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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 65 68
Rank change year-on-year -44 +3 +51
Permanent jobs citing Banking 167 257 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 3.64% 4.78%
As % of the General category 3.40% 6.46% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 84 187 242
10th Percentile £25,000 £46,283 £45,000
25th Percentile £38,133 £56,219 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,996 £69,447 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +16.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £93,778 £84,056 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,528 £100,064 £97,194
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -

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 4,908 3,981 5,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 64.38% 56.35% 68.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,233 2,991 2,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £28,200
25th Percentile £45,383 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £49,741 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -5.26% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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
Manchester -9 124 £71,991 +2.01% 26
Cheshire +28 31 £23,504 -57.27% 10
Merseyside +18 7 - - 3
Lancashire -51 5 £30,000 -57.14% 9
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 12 (7.19%) SAS
2 11 (6.59%) Confluence
3 5 (2.99%) Mule
4 4 (2.40%) CICS
5 3 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.60%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.96%) Azure
2 30 (17.96%) GCP
3 22 (13.17%) AWS
4 10 (5.99%) Azure Machine Learning
5 6 (3.59%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.99%) GitHub
6 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.80%) SaaS
7 3 (1.80%) Serverless
8 2 (1.20%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.20%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.60%) Apigee
9 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (0.60%) dbt
9 1 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.78%) Broadband
2 5 (2.99%) DHCP
2 5 (2.99%) DNS
2 5 (2.99%) NAS
2 5 (2.99%) SAN
2 5 (2.99%) VSAN
3 3 (1.80%) Skype
3 3 (1.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.59%) Cloud Spanner
2 8 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.59%) Big Data
4 6 (3.59%) Power BI
4 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.60%) MySQL
8 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Git
1 11 (6.59%) JIRA
2 8 (4.79%) SonarQube
3 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.99%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.40%) Rational Functional Tester
5 4 (2.40%) Selenium
General
1 117 (70.06%) Finance
2 59 (35.33%) Social Skills
3 35 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.77%) Legal
5 11 (6.59%) Retail
6 9 (5.39%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.19%) Law
7 7 (4.19%) Retail Banking
8 6 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.40%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (27.54%) Analyst
2 33 (19.76%) Senior
3 22 (13.17%) Senior Analyst
4 18 (10.78%) Software Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Lead
6 12 (7.19%) Operations Analyst
7 10 (5.99%) Risk Manager
7 10 (5.99%) Service Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Customer Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Customer Service Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Credit Risk Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Strategy Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Strategy Manager
10 5 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Fraud Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.18%) Node.js
2 9 (5.39%) Spring
3 8 (4.79%) React
3 8 (4.79%) RESTful
3 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.19%) Middleware
5 5 (2.99%) Kafka
6 4 (2.40%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.40%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.40%) Software Packaging
6 4 (2.40%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.20%) gRPC
8 2 (1.20%) Keras
9 1 (0.60%) WebSockets
9 1 (0.60%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.98%) Public Cloud
2 14 (8.38%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.19%) Credit Risk
4 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.99%) Mainframe
6 9 (5.39%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.40%) Learning Management System
9 4 (2.40%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.40%) VSAM
10 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.20%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.78%) Windows
2 9 (5.39%) Linux
3 8 (4.79%) Unix
4 5 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.20%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.15%) Agile
2 38 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (17.96%) Coaching
4 29 (17.37%) Analytics
4 29 (17.37%) Software Engineering
5 26 (15.57%) Fintech
6 25 (14.97%) DevOps
6 25 (14.97%) Mentoring
7 23 (13.77%) Customer Service
8 19 (11.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (10.18%) CI/CD
10 14 (8.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 14 (8.38%) Machine Learning
10 14 (8.38%) Microservices
10 14 (8.38%) Test Automation
11 13 (7.78%) Change Management
11 13 (7.78%) Mathematics
12 12 (7.19%) Data Analysis
12 12 (7.19%) Project Management
12 12 (7.19%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.77%) SQL
2 25 (14.97%) Python
3 23 (13.77%) Java
4 10 (5.99%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.39%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.19%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.99%) R
8 4 (2.40%) C#
8 4 (2.40%) COBOL
8 4 (2.40%) JCL
9 3 (1.80%) Bash
10 2 (1.20%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.60%) VB
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Degree
2 6 (3.59%) PMP
3 5 (2.99%) AAT
3 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (2.40%) CSPO
4 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.40%) PhD
4 4 (2.40%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.80%) CRISC
6 2 (1.20%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.40%) ISO 8583
1 4 (2.40%) ITGC
1 4 (2.40%) QA
2 3 (1.80%) COBIT
2 3 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.20%) SEPA
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (13.77%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (16.77%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Terraform
3 7 (4.19%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.40%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (1.80%) Ansible
6 2 (1.20%) CA Endevor
6 2 (1.20%) Istio
6 2 (1.20%) Puppet
7 1 (0.60%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (15.57%) Google
2 18 (10.78%) BT
3 17 (10.18%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.99%) Oracle
5 9 (5.39%) IBM
6 8 (4.79%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.59%) VMware
8 5 (2.99%) Databricks
9 4 (2.40%) HP
10 3 (1.80%) Cisco
10 3 (1.80%) Citrix
10 3 (1.80%) Concur
10 3 (1.80%) Remedy
11 2 (1.20%) Splunk
12 1 (0.60%) Confluent
12 1 (0.60%) Red Hat