Banking Job Trends in the Midlands

Banking
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 192 201
Rank change year-on-year +181 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Banking 1,115 43 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 13.09% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the General category 23.63% 1.13% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 36 14 44
10th Percentile £49,375 £28,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,563 £44,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -2.27% -3.93%
75th Percentile £84,631 £82,813 £66,483
90th Percentile £127,500 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £76,086
% change year-on-year +5.88% +11.72% +1.45%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 4,719 3,809 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 55.42% 63.38% 58.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,304 1,660 3,938
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,725 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £31,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,535 £65,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £78,675 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Banking job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Banking
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in the Midlands

Banking
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
West Midlands +155 954 £75,000 +39.53% 7
East Midlands +91 172 £62,500 +38.12% 4
Banking
England

Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (0.18%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.090%) CICS
2 1 (0.090%) Confluence
2 1 (0.090%) SAS
2 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.090%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (93.72%) Cloud Computing
2 13 (1.17%) AWS
3 8 (0.72%) Azure
4 3 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (0.27%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (0.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (0.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (0.27%) Serverless
4 3 (0.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (0.18%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.090%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.090%) GCP
6 1 (0.090%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,045 (93.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.18%) Metadata
4 1 (0.090%) Adabas
4 1 (0.090%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.090%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Git
1 3 (0.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.090%) JIRA
General
1 1,056 (94.71%) Social Skills
2 1,046 (93.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (4.75%) Finance
4 14 (1.26%) Retail
5 12 (1.08%) Investment Banking
6 11 (0.99%) Legal
7 9 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.27%) Advertising
10 3 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.27%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.27%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.090%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 783 (70.22%) Lecturer
2 13 (1.17%) Senior
3 11 (0.99%) Lead
4 9 (0.81%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (0.81%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (0.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (0.63%) Analyst
6 5 (0.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (0.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (0.45%) Head of Engineering
7 4 (0.36%) Business Analyst
7 4 (0.36%) Project Manager
7 4 (0.36%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 4 (0.36%) User Experience Researcher
8 3 (0.27%) Architect
8 3 (0.27%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (0.27%) Senior Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Asset and Configuration Manager
9 2 (0.18%) Data Governance Analyst
9 2 (0.18%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.18%) Middleware
1 2 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.090%) JSON
2 1 (0.090%) Kafka
2 1 (0.090%) PySpark
2 1 (0.090%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (0.090%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1,046 (93.81%) IoT
2 5 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (0.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.18%) CMDB
4 2 (0.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.090%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.090%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.090%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.18%) Linux
1 2 (0.18%) Unix
2 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (94.26%) Cybersecurity
1 1,051 (94.26%) User Experience
2 1,047 (93.90%) AI
3 1,046 (93.81%) Machine Learning
4 1,045 (93.72%) Web Development
5 24 (2.15%) Risk Management
5 24 (2.15%) Roadmaps
6 18 (1.61%) Business Continuity
6 18 (1.61%) Business Continuity Management
6 18 (1.61%) Due Diligence
6 18 (1.61%) Information Security
6 18 (1.61%) Operations Management
6 18 (1.61%) Process Improvement
6 18 (1.61%) Risk Assessment
6 18 (1.61%) Supply Chain Management
7 14 (1.26%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (0.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (0.81%) Agile
9 9 (0.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (0.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (0.72%) SQL
2 2 (0.18%) Java
2 2 (0.18%) VBA
3 1 (0.090%) COBOL
3 1 (0.090%) JCL
3 1 (0.090%) Natural
3 1 (0.090%) Python
3 1 (0.090%) R
Qualifications
1 1,045 (93.72%) Degree
1 1,045 (93.72%) Master's Degree
1 1,045 (93.72%) PhD
1 1,045 (93.72%) Postgraduate
2 20 (1.79%) CISSP
3 18 (1.61%) CISA
3 18 (1.61%) CRISC
4 3 (0.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (0.18%) CISM
6 1 (0.090%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.090%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.61%) NIST
1 18 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.18%) GDPR
2 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
2 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (0.090%) COBIT
3 1 (0.090%) QA
System Software
1 3 (0.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.27%) Ansible
1 3 (0.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.27%) Terraform
2 1 (0.090%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (0.27%) Google
1 3 (0.27%) Salesforce
2 2 (0.18%) Blue Prism
2 2 (0.18%) Databricks
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle
2 2 (0.18%) Pega
2 2 (0.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.090%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.090%) IBM
3 1 (0.090%) New Relic
3 1 (0.090%) Splunk