Banking Job Trends in Kent

Banking
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited 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 9 75 58
Rank change year-on-year +66 -17 +20
Permanent jobs citing Banking 150 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 14.26% 0.42% 1.86%
As % of the General category 23.33% 0.59% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £28,750 £84,500 -
25th Percentile £46,875 £87,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% +90.91%
75th Percentile £127,500 £97,500 -
90th Percentile £130,500 - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -1.44%

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 643 510 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 61.12% 71.23% 65.43%
Number of salaries quoted 270 153 320
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,550 £21,250
25th Percentile £29,813 £43,500 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £55,438 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,935 £87,500 £70,550
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Banking job vacancy trend in Kent

Banking
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in Kent over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in Kent

Banking
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Kent 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
Swanley - 9 - -
Swanscombe - 7 - -
Dartford - 7 - - 7
Greenhithe - 7 - -
Westerham - 6 - -
Chatham +1 4 £125,000 +31.58%
Tonbridge - 2 £32,500 -
West Malling - 1 £65,000 - 1
Banking
South East

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (0.67%) Confluence
1 1 (0.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 141 (94.00%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.67%) PaaS
3 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 141 (94.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Git
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 141 (94.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 141 (94.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 116 (77.33%) Lecturer
2 4 (2.67%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (1.33%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Business Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Development Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Service Development Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (1.33%) Transformation Director
4 1 (0.67%) Developer
4 1 (0.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.67%) .NET
1 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (0.67%) Kafka
1 1 (0.67%) OAuth
1 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.67%) OpenID
1 1 (0.67%) REST
1 1 (0.67%) SOAP
1 1 (0.67%) WCF
1 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 141 (94.00%) IoT
2 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (94.00%) AI
1 141 (94.00%) Cybersecurity
1 141 (94.00%) Machine Learning
1 141 (94.00%) User Experience
1 141 (94.00%) Web Development
2 4 (2.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (2.67%) ETL
2 4 (2.67%) Migration
3 3 (2.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (2.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (1.33%) Business Development
4 2 (1.33%) Change Management
4 2 (1.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (1.33%) Technical Debt
5 1 (0.67%) Agile
5 1 (0.67%) Scrum
5 1 (0.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (0.67%) TDD
5 1 (0.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.67%) SQL
2 1 (0.67%) Delphi
2 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.67%) VB
2 1 (0.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 142 (94.67%) Degree
2 141 (94.00%) Master's Degree
2 141 (94.00%) PhD
2 141 (94.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (0.67%) Databricks
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft