Retail Banking Job Trends in Central London

Retail Banking
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 172 159
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 +68
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 3 12 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the General category 0.19% 0.53% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile - £51,250 £63,375
25th Percentile £106,250 £56,250 £83,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £70,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -28.21% +25.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £90,625 £108,125
90th Percentile - £93,750 £123,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +11.98%

All General Skills
Central London

Retail 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 1,603 2,281 1,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 62.47% 70.97% 62.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 1,309 1,660
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -1.75% -1.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £113,750
London median annual salary £71,028 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.30% - +3.45%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in Central London

Retail Banking
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Retail Banking

Retail 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 Retail Banking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +23 3 £112,500 +60.71% 3
Retail Banking
London

Retail 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Alation
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Composer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) DataStage
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) QlikView
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ER Studio
1 2 (66.67%) ERwin
1 2 (66.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (66.67%) GCP Architect
2 2 (66.67%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica