Banking Job Trends in England

Banking
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 63 44
Rank change year-on-year +52 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Banking 5,417 2,020 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 10.10% 4.21% 5.09%
As % of the General category 17.20% 6.31% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 735 1,095 2,075
10th Percentile £49,418 £45,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £119,750 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,250 £129,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 31,498 32,012 32,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 58.71% 66.70% 61.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17,422 14,644 23,916
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -7.85%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Banking job vacancy trend in England

Banking
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in England

Banking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +68 1,733 £67,500 +7.14% 75
North West +74 1,554 £75,000 +7.14% 34
London +4 1,485 £97,500 +8.33% 219
Midlands +176 1,115 £67,500 +22.73% 56
West Midlands +150 954 £75,000 +36.36% 25
South East +184 618 £67,500 +8.00% 163
East of England +122 369 £52,500 +56.87% 36
East Midlands +89 172 £62,500 +38.12% 30
Yorkshire +13 170 £25,087 -60.80% 32
South West -9 84 £25,087 -64.16% 37
North East -7 9 £25,087 -49.83% 9
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 48 (0.89%) Confluence
2 32 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (0.57%) Apache
4 20 (0.37%) SAS
5 17 (0.31%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
7 13 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.11%) Mule
9 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.055%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.037%) CMS
11 2 (0.037%) IIS
11 2 (0.037%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.037%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.018%) CICS
Applications
1 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.31%) Maya
5 16 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.018%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.13%) SAP CO
4 7 (0.13%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.11%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.092%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.074%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.055%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.055%) SAP PS
8 3 (0.055%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.037%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4,055 (74.86%) Cloud Computing
2 306 (5.65%) AWS
3 203 (3.75%) Azure
4 119 (2.20%) GCP
5 101 (1.86%) SaaS
6 59 (1.09%) Snowflake
7 50 (0.92%) GitHub
7 50 (0.92%) Power Platform
8 43 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (0.70%) dbt
10 29 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (0.41%) Azure AI
11 22 (0.41%) Figma
12 21 (0.39%) Amazon SageMaker
12 21 (0.39%) Vertex AI
13 20 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (0.33%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (0.31%) Adobe Analytics
16 17 (0.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4,003 (73.90%) Internet
2 40 (0.74%) Broadband
3 37 (0.68%) Firewall
4 32 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 21 (0.39%) Multicast
6 20 (0.37%) SSL
7 18 (0.33%) DNS
8 17 (0.31%) VPN
9 15 (0.28%) DHCP
9 15 (0.28%) Network Security
10 14 (0.26%) CHAP
10 14 (0.26%) HTTP
10 14 (0.26%) LAN
10 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.20%) VLAN
11 11 (0.20%) WAN
12 9 (0.17%) BGP
12 9 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.13%) SAN
14 6 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (1.42%) SQL Server
2 70 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 62 (1.14%) Tableau
4 48 (0.89%) Power BI
5 47 (0.87%) Metadata
6 38 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (0.63%) DB2
8 30 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 28 (0.52%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
9 28 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (0.52%) Dremio
10 26 (0.48%) Big Data
11 18 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.31%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.22%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.18%) Flink
15 8 (0.15%) SAP BW
16 7 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (1.35%) JIRA
2 48 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 40 (0.74%) TeamCity
4 32 (0.59%) Git
5 21 (0.39%) GitLab
6 18 (0.33%) Selenium
7 17 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.13%) Chocolatey
10 5 (0.092%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.092%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.092%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.092%) ERwin
11 4 (0.074%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.055%) webpack
13 2 (0.037%) JConsole
13 2 (0.037%) Postman
13 2 (0.037%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.037%) VisualVM
14 1 (0.018%) Storybook
General
1 4,438 (81.93%) Social Skills
2 4,169 (76.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,037 (19.14%) Finance
4 236 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (3.90%) Financial Institution
6 199 (3.67%) Retail
7 182 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 103 (1.90%) Law
9 95 (1.75%) Front Office
10 91 (1.68%) Marketing
11 74 (1.37%) Legal
12 61 (1.13%) Back Office
13 55 (1.02%) Games
14 46 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (0.85%) Retail Banking
15 36 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (0.54%) Telecoms
18 27 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (0.44%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 3,125 (57.69%) Lecturer
2 255 (4.71%) Senior
3 167 (3.08%) Developer
4 154 (2.84%) Lead
5 144 (2.66%) Architect
6 143 (2.64%) Analyst
7 95 (1.75%) Software Engineer
8 68 (1.26%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (1.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 56 (1.03%) Java Developer
11 54 (1.00%) Business Analyst
12 48 (0.89%) AWS Engineer
12 48 (0.89%) Java Engineer
12 48 (0.89%) Python Engineer
13 46 (0.85%) Data Analyst
14 43 (0.79%) Java Software Engineer
15 42 (0.78%) Senior Manager
16 40 (0.74%) Python Software Engineer
17 35 (0.65%) Data Architect
18 34 (0.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (1.00%) React
1 54 (1.00%) REST
2 47 (0.87%) Middleware
3 45 (0.83%) .NET
4 38 (0.70%) Kafka
5 35 (0.65%) gRPC
6 33 (0.61%) RESTful
7 29 (0.54%) HTML
7 29 (0.54%) NumPy
7 29 (0.54%) Pandas
8 28 (0.52%) CSS
8 28 (0.52%) Protocol Buffers
8 28 (0.52%) SciPy
9 26 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
10 22 (0.41%) WebSockets
11 18 (0.33%) LDAP
12 17 (0.31%) WebSphere MQ
13 16 (0.30%) LAPP Stack
13 16 (0.30%) Spring
14 14 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4,028 (74.36%) IoT
2 79 (1.46%) Product Ownership
3 71 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 71 (1.31%) Management Information System
4 68 (1.26%) Derivative
5 65 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 64 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 62 (1.14%) Equities
8 57 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 41 (0.76%) Public Cloud
11 39 (0.72%) Hedge funds
12 38 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 36 (0.66%) Credit Risk
13 36 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
14 31 (0.57%) Pricing Data
15 29 (0.54%) Algorithms
15 29 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
17 25 (0.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 105 (1.94%) Linux
2 76 (1.40%) Windows
3 33 (0.61%) Unix
4 21 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (0.30%) Android
6 12 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.055%) Solaris
10 2 (0.037%) AIX
10 2 (0.037%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.018%) CentOS
11 1 (0.018%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,167 (76.92%) AI
2 4,163 (76.85%) Cybersecurity
3 4,072 (75.17%) User Experience
4 4,064 (75.02%) Machine Learning
5 4,024 (74.28%) Web Development
6 363 (6.70%) Agile
7 253 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (3.80%) Analytics
8 206 (3.80%) Risk Management
9 200 (3.69%) Roadmaps
10 175 (3.23%) Software Engineering
11 165 (3.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 155 (2.86%) CI/CD
13 152 (2.81%) Asset Management
14 149 (2.75%) DevOps
15 144 (2.66%) Migration
16 138 (2.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 119 (2.20%) Business Strategy
17 119 (2.20%) Microservices
18 116 (2.14%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 246 (4.54%) Python
2 233 (4.30%) Java
3 140 (2.58%) SQL
4 73 (1.35%) JavaScript
4 73 (1.35%) TypeScript
5 46 (0.85%) C++
6 39 (0.72%) C#
6 39 (0.72%) PowerShell
7 28 (0.52%) Go
8 19 (0.35%) C
9 18 (0.33%) Bash
10 11 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.18%) VBA
12 8 (0.15%) RPG
13 7 (0.13%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.13%) R
14 5 (0.092%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.074%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.055%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.055%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4,260 (78.64%) Degree
2 4,096 (75.61%) Master's Degree
3 4,018 (74.17%) PhD
4 4,003 (73.90%) Postgraduate
5 104 (1.92%) CISSP
6 79 (1.46%) CISA
7 72 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (1.14%) CRISC
9 60 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 47 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 44 (0.81%) CISM
12 31 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
13 27 (0.50%) PMI Certification
14 22 (0.41%) HND
15 21 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
16 19 (0.35%) ACCA
17 18 (0.33%) FFIEC
18 16 (0.30%) SANS
19 15 (0.28%) PMP
20 14 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (1.75%) NIST
2 80 (1.48%) PCI DSS
3 67 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 67 (1.24%) GDPR
4 55 (1.02%) QA
5 41 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (0.65%) SLA
7 33 (0.61%) PSD2
8 27 (0.50%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.48%) EU AI Act
10 24 (0.44%) GRC
10 24 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 23 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 21 (0.39%) Solvency II
13 20 (0.37%) SEPA
14 19 (0.35%) COBIT
14 19 (0.35%) ISO 20022
15 15 (0.28%) IFRS
16 12 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (0.83%) Docker
2 29 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.074%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.074%) Firmware
5 4 (0.074%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.055%) KVM
6 3 (0.055%) QEMU
7 1 (0.018%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.018%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 79 (1.46%) Terraform
3 35 (0.65%) Ansible
4 29 (0.54%) Grafana
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.24%) SCCM
7 11 (0.20%) Argo
8 8 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.13%) Nagios
10 4 (0.074%) Cilium
10 4 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.055%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.055%) Control-M
11 3 (0.055%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.037%) logstash
12 2 (0.037%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.037%) Suricata
13 1 (0.018%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.018%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 114 (2.10%) Microsoft
2 59 (1.09%) ServiceNow
3 46 (0.85%) Google
4 40 (0.74%) BT
5 37 (0.68%) Oracle
6 35 (0.65%) Bloomberg
6 35 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 32 (0.59%) Alteryx
8 30 (0.55%) IBM
9 22 (0.41%) Red Hat
10 21 (0.39%) Cisco
10 21 (0.39%) Databricks
11 20 (0.37%) Remedy
11 20 (0.37%) VMware
12 19 (0.35%) BMC
13 18 (0.33%) SAP
14 17 (0.31%) Adobe
14 17 (0.31%) Qualtrics
15 13 (0.24%) Informatica
15 13 (0.24%) Software AG