Banking Jobs 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 41 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Banking 142 199 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.65% 5.28% 7.33%
As % of the General category 7.90% 8.46% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 115 180 328
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £115,000 £106,500 £111,563
90th Percentile £131,500 £140,000 £128,250
London median annual salary £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.88% +6.25%

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 common skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,797 2,353 3,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 71.48% 62.45% 65.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 1,795 2,736
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,034 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £95,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Central London

Banking
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Banking in Central London

Banking
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in Central London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

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 10 May 2025. 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 -5 123 £81,250 -4.41% 79
West End of London +3 4 £102,500 +45.23% 10
Camden - 4 - -
Lambeth - 1 - -
Southwark - 1 £90,000 - 1
Banking
London

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.82%) WordPress
3 2 (1.41%) nginx
3 2 (1.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Orchestrade
2 3 (2.11%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.11%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.83%) AWS
2 24 (16.90%) Azure
3 9 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (6.34%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.34%) Serverless
4 8 (5.63%) GCP
5 7 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.52%) GitHub
7 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.82%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.11%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) Firewall
2 5 (3.52%) Multicast
3 4 (2.82%) Internet
3 4 (2.82%) Network Security
4 3 (2.11%) NetScaler
4 3 (2.11%) VPN
5 2 (1.41%) DNS
5 2 (1.41%) Telnet
5 2 (1.41%) VLAN
6 1 (0.70%) SAN
6 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.93%) Power BI
4 6 (4.23%) MySQL
5 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.52%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.82%) Redis
6 4 (2.82%) Tableau
7 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.41%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.41%) OLAP
8 2 (1.41%) OLTP
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
9 1 (0.70%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 17 (11.97%) Git
2 12 (8.45%) JIRA
3 5 (3.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.82%) JUnit
4 4 (2.82%) Selenium
5 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.11%) GitLab
5 3 (2.11%) Postman
6 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.41%) Maven
6 2 (1.41%) Mockito
6 2 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.41%) Subversion
6 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.41%) Xcode
6 2 (1.41%) XCTest
General
1 96 (67.61%) Finance
2 47 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 40 (28.17%) Investment Banking
4 20 (14.08%) Front Office
5 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.34%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.23%) Retail
9 3 (2.11%) Back Office
9 3 (2.11%) French Language
9 3 (2.11%) Law
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
9 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Advertising
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (1.41%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (29.58%) Developer
2 29 (20.42%) Senior
3 18 (12.68%) Analyst
4 17 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.86%) Software Engineer
6 12 (8.45%) Lead
7 11 (7.75%) C# Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Python Developer
7 11 (7.75%) Support Analyst
8 10 (7.04%) Banking Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.63%) .NET Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.63%) AWS Developer
11 7 (4.93%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 6 (4.23%) React Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Senior Python Developer
13 5 (3.52%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.97%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (8.45%) .NET
3 11 (7.75%) Node.js
4 10 (7.04%) Web Services
5 9 (6.34%) Flask
6 8 (5.63%) Django
6 8 (5.63%) Middleware
6 8 (5.63%) REST
7 6 (4.23%) Kafka
7 6 (4.23%) React
8 5 (3.52%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.52%) Spring
9 4 (2.82%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.11%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.11%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.11%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (2.11%) pytest
10 3 (2.11%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.11%) Swagger
11 2 (1.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.75%) Fixed Income
3 10 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.63%) Derivative
4 8 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.23%) Equities
6 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Social Media
8 3 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.11%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.83%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 14 (9.86%) Unix
4 8 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.52%) CentOS
5 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.82%) Rocky
7 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.69%) Agile
2 37 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (21.13%) DevOps
4 25 (17.61%) CI/CD
5 20 (14.08%) Software Engineering
6 18 (12.68%) Fintech
6 18 (12.68%) Microservices
7 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (11.27%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.56%) Analytics
9 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (10.56%) Risk Management
10 14 (9.86%) Computer Science
10 14 (9.86%) Investment Management
11 13 (9.15%) Data Science
12 12 (8.45%) Project Management
13 11 (7.75%) Low Latency
13 11 (7.75%) TDD
14 10 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (7.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.62%) Python
2 41 (28.87%) SQL
3 34 (23.94%) Java
4 23 (16.20%) C#
5 20 (14.08%) Bash
6 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.15%) C++
8 12 (8.45%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.75%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.63%) Rust
11 3 (2.11%) Go
11 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.41%) Groovy
12 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.41%) Ruby
12 2 (1.41%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.41%) VBA
13 1 (0.70%) COBOL
13 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) AWS Certification
2 4 (2.82%) RHCSA
3 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.70%) MiFID
5 1 (0.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 15 (10.56%) Docker
2 11 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.34%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (4.93%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.11%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (10.56%) Ansible
1 15 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.63%) Grafana
2 8 (5.63%) Nagios
2 8 (5.63%) Terraform
3 6 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.82%) SCCM
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.11%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) VMware
3 10 (7.04%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.93%) Oracle
4 7 (4.93%) SolarWinds
5 6 (4.23%) Cisco
5 6 (4.23%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) Splunk
6 5 (3.52%) Databricks
7 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.11%) Arista
8 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.11%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (2.11%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.11%) Citrix
8 3 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.11%) Mitel
8 3 (2.11%) NetApp
8 3 (2.11%) SimCorp
8 3 (2.11%) Veeam