Retail Banking Job Trends in London

Retail Banking
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 303 339
Rank change year-on-year -47 +36 +49
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 56 76 163
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.27% 0.62% 0.70%
As % of the General category 0.49% 0.81% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 38 24 121
10th Percentile - £64,125 £56,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £83,750 £83,577 £83,750
% change year-on-year +0.21% -0.21% +19.64%

All General Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,448 9,342 15,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 55.23% 76.12% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 5,391 11,369
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £125,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in London

Retail Banking
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in London

Retail Banking
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London -14 2 - - 3
Retail Banking
England

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (5.36%) Misys Opics
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) Cisco Firepower
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
1 10 (17.86%) LAN
1 10 (17.86%) VPN
1 10 (17.86%) WAN
2 8 (14.29%) BGP
2 8 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (14.29%) OSPF
2 8 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 8 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Data Lake
1 10 (17.86%) Metadata
2 3 (5.36%) Data Mart
2 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 36 (64.29%) Banking
2 30 (53.57%) Finance
3 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (19.64%) Retail
5 10 (17.86%) Financial Institution
5 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) Senior
2 11 (19.64%) Auditor
2 11 (19.64%) IT Auditor
2 11 (19.64%) Senior Auditor
2 11 (19.64%) Senior IT Auditor
3 10 (17.86%) Architect
3 10 (17.86%) Data Architect
3 10 (17.86%) Network Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Developer
5 7 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Python Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) AWS Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Platform Manager
8 4 (7.14%) Digital Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Lead
8 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.36%) ETL Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Senior OBIEE Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
3 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Agile
2 14 (25.00%) Analytics
2 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (23.21%) Data Management
3 13 (23.21%) Data Modelling
3 13 (23.21%) DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 12 (21.43%) Wealth Management
5 11 (19.64%) Data Analytics
5 11 (19.64%) Internal Audit
5 11 (19.64%) IT Audit
5 11 (19.64%) Risk Assessment
6 10 (17.86%) Asset Management
6 10 (17.86%) Commercialisation
6 10 (17.86%) Cost Management
6 10 (17.86%) Data Strategy
6 10 (17.86%) Innovative Thinking
6 10 (17.86%) Logical Data Model
6 10 (17.86%) Migration
6 10 (17.86%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) C#
2 3 (5.36%) Java
2 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) AWS Certification
1 10 (17.86%) Azure Certification
2 8 (14.29%) CCNP
2 8 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.79%) APMG
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Check_MK
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) Cisco
2 10 (17.86%) Palo Alto
3 8 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Workday