Banking Jobs in Scotland

Banking
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. 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 8 39 9
Rank change year-on-year +31 -30 +9
Permanent jobs citing Banking 593 617 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.55% 9.04% 15.40%
As % of the General category 28.48% 12.77% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 199 129 388
10th Percentile - £46,306 £42,874
25th Percentile £23,504 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £72,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -64.66% +4.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £112,796 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -38.24% +13.33% +3.45%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,082 4,831 3,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.64% 70.77% 74.81%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,564 1,582
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Banking in Scotland.

Salary trend for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Banking in Scotland

Banking
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +15 197 £74,870 +3.27% 35
Glasgow +34 124 £23,504 -72.35% 23
Lanarkshire - 75 £23,504 - 3
Renfrewshire - 49 £23,504 - 12
North Lanarkshire - 48 £23,504 -
West Dunbartonshire - 19 £23,504 -
West Lothian - 14 - -
Dundee +19 11 £26,968 -61.79% 1
South Lanarkshire - 11 - -
Stirling - 7 - -
Fife - 4 - -
Inverclyde - 4 £24,990 -
Midlothian - 4 - - 4
East Ayrshire - 4 - -
Falkirk - 3 - -
Ayrshire - 3 £23,504 -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Banking
UK

Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (8.94%) Confluence
2 11 (1.85%) Umbraco
3 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.84%) Apache
5 4 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.34%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 96 (16.19%) AWS
2 87 (14.67%) GCP
3 75 (12.65%) Azure
4 10 (1.69%) OpenShift
5 9 (1.52%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.18%) Amazon S3
6 7 (1.18%) GitHub
7 6 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.01%) Serverless
8 5 (0.84%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.67%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (0.67%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.51%) SaaS
11 2 (0.34%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 186 (31.37%) Broadband
2 9 (1.52%) Internet
3 5 (0.84%) Network Security
4 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.34%) SNA
6 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.87%) Big Data
3 11 (1.85%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 10 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (1.52%) Power BI
6 8 (1.35%) Tableau
7 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.01%) KDB
7 6 (1.01%) Kdb+
7 6 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (0.84%) DB2
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (0.51%) Parquet
11 2 (0.34%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 63 (10.62%) Maven
2 57 (9.61%) JIRA
3 55 (9.27%) GitLab
4 51 (8.60%) SonarQube
4 51 (8.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (8.26%) Bitbucket
5 49 (8.26%) Cucumber
5 49 (8.26%) Selenium
6 30 (5.06%) Jenkins
7 14 (2.36%) Git
8 5 (0.84%) JUnit
9 4 (0.67%) webpack
10 3 (0.51%) Xcode
10 3 (0.51%) XCTest
10 3 (0.51%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.34%) Subversion
12 1 (0.17%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 374 (63.07%) Finance
2 102 (17.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 60 (10.12%) Social Skills
4 52 (8.77%) Law
5 42 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.69%) Retail
8 9 (1.52%) Games
8 9 (1.52%) Legal
8 9 (1.52%) Marketing
9 8 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.01%) Private Banking
11 6 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (0.51%) Front Office
12 3 (0.51%) Publishing
12 3 (0.51%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.34%) Billing
14 1 (0.17%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 132 (22.26%) Senior
2 124 (20.91%) Software Engineer
3 79 (13.32%) Designer
3 79 (13.32%) Senior Designer
3 79 (13.32%) Senior UX Designer
3 79 (13.32%) UX Designer
4 58 (9.78%) Analyst
5 50 (8.43%) Lead
6 31 (5.23%) Developer
7 30 (5.06%) Customer Service Representative
8 25 (4.22%) Java Engineer
8 25 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
9 23 (3.88%) Customer Service Advisor
10 22 (3.71%) Architect
11 20 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (2.87%) UX Developer
13 15 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (2.36%) Operations Analyst
14 14 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (13.83%) Spring
2 80 (13.49%) React
3 74 (12.48%) Spring Boot
4 72 (12.14%) Kafka
5 61 (10.29%) CSS
6 57 (9.61%) HTML
7 55 (9.27%) Hibernate
8 53 (8.94%) Redux
9 51 (8.60%) JPA
10 17 (2.87%) RESTful
11 14 (2.36%) OAuth
11 14 (2.36%) OpenID
11 14 (2.36%) SAML
12 13 (2.19%) jQuery
13 12 (2.02%) Software Packaging
14 11 (1.85%) Ajax
15 8 (1.35%) Android Jetpack
15 8 (1.35%) Jetpack Compose
16 6 (1.01%) AngularJS
17 5 (0.84%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.64%) Product Ownership
2 51 (8.60%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (3.88%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.85%) Online Banking
7 10 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.35%) Credit Risk
9 8 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.01%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.67%) Derivative
12 4 (0.67%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.52%) Android
2 6 (1.01%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) Windows
3 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.84%) Unix
4 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (40.98%) Agile
2 151 (25.46%) Software Engineering
3 122 (20.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 108 (18.21%) CI/CD
5 107 (18.04%) User Experience
6 105 (17.71%) Project Management
6 105 (17.71%) UX Design
7 100 (16.86%) Journey Map
8 99 (16.69%) Prototyping
8 99 (16.69%) User Research
9 97 (16.36%) Design Thinking
9 97 (16.36%) SDLC
9 97 (16.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 96 (16.19%) Usability Testing
10 96 (16.19%) UX Research
10 96 (16.19%) Wireframes
11 87 (14.67%) Microservices
12 83 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 77 (12.98%) TDD
14 75 (12.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 106 (17.88%) Java
2 99 (16.69%) SQL
3 82 (13.83%) JavaScript
4 45 (7.59%) Python
5 9 (1.52%) Kotlin
6 8 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.01%) C#
7 6 (1.01%) Go
8 5 (0.84%) Bash
8 5 (0.84%) Swift
8 5 (0.84%) VBA
9 3 (0.51%) JCL
10 2 (0.34%) ABAP
11 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.17%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (6.91%) Degree
2 4 (0.67%) CCA
2 4 (0.67%) CISSP
3 3 (0.51%) CBAP
3 3 (0.51%) CISA
3 3 (0.51%) CISM
3 3 (0.51%) CRISC
4 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.17%) CEH
5 1 (0.17%) GIAC
5 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (16.36%) Accessibility
2 55 (9.27%) QA
3 6 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.67%) ITGC
5 3 (0.51%) COBIT
6 2 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 71 (11.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 94 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.88%) Terraform
3 11 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.67%) Grafana
5 3 (0.51%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Istio
6 2 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (0.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 186 (31.37%) BT
2 49 (8.26%) Solace
3 21 (3.54%) Google
3 21 (3.54%) Sun
4 19 (3.20%) Oracle
5 17 (2.87%) Microsoft
6 5 (0.84%) Databricks
7 4 (0.67%) Adobe
7 4 (0.67%) Blue Prism
7 4 (0.67%) Tealium
7 4 (0.67%) UiPath
8 3 (0.51%) Facebook
9 2 (0.34%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.34%) IBM
9 2 (0.34%) Murex
9 2 (0.34%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.34%) SAP
9 2 (0.34%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.34%) Splunk
9 2 (0.34%) Sybase