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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 331 397
Rank change year-on-year +6 +66 +28
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 50 100 47
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.63% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.53% 0.87% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18 22 34
10th Percentile £65,000 £47,250 £50,950
25th Percentile £65,313 £65,938 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £100,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +14.29% +11.98%
75th Percentile £101,563 £122,500 £95,217
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £109,250
England median annual salary £82,000 £85,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.74% +6.18%

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 9,420 11,533 11,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 68.59% 73.04% 66.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 6,297 9,198
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Central London +36 3 £112,500 +80.00% 5
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 2 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (68.00%) Azure
2 32 (64.00%) AWS
2 32 (64.00%) GCP
3 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.00%) Alation
4 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) Apigee
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.00%) PaaS
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 30 (60.00%) Metadata
2 5 (10.00%) Power BI
2 5 (10.00%) Tableau
3 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.00%) DataStage
3 4 (8.00%) QlikView
4 1 (2.00%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) ER Studio
1 4 (8.00%) ERwin
1 4 (8.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 44 (88.00%) Banking
2 43 (86.00%) Finance
3 32 (64.00%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (52.00%) Financial Institution
4 26 (52.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (8.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) German Language
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (62.00%) Architect
2 30 (60.00%) Data Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Business Change Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Business Change Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) GCP Architect
5 4 (8.00%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (8.00%) Transformation Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) Spring
1 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (8.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.00%) IVR
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Agile
2 31 (62.00%) Data Modelling
2 31 (62.00%) Migration
3 30 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 30 (60.00%) Data Management
3 30 (60.00%) Data Strategy
3 30 (60.00%) Metadata Management
4 27 (54.00%) Commercialisation
5 26 (52.00%) Asset Management
5 26 (52.00%) Business Development
5 26 (52.00%) Cost Management
5 26 (52.00%) Data Migration
5 26 (52.00%) Data Privacy
5 26 (52.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 26 (52.00%) Logical Data Model
5 26 (52.00%) Physical Data Model
6 10 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.00%) Generative AI
8 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) C#
4 2 (4.00%) Python
5 1 (2.00%) Go
5 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 26 (52.00%) AWS Certification
3 11 (22.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.00%) APMP
6 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) P3O
2 1 (2.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) IBM
3 4 (8.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) Qualtrics