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

6 months to
17 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 -30 +38
Permanent jobs citing Banking 2,171 2,696 6,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.12% 3.95% 6.90%
As % of the General category 6.31% 6.51% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 2,062 4,485
10th Percentile £41,775 £45,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £133,250 £125,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 common skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,420 41,435 67,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 65.33% 60.71% 69.07%
Number of salaries quoted 15,020 30,844 38,424
10th Percentile £33,800 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,456
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.51% +2.43%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Banking in England

Banking
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Banking in England

Banking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in England over the 6 months to 17 February 2025.

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 February 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
London +6 1,447 £90,000 +5.88% 646
North of England -11 372 £71,991 +2.01% 146
Yorkshire +2 174 £71,991 +2.01% 41
North West -49 167 £70,996 +2.23% 54
South West -1 159 £69,179 -1.98% 31
South East -15 81 £62,500 +4.17% 24
East of England +18 58 £31,971 -46.72% 6
Midlands -20 43 £57,500 +4.55% 26
North East +38 31 £25,000 -64.29% 53
West Midlands -31 31 £53,750 -2.27% 19
East Midlands +15 9 £42,500 -33.33% 7
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 128 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (4.28%) Apache
3 60 (2.76%) SAS
4 35 (1.61%) Confluence
5 34 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.92%) Mule
7 12 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 10 (0.46%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.37%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.32%) CICS
11 6 (0.28%) nginx
12 5 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.23%) NetWeaver
13 4 (0.18%) IIS
13 4 (0.18%) WordPress
14 2 (0.092%) IBM HTTP Server
15 1 (0.046%) JBoss
15 1 (0.046%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
Applications
1 446 (20.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 63 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) Maya
8 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.01%) Postilion
2 13 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 6 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 4 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.092%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.092%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.092%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.092%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.092%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.092%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.046%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 431 (19.85%) AWS
2 327 (15.06%) Azure
3 288 (13.27%) GCP
4 127 (5.85%) dbt
5 98 (4.51%) Snowflake
6 96 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
7 90 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
8 69 (3.18%) Dagster
9 64 (2.95%) Serverless
10 62 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 57 (2.63%) SaaS
12 55 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
14 50 (2.30%) GitHub
15 49 (2.26%) Power Platform
16 47 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
17 46 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
18 44 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.21%) Firewall
2 37 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 36 (1.66%) DNS
4 31 (1.43%) Broadband
5 28 (1.29%) DHCP
6 26 (1.20%) Network Security
7 23 (1.06%) ATM
8 19 (0.88%) WAN
9 17 (0.78%) Multicast
9 17 (0.78%) VPN
10 15 (0.69%) Internet
10 15 (0.69%) LAN
11 13 (0.60%) SAN
12 12 (0.55%) SMTP
13 11 (0.51%) BGP
13 11 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
13 11 (0.51%) OSPF
14 9 (0.41%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.37%) DKIM
15 8 (0.37%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 129 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
3 124 (5.71%) Apache Iceberg
4 123 (5.67%) Dremio
5 85 (3.92%) Apache Arrow
6 81 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 75 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
8 74 (3.41%) Big Data
9 69 (3.18%) NoSQL
10 49 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
11 47 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 46 (2.12%) Power BI
13 43 (1.98%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
14 39 (1.80%) MongoDB
15 31 (1.43%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.43%) Metadata
16 30 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
18 24 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (5.62%) Git
2 91 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 71 (3.27%) JIRA
4 42 (1.93%) GitLab
5 28 (1.29%) webpack
6 27 (1.24%) Cucumber
6 27 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
7 22 (1.01%) JUnit
7 22 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.83%) Gradle
10 17 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.69%) Selenium
12 11 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 11 (0.51%) Maven
13 10 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
14 9 (0.41%) git-flow
15 8 (0.37%) XCTest
General
1 1,771 (81.58%) Finance
2 906 (41.73%) Social Skills
3 668 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 511 (23.54%) Financial Institution
5 486 (22.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 418 (19.25%) French Language
7 416 (19.16%) German Language
8 242 (11.15%) Investment Banking
9 234 (10.78%) Front Office
10 97 (4.47%) Retail Banking
11 89 (4.10%) Legal
12 80 (3.68%) Law
13 60 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (2.76%) Retail
14 52 (2.40%) Marketing
15 43 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 27 (1.24%) Games
19 17 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 722 (33.26%) Analyst
2 420 (19.35%) Credit Analyst
3 415 (19.12%) Research Analyst
4 349 (16.08%) Senior
5 248 (11.42%) Software Engineer
6 210 (9.67%) Developer
7 164 (7.55%) Architect
8 154 (7.09%) Python Engineer
9 143 (6.59%) Lead
10 137 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
11 100 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
12 99 (4.56%) Java Engineer
13 96 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
14 81 (3.73%) AWS Software Engineer
15 79 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
16 72 (3.32%) Java Software Engineer
17 69 (3.18%) Data Engineer
18 67 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
19 61 (2.81%) Service Analyst
20 59 (2.72%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (5.90%) React
2 125 (5.76%) Pandas
3 117 (5.39%) NumPy
4 113 (5.20%) SciPy
5 109 (5.02%) Spring Boot
6 92 (4.24%) PySpark
6 92 (4.24%) RESTful
7 88 (4.05%) gRPC
8 83 (3.82%) Spring
9 78 (3.59%) AngularJS
10 76 (3.50%) Node.js
11 75 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
12 73 (3.36%) Kafka
13 59 (2.72%) .NET
14 42 (1.93%) Web Services
15 33 (1.52%) CSS
16 30 (1.38%) HTML
17 29 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
18 27 (1.24%) REST
19 25 (1.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 543 (25.01%) Fixed Income
2 472 (21.74%) Credit Risk
3 144 (6.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 133 (6.13%) Equities
5 128 (5.90%) Derivative
6 116 (5.34%) Product Ownership
7 100 (4.61%) Hedge funds
8 64 (2.95%) Cloud Native
9 61 (2.81%) Onboarding
10 60 (2.76%) Public Cloud
11 56 (2.58%) Management Information System
12 47 (2.16%) Algorithms
13 40 (1.84%) Mainframe
14 37 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.66%) Mobile App
15 36 (1.66%) Pricing Data
16 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
17 25 (1.15%) Blockchain
17 25 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.82%) Windows
2 135 (6.22%) Linux
3 69 (3.18%) Unix
4 43 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 40 (1.84%) Windows 10
6 31 (1.43%) Android
7 27 (1.24%) zOS
8 20 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.88%) CentOS
10 12 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.41%) Rocky
12 5 (0.23%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) Solaris
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.14%) Debian
14 2 (0.092%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.046%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (31.09%) Asset Management
2 660 (30.40%) Agile
3 559 (25.75%) Risk Management
4 506 (23.31%) Decision-Making
5 480 (22.11%) Business Strategy
6 454 (20.91%) Portfolio Management
7 428 (19.71%) Risk Assessment
8 421 (19.39%) Financial Modelling
8 421 (19.39%) Software Engineering
9 416 (19.16%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 332 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
11 288 (13.27%) Analytics
12 268 (12.34%) DevOps
13 259 (11.93%) CI/CD
14 221 (10.18%) Fintech
15 217 (10.00%) Microservices
16 185 (8.52%) Mentoring
17 160 (7.37%) Test Automation
18 142 (6.54%) Containerisation
19 141 (6.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 477 (21.97%) Java
2 461 (21.23%) Python
3 361 (16.63%) SQL
4 246 (11.33%) JavaScript
5 145 (6.68%) TypeScript
6 94 (4.33%) C#
7 74 (3.41%) Bash
8 53 (2.44%) C++
8 53 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 44 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 37 (1.70%) C
11 25 (1.15%) Perl
12 24 (1.11%) R
13 23 (1.06%) Go
14 18 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.51%) Groovy
16 11 (0.51%) Scala
17 10 (0.46%) Objective-C
17 10 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 698 (32.15%) Degree
2 479 (22.06%) Master's Degree
3 415 (19.12%) CFA
4 64 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.70%) AWS Certification
6 35 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.29%) CISSP
8 27 (1.24%) PhD
9 24 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.06%) PMP
11 20 (0.92%) CCNP
12 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.69%) CISA
14 14 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.60%) CCIE
15 13 (0.60%) OCP
15 13 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 12 (0.55%) CISM
16 12 (0.55%) Security Cleared
17 10 (0.46%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.90%) QA
2 30 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.92%) IFRS
5 17 (0.78%) ITGC
6 14 (0.64%) GDPR
7 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.55%) SLA
9 10 (0.46%) Basel III
9 10 (0.46%) COBIT
9 10 (0.46%) GAAP
9 10 (0.46%) IFRS 9
9 10 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.37%) COREP
11 7 (0.32%) Basel II
11 7 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
12 6 (0.28%) GRC
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) ISO 8583
14 4 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 213 (9.81%) Docker
2 46 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) Apache Flume
8 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.18%) XenApp
8 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.092%) Firmware
10 2 (0.092%) vSphere
11 1 (0.046%) HDFS
11 1 (0.046%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 234 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 125 (5.76%) Terraform
3 90 (4.15%) Ansible
4 27 (1.24%) SCCM
5 25 (1.15%) Grafana
6 24 (1.11%) Puppet
7 18 (0.83%) ZABBIX
8 16 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.37%) Istio
11 8 (0.37%) Nagios
12 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.18%) CA Endevor
13 4 (0.18%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.18%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.18%) Oozie
Vendors
1 433 (19.94%) Bloomberg
2 188 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 92 (4.24%) Oracle
4 80 (3.68%) VMware
5 76 (3.50%) Google
6 66 (3.04%) IBM
7 62 (2.86%) Cisco
8 31 (1.43%) BT
9 29 (1.34%) Databricks
10 27 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.11%) SAP
12 23 (1.06%) Citrix
12 23 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.01%) Arista
13 22 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 19 (0.88%) CheckPoint
14 19 (0.88%) F5
15 18 (0.83%) Brio
16 17 (0.78%) Apple
16 17 (0.78%) Palo Alto