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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 37 8
Rank change year-on-year +28 -29 +12
Permanent jobs citing Banking 565 666 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.87% 9.93% 16.21%
As % of the General category 29.09% 13.72% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 222 168 418
10th Percentile - £46,306 £43,859
25th Percentile £23,504 £59,145 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,246 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -37.71% +4.03% +16.67%
75th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £84,056
90th Percentile £112,500 £121,023 £97,500
UK median annual salary £66,367 £83,577 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.59% +11.44% +2.11%

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 1,942 4,855 3,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 64.86% 72.40% 75.31%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,551 1,677
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year - -13.28% +5.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,253 £82,548 £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 12 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 12 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 +12 238 £74,870 +3.63% 65
Glasgow +33 75 £23,504 -68.66% 28
Lanarkshire - 73 £23,504 - 5
Renfrewshire - 45 £23,504 - 16
North Lanarkshire - 41 £23,504 -
West Dunbartonshire - 17 £23,504 -
West Lothian - 14 - -
South Lanarkshire - 11 - -
Dundee +19 8 £26,968 -61.79% 5
Stirling - 7 - -
Fife - 4 - -
Inverclyde - 4 £24,990 -
East Ayrshire - 4 - -
Falkirk - 3 - -
Ayrshire - 3 £23,504 -
Midlothian - 2 - - 19
Strathclyde - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 58 (10.27%) Confluence
2 11 (1.95%) Umbraco
3 9 (1.59%) SAS
4 3 (0.53%) NetWeaver
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 98 (17.35%) GCP
2 84 (14.87%) Azure
3 74 (13.10%) AWS
4 11 (1.95%) GitHub
5 10 (1.77%) OpenShift
5 10 (1.77%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.59%) SaaS
7 4 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (0.71%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (0.71%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.53%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (0.53%) Apigee
8 3 (0.53%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 166 (29.38%) Broadband
2 9 (1.59%) Internet
3 5 (0.88%) Network Security
4 3 (0.53%) HTTP
4 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.35%) SNA
6 1 (0.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.12%) Big Data
3 11 (1.95%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.77%) Power BI
5 7 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.24%) Tableau
6 6 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.88%) DB2
7 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 61 (10.80%) JIRA
2 59 (10.44%) Maven
3 56 (9.91%) GitLab
4 52 (9.20%) SonarQube
4 52 (9.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (8.85%) Selenium
6 49 (8.67%) Bitbucket
6 49 (8.67%) Cucumber
7 28 (4.96%) Jenkins
8 13 (2.30%) Git
9 7 (1.24%) webpack
10 5 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
10 5 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.53%) Xcode
11 3 (0.53%) XCTest
11 3 (0.53%) XCUITest
12 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.35%) JUnit
13 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 364 (64.42%) Finance
2 66 (11.68%) Social Skills
3 56 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (3.72%) Legal
6 11 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (1.42%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.42%) Retail
8 7 (1.24%) Marketing
9 6 (1.06%) Games
9 6 (1.06%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (0.53%) Social Science
12 2 (0.35%) Billing
12 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.18%) Electronics
13 1 (0.18%) Front Office
13 1 (0.18%) Law
13 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (26.19%) Senior
2 84 (14.87%) Software Engineer
3 79 (13.98%) Designer
3 79 (13.98%) Senior Designer
3 79 (13.98%) Senior UX Designer
3 79 (13.98%) UX Designer
4 64 (11.33%) Analyst
5 35 (6.19%) Lead
6 30 (5.31%) Developer
7 29 (5.13%) Customer Service Representative
8 22 (3.89%) Architect
8 22 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (3.19%) Customer Service Advisor
10 17 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
10 17 (3.01%) UX Developer
11 15 (2.65%) Operations Analyst
11 15 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (2.12%) Senior Developer
13 11 (1.95%) Data Analyst
13 11 (1.95%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.57%) Spring Boot
2 70 (12.39%) Spring
3 69 (12.21%) CSS
3 69 (12.21%) React
4 63 (11.15%) HTML
5 56 (9.91%) Redux
6 54 (9.56%) Kafka
7 53 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 49 (8.67%) JPA
9 16 (2.83%) OAuth
10 14 (2.48%) RESTful
11 12 (2.12%) Software Packaging
12 11 (1.95%) Ajax
12 11 (1.95%) jQuery
12 11 (1.95%) OpenID
12 11 (1.95%) SAML
13 8 (1.42%) Android Jetpack
13 8 (1.42%) Jetpack Compose
14 5 (0.88%) Jest
14 5 (0.88%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.04%) Product Ownership
2 52 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (3.89%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.83%) Credit Risk
5 14 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.95%) Mainframe
6 11 (1.95%) Online Banking
7 10 (1.77%) Learning Management System
7 10 (1.77%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.06%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.71%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.71%) Hackathon
12 4 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (0.53%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.77%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) Android
2 9 (1.59%) Unix
3 8 (1.42%) Windows
4 4 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (38.23%) Agile
2 127 (22.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 120 (21.24%) Software Engineering
4 111 (19.65%) Project Management
5 107 (18.94%) User Experience
6 105 (18.58%) UX Design
7 100 (17.70%) Journey Map
7 100 (17.70%) User Research
8 97 (17.17%) Design Thinking
8 97 (17.17%) Microservices
8 97 (17.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 96 (16.99%) Prototyping
9 96 (16.99%) Usability Testing
9 96 (16.99%) UX Research
9 96 (16.99%) Wireframes
10 93 (16.46%) DevOps
11 83 (14.69%) CI/CD
12 78 (13.81%) TDD
13 77 (13.63%) Test Automation
14 75 (13.27%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.88%) SQL
2 93 (16.46%) Java
3 88 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 39 (6.90%) Python
5 13 (2.30%) Kotlin
6 9 (1.59%) Bash
7 8 (1.42%) Go
8 7 (1.24%) JCL
9 6 (1.06%) C#
10 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.88%) VBA
11 4 (0.71%) Swift
12 3 (0.53%) ABAP
13 2 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (8.85%) Degree
2 10 (1.77%) Master's Degree
2 10 (1.77%) PhD
3 4 (0.71%) CISSP
4 3 (0.53%) CBAP
4 3 (0.53%) CISA
4 3 (0.53%) CISM
4 3 (0.53%) CRISC
4 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.35%) CCA
6 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.18%) CEH
6 1 (0.18%) GIAC
6 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (17.17%) Accessibility
2 57 (10.09%) QA
3 6 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.71%) ITGC
5 3 (0.53%) COBIT
5 3 (0.53%) CRD IV
5 3 (0.53%) IFRS
5 3 (0.53%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 79 (13.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.72%) Terraform
3 11 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.88%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.35%) Istio
5 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.35%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 166 (29.38%) BT
2 49 (8.67%) Solace
3 23 (4.07%) Google
4 21 (3.72%) Microsoft
4 21 (3.72%) Sun
5 13 (2.30%) Oracle
6 6 (1.06%) IBM
7 5 (0.88%) Adobe
8 4 (0.71%) Blue Prism
8 4 (0.71%) Tealium
8 4 (0.71%) UiPath
9 3 (0.53%) SAP
10 2 (0.35%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.35%) Sybase