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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Banking over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 28 85 163
Rank change year-on-year +57 +78 -8
Permanent jobs citing Banking 332 350 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.00% 3.89% 1.86%
As % of the General category 12.73% 5.87% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 244 275 79
10th Percentile £42,874 £41,236 £30,500
25th Percentile £56,219 £50,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,447 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +8.23% +12.24%
75th Percentile £84,056 £76,982 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £95,798 £82,500
England median annual salary £76,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +1.33% -3.23% -

All General Skills
North West

Banking is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,608 5,965 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 62.84% 66.25% 54.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 3,280 3,072
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,746 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,313 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,056 £84,056 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 30 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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
Manchester +44 266 £70,576 +18.56% 33
Cheshire +67 42 £65,066 +15.25% 6
Merseyside +50 23 £61,500 +6.96% 10
Cumbria -2 1 £32,760 -34.48%
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 13 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.01%) SAS
3 8 (2.41%) Confluence
3 8 (2.41%) Jetty
3 8 (2.41%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.51%) Apache
5 4 (1.20%) Captiva
5 4 (1.20%) FileNet
5 4 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.30%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (24.70%) GCP
2 64 (19.28%) Azure
3 40 (12.05%) GitHub
4 38 (11.45%) PaaS
5 27 (8.13%) SaaS
6 26 (7.83%) IaaS
7 24 (7.23%) AWS
8 14 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.71%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.81%) Boomi
14 5 (1.51%) Collibra
14 5 (1.51%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.90%) Cloud Composer
15 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
16 2 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
16 2 (0.60%) Power Automate
16 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.12%) Internet
2 14 (4.22%) Firewall
3 5 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (1.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (1.51%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.60%) Network Security
4 2 (0.60%) SMS
5 1 (0.30%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.04%) Data Lake
2 29 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.72%) MySQL
5 17 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.22%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.92%) Big Data
7 13 (3.92%) Data Hub
8 12 (3.61%) BigQuery
9 11 (3.31%) Metadata
10 10 (3.01%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.71%) Power BI
11 9 (2.71%) Tableau
12 6 (1.81%) DataStage
12 6 (1.81%) IBM InfoSphere
13 5 (1.51%) Bigtable
13 5 (1.51%) Looker
13 5 (1.51%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.60%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 44 (13.25%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.75%) Git
3 22 (6.63%) Spinnaker
4 13 (3.92%) JIRA
5 8 (2.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 312 (93.98%) Finance
2 108 (32.53%) Social Skills
3 55 (16.57%) Retail
4 39 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.13%) Games
6 18 (5.42%) Retail Banking
7 13 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.61%) Marketing
9 9 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.11%) Law
11 6 (1.81%) Legal
12 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.20%) Advertising
13 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Retail Finance
16 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (28.92%) Architect
2 57 (17.17%) Software Engineer
3 52 (15.66%) Senior
4 32 (9.64%) Lead
5 31 (9.34%) Enterprise Architect
6 28 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (8.13%) Security Architect
8 25 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.23%) Analyst
10 14 (4.22%) Full Stack Engineer
11 13 (3.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 13 (3.92%) Commercial Architect
11 13 (3.92%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (3.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.61%) Developer
12 12 (3.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 11 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (3.01%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.75%) HTML
2 38 (11.45%) Kafka
3 31 (9.34%) React
4 25 (7.53%) CSS
5 23 (6.93%) RESTful
6 21 (6.33%) OpenID
7 19 (5.72%) Node.js
8 14 (4.22%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.61%) Express.js
9 12 (3.61%) JSON
9 12 (3.61%) MEAN Stack
9 12 (3.61%) MERN Stack
9 12 (3.61%) REST
9 12 (3.61%) Spring
10 10 (3.01%) jQuery
11 9 (2.71%) Web Services
12 8 (2.41%) XML
13 7 (2.11%) JWT
14 6 (1.81%) Jest
15 5 (1.51%) Enzyme
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.87%) Public Cloud
2 46 (13.86%) Product Ownership
3 28 (8.43%) Mainframe
4 22 (6.63%) Cloud Native
5 21 (6.33%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.12%) Online Banking
7 14 (4.22%) Data Centre
7 14 (4.22%) Private Cloud
8 11 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.11%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.81%) Replication
10 6 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.51%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.83%) Unix
2 21 (6.33%) Linux
3 12 (3.61%) Windows
4 7 (2.11%) Solaris
5 6 (1.81%) HPUX
5 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (80.12%) Agile
2 87 (26.20%) DevOps
3 83 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 76 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (20.48%) Roadmaps
6 66 (19.88%) CI/CD
7 63 (18.98%) Containerisation
8 61 (18.37%) Microservices
9 59 (17.77%) Coaching
10 57 (17.17%) Cybersecurity
11 56 (16.87%) Machine Learning
12 51 (15.36%) Analytics
13 46 (13.86%) Mentoring
14 43 (12.95%) Artificial Intelligence
15 41 (12.35%) Customer Experience
16 40 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 40 (12.05%) SDLC
17 37 (11.14%) Cloud Security
18 35 (10.54%) Data Pipeline
18 35 (10.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (21.99%) Java
2 59 (17.77%) Python
3 38 (11.45%) SQL
4 33 (9.94%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.01%) C#
5 10 (3.01%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.71%) Bash
6 9 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.71%) Scala
7 5 (1.51%) Go
7 5 (1.51%) Groovy
8 4 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (0.90%) R
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.60%) VB
11 1 (0.30%) C
11 1 (0.30%) Lua
11 1 (0.30%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.61%) Degree
3 8 (2.41%) OCP
3 8 (2.41%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.30%) CCSP
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.30%) CISSP
7 1 (0.30%) CRISC
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.71%) GAAP
2 9 (2.71%) IFRS
3 8 (2.41%) GDPR
4 5 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Basel III
6 1 (0.30%) GLBA
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (11.75%) Docker
2 29 (8.73%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (17.77%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.84%) Terraform
3 15 (4.52%) Ansible
4 7 (2.11%) Istio
5 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.30%) CloudForms
5 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (10.24%) Google
2 23 (6.93%) IBM
3 17 (5.12%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.22%) Confluent
5 11 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.01%) Cisco
6 10 (3.01%) Splunk
7 9 (2.71%) CA
8 6 (1.81%) HP
8 6 (1.81%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.81%) Oracle
8 6 (1.81%) Sun
8 6 (1.81%) Unisys
9 5 (1.51%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.51%) F5
9 5 (1.51%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.20%) BMC
10 4 (1.20%) Kofax
10 4 (1.20%) Pega
10 4 (1.20%) SAP