Banking Jobs in the North West

Banking
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 145 62
Rank change year-on-year +112 -83 +31
Permanent jobs citing Banking 587 153 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.48% 1.47% 5.65%
As % of the General category 10.64% 2.81% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 238 81 211
10th Percentile - £35,000 £39,294
25th Percentile - £50,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £68,490 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -65.68% +15.06% +10.23%
75th Percentile £74,721 £77,715 £72,823
90th Percentile £97,528 £100,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £71,991 £86,600 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.87% +15.47% -

All General Skills
North West

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 common skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,517 5,454 5,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.31% 52.42% 66.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 3,990 2,368
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +3.02%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in the North West.

Salary trend for Banking in the North West

Banking
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Banking in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Banking in the North West

Banking
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cheshire +79 265 £23,504 -57.27% 18
Manchester +113 206 £74,870 +6.08% 45
Lancashire -13 74 £23,504 -32.85% 24
Cumbria -44 25 £23,504 -45.97% 4
Merseyside +10 17 £35,000 -36.36% 4
Banking
England

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (9.03%) Confluence
2 6 (1.02%) SAS
3 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.17%) CMS
4 1 (0.17%) GemFire
Applications
1 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 165 (28.11%) Azure
2 145 (24.70%) AWS
3 89 (15.16%) GCP
4 12 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
4 12 (2.04%) Cloud Composer
5 8 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (0.68%) Apigee
6 4 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (0.51%) GitHub
7 3 (0.51%) SaaS
8 2 (0.34%) AWS KMS
8 2 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.34%) Serverless
9 1 (0.17%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.17%) dbt
9 1 (0.17%) Miro
9 1 (0.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 300 (51.11%) Broadband
2 5 (0.85%) DHCP
2 5 (0.85%) DNS
2 5 (0.85%) NAS
2 5 (0.85%) SAN
2 5 (0.85%) VSAN
3 2 (0.34%) Skype
3 2 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (19.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.39%) BigQuery
3 13 (2.21%) Cloud Spanner
4 9 (1.53%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.02%) Big Data
6 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (0.17%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.17%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.17%) Power BI
10 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.17%) Redis
10 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 124 (21.12%) JIRA
2 121 (20.61%) SonarQube
3 112 (19.08%) Maven
3 112 (19.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 109 (18.57%) Bitbucket
4 109 (18.57%) Cucumber
4 109 (18.57%) GitLab
4 109 (18.57%) Selenium
5 22 (3.75%) Git
6 8 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.51%) JUnit
9 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
General
1 258 (43.95%) Finance
2 155 (26.41%) Games
3 109 (18.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (14.14%) Retail
5 77 (13.12%) Investment Banking
6 70 (11.93%) Corporate Banking
7 56 (9.54%) Social Skills
8 19 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.68%) Marketing
12 4 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Finance
15 1 (0.17%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.17%) Law
15 1 (0.17%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 177 (30.15%) Customer Service Advisor
2 137 (23.34%) Software Engineer
3 43 (7.33%) Analyst
4 30 (5.11%) Senior
5 29 (4.94%) Lead
6 19 (3.24%) Sales Representative
7 15 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (2.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (1.70%) Architect
9 10 (1.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (1.70%) Customer Service Representative
9 10 (1.70%) Operations Analyst
9 10 (1.70%) Security Engineer
10 6 (1.02%) Data Manager
11 5 (0.85%) Applications Support
11 5 (0.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (0.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (0.68%) Finance Systems Analyst
12 4 (0.68%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (21.81%) Spring
1 128 (21.81%) Spring Boot
2 125 (21.29%) React
3 116 (19.76%) Kafka
4 110 (18.74%) HTML
5 109 (18.57%) CSS
5 109 (18.57%) JPA
5 109 (18.57%) Redux
6 83 (14.14%) RESTful
7 70 (11.93%) CSS3
7 70 (11.93%) HTML5
7 70 (11.93%) Jest
7 70 (11.93%) REST
7 70 (11.93%) Sass
8 42 (7.16%) Hibernate
9 24 (4.09%) Node.js
10 12 (2.04%) Software Packaging
11 10 (1.70%) Middleware
12 7 (1.19%) Playwright
13 4 (0.68%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 131 (22.32%) Product Ownership
2 110 (18.74%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (4.09%) Public Cloud
4 18 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.36%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.19%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.51%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.34%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.34%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.34%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.34%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.34%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.73%) Linux
2 13 (2.21%) Windows
3 7 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.68%) Unix
5 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (33.90%) Customer Service
2 189 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (27.60%) Software Engineering
4 152 (25.89%) Agile
5 142 (24.19%) DevOps
6 131 (22.32%) CI/CD
7 130 (22.15%) Test Automation
8 127 (21.64%) Microservices
9 119 (20.27%) SDLC
10 114 (19.42%) Containerisation
10 114 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 114 (19.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 111 (18.91%) Mentoring
12 109 (18.57%) Front End Development
13 79 (13.46%) Migration
14 76 (12.95%) Strategic Thinking
15 73 (12.44%) User Experience
16 70 (11.93%) Responsive Web Design
17 63 (10.73%) TDD
18 48 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (25.04%) Java
2 138 (23.51%) SQL
3 128 (21.81%) JavaScript
4 85 (14.48%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.09%) Python
6 8 (1.36%) Go
7 5 (0.85%) R
8 2 (0.34%) C#
8 2 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.17%) Bash
9 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.17%) VB
9 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (3.75%) Degree
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (0.85%) AAT
3 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
3 5 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (0.51%) CRISC
5 2 (0.34%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.34%) CBAP
5 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.34%) MOS
6 1 (0.17%) CISA
6 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (19.08%) QA
2 74 (12.61%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.68%) ITGC
5 3 (0.51%) COBIT
5 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
7 1 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 133 (22.66%) Docker
2 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 141 (24.02%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.43%) Terraform
3 5 (0.85%) Istio
3 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 300 (51.11%) BT
2 110 (18.74%) Solace
3 38 (6.47%) Google
4 15 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.87%) Oracle
6 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.85%) VMware
8 4 (0.68%) IBM
9 3 (0.51%) Concur
10 2 (0.34%) Cisco
10 2 (0.34%) Citrix
10 2 (0.34%) Remedy
10 2 (0.34%) Splunk
11 1 (0.17%) Confluent
11 1 (0.17%) Revolut
11 1 (0.17%) TIBCO