Banking Job Trends in the North of England

Banking
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 68 135
Rank change year-on-year -103 +67 -93
Permanent jobs citing Banking 198 429 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 4.44% 1.68%
As % of the General category 2.16% 6.56% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 97 188 73
10th Percentile £33,550 £23,504 £29,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £25,087 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £35,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -41.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £97,400
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £93,569
% change year-on-year - -9.16% +23.65%

All General Skills
North of 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 general skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,177 6,541 8,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 41.50% 67.67% 54.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,133 2,889 4,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,300 £27,260
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Banking job vacancy trend in the North of England

Banking
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Banking

Banking
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Banking in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
North West -74 120 £75,000 +12.05% 71
Yorkshire -75 52 £62,500 +143.90% 32
North East -63 26 £75,000 +198.96% 3
Banking
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (6.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.59%) Azure
2 16 (8.08%) AWS
3 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.53%) GitHub
4 5 (2.53%) Serverless
5 4 (2.02%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.52%) GCP
6 3 (1.52%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.01%) Datadog
7 2 (1.01%) Figma
7 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.67%) Broadband
2 7 (3.54%) Network Security
3 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.03%) Tableau
2 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.02%) Power BI
4 3 (1.52%) MySQL
4 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.01%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Db2
6 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.06%) JIRA
2 6 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (3.03%) fastlane
3 5 (2.53%) Git
4 3 (1.52%) GitLab
5 2 (1.01%) JUnit
General
1 89 (44.95%) Finance
2 22 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.60%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.07%) Games
6 12 (6.06%) Retail Banking
7 11 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.54%) Retail
9 5 (2.53%) Advertising
9 5 (2.53%) Publishing
10 4 (2.02%) Automotive
10 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.02%) Legal
10 4 (2.02%) Marketing
10 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Law
11 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.51%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 47 (23.74%) Senior
2 32 (16.16%) Developer
3 25 (12.63%) Senior Developer
4 19 (9.60%) Analyst
5 18 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 16 (8.08%) Customer Service Advisor
6 16 (8.08%) Service Manager
7 15 (7.58%) C# Developer
7 15 (7.58%) C# Software Developer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior C# Developer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior Software Developer
8 9 (4.55%) Architect
8 9 (4.55%) Java Engineer
8 9 (4.55%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (4.04%) Lead
10 7 (3.54%) Accountant
10 7 (3.54%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.06%) React
1 12 (6.06%) REST
2 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 11 (5.56%) Spring
2 11 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.02%) CSS
4 3 (1.52%) .NET
4 3 (1.52%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.52%) ADO.NET
4 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (1.52%) CSS3
4 3 (1.52%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.52%) HTML
4 3 (1.52%) HTML5
4 3 (1.52%) JSON
4 3 (1.52%) Middleware
4 3 (1.52%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.54%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.01%) Blog
5 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.51%) CMDB
6 1 (0.51%) Derivative
6 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.51%) Equities
6 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) PKI
6 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.04%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.01%) Android
2 2 (1.01%) Linux
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (18.18%) AI
3 29 (14.65%) DevOps
4 27 (13.64%) Agile
4 27 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 23 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (9.60%) Customer Service
7 16 (8.08%) Fintech
7 16 (8.08%) Mentoring
7 16 (8.08%) Test Automation
8 15 (7.58%) API Development
8 15 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (7.58%) SDLC
9 13 (6.57%) Digital Banking
10 12 (6.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (6.06%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.05%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (5.05%) Data Science
11 10 (5.05%) Observability
11 10 (5.05%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.59%) Java
2 15 (7.58%) C#
3 12 (6.06%) SQL
4 10 (5.05%) Python
5 6 (3.03%) Swift
6 5 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.02%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.51%) C
9 1 (0.51%) C++
9 1 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) R
9 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (6.06%) Degree
2 8 (4.04%) CISSP
3 7 (3.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 7 (3.54%) CCSP
3 7 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.53%) ACCA
4 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.02%) CIMA
5 4 (2.02%) CISM
6 3 (1.52%) AAT
7 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CFA
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.04%) NIST
1 8 (4.04%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.01%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS
4 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (16.67%) BT
2 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.02%) SAP
3 4 (2.02%) Workday
4 3 (1.52%) BMC
4 3 (1.52%) Foundry
4 3 (1.52%) Splunk
4 3 (1.52%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.01%) Amplitude
5 2 (1.01%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco
6 1 (0.51%) Databricks
6 1 (0.51%) EMC
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Pega
6 1 (0.51%) Sybase