.64%) VMware
9 58 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 54 (1.48%) Alteryx
11 52 (1.42%) Citrix
12 50 (1.37%) Bloomberg
13 46 (1.26%) Databricks
14 44 (1.20%) Dynatrace
15 38 (1.04%) ION Trading
16 36 (0.98%) Pega
17 34 (0.93%) Cisco
18 30 (0.82%) Salesforce
19 29 (0.79%) Kofax
20 27 (0.74%) CA