Banking Job Trends in Central London

Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 36 61
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Banking 147 156 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.81% 7.23% 4.35%
As % of the General category 7.92% 9.90% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 86 132 119
10th Percentile £63,750 £46,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £139,500 £141,000
London median annual salary £90,500 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -4.74% -5.00% +17.65%

All General Skills
Central London

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,855 1,575 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 48.02% 72.98% 67.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,147 1,555
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -5.08%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,137
% change year-on-year - +1.16% -1.15%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Banking job vacancy trend in Central London

Banking
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in Central London

Banking
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
City of London -3 144 £100,000 +26.98% 133
West End of London +4 1 - -
Banking
London

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.68%) Confluence
1 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (11.56%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.41%) AWS
2 17 (11.56%) Azure
3 7 (4.76%) GCP
4 5 (3.40%) OCI
5 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.36%) GitHub
6 2 (1.36%) SaaS
6 2 (1.36%) Serverless
6 2 (1.36%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.68%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.68%) Slack
7 1 (0.68%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) DHCP
1 4 (2.72%) DNS
1 4 (2.72%) Firewall
1 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.04%) Power BI
4 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.68%) KDB
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
5 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.68%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.08%) JIRA
2 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.36%) Git
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (65.31%) Finance
2 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.65%) Investment Banking
4 15 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.84%) Local Government
6 13 (8.84%) Retail
7 12 (8.16%) Front Office
8 5 (3.40%) Advertising
8 5 (3.40%) Legal
9 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.72%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (26.53%) Senior
2 19 (12.93%) Developer
3 18 (12.24%) Lead
3 18 (12.24%) Senior Manager
4 17 (11.56%) Service Owner
5 13 (8.84%) Analyst
5 13 (8.84%) Engineering Manager
5 13 (8.84%) Software Engineering Manager
5 13 (8.84%) Software Manager
6 8 (5.44%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.44%) Lead Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Architect
7 7 (4.76%) Consultant
7 7 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (4.76%) Technical Leader
8 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.40%) RPG Developer
9 5 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.08%) Kafka
2 5 (3.40%) Spring
2 5 (3.40%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.72%) ADO
3 4 (2.72%) React
4 3 (2.04%) RESTful
5 2 (1.36%) .NET
5 2 (1.36%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.36%) CSS
5 2 (1.36%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.36%) HTML
5 2 (1.36%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) LangChain
6 1 (0.68%) Pandas
6 1 (0.68%) PySpark
6 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.68%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Security Posture
2 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.04%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.36%) Derivative
7 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.36%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) Clustering
8 1 (0.68%) Equities
8 1 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Linux
1 8 (5.44%) Windows
2 5 (3.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.85%) Roadmaps
2 25 (17.01%) Software Engineering
3 23 (15.65%) Mentoring
4 20 (13.61%) DevOps
5 19 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (12.24%) ERP
7 17 (11.56%) Product Roadmap
7 17 (11.56%) Project Management
8 16 (10.88%) Agile
8 16 (10.88%) Information Security
9 15 (10.20%) CI/CD
9 15 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.20%) Risk Management
9 15 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (8.84%) Fintech
10 13 (8.84%) Target Operating Model
11 12 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (6.80%) AI
12 10 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (6.12%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.97%) Python
2 17 (11.56%) Java
3 10 (6.80%) SQL
4 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.40%) C#
5 5 (3.40%) C++
5 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.40%) RPG
6 4 (2.72%) C
7 3 (2.04%) Bash
7 3 (2.04%) Go
7 3 (2.04%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.04%) Perl
7 3 (2.04%) Ruby
7 3 (2.04%) Rust
8 2 (1.36%) R
8 2 (1.36%) Scala
8 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) Cypher
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) CISSP
3 13 (8.84%) CISM
4 9 (6.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 9 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.44%) CCSP
5 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.40%) CRISC
8 3 (2.04%) CCSAM
8 3 (2.04%) CREST Certified
8 3 (2.04%) GPEN
8 3 (2.04%) GXPN
8 3 (2.04%) OSCE
8 3 (2.04%) OSCP
9 1 (0.68%) APMG
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (10.20%) QA
3 14 (9.52%) NIST
4 6 (4.08%) GRC
5 5 (3.40%) MiFID
5 5 (3.40%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.72%) EMIR
7 3 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.04%) GDPR
8 2 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.68%) COBIT
9 1 (0.68%) FINREP
9 1 (0.68%) PMO
9 1 (0.68%) PSD2
9 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.88%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.84%) Terraform
3 4 (2.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Oracle
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.40%) IBM
3 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.72%) Okta
4 4 (2.72%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.36%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.36%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe
6 1 (0.68%) Databricks
6 1 (0.68%) FIS
6 1 (0.68%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.68%) Revolut
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) SunGard
6 1 (0.68%) Temenos