Banking Jobs in the City of London

Banking
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 42 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Banking 132 186 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.75% 5.56% 7.95%
As % of the General category 9.56% 9.08% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 108 165 311
10th Percentile £46,750 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,250 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £118,313 £106,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £149,875 £128,000 £131,250
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +2.94%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,381 2,049 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 70.60% 61.24% 65.66%
Number of salaries quoted 979 1,579 2,380
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,988
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £118,875
Central London median annual salary £71,975 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.82% -3.45% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the City of London.

Salary trend for Banking in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Orchestrade
2 4 (3.03%) Adaptiv
2 4 (3.03%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (2.27%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) Azure
3 10 (7.58%) Serverless
4 7 (5.30%) GCP
4 7 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (3.79%) GitHub
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.27%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.27%) PaaS
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.79%) Multicast
2 4 (3.03%) Firewall
3 3 (2.27%) NetScaler
3 3 (2.27%) Network Security
3 3 (2.27%) VPN
4 2 (1.52%) DNS
4 2 (1.52%) Telnet
4 2 (1.52%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.55%) MySQL
3 6 (4.55%) Power BI
4 5 (3.79%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.03%) Tableau
6 3 (2.27%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.52%) OLAP
7 2 (1.52%) OLTP
7 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.52%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.76%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) JIRA
3 4 (3.03%) Selenium
4 3 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.27%) GitLab
4 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.52%) JUnit
5 2 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.76%) Gradle
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (75.00%) Finance
2 46 (34.85%) Social Skills
3 33 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 23 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (14.39%) Front Office
6 12 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.82%) Financial Institution
7 9 (6.82%) Retail
8 3 (2.27%) French Language
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.52%) Advertising
9 2 (1.52%) Back Office
9 2 (1.52%) Local Government
9 2 (1.52%) Marketing
9 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Developer
2 25 (18.94%) Senior
3 22 (16.67%) Analyst
4 15 (11.36%) Lead
5 14 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 10 (7.58%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.82%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.82%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (6.06%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
10 7 (5.30%) Applications Support Analyst
10 7 (5.30%) Business Analyst
10 7 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) React Developer
12 5 (3.79%) Head of Engineering
12 5 (3.79%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (9.85%) .NET
3 8 (6.06%) Middleware
3 8 (6.06%) Web Services
4 7 (5.30%) Node.js
5 6 (4.55%) Django
5 6 (4.55%) Flask
5 6 (4.55%) REST
6 5 (3.79%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.79%) React
7 3 (2.27%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (2.27%) Kafka
7 3 (2.27%) pytest
8 2 (1.52%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.52%) gRPC
8 2 (1.52%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (1.52%) OAuth
8 2 (1.52%) WebSockets
8 2 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 9 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.30%) Derivative
6 6 (4.55%) Equities
6 6 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.55%) Market Risk
7 5 (3.79%) Hedge funds
8 4 (3.03%) Credit Risk
8 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.27%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.21%) Linux
2 13 (9.85%) Unix
3 11 (8.33%) Windows
4 8 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.79%) CentOS
5 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.03%) Rocky
7 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.33%) Agile
2 34 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (21.97%) DevOps
4 23 (17.42%) Risk Management
5 22 (16.67%) Project Management
6 21 (15.91%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.88%) Mentoring
7 17 (12.88%) Software Engineering
8 16 (12.12%) Microservices
9 15 (11.36%) Analytics
9 15 (11.36%) Data Management
9 15 (11.36%) Machine Learning
10 14 (10.61%) Investment Management
11 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (9.09%) Low Latency
11 12 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
12 11 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (8.33%) Data Science
12 11 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) Python
2 37 (28.03%) SQL
3 32 (24.24%) Java
4 18 (13.64%) Bash
4 18 (13.64%) C#
5 14 (10.61%) C++
6 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.03%) Rust
10 3 (2.27%) Go
10 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.27%) VBA
11 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.52%) Ruby
11 2 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.76%) COBOL
12 1 (0.76%) Perl
12 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) Degree
2 8 (6.06%) CFA
2 8 (6.06%) PMI Certification
2 8 (6.06%) PMP
3 5 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.03%) RHCSA
5 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) CCSP
6 2 (1.52%) CISM
6 2 (1.52%) CISSP
6 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (6.82%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (10.61%) Ansible
2 9 (6.82%) Grafana
2 9 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.06%) Nagios
4 7 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.55%) Terraform
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.27%) SCCM
6 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) Red Hat
3 9 (6.82%) Murex
4 8 (6.06%) VMware
5 6 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.79%) Oracle
7 4 (3.03%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.03%) Cisco
7 4 (3.03%) Databricks
7 4 (3.03%) FIS
7 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.03%) SimCorp
7 4 (3.03%) Splunk
8 3 (2.27%) Anaplan
8 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.27%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (2.27%) FactSet
8 3 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.27%) Mitel
8 3 (2.27%) Veeam